Police examine horrific child cruelty allegations against 26 year old woman teacher.

Today classes are closed, not because temperatures are plunging to minus 44C, but due to the ferocious icy winds.

Entirely on her own initiative, Jessica - who will be 21 later this month - is going to Siberia to see her biological mother Natalia, 38, and father Oleg, 37.

The second largest city of the Russian Far East faces nervous hours and days to see if its dikes hold back the deluge.

Grieving father tells of how his entire family was wiped out and blames official corruption for lack of safety at Winter Cherry mall.

Oksana and Alexander Urusov were told they needed more papers to fly with dog Tori, so they dumped her outside the terminal.

Disgraced Svetlana Parchaikina, 42, verbally abuses small child taken into care from a family unable to cope with raising him.

A day of mourning will be held on Thursday for the victims of a fatal five metre high avalanche  that struck a group of seven teenagers. 

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.

Roman Afanasyev, 31, faces up to 3 years in jail after dangling her out of car window, and posing on rooftop edge clutching child upside down.