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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt -- making it the second company to perform such a feat, following Elon Musk's SpaceX. It's an accomplishment that will help the new rocket system become an option to send larger payloads to space, the Moon, and beyond. Thursday's launch wasn't just about the landing attempt, though. Roughly 34 minutes after takeoff, the upper stage of New Glenn successfully deployed the rocket's first commercial payload: twin spacecraft for NASA that will travel to Mars to study the red planet's atmosphere. The pair of achievements are remarkable for the second-ever launch of such a massive rocket system. And it could put Blue Origin in position to compete with SpaceX, which dominates the world's launch market with its Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship rockets. You can watch a recording of the launch here.

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The event honours excellence in international media and television, as well as figures with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year.

Manchester rapper Aitch has revealed he is going into the I'm A Celebrity jungle to raise awareness for people with Down Syndrome, like his 13-year-old sister Gracie.

The 74-year-old victim was trapped inside the Porsche until heroic bystander David Calderon plucked him from the wreckage.

The Woolworth Mansion, once owned by fitness icon Lucille Roberts, has hit the market for $49.95 million as pieces from the home are auctioned off.

Shockingly images have revealed the disturbing manner King Tut was taken from his royal coffin exactly 100 years ago.

Footage of a speech given by the US President on January 6 , 2021, was edited in a way that appeared to show him inciting his followers to storm the Capitol building in Washington DC .

Travis Kelce's ex-girlfriend, Kayla Nicole, has revealed she is 'ashamed' by a string of racist and homophobic posts that resurfaced last week.

Veselin Dudenski, 39, admitted causing the death of Elsie Gascoigne by dangerous driving when he appeared before a judge at Lincoln Crown Court this morning.

Hazelgrove Farm owner Sharon Wheeler pleaded guilty at the Southampton magistrates' court to a safety offence after children were witnessed kissing goats which were visibly covered in faeces.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei will be excluded from the country's future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more digital sovereignty. From a report: "We have decided within the government that everywhere it's possible we'll replace components, for example in the 5G network, with components we have produced ourselves," Merz told a business conference in Berlin on Thursday. "And we won't allow any components from China in the 6G network." Europe is increasingly concerned about its reliance on foreign technology, ranging from Asian semiconductors to US artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, as trade and geopolitical tensions threaten critical supply chains. Germany last year ordered telecom operators to remove Huawei equipment from their core networks, citing risks to national security. Berlin is now considering using public funds to pay Deutsche Telekom AG and others to strip out Chinese gear, Bloomberg News reported last month.

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Amin Abedi Mofrad, 35, was found guilty of raping the drunk girl on her way home from an under 18s nightclub on February 14 last year.

Socialite Tamara, 41, wore a grey wool bomber jacket with a fur collar for the event, which she teamed with a black jumper .

What was it that persuaded Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, to move out of Royal Lodge, his 30-room 'palace' at Windsor and accept the loss of his titles and honours, too?

The Met Office has issued two amber rain warnings for parts of central England and South Wales tomorrow, both running from 12pm to midnight, as Storm Claudia hits the UK.

Ariana Grande was ambushed by an overzealous fan while walking the red carpet at the Singapore premiere of her new film Wicked: For Good on Thursday.

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"

Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

Scientists have long suspected that the virus might play a role in autoimmune diseases and researchers at Stanford University recently investigated this link.

A landmark study can now calculate a person's lifelong risk of memory decline, finding that Alzheimer's biological processes are already active in apparently healthy people.

Kalaivani Balakrishnan, who was expecting twins, has been described as 'kind-hearted' by her devastated family.