Google has commemorated the 66th anniversary of the Roswell incident with an interactive Google Doodle showing an alien crash landing on Earth.

Those killed are named as it emerges all 19 deployed last-ditch personal fire shelters to no avail

Sam Beam's latest outing as Iron and Wine is a curious mixture of the fascinating and the frustrating. It's a more obviously welcoming album than its recent predecessors, with the gentle country-soul ambience of songs like “The Desert Babbler” recalling Lambchop in its tempering of soul influences with pedal steel and strings.

President apologises for referring to attorney-general as 'good-looking'

Probe has reached the edge of interstellar space, where no manmade object has gone before

A Republican stalwart, now 80, has owned up to a 1970s liaison with the daughter of a colleague

Who knew that Shirley MacLaine has insured herself, to the tune of $25 million, against being abducted by aliens? With almost any other Hollywood actor, you might have dismissed the report, in a US magazine, as fanciful. With Warren Beatty's older sister, it makes perfect sense, which is of course something all too seldom to be said for Shirley herself.

Billionaire businessman took a tour of Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung University during the trip

A convicted murderer with a Justin Bieber fixation hired two men to strangle the teen pop sensation, but then informed the police of his plan before it could be carried out.

Will Rogers World may sound like a theme park dedicated to the cowboy celebrity, but it is actually an airport: a gateway to Oklahoma City. When you touch down, doff your Stetson to the statue of the man who had a foot in both stirrups – the Wild West and Hollywood – then track down the fascinating National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Before your flight home, the Route 66 Grille is waiting airside to provide a last taste of the city celebrated in song as "oh so pretty".

He was a poet, mystic, progressive - and the scientist who opened the gate of nuclear hell

Mitt Romney may not have been the saviour they were looking for, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a Republican who truly believes that a different candidate, from the array who put themselves up for the Presidential nomination, would have made a better fist of the job.

43-year-old stuntman intends to settle down with his girlfriend and pursue a (comparatively) low-octane second career flying rescue helicopters.

'Siouxie Sioux and I raced each other all the way to Albuquerque, New Mexico'