In a giant leap from more than 24 miles (38.6km) up, a daredevil skydiver shattered the sound barrier while making the highest jump ever – a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.

Felix Baumgartner landed gracefully on Earth after a 38km jump from the stratosphere in a dramatic, record-breaking feat that may mark the world’s first supersonic skydive.

Plans for skydiver Felix Baumgartner to make a record 23-mile freefall jump have been put on hold due to adverse winds, but his team is hopeful he will be able to go ahead.

Extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner hopes to end five years of preparation with a death-defying 23-mile (37km) free fall into the New Mexico desert today.

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner is preparing to take the leap of his life, aiming for the highest, fastest freefall in history.

British sci-fi geeks Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost) head Stateside to attend a nerds convention and to take a tour of the famous UFO sites such as Roswell … along the way picking up a little, snappy-tongued alien – Paul – who has escaped from a government establishment and, much like ET, is anxious to find his mother ship and return home.

US investigators pored over e-mails, phone records and financial documents from the home of Richard Heene as they weighed felony charges and sought to determine who else might have helped the alleged balloon-boy hoax get off the ground.

Ant and Dec are set to hit the big screen tonight with the premiere of their first film, Alien Autopsy, in London.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested on charges of murdering his father, stepmother and stepsister after their bodies were found at a ranch in New Mexico.

There's simply no stopping Tony McCoy.

THE president of a counter-terrorism consulting firm has been charged with possessing 2,352 unregistered small military missiles.