The moon is 4.36 billion years old, up to 200 million years younger than thought, according to analysis of lunar rocks reported in the latest issue of Nature.

French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, airline CityJet told AFP on Wednesday.

Standard & Poor's is confident France will maintain its top AAA credit rating, the agency's European chief said today, amid rumours of a possible downgrade amid intensifying eurozone debt strains.

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US firm Peabody Energy and Europe's ArcelorMittal steel company said on Thursday their hostile USD 4.9 billion (3.4 billion euro) bid for Australia's Macarthur had formally opened.

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Oil is riding a ‘big dipper,’ with prices plunging again on uncertainty about debt levels in the West, signs of a slowdown in emerging markets and political paralysis, the IEA said on Wednesday.

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Earth is not alone in its orbit around the sun — a small “Trojan” asteroid sits in front of our planet and leads it, according to British science revue Nature, which published the discovery on Thursday.

A lawyer who claims to have had a secret nine month affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn before he dumped her has said the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief has a ''huge sexual appetite''

“Dirty Dozen” chemicals, including the notoriously toxic DDT, are being freed from Arctic Sea ice and snow through global warming, a study published on Sunday suggested.

The new rules introduced into Formula One to encourage overtaking in 2011 appear to have borne fruit with the number of passes after nine rounds of the championship already more than for the whole of

Palaeontologists have fired a new salvo in a 30-year-old war of words over the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid that smashed into earth some 65 million years ago.