2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (669+ words) British survivor Janice Brooks was among the few to escape the 11 September 2001 attack which killed 61 of her colleagues, fleeing the 84th floor of the south tower. The 41-year-old had moved to New York three weeks earlier for her dream job as…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (245+ words) The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday released a 200-page dossier on Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi war criminal and German doctor dubbed the "Angel of Death" for conducting horrific medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners. During World War II, Mengele…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (416+ words) A number of visitors have dressed in medieval clothing for the occasion Crowds of people are queuing up to see the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, which is being displayed at the British Museum for the first time. Pictures show groups dressed…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (423+ words) The 70-metre-long artefact has returned to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years The Bayeux Tapestry will be unveiled to the public at the British Museum on Thursday morning. The tapestry – the woven record of the Norman conquest…...

3+ day, 22+ min ago   (176+ words) Searchers in southeastern China have found another body from rain-triggered landslides last weekend in Jiangxi province, raising the death toll to 16, state media said Thursday. The deaths were spread across three towns in Suichuan county, where heavy rain drenched the…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (447+ words) A centuries-old letter of recommendation from the king of France for William Wallace is set to go on display across the UK. The “Wallace letter” was written in 1300 by King Philip IV of France to his agents in the court…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (135+ words) Jose Flores, a 119-year-old resident of Sardinal in Costa Rica, is seeking formal international verification to be recognised as the world's oldest living man. - His official documentation records his birth date as 11 July 1907, with local groups submitting historical records to…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (415+ words) Jose Flores is pushing to be recognised as the oldest person in the world In the warm town of Sardinal, a 20-minute drive from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Jose Flores passes his days in a modest wooden home,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (249+ words) Police say no link between landslide and two unconscious climbers found by emergency services A landslide caused by heavy rain across central Japan struck a major gateway for Mount Fuji climbers, local broadcaster TBS reported. Debris swept over three vehicles…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (199+ words) Firefighters on Tuesday battled a wildfire in Turkey's Mediterranean coastal province of Antalya that forced hundreds of people from their homes and injured at least two people, the state-run news agency reported. The fire broke out Monday evening in Antalya’s…...