A fire raged in a 19th Century cathedral in St. Petersburg today, bringing down the main cupola on top of the stately church in Russia’s former Imperial capital.

Investigators today combed through the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that crashed into a Ukrainian field during a severe thunderstorm, killing all 170 people aboard.

A fire broke out at a hospital in southern Moscow early today, killing at least four patients and forcing the evacuation of dozens of other patients, an emergency official said

A freight train collided with a passenger bus in the Russian Far East today, killing seven people and injuring 18, emergency officials said.

SEARCH crews blasted through solid rock to rescue 11 of 13 coal miners who emerged covered in soot yesterday after six days trapped in a deep shaft in southern Russia.

Eleven of 13 coal miners who were trapped in a deep shaft in southern Russia for six days were found alive today.

A man has been arrested after at least five people died when bombs rocked a commuter train in southern Russia today.

Suicide bombers in a pair of trucks roared up to the headquarters of the Kremlin-backed government in rebel Chechnya and blew them up today, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 60.

Rescuers today pulled three bodies from a huge hangar in Kazakhstan after the roof collapsed at Russia’s main space launch site.

The roof of a 260ft tall hangar at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan collapsed today, trapping eight workers under the debris, officials said.