Relatives carried the bodies of victims of a roof collapse at a Moscow market out of a morgue in wooden boxes today to put them on flights home, while the discovery of more corpses in the rubble brought the death toll to 66.

Power shovels scooped up tons of rubble at a Moscow market where the roof collapsed, killing at least 57 people, and officials said there was virtually no hope of finding anyone still alive under the wreckage.

THE concave, snow-covered roof of a large Moscow market collapsed early yesterday, killing at least 52 people.

The snow-covered roof of a large Moscow market collapsed early today, killing at least 49 people and forcing rescuers to clear away concrete slabs and metal beams to reach possible survivors trapped in the wreckage.

The concave, snow-covered roof of a three-decade-old Moscow market collapsed early today, killing at least 31 people and trapping about 10.

Cold weather so painful that even winter-hardened Russians complained about it has gripped Moscow and much of the rest of the country.

OFFICIALS held ceremonies to mark the opening of two new schools in the southern Russian town of Beslan yesterday to replace School No 1, devastated by last year’s horrific hostage seizure in which 331 adults and children died.

The Mayor of Moscow has offered his congratulations to London for their successful bid to stage the 2012 Olympics and then indicated the Russian capital would bid for the 2016 Games.

THE success of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich after lavishing a fortune on Chelsea has earned him many friends in west London but resentment at home.

Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of Beslan, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of a carefully-planned school siege that prosecutors linked to a Chechen rebel leader.

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin, vowed he would do all he could to save hundreds of children, parents and teachers held hostage in a school gym by armed militants.

DISTRAUGHT Moscow residents laid flowers yesterday outside a subway station where a suicide bomber killed 10 people.

Moscow commuters distraught by a suicide bombing near a subway stop that killed 10 people laid a phalanx of flowers near the station entrance today and police promised heightened security on the sprawling city’s transit system.

MOSCOW’S mayor has ordered the demolition of a huge Soviet-era hotel near the Kremlin, part of a frenzy of destruction and building that is changing the face of the centuries-old Russian capital.

The death toll in the weekend roof collapse at a Moscow water park could rise by up to 13, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said today as rescuers sifted through the wreckage.

Rescue workers with sniffer dogs picked through the ruins of an indoor water park searching for survivors in Moscow today after a roof collapsed on hundreds of bathers yesterday, killing over two dozen people.

At least 21 people were killed and 106 injured when a glass and concrete roof covering a huge, two-year-old Moscow water park gave way in what the mayor called the city’s biggest technical accident.

The vast glass roof covering a Moscow water park collapsed today, killing at least seven people, injuring nearly 70 and trapping others under the rubble, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said.

A SUICIDE bomb attack killed at least six people in the heart of Moscow yesterday, just two days after Russian voters handed President Vladimir Putin an even tighter grip on power.

Fears of a new wave of terrorism in Moscow have been heightened as a woman suicide bomber struck in the heart of the city today, killing five people.

A fire ripped through a Moscow dormitory crowded with newly arrived foreign students early today, killing at least 32 people and injuring 127 others.

A fire tore through a Moscow university dormitory early today, killing at least 32 foreign students and injuring 78 others.

As Moscow reeled from twin suicide bombings that killed 15 people at a weekend rock concert, President Vladimir Putin today vowed that Russia would never give in to terrorism.

Moscow has joined the list of cities bidding to stage the 2012 Olympics.

Moscow could stage a grand prix in the near future, according to Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Russian MPs are concerned about the risk of BSE after Moscow's mayor signed a deal with Bavarian farmers for 100,000 tonnes of beef.

Russian security services are appealing for witnesses to a rush-hour bombing in the Moscow subway which has left 15 people injured.