President Dmitry Medvedev has called for rapid changes in Russia’s troubled air transport industry as the country mourned a crash that killed 43 people, among them most of a leading hockey team.

Investigators were today searching for flight recorders in the shattered remains of an airliner that crashed on the banks of the Volga River, killing 43 people including most of one of Russia's premier hockey teams.

An airliner carrying a top ice hockey team has crashed on take off in Russia, killing at least 43 people.

THE Vancouver riot couple who earlier claimed they had no interest in cashing in on their now infamous kiss, have hired a PR agency to look after their ‘commercial activities’ in Australia.

Angry ice hockey fans have run wild after the Vancouver Canucks lost the sport’s showpiece finale, the Stanley Cup.

The Boston Bruins have won the Stanley Cup after beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in the deciding Game Seven.

A CANADIAN sports promoter plans to showcase ice hockey violence in Prince George in two months by getting rid of the boring gameplay and focusing on what hockey fans really want — blood-splattering, bare-knuckle, on-ice brawls.

ICE HOCKEY’S NHL in America is on the brink of becoming the first American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labour dispute.