Residents of a Urals town noticed the dog standing completely still on a frozen pond for 36 hours.

She pauses for a last look, and then without a backward glance swims across the world's fifth longest river.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.

The remarkable annual Beringia dog sled race will go through some of the planet's remotest and most challenging territory in Kamchatka.

Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.

Likely reserves of 200 tonnes of gold have been identified in the Gora Rudnaya area of the Aldansky district.