So you want to travel into space but cannot spare the US$30 million for a stay on the International Space Station? Well NASA is offering a bargain basement alternative. You can send your name to the Moon for nothing.

A small English town is in shock and mourning at the killing of a local young man. Christopher Faulkner, 20, of Stevenage, was attacked besides the town’s cricket club last Monday at 7pm. He died later in hospital of a single stab wound to the chest.

For themselves

British mediums marched on Downing Street last week to deliver a 10,000-name petition demanding that the government shelves plans to repeal the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951. This act allows for the prosecution of any medium, clairvoyant or spiritualist who use trickery in attempt to deceive and make money from such a deception. However, the act recognizes and protects 'genuine' mediums.

NASA/Bill Ingalls

Expedition 16 Commander Whitson, the first female commander of ISS, landed in Kazakhstan on Saturday along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander, Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean So-yeon Yi.