The White House has said that tech billionaire Elon Musk will stay on to complete his mission to slash government spending and downsize the federal workforce, dismissing media reports that he will leave the role soon.

A village feud over who owns extant tree roots behind Vincent van Gogh&s last painting has been settled after a local mayor lost a court bid to take the land from a couple&s garden.

Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in the footsteps of dinosaurs when he fled English troops during the doomed Jacobite rebellion, scientists have found.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti told a Spanish court yesterday he had believed his tax affairs were legal as he testified in a trial in which he is accused of failing to pay €1m in tax on image rights revenue.