MUSK BUYS TWITTER
Yes, after a lot of back and forth and a lot of billions of dollars Elon Musk has just bought his favourite social media platform, Twitter. And he says things are going to change. One of those things is Twitter's approach "free speech". Musk says he's not a fan of its current censorship rules. Those rules currently ban things like abusive behaviour and people spreading misinformation about COVID-19. They've also been used to ban former US president Donald Trump from the platform which is something he's also criticised. Under his control, Elon says Twitter's algorithm will be public so people can understand how it works and he also wants to clean up fake accounts or "bots". The response to all this has been well interesting. Even the white house has an opinion. We don't know exactly what's going to change with Twitter just yet, but we'll let you know how it all unfolds.
TENNIS
This eighteen-year-old has just cracked an impressive tennis record. His name is Carlos Alcaraz and he's the youngest player to break into the men's top 10 since Rafael Nadal. He's climbed to 9 in the ATP rankings by winning the Barcelona Open the same tournament Nadal won exactly 17 years ago as a teenager.
DOROTHY DRESS
Do you recognise this dress? It's from the Wizard of Oz and it's up for grabs. It was worn by Judy Garland who played the character of Dorothy way back in 1939 and its iconic. But for decades no one knew where it was. It was rediscovered last year inside a shoebox at a US university. Now the university's decided to sell it off it could go for as much as 1.6 million dollars at auction.
ISS
This is the first all-private astronaut team to go to the ISS. It's Made up of an ex-NASA astronaut and three billionaires who apparently forked out around 71 million for the trip. But it was clearly worth it. The space mission was a collaboration between companies Axiom and Space X. The visit was meant to last about a week but because of some bad weather it ended up being two weeks. More time for hanging out with the ISS members and conducting lots of science experiments. But what goes up must come down right? Oh, I hope they can still be friends. After 16 hours return journey the Dragon capsule parachuted into the Atlantic off the coast of Florida. The space mission is milestone in commercial spaceflight and there's plans for more missions like it in the next couple of years.
PLANE SWAP
Finally, today we're finishing on a high-flying stunt that didn't land quite as smoothly. But we're pretty sure you'll still be impressed. Two pilots in the U-S who just so happen to be cousins attempted what they're claiming is the first ever "plane swap". It's exactly what it sounds like pilots switching planes mid-air. The skydiving aviators deliberately put their planes into dives and prepared to swap places. And while one of them managed to pull it off the other wasn't quite so lucky. That plane flipped too far over and eventually crash landed.
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