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Gunman detained after firing shots in Canberra airport
Gunman detained after firing shots in Canberra airport
by  AFP

A gunman fired around five shots inside Canberra's main airport Sunday, sending passengers fleeing but injuring no one before he was detained by Australian police. Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on the ground inside the terminal as the emergency alarm sounded in the capital's main airport.

Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of nuclear plant strikes
Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of nuclear plant strikes
by  AFP

Kyiv and Moscow have exchanged blame for fresh shelling around Europe's largest nuclear facility, which is in Russia's control and has come under fire repeatedly in the past week. But pro-Moscow officials in the occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia blamed the shelling on Ukrainian forces.

Luck decides life and death in Ukraine's war zone
Luck decides life and death in Ukraine's war zone
by  AFP

When rockets scream across the skies of eastern Ukraine the people below are hostage to fortune. All have survived, for now at least, on the eastern front of the war between Russia and Ukraine where life and death seem a simple matter of chance.

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