Luciya wrongly given by maternity hospital to family in which she had to beg for food. 

When Darina was born 3 years ago without lips and a chin, her mother lost consciousness from shock, and soon her family disowned the child.

But seals prove more adept at undertaking polar missions, including potentially killing intruders, say experts.

Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on 1 December 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.

Dark Ages man aged around 30 found in a medieval graveyard for unusually old people in the Russian Far East.