Second female student held under house arrest in shocking Khabarovsk case: but is a disturbing sexual fetish behind the savagery?

A murder probe had been launched after Stepan Ludannyi went missing.

Black bear pounced on Stas Nagornov as he returned home from the shop in the centre of Amgu village.

Terrorised by dogs, beaten with sticks by children, and scared by people taking selfies, the cub died.

Unique Paleolithic prize for scientists, a jaw of an early human who 'feasted on woolly mammoth' - but may have been cannibalised. 

After three weeks, the authorities are at a loss to explain what happened to eight out of nine members of the wrecked Amurskaya vessel.

Samples taken from extinct animal’s leg during international workshop in the hope of one day bringing the hairy creature back from the dead.

A 1,159 metre volcano named after one of Russia's most fearsome tsars erupted early Thursday for the first time in 23 years.

Probe under way into tragedy of two women and man gunned down by colleague said to have had problems at work.