Second female student held under house arrest in shocking Khabarovsk case: but is a disturbing sexual fetish behind the savagery?

These remarkable pictures show how young Siberian scientist Irina Mukhamedshina, 22, has trained a fox to be as obedient as a dog.

New video footage shows Amur the tiger lashing at Timur the goat - but then jumping back as if scared of the animal's horns.

Epicentre of quake measuring up to 6 on Richter Scale was under Lake Baikal - but local pets knew it was coming.

Incredible friendship between Amur tiger and goat cannot last, he predicts.

The 80-kilogram female was 'running wild' and endangering passengers, but was later found dead. 

Tigre de Cristal under fire for 'abusing' rare big cat to promote gambling revolution.

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.

Cub 'Mur' joins the puppet cast of 'Good Night, Little Ones'.

Lyubov Morekhodova glides over the pure ice on skates made by her father not long after World War Two.