Researchers at the University of Zurich using sophisticated 3D modelling have recreated Neanderthal faces — and they are remarkably human and handsome. Despite this, they suggest Neanderthals were a separate ‘sister’ species from modern humans
Three Boy Scouts dug out chunks of a 190 million-year-old set of dinosaur tracks and threw the rocks into a reservoir, irreparably damaging the prehistoric find
The wreckage of Amelia Earhart‘s ditched-at-sea aircraft may have been found. High-resolution satellite imagery of Nikumaroro Island in the south-west Pacific has detected what may be remains of the plane resting in water within a coral atoll
Liverpool is to honour one of its greatest sons by renaming the city’s airport after the musician John Lennon. It will be called Liverpool John Lennon Airport when a new terminal opens in the spring
It took Ron Wild about 10 years of visiting genealogical libraries around the country, perusing microfilm and searching through dusty archives, to trace the family line of his wife, Eva Mary, six generations to her great-great-grandfather, Joel Calvin Taylor, a farmer, born in Constable, NY, in 1824. It took Mr Wild just a few hours recently to uncover the 44 previous generations
Declassified Australian government documents suggest a
Two oil companies on Friday announced another big discovery in the Gulf of Mexico — but this time it was a sunken World War II German submarine rather than oil or natural gas. The wreckage of the U-boat was found 5,000 feet below the surface, and it may may rewrite a bit of wartime history Security Service MI5 once planned to recruit a team of specially-trained gerbils as a secret weapon to sniff out spies, it has been revealed. The animals were to help interrogate suspects because they could use their acute sense of smell to detect a rise in adrenaline — the chemical released in sweat when people feel under stress ‘It’s going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait — here’s the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We’ll bill it as a romantic getaway — and call it The Gobbler!’ Take some time out of your day to visit the shrine to The Gobbler, you too will wonder at the abundance of mind-altering substances available to architects and interior designers of the 60s. The US Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously against distributors of medical marijuana — William Randolph Hearst’s legacy of protecting his personal business interests lives on long after his death Microsoft’s obnoxious little Office assistant will be relegated to a mock layoff site that also trumpets Office XP’s lack of need for the feature. If you’re in the market for garden ornaments, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers ordered the destruction Monday of all statues, and the world’s tallest standing Buddha — all 53m — is on the chopping block. If you thought the US Postal service was appalling, try living in Edinburgh where a postcard from Australia finally turned up 112 years late. Nearly 26 years later the matter of five Australian journalists who were murdered in East Timor may be investigated. It would be nicer still if the Australian government owned up to its part in the cover up The bounds between fantasy and reality can be a bit thin at times, but the lads behind the iron curtain got a bit carried away when they saw James Bond on the big screen for the first time
Great Train Robbery
fugitive, Ronnie Biggs, says he is ready to return to Britain and face justice after three decades of exile in Brazil
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