Fears over exploitation of Russian models sent on 'slave labour contracts' without parents to care for them.

The American fast food chain is on the way into the largest (populated) Big Mac-free territory on the globe: but do the locals want it?

The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning. 

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.

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.

Slava, aged 9, had miraculous escape after metal handle somehow pierced his rib cage.

Five boys ‘put their lives at risk’ as engine driver makes emergency stop.

Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.

Bolshevik leader's statue crashes in pieces in Kemerovo.

Crashing viaduct narrowly misses a freight train - and rail worker is seen fleeing the disaster.