The Latest Breaking News from Earth

According to an oft-repeated factoid, half of all the human beings who have ever existed on Earth have been killed by malaria – equivalent to around 54.5 billion people.

The 5ft wide image was taken in 1966 and is up for auction by Bonhams as part of the Space History sale

Everything about this sci-fi epic holds up, except...

The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, will be visible across 17 US states including Oregon, Washington, New York and Maine, due to a solar storm which will bring them further south than usual

Just Stop Oil has vowed to continue disrupting high-profile sporting events after a string of protests at fixtures this summer.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 hit Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district early July 10, the National Centre for Seismology said.

PARIS: When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth's past, they will find unusual evidence of the abrupt change that upended life half-a-million years earlier - chicken bones.

As long as humans have existed, they’ve killed animals. But the necessity of some types of animal killing are now questioned by many. So can humans ever stop killing animals entirely? And if not, what’s the best way forward?

PARIS - Since 2009, a cloistered band of hard-rock geologists and other scientists have toiled on a mission of great consequence.