Captain Kirk is going into space

STAR TREK’S Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month – boldly going where no other science fiction actors have gone.

Blue Origin, the space travel company started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced that William Shatner will blast off from Texas on October 12.

“Yes, it’s true; I’m going to be a ‘rocket man’!” the 90-year-old actor wrote on Twitter. “It’s never too late to experience new things.”

Mr Bezos is a huge fan of the vintage television series.

INVESTIGATORS commissioned by the United Nations’ top human rights body have said they have turned up evidence of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Libya.

They found that, in particular, crimes were committed against civilians and migrants who crossed the North African country trying to get to Europe – but ended up being detained in horrific conditions. The first findings from a “fact-finding mission” commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council chronicle crimes including murder, torture, enslavement, extrajudicial killings and rape. They could send a potent signal to key international powers, such as Russia and the European Union, amid violence and mistreatment that has hit Libya since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi a decade ago.

“Our investigations have established that all parties to the conflict, including third-state foreign fighters and mercenaries, have violated international humanitarian law, in particular the principle of proportionality and distinction,” said Mohamed Auajjar, a former Moroccan

justice minister who led the team. “Some have also committed war crimes.”

Team member Tracy Robinson, of the University of the West Indies’ law school, said: “Violence in Libyan prisons is committed on such a scale, and with such a level of organisation, that it may also potentially amount to crimes against humanity.”