Child needs hospital treatment after circus worker walked the lion 'like a dog' with no muzzle.

Female 'criminal' from Siberia finally to face justice after 18 years on the run.

Floodwater from Ob River is black from spill as emergency workers flight to limit damage.

Tatiana Andreeva, 20, has been jailed for 7 years in a controversial case that is becoming a cause celebre on the web.

A shocking image of a tortured dog - killed after being tied to a rope and pulled by a car around a village - has appalled Siberians.

Grieving mother tells how she eyeballed the family friend suspected of brutal sex attack and murder of helpless girl. 

Endangered Amur tigers are protected under President Vladimir Putin's special project.

Court rules there is no case to answer for 73-year-old who helped cancer sufferer.

Identity revealed of incredible 200-year-old remains found in lotus positon amid reports criminal planned selling him for 10 million roubles.

A man is facing prosecution after posting gruesome images posing with his trophy animals on the Internet.