A rare ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse will cast a shadow over Russia and Canada next week when the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun, leaving an edge of light. While the UK won’t see the ‘ring of fire’, we will be able to watch a partial solar eclipse where the Moon covers 32 … Read more
Terrifying moment pair fall from balcony after ornate railings on historic St Petersburg street give way sending them crashing onto the pavement – but both reportedly survive the plunge Olga Volkova and Yevgeny Karlagin fell from their balcony in Russia on Saturday Eye witnesses said the couple, who share a son, were arguing at around … Read more
Burj Khalifa One of the most famous buildings along the Persian Gulf, Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world today, standing a mighty 828 metres (2,716 feet). The mega skyscraper, complete in 2010, boasts 163 floors, which include a hotel, a restaurant, an observation deck and luxury apartments. According to its developer, the … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to ‘knock the teeth out’ of foreign enemies who try to bite off pieces of the country’s vast territory after Washington and Moscow clashed at the Arctic Summit on Thursday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that the North Pole must remain ‘free of conflict’ at … Read more
Moment rally spectators cheat death when car somersaults off bend and misses them by inches in horror crash Footage was captured at the Picnic rally in Lenigrad region, Russia this week Driver Oleg Lozinsky, 26, lost control on a sharp turn, flipping the car three times Spectators were lucky not to be injured, and Lozinsky … Read more
Strictly Come Dancing pro Katya Jones reveals why she loved travelling solo in the Cote d’Azur and how she’s an ‘amazing flyer’ (asleep before the plane has taken off) By Roz Lewis for the Daily Mail Published: 07:44 BST, 19 May 2021 | Updated: 08:30 BST, 19 May 2021 Strictly Come Dancing pro Katya Jones … Read more
It was where African American sprinter Jesse Owens slept and trained before winning four gold medals in front of a furious Adolf Hitler. But now the athletes’ village from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is being turned into residential apartments after lying derelict for decades following its dark association with the Soviet Union’s KGB. … Read more
Russia is building up its military in a remote Arctic airbase prime with missiles, radar and a runway as the Kremlin seeks to assert its dominance in the disputed oil-rich area which it declared this week it ‘our land’. The Nagurskoye airbase in the Franz Josef Land archipelago was built in the 1950s as a … Read more
‘That’s not training, it’s beating’: Horror as trainer is caught on camera slapping and kicking two beluga whales after they failed to kiss him for a stunt Trainer Dmitry Bachinsky, 32, caught hitting animals at aquarium in Vladivostok Footage shows Bachinsky training whales Nil and Lear to kiss him during a stunt When belugas refuse, … Read more
Small amounts of Neanderthal DNA discovered in the dust of Spanish and Russian caves could give researchers new insight into how our early ancestors lived. The 100,000-year-old discoveries were made in three different spots: the Galeria de las Estatuas cave site in Burgos, Spain and the Chagyrskaya and Denisova caves in the Altai Mountain range … Read more