Many families with young children among those finding new homes - and hope - in Siberia.

Hundreds - including dozens of children - evacuated safely as fires destroy and threaten homes.

Yulia and Dugarma were raised by the wrong mothers, and now face the shocking truth, vowing to see the ‘joy and happiness’.

Twin sisters Violetta and Evelina Yachmenev left hospital in Barnaul just before they turned two months old.

Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.

Residents warned to stay away from the animals, with two men already having been savagely attacked... but there is happy news for two little cubs.

A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches. 

Jessica is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

10 year old Alyona had made a cave in a large pile of snow, and excavator driver did not see her.