USA: A Pennsylvania man who believed sap from a tree next door was ruining his car chopped the tree down, causing the tree to crash into an apartment building he owns, damaging it so badly it had to be condemned.

A Russian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off killing 31 on board had not been properly de-iced, the country's civil aviation head said tonight.

A total of 32 people have died after a passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off.

Russian emergency workers have flown to a Siberian region where smelly orange, yellow and green snow fell.

A helicopter crashed in northern Siberia today, killing at least six of the 15 people on board.