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Trupti Patel, in her latest show — Homelands, uses clay, earth, soil, ash, seed, water and plants as the...

13 March 2013 4:59 PM

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Photo: AP)

Amid Mideast turmoil, Saudis look to Moscow

The King's visit has also taken bilateral ties into the new area of defence cooperation.

10 Oct 2017 7:41 PM

The bears had come to feast on the carcass of a bowhead whale that washed ashore, later resting around the food source. (Photo: AFP)

Polar bears feast on a whale in the Arctic

The bears had come to feast on the carcass of a bowhead whale that washed ashore, later resting around the food source.

25 Nov 2017 7:58 AM

Cyber attack hit a Mexican opposition party website.

Moscow's new cable car closed by cyberattack

It opened to the public on Tuesday, with rides to be free for the first month, but suddenly halted the next day.

30 Nov 2018 7:54 AM

A man uses a smartphone in Tokyo. Visitors to New Zealand can be fined 5,000 New Zealand dollars ($3,243) for refusing to provide passwords to unlock electronic devices and allow customs officials to examine them under a new law that a civil liberties group condemned as a grave invasion of privacy. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

City of Moscow rejects pilot using neighbourhood watch tech

The technology would allow certain people such as health professionals to quickly notify law enforcement of potential...

25 Nov 2018 10:01 AM

Rape is the only crime where the victim is blamed (Photo: Representational Image)

Russian woman caught trying to sell daughter's virginity to rich man

Pair had flown to Moscow from Chelyabinsk with the underage girl in order to sell her 'first night' to a 'rich client'...

20 Jan 2018 6:41 AM

The rare predator - one of only 500 or so Siberian tigers living in their snowy natural habitat in eastern Russia - found a remote house and quietly lay down on the porch. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Tiger seeks human help after suffering painful gum problems

An endangered feline defied all instincts and walked into village to seek human help over severe teeth problem.

1 Feb 2018 7:44 AM

A monument dedicated to Soviet Red Army soldiers stands next to a truck on the grounds of a warehouse in the Polish town of Legnica, where the monument is being mothballed, on March 24, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Poland consigns communist-era monuments to dustbin of history

Dozens of communist monuments still stand across Poland and their removal has rankled Russia.

30 April 2018 11:06 AM

Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. (Photo: AFP)

Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, dies at 85

NASA and the European Space Agency both praised the pioneering cosmonaut.

12 Oct 2019 7:00 AM

Vyacheslav Kovtun and his wife used the imposition of sanctions on Russia in 2014 to produce their own cheese. (Photo: AFP)

Russians now winning gold prize at World Cheese Awards

Five years after sanctions, Russian cheeses getting top marks.

27 Nov 2019 5:31 AM

Ideal affordability is identified at 4.5 times the average annual household income in a city.

Mumbai sees 3rd highest growth in annual household income

The report stated that the consistent reduction in apartment sizes has lowered the average ticket price for a...

26 March 2019 9:58 PM

The rally came a week after the capitals biggest protest in years, when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September. (Photo: AP)

We want free elections': Russians chant on street, hundreds arrested

The protest was the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for fair local elections in the capital.

28 July 2019 3:55 AM