A new study reveals the Pacific edge of the Arctic Ocean underwent a 'sudden and dramatic shift' from 2017 to 2019' that experts fear is irreversible and may be 'a sign of what is to come.'

In a clip, filmed by ornithologist Nika Zubra, the Eurasian eagle-owl is seen waiting outside the window of a room in Moscow, Russia with a letter held in its beak.

The governor of Hatay Doğa said the soldiers had been attacked in Idlib by regime forces and as a result 'twenty-nine were martyred'.

Ice-adapted vehicles - including helicopters, lorries and motorbikes - soared along Lake Baikal in Russia for the second annual Baikal Mile. The competition can reach temperatures of -40C.

The dead cubs (pictured) were found by hunting experts who were patrolling a forest in the Anuchinsky district in the Far East of Russia. An administrative investigation has started.

Elon Musk believes the era of fighter jets is over and future warfare will be done by autonomous drones. Musk also said the Chinese will surpass the US by at least two-fold with new innovations.

A kitten's greedy expression as it forces its head down a cardboard tube to reach a piece of chicken has been caught on film. Owner Anastasia Sviridova took the video at home in Kansk, Russia.

President Trump railed against Jeff Sessions, whom he ousted last year, after his former attorney general failed to outright win the Republican nomination for his old Alabama Senate seat.

Almost three quarters (74 per cent) of people thought that shutting off hundreds of thousands of people in the way that Wuhan has been isolated in China, would be a 'correct' move by the Government.

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.

Bill Browder, a human rights campaigner and former fund manager in Russia, made the explosive allegations in his testimony to the intelligence and security committee.

Denmark said an 81-year-old man had died at a hospital in Copenhagen today, the country's first coronavirus victim. (Pictured) Disinfectant teams in Iran as it battles the virus.

Natalia Korotova, 33, from Perm Krai in Russia, is the proud owner of London, a nine-month-old puma, who is already incredibly large and a big presence in her home.

EVGENY LEBEDEV: It is not 'racist' to confront the medieval beliefs of so-called traditional medicine around the world. If China fails to act, the rest of the world should take steps to force its hand.

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.

The Belarusian Premier League, which includes clubs such as BATE Borisov and Dinamo Minsk, have signed a string of TV deals as fans around the world seek to fill the sporting void.

The unbeaten Russian was due to face Tony Ferguson on April 18 in New York, but was told by the UFC that the fight was '99% likely' to take place in the UAE and so left the United States.

The two bitter rivals were set to go toe-to-toe inside the octagon at UFC 249 on April 18 but the global coronavirus pandemic has left the main event hanging in the balance.

Khabib Nurmagomedov's fight with Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 has been called off with the lightweight champion unable to leave Russia due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Russia's youngest Covid-19 victim who was working from home and looking after her children before she succumbed to the disease, posted updates of her illness while losing her fight for life.

Wildlife photographer Petr Simon, 46, snapped the images at Kurile Lake, a volcanic crater lake in Kamchatka, Russia. He said that the mother bear caught 10 fish for her cubs.

Stock indexes gained about 2 percent on Thursday as oil prices soared on hints of a Saudi-Russia deal, but doubts returned Friday on whether the rebound would last as demand tapers off.

Anton Franchikov (pictured with his wife Svetlana), 31, berated a group of people from his balcony before grabbing a hunting rifle and opening fire when they came inside.

Khabib Nurmagomedov suggested last week that he would not be breaking Russia's national lockdown to fight Tony Ferguson - a bout that has been mooted five times but has never taken place.

The British spy behind a notorious 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump's links to Russia is being sued by three oligarchs in the High Court (pictured, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele).

Khabib Nurmagomedov's total net worth has been revealed as £80million by the Russian fighter's father.  The reigning UFC lightweight champion is undefeated in his career which began in 2008.

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.

Amid rising anti-China rhetoric from the Trump Administration about Beijing's alleged Covid-19 'cover-up' Barr was asked if he considered Russia or China the biggest threat to the upcoming elections.

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.

It follows from what had been an arduous task for the UFC chief in finding a new location to host the highly-anticipated fight, with a host of venues across the United States refusing to host the event.

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign

Compared to the previous three months, China's economy is forecast to be almost 10 per cent down and with a 6 per cent drop on last year. The UK economy could shrink by up to 15 to 25 per cent.

President Trump told reporters Monday that he discussed nuclear arms control during his latest conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend.

Twenty of the new cases were in Heilongjiang province (pictured, a makeshift hospital there), including 13 Chinese nationals who had returned recently from Russia.

A clever raven was spotted in Ufa, Russia, lifting a plastic lid in its beak, flying it up a hill and then snowboarding back down. A passerby stopped to take a video of the bizarre moment.

The Georgia-born 22-year-old executive produces and stars in The Great, which centers on Prussian Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst's transformation into Russia's longest-ruling female leader (1762-1796)

Sergei Sobyanin said Russia's 0.9 per cent mortality rate was so low because of mass testing which leads to a high number of confirmed infections.

The Russian government reported a total of 87,147 cases on Monday, which is almost 4,000 more than China's official toll of 83,912.

Russian real estate magnate Aras Agalarov, 64, said his Crocus Group business is in trouble due to coronavirus shutdowns and fears the worst is yet to come when Russia hits its peak in May.

Russian researcher Vitaly Davydov has said robots will overtake their human brothers on the battlefield because they will be faster and are more accurate in target selection.

Russia's coronavirus crisis continues to worsen with a record 7,922 cases recorded the day after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishtushin (left, inset) tested positive for the disease.

The former Scottish First Minister was widely criticised for taking a job with Vladimir Putin's 'propaganda' channel, formerly known as Russia Today, on its English-language service.

Vladimir Putin (pictured) has seen his trust ratings fall following dissatisfaction with the Russian government's handling of the coronavirus crisis as cases of the disease continue to rise.

Alexandra Tyutcheva, 23, is a hunting manager from Serpukhov, Russia and has been travelling up to 300 miles to track down deer, bears and rams with her father, 53, since she was 18 years old.

The news comes just two weeks after Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov was admitted to hospital with flu and pneumonia symptoms after spending two days walking up freezing mountains.

Alexander Shulepov, 37, from Voronezh is in intensive care after taking part in a video which claimed he was ordered to work despite testing positive for Covid-19.

Nurmagomedov was poised to defend his 155lb title against Tony Ferguson but the eagerly-anticipated fight couldn't take place due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A tape of Khashoggi's final moments reveals how his killers discussed cutting his body into pieces, before accosting the writer who died amid 'sounds of a struggle' at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.