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Destruction of the rainforest increased by 9.5% compared to the previous 12 months, new data shows.

Eighty years ago, a small single-seat fighter was largely responsible for defeating Germany’s attempts to invade Britain. But it wasn’t the Spitfire.

Collector William Fagan finds 70-year-old photographs in a camera.

Iran accuses Israel of a hand in the death of top nuclear expert Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Nemonte Nenquimo is one of the six environmental leaders to be awarded this year's Goldman Prize.

The investigation by the Met is looking into activities in the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s.

Forecasting the future is far from easy, but there is a way to hone your skills no matter who you are.

Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges.

Esther Dingley disappeared on a solo hike during a six-year journey through Europe in a campervan.

Utah officials and images on social media suggest the shiny desert structure has been taken down.

Israel says it has 'no clue' who was behind the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an ambush on Friday.

How a lawsuit from an ex-Trump lawyer full of baseless voter fraud claims went viral.

For decades, Kaavan performed from his lonely enclosure. Now, with a hand from Cher, he's retiring.

Carla Sacchi was allowed home days after her husband played his accordion below her hospital window.

Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror".

A highly unusual percentage of seniors on Japan’s Okinawa island live to 100. Their secret is “ikigai”, a unique sense of purpose.

Space-based power stations are turning from an idle dream into a serious engineering prospect, as scientists hope they can take renewable energy into orbit.

The funeral parlour says it is "devastated" by the pictures, as Maradona's lawyer vows legal action.

The metal monolith sits deep in a desert easy to get lost in, so officials did not reveal its location.

Lobbyists are hoping Donald Trump will use his clemency powers liberally in the last days of his presidency.

The Argentine legend mingled with some of the best-known and controversial politicians and championed the oppressed.

Elephants have been swarming to a landfill site, where they have been eating harmful plastics.

In a letter, the traveller asks to be forgiven for taking a marble fragment from Rome in 2017.

The 23-year-old American has modelled for Vogue, Fenty Beauty and Kanye West’s Yeezy brand.