The SpaceX company's Dragon cargo capsule is expected to join up with the International Space Station in the coming hours - the first ever private vehicle to do so ... Counting begins at some polling stations after two days of voting in Egypt's first free presidential election, as the Muslim Brotherhood claims a lead ... Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's former special adviser Adam Smith faces a second day of questioning later before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics ... French President Francois Hollande makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to explain his decision to pull troops out a year earlier than planned ... Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months ... Trading in Bankia shares is suspended amid reports that it is going to ask for a big government bailout later on Friday ... A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital ... It is likely a decision will be made on Friday on where to site one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - the Square Kilometre Array ... Opponents criticise the Welsh government for reducing the number of daily express trains between Holyhead and Cardiff ... Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib lays a wreath at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead in London in 1984 ... | 
