The palace photo gallery 2

An elephant autopsy has it all: eager scientists, posthumous farts - and Richard Dawkins For once, everyone is talking about the elephant in the room - maybe because it's a dead one. It - she, we know that much, but not a name, that would be wrong - led a happy and fulfilled life in captivity before being put down. We learn of her "very brave fight" against arthritis and of her "tragic death". ...

Europa League - Owls to play matches during Malta stay - Valhmor Camilleri Sheffield Wednesday will play in two triangular tournaments during their training camp in Malta later this month. The English championship side...

So, what does a car company call its fastest model? If you're Bentley, says Johannesburg correspondent DENIS DROPPA, you don't mess around with monikers such as RS or M or AMG. You just call it the Speed.

An eye and an ear to the ground can yield some unexpected rewards at the National Arts Festival this year, not all of which are exclusively aural.

The return of blood diamonds must not be allowed to happen (report, 25 June). The underlying cause of diamond smuggling, and the atrocities it leaves in its wake, is poverty. Corruption and exploitation go hand in hand with poverty, and in mineral-producing countries where democracy is weak and governance poor, violence quickly follows, as the stakes are high – whether diamonds, coltan or timber.

DAKAR, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international assistance, according to a new report on natural resource use on the continent.