Image copyright AFP / ISAS-JAXA Image caption Staff and researchers from Japan's space agency, JAXA, celebrate in the mission control room A Japanese spacecraft has touched down on a faraway asteroid, where it will collect…

Image copyright AFP Image caption The distinctly colourful Lennon Walls have been cropping up across different districts in Hong Kong Scuffles have broken out across "Lennon Walls" in Hong Kong, as those supporting a controversial…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The 59-year-old molecular biologist worked for the world-renowned Max Planck Institute The body of an American scientist has been found inside a World War Two bunker on the Greek island…

Image copyright Getty Images A man has been arrested after climbing over Buckingham Palace's front gates in the middle of the night, police have said. The 22-year-old was held on suspicion of trespass at around…

Image copyright Sup_Novosibirsk Image caption The area has been nicknamed the "Novosibirsk Maldives" A turquoise lake in Siberia where people have been taking selfies is actually a power plant's ash dump. The lake, nicknamed the…

Image copyright Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls Uni Tüb Image caption Apidima 1 (shown here in a reconstruction) has all the characteristics of a modern human skull Researchers have found the earliest example of our species…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The new tax would target huge - mostly American - technology companies US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into France's planned tax on tech giants - a move…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption These protesters in Sao Paulo held a sign reading: "Take your hands off the pensions" Brazil's lower house of Congress has voted by a large majority to overhaul the country's…