A GOLD watch three widows who survived the Titanic sinking gave to the captain of the ship that saved them is to be sold for £50,000. Madeline Astor, Marian Thayer and Eleanor Widener completed the transAtlantic journey safely but their husbands – then three of the richest men in the world – all died in the 1912 tragedy.

‘I could feel all the hard parts of the octopus on my face,’ says Kyle Mulinder

A kayaker paddling in the waters around New Zealand has been given an unusually close look at its marine life when a seal appeared to throw an octopus at him.

The bombs used by Allied forces during World War II were so large, they weakened the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

A swarm of bees flew into the engine of a Mango Airlines plane, forcing a delay in flights at the main airport in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban.

Bee experts were called in and they safely removed the estimated 20,000 bees from the engine, the low-budget airline said.