Our clothing and laundry are polluting the marine environment, UK research reveals.

Rising numbers of people want selfies riding elephants, or washing them, or patting their trunks, but according to a study carried out by World Animal Protection across Asia, many are kept in "severely cruel" conditions.

The European and Japanese space agencies put the finishing touches to their Mercury satellites.

Scientists have detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern