Second time lucky
Japan successfully tested a prototype supersonic aircraft over the Woomera Test Range in Australia on Monday. The unmanned craft, the Scaled Experimental Supersonic Transport, was launched from a rocket. It flew for 15 minutes and 22 seconds, reached twice the speed of sound and rose to an altitude of 19 kilometres. The first test in 2002 failed.
Wildlife crime arrests
Police in London made their first arrest this week under a new wildlife law designed to punish those who trade in material from endangered species. Officers arrested a woman at a shop in central London supplying Chinese…
