Syrian government forces and their Russian counterparts are preparing to open corridors out of the besieged districts of Aleppo, in the hope that fighters...
A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russians and an American has blasted off for the International Space Station.
The crew of cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey...
Britain and the United States are considering economic sanctions against Russia and Syria as there is no appetite among Western powers for a military...
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously agreed that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next UN Secretary-General.
Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has appointed the head of the country's state-controlled nuclear corporation as his new domestic policy strategist.
Mr Putin's decree names Rosatom...
FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has suggested football might still be blighted by corruption if Russia and Qatar had not been chosen to host the...