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The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station today, making history as the first commercial delivery ship in orbit.

Severe winter weather conditions have led to a collapse in supplies of one of health-conscious foodies’ favourite vegetables – purple-sprouting broccoli.

Singer Toni Braxton has been sent to hospital in the US, it is claimed.

DNA testing has proved the late funk legend James Brown fathered one more child

UMPIRE PP Pettit, who was in the wars after Saturday’s televised end-line collision with Monaghan forward Tommy Freeman, has vowed to continue officiating.

A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to three and a half years yesterday at the Central Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice and withholding information from gardaí, in relation to the murder of a man whose body was found in a Co Waterford wood.

After landing in their capsule way off-course in an alarming end to their return from the international space station, the three-man Russian-American crew opened the hatch today and emerged in good health, officials at Russian Mission control said.

Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on the space station finished packing tonight and crammed into a tiny Soyuz capsule to return to Earth.

AN American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut boarded a space station 250 miles above earth yesterday, relieving a three-man crew forced to stay an extra two months in space as a result of the US Columbia tragedy.

Russia’s Soyuz TMA-2 space capsule today successfully docked with the international space station and transferred US astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

The three crew members at the International Space Station were today said to be grieving after they were told about the Columbia disaster by a Nasa official.