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There are worse places to suffer a travel delay than on the International Space Station. At least astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get to gaze at the planet rotating beneath them as they wait for engineers to work out what’s gone wrong with their spacecraft’s thrusters so they can fly home. In a news conference from the ISS, they certainly seemed to be having a good time, helping out with science experiments and maintenance – and taking photos of tropical storms.But for Boeing the technical glitches with the Starliner, on its first crewed test flight, are yet another embarrassment.The company…

Hollywood star George Clooney has called on Joe Biden to pull out of the race for a second term in the White House, stating he’s “not the Joe ‘big f***ing deal’ Biden of 2010”.Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, wrote a guest essay in the New York Times three weeks after he was in President Biden’s company at a fundraising event. On the night, questions were raised about the president’s health after his predecessor, Barack Obama, took his hand to exit the stage. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this…

Actor Danny Dyer has said he suffered a “major panic attack” and forgot his lines while performing in a Harold Pinter play after a drug-fuelled night out.The EastEnders star said he “didn’t have a clue what to say” on stage while playing a waiter in the British playwright’s Celebration, on Broadway, in 2001. Dyer, 46, told the How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast he had “smoked crack” the night before because it was his first time in New York and he was “very excited” and “took a lot of drugs out there”.The actor said: “I take it very seriously,…

The fossil of a herbivorous dinosaur, as big as an American male bison, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. It is the most complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in the UK in a century, with 149 bones in total. The hefty dinosaur, now called Comptonatus chasei, roamed southern England around 125 million years ago and would have weighed as much as an African elephant.The isle of Wight only became separated from the mainland around 7,000 years ago.”It was likely to be a herding animal, so possibly large herds of these heavy dinosaurs may have been thundering around if spooked…

Sharon Stone has described how people “took advantage” of her financially while she was recovering from a near-fatal stroke.The Basic Instinct star suffered a stroke in 2001 that led to a nine-day brain bleed, which forced her to step away from Hollywood for seven years while she recovered. “People took advantage of me over that time,” the US actress told The Hollywood Reporter.”I had $18m (£14m) saved because of all my success, but when I got back into my bank account, it was all gone.”My refrigerator, my phone – everything was in other people’s names. “I had zero money.”The 66-year-old…

Two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for over a month are talking to reporters for the first time on Wednesday afternoon.Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Sunita “Suni” Williams blasted off on 5 June in Starliner’s first mission to orbit carrying the astronauts. After docking on the ISS, the NASA astronauts were supposed to stay in orbit for eight days.However, Boeing’s Starliner has been plagued by problems and its return to Earth has been repeatedly delayed. During their extended stay on the ISS, the astronauts have been forced to take shelter in the spacecraft…

One of the very few specific targets that the Labour Party set itself in its election manifesto was a promise to “get Britain building again, creating jobs across England, with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament”.Rachel Reeves, the new chancellor, laid out earlier this week how the new government plans to achieve this target, equivalent to building 300,000 homes a year, a total not achieved since the 1960s. Mandatory local targets on housebuilding – abandoned by Michael Gove, the former Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Secretary, amid pressure from Conservative backbenchers – will be restored while planning restrictions…

The new environment secretary has summoned the bosses of most of Britain’s water companies for urgent talks amid signs that Labour will take a tougher approach to regulating the industry.Sky News has learnt that Steve Reed will hold talks with executives from all 16 of the suppliers in England and Wales, including Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent. The meeting will take place on the same day that Ofwat, the water industry watchdog, will publish draft determinations on companies’ investment plans for the next five years.Money latest:What are the different ways of paying for a car?The rulings, which will…

The UK has launched a multi-billion pound national wealth fund to power green invest and infrastructure development in an effort to grow the economy.So far £7.3bn in state funds has been allocated so investments can be made “immediately” in areas such as ports, manufacturing and renewable energy. The move is part of Labour’s plans to grow the economy through planning reform, housebuilding targets and the creation of state-owned power company Great British Energy.Economic growth is a core goal of Labour’s time in government – their investment plans are predicated on the increased tax yields a larger economy brings, rather than…

A fight for better pay among workers at South Korea tech giant Samsung will now result in an indefinite strike, according to a top union official.A walkout over pay and conditions by members of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) in the country began on Monday. But a row over the apparent effectiveness of the action and a lack of fresh talks appears to have prompted the union to double down.It dismissed an assertion by the world’s biggest maker of memory chips that the strike had caused no disruption to production lines so far.The NSEU has 30,000 members at Samsung’s…