Roman Afanasyev, 31, who also held child out of car window driving at speed, sentenced to 300 hours community work as punishment.

Staff and passengers at Nyagan airport in fear of bear patrolling the runway and trying to break into terminal.

Suspected serial rapist, a wealthy man with wife and two children, charged with 14 sex and blackmail crimes, facing up to 15 years in jail.

Colourful ceremony celebrates age-old traditions in Russia's Land of Fire and Ice on our Pacific coastline.

Sea creature known to be the first warm-blooded fish weighed more than a ton.