Tupperware Brands and some of its subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the food container firm announced.

The world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, could be sold to a start-up media group, its owner of more than 30 years announced.

Pelicot has admitted to the horrifying crimes perperated against his former wife Gisele, saying ‘she did not deserve this’.

Iconic shipbuilder Harland and Wolff, famed for constructing the doomed Titanic, said on Monday it faced renewed financial difficulties.

Firefighters used some 190 000 litres of water to extinguish a blaze involving an electric Tesla Semi truck following a crash.

A pioneering private crew has made history by becoming the first civilians to perform spacewalks. Learn more …

Four US civilians will attempt the first-ever private spacewalk on Thursday – a risky endeavour usually reserved for trained astronauts.

Baby elephant twins born last week on a timber camp in Myanmar are thriving after a wobbly first few days in the world.

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed a 27-year-old queen as their new monarch, a surprise choice hailed as a symbol of change.

A man whose body was found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977 has finally been identified by authorities nearly five decades later.

Animal rights groups said gunfire killed a beluga whale that rose to fame after its harness sparked belief it was trained by Russia as a spy.

An animal handler was mauled by a tiger at Australia’s Dreamworld theme park and rushed to hospital with deep wounds on her arm.

A teenager has been decapitated in a shark attack after he went swimming and spearfishing near the tourist town of Montego Bay in Jamaica.

The investigation into the sinking of a UK tech tycoon’s yacht off Sicily has widened to include two crew members in addition to the captain.

A Russian woman has been murdered on the island of Mauritius after allegedly meeting her killer on Tinder for a holiday romance. 

Divers searching a sunken superyacht off Sicily recovered the body of the teenage daughter of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch on Friday.

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Divers searching a sunken superyacht off Sicily for UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter found a body on Friday.

Divers are still searching for six people who were on board the British-flagged luxury yacht “Bayesian” that sank off the coast of Sicily.

At just 18 years old, Nepali mountaineer Nima Rinji Sherpa is on the brink of a remarkable achievement. Find out more …

The world’s oldest living person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who lived through two world wars, has died at the age of 117.

Four members of a SpaceX mission that will carry out the first ever private spacewalk have arrived in Florida ahead of their takeoff.

New Zealand’s population growth has come to a near halt as tens of thousands of people exit a spluttering economy for pastures new.

A woman was found dead after being attacked by a python in central Indonesia, the third such death in the province in as many months.

A man who spent nearly five decades in prison for a murder he did not commit is to receive a $7.15 million settlement.