50 years of the Mustang: Design in motion

Few screeching Hollywood car chases have ever been so dramatic. For close to eleven minutes Steve McQueen’s Highland Green V8 Mustang GT390 hurtles after a jet black ’68 Dodge Charger, propelled up, over and around the saw-toothed streets of San Francisco.

Nigeria abducted schoolgirls: Malala Yousafzai urges action

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, has said the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria.

She told the BBC that "if we remain silent then this will spread, this will happen more and more and more".

Man City 4:0 Aston Villa

Manchester City took a giant stride towards their second Premier League title in three years as a second-half rout of Aston Villa moved them top of the table with one game left to play.

City had spent only 11 days at the summit all season, but now lead Liverpool by two points with a far superior goal difference heading into Sunday's final round of matches.

Poachers take chunks from California redwoods, put majestic trees at risk

Tree poaching conjures up the lawless Amazon jungle, but America's magnificent redwood forests now face a piecemeal but steady assault by poachers too, California officials say.

Thieves are cutting massive chunks from the base of the champion trees, which are the tallest on Earth and are up to 2,000 years old. While state officials say the damage is far from any Amazonian deforestation, they do rank the desecration alongside elephant tusk poaching.

Thai drug arrests: Officials to call for lives to be spared

Cambodia will urge Thai officials not to consider the death penalty if two of its nationals, who were arrested on Sunday for allegedly smuggling drugs across the border into Thailand, are found guilty of charges against them, an official has revealed.

Chinese pilots demand same pay as foreigners

Given the country's aviation boom and pilot shortage, you might think this would be a good time to be a pilot in China.

 

A diver searching the sunken Sewol ferry died Tuesday, according to South Korea's Government Rescue Headquarters.