A Russian airstrike in northern Syria has killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 more, senior Russian officials have confirmed.

Phil Taylor talks to a team member about the Olympics that were airbrushed from our history.

The White House is probing ongoing leaks of President Donald Trump's private conversations with foreign leaders.

A grieving Russian mother has called for the death penalty to be reinstated after her daughter was allegedly killed by a family friend.

A column in a Russian newspaper said that women should "find solace" in the fact that women who suffer domestic violence are more likely to give birth to boys.

Royal Air Force jets were scrambled to intercept nuclear-capable Russian bombers over the North Atlantic.

Content warning: An angry man took to his custom-built Range Rover with an axe after locking his keys inside.

A Russian opposition politician in a coma with organ failure suffered "acute poisoning" by an unknown substance, his wife says.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is in hot water after saying Vladimir Putin is "a killer".

A man obsessed with body art has turned his craft to his hairless cat, covering it in gangster-inspired tattoos.

A statement from the Trump administration called Iran's missile launch 'provocative', but did not outline any actions it intends to take.

US President Trump and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin discuss coordinating on ISIS and Syria, Kremlin says.

Nearly 20 per cent of Russians say it is "acceptable" to hit one's partner.

A video posted by the Russian Emergency Ministry captures firefighters saving about 150 pigs and piglets from a barn fire in a Siberian village.

Putin has spoken on the Trump dossier, saying the president elect spends time with beauty queens, not Russian prostitutes of "lower social responsibility".

Vladimir Putin has come out swinging against the outgoing US administration over the explosive Donald Trump dossier.

In an attempt to take a selfie atop Europe's tallest building, a teenager slipped and fell 86 storeys.

"We perceive it as a threat. These actions threaten our interests, our security," says Russia as the first of thousands more US troops and tanks rolled in to Poland.

All around the world, politicians in the mould of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are rising. They all pose the same "profound threat".

The Russians have a variety of ways of obtaining information.

Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain has admitted that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect.

Here's a guide to fishy and often debunked claims made by Donald Trump at his news conference.

An infuriated Donald Trump has lashed out at the media, describing unverified allegations connecting him to Russia as "crap".

Where does transparency meet irresponsibility? Right at the line that BuzzFeed's editor Ben Smith approached on Wednesday and decided to step over in the name of serving citizens' best interests.

He's raised eyebrows in China with comments on trade, Taiwan and North Korea. But Donald Trump will have much bigger issues than Beijing.

Trump has said it would be "stupid" for the US not to develop a close relationship with Russia, despite claims it tried to influence his election victory.

A week of explosive tweets from the American President-Elect have stoked anxiety, moved markets and altered plans.

A young Russian woman has been placed on a sanction list by the White House for supposedly helping Vladimir Putin to interfere in the US election.

Intelligence officials were confident that Russia was the culprit behind the hacking and disinformation regarding the US election.