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.

A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened today deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

AIMED at providing mankind with a Noah’s Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic “doomsday vault” filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds will be inaugurated in Norway today.

IN a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirrelling away the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.

Greenpeace activists today unveiled a model of the Noah’s Ark they built on Turkey’s Mount Ararat – the site the original Biblical Ark is said to have landed after the great flood – and appealed to world leaders to take immediate action against climate change.

Turkey’s health minister tonight confirmed two human cases of bird flu, including a teenage farm boy who died after developing pneumonia-like symptoms.

A SWEDISH academic who believes Ireland is the ancient land of Atlantis flew into Dublin yesterday amid a storm of controversy about his theories.