A United Nations-appointed expert on human rights has highlighted the need to change to renewable energy amid concerns that six billion people regularly inhale hair "so polluted that it puts their life, health and well-being at risk".

USA: Officials said a 62-year-old man holding a fish he caught on a boat in a San Diego bay was pulled overboard by a sea lion.

Four miners emerged from a Siberian coal mine today after being trapped for 40 hours by a cave-in that killed at least 11 of their colleagues.

Four miners have been killed in a rock collapse in a coal mine in the Kuzbass region of Siberia.