All news by author: Joe Smith

WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGE: The difficulty of just placing one foot in front of the other at such a height makes taking frozen bodies off the mountainside for a respectful burial impossible

Predictions for 2024 include a dire warning for Trump, the end of roads, and a massive natural disaster "across multiple borders,” says the publisher of the prophetic pamphlet

Casey Major-Bunce, 32, from Portsmouth and cousin Liz Major were like sisters growing up, sharing birthday parties, sleepovers and a love of boy bands until Liz sadly died age 13 from meningitis

In 1943 Rommel's unit is said to have amassed more than £20 million worth of gold and other precious objects looted from Jewish people on the island of Djerba

This will be the second year with King Charles heading up the family’s new year celebrations but he and Camilla are keeping the Queen's charished traditions alive

Kiritimati Island - the easternmost of a string of coral islands in the Pacific known as the Line Islands and is the very first place to welcome in the new year - but only since 1995

The tide of furry vandals is so severe that the RAC has said breakdowns caused by animals munching on our vehicles are now at record levels - with hundreds of cars and vans destroyed this year

Polie have arrested nine people in connection with four separate murders over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day with investigations continuing into all four

The 22-year-old victim and the suspect who has been arrested were known to each other, police said, following the stabbing in Bermondsey, south London

On one beach in Phuket, Thailand there were no casualties following the tsunami, thanks to an 11-year-old British girl called Tilly known as “the Angel of the beach”

The announcement comes after scientists spent more than eight years studying a remarkably well-preserved mosasaur fossil discovered in 2015, in Walhalla, North Dakota, US

Charlotte was recently seen supporting her younger brother Louis at a public appearance but her protectiveness also extends to her older brother Geroge, according to her family

Officers were called to reports of a stabbing in Cranwood Street, Hackney, at around 3.10am on December 26, The Metropolitan Police said.

Olivia Taylor, who has been left blind by her brain tumour, and her family were invited for tea with the Queen after she performed in the Christmas broadcast

For Christmas Day some areas of the UK are facing very wintry conditions with wind, rain and snow, while others might be basking in a record-breaking seasonal scorcher on Monday

In the Siberian village of Oymyakon temperatures regularly fall as low as -50C (-58F) - so cold the glasses to freeze to your face and people have to use outhouses

Given to Russia, stolen by the Nazi's and searched for by the KGB, the history of one of the modern world's most valuable lost treasures reads like a spy novel

Alex Batty said mum Melanie, 43, and grandad David, 64, should avoid the police in an interview with reporters. The pair disappeared with Alex on a holiday when he was 11

The Bajau tribe have lived off the coast of Indonesia for more than 1,000 years, living in houseboats and freediving to hunt underwater with spears

The victim, described as in his 20s, was driving a new £70,000 Lotus Emira when he apparently lost control on the A14 near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses after a fatal road traffic collision in Chigwell. A man has been arrested by officers investigating the incident.

Greater Manchester Police said a 42-year-old woman and a 15-year-old travelling in one of the vehicles had died at the scene, the driver of the second car is in custody

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for Scotland, parts of eastern England and areas of Wales with delays to road, rail, air and ferry transport expected

For those who don’t celebrate Christmas can be just another winte day with everything closed - but we have gathered some ideas for fun ways to spend the December 25

Some prisons lay on turkey and Christmas pudding while others offered a filled roll - but none can match the delicious spread HMP Stafford put on for inmates one year