Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.

This time of winter sees the remarkable grandmother, 76, gliding across the ice on the world’s deepest lake on skates made in WW2.

He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.

Many prehistoric creatures craved salt and vital minerals missing from their diets due to abrupt climate change, suggests a new scientific expedition.

Seven year old Raul Kutliakhmetov was trying to rescue his best friend - a stray dog - stuck in three-metre deep roadside service shaft.

With fur on its tail and twice the size of a human being, no one yet knows what the animal is.

On 10 February, eight travellers set out on a two month odyssey covering 4,000 km through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.

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