Two German adventurers have become the first people to ever ascend to the top of the 6,465-metre-high Purbung peak in the Himalayas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIwZDAtlUc @nico.geht.steil/Newsflash Nicolas Scheidtweiler, 45, who hails from…
Swiss experts have found evidence that no sooner had the world's first superpower developed weapons in the form of an ultra-light, easy to wear armour, than a version of it…
A book has been returned to an Idaho library 111 years after it was borrowed. The book, titled ‘New Chronicles of Rebecca’ by Kate Douglas Wiggin, was checked out of…
A hoard of 5,600 silver coins from the Roman Empire dating back nearly 2,000 years have been unearthed in Germany. The Augsburg Art Collections and Museum said in a statement…
A 1787 letter written by Catherine the Great encouraging a vaccination programme is set to go under the hammer with British auctioneers McDougall's. The letter is part of a lot…
A study into the timber used to build the Batavia ship that ended up sinking off the coast of West Australia in the 17th century resulting in the first official…
After NASA's Perseverance Rover became the first spacecraft to collect samples on the Red Planet, the incredible plan on how to get the Martian objects back to earth has been…
The Colombian woman who had made her peace with death and was preparing to become the country's first non-terminal patient to be euthanised has had her appointment cancelled at the…
Archaeologists have found valuable objects including an ornate ivory comb with stunning carvings and a bowl from Africa in two sixth-century graves in northern Swabia - the first such find…
This is the moment a fisherman discovers an extremely rare shark egg floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The footage was captured by 43-year-old surfer and fisherman Erivaldo Alves Silva in…