As soon as a Honda fell through the ice, locals were preparing to use an age-old system to pull it out.

Footage of Novosibirsk man standing on top of 632m-tall Shanghai Tower becomes latest advert for Internet search engine.

Fur is a way of life in the cold climate, but in a hard-hitting and powerful film she likens the industry to mass wartime killing by fascists.

Drifts have reached one metre in height with schools closed, cars abandoned and even a military tank pulling out stranded drivers.

Helped by a ladder, an axe and a chainsaw.

Crossing frozen tundra, the 15 competing teams and their dogs will endure temperatures of minus 25C or lower.

Two graves dating back 2,700 years believed to be from ancient necropolis under city centre.

Standing two metres tall, the giant deer was assumed to be extinct about 10,300 years ago, but new research finds it was still alive across Siberia.

Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.