Alarming condition with 'no cure' has recently killed 14 children.

The independent channel is set for closure despite a plea from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe for it to remain open.

Seven year old Raul Kutliakhmetov was trying to rescue his best friend - a stray dog - stuck in three-metre deep roadside service shaft.

Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.

Her US mom still refuses to take back the daughter who 'loves her', and who she abandoned in Russia 32 months ago.

US Paralympic star on emotional journey back to her roots to meet the parents who gave her up for adoption.

Family find her again after 9 years, now aged 25, some 4,000 km from home, but mother killed herself thinking her daughter was dead.

People begin to mop up their waterlogged homes: but what about the 'abandoned' dogs and cats?