Mir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan province, was blunt. “The worst that we have ever seen, ever, in our whole life,” he said of the swarms of locusts that ... Read more

Southend-on-Sea, England Signs advise beachgoers arriving at the seafront to maintain physical distancing rules Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Edinburgh, Scotland Groups of people on Portobello beach promenade. There has been a ... Read more

What if it had just fizzled out? What if leading Chinese scientist Zhong Nanshan had gone on state television on 20 January and delivered news that the unusual virus detected ... Read more

Play Video 1:05 Eight chimneys at Victoria’s defunct, coal-fired Hazelwood power station have been demolished. Built in the 1960s, they operated for more than half a century before the brown ... Read more

Eight chimneys at Victoria’s defunct, coal-fired Hazelwood power station have been demolished. The chimneys, which soared 137 metres above the town of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley, came down just ... Read more

Above the thick canopy of oak, hazel and sycamore, the spring sun burns brightly, but by the time it reaches the understorey of the ghyll it has been diffused into ... Read more