Journey 'in search of my father', as joint Russian-American expedition sets out to bring home crashed wartime Douglas C-47 from tundra.

The death toll from unusually heavy snowstorms rose to ten at the weekend.

'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.

Today classes are closed, not because temperatures are plunging to minus 44C, but due to the ferocious icy winds.

A two-tailed comet should be visible with the naked eye on Friday and following nights in Novosibirsk, say astronomers.

Greenpeace claim authorities underestimate the scale of destruction, amid warnings of lack of resources to fight fires. 

Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.

The Mi-8 training flight ‘exploded’ after slamming into a field with communications antennae at Khabarovsk Disaster Medicine Centre.