A motorcyclist crashed in to a car when he was distracted by a girl twerking roadside.

Less than 72 hours before he was fatally shot, Denis gave one of his final interviews.

A Russian MP who fled Moscow fearing Putin's secret service has been assassinated.

Diplomat Gerard van Bohemen reflects on the two years he spent on the high-powered UN Security Council.

No issue appears to have flummoxed GOP lawmakers as much as Trump's consistent defense of Vladimir Putin.

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

Stranded on a train track for 2 days, this terrified dog faced certain death. But thanks to her loving companion, Lucy survived the horrifying ordeal.

The deaths of two men, who died on an overnight tramp in the Tararua Ranges, have been referred to the Coroner.

A new mega structure will cover Chernobyl power plant and prevent further radiation spewing from the reactor for at least a century.

Documents of Ukraine's pro-Kremlin party reportedly show payments of $12.7 million earmarked for Donald Trump's campaign chairman.

Helen Clark's bid for the UN Secretary General job has been raised by Foreign Minister Murray McCully during a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin may have unleashed his worst enemy when Nadia Savchenko was freed from Russian prison.

The former Soviet city of Pripyat, the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, has became an unlikely drawcard for international tourists

Russia and Ukraine sank further into a widening trade war yesterday, as Russia halted all gas deliveries to Ukraine.

The biggest pieces of wreckage have vanished, hauled away to the Netherlands for analysis, and green stalks of grass are poking through the burned ground where the centre section exploded.

A powerful explosion killed a number of firefighters yesterday as they fought to control a blazing fuel depot which had burned through the night outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Ukraine has appealed to the West to get tough on Russia after separatists it says are militarily backed by Moscow stormed a flashpoint town.

More than 11 months into the crisis he unleashed, Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in charge of the dynamic, seeking to confuse and divide the West as he apparently seeks to create a damaged....

What drives Putin is a grab-bag of emotional motives. His man in Kiev got overthrown, and he doesn't like to lose face, writes Gwynne Dyer.

It was a day of bluster and speeches, but also paralysis over how to end the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.

Governments increasingly view human rights as "a luxury" they can ill afford, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

A 46-year-old Ukrainian tank commander says politicians might yet stop the conflict that grips the east of his country, but supplies of arms from the West would bring a quicker result.

Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country, but his country won't say where and it won't say how.

All politicians like to have props, and in Vladimir Putin's case, some are taken from the box marked Macho and others from the box marked Mother Russia.

The family of a British student who died on MH17 has revealed there are still 700 fragments of human remains to be identified in the Netherlands.

Australia is considering exporting uranium to Ukraine.

Ukrainian Australians staged a powerful protest yesterday, laying on the ground in a symbol of the murderous acts they say Russia's president is responsible for.