Alex Holmes

A disappointing extension of the “Lord of the Rings” canon, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” comes to Blu-ray.

It wasn’t a vintage red or white, but vintage it was. A man renovating his wine cellar in Austria discovered mammoth remains from the prehistoric era. The find has been called “sensational” by the team at the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which has been tasked with digging up the remains found in the village of Gobelsburg, just west of the country’s capital, Vienna. “Our older and more experienced team members there had never seen something like that befo…

Passengers on board a Singapore Airlines flight that hit “severe turbulence” have described their terror as the plane dropped hundreds of feet before it leveled off and made an emergency landing in Bangkok. “I saw people from across the aisle just going completely horizontal, hitting the ceiling and landing back down in really awkward positions,” Dzafran Azmir, 28, told Reuters on Wednesday. Azmir, a student, added that people were “getting massive gashes in the head” as the Boeing 777-300ER m…

Thousands spent the night in the debris-encrusted streets of Adiyaman with little shelter and huddled around small fires.

The 96-year-old monarch will send Prince Charles in her place.