What’s the craziest thing ever stolen?

Grandma’s engagement ring IN the pantheon of stories ...

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

LAST week, several objects, including some items of ...

There was no shortage of glitz and glamour at last month’s sale of the late Countess of Airlie’s jewellery, but an exquisite tiara shone the brightest

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c