1. Occupy Wall Street.

Lake frozen under ice has been untouched for up to a million years – and may reveal new life forms

He needed a little push before speeding backward down a makeshift slide.

This week, sports fans are aiming for the far side of the world for the Rugby World Cup – but the host nation has plenty to offer away from the pitch.

The founders of Audley Travel, the upmarket holiday company, have appointed corporate finance advisers to sell a stake in the business that could value it at more than £100m.

a wayward emperor penguin who found himself in the media spotlight after washing up on a New Zealand beach thousands of miles off course is finally heading home.

A team of British adventurers was poised last night to become the first to row to the 1996 magnetic North Pole.

There was a kerfuffle during my show one night at the Fringe last year. Two drunk men were having an argument. In these situations, it's best to turn on the fury cannons, say something rude to shut them up, and carry on. That is certainly what I should have done. Instead, I asked them what was wrong. One pointed to the other and barked, "He told me we were going to see Travis."

This year marks the 90th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton’s final voyage to Antarctica. The Irish explorer was a key figure in the Heroic Age of Polar exploration, and his death in 1921 marked the end of this period of discovery.

If novels like Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys and The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett have previously ignited your interest in Polar explorers like John Franklin and Ernest Shackleton then Angie Butler’s new book A Quest for Frank Wild should go on your reading list.

Ex-Wales player survives crevasses, frostbite and avalanches to complete Grand Slam of seven summits and 'three poles' in record time. He tells Matt Lloyd what he learnt along the way

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