NASA launches first all-female spacewalk

NASA will carry out the first all-female spacewalk this week, after a spacesuit debacle earlier this year resulted in accusations of sexism.

Traditionally a male-dominated agency, NASA announced that Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will venture outside the International Space Station either Thursday or Friday this week to replace a power controller unit that failed over the weekend.

Calls for German lab to be shut, after animal cruelty reports

An animal testing laboratory in Germany that subjected monkeys to “barbaric” treatment and kept unwell dogs in squalid conditions is under investigation amid calls for the closure of the centre by animal rights groups.

The calls come after footage, allegedly shot at the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology facility near Hamburg, shows a monkey strapped in a metal harness, and a bleeding dog left untreated in its cage.