5,000 years old graves reveal shamans in bird beak ‘collar’ and bronze ‘spectacles’.

Drivers and passengers escaped their sinking lorries but oil is leaking into the world’s 11th longest river, prompting a local state of emergency.

Workers at new spaceport write messages to Vladimir Putin on roofs of buildings after going months without pay.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

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

Map of shame: Greenpeace highlights junk and debris in dozens of sites across the 'pristine' environment.

Flooding now covers an area almost as large as France, Germany and Britain combined, or close to the equivalent of Texas and California.

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Man, 31, fell onto metal spikes while 'trying to flee his ex-girlfriend'

More than 20,000 residents were moved as rivers burst their banks with forecasts of worsening flooding later this week.