Chelyabinsk

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  Man Kidnapped Teen, Kept Her As Sex Slave In His House For 14 Years

  The police found a collection of sex toys, muzzles and CDs containing pornography from the man's house.

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  Watch: Man Jumps Into Drain To Save Son Who Fell Into It While Playing

  The person who posted the video on Reddit said the incident took place in Chelyabinsk, a city in west-central Russia.

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  Exotic Crystals With Unique Structure Found in Dust From Chelyabinsk Meteor Explosion

  Researchers have found unique carbon crystals having unusual shapes in the grains of preserved meteorite dust. The dust was the result of a space rock explosion that took place over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.

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  Killer Asteroids Abound. NASA Is Ready To Do Something About It

  On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

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  Russia Opens Commission Into "Nuclear Incident" Report

  A Russian scientific commission will investigate reports of radioactive pollution almost 1,000 times above normal levels in the southern Urals, state nuclear company Rosatom said Friday.

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  Halloween Asteroid to Shave Past Earth, Astronomers Say

  A big asteroid is hurtling toward Earth and will shave past our planet on Halloween, but astronomers say there's no need to be spooked it's definitely not on a collision course.

• Astronomer spots asteroid smashing into Moon

  A Spanish astronomer on Monday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded.

• Earth marks close encounter with enormous asteroid

  An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields whizzed close to Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people.

• Meteorite that hit Russia millions of years old

  A meteorite that entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into Russia's Urals in February had broken off from a large asteroid and collided with another space body several million years ago, a Russian scientist said.

• Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs

  The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, NASA scientists say.

• Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall

  A small army of workers set to work on Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

• Around 950 injured in Russia meteor strike

  Around 950 people were injured on Friday when a meteor burned up above the central Russian city of Chelyabinsk, unleashing a shockwave that shattered panes of glass, the regional governor said.

• 'The end of the world?': Terror over Russian meteor

  "I was driving in the car across the square. Suddenly the square lit up with a bright, bright light, not a normal light," said Chelyabinsk resident Vasily Rozhko.

• Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 people injured

  More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings.

• Meteorite hits central Russia, 400 hurt

  About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms.