Iranians are 'scared' of what else the year has in store amid the sorrow and anger
First there is the sorrow: whether it is for General Qasem Soleimani, the dozens crushed at his funeral, the 176 killed when Iran shot down UIA flight PS752, or those killed by security forces during protests in November, everyone in Iran is mourning someone.

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Princes hit out at 'offensive' claim William had 'bullied' his brother
Princes William and Harry joined forces yesterday to issue a rare denial of a report that William had "bullied" his younger brother.

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Mystery of £20 bundles found in village since 2014 solved
Bundles of £2,000 (€2,300) in cash found by residents of a former pit village were secretly left there by two "Good Samaritans" who had received "unexpected windfalls", police have said.

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Stardust billions of years older than Earth found on meteorite
The oldest thing ever found on Earth has been discovered by scientists - and it is more than two billion years older than our planet.

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'Two Popes' at odds as Benedict attacks plans for married priests
A strongly worded attack by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the prospect of allowing some married men to become priests has exposed the perils of having a "parallel papacy" within the Vatican, insiders have said.

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Tiny robot frogs made from living cells 'an entirely new life-form'
The world's first living robots have been built using stem cells from frog embryos, in a strange machine-animal hybrid that scientists say is an "entirely new life-form".

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