Ukip leader Nigel Farage is widely considered to have beaten Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg in the first of two debates between the pair on the future of the UK in the EU.
Pope Francis has formally accepted the resignation of the Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, known as the “bling bishop” after spending over £26 million on renovating his official residence.
Astronomers have spotted a new dwarf planet, named 2012 VP113, orbiting at the edge of the solar system, far beyond Pluto, which they have nicknamed Biden, after US Vice President (VP) Joe Biden.
When schoolchildren conjure up an image of Saturn, it is the rings that make it stand out, but Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have also been observed to be surrounded by rings. New observations of a distant asteroid orbiting beyond Saturn, however, have shown that this too is surrounded by two fine, dense rings.
Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate made more money last year than McDonald’s and Deutsch Bank according to a new study from L’istituto Demoskopika.