Russia harks back to Cold War
Taking part in exercises off South Korea, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was approached by a Russian military plane which got close enough for US fighter jets to respond by escorting the plane away from the area.
Last month, a Russian bomber flew very low over the Nimitz and other US warships when they were in international waters near Japan.
According to Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer, what Moscow is doing is sending a message.
"The message that we're back again, that we're still a kind of something, a chip off the Soviet Union, we have the capabilities, we have those heavy bombers that can carry nuclear weapons, which other nations do not have, and that we should be taken seriously," he told
Tanked crew crashes into house
A Russian tank crashed through a villager's house after the crew stopped to buy more vodka at a nearby shop.
Video from a mobile phone camera showed the tank hitting a corner of the house and a laughing, and apparently drunk, driver awkwardly trying to clamber aboard with two bottles of vodka.
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