This was the generic response over the past year when I've told people about my plans to run in this Sunday's Siberian International Marathon.

Her anti-Putin bandmate Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier from a jail west of the Urals.

Thanks to Novosibirsk scientists we can see how she looked in real life, the vivid colours she wore and her stylish headdress. And her beauty secrets!

Police warn that the foreign visitors are 'risking their lives' on world's deepest lake.

Peking to Paris - 'the longest and toughest challenge anyone can drive in a vintage or classic car'.

Bears are increasingly coming out of the forest in search of food, say wildlife experts.

'And I really like borsch…': conclusion of the Chinese adventurer who drove solo to the Pole of Cold.

American agents left his orders and money in a fake rock in a Moscow suburb.