2006. Starring Tom Hanks.

Plot Outline: A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Trivia: Officials from Britain’s Westminster Abbey refused to allow filming to take place in the [...]

In May 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates ventured up the unclimbed west face of the Siula Grande Mountain. As they scaled the snowy peak with “no margin for error, no helicopter rescue and no 999″, disaster struck. Simpson shattered his knee joint as he hit the ground.

“SUPERHUMAN FEAT OF ENDURANCE”

In sub-zero temperatures, the odds [...]

The showbiz fates are a fickle lot. And few know it better than Jennifer Hudson.
One minute, you are facing the nightmarish Simon Cowell, that snidely tongue-lasher of an American Idol judge, as he verbally shreds your disaster of a shocking-pink ensemble and announces that you are “out of your league” on national TV.
The next, you’re [...]

Safety catches do not always prevent firearm accidents and even newfangled biometric guns, which check the identity of a user by their fingerprint, cannot stop thieves from using stolen ammunition in other weapons.

The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself.

Meyerle is patenting a design for [...]

When Sir Frank Whittle was developing his revolutionary jet engines during the 1940s, he needed robust but lightweight airframes to attach them to. Aluminium was the answer. Modern aviation could not have developed without this versatile, light and durable metal. The raw form of aluminium, bauxite, was first discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy [...]