Hollywood blockbuster tackles a story that always intrigues, writes Dan Buckley.

Kurdish rebels have kidnapped three German climbers on Mount Ararat – the site where Noah’s Ark is said to have landed after the great flood – according to the governor of an eastern Turkish province today.

At least two people were killed and 30 injured, two critically, today when a two-carriage train slammed into a truck at a crossing in rural south-eastern Australia.