"The collapse of the Russian ruble against the US dollar continued for a second day on Thursday. The currency fell below 85 rubles, setting a new all-time low against the greenback", informs RT.

The GBP/USD pair initially fell during the day on Thursday, January 21, but found enough support near the 1.4050 level to turn things back around and form a significant looking hammer.

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich made a statement at the OSCE Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on January 21.

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You will find very few people in the UK who do not know this London-based street artist. It is a man who brought naked Kate Middleton and the Queen. His works are provocative, fresh and different from any other street artist. Johny Depp attended his first solo exhibition and Adel asked him to draw her portrait. Successful, ironic and a modest person – Pegasus.

The long-awaited inquiry into the killing of Alexander Litvinenko has found that the murder of former Russian spy in 2006 in the UK was "probably" approved by President Vladimir Putin.

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented the publication of the Litvinenko inquiry report in the UK.

Popular beachfront restaurants in the Somali capital Mogadishu have been hit by car bombs and gunmen on Thursday. A police official said a suicide car bomber rammed the gates of a restaurant near a beach in the capital and then gunmen fought their way into the building.

St Elijah’s monastery in Mosul, which was a place of worship for 1,400 years, is thought to have been demolished between August and September 2014. "New satellite photos confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to rubble, yet another victim of Islamic State’s relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical", The Guardian reports.

A group of militants stormed the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday in Pakistan. 19 people were killed and 17 injured while a gun and bomb attack. Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, the Khyber Paktunkhwa Health MInister said stormed the university with firing inside the campus still going on and two explosions heard.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the National Entrepreneurs’ Forum Small Business – National Idea? on January 20.The forum examined issues such as support for small and medium-sized enterprises and measures to encourage business activity.

The Russian ruble hit a historic low against the US dollar during Wednesday, January 20.The dollar exceeded the levels seen during the shock plunge of the Russian currency in December 2014.

Acclaimed and in-demand act, Abi Roberts, is to become the first UK comedian to perform in Russia - in Russian!