Queen Camilla sweetly met young children of soldiers as she visited The Royal Lancers in North Yorkshire for the first time since being appointed as their Colonel-in-Chief.
The regiment carries a special personal connection for Camilla, 76, as her late father Major Bruce Shand MC and Bar served with the 12th Lancers during World War Two and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravely.
Heading to the barracks today, Her Majesty, sporting a striking military-inspired outfit with chain mail
They make lovable companions and are often an integral member of the family.
But depending on the breed, your dog could be enduring a ‘lifetime of suffering’ because it’s been born into a body of extreme disfigurements.
Over hundreds of years, canines have been bred to accentuate ‘cute’ features that fuel sales.
That’s why Germany is proposing to ban the dachshund, which has a long, sausage-like torso that gives it painful back problems.
From pugs to dachshunds and Cavalier King
Iceland is already reeling from three volcanic eruptions in as many months, but there could soon be more to come.
Scientists warn that magma is once again accumulating beneath Svartsengi in the Reykjanes Peninsula, a volcanic hotspot southwest of capital Reykjavik.
According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), the volume of magma beneath Svartsengi is reaching similar level as prior to last eruptions between December and earlier this month.
Svartsengi is the location of a geothermal power plant and the
Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars’ Tatooine.
This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city – the capital of the Tataouine Governate – provided the architectural inspiration for Luke Skywalker’s home planet, if not the shooting location (that’s Matmata, in the north east).
Guermassa itself is the name of
Amelia Earhart’s family would like to see her remains returned to her birthplace and her wrecked plane donated to the Smithsonian museum in DC, the missing pilot’s great-nephew has revealed.
The family is hopeful that they may finally have answers surrounding Earhart’s disappearance after a South Carolina-based deep sea exploration company last month released sonar images that they say may be the remains of the plane she was flying when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
The blurry
The house where 40 pairs of human ears were nailed up around the walls still stands up in the Gulf country, in a remote part of the outback most Australians have never seen.
The old homestead called Lawn Hill station is on a riverbend just south of Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria, in tribal territory occupied by the Waanyi people.
The house belonged to Frank Hann, a pastoralist and explorer later infamous for collecting the heads of Aboriginal people,
Fears for the future of an Icelandic fishing town are mounting as a nearby volcano threatens to erupt at any moment – with a nine-mile fissure splitting the town in half and authorities saying that increased sulphur dioxide levels have been detected.
Aerial footage shows apocalyptic scenes in the small town of Grindavik, with huge cracks appearing in roads and under buildings which were completely deserted when all 4,000 residents were told to evacuate.
Residents who were allowed to return
Once a bustling town with more than 4,500 residents and its own newspaper, Jeffrey City in Wyoming is a shadow of its former self with forlorn buildings left to rust and sprigs of grass breaking up tarmacked surfaces – but 24 residents refuse to let it go to ground completely.
The rural enclave started out as a single homestead but after uranium was discovered in the area, a mine opened in 1957 and a drove of workers from across the
This week, the mob came for Germany’s Jews. Wearing masks, they crept on foot through the deserted streets at dawn to hurl Molotov cocktails at a Berlin synagogue and daub the Star of David on the front door of a family who worship there.
On Thursday night, standing outside the synagogue where he is chairman, Pasha Lyubarsky asked me sadly: ‘How could this happen in Germany after the Holocaust?’
Two police officers now stand guard 24 hours a day beside
It has been more than 80 years since the British destroyer HMS Keith sank during an operation described by Winston Churchill as a ‘miracle of deliverance’.
The 330ft-long vessel was among some 1,000 military, merchant, fishing and civilian ‘little ships’ that helped rescue 338,226 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.
It had just returned to the French coast having evacuated 992 soldiers to Dover when it was bombed by a German aircraft and sank to the bottom
