Bold claim comes after a gathering of "Yeti experts" in Siberia's Kemerovo region.

Italy ran in nine tries to Russia's three - their first in the Rugby World Cup - earning a massive victory in Nelson.

Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin by ripping off their clothes.

Despite weather extremes, an Auckland climate scientist is unconvinced about the role of human-induced global warming.

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Over 100 people are missing after a passenger boat sank in the Volga River. Emotional reunions were plentiful as the shaken survivors returned to dry land.

Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland, is the perfect place for a full Christmas experience with snow, elves and the jolly man himself.

It can be a good or a bad thing if you finish a novel wanting more. In the case of Sarah Quigley's The Conductor it's both.

'Epidemic' of cheap synthetic opiate use sees Russian drug addicts slowly rot from the inside.

In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is US$6000 ($7449), about 600 children are missing.

It's foolish to rush into further commitments on cutting carbon emissions, writes Phil O'Reilly

A kiwi bird thought to have made a mysterious 14,000km journey to a Russian resort town is actually something else altogether.