Ascension Island is a tiny dot of green in the tropical mid-Atlantic, a volcanic outpost of empire where it's hot and cold at the same time. It's a place where Charles Darwin helped inspire an ...

Cloud forest now forms a damp oasis on Ascension's highest peak A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island ...

Twelve young Manx choristers have scaled the Great Laxey Wheel to mark Ascension Day. It celebrates the Christian belief in the ascension of Jesus to heaven, 40 days after his resurrection at Easter.

Rooftops were alive with the sound of singing on Thursday morning in what is an Oxford Ascension Day tradition. Local choirs and those from Oxford University dotted the tops of buildings around the ...

Members of Gloucester Cathedral Choir have scaled the building's tower to mark Ascension Day. It is an annual tradition to mark the 40th day after Easter. The Choir of Gloucester Cathedral climbed all ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev'd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, preaches at a service celebrating the ascension of Jesus Christ live from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London’s ...

Boiling Point and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise reviewed, Costa Children's Award winner Manjeet Mann Adrian Lester on Trigger Point; Heal and Harrow perform live; northern writing prizes Tilda ...

RSPB Scotland confirmed the large seabird was seen at Bowmore on Islay, but added that it since appeared to have moved on. It is the first record of an Ascension frigatebird since 1953 when one was ...

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A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by ...