The Japanese government is to provide financial assistance for a joint helium-production project, says newspaper The Daily Yomiuri.

A plan to develop  a 22,000 hectare plantation area for corn and beans is being actively studied by the South Korean government.

New Russian national park, aimed at saving endangered big cats has won praise from Prince Michael of Kent. 

Remains of suspected female of Turkik origin found in at an altitude of 2,803 metres in the Altai Mountains.

One-year-old bird has become a minor celebrity and attracts hundreds of visitors a week and even has its own Facebook page.

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

Mikhail Kokorich is a man who can, quite literally, say he is reaching for the stars.

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.