A team of British and Canadian explorers endured seven weeks of howling winds and sub-zero temperatures to become the first expedition to reach the geographic centre of Antarctica on foot.

Twelve people were killed and 22 injured when an explosion ripped through a two-storey military barracks in Russia’s troubled province of Chechnya.

An explosion ripped through a base of a special Defence Ministry security force in Russia’s troubled province of Chechnya today, killing at least six people and injuring another 13.