Caught on video - how Tomsk medic Sergei Pokidov waited for Colombia to score before proposing to his - Colombian - girlfriend Karen-Margarita Ruiz-Correa.

Russians staying home for football festival while the country also sees as influx of visitors who might otherwise come to Thailand

Players aimed to break stereotypes about what females can do - but their poses have caused a storm on social media.

Rare outbreak of 'hooliganism' in build-up to FIFA World Cup leaves 30 year old father dead 'from cracked temple and broken neck’.

Anton Redkov, 26, wedding planner from Novosibirsk, risks his life in flaming stunt

Powerlifter Oksana Kosheleva gets road rage, pulls motorist out of his vehicle, carries him over her shoulder, and locks him in the trunk of her car.