Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 High Court libel damages today over claims on a Russian TV broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

The last nine members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up underground for months awaiting the end of the world abandoned their cave today.

A further 14 members of a Russian cult that has been holed up in a cave for months awaiting the end of the world have emerged this morning, an emergency official said.

The story of Smirnoff vodka took a new twist today when it was re-united with the name of the legendary Smirnov family after a gap of nearly 90 years.