History is scattered with great literary mysteries. What was the central theory of Aristotle’s book of comedy, of which no copy survives? What were Ovid’s unspecified crimes? Who was Shakespeare’s Dark Lady? (Indeed, who was Shakespeare: Marlow, Bacon, de Vere or one of the rest?) Would Keats have got better had he lived - or, [...]

A German brother and sister are challenging the law against incest so that they can continue their relationship free from the threat of imprisonment.
Patrick Stübing, an unemployed locksmith, and his sister Susan have had four children together since starting a sexual relationship in 2000. Three of the children are in foster care, and two have [...]

A climber who miraculously survived five days and four nights on a Scottish mountainside after a fall has been describing how he survived.
Steven Green - who lay 2,000ft up a hillside with a range of injuries - said that smashing his front teeth helped save his life.
Speaking about his ordeal for the first time he [...]

The last wishes of a widow to be buried alongside her husband were fulfilled on Saturday in the waters of Scapa Flow.
94-year old Mrs Dorothy Golding from Gosport, England, died last year but her husband, Bandmaster Arthur Golding, died when HMS Royal Oak was sunk in Scapa Flow on October 14 1939.
To coincide with Saturday’s [...]

That Friday afternoon in April, Amy Hawkins had just spoken to her husband, Jerrod, a firefighter. He was calling to warn of an approaching tornado which was winding it’s way north. “I know, it’s here. Gotta go”, were the last words Amy said to her husband before gathering her two small boys, ages 6 and [...]