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Summary Nasa is holding its first public meeting on its study of UFOs, before a report on its findings is released The panel set up last year has been looking at data on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) UAP is defined by Nasa as "observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective" Nasa's study is separate from the Pentagon's investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena, which has been studied by US intelligence officials

The museum at Auschwitz concentration camp has denounced Poland's governing party for using an image of the camp in a political campaign. The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) posted the video on social media aiming to stop people from attending an opposition march on Sunday. It was in response to an opposition-supporting journalist who tweeted that the president belonged in a "chamber". The journalist, Tomasz Lis, insists that he meant a prison cell. But the ruling party claimed Mr Lis was saying PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, should be sent to a gas chamber. The video features a background image of the Auschwitz camp's notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) front gate and one of Mr Lis's tweet, before asking: "Do you really want to march under this slogan?" The Auschwitz Museum has condemned the video.

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Air New Zealand is weighing passengers before they board international flights, as part of a survey to determine average passenger weight. The weight will be anonymously recorded in a database but not be visible to airline staff or other passengers, the firm said. Air New Zealand said knowing average passenger weight would improve fuel efficiency in the future. Participation in the survey is voluntary, the airline added. The airline previously weighed domestic passengers in New Zealand in 2021. "Now that international travel is back up and running, it's time for international flyers to weigh in," the airline said in a press statement. Before the pandemic, the airline flew more than 17 million passengers every year, with 3,400 flights per week.

would seem that the phrase “you’re never too old to ...” comes with an expiration date. Al Pacino is said to be expecting his fourth child with girlfriend Noor Alfallah – he is 83, to her 29. The shockwaves in reaction to the news are palpable: and mostly centre around the couple’s age gap relationship. We also had the recent news that Robert De Niro has become a father for the seventh time, at the age of 79. Both men are famous, both actors, both presumably well-off – but criticism of their life choices makes me uncomfortable.

The "Blacks for Trump" founder, who said during a recent interview that he wants to "destroy" Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, has a decades-long past of run-ins with the law and is a devoted follower of the late cult leader Hulon Mitchell Jr. Maurice Symonette, formerly Maurice Woodside, was interviewed by Laura Loomer, a former President Trump devotee and twice-failed GOP candidate, during a protest outside of DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement at the Miami Four Seasons hotel last Wednesday. In a blog post accompanying her video, Loomer described Symonette as one of the "real grassroots voters" who wants to "make it clear that DeSantis is a fraud." "I’m here to destroy DeSantis, because he’s a bastard from Hell," Symonette told Loomer. "What I'm going to do is make sure that you don't win, and that everybody knows that you're a RINO Republican racist."

North Korea has said an accident happened as it planned to send up its first space satellite, causing it to crash into the sea. Pyongyang announced earlier it planned to launch a satellite by 11 June to monitor US military activities. It now says it will attempt a second launch as soon as possible. The launch sparked a false alarm in the South Korean capital Seoul, while in Japan a warning was issued to residents of Okinawa, in the south. There was chaos and confusion in Seoul as people awoke to the sound of an air raid siren and an emergency message telling them to prepare for an evacuation - only to be told 20 minutes later it had been sent in error. The stakes are high on the Korean Peninsula, where tensions have existed between the two countries for 70 years, and this false alarm could seriously damage people's trust in the alert system. North Korea poses a threat to South Korea, and if there is an alert in the future one question being asked is whether it will be taken seriously, or brushed off as another mistake.

For months on end, Australia's most-decorated living soldier sat stoically in a Sydney courtroom as dozens of witnesses accused him of war crimes, bullying peers, and assaulting his mistress. But Ben Roberts-Smith was not the one on trial. The 44-year-old had brought the case, suing three Australian newspapers over a series of articles in 2018 which he says defamed him. He argues they ruined his life by painting him as a callous man who had broken the moral and legal rules of war, disgracing his country in the process. But the media outlets say they reported the truth, and have set out to prove it. It is the first time in history any court has been tasked with assessing allegations of war crimes by Australian forces. Warning: This article contains descriptions of violence which readers may find upsetting.

The Myanmar military is suffering defections from its forces and is finding it hard to recruit. In exclusive interviews, newly-defected soldiers tell the BBC that the junta, who seized power in a coup two years ago, is struggling to suppress the armed pro-democracy uprising. "No-one wants to join the military. People hate their cruelty and unjust practices," says Nay Aung. The first time he tried to leave his base he was badly beaten with a rifle butt and called a "traitor". He managed to escape the second time and flee across the border to Thailand with the support of opposition groups. "One of my friends is in the resistance," he says. "I called him and he told people here in Thailand about me. I arrived here with their help." He's now living in a safehouse along with 100 other newly-defected soldiers and their families. These men, who refused to fight their own people, are now in hiding so we are not using their real names. They're being housed and protected by the very resistance movement they were ordered to fight.

Should "Death with dignity be more widely available ? There are a number ber of States in the US that have this, here is an interesting insight from a Hospice Nurse.

Nine people have been wounded in a shooting on a crowded beach in Florida over the US Memorial Day holiday. The shooting on Monday evening unfolded on the Hollywood Oceanfront Boardwalk, a popular area for beachgoers 20 miles (32km) north of Miami. Police said shots broke out during an altercation between two groups. Those injured range in age from one to 65, and the wounded includes four children, police said. Police say they have arrested two people and are searching for three others in connection with the shooting. Investigators recovered five handguns, two of which were stolen. Video and images were released to the public in an appeal to identify the suspects. Police spokesperson Deanna Bettineschi said police first received reports of gunshots around 18:42 local time (23:42 BST). "We know there was a dispute between two groups, and that's when the gunfire had started," she said. The four children wounded are between the ages of one and 17, and the five adult victims are between the ages of 25 and 65. Memorial Regional Hospital and Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital told US media that six patients - four minors and two adults - remain in hospital in stable condition. Three adults were treated and discharged, they said.

Russia says Ukraine has launched "a terrorist drone attack" on Moscow, with several buildings damaged. It is the first time Moscow has been so heavily targeted in a single operation, but Ukraine denies carrying out the strikes. What was hit by the drones? The Russian military says eight drones were used in the strikes. It says five were shot down and three stopped with signal jamming technology - causing them to lose control and miss their targets.

The US has announced measures against Kosovo for ignoring its advice to avoid raising tensions in majority-Serb northern areas. It has criticised Kosovo's decision to install ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo "by forcible means". Kosovo has been expelled from participating in an ongoing American-led military exercise in Europe. Police and Nato troops clashed with Serb protesters in Zvecan, north Kosovo, on Monday. Protesters had tried to invade a government building amid unrest over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in areas where Serbs make up the majority of the population. Nato is to deploy an additional 700 troops to Kosovo after saying 30 of its peacekeepers and 52 protesters were hurt in the clashes in Zvecan. The crisis dates back to April, when ethnic Serbs boycotted local elections in north Kosovo - allowing ethnic Albanians to take control of local councils with a turnout of less than 4%.