Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler staged an impromptu performance on the street during his visit to Moscow.

US Secretary of State John Kerry expresses concern to Moscow over reports of Russian military build-up in Syria, the state department says.

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden criticised Russia, the country that has granted him asylum.

A special police unit sets up in southern Russia with the sole purpose of ensuring security at weddings.

The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful, and dangerous, places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide.

Manchester United and Lazio are all geared up for the Champions League play-off second leg on Wednesday.

The vast majority of carbon credits generated by Russia and Ukraine did not represent cuts in emissions, according to a new study.

This is the stomach-churning moment a Russian free-climber swung from the roof of a 40-storey building with nothing more than a friend's arm to cling on to.

Britain will reopen its embassy in Tehran during a visit to Iran by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond due to start on Sunday.

Bangladesh made unprecedented progress in labour and safety standards over the last two years, which had raised hopes for the country of regaining trade benefits from the United States.

US accuses Russia, Thailand, Iran and Libya of insufficient action against human trafficking, in a damning report on a global scourge which the State Department decried as "modern slavery."

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.