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Nasa astronauts are gearing up for the first lunar fly-around mission in more than half a century. Nasa’s Dustin Gohmert is responsible for engineering the spacesuits at Johnson Space Center’s Orion Crew Survival Systems Lab. Years in the making, the suits are designed to protect the astronauts during launch and landing, as well as possible […]

Farm work is personal for many humans in the state of California, where nearly three-quarters of America’s fruits and nuts are grown. That’s why, when sexual abuse allegations against famed farmworker union activist Cesar Chavez came to light in March, it sent shockwaves throughout the state. “As the daughter and granddaughter of farmworkers, this is […]

The head of its armed forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is in US President Donald Trump’s favour. The US leader frequently refers to him as his “favourite” Field Marshal and has previously spoken about how Munir knows Iran “better than most”. Iran is not only a neighbour of Pakistan, with whom it shares a 900km […]

The crew includes three Nasa astronauts – Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch – along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. Not only are they accomplished pilots, engineers and scientists, they are also spouses and parents balancing a heroic adventure against the risks they and their loved ones will face. Here’s […]

Seven months ago, few outside of the Australian state of Victoria had heard of the town of Porepunkah, with its population of just over 1,000 citizens. But the fatal shooting of two police officers by local Dezi Freeman last August, and the manhunt that followed, thrust it into the headlines not just in Australia, but […]

A US freelance journalist has been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and one of the suspects is linked to an Iran-backed militia, Iraqi and US officials say. Shelly Kittleson was abducted on Tuesday evening, mentioned Al-Monitor, a news outlet for which she has contributed articles. The Iraqi interior ministry commented security forces had chased […]

Israel’s defence minister has noted a buffer zone will be set up inside southern Lebanon and that Israel will keep security control over a swathe of the territory even after the end of the current war against the armed group Hezbollah. Israel Katz mentioned the area to be occupied would go up to the Litani […]

The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live. Stuck in Qatar, which is caught in the crossfire of the US and Israel’s war on Iran, her only hope is that she makes it […]

This argument between a man and his sister in a city near Tehran – witnessed and recounted by one of their relatives – gives a telling insight into the painful rows erupting among families and friends as US and Israeli strikes continue. The relative, who we are calling Sina, says that when his family recently […]

US troops storming a secretive, underground nuclear facility to seize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium may sound far-fetched, but it is an option President Donald Trump is reportedly considering to achieve his main objective in the war: preventing the regime from developing nuclear weapons. Such an operation would be extremely challenging and fraught with danger, […]