A.C. Crispin, a science fiction author who wrote popular tie-in novels to Star Trek and Star Wars and helped run the online watchdog Writer Beware that alerted authors to literary scams, has died.

Critics have savaged Diana, a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash 16 years ago, just hours after its world premiere on Thursday.

Scientists seeking to understand the forces at work beneath the Earth’s surface have detected previously unknown “fingers” of heat, some of them thousands of miles long, in our planet’s upper mantle. The discovery helps explain the “hotspot volcanoes” that give birth to island chains such as Hawaii and Tahiti.

Famed English writer Charles Dickens’ former Kent home, where he penned his classic novels Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, will be thrown open to the public for the first time since his d

Hollywood veteran Betty White has entered the Guinness world records’ 2014 edition for having the longest TV career as a female entertainer.

Their skin is flawless, their make-up perfect and their hair sleek, but to teenage girls hoping to emulate fashion models, British Vogue has a message — it’s not real.

Diana, a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash, was set for its world premiere on Thursday with its star Naomi Watts already defending her involvement in the controversial

“Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms,” evil Richard III is told by an accuser in Shakespeare’s drama.

A handwritten poem by Rabindranath Tagore and a collection of posters commissioned by Mahatma Gandhi are among select artworks that will go under the hammer at global auctioneer Christie’s New York sa

Scientists have discovered a 350-million-year-old fossilised scorpion in South Africa which is the oldest known land animal to have lived on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.