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

A couple cowered in their banya - sauna - watching the hungry creature eat their dinner.

Mother-of-three speaks for the first time about horror incident in woods and declares: 'Life is beautiful'

Siberian zoo’s nine-year-old Pamir can dance, perform tricks with a wooden stick and now even crawl through tires.

Marina Fokina, 34, screamed at beast: 'Eat me but don't touch my child.'

Prosecutors studying video evidence of men shouting 'squash him!' seconds before impact with animal on track.

I was sitting 3-to-4 metres away from the cubs waiting to see what would happen next. The mother returned back later and fed the cubs.

'Influential businessman' Evgeniy Romanov, 52, avoids jail, despite a host of other 'trophies'.