Moment crew docks at International Space Station

Four astronauts have docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Earth on Friday. The crew will spend eight months aboard the ISS after replacing a team that evacuated last month due to a medical emergency. On board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft travelling to the ISS were two Nasa astronauts from the US, Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, from France, and Russian Roscocosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The four are…

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Prem Rugby Cup: Exeter thrash Gloucester with wins for Leicester and Bath

Josh Manz crossed the line two minutes from time for Leicester before Orlando Bailey converted from the touchline to clinch victory at the StoneX Stadium.Earlier on, Alex Lozowski's opener put Sarries in control after 10 minutes when he collected Louie Johnston's searching kick and surge over the line before Johnston converted.Tommy Reffell responded almost immediately for the Tigers, breaking away from the maul to score and Bailey converted to level.But celebrations were short lived as Tayo Adegbemile bulldozed…

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Tribes grant the Colorado River legal personhood

Indigenous tribes in the southwestern US, led by the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), have granted the Colorado River legal personhood to help protect it for future generations. In November 2025, the CRIT, made up of the Mojave, Hopi, Navajo and Chemehuevi tribes, passed the resolution recognising the river as a living, life-giving entity with rights like a person. The Colorado River is currently facing the worst drought in 1,200 years. The seven US states that share the…

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Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful interview with BBC

Gisèle Pelicot has told BBC Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire that her strength comes from her "DNA". Ms Pelicot was at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history. For almost a decade, she had been drugged unconscious by her husband Dominique Pelicot and raped by dozens of men he had recruited on internet chat rooms.She made the remarkable decision to let the world know who she was, waiving her legal right to anonymity, before the trial began.In…

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