Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

As police say lama found in lotus positon was destined for sale on black market, there are claims it was one step away from becoming a Buddha.

.....and afterwards, time for wee dram!

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!

Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Man ‘caused some of the tundra blasts forming the large holes’, says leading scientist in surprising new theory.

More than three-quarters of the population in some areas found to be overweight and now Jamie Oliver says it's time to act.