Born without lips and chin, disowned by her family, she is to see one of Britain’s top  surgeons in the hope that she can finally smile.

Her unique style reflects her love affair with her Yakutian motherland.

Vice Premier says 'majority' of work on the replacement to Soyuz for future of Space travel likely to be in city of Omsk.

Assembly of Soyuz-2.1a rocket has begun at new cosmodrome as country prepares for new space era.

Famous traveller and film director Nicolas Vanier embarks on a new epic dog sled trip.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Rare appearance of bear close to Novosibirsk leads to warnings to residents.

Keep this to yourself, but one of the last great undiscovered travel secrets on our planet is the Land of Fire and Ice.

A disease that afflicts one in two million transforms soft tissues into bones.