The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said yesterday.

Former President Boris Yeltsin - who engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy - has died, a Kremlin official said today. He was 76.

Boris Yeltsin has died aged 76, a Kremlin official said today.

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died aged 76, a Kremlin official said today.