A thanksgiving service will be held today for the life of renowned actor and raconteur Peter Ustinov.

Three people have been charged in connection with last month’s bombings of two Russian airliners, the Interfax news agency reported today.

A police captain who worked at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport has been arrested in connection with last month’s bombings of two Russian airliners.

THE two Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian airliners last month were briefly detained by airport policemen, but paid bribes to get on to the flights.

The two Chechen women suspected of blowing up two Russian airliners last month were briefly detained by airport policemen before the flights, but then released,

RUSSIA’s top general said yesterday he was ready to attack ‘terrorist bases’ anywhere in the world, as security services put an €8.5 million bounty on two Chechen rebels blamed for last week’s school siege.

Russia’s secret service has offered a near €8.8m reward for accurate information that could help “neutralise” Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.

Peter Ustinov was remembered today as a great actor and humorist who made a difference to the world through his good works for children.

Sir Peter Ustinov, the Oscar-winning actor and staunch advocate for Unicef, will be honoured in a public memorial ceremony in Switzerland.

PETER USTINOV, a brilliant wit and mimic who won two Oscars in an eclectic acting career has died. He was 82.

Tributes have poured in for Peter Ustinov, who died in Switzerland today, at the age of 82.

Oscar-winning actor Peter Ustinov has died in Switzerland. He was 82.

Attempts to save the crew of Russia’s Kursk nuclear submarine were doomed by mistakes and sloppiness, not least the failure of a top admiral to realise anything had gone wrong, a government report has revealed.

THE Russian government confirmed yesterday that leaked torpedo fuel and not a foreign submarine or a Second World War mine caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine.

The Russian government confirmed today that leaky torpedo fuel - and not a foreign submarine or a Second World War mine - caused the explosions that destroyed the Kursk nuclear submarine.

Two deserters from the Russian army shot and killed two police officers who stopped their stolen car at a traffic checkpoint in southern Russia, officials said today.

The sinking of the Kursk was not caused by a collision with a foreign submarine, the leading investigator into the disaster says.

Two students and two women were injured when a grenade taken by a student to a school in southern Russia exploded, police and news reports said today.

Investigators today revealed the ‘‘hell’’ inside the nuclear submarine Kursk which sank in the Barents Sea with the loss of 118 lives.

In a renewed attack on former Kremlin insiders, authorities in Russia issued an arrest warrant for tycoon Boris Berezovsky and charged railways minister Nikolai Aksyonenko, the state prosecutor said yesterday.