Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalise his name amid his quest to conquer the world – but it was apparently not the first city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.

AUSTRALIA’S giant prehistoric animals, including 10-foot-tall kangaroos and wombat-like creatures as big as rhinoceroses, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researcher said yesterday.

CLIMATE change may affect east Asia differently from north Atlantic countries, according to a study published yesterday.