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So far this year, more than one million animals have been killed by the dzud. The word conjures up an image of a mythical monster, but it is a peculiar weather phenomenon and the fear of herders on the Mongolian steppes, as journalist Helen Wright reports.

Until recently, people in Mongolia had to travel more than 1,000km (600 miles) across the Gobi desert to Beijing to get to their nearest record shop. But this year, a new specialist store opened in the capital, Ulan Bator.

A leading computer security company says it has discovered one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software ever seen.

Uuganaa Ramsay was raised in Mongolia but now lives in Scotland. She has recently been exploring why her ethnicity is linked to Down’s syndrome, a condition diagnosed in her son.

Facebook has created the ability for users to connect directly to the social network via anonymising “dark web” service Tor.

A baby girl was referred to social workers after a doctor incorrectly reported a birthmark as bruising, the child’s parents have said.

Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a “serious terrorist attack”.

I knew that I probably wouldn’t find any dinosaur eggs – that the best and perhaps sole specimens had been carted away on camelback almost a century ago. But that certainly didn’t stop my search. Striding onto the red soil of Mongolia’s Flaming Cliffs – one of the greatest dinosaur fossil sites the world has [...]

The US ambassador to the UK says he is fed up with being served lamb and potatoes. Does this imply the British have an exceptional taste for the dish, asks Mario Cacciottolo.

Part of a city in north-west China has been sealed off and dozens of people placed in quarantine after a man died of bubonic plague, state media say.

We had been riding nonstop for five hours, our mounts alternately cantering through meadows and picking their way through evergreen forest. The land became increasingly bare and mountainous, a forbidding landscape under a leaden sky. On the final descent into the valley we dismounted; easier than inching downhill along the treacherous, muddy slope. I was [...]