Everest kicking off 72nd Venice film festival

Final preparations were being made on 1 September as the 72nd Venice film festival prepares to get going. The festival kicks off on 2 September with a gala screening of Baltasar Kormakurs Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley and based on the 1996 climbers disaster on the worlds highest mountain. Sep 2, 2015

World Bog Snorkelling Championships takes place in Wales

There was lots of fun in the mud as more than 150 competitors converged from around the world to brave the elements in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships. The stage for this eccentric sport was a peat bog outside the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales. Sep 1, 2015