Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern Russia chose a more peaceful method: Police say Galina Korzhova hypnotised a bank teller into handing over tens of...

So it was the Russians after all.

Yesterday, the entire world was taken in by the incredibly Norway Spiral. A blue spiral in the sky giving way to a spinning white circle was seen over the skies of Norway.

Eventually the cloud imploded into...

In an article published by the Izvestia daily newspaper, Gennady Matishov, who is the director of the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute in northern Russia, explained that “We would really like our animals in future to work like American sea...

India today signed a path-breaking civil nuclear agreement with Russia that will guarantee uninterrupted uranium fuel supplies for its atomic reactors and transfer of technology and also inked three military pacts.

The agreements were signed after...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single...

At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm, 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow.

Officials said fireworks caused the blast and that most victims had died from smoke inhalation.