Gem weights in at 27.85 carats, and may become the most expensive polished diamond in the company's history.

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.

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.