Russia is seeking a compromise despite its resistance against the establishment of the international criminal tribunal against those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

A section of a Russian military barracks collapse, killing 23 soldiers near the Siberian city of Omsk.

The weather is sultry and tempers are fraying during tense negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme - one particularly testy exchange sparked a rash of social media messages and memes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet world leaders today including India's Narendra Modi ahead of the start of a summit of the BRICS emerging economies.

Cleaner air worldwide will save two million lives a year and not only in the most polluted countries, a study finds.

Swiss banks report suspicious activity around accounts of football's world governing body Fifa, says the Swiss attorney general.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015.

UK intelligence agents move because Russia and China have access to classified information which reveals how they operate, a senior government source says.

A young South African man who had the world's first successful penis transplant last December has impregnates his girlfriend.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that time is running out for a deal to keep Greece in the eurozone.

After reigning on the big screen with their acting prowess, Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra have now taken over the virtual world, coming out as the King and Queen of Social Media.

The European Union responds angrily to Russia's entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders.

Fifa executives accepted bribes to help secure the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said.

Sweden, Russia and Italy are among the favourites to win the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place in Vienna later.

The 2400-megawatt Rooppur nuclear power project is likely to cost around $10 billion, more than three times the initial estimate of the government.

A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned and crashed in Siberia, Russia's space agency says.

Campaigners are urging Facebook to act against what they describe as Russian attempts to silence pro-Ukrainian voices.

An investigation by Russian opposition activists concludes that 220 Russian soldiers died in two major battles in eastern Ukraine.

The Russian space agency says that its out-of-control spacecraft has burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Foreign politicians is congratulating UK Prime Minister David Cameron on the election victory of his governing Conservative Party.