Animal rights organisation criticises 'savage' use of female body part as 'talisman', and other 'cures'.

Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Hunt on for new contractor after investment group wins back 119 million roubles in case involving work not carried out.

Homage to the remarkable bravery of sailors and troops who repelled the Germans in the only World War Two combat action in Siberia.

Poaching, climate change and excessive hunting caused colossal population drop.

Court rules there is no case to answer for 73-year-old who helped cancer sufferer.

Yury Movshin 'driving at 130 kph on highway with 80 kph limit'.

She pauses for a last look, and then without a backward glance swims across the world's fifth longest river.

The Alaska-Siberia flight recalls historic Second World War supply route which helped defeat Nazism.