World

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and Neil Armstrong’s “giant leap”, it’s right to look towards Mars.

It is to the eternal credit of the Isle of Lewis that it has shown not the slightest interest in acknowledging, far less exploiting, the exceptionally close familial links with Donald Trump.

Malawi has one of highest maternal mortality rates in the world, but Susan Dalgety visits a clinic that is doing extraordinary work despite scant resources.

It doesn’t matter which immigrants are targeted – Donald Trump’s ‘go home’ rhetoric opens the door to violence, writes Paris Gourtsoyannis.

I’m no fan of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s politics – which seem to be from the Jeremy Corbyn school of economics – but Donald Trump has gone too far this time, writes Jim Duffy.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known as AOC, was one of the politicians Donald Trump told to ‘go home’ to another country even thought she was born in the US. Hayley Matthews says she should be seen as superhero for her positivity in bleak times.

The success of the Moon landing is down to geeks as much as all-American heroes, writes Martyn McLaughlin.

Will UK still laugh at Boris Johnson’s antics if he continues to liken Muslim women to letter boxes as Prime Minister, asks Laura Waddell.

Right-thinking folk were appalled by Donald Trump’s racist comments, a new low even by his contemptible standards.

In some ways, the recent Area 51 meme is only the latest 90s fad to come full circle and return, like tattoo necklaces and tie-dye. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, a Facebook event to storm Area 51 (“they can’t stop all of us”) has gone viral and is the current reference du jour online.

Bored rigid by the drawn-out Conservative leadership election battle? Then let’s raise a cheer for the triumph of Ursula von der Leyen.

A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has been transferred to a hospital mental ward, her husband said.

Ursula von der Leyen has been approved as the first female president of the European Commission by MEPs.

A young woman who gave birth to a baby in an outhouse toilet in El Salvador was back in court facing a second trial for murder in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country’s highly restrictive abortion laws.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago – and this time he had the spotlight all to himself.

A four-storey residential building has collapsed in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, killing at least three people.

US President Donald Trump has insisted his tweets suggesting four Democratic congresswomen return to their countries "were not racist".

The United States was founded as a nation of immigrants. The New York Statue of Liberty was the first sight of the New World for immigrants from far and wide who were attracted by the American dream of opportunity, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Donald Trump has confirmed what was already clear – he is a racist. Anyone who cannot see this is deluding themselves or is a racist trying to defend one of their own.