Ransom demanded for two UTair staff seized in ambush on UN contract work.
Adventurous Alyona plans to dance and play football on the roof of the world after beating competition to join polar team.
On 10 February, eight travellers set out on a two month odyssey covering 4,000 km through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.
Remains of suspected female of Turkik origin found in at an altitude of 2,803 metres in the Altai Mountains.
Avelina Antsiferova fulfilled her life's dream when she sat in cockpit of wartime Douglas C-47, 69 years after kissing her papa goodbye for last time.
Acrobats from a sports club were killed after driver lost control in poor weather and hit oncoming truck.
Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.
Remains from the Zhokhov island in the East Siberian Arctic show trained sled dogs existed almost 10,000 years ago.
Now aged 71, Ted Kohner, son of Chaliapin's daughter Tatiana, is making his first visit from the US to the motherland of his iconic opera singer grandfather.