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During their whip around the Moon, the four astronauts are set to become the humans who have traveled the farthest distance from Earth

Watching from afar

Artemis crew's families enthralled by messages from space

Two villages on the small island of Adonara felt the biggest impact of the 4.9-magnitude earthquake, with more than 100 houses damaged and at least 20 people injured

Shallow Indonesian quake damages houses, injures residents

Nepal's former prime minister KP Sharma Oli escorted by police on March 28

For role in deadly crackdown

Nepal ex-PM Oli released from custody after 12 days: police

Bei der Lufthansa hat die Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation (UFO) das Kabinenpersonal für Freitag zum Streik aufgerufen. Grund seien die gescheiterten Verhandlungen über einen neuen Manteltarifvertrag.

Affecting Frankfurt and Munich airports

Lufthansa cabin crew called out on strike this Friday

This handout picture released on April 7, 2026, by NASA shows crescent Earth setting along the Moon's limb, as seen from the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026

Sight to behold

'Chills': Artemis astronauts say lunar flyby still washing over them

As rural populations decline across the region, the pastoral life that sustained the Karaman breed is fading

At remote monastery

Mountain-made: Balkan sheepdog eyes future beyond the hills

The Red Cross' head of delegation in Lebanon said Israeli strikes 'plunged the country into panic and chaos'

Lebanon strikes, gas prices plunge

War in the Middle East: latest developments

During Viktor Orban's 16-year tenure, his ruling coalition has used its supermajority to overhaul the electoral system and leverage state resources to campaign

Election on Sunday

Three ways Orban gives himself an edge in Hungary's vote

Bowie was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century

A modest terraced house

Home where young Bowie dreamt of 'fame' to open to public

US President Donald Trump mimics firing a gun as he speaks in the White House about the war against Iran

Fragile ceasefire

Trump says US military to stay deployed near Iran until 'real agreement' reached

Lin Yu-ting won 57kg boxing gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Taiwanese Olympic champion

Gender-row boxer Lin targets Asian Games after bronze on comeback

Like in Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine, Hungarians in Romania receive envelopes with the ballot to cast it remotely

Parliamentary election on Sunday

In Romania, many Hungarians root for Orban in vote

Japan's authorities have a warning for trolls planning to target competitors at this year's Asian Games: You are being watched.

Warning for trolls

You're being watched: Japan battles online abuse of athletes

More than a year has passed since DeepSeek put Chinese AI on the map in early 2025 with a low-cost chatbot that performed at a similar level to US rivals

Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China's AI ambitions

The court ruling stems from the Pentagon designating Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI model, as a national security supply chain risk

Move by Pentagon

US court expedites Anthropic's legal battle with Department of War

The Grand National, won by Patrick Mullins on Nick Rockett last year, is a softer version to when Mick Fitzgerald won on Rough Quest in 1996

Grand National had to change to survive, says former winning jockey

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with compatriot and astronaut Jeremy Hansen, one of the four crew members of the Artemis II lunar mission.

The important questions

Maple syrup or nutella? PM Carney calls Canadian Artemis astronaut

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement formed the musical comedy act in 1998, soaring to worldwide fame off the back of their HBO comedy series of the same name

Comedy duo Flight of the Conchords reunion gigs sell out in minutes

Daniil Medvedev repeatedly smashed his racquet during an embarrassing defeat against Matteo Berrettini

Medvedev thrashed at Monte Carlo as Zverev battles through

NATO Secrertary General Mark Rutte arrives at the White House for a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2026.

Appeared to renew Greenland threats

Trump blasts NATO after closed-door Rutte meeting

The Artemis II astronauts say there is a problem with the $23 million toilet aboard their spacecraft -- it won't flush wastewater into space

Artemis II mission

Houston, we have a problem ... with the toilet

American soldiers prepare to board a cargo plane in Niamey on June 7, 2024 as US forces leave Niger

Africa not a 'priority'

Trump makes up with Sahel juntas, with eye on US interests

US President Donald Trump has long taken maximalist negotiating positions

Tough-talking president

'Total victory' or TACO? Trump faces questions on Iran deal

Now in his nineties, the Indigenous leader who has spent decades rallying the world to protect the rainforest has forged close ties with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Despite oil exploitation

Brazil's Chief Raoni backs Lula in elections

While some Iranians in capital Tehran fear the ceasefire with the United States will lead to little, others declared victory and most breathed a sigh of relief after weeks of war

'We are more relaxed'

Tehran residents relieved but divided by Trump truce

Iranians welcomed news of the US-Iran ceasefire, which has seen oil prices slump and stocks rocket

As Strait of Hormuz reopens

Oil prices plunge, stocks surge on US-Iran ceasefire

US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two in Budapest

Days before talks in Pakistan

Vance says up to Iran if it wants truce to 'fall apart' over Lebanon

'Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief,' said Turk

Hundreds killed or wounded on Wednesday

Scale of killing in Lebanon 'horrific': UN rights chief

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