Nasa’s effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn’t happened since the Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend.

SHAKHTAR DONETSK reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in their history as they saw off 10-man Roma last night to seal a 6-2 aggregate success.

ARSENE WENGER will never desist from his pursuit of perfection but, occasionally at least, even the Arsenal manager will acknowledge that there is pleasure to be found in a simple job well done.

ANIMAL rights activists campaigning for a chimpanzee to be legally declared a person yesterday vowed to continue their fight after an Austrian court threw out their latest appeal.

Champions League hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be handed a surprise start as Manchester United look to prise a first-leg advantage from their quarter-final first leg against Roma at the Stadio Olimpico tonight.