An unmanned Russian rocket has crashed shortly after takeoff near the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, spilling toxic propellant around the crash site.
As the conflict in Syria becomes increasingly sectarian and external powers, both local and international, begin to become more involved, the people of Syria are being caught in the cross-fire.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that the Syrian army has won “major victories” against the rebels and holds the “balance of power” in an interview with a Lebanese television station.
Tremors were reported 7,000 km away in Moscow after a powerful 8.3 Richter scale earthquake hit Russia’s far east, with its epicentre in the Sea of Okhotsk
More than 400 people in the Russian region of Chelyabinsk have been injured by fragments of a meteorite showering down in the sparsely populated area.