Toxic fuel from 21,000 ton leak reaches pristine lake, bypassing floating booms, as rivers of diesel pollution cover-up is exposed.

Desperate attempts are being made to save a 13 year old boy whose condition is described 'grave'.

Suspected serial rapist, a wealthy man with wife and two children, charged with 14 sex and blackmail crimes, facing up to 15 years in jail.

99 year old sailing ship successfully passes the most challenging part of its Arctic odyssey…. and there is NO ice.

Russian army in battle to erect dikes to hold back the swirling Amur River as evacuations begin in low-lying areas.

Stunning pictures as shamans from around the world gather in Sayan Mountains.

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.

Passengers get wet feet as they board flight to Norilsk.

Murky underwater videos suggest wreckage of Eira is finally rediscovered off Cape Flora on Franz Josef Land archipelago, where it sank in 1881.