Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on December 12. Check what ...

Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there's one job in Australia that pays you to race towards the predators. And when you reach the big fish, you have ...

The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to pioneering elephant conservationist Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who died aged 83 at ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Stone Age people intentionally made fire at least 350,000 years earlier than previously proved, scientists have found, ...

Trafalgar's most exciting 2026 tour itineraries include bucket list destinations like Alaska, India, Germany, Thailand, and ...

Jane Goodall's pioneering research into the social lives of chimpanzees has taught all of us a little something about human nature as well.

The abolition of billionaires is a nonsensical idea, and if it were to happen in a fantasy-scape, it would spell complete ...

Long before the Republic had a name, before flags fluttered and anthems rose, there lived a man who would one day be called Mzee Jomo Kenyatta ...

Jonny Dymond chairs a panel of leading politicians and cultural figures with questions from a large public audience ...

After more than 230 years, the US stopped minting the penny this week. But long before that, the first dollar was coined – and it was created in a one-road town far away from the USA.