Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists. 

The world famous traveller made call ahead of his latest epic adventure by dog sled to Greeland via the North Pole.

At least 6 are believed to have the virulent intestinal form of the disease from which one boy has already died.

The unique discovery was three or four years old when it died at least 20,000 years ago.

This is precisely how Yakutia gets its impressive river fleet ready for the new season of navigation.

Capable of carrying 200 people and tonnes of cargo, new blimp for the 21st century could soon be taking off.

An expedition to one of Eurasia's northernmost caves unlocks secrets that might help explain the extinction of mammoths.

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

A giant furry octopus? Remains of a woolly mammoth? An unknown primeval creature from the deep?