A rugby fan who booked flights to Tokyo “four or five pints down” after watching England's win over New Zealand is poised to arrive in Japan on crutches with no accommodation and no ticket to the World Cup final.
Photos taken in the White House Situation Room during the killings of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Saturday and of al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden eight years earlier capture the vastly different styles of two American presidents.
Paul Barrere, guitarist and singer for the rock group Little Feat, has died aged 71.
Argentines headed out to the polls on Sunday after a year of twists and turns in a dramatic election race that is likely to oust conservative President Mauricio Macri and shift the South American country back towards the Peronist left.
The Angel of the North “disappeared” in front of astonished onlookers during a stunt to show how many artworks might not exist without National Lottery funding.
An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman who considered it of little importance has made her a multimillionaire.
Some 180,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes as powerful winds threaten to spread a wildfire in northern California's wine country.
