More than 20,000 residents were moved as rivers burst their banks with forecasts of worsening flooding later this week.

'We possess a rock from the time of genesis,' announces expert.

Oilmen forced to stop work after being trapped in 'horseshoe' of burning taiga, as pall of smoke smothers Irkutsk region where state of emergency imposed.

When Vadim Kolpakov went on an expedition to the north of Irkutsk region, he had no inkling of the sensational discovery he was about to make.

Flooding now covers an area almost as large as France, Germany and Britain combined, or close to the equivalent of Texas and California.

Curious reports of extra-terrestrials pulling Steven Spielberg to Siberian jewel Baikal.

Now The Siberian Times is seeking to find descendants of British mariner Captain Joseph Wiggin. 

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

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

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists.