More than one million seeds are now being stored in the "doomsday vault" in the Arctic, following the deposit of the first seeds from the Cherokee nation in the US.
Bernie Sanders has seized a commanding position in the Democratic presidential race, building a diverse coalition that is driving his liberal movement toward the cusp of a takeover of a major political party.
A video of a Cameroonian man wrapped in clingfilm being carried on to a Turkish Airlines plane to be deported has caused outrage.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted US prosecutors a challenge to the shock retrial of the father and daughter convicted of the brutal murder of Irish businessman Jason Corbett.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats will convene a special congress on April 25 to pick a new leader, participants at a meeting of top CDU officials said yesterday as they sought to resolve a crisis shaking the party's hold on power.
NASA's robotic InSight lander has for the first time established Mars is seismically active. But do not call the shaking, rattling and rolling taking place on the Red Planet "earthquakes" - the proper term, fittingly, is marsquakes.
