The card - described as being in “mint condition” - is going under the hammer in the UK’s largest ever sale of Pokémon cards.

" Free Willy " star Jason James Richter is imploring French authorities to urgently relocate two captive orcas from a closed marine park. The whales remain in tanks at Marineland Antibes near Cannes, ...

One of the oldest universities in Britain has elected its first female chancellor in its 600-year history. Dame Anne Pringle has been described as a “trailblazing diplomat” who was formerly British ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the discovery of a near complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis as the ...

The C-3PO head, from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), is the only known example of Threepio’s head from the second film to appear on the collector market. It carries an estimate of ...

Church bells, ruled too delicate for bell-ringers, are pealing again after 50 years - thanks to electric hammers and a touch screen.

Maybe David Bowie was right with his spiders from Mars? Space scientists say they have spotted a hilly landscape that looks ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...

A Brit who declared himself president of his own country after claiming land in the Balkans has opened an embassy - on his local high street. Daniel Jackson, 21, first thought up the idea of starting ...

The heartbroken parents of a 2-year-old girl who died after contracting meningitis say they "weren't listened to" as her ...

German researchers found that the color of a concert hall has an impact on the sound perception of a listener.

Gabriel Vaughn vanished after hiking in the Oregon wilderness on Feb. 16. (USGC via SWNS) By Dean Murray. A hiker lost for five days in the wilderness has been found. Gabriel Vaug ...