The company Blue Origin, headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has launched its rocket into space for the tenth time.

The crash of a Virgin Galactic spaceship last year was caused by a catastrophic structural failure triggered when the co-pilot unlocked the craft’s braking system early, an investigation found.

America’s National Transportation Safety Board will meet to give its verdict on what caused a Virgin Galactic spaceship to break apart during a test flight, killing the co-pilot and seriously injuring the pilot.

Fourteen bodies have been discovered on an overcrowded barge in the Mediterranean Sea; A man charged with murdering another man in a "frenzied" knife attempted to flee Limerick District court this morning; A former detective with Scotland Yard has claimed police covered up an Irish serial killer who stalked and murdered 18 people on the London Underground Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

One of the pilots involved in the Virgin Galactic spaceship crash has spoken out for the first time about the tragedy.