Israel Tightens Security Ahead of Shimon Peres Funeral

Israel has tightened security ahead of the state funeral of the former prime minister, Shimon Peres.

A twelve-and-a-half year mission into deep space will come to an end later today when scientists from the European Space Agency crash the Rosetta probe into the comet it's been tracking for the past two years.

A senior doctor in rebel-held east Aleppo is claiming that growing numbers of children there are suffering psychiatric illnesses as a result of the continuing bombing by Syrian and Russian planes