Bucha’s mayor Anatol Fedoruk said the shelling is so constant they cannot gather the dead. “Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets.”

The US dropped plans to try him after a Bush administration legal official concluded he had been tortured to a point he couldn’t stand trial.

Yoon Suk-yeol’s signature move is bold, angry and ambitious. The front-runner populist has vowed to abolish the Gender Equality Ministry.

The German woman who entered the ambulance to lay flowers on Warne’s body has been named as Barbara Woinke, a former travel writer who lives on Koh Samui.

There are Z stickers on the backs of cars, on T-shirts and billboards, and one Russian gymnast wore it on his uniform while competing against a Ukrainian.

Anti-Putin activists are turning to inventive, and at times outlandish, tactics in an attempt to puncture the blockade on independent information.

Ukrainian President Zelensky and his forces have shown modern military smarts in thwarting Russia’s advance so far. But to stay in the fight, they must now plan for a worst-case scenario.

Behind the battleground: Herald photographer Kate Geraghty and correspondent Anthony Galloway are in the war-torn city of Kharkiv.

The pair have known each other for some time. Trudeau met the monarch several times as a child because his father was one of Canada’s longest-serving PMs. 

Most of the Amazon rainforest has been losing its ability to recover from shocks, a new study has found.

In the ruins of Ukraine’s second-largest city, those who remain behind are determined to carry on. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from Kharkiv.

The wave of sanctions for Russia has left world leaders scrambling for new sources of energy. Britain’s PM has warned oil and gas production may have to be increase in the short term.

Former UK prime minister Theresa May and Australia’s former leader Julia Gillard debated the rise of strongman politics in “a world of absolutism”.

Gallery: Ukraine-Russia crisis, March 8

Moscow’s offer to provide Ukrainian refugees escape routes to Russia and its close ally Belarus has outraged Ukrainian officials.

China is hedging its “everlasting friendship” with Moscow against the growing humanitarian crisis unfolding in Eastern Europe.

Shane Warne’s body will be taken to Bangkok tonight and will be flown home on Tuesday after an autopsy found he had died of natural causes. 

Europe faces its fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II with 1.5 million Ukrainian civilians fleeing since fighting began.

“This life is all I’ve ever known,” Eck said about agonising over his decision to deface the tattoos that have been central to his identity for 20 years.

The Ukraine-Russia crisis heads into day 12.

The videos often show handcuffed soldiers decrying Russia’s military campaign and breaking down as they speak to relatives on the phone.

As Ukrainians deal with the devastation of the Russian attacks in their homeland, many are also encountering a confounding backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb innocent people

As the fighting intensifies in Ukraine, I’m reminded of the other children I’ve met in conflict zones.

Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway report from the Zaporizhzhia Circus, as locals remain in limbo while Russia relentlessly bombards Mariupol.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the legislation under consideration would also begin the process of denying Russia access to the World Trade Organisation.

The country currently has one of the highest per capita daily infection rates in the world - officially almost 200,000 active cases.

The US and Australia should formally and clearly declare they would join a war over Taiwan, says a senior member of Taiwan’s defence committee.

In recent days, as Germany confronts its pacifist approach to foreign policy in light of the war in Ukraine, calls for a debate on the issue have grown.

The Ukraine-Russia crisis heads into day 11.

Like many of us, after two years of not going to the office, the Queen has decided to keep working from home.

Washington is competing in a world that is more transparent yet more confounded by fake news.

We haven’t taken Europe seriously enough for 30 years, either in policy terms or in our engagement with its complex history.

A new party and its youthful leader are offering an inclusive agenda in a country long dominated by a select few. But are they the real deal?

Invading Russian forces have strengthened their hold on parts of southern Ukraine, but are increasingly targeting populated areas in their attempt to gain the upper hand, according to British military intelligence.

Many companies have now suspended business in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine, and pressure has grown on other Western brands to do the same.

Two young officers - the same rank, but each representing a different country - gave some of the few firsthand accounts of the fighting that have emerged in the 10-day conflict.

Despite being a standard-bearer for the fiercest of sporting rivalries, Britons from all walks of life – royals, politicians, musicians, athletes and artists – have paid tribute to the Australian cricket great.

The weakness exposed in Russian conventional warfare is a two-edged sword: it raises the risk that Vladimir Putin could resort to nuclear weapons, to which NATO would undoubtedly respond in kind.

Western analysts anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency.

The Russian President knows where to hide his assets, but some of his wealthy friends are not so “crafty”.

Efforts to enforce a temporary halt in hostilities in Mariupol and the eastern city of Volnovakha crumbled when Ukraine accused Russian troops of breaking the ceasefire.

Cancelled by friends, colleagues and critics, drag queen Lady MAGA and black conservative Stephen Rowe are keen Trump followers.

Russian troops have broken a ceasefire that would have allowed tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians to escape via humanitarian corridors.

Global fears of a nuclear catastrophe leapt on Friday as Russian troops attacked a nuclear facility, but energy has been central to the conflict from the start.

China’s increase in military spending will outstrip its economic growth as it battles the “triple pressures” of COVID, supply disruptions and slow demand.

BBC, Bloomberg and the Canadian Broadcasting Company withdrew journalists while The Washington Post dropped bylines to protect staff from new “fake news” laws.

The International Gymnastic Federation has banned the powerhouse gymnastic teams over “the massive escalation of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine”.

It took four days for Kyiv’s morgue to release the body of Oksana Shlonska’s husband. Then a missile crashed at the grave site, forcing mourners to flee.

The Ukrainian President said this “gave the green light for further bombing” but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it would lead to “full-fledged war”.

Some back the Russian President to express their discontent with the West. Others admire his macho persona. Both extremes gravitate towards authoritarianism.