Footage shows passengers on Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight unbuckling their seatbelts and floating around, experiencing zero-gravity. For the first time, a mother and daughter headed to the edge of space. Keisha Schahaff and Ana Mayers won their tickets in a sweepstake. Also on board was 80-year-old Jon Goodwin, who bought his ticket for…

Reuters By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the north-east as Russia steps up its attacks there. The authorities in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region said they had to act because of “constant Russian shelling” in the area. They said local residents…

Amazon Prime video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s hit 2019 LGBTQ+ romance novel is disappointingly predictable and clichéd, writes Louis Staples. The best romantic comedies have a specific skill: they can make us surrender our most basic ideas about what we consider to be realistic or plausible, even if they are grounded in a world we…

By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Dozens of people have died and thousands have been told to evacuate their homes after fast-spreading wildfires caused devastation on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The worst hit area has been Lahaina, the beach-front town popular with tourists, where entire neighbourhoods and hotels have been destroyed. .flourish-container{position:relative;color:#404040;font-family:’Helmet’, ‘Freesans’,…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Chloe Kim BBC News, New York US Twitch streamer Kai Cenat has said he is “beyond disappointed” after a chaotic games-console giveaway in New York led to him being charged with inciting a riot. Thousands rampaged…

Beachgoers had a “lucky escape” after a cliff collapsed in Dorset’s West Bay. Daniel Knagg captured the moment the rockfall started along the South West Coast Path – with a number of people narrowly avoiding the collapse. Dorset Council has released a warning that “rockfalls and landslips” can happen at any time. The authority confirmed…

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Reidar Hahn / FermiLab By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics. Scientists believe that…

Reuters The Barbie film has been banned in Kuwait and faces calls for a ban in Lebanon amid criticism in the Arab world of the movie’s social values. Kuwait acted to protect “public ethics”, the state news agency said. Lebanon’s culture minister accused the film of “promoting homosexuality”. The blockbuster is however being shown in…

Reuters Arkady Volozh, a co-founder of Russia’s technology giant Yandex, has described Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as “barbaric”. In a statement, Mr Volozh said he was “horrified” that the homes of many Ukrainians were being bombed every day. The billionaire, who lives in Israel, has previously faced criticism for not publicly speaking out on…