Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia has warned the United Kingdom Government that it is playing with fire by accusing Moscow of being behind the last month's nerve agent attack on former Russian spy and his daughter.

Vassily Nebenzia issued the warning on Thursday at a UN Security Council meeting in New York, called by Russia to discuss the diplomatic fallout from the poisoning of the former double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia.
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A Finnish woman who underwent hormonal therapy has become the nation's first transgender man to give birth, local media said Wednesday, triggering controversy as laws require infertility to change gender. "The baby weighed nearly 4kg and was 53 centimetres in length (at birth)," the transgender man, whose name was not revealed to protect the family's privacy, told Finnish news outlet Lannen Media a fortnight after the birth.

Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill.

The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and pronounced dead at the scene.

The boy had been found with gunshot wounds in Walthamstow earlier, with another boy, 15 who had stab injuries.

Russia has called a United Nations Security Council meeting for Thursday as it seeks to undermine Britain's case that it was responsible for the poisoning of a Russian former spy.

Moscow, emboldened after the UK was forced to withdraw a claim that its scientists had pinned the blame on Russia for the attack, will attempt to further embarrass Britain in front of its international allies.

A month after former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the British town of Salisbury, the United Kingdom and Russia remain locked in battle over who to blame.

Prince Philip, 96, has been admitted to hospital and will have surgery on his hip on Wednesday, Buckingham Palace has announced. “His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to King Edward VII hospital in London this afternoon for planned surgery on his hip, which will take place tomorrow,” a spokeswoman said.

Russian Governor Quits Office After Russia Kemerovo Fire

The long-serving governor of the Russian region where a shopping mall fire left dozens of people dead has resigned.

Aman Tuleyev, said stepping aside from governing Kemerovo was "the right, conscious and only true decision" following the fire disaster.

He announced the move in a video address posted on the regional administration's website.