China’s first moon rover has touched the lunar surface and left deep traces on its loose soil, state media reported, several hours after the country successfully carried out the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades.

China has safely carried out the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said.

An Australian resources firm says it has uncovered a huge oil deposit in the nation’s vast outback in a discovery hailed by officials as worth some Aus$20 trillion (€15.6tn).

THE family of a British pensioner (pictured) who was arrested in South Africa on suspicion of being one of America’s most wanted criminals insisted yesterday that he was the victim of mistaken identity.