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Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary circumstances in space. Here are some of the "final frontier's" most memorable incidents.

Conservative shadow education secretary Laura Trott has been pushing for a law that requires headteachers to ban phones in classrooms - and says she is so concerned by social media, her young children are not allowed smartphones.

Last year was the hottest on records going back 175 years, while recent warming seems to have been speeding up further, the World Meteorological Organisation found today.

The astronauts were planning to come back on Wednesday but "favourable" weather conditions meant their return could be brought forward by one day, according to NASA.

The Conservative leader's remarks are criticised by a Tory environmental group which says she has made a mistake.

Nurdles are tiny pellets used to make plastic products and while they are not toxic can result in the deaths of animals who eat them either through choking or starvation.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams originally planned to go to space for just eight days but got stuck on the station after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft experienced problems.

The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which successfully landed on the planet earlier this month.

Conservation and research here is almost entirely reliant on grant funding from the UK government through a scheme for British Overseas Territories called Darwin Plus. But the future of the scheme is in doubt as budgets for overseas development and . ...

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