Air France Boeing 777 with 282 on board suffered technical failure, then the rescue aircraft sent from Paris was also grounded.

Shock in city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky over deaths after two tried to rescue their friend from heating drain.

Orphaned female, attracted by smell of food, spent several months at the shift workers’s base.

Ten fishermen were plucked to safety after their vessel - Chance-101 - sank 31 miles east of  Svetlaya village, in Primorye region in the Russian Far East.

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

Up to six more people are feared to be buried beneath the deep snow in temperatures of -25C outside Norilsk.

A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.

Latest survivors give harrowing accounts of how they feared they would drown in underground tidal wave.

More than 40 wounded  from the accident.

Fears another bear that also failed to hibernate for winter is also on the run near Vilyuchinsk.