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The find - at Blombos Cave in the Southern Cape area of South Africa - predates previous drawings from Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia by at least 30,000 years

The stunning flower is an especially rare discovery as it belongs to a group called mycoheterotrophs

JD Wetherspoon have decided to no longer sell Jägermeister (a herbal liqueur from Germany, French brandy Courvoisie and French brandy Hennessy Fine de Cognac. They will offer more drinks from the UK in a bid to crack down on drinks which come from the EU. The move is said to lead to lower prices across its 880 pubs from September 26. So no more Jagerbombs to regret the next day. Wetherspoon has already replaced Champagne with sparkling wines from the...

Art satellite data suggests the popular ski destination, featuring the spectacular Swiss Alps, is melting - and has lost almost 20 per cent of its snow

The fashion for having a hive in the garden or on rooftops has done "more harm than good" because honeybees are less efficient pollinators than wild bees

Five areas of the city feature prominently among a league table of constituencies with the highest proportion of claimants.

The evolutionary development enabled our ancestors to come out of the forests and survive the arid savannahs of Africa, say scientists.

Researchers found no significant overall increase in the number of employees working flexibly since the changes came into effect four years ago

During Jean-Claude Juncker’s annual state of the union address he said that sections of the single market could “certainly not” be offered to countries outside the EU trading area. These comments would appear to pour cold water on the Theresa May’s plan to keep Britain in the single market for goods after Brexit. Juncker said: “We respect the British decision to leave our Union, even though we continue to regret it deeply. “But we also ask the British government to...