An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, far south of its normal hunting grounds.

A 23-lorry convoy has delivered humanitarian aid to a Damascus suburb besieged by government forces, as the UN resumes its aid deliveries to Syria's opposition areas.

Five people have been confirmed dead and 25 more are missing presumed dead after a shopping centre in the Russian city of Kazan collapsed during a massive fire.

In other countries, you may be asked to give a push to a car stuck in the mud. In Russia, passengers in the Arctic came out of an airliner to the bitter cold to help it move to the runway.

Sweden’s biggest submarine hunt since the dying days of the Soviet Union has put countries around the Baltic Sea on edge.