Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front rows, boundary-pushing design and collections that are tackling big ideas about power, craft and the female body.

A space plane with a fancy engine is promising to shorten flights by quite a lot and in the not-so-distant future. At the UK Space Conference 2019 on Tuesday, the UK Space Station said it would be working with the Australian Space Agency on what officials called a world-first Space Bridge, according to CNN. "This is technology that could definitely deliver that, Graham Turnock, head of the UK Space Agency, said. The way this could very likely be possible is through a Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) engine. "This is a hugely significant milestone which has seen Reaction Engines' proprietary precooler technology achieve unparalleled heat transfer performance," Mark Thomas, Reaction Engines' CEO, told CNN.