This is the harrowing moment a dancer was shot twice in the chest by a masked assassin outside her apartment block in Russia. Natalia Pronina, 30, from Moscow, was gunned down at close range by a hooded and masked man as she returned to her home near to the Akademicheskaya metro station from a choreography session. … Read more
Pictures have been released of miracle survivors from a Russian boat which sank in icy Arctic waters this morning, leaving 17 fishermen feared dead. The two men were rescued from The Onega, which sank off the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia‘s far north at 7am local time, after reportedly becoming ‘caked with ice’. Boatswain Vladislav Butorin, … Read more
Police officer who set herself up as a beautician faces jail in Russia for faking qualifications and ‘mangling’ lip and nose jobs Married mother-of-two Anastasia Fokina used the name Anastasia Boyarskaya Unnamed client claimed her lips were left mangled after a contouring treatment Clients have complained of unhygienic conditions in her flat in city of Kemerovo By Will … Read more
Russia ‘is researching how to weaponise deadly Ebola virus as part of a catastrophic doomsday project’, experts fear Unit of the FSB spy agency is believed to be researching Ebola and Marburg virus Diseases lead to organ failure and internal bleeding and have caused outbreaks Ex-intelligence insider fears Moscow could be going beyond studying diseases … Read more
Hunt for 17 fishermen feared dead after their boat became ‘caked with ice’ and sank in minus 30 temperatures in the Russian Arctic The Onega sank in the Russian arctic in the early hours of Monday morning A search and rescue mission is under way for 17 missing members of the 19-strong crew after two … Read more
A sexism row has erupted in Russia after a male Communist MP confessed to gawping at a female minister’s ‘beautiful’ chest during a parliamentary session. Red politician Pyotr Ammosov, 54, told entrepreneurship minister Irina Vysokikh, 34, that as a ‘healthy man’ he had fixed his eyes on ‘a bare part of your body’. This prevented … Read more
A little girl from Texas was left confused this Christmas Eve when she called up the NORAD Santa Tracker and found herself talking to First Lady Melania Trump instead. Melania spent Christmas Eve answering calls from young Americans to NORAD, giving them updates as Saint Nick made his way toward the United States. In a … Read more
Santa has been spotted on NORAD’s tracker wearing a mask as he flies over Australia delivering presents to all the boys and girls who made it on the good list this year. Father Christmas set off from the North Pole and took to the skies early Christmas Eve with his sleigh laden full of gifts … Read more
Softly, softly! Mother attaches SPONGES to shower caps to protect her toddler daughter’s head while learning to walk in clever parenting hack Margarita Nemirovskaia, from Sochi, Russia, shared her clever parenting hack Sewed sponges to caps that she males her 11-month-old daugther Lolya wear She said it soften the blow when Lilya fell as she … Read more
Let it glow, let it glow, let it glow! Here we present 25 of the best aurora pictures taken around in the world in 2020 – and they are sure to make your eyes light up. They are part of the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection, which is curated each year by travel … Read more