Russia's athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from international competition - including the Olympic Games - for its alleged involvement in widespread doping.

Russia should be banned from athletics competition, a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report has recommended.

Russia says it has flown 11,000 tourists home from Egypt in the past 24 hours, and more will return on Sunday.

A wealthy Russian close to President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in a Washington hotel.

Russia orders the suspension of all flights to Egypt following indications that the crash near Sharm el-Sheikh was caused by a bomb.

Intelligence suggests the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing all 224 people on board may have been brought down by a bomb, US and UK officials say.

Here is what happened to Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan's only cosmonaut, who was travelling back to earth with a Russian commander in 1988 with enough oxygen for just 24 hours.

The Russian airline Kogalymavia blames "external influence" for Saturday's Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.

A Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, broke up in mid-air, a Russian official says.

An investigation is under way after a Russian airliner crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board.

Sepp Blatter has claimed there was a deal to give Russia the 2018 World Cup before voting took place, and blamed England and the US for the corruption scandal engulfing Fifa.

They are the great many who simply ignore what motivates Putin's armed diplomacy (and not just in Syria): the desire to exact revenge on those who, in his eyes, were responsible for the Soviet Union's downfall.

The United States announces that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State.

Syria's ally Russia says there should be talks between the Syrian government and the "full spectrum" of opposition.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has visited Moscow on his first overseas trip since the civil war broke out in his country in 2011.

China's leader Xi Jinping is expected to put the seal later on its contribution to what will be the first UK nuclear power plant to be built in a generation.

At least 45 people have been killed in Russian air strikes on a rebel-held area of north-western Syria, a monitoring group says.

40 militants with the so-called Islamic State are killed in air strikes in Syria, a British-based monitoring group reports.

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the US record for the most time spent in space with 383 days.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says she will investigate Russian and Georgian forces over possible war crimes.