Floating ice equivalent to 1.5 million icebergs the size of the one that sank the Titanic are melting away each year, research has shown.

Water ice and organic material has been discovered on an asteroid, supporting the theory that meteorites may have started life on Earth.

An investigation has been launched in Switzerland after dozens of urns filled with human ashes were discovered on the bed of a lake.

The euro has fallen sharply as the financial crisis engulfing Greece and Portugal threatened to spread across Europe.

A group of evangelical researchers claim they have found the remains of Noah's Ark thousands of feet up Mount Ararat, in Turkey.

A giant oil slick from a deadly offshore drilling rig explosion could hit the fragile US Gulf Coast shoreline by Saturday.

Government advice that Britons should avoid all but essential travel to Bangkok has been extended to the whole of Thailand.