In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But is there still anybody out there who doesn't believe the earth is a globe?

A spheroid Soviet-era space capsule is sold for 72,000 euros ($96,000; £48,600) at an auction in Paris.

The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may be solved.