A veteran Australian racing car champion who retired and then spent years retracing historic expeditions across the outback has made a “highly significant” discovery, excavating the lost artefacts of a British explorer in the remote Simpson…
An explosion at an Egyptian petrochemical facility near Cairo’s airport injured 12 people on Thursday and sent up a massive fireball that lit the capital’s skyline, but did not affect air traffic in the North…
Sicilian police moved to confiscate an array of assets including 65 properties and 19 cars from a notorious mafia boss as authorities underlined the new Italian government’s pledge to crackdown on organised crime. Police published…
A Florida mayor apologised Wednesday to a couple fined thousands of dollars for having their home’s exterior painted to emulate Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Mount Dora City Council unanimously…
Germany’s employment minister Wedneday bucked the trend across Europe by calling for more immigration — to tackle the country’s skills shortage. Just weeks after Angela Merkel fought off a government crisis over migrant policy, Hubertus Heil…
A British diver who helped rescue 12 Thai boys from a flooded cave has criticised Elon Musk’s plan to retrieve them using a mini-submarine, calling it a "PR stunt". "He can stick his submarine where…
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and iconic cartoon character Atom Boy have appeared in paddy fields in northern Japan. The stars of Roman Holiday and the much-loved robot hero created by manga author Osamu Tezuka were…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to open the closed town where Russian scientists say they developed Novichok, the nerve agent at the centre of a poisoning row with London. Britain has said Russian-produced Novichok was…
Eleven boys from a football team, who were rescued from a flooded Thai cave in a drama that gripped global audiences, took their first steps on Tuesday to be ordained as Buddhist novices in a ceremony…
Passengers on board a duck boat which sank on a Missouri lake, killing 17, were told not to put on their lifejackets, according to one woman who lost nine relatives. Tia Coleman, from Indiana, described…