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To be a Bowie fan is to mourn, to let go, and to learn to love again.

Efforts at this stage are focused on trying to locate the vessel by listening for noises generated by the trapped crew, detected using sonar buoys – with a number of these having been deployed by rescue aircraft. If the noises can be picked up by more buoys it will help to narrow the search area considerably but the operation has been realistically compared to looking for a needle in a haystack.

The tragic death of Tori Bowie is another call for more to be done to tackle the high rate of maternal morbidity and mortality among Black women. As highlighted by Allyson Felix, three out of four American team-mates at the Rio 2016 Olympics either died or nearly died due to pregnancy. There are other high-profile Black women with similar stories. These are examples of how the risk goes beyond socioeconomic class. The racial inequities in maternal health is a global issue.

Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry on: Professor Thiemo Fetzer comments on final report

Planetary alignments have always occurred; they are times when the planets in the solar system are all roughly positioned in the same direction when viewed from Earth. Given that we understand the orbits of the planets we can predict when these ‘alignments’ will occur. While the planets may look relatively close together in the sky they are of course separated by many millions of miles.