Russia

A Russian couple are accused of raping their 12-year-old daughter to 'train her in advance for adult life,' claiming 'better us than some maniac'.

Moscow residents received just six minutes of sunshine in December - the lowest total in recorded history.

Fourteen students and a teacher were stabbed when a knife fight between two fellow students escalated out of control at a Russian school.

Russia's next-gen weapons arsenal might also include a large flamethrower.

Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on it more "meaningful" in a move that could hurt publishers and news organisations that rely on it to spread their content.

US State Department warns of serious security risks in week Donald Trump's lawyers meet Mueller investigators.

The malicious banking malware has been spotted targeting users in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries.

Mikhail Popkov, dubbed the 'werewolf' serial killer, has gone on trial after confessing to killing 59 more women between 1992 and 2010.

Suspect stole armoured personnel carrier from military training school in Murmansk and drove it erratically around streets of Apatity.

Reports have suggested that the upcoming Nuclear Posture Review will outline administration plans to develop smaller nuclear warheads and loosen restrictions on their usage.

A total of 13 unidentified, rudimentary drones, carrying IEDs and guided by GPS, attempted to attack a Russian airbase.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly cut off his friend's head after an altercation between the pair.

The item is believed to be the world's most expensive bottle of vodka and is made from gold and silver.

Danish police are investigating after the disappearance of the bottle, made with gold and silver, was stolen from Cafe 33 bar in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In a statement from the White House, President Donald Trump said that Bannon had "lost his mind" and had "little to do" with Trump's presidential victory.

Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon slams Donald Trump Jr for 'treasonous meeting' with Russians in Michael Wolff's explosive new book.

An apparently drunk man was filmed violently throwing another man into a seat aboard a packed plane because his long hair was mocked.

Russia security services believe that a bomb was planted in a storage room in the Perekrestok market in northwest St Petersburg on Wednesday (27 December).

Gizar Ziyangareev beat Anna Barmina and attacked her with a knife, before dragging her into the woods to rape her with the branch of a tree in the western city of Ufa in September 2015, where all his crimes occurred.

Russian foreign ministry says Washington's comment on opposition leader Alexei Navalny's bid is 'direct interference' in the electoral process.

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the Meteor-M satellite was lost after launch last month after it was programmed to launch from the wrong cosmodrome.

A popular Russian TV presenter was shot dead by her estranged husband in front of her nine-year-old son over a bitter custody battle.

Ten Christmas shoppers were injured after a bomb with the equivalent of 200g of TNT ripped through the Perekrestok market in the north west of the city.

The 65-year-old woman went out for a smoke on the balcony and was blown off, landing on a snowdrift below.

The HMS St Albans monitored the Russian vessel Admiral Gorshkov's "activity in areas of national interest".

Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which has been viewed as political retribution.

At least four people were killed Christmas Day when a Moscow bus mowed down pedestrians near Slavyansky Boulevard station.

A Russian news agency reported initial investigations suggesting the man tripped and fell in a glass table while using a VR headset, leading to his death.

Paedophile Alexander Georgievsky faces life in jail after luring Ruslan Korolev, 10, to his flat in Russia before strangling him and dismembering his body.

A Russian couple who fled to fight for Islamic State extremists left their daughter an orphan after they both died in combat. She has now been reunited with her grandparents.