Britain has "disappeared from the map" of Europe in a controversial European Union sculpture to be unveiled on Monday in Brussels. The installation takes the form of a giant jigsaw map representing the "clichés and stereotypes" of each of the EU's 27 memb

The crane, which was apparently being used for a construction project at 354 East 91st Street in Manhattan NY, snapped apart moments after 8 a.m.

A baobab of Madagascar: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and its partner organisations have just completed the first vegetation atlas of the country. This biodiverse island is home to more than 10,000 plant species, 90% of which occur nowhere else in the

Wouldn't it be nice to be greeted this way?

Research at a 4,200-year-old temple in Peru yields clues to an ancient people who may have clocked the heavens

Tuya's Marriage, a Chinese film about a woman and her life in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, has won the Berlin Film festival's top honour, the Golden Bear.

At the base of a sacred volcano in an isolated corner of the South Pacific young men play the "Star Spangled Banner" on bamboo flutes. Every February they parade in old US army uniforms with wooden weapons. This is the heart of John Frum country.

Spatially Challenged There is a special room in hell where the flames are extra hot and you must sleep sitting straight up.