The winner of the Caldecott Medal this year, honoring the artist of the most distinguished American picture book, was “Chooch ...

Venetia is currently the biggest diamond mine development under way anywhere in the world. The mine is an openpit operation; however, following shareholder approval, development work started in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Lady Venetia Baring is a self-professed ‘unladylike’ lady. ‘I’m covered in tattoos. I’ve got brightly coloured hair. I dress like a boy…’ the daughter of the 4th Earl of Cromer tells Tatler, sitting ...

Bowling for Soup guitarist Chris Burney has shared a positive update with fans after revealing that he has undergone an amputation of two of his toes. The rock musician, who rose to fame in the ...

Former Bowling For Soup guitarist Chris Burney revealed that he had two of his toes amputated — one month after he retired from the pop-punk band over “medical developments.” Burney ...

He had discovered "Planet X." Eleven-year-old Venetia Burney Phair later suggested the name Pluto, inspired by the Roman god of the underworld. Astronomers had been searching for this theoretical ...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation probes into an unsettling homicide case. Kierra Burney, 34, was found dead last Wednesday, and preliminary autopsy results have classified her death as a homicide.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. File image/AP Venetia Burney, an 11-year-old girl from England, suggested the name Pluto after the Roman god of the underworld due to its cold, dark and ...

The new world got its name not long after, thanks to 11-year-old Venetia Burney, of Oxford, England. Over breakfast on the day after the announcement was made, Venetia’s grandfather was reading ...