A 16-year-old schoolboy has become the youngest climber in the world to have scaled the tallest mountain on every continent after reaching the summit of Everest... more
A 'black widow' terrorist is suspected of being one of the two people who set off explosives in the arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo airport yesterday... more
Islamic militants storm the parliament in war-torn Chechnya, seizing MPs and killing two police guards before special forces recaptured the building in a bloody shoot-out... more
After five long summers of hard fighting, British troops are now quitting Sangin in the heart of Helmand - one of the most symbolic of all British battlegrounds in a string of wars in Afghanistan... more
Hamburg’s Taiba mosque, which was used by some of the 9/11 attackers, is shut because German authorities believe it is again being used as a meeting point for Islamic radicals... more
From sheep-tail kebabs in Fallujah to engine-oil crisps in Baghdad, Wendell Steavenson has eaten her way round the world's trouble spots and survived... more
At least 38 people killed and more than 102 injured when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on the Moscow Underground during morning rush-hour... more
How do you turn a family of urban couch potatoes into hiking, yodelling, muesli-eating von Trapps?
Anne McElvoy packs her knapsack and heads to Austria’s Kinderhotel to find out... more
Chechnya’s leader says he will personally oversee the investigation into the murder of a human rights activist — even though the victim’s colleagues accuse his security forces of being involved... more
As oligarchs and the government pour money into creating the country's own Courchevel, Felix Milns finds out if this resort is 2014 Winter Olympics material... more
America and Russia were locked in a fresh war of words as it emerged that the Kremlin is plotting to "absorb" breakaway regions in the Caucasus into its territory... more
As Russian forces push further into Georgia, the Kremlin hawks see the invasion as payback time for George Bush and Nato. But a military triumph will leave Moscow the loser in the long run... more
The events of the last few days in Georgia have been shocking and disturbing. Hundreds have lost their lives and many more have been injured or forced to flee their homes... more
Georgia's bloody battle with Russia was a tragic blunder by an inexperienced leadership in Tbilisi: but none the less for that, a stark warning to Russia's neighbours and the West... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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