Three people have been arrested for trying to sell 1kg of an unspecified radioactive material for €700,000, police in Slovakia said tonight.

INVESTIGATORS have determined that a strain of bird flu virus infecting fowl in Russia is the type that can infect humans, the Agriculture Ministry said today.

A Russian researcher has died after sticking herself with a needle containing the deadly Ebola virus, her organisation said today.

A fire broke out at a prison administrative centre in Siberia killing five people and injuring 12, emergency officials said.

Special forces in camouflage and black uniforms detained Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of Russia’s largest oil producer, Yukos, at an airport in Siberia today.

Heavy fighting between Russian troops and rebels has persisted for the fourth straight day outside a village in Chechnya.

Russia today formally blamed Ukraine for the crash of a Russian airliner over the Black Sea, saying the jet was downed by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.

Ukraine has admitted a rogue missile may have shot down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea.

The Ukrainian Navy has been ordered to start searching the Black Sea for remains of missiles thought to have hit a Russian airliner.

Ukraine today released what it called proof that one of their missiles was not to blame for bringing down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea.

An Israeli delegation has arrived in the Russian city of Sochi to investigate why an airliner crashed into the Black Sea on Thursday.

US officials say there is no evidence a terrorist act caused a Russian jet to explode in mid-air and crash into the Black Sea.

A missile fired during a military training exercise may have caused a Russian airliner to explode.

A chartered Russian airliner heading from Israel to Siberia exploded at 36,000 feet today and plummeted into the Black Sea coast with 78 people on board.