GLOBAL BRIEFING

Sun mission

A NASA spacecraft is heading towards the sun on a quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before. The Parker Solar Probe will eventually get within 3.8 million miles of the surface in November.

Tourist dies

A BRITISH man has died in Ibiza. According to reports, the 23-year-old victim died after a fight in the early hours of yesterday morning following an altercation with a group of males in the resort of San Antonio.

Troops killed

JORDANIAN search teams have pulled the bodies of three militants from the rubble of their hideout west of Amman. Assailants had earlier killed four members of the security forces trying to storm the building.