At least 24 people have been killed and 200 more injured when a massive tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb overnight. Rescue teams predict the rising death toll. The VoR`s Roman Mamonov reports from the scene.

Western internet users awestruck by the bravery and courage of the Russian soldier who had a bullet, or a fragment of a shrapnel, extracted from his forehand with the pliers in ‘field conditions’. The video of the incident was recently released on Youtube and LiveLeak.com.

Moscow's Lefortovsky Court has sanctioned the arrest of Robert Amerkhanov, whom Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces detained in Orekhovo-Zuyevo outside Moscow on Monday.

Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev took Vladimir Putin's message to US President Barack Obama, said Mr Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov.

Syria’s Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi, his deputy Qadri Jamil and three other dignitaries with the Assad regime are reported to have been shortlisted for the Syrian delegation that will negotiate with the opposition if the latter gives the go-ahead to the long-due peace talks.

The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country's affairs.

Tumblr pornographers, breath - Yahoo comes in peace. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently announced that even after the acquisition of Tumblr by the media-giant, she wants to "let Tumblr be Tumblr," which includes allowing its numerous X-rated accounts to continue distributing pornography undisturbed. 

While most Canadian kids are busy playing video games and getting sugar highs, Victoria Grant from Cambridge, Ontario, is concerned with her country’s growing national debt.

Saudi Arabia has detained 10 more people in a spying case it announced in March that it said was linked to Iran, state television reported on Tuesday.

Moscow's Lefortovsky Court has sanctioned the arrest of Robert Amerkhanov, whom Federal Security Service (FSB) special forces detained in Orekhovo-Zuyevo outside Moscow on Monday.

This Tuesday marks 282 years since Russia established a naval presence in the Pacific. An imperial decree issued May 21 1721 created a naval flotilla based in Okhotsk on the Russian coast of the Sea of Okhotsk. In 1871, the Pacific Naval Fleet moved its main base to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan. Since the immediate postwar period, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula has been the main base.

Western internet users awestruck by the bravery and courage of the Russian soldier who had a bullet, or a fragment of a shrapnel, extracted from his forehand with the pliers in ‘field conditions’. The video of the incident was recently released on Youtube and LiveLeak.com.

Russia’s economic diversification remains high on the agenda, but it is no easy matter to end our oil addiction, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is certain that Russia will avoid an economic crisis like the one in 2008, he told  the Moscow-based daily Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. 

At a time of slowing economic growth, labour market issues are becoming more apparent. Currently, experts in Russia talk of a lack of qualified specialists, a deteriorating demographic situation and complicated legislative framework as being among the key concerns to be addressed by politicians and the business community.

David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.

A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)

In a harsh rebuttal to George Soros, the President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research Hans-Werner Sinn accused the speculator of “playing with fire” and stated that “Germany will not accept Eurobonds” in spite of the pressure from the investing community.

Over one billion people across the world smoke. This and other frightening figures were revealed by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, when they are compared with ten-year-old statistics, they seem to be not so frightening. The demand for cigarettes has started falling especially in countries in Europe and North America. In the early 2000s, 46% men and 26% women smoked in Europe, while at present, these figures are below 30%. The researchers of the tobacco market see the reason for the drop in demand for tobacco in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control adopted ten years ago.

Officials in Oklahoma City said on Tuesday that 24 bodies were recovered after a devastating tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, a sharp decline from the 51 deaths they previously reported.

An almost naked man climbing out of window of the flat of his mistress went viral. The video was posted on YouTube on Friday and has already attracted over a million views, reports The Daily Telegraph. (VIDEO)