A statue celebrating Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, is unveiled on the The Mall in London.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in middle of the English Channel south of Portsmouth, the British Geological Survey says.

Natural breathing has been restored to mice with spinal cord injuries, in what US researchers believe to be a medical first.

The long-legged Borneo rainbow toad, a species lost to science for almost 90 years, is photographed for the first time.

Geologists discover an ancient buried landscape lost beneath the North Atlantic Ocean using soundwaves bounced off the ocean floor.

Westerners could be genetically programmed to consume fatty foods and alcohol more than those from the east, researchers in Scotland claim.

Human remains including parts of a skull and leg bones have been found during an archaeological dig at an Iron Age site.

The US space agency says its Dawn spacecraft should go into orbit around the Asteroid Vesta early on Saturday (GMT) to begin a year-long study of the 530km-wide rock