It was described as a 'v-e-rrry hot day' in fashionable snow resort Sheregesh as 700 women and men (in swim suits) smashed the world record.

A nenets granny walks into the mobile shop, where I'm getting a local sim, puts a wrinkled hand on the counter and says ‘I need an iPhone'.

A seven-year-old tiger gave birth to a female cub on 25 July 2011, which was the first successful breeding of a Siberian tiger in the wild in China.

Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.

Named Olga after the brave woman who helped save her life, the little girl abandoned by her mother at birth has new adoptive parents.

Bear and goats among drowned animals at two zoos after typhoon and heavy rain hits Russian Far East.

Up to 30 shot dead after winning traditional spring reindeer races in remote Tiksi.

The tiny dog was lost for a week after owner walked it in a storm without a lead.