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It was not the kind of letter any of us would want to receive a fortnight into our engagement. In 1887, 19-year-old Betty Lytton was expecting to embark on a normal marriage à deux with her handsome fiancé Gerald Balfour.Tall, slim, with…

A badly deformed dinosaur skull, once dismissed as nearly useless, has led to the identification of a new carnivorous species that lived more than three times earlier than Tyrannosaurus rex, reshaping how scientists understand early…

Thanks to social media, we can access our past lives in one simple scroll. Flicking back through the years, I can see myself in New York, front row at Victoria Beckham’s fashion show opposite the Beckham clan – David, Brooklyn, Romeo,…

British supermodel Naomi Campbell was in repeated contact with Jeffrey Epstein before and after his 2008 conviction for sex offences with an underage girl.Bombshell documents in the latest tranche of Epstein files released by the US…

A Stone Age person buried 12,000 years ago in a cave in Italy had a rare genetic disorder that shortened her arms and legs, a new study finds.A DNA analysis of her skeleton revealed that she was a teenage girl who had a rare form of…

A peaceful neighborhood has descended into anarchy after an army of squatters arrived and hijacked a row of houses.The street in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, has seen a huge influx of vagrants since last May - and cops have been…

Something unusual happened on the human family tree during the Last Ice Age, roughly 45,000 years ago. A new wave of modern humans, now called the LRJ Group, wandered into Europe from Africa and found a continent already home to a very…

John-Bryan “JB” Jarrett was supposed to be fishing on the Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, September 2020. Over dinner the night before, he told his mom, Jessica, he wanted to be on the water by 7am.Jessica and JB were unusually…

One of the most complete sea monsters on record had been discovered along the UK’s Jurassic Coast, being perhaps the world’s most complete reptile fossil dating back to the Pliensbachian period. The rare and impressive specimen offers…

For most of us, a trip to Japan is a once-in-a-lifetime getaway. And with temples to marvel at, sashimi to sample and mountains to climb, you won’t want to waste an hour – let alone a day of your time there.But as the yen continues to…