(BBC News) Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket Starship has exploded on its maiden flight.
No one was hurt in the uncrewed test that lifted off from Texas's east coast on Thursday morning local time.
Around three minutes into the flight, the rocket – the largest ever developed – started to tumble out of control and was destroyed, probably by onboard charges.
Musk has said his company will try another launch in a couple of months.
SpaceX...
(Toronto Sun) Elon Musk – the world’s richest man – is having fun goofing on the CBC after the broadcaster announced it will be pausing its Twitter presence on Monday.
“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way,” CBC spokesman Leon Mar said in a statement announcing the break.
“Consequently, we will...
(BBC News) U.S. prosecutors have arrested two men in New York for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood.
Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, both New York City residents, face charges of conspiring to act as agents for China, and obstruction of justice.
They are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn.
China has previously denied operating the stations, calling them "service centres" for nationals overseas.
Lu of the Bronx and...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Sudan’s army has declared its rival paramilitary organization, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a rebel group and has ordered its dissolution, as fighting between the two raged for a third day.
The Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the Sudanese army and the de facto head of state, had declared the RSF a rebel entity that was fighting the state and ordered its dissolution.
This...
(BBC News) A power struggle between Sudan's army and a notorious paramilitary force has rocked the country, with 27 reported dead and hundreds injured.
Residents dodged gunfire in the capital, Khartoum, as rival forces battled over the presidential palace, state TV, and army headquarters.
Among the dead were three UN workers, who were shot after the two sides exchanged gunfire at a military base.
The clashes erupted after tensions over a proposed transition to civilian rule.
Both the...
(Phys.org) Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and elsewhere has detected a new exoplanet.
Designated LHS 475 b, it is about the size of Venus and orbits a nearby M-dwarf star.
TESS is conducting a survey of about 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets. So far, it has identified nearly 6,400 candidate...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States authorities have targeted four sons of the notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo – known as the “Chapitos” – as well as individuals connected to Chinese chemical firms in a sweeping action meant to address fentanyl trafficking.
On Friday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the drug enterprise run by the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel the “largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.”
Deputy Attorney General...
(University of St. Andrews) Auditing practices from the finance industry can be adapted to identify academic fraud, according to new research by the University of St. Andrews.
In a paper published in the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review, the authors show how effective statistical tools can be employed by those who review scientific studies to help detect and investigate suspect data.
When scientists publish their latest discoveries in journals, sometimes the papers are retracted after being...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Authorities in the United States have arrested a man in relation to the leak of classified U.S. military intelligence documents, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday that Jack Teixeira was arrested in connection with a probe into “alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defence information.”
“Teixeira is an employee of the United States Air Force National Guard,” Garland told reporters. “FBI agents took...
(BBC News) Dozens of classified U.S. documents have been leaked and are circulating on the Internet.
Images of the classified files have appeared on messaging app Discord since February.
Complete with timelines and dozens of military acronyms, the documents, some marked "top secret", paint a detailed picture of the war in Ukraine and offer information on China and allies.
Pentagon officials are quoted as saying the documents are real.
BBC News and other news organizations have reviewed some...
