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A pair of Russian phone pranksters have claimed they fooled Elton John into believing he was talking to President Vladimir Putin. That was directed to, er, both of you.

He said that it the conversation is helpful in highlighting gay discrimination. The two presidents met Friday in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

Mr Kerry’s call came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his military assistance to Assad’s government and said it was impossible to defeat Isil without co-operating with Damascus.

The White House said it would use the talks to urge Russian Federation to focus its actions in Syria on countering the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.

Asked Wednesday if Russia plans to create a base in Syria, Gen. Nikolai Bogdanovsky, a deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian military, said, according to Russian news agencies, that “there are no such plans as of today, but anything may happen”.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the gravity of the situation in eastern Ukraine is escalating, as armed aggressions between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militias have intensified in the recent days.

Self-confessed serial killer Tamara Samsonova, 68, may have experimented with cannibalism as she brutally murdered each of her 11 victims.

“Crew reports, “Feels like Christmas in July””, the official ISS Twitter account posted after the docking.

The Russian Soyuz/Progress 59 mission failed after the cargo vessel separated from the Soyuz booster rockets third stage and spun wildly out of control in April 2015 and eventually crashed weeks later during an uncontrolled plummet back to Earth over the ocean.

Authorities are trying to stop more senseless deaths, such as in May when a 21-year-woman in Moscow accidentally shot herself in the head with a pistol while taking a photograph.