Russian divers pulled the first bodies of children from the packed playroom of a pleasure boat that sank on Sunday, killing at least 116 people in the country's worst river disaster.

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A Russian artist in Siberia has spent a small personal fortune on over a thousand pearls for a religious painting he has made for the Queen.

Clad in embroidered robes, Adam and Eve sit in thrones on

DURING THE last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago — in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years — the last of them disappeared. Many scientists believe a dramatic shift in climate drove these giant grazers to extinction.