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The four-person crew thanked mission control as they splashed down in the Atlantic Four space tourists ended their trailblazing trip to orbit on Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier. Continue reading…

The SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.

A SpaceX capsule carrying the first all-civilian crew into space has touched back down on Earth after three days in orbit.

The BBC’s Lyse Doucet meets the female crew of Afghanistan’s national airline, who are in hiding.

Jean-Pierre Thebault was angry about Aukus as he left Australia on Saturday night, saying: ‘It’s like in a couple, you know, when you commit … you don’t run away’ The French ambassador to Australia was in a car heading to Sydney airport for an urgent flight back home when he revealed he was “sad like any decent person would be”. …

Biden’s snub raises the question of whether the U.S. and Europe have a future together — at least one in which America can be relied upon as a constant partner.

Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, US presidents have realised the impact of their reactions to extreme weather.

Premier Dan Andrews is to release Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdowns a day after protests in Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay and Brisbane. Follow updates live Covid vaccine rollout and rates tracker; Cases, trends and data tracker Get our free news app; Get our morning email briefing 11.36pm BST Victoria has recorded 507 new Covid-19 cases and one additional death. Reported …

“They show up at the beginning of the day quiet and reserved, and at the end of the day it’s actually hard to peel them away,” the executive director said.

The company’s vice-president of global affairs said the paper had not presented the whole picture on the ‘difficult issues’ Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs, has slammed the Wall Street Journal for reporting that the social media giant was aware of negative impacts of some of its products. Related: Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’ Continue reading…