On trend for 2019, an air-cleansing houseplant is the Christmas gift that just keeps on giving, says Kya deLongchamps.

The Beast from the East brought an unexpected gift; a brambling turned up in the mist net in my back-garden.

The earliest evidence of life in Scotland has been found — by a herd of pigs.

Even at the time, it must have seemed like a truly bizarre idea.

The slowdown in global warming is temporary and a return to “substantial warming” is expected in coming decades, scientists have said.

A lorry carrying Stork margarine overturned on the A531 in Staffordshire, UK, when Britain and its allies were fighting Hitler’s Germany in the Second World War.

NEANDERTHALS are on display in a cage at Warsaw Zoo.

An actress who starred in the TV series Teachers is looking for a real job in the classroom.

A detailed plan apparently written by a Malaysian terror chief reveals how intricately last year’s restaurant bombings in Bali were planned, according to a US report.

PSYCHOLOGISTS researching the attention babies pay to what they are looking at have discovered they are much more capable of organising their visual world than previously thought.

Members of the British horse-racing community have spoken of their shock after the death of promising young rider Anna de Lisle Wells, who was found dead at her mother’s home in the Cotswolds.

The trial of two Thai fishermen who allegedly raped and killed British student Katherine Horton will be accelerated to restore Thailand’s tarnished reputation, police said today.

‘DEMOLITION Man’ and ‘Moneyman’ are suspected of being the masterminds behind the latest Bali bombings.

THE Garda senior eight have been drawn against the seeded crew, Frankfurter from Germany, in the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta where racing starts tomorrow.

Rowing: Henley Royal Regatta Results