China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.

Saylor Class had complained of "monsters in the wall" of her room at their farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US.

The European Space Agency's latest intake of astronauts complete their basic training.

A wildfire-fuelled ozone hole leaves Antarctic wildlife exposed to potentially damaging levels of UV.

A Tokyo company's satellite encounters a big lump of space debris high above the Earth.