A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.

Trackers mark footprints with GPS technology as 2,000 people scour the forests in first count of rare big cat in 10 years.

The celebrity emerged with a new fur coat, saying: 'My friends said I was mad when they learned I was going to Siberia'.

The celebrity emerged with a new fur coat, saying: 'My friends said I was mad when they learned I was going to Siberia'.

We join photographer Kisoon Choi on a journey of discovery across Yakutia and the Far East and celebrate the unique landscapes, cities and peoples.

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

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

Unique research station in the remote taiga is used by scientists worldwide to measure if man is behind climate change.