Tuesday’s 165th running of the Melbourne Cup will see 24 finely tuned equine athletes line up for the race that stops the nation.

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Clooney, talking about the broader set of busts Thursday that included alleged gambling on basketball itself, pointed out ...

A single leaked hint exposed the CIA’s most puzzling code. But dozens of the world’s toughest ciphers are still waiting to be solved.

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The notorious heist at the world-famous Louvre Museum and the downing of the World Trade Centre proved that there were flaws in the white man’s systems that the world hailed as perfect. When I visited ...

It's been 22 years since England beat Australia to become world champions - but some members of that famous squad have endured heartbreaking setbacks in the years that have followed ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) cost £910 million to build and has taken some 33 years from its first proposals to its public opening scheduled for November 4. But with exhibits including the entire ...

Matthew Lillard is a beloved part of horror history as Stu Macher in Scream, but he initially auditioned to play his partner in crime, Billy Loomis.

Fabio Borini made a combined 131 appearances across five years for Liverpool and Sunderland - now he is getting his football ...

Kick off your Conwy adventure at Conwy Quay, where one of the UK's quirkiest sights awaits: the Smallest House in Great ...

Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when ...