Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau, Kazakhstan. The Russian president reacted to the Christmas Day crash, which killed 38 people, at the start of the CIS Summit in St Petersburg ...

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On seeing it in the dark, my Vietnamese grandmother was convinced it was Buddha himself – and that she had died and passed into the afterlife

Police say postmortem being carried out to determine cause of death of man, in his 30s, in Norton Canes

Christopher Barlow to appear in court after Mariann Borocz’s body was discovered on Christmas Eve

If motion is successful, it would be country’s second impeachment of a head of state in less than two weeks

Airforce hits military industrial facility in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, in Russia’s Rostov region, says Ukrainian military

 

In this episode from July, Ian Sample talks to Josh Davis, a science writer at the Natural History Museum in London and author of the book A Little Gay Natural History.

With its herb garden, deli counter and ‘living roof’, the M5 stop-off is definitely swish. But I’m a Monster Munch man at heart, says service station connoisseur Rich Pelley

Sun Chanthy also barred from running for office, in latest case to target critics of government

Despite newer artists having viral moments, app users also enjoyed old school acts including Bronski Beat and Sade

The flight was bound for Russia’s Chechnya region but diverted and appeared to have control problems

A flight tracker shows the route of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (25 December). Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was travelling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny before it made ...

Nearly 400 scholars have fled Russia, Belarus and Ukraine since the start of the war. One of them narrates his ordeal to Arpan Rai

The moist, ungovernable hippo combines the aesthetic of a potato and the iron will of a toddler – and her name means ‘bouncy pork’. Here’s how she became 2024’s most in-demand mammal

Potential IPCC rule changes could award planned carbon savings from burning US wood pellets to the exporter, not the importer

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

 

YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countries