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The nuclear weapons the US could send to the UK are believed to be B61-12 gravity bombs - they can be deployed from fighter jets and are said to be stronger than the Hiroshima bomb

After Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned that we are now moving 'from a post-war to a pre-war world', we look at the warning signs that could mean WW3 is near

Pentagon documents show nuclear warheads would be housed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk as US and British military chiefs express fears over a war with Putin's Russia

Peter and Helen Kroger appeared to be a typical friendly couple who owned a bookshop in west London but their true identities were later revealed as Russian spymasters Morris and Lona Cohen

Dr Alexander Kudryavtsev was sacked due to his views. He had claimed up to the seventh generation are responsible for the sins of their fathers

The head of the British Army General, Sir Patrick Sanders, believes there is a need to change the public's mindset over the possibility of citizens being called up to fight if the UK went to war

There are fears Brits could face conscription if the UK goes to war with Russia, as head of the British Army says our military is just too small to cope. Soldier numbers have fallen to below 76,000 - and the gaps need to be filled, says General Sir Patrick Sanders

According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs, six flight staff, and three escorts when the II-76 military aircraft plummeted to the earth and exploded in a huge fireball

Elena Blinovskaya, it is alleged, hid around £12.5million from the taxpayer in Russia, and is said to have violated the rules by hosting a party at New Year in the country

Teachers in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thought Misha was struggling in class after he kept falling asleep but a trip to hospital - and an MRI scan - revealed the tumour

It is feared that six people who were aboard have been killed after the jet, understood to be operating as an ambulance is believed to have gone down in Badakhshan province

At least two drones were spotted flying towards the city before the fire broke out at the gas plant close to St Petersburg in Russia, in what appears to be the latest Ukrainian strike on Russian infrastructure

Researchers traced the route taken by a female woolly mammoth and discovered hunters followed the creature across several countries along its 1,000km grazing route

The Azerbaijan Tennis Federation protested to the International Tennis Federation at the Australian Open, demanding that the governing body punish Karen Khachanov.

Several explosions were heard overnight in Voronezh, near the Russia-Ukraine border, after air defences reportedly shot down or electronically intercepted the drones

This week British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a surprise visit to Ukraine where he met with Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged a further £2.5billion to help the country's war with Russia

Decorated Russian war commander Lt-Col Irek Magasumov, 35, who was personally awarded Russia's highest honour by Vladimir Putin is facing jail for shooting an 18-year-old woman dead

Yulia Lytkina, who lives in the Sakha Republic in the east of Russia - where temperatures often plunge to -50C - can freeze her food outside in the winter - and turn off her freezer as a result

Lt-Col Irek Magasumov, 35, will reportedly be charged with murder over the death of 18-year-old Daria Kiseleva who he allegedly shot with his army gun in Russian-occupied Luhansk

A woman had to crawl out of the boot of her Mitsubishi Colt when a sinkhole suddenly opened around her car, plunging her vehicle into the ground as several passers-by came to her aid

More than 100 homes in Novosibirsk, Siberia, have been left without power in -15C temperatures after a Soviet-era pipe burst causing widespread floods in the city

A Russian navy reservist lieutenant captain Roman Titov, 58, has not been heard of since December 21, 2023 when his boat went missing in the North Sea, and is now feared dead

The Russian government has decided to invest in making the Far East, known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps, a holiday hotspot with a new 2,000 room resort being built

Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has boosted the country's National Guard to 350,000, compared to the UK’s 73,000 troops and soldiers in Russia are also equipped with heavier weapons

Robert Romanov Woodland, 32, has been remanded in custody until March 5 on drug possession charges after he was charged with attempted large-scale production and sale of illegal drugs