Iceberg that sank the Titanic was 100,000-years-old and of monstrous size
Scientists believe the iceberg which sank the passenger liner may have originated in southwest Greenland.
US election 2016: Trump and Cruz tell rival GOP candidates to quit presidential race
Republican candidate Donald Trump spoke after wins in the Republican Kentucky caucus.
Malcolm Turnbull to be first Australian prime minister to attend Sydney gay Mardi Gras
Turnbull is the first sitting Australian leader to attend Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras event.
Aliens are controlling the Sun says evidence from solar observatory claims UFO researcher
Russian researcher claims UFOs control the Sun's light and heat output, affecting the Earth's climate.
Chancellor George Osborne abandons radical plans to change UK pensions tax relief system
An Isa-style scheme would have ended tax relief on contributions for people in work, worth around £21bn.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival preview: Censorship in China and the refugee crisis take centre stage
The themes cover migration, the environment, artists as agitators as well as LGBT, children and women's rights.
Chechnya elections: Ramzan Kadyrov adopts 'Ivan the Terrible' strategy to gain further power
Kadyrov stated his intention to step down from the leadership role – but has he?
Ex-Columbian president's brother arrested as alleged leader of the Twelve Apostles death squad
The main witness against Santiago Uribe is an ex-police officer who is under investigation for participating in the crimes attributed to the paramilitary group.
Soldier Mark Kelly sentenced to 19 years in jail for repeatedly raping 6-year-old girl in Wiltshire barracks
The 32-year-old soldier bribed the child with M&M sweets to entice her to carry out sex acts on him.
Dead baby wrapped in black bag abandoned in Oxfordshire village
The death is being treated as unexplained and police have requested the infant's mother to come forward.
International crime gang guilty of plot to steal £57m of Chinese jade and museum artefacts
Items included Chinese sculpture and rhino horn stolen from Cambridge, Durham, Norwich and East Sussex.
Leap Year 2016 – 11 weird and wonderful facts about 29 February
Leap years are considered lucky and auspicious omens.
3D virtual reality headsets used to 'dive down burial shafts' of Egypt's ancient Giza pyramids
Students and archaeologists at Harvard are using the latest technology to stroll around the Giza pyramids.
BBC Pompeii series says ancient Romans enjoyed having sex in front of slaves
Sex lives of ancient Romans is revealed in a new BBC documentary, Pompeii: Life Before Death.
Ku Klux Klan member stabs demonstrator with flag pole at California rally
A violent brawl between KKK members and protestors ended in stabbings and arrests.
The Jump: Ex-Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding is sixth contestant injured in TV show
Sarah Harding, a former Girls Aloud band member quits Channel 4 show because of a ligament injury.
Retired army officer sentenced to 360 years in Guatemala's mass sex slavery trial
Packed courtroom erupted in cheers and chants of 'justice, justice' when the ruling was read out.
Canned formula milk is 'making babies gay' claims Indonesian mayor
Arief R Wismansyah, mayor of Tangerang in Jakarta, spoke out at a pregnancy seminar.
Controversial art show includes courtesan's whip and gilded bed at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
The exhibition explores the portrayal of prostitution in French art from street walkers to high-class courtesans.
Stop Trident London rally: Nuclear weapons submarines detectable by super-fast 'underwater drones'
CND's general secretary Kate Hudson believes the UK could opt to move away from nuclear weapons possession.
Bid to rename Alabama college building after Harper Lee instead of KKK grand dragon
A petition started by Jessica Hauger, a history major from Georgia, has gathered around 2,000 digital signatures.
War on Isis: Increase in Russian air strikes helps Daesh says US colonel
Western governments are accusing Moscow of increasing its air attacks to aid Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Extinct ancestors of armadillos the size of cars roamed South America 35 million years ago
A study of 12,000-year-old DNA reports that the creatures called glyptodonts inhabited South America.
Michigan shooting: Teenage girl victim pronounced dead for an hour then squeezed mother's hand
Michigan Uber driver Jason Dalton charged with 6 counts of murder.
3,000-year-old fingerprints found inside lid of Egyptian high priest's coffin
Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition will display the prints of an ancient Egyptian worker.
Cyclone Winston flattens entire villages as Fiji declares a 30-day state of national disaster
Nationwide curfew declared in Fiji after Cyclone Winston kills at least five people.
Thousands surround Japan's parliament in protest against US military base in Okinawa
Over 28,000 people circled the parliament house in Tokyo, holding hands and shouting: 'Don't build the base'
Muslim adult film star Nadia Ali received death threats for making hijabi porn movie
Hijabi porn is an emerging genre in the adult film industry, which pundits say serves as titillation.
Top quotes from Umberto Eco, who died at the age of 84
Novelist Umberto Eco, best known for his book The Name of the Rose, died on Friday 19 February.
Cyclone Winston: Evacuation centres set up as Fiji faces strongest tropical storm on record
Winston is now classified as a dangerous Category 5 hurricane – a super-typhoon – in the western Pacific Ocean
