The riveting theatre between the two Russian oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich, has largely concluded. The cast of billionaires giving testimony has now ended and all that remains is for Mrs Justice Gloster to hear testimony from experts in Russian history and law, and for the QCs to sum up their respective clients’ cases, and for the judge to consider her verdict, which is not expected to be until the Spring next year.

It is a case that will last for several weeks and will captivate the media with some £3.2bn at stake. Chelsea football club’s press shy owner Roman Abramovich yesterday sat at London’s High Court and formally listened through headphones with a Russian translation to the charges against him filed by his former political mentor and business partner Boris Berezovsky. Lawrence Rabinowitz QC, acting for the sixty five year old Mr Berezovsky told Mrs Justice Gloster that his client was seeking “in excess” of $5.5bn (£3.2bn) from Mr Abramovich.

Russia’s space agency and its mulit-national partners have said that they plan to let the International Space Station (ISS) fall into the ocean when it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Why? Because left alone the ISS would be an enormous bundle of space junk that posed too great a risk. “After it completes its existence, we will be forced to sink the ISS. It cannot be left in orbit, it’s too complex, too heavy an object, it can leave behind lots of rubbish” said Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of Russia’s space agency.