Virgin Galactic to launch first commercial flight to space
Virgin Galactic is shortly going to launch its first commercial flight to space
Virgin Galactic is launching its first commercial spaceflight called Galactic 01. Three Italians are on board, along with a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane's two pilots.
Sri Lanka's central bank has unveiled a plan to restructure government debt in an attempt to restore economic stability. The debt restructuring is part of a bailout programme Sri Lanka agreed with the International Monetary Fund in March. China holds more than half of the foreign debt.
Lookalikes of Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift and Freddie Mercury - among others – are angry with have Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. They're unhappy about a Meta rule that bans accounts of people "pretending to be someone famous". We speak to one of them.
(Picture: Virgin Galactic's suborbital rocket powered crewed spaceplane in United States, New Mexico: Spaceport America. Source: Getty Images)
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