News about Jules Verne

Every year, ten ­million people queue for up to two hours to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. And every year, all but a handful come away wondering why they ever bothered. Small wonder that a recent survey found it ranked 'the world's most disappointing masterpiece'. It all goes to show that, as Piers Morgan has discovered to his advantage, fame can be fuelled as much by hatred as by love. In fact, with his broadcasting career in the doldrums, Morgan's thin-lipped smile might give him a profitable secondary career as a Mona Lisa looky-likey.

Teresa was known and loved, but our two-year relationship ended years before she became a spy, and I didn't get to meet her again. She was charming and intelligent, but she was also neurotic. A joking will bring her to tears one day; the next time I made it, she could throw a book at my head and yell, slamming the door. Any long-term friendship with her was iffy. Tereza Javorská (left), a BBC broadcaster, was revealed in The Mail a few weeks ago as a spy for communist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. She betrayed Britain, which gave her asylum, and the BBC, which trusted and promoted her. However, she was also one of thousands of Soviet Bloc intelligence victims. Teresa, who was known to her family and coworkers, was approached by a Czech agent in 1985 during the Cold War's final years. The StB's Czechoslovak intelligence team reported that she had agreed to work for them willingly. It's much more likely that her handlers threatened her that if she did not cooperate, her family in Slovakia would suffer. Pictured right: John Simpson in 1981

Jo Kessel embarks on a ten-day journey to northern India, where she milks cows, remains on a hilltop peak, and visits the Golden Temple, which she describes as 'a holy Sikh shrine with a marble exterior dripping with 24-carat gold'. "At night, it glitters, gleams, and floats majestically on a beach, its reflection in the water glitters.' The temple takes on a almost ethereal hue by day.'

A blind young woman in braille reads Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea as bombs plummet from the sky and the Nazi-controlled French city of St Malo fires, bringing a note of hope over the radio. This is how we met Marie-Laure, the protagonist of Anthony Doerr's 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning book All The Light We Cannot See, which has now been adapted for the screen by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. Marie-Laure is actually reading a mystery code to help the Germans battle the Germans in the dramatic opener. The scene is made even more interesting when you know that the actress playing Marie-Laure (newcomer Aria Loberti, pictured left) will not see in real life - this is the first large-scale film to cast a blind actor in a central role. This tender tale, set between 1934 and 1944, interweaves the tales of two boys who find ways to preserve their humanity amid the horrors of World War II. Marie-Laure, the first person to leave Paris with her widowed father, Daniel LeBlanc (Mark Ruffalo), for St Malo, Brittany, to live with reclusive uncle Etienne ( Hugh Laurie). Pictured right: Nell Sutton, a young Welsh actress, plays Marie-Laure as a child.

On June 18, five people, including the company's CEO, were killed when the subordinate (left) imploded on its way to the shipwreck, a 12,500ft below the Atlantic Ocean. Multiple times throughout the film, eerily refers to the vessel's "safety." The narrator states, "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a specially qualified crew member safely diving to the Titanic wreckage.' Jules Verne's greatest wish - a 12,500 ride to the sea's bottom - is what you should be able to imagine. This isn't a thrill ride for tourists; it's much more.' The clip also includes OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush (top right), who died alongside four others in the storm.

According to Dutch boatbuilder U-Boat Worx, the Nautilus can be used both as a private yacht and a completely working submarine. The firm, which has been described as the "absolute adventure ship," says it will be able to descend to a depth of 150 meters (492 feet) and cover a wide range of 3,200 nautical miles.

In 80 days, two 81-year-olds from Texas are halfway around the world. Sandy Hazelip and Elly Hamby are now in Egypt and nearly 50 days on their trip around the world, with their tour covering a total of 18 countries and seven continents. Since leaving Dallas on January 11, the two traveled via Antarctica and visited places such as Easter Island, the North Pole, Argentina, London, and Zambia.

Around 8 p.m. on Thursday, a 24-year-old British man fell into the ocean at Cap Martinet, an upmarket area of Spanish party island Ibiza's Cap Martinet, fell from the top of the 65-ft cliffs.

On a trip to La Mola (pictured), the 55-year-old, who lived in London, lost his footing while trekking along the ridge and was not able to recover from the fall. According to local reports, he and his partner and a group of friends were together at the time when the tragedy occurred. He was initially described locally as a Lebanese man, but police reports on Friday confirmed that he lived in the United Kingdom and had a British passport. Since his body could not be seen from the top of the cliff he fell from, first services had to resort to drones, jet skis, and a helicopter to locate him.