In 1929, Harold Bell Lasseter transfixed Australia with a tale of a quartz outcrop in the heart of the continent containing gold nuggets "as thick as plums in a pudding". He had stumbled across the reef, buried beneath sand hills in Western Australia's remote Gibson Desert, he claimed, while prospecting for rubies three decades earlier.

Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan did her bit to protest against the skin trade by showing off some flesh of her own.

More than 30,000 people signed an Independent petition calling for a ban

There was, finally, some good news for President François Hollande today.

Report in The Times claims Premier League sides will be offered £175m to compete in tournament

Think animals of the frozen north and you think polar bear, musk ox, and walrus – but now you can also think camel.

Spitbank Fort, The Solent

Fendi revels in mink and fox

Sudan says he's an Israeli operative – but his handlers say he's too easily distracted for that. Matthew Kalman reports on a spy thriller

Christopher Monckton, a UK Independence Party activist and dogged critic of the environmentalist movement, has been turned out of an international climate change conference in Qatar after posing as a delegate.

Since late last week, a photographic exhibition inside the Alhambra covering the last 70 years of Oman's social and religious history offers a rare and intriguing insight into one of the Middle East's least-known countries.

Jaisalmer, the "Golden city" of Rajasthan, is one of the most popular destinations in India.

28-year-old property developer-cum-cameleer is selling 14 of the animals in total

Suspended Tory MP Nadine Dorries got her teeth into life in the jungle by chomping on a camel's toe and an ostrich's anus in her latest stomach-churning challenge on I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here.