Napoli haven’t won the Serie A title yet, but Naples is already in party mode. In anticipation of the club’s first Italian football league title for three decades, the southern city is celebrating and decorating its streets with the club’s colour blue.
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its maiden flight on Thursday, but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an “exciting” test of the spacecraft. The spacecraft failed to separate from the first-stage rocket booster and the rocket disintegrated in a ball of fire over the Gulf of Mexico.
Paris (AFP) – Just metres from a busy train station in the heart of Paris scientists have uncovered 50 tombs in an ancient necropolis south of Lutetia, the precursor to the French capital, with numerous burials and offerings. The discovery offers a rare insight into the Parisii, a Gallic tribe that lived on the banks of the River Seine during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Com (East Timor) (AFP) – Crowds gather in the Pacific region, including East Timor and Western Australia, to watch a total solar eclipse which plunged parts of the region into daytime darkness. “This phenomenon is very rare in East Timor” explains Flaviana Pinto Fernandes, head of the East Timor Meteorological Agency. One of those watching the event in Exmouth, Western Australia, is German enthusiast Michael Mushardt, who rescheduled his honeymoon to see the eclipse.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asks NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg to help Kyiv “overcome the reluctance” of some member states to provide long-range weapons to Kyiv as it continues to repel Russia’s invasion. Zelensky says the delays in supply are “time lost for peace and the lives of our soldiers.”
South Padre Island (United States) (AFP) – Getting along with your neighbors is important, and for the residents of South Padre Island, Texas, who live next door to Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company, this relationship seems largely positive. “It’s been great for so many job opportunities” says Paul Moses, the bartender of Coconut Jack’s. Another of those with a rosy view of Musk is Anthony Michael Sossi, who says “I absolutely think it’s badass, what he’s doing”. This week, SpaceX was forced to reschedule the launch of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, after a technical glitch caused the last minute cancellation of Monday’s lift-off.
South Padre Island (United States) (AFP) – Images show SpaceX’s Starship rocket ascending into the sky, shortly after take-off, before emitting a large plume of smoke and eventually starting to descend during the first test flight of the spacecraft.
Washington (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the US seeks “a constructive and fair economic relationship with China,” even as Washington holds firm in defending the country’s national security.
Boca Chica and Medford Colonia (United States) (AFP) – SpaceX’s Starship blasts off from the company’s spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas on the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Boca Chica and Medford Colonia (United States) (AFP) – SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, explodes during the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
South Padre Island (United States) (AFP) – SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, lifts off on the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola hails Erling Haaland, describing the 22-year-old Norwegian as “an incredible machine”. Guardiola’s comments come after his side’s two-legged win over Bayern Munich, which sees them progress to the semi-final of the Champions League, where they will face the holders Real Madrid. Guardiola also addresses Haaland’s penalty miss, the first of his career. “Erling will learn… to take the ball, disappear, disappear, get out of the situation.”
