Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionYago Riedijk said he saw nothing wrong in marrying 15-year-old Shamima Begum. The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015 aged 15, has said he wants her to return to the Netherlands with him.Yago Riedijk and Ms Begum married…
A Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center at 2:49am ET Saturday. The rocket carried the Dragon spacecraft. Check out that blue lighting on the crew access arm. The first stage would return to land on a drone ship. SpaceX But Dragon, shown here at the top of the rocket, won't return until…
(Note language in 1st and 9th paragraphs that may offend readers.) By Katanga Johnson and Steve Holland OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller ahead of his report on alleged Russia collusion by the Trump campaign in 2016 and said his political opponents were “trying to…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSpaceX has launched the Falcon 9 rocket and capsule The demonstration of a new US system to get astronauts into orbit is under way. The SpaceX company has launched a capsule designed to carry people from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The mission is uncrewed for this…
A pretty day at Kennedy Space Center on Friday, as remote cameras were set up. Trevor Mahlmann for Ars Technica. Ars will have exclusive launch photos on Saturday afternoon, if the rocket launches tonight. Trevor Mahlmann for Ars Technica. This is a brand-new Block 5 version of the Falcon 9 rocket. Trevor Mahlmann for Ars…
BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union is ready to give Britain more guarantees that the Irish “backstop” is only intended to be temporary, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier attends a joint news conference with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Vienna, Austria February 28, 2019.…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWas Kim Jong-un really clueless about US student Otto Warmbier's ordeal? The family of a US student who died after he was jailed in North Korea have implicitly rebuked President Donald Trump's lauding of Kim Jong-un.Otto Warmbier's parents said they had been "respectful" during Mr Trump and…
Enlarge / Windows is now perpetually under construction. The release earlier this month of a preview Windows 10 build that isn't due until 2020 was a little strange. At the time, Microsoft said vaguely that it was because of features that "require a longer lead time," with no indication of what those features are. The…
(Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP followed Bristol-Myers Squibb Co’s second-largest investor, Wellington Management, in opposing the drugmaker’s $74 billion purchase of biotech Celgene Corp on Thursday, sowing further doubt on what would be the largest pharmaceutical takeover ever. FILE PHOTO: Logo of global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is pictured on the blouse…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBBC's Laura Bicker explains why Trump is the 'biggest loser' from the summit A summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended without agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief, the US president has said."It was all about the…
