Magnificent STS Sedov easily passes three Arctic seas exactly 142 years after the famous Vega Expedition was stuck in pack ice for 11 months.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.

More than century of waiting ended on Saturday as just married couples were the first to walk on the new cable-stayed Golden Horn Bay Bridge.

After this year's discovery of uncongealed mammoth blood, experts are confident of new discoveries.

Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.

He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.

Alexei Gorulenko confessed to keeping himself alive by eating human flesh, but denied killing Olga Kurochkina's husband.