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Pizarro founded Lima in 1535 after defeating the Inca Empire and claiming their lands for the Spanish crown.

Plowright said the award was “a kind of crowning in one’s life achievement.”

A US national is to be charged with conspiracy to murder a Birmingham shop owner, crown prosecutors say.

The African habitat - which was built in 2001 - is home to reticulated giraffes, maneless zebras, white rhinos, ostriches, crowned cranes and a greater kudu - a type of antelope.

I’ve never been more grateful to receive such a preponderance of unsolicited messages, and that says a lot since speed-deletion skills are a crowning achievement of my decades-long career in journalism.