The swollen Amur River reached a depth of 910 cm near Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Sunday, with fears it could hit 940cm. 

Boy killed 'after lethal infection 'awoke' in human graveyard due to unprecedented heat wave'.

The quake could be a world record for a tremor caused with involvement by humans, it is claimed.

Plane, three fire trains and 5,000 people fighting as dry grass ignites 'like gunpowder'.

The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning. 

The Russian president has turned to his close ally Sergei Shoigu, former Emergencies Minister, after the Defence Minister was engulfed in a corruption scandal.

But is climate change to blame, or local officials who went on vacation instead of fighting fires?

54 reported missing after seven rescued in high seas with strong winds.

Meanwhile, Emergencies' Minister vows better space monitoring of flooding as plans underway to stop a repeat of 2013 crisis.