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The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
Five men have been arrested as counter-terrorism police lead investigation into major incident near RAF Fairford.
The streaming channel was full of the president’s vanity and myopia. It was also deeply, deeply dullAre you currently at an airport? Strapped to a hospital bed, with various tubes protruding from your body? Maybe you’re on a treadmill or visiting an elder care facility? Chained to a radiator in the basement from the Saw movies?If you said yes to any of these questions, you might be watching cable news while reading this column. Or maybe you’re one of the hundreds of people currently watching Donald Trump’s answer to cable news, Trump TV – a YouTube streaming channel that airs nothing but White House-sanctioned content 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist Continue reading...
Dave SchillingDonald TrumpTrump administration
Her debut earned a record-breaking YA book deal – then came her fallout with Hollywood. The author talks about the pressures of success and why she is pictured on the cover of her new novelThere is a photograph of Tomi Adeyemi staring out from the cover of her new novel, The Siren. It is an arresting image: her face fills the frame, unsoftened by a smile, her piercing gaze fixed directly on the viewer. “It’s terrifying – like the Mona Lisa, staring at you everywhere,” she says, laughing.Using an author portrait on the cover of a novel is highly unusual, and a decision that Adeyemi says is a statement of ownership. After 12 years spent inside the world of Children of Blood and Bone – the first book in the YA trilogy that made her a literary star and its film adaptation which has become a source of profound distress – Adeyemi wanted this book to belong unmistakably to her. Continue reading
Emma LoffhagenBooksYoung adult
More than 300mm of rain fell in two days in parts of Thailand’s capital, inundating homes, shops and roadsBangkok’s flood disaster – in picturesThousands of Bangkok residents awoke in shelters on Sunday after flooding triggered by days of heavy rain in the Thai capital inundated homes and roads, with some starting to dry out their homes and belongings.Nearly 4,900 people have been evacuated to shelters, with about 52,000 households affected by the floods, which prompted a disaster declaration across the capital, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). Continue reading...
Agence France-PresseThailandExtreme weather
Heavy rain over the last two days has overwhelmed Bangkok's water systems, with more rain forecast on Sunday.
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