Owner claims she almost 'passed out' after seeing state of her 'ruined' $250,000 country cottage, in which 3 children lived.

Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.

It almost looks like a lawn mower being pushed across a frozen river. What's going on?

Residents complain of 'severe carbon monoxide poisoning' as satellite images show blanket of smoke across eastern Siberia.

Stunning new Danish-designed buildings will offer new hope to orphans and their adoptive families.

In a sign of the times, children are taught 'to love the motherland' after the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.

More than eighty rescue workers and a helicopter are involved in the hunt for the boys in sub-zero temperatures.

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.

These extraordinary pictures give graphic new evidence of climate change.