American convicted of grooming child was found hiding in Irkutsk.

With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.

A Tupolev-204 passenger plane from North Korea overshot the taxiway after landing in the Russian Far East, said emergency services.

Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.

Flights late on Thursday and on Friday suffered disruption due to smog caused by blazes in dry woodland made vulnerable by the current heat wave.

All Nippon Airways tours Tolmachevo and says it meets with high standards required to deal with planes that divert between Japan and Europe.

Flights from east of Russian resumed for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami which led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Siberian carrier outperforms likes of British Airways, American Airlines and Air Canada in global list.