Siberian cat

Staff at the zoo in the Polish town of Plock first noticed the sound, not the sight, of two Siberian tiger cubs born in late April, keeper Malgorzata Trzcinska said, introducing the first of the breed born in the country this year.

Home to around 30 wild cats from 12 different species, the Lion Park in Istanbul's Tuzla district has released their Siberian and Bengal tigers from indoor spaces to outdoor enclosures for tigers to experience their first snow in the ongoing winter season. (AA Photo)

Thousands of angry and distraught Russians rallied on March 27 in a Siberian city to demand a full probe into a shopping mall fire that killed at least 64 people, 41 of them children.

Europe’s deep freeze, which has cost some 60 lives over the past week, showed little sign of ending on March 2 as a shivering continent awaited a sliver of weekend respite from the chaos wrought by a brutal Siberian weather system.