Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.
New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.
Spectacular falling meteorite fragments struck the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning exploding in the atmosphere and crashing to the ground.
Plans for modern Nature Theme Park and Acqua-park on site of old pulp and paper mill that spewed pollution into lake.
Premier Dmitry Medvedev launches inquiry into the tragedy which leaves almost 600 injured.
Scientists rush to site of latest tundra eruption - which formed a crater 50 metres deep - amid fears for homes and key industrial sites.
Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.
A new born baby was rescued from a morgue in Ulan-Ude after shocked staff realised the tiny boy was alive.
Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.
He spoke out as Premier Dmitry Medvedev was in Siberia on a trip substantially aimed at leading efforts to combat the serious forest fires.