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Don't forget the skeleton key: Eerie 'bone house' of Austria is home to macabre display of 1,200 skulls
Village cemetery too small to hold all bones of the dead
Apocalypse Dam: China's giant man-made waterfall as floodgates are opened to send millions of tons of silt downstream
PUBLISHED: 16:41 GMT, 7 July 2012 | UPDATED: 17:52 GMT, 7 July 2012 It is an scene of almost apocalyptic proportions. Bystanders are dwarfed as they stand watching a tremendous rush of water gushing through gaps in a dam in China, part of a carefully-choreographed operation to remove silt from the Yellow River in Luoyang, in the Henan province.
By Eddie Wrenn
Google offers worldwide 'tips and tricks' training course (...and you get a certificate!)
By Annabel Venning PUBLISHED: 00:38 GMT, 6 July 2012 | UPDATED: 02:53 GMT, 6 July 2012 Cleaving their way through the sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, the ships bore their cargo into port.
Husband hunters of the Raj: How a 'fishing fleet' of 1920s society girls were drawn into sexual intrigues in India even steamier than the climate
Thread of 'cosmic web' found holding together two clusters Theoretical 'dark matter' is extremely difficult to detect 'Glue' that holds galaxies together seen for first time By Rob Waugh
Cosmic web of mysterious 'dark matter' detected holding two galaxy clusters together
NASA discovers portals in space between the Earth and the Sun (but don't book your ticket just yet)
By James Nye
Twitter to the rescue: Owner reunited with her lost dog after spotting a picture of him tweeted on social networking site
By Sandra Mallon PUBLISHED: 20:58 GMT, 4 July 2012 | UPDATED: 11:55 GMT, 5 July 2012 Meet Patch, the Littlest Hobo wannabe who ventured off on an epic train journey but found his way back home thanks, not to a bark, but to a tweet.
Unique Silver Ghost known as 'The Corgi' after being copied by toy maker Price driven sky-high as two enthusiasts duelled in £100,000 increments Hammer fell at £4.7m to anonymous buyer - more than twice £2m estimate Six-cylinder, 7.3l vehicle in immaculate condition with perfect provenance Originally bought by a man from South Croydon in 1912 for around £1,000 Put up for sale at Bonhams after latest owner was killed in a road accident
The most magnificent Rolls-Royce ever built: Ivory and silver fittings, silk door panels and a china tea service sold for £5m
The cross-dressing cuttlefish: Creature observed disguising himself in order to attract the females and confuse the males
By Eddie WrennDivers have found traces of ancient land swallowed by waves 8500 years ago Doggerland once stretched from Scotland to Denmark Rivers seen underwater by seismic scans Britain was not an island - and area under North Sea was roamed by mammoths and other giant animals Described as the 'real heartland' of Europe Had population of tens of thousands - but devastated by sea level rises By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 23:32 GMT, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:49 GMT, 3 July 2012
'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea kingdom swamped by a tsunami 5,500 years ago
By Christine Show PUBLISHED: 04:44 GMT, 3 July 2012 | UPDATED: 07:29 GMT, 3 July 2012
Black and white pictures shows look of 100 years of Paramount Pictures
By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 17:37 GMT, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 06:59 GMT, 3 July 2012