Famous for its lonely loo with a view at 2,600 metres - 8,530ft - this meteorological outpost provides essential data for the world.

Murky underwater videos suggest wreckage of Eira is finally rediscovered off Cape Flora on Franz Josef Land archipelago, where it sank in 1881.

Besides, it is impossible to halt global warming which has been underway for many decades, insists the president.

Emergency services refuse to comment cause of extraordinary blast in the dark sky.

Dissecting them like surgical abscesses to release the gas seen as one solution to avoid future eruptions.

Previously unknown subspecies confirmed by DNA tests and probably numbering around 400.

Vital for making its waters so 'pure', one theory is that rising underwater methane leaks are killing off the sponge, but is there a silver lining?

As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.

Monuments to the Bolshevik leader are the key to a new competitive sport called Lenining.