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A Nasa facility in West Virginia has been renamed in honour of a native of the state whose calculations helped put men on the moon 50 years ago. Katherine Johnson was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures and is now 100 years old. She did not attend Tuesday’s ceremony in Fairmont but was represented by two of her daughters, Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore. https://twitter.com/WomenNASA/status/1146056151471144962 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1146107238655901699 News outlets report elected officials, the Nasa administrator and a former astronaut were at...

Network Rail is facing demands for answers after two workers were killed by a train on a section of track in south Wales. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said there will be an investigation into how the fatal crash happened on Wednesday morning near Port Talbot. A third casualty was treated for shock at the scene but was uninjured. British Transport Police (BTP) said it was too early to confirm whether the section of railway between Pyle and Port Talbot was...

35-year-old Mickey Joel Paulk was arrested last week following a chase in which he allegedly rammed an investigator’s vehicle

The Government has been accused of “dangerously fudging” data on its migration integration report. There is also little to no evidence of “woefully unambitious” targets to integrate ethnic minorities into the workforce being met, according to the Immigrant Council of Ireland. Joe O’Brien, the organisation’s integration outreach officer, said the data gives a false impression of Ireland’s progress on migrant issues. The Government’s Migration Integration Strategy is a three-year project to support migrants in participating fully in life in Ireland...

A seal who was found with a plastic frisbee ring stuck around his neck has been nursed back to health and released into the wild. The severely injured adult male grey seal was rescued by volunteers at Horsey beach in Norfolk in April and taken to an RSPCA centre at East Winch, near King’s Lynn. Staff there named him Sir David, after Sir David Attenborough, whose Blue Planet II series raised awareness of the environmental damage caused by plastic pollution....

Research by Sheffield University sociologists revealed that families are working hard to maintain positive relationships despite disagreements over the UK’s relationship with the EU

Tens of thousands of tourists and locals gathered as a total eclipse of the sun darkened the skies over Chile and Argentina. Tourists from around the world witnessed the cosmic spectacle, which began in the morning as the moon crossed in front of the sun and cast a shadow that passed over a tiny uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific and headed to South America. Chile and Argentina were the only inhabited places where the total eclipse could be seen....

Peter Hayden, 55, took explicit pictures of his victim after abusing her as she watched TV

The 16-year-old boy was arrested on Monday following a series of sexual assaults and robberies in South Norwood County Park