World·4h ago
What it was like in the room as shots rang out at correspondents' dinner
A colleague told me how she had seen the Secret Service on the stage behind us, rushing President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice-President JD Vance away. And about 30m behind us towards the main doors, FBI Director Kash Patel was on the floor with the rest of us – shielding his girlfriend - as a Secret Service agent ran across the ballroom to his aid. Another colleague told me how, as the shots rang out, he saw dozens of people running into the ballroom from the corridor outside.
BBC World
World·3h ago
The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?
The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk T he world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. Having “eclipsed Russia in almost every single way in terms of their space capabilities”, he said China is now running a “very deliberate, but not. The well-funded China National Space Administration (CNSA) is pitted against the US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa).
The Guardian
