Viktoria Popova from Omsk was fired for posing in a pin-up style photoshoot.

The legendary British agent's Aston Martin DB5 never had the problems faced by an Omsk man in a Ford Focus.

The runaway bus ignited in flames 'in a scene out of Hollywood'.

Filmed here over the city of Omsk, the meteor - or was it a rocket or test firing of a ballistic missile? - startled people over a swathe of territory.

Mongrel becomes surrogate mother for baby big cats at village zoo in Omsk region.

Angry at condition of Omsk streets, Veronika Bobrus becomes local heroine by fixing problem with her own hands.

Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.

Among those hurt are eight children, say the emergency services.

Ivan Klimov, 24, was stabbed just metres from his home in Omsk.