Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.

Lab-made dog was created from tiny fragment of its mom's ear by the South Korean team working at bringing back the woolly mammoth.

The Russian president took part in the 'Flight of Hope', giving a flying lesson to young white cranes ahead of their epic 5,000 km migration.

Eight hour drama before 70 people, including women and children, plucked to safety.

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

Conservationists and experts due to meet over what to do with animal listed as most endangered big cat in the world.

Norman Surplus, 49, is refusing to give up, 15 months after being denied access to Russian airspace to complete is round the world adventure.

For most of her life Agafya, 77, has lived as a peasant from the 18th century, guided by an old Bible.