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Baywatch star on trip to Russian Far East visits lion saved from flooded zoo in Ussuriysk.

Everyone knows that Istanbul is the city of contrasts; much less known is that Novosibirsk is the city of start-ups. 

Temperatures of up to 35C force exodus to river and lake beaches. 

This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.

Running for its life after its mother was killed, two-month-old bear is rescued after stumbling into officers.

Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.

Dilemma over how to help the two-year-old ‘orphan’, still not old enough to tend for itself.