The last creatures to survive on Earth will be tiny organisms living deep underground, according to scientists.

An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites crashes seconds after its launch from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.

Archaeologists who made the startling discovery of the body of Richard III in a Leicester car park are returning later to start a new dig.

Vultures, monitor lizards and a cheetah are among dozens of live animals seized at Heathrow and Gatwick airports over the past two years.

Satellites are used to map the "ice crater" that developed in Antarctica when a lake buried almost 3km down suddenly overflowed.

Some 500 tonnes of fish wash up on the banks of a Mexican reservoir, reportedly killed after a factory poured molasses into the water.

Two osprey chicks hatch at a nature reserve in Powys despite fears their parents had paired up too late in the mating season.

Researchers have created contact lenses that, when paired with special spectacles, bestow telescopic vision on their wearers.