Dignitaries gather on Chinese side of the pipeline to witness the formal welding of the first joint in $55billion line. 

Several injuries among 159 passengers and crew as plane skidded off the runway, breaking a wing and damaging landing gear, at Osh airport.

World famous sculptor has been commissioned to create a new landmark sculpture in Kyzyl - the capital of Tyva - marking the spirit of Asia.

Russian officials refused to allow the vessel to enter the Northern Sea Route which Greenpeace dubbed 'a thinly veiled attempt to stifle peaceful protest'.

Julio Prieto, 29, from Colorado held by FSB after walking across the border from Kazakhstan.

Model Amina Karat, 34, poses on the Saamys-Kumaga sands in Yakutia.

The world's largest listed oil company to honour its export deals.

Investigators confirmed the man died eight months ago, his body perched 15 metres above the ground.