Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.
Powerful telescope placed 1.3km below the icy water hopes to track invisible particles from the sun and stars.
Alexey has accrued 13 children, 117 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren over his lifetime, and there may be more on the way!
New Russian national park, aimed at saving endangered big cats has won praise from Prince Michael of Kent.
For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.
Geologist who built ramshackle hut 100 metres from Agafya Lykova passes away and is buried near the last place he called home.