Stunning new Danish-designed buildings will offer new hope to orphans and their adoptive families.
There's no better place to grow than in the towns like my historic Tara, founded in 1594, without traffic jams and supermarkets, but with winter fun and fresh air.
Officials promise to monitor situation after four-fold increase in size since February.
Brain of young female Yuka, preserved in permafrost for 39,000 years, is 'identical' to today's elephants, say scientists.
Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.
His career with the St Louis Blues was earlier delayed because of the NHL lockout but the impact of the 21 year old has been dramatic.
As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.