The navigator of a Russian plane that crashed onto a highway in the northwestern region of Karelia in June, killing 47 people, was drunk, an official report said on Monday.

The navigator 'was in a li

The navigator of a Russian plane that crashed onto a highway in the northwestern region of Karelia in June, killing 47 people, was drunk, an official report said on Monday.

The navigator 'was in a li

Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule whose mission follows an unprecedented spate of Russian space accidents.

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The 'blonde's error' has been identified as the cause of the crash of Yakovlev Yak-42 jet plane last week in which 44 people were killed including the entire Lokomotiv ice hockey team, according to a

One of the only two survivors of last week's plane crash that wiped out almost an entire ice-hockey team died in hospital on Monday, officials said.

"Alexander Galimov died from severe burns in the V

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday that all issues were on the table for the two sides' first bilateral meeting since 2005.

"I expect this visit to

One player and a crew member were critically injured but survived on Wednesday’s crash of a plane carrying a top Russian ice hockey team at the central Russian city of Yaroslavl.

A Russian jet carrying a local ice hockey team crashed on Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing 36 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said.

The Russian Emergency Sit

Libya's rebel-led National Transitional Council (NTC) has confirmed the death of Muammar Gaddafi's younger son Khamis.

Rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani said on Sunday that 28-year-old Khamis died

Fallen Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was perhaps a good psychologist and had the knack of understanding people from just a handshake, one of his five Ukrainian personal nurses has said, strongly de