Man kills his girlfriend in supposed murder-suicide pact because they could not bear to be apart then fails to take his own life.

Locals in Norilsk dive head first into the 4-metre deep fluffy snow as if it were a swimming pool.

This is a small 3* hotel compared with some of Novosibirsk's cavernous options, with 33 rooms -  studios, luxury rooms and apartments available as well as standard singles and doubles - aimed mainly at the business traveller. 

The hotel offers conference hall, sitting 120 people.  

There is a round-the-clock grill bar and several saunas with billiards. All rooms are air-conditioned, with television and minibars. 

Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.

People who live near ammunition depot explosion site find war-like ruins.

Once banned as a result of over-fishing, now there are plans for one million sturgeon a year in Siberian river

One early visitor: a fireball streaking across the sky and splashing into Lake Baikal.

'Perfect husband and father' axed, stabbed or strangled full-figured women 'who resembled his mother'.

Pipes are built over bulging and unstable Arctic pingos prone to violent eruptions caused by 'thawing methane gas', as seen twice on the Yamal peninsula this year.