Going by train all the way from Beijing (or even London) to New York could become a reality.

Divers brave minus 45C to place a 'New Year Tree' beneath the ice on bed of the mighty Lena River.

Experts delighted as camera records flirting between Amur leopards in the wild for the first time.

Spaso-Zashiverskaya has survived wars, permafrost, and a smallpox outbreak that wiped out its congregation.

Fears over highly toxic rocket propellant after Baikonur launch failure.

Amur leopards now number more than 100 for first time in decades, say experts.

After a series of delays, Prime Minister orders the line to Russia’s diamond capital Yakutsk to be ready for the first passengers by July.

It was in August 1917 - 95 years ago this month - that the abdicated emperor and his fearful family departed Tyumen into their Siberian exile.