Ivan and Lubov Leshchenko keep the animals in the backyard of their village of Dubovy Kliuch - Oak key - in the Far East of Russia.

International bookmaker Paddy Power is offering odds of 100/1 that the Siberian Yeti will be found by the end of 2012. 

Damage from wave of floods already labelled 'catastrophic' with worse to come as Russian president Vladimir Putin demands: 'Put people first'.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

Deaths - and attempts - may be linked to barbaric 'games' encouraging young people to take their own lives.

Scheme would allow epic journeys from London to the Japanese capital with major international crossing between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

But how did ancient artists create prehistoric masterpieces on sheer cliffs today only accessible by sophisticated modern climbing equipment?

Emergency evacuation in Krasnoyarsk region as ammunition depot explodes in Achinsk