The hot weather in Wales continues on "super sunny Sunday" as temperatures are expected to reach 26°C.
Wales basked in sunshine on Saturday with top temperatures of 27°C (80F) in Hawarden, Flintshire, and 25°C (77F) in Cardiff with beaches packed.
It was a cooler 18°C (64F) at Mumbles Head, Swansea.
BBC Wales forecaster Derek Brockway tweeted: "Super sunny Sunday. Very warm or hot with sea breezes."
Sunday is predicted by some to be the hottest June 18 on record in the UK.
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But, while the BBC weather forecast says Wales will be "hot and sunny day with light winds", it did warn of a "very slight chance that the heat will trigger an isolated thundery shower during the afternoon."
BBC Wales presenter Behnaz Akhgar warned the public: "Take care. High UV and high pollen count."
One of Britain's longest married couples have been reunited to enjoy their 80th wedding anniversary.
Ken Harris, 102, celebrated with wife Margaret, 99, after being parted for the first time since the war.
Mr Harris feared he would never again see his beloved wife after he went into hospital with a broken hip.
But the couple, who were married in 1937, have been reunited again at a nursing home in Llangynidr, near Crickhowell, in Powys.
"They hold hands every day now because of the memory of being separated in the war," said daughter-in-law Pat Harris, 75.
Mr Harris, who has carried a photograph of their wedding day in his wallet since, was deployed to Burma in World War Two with the South Wales Borderers.
The couple from Llanhilleth, near Newbridge, who have two children, Alan and Ann, have spent every day together since.
That was until Mrs Harris was moved into a care home after being diagnosed with dementia.
The former butcher was then admitted to hospital after breaking his hip in a fall just six weeks before their 80th anniversary and believed it would be the last time he would see his wife.
But after spending a month in hospital, Mr Harris was given the all clear to leave and was found a room in the same care home as his wife in the Brecon Beacons.
"Ken went to war and Margaret stayed home working as a doctor's secretary but he always had her photo in his wallet," added Mrs Harris.
"When Ken went into hospital he didn't think he would ever see her again. It is so fortunate that a room became available at Margaret's home.
"It has been a real battle trying to keep them together. Ken gave his life for his country and he deserves to be able to be with his wife.
"They are a very loving couple and we are so proud to have celebrated their 80th anniversary with them."
The
Queen's Speech traditionally takes place during the ceremonial State
Opening Of Parliament, setting out the government's proposed legal
programme for the coming year.
The last time it was cancelled was in 2011 by the then Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
That
decision, the first time it had been taken since 1949, was criticised
at the time by Labour as an "abuse of power" aimed solely at easing the
passage of controversial legislation.
Announcing the scrapping of
the 2018 event, Mrs Leadsom said the European Union exit legislation
would begin with the "Great Repeal Bill".
She said: "We will build the broadest possible consensus for our
Brexit plans, and that means giving Parliament the maximum amount of
time to scrutinise these bills by holding a two-year session of
Parliament.
"It will mean we can work together to deliver a
successful Brexit deal and a strong social legislative programme that
delivers justice and opportunity to everyone."
The government also wanted to pass "a domestic agenda which aims to tackle the social injustices in our country", she added.
Meanwhile,
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of being "in no
position to negotiate a good deal for Britain" with the EU.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said that if the prime minister "can't command the support of Parliament, we are ready to take that responsibility".
During that time, the lightweight satellite will operate for around 12 minutes in a micro-gravity environment of space.
"We designed it completely from scratch," he said.
"It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight indigenous
built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation and the magnetosphere
of the earth."
The satellite has been named KalamSat after former
Indian president Abdul Kalam, a pioneer for the country's aeronautical
science ambitions.
His project was selected in a challenge called Cubes in Space, organised by education company idoodle with support from Nasa and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.
Newcomer
scientist Rifath comes from a small town in Tamil Nadu and now works as
lead scientist at Chennai-based Space Kidz India, an organisation
promoting science and education for Indian children and teenagers.
The
KalamSat is not his first invention: at the age of 15, he built a
helium weather balloon as a part of nationwide competition for young
scientists
The crashed European spacecraft Schiaparelli was ill-prepared for its attempt at landing on the surface of Mars.
That's the conclusion of an inquiry into the failure on 16 October 2016.
The report
outlines failings during the development process and makes several
recommendations ahead of a rover mission to Mars set for launch in 2020.
That mission will require more testing, improvements to software and more outside oversight of design choices.
The
Schiaparelli module was intended to test the European Space Agency's
(Esa) capability for atmospheric entry, descent and - finally - landing
on the surface of Mars.
The report confirms some details already
released in the preliminary findings. For example, during the descent -
and after the parachute had been deployed - a component called the
inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensed rotational accelerations in the
probe that were larger than expected.
This led to the IMU data
becoming "saturated". When this information was integrated by the
onboard guidance, navigation and control (GNC) software, the probe
erroneously updated where it thought it was in the descent.
The mistaken measurement was propagated forward, and at one point the
GNC software calculated a negative altitude for the probe - it thought
that Schiaparelli was several metres below the surface of Mars, even
though it was still falling.
The descent thrusters turned off and
the test module was destroyed as it slammed into the ground in Mars'
Meridiani Plain at a velocity of about 150 m/s. But the authors believe
the craft could still have landed safely after the wrong handling of the
IMU data if other checks and balances had been in place.
The report suggests a number of root causes leading to the failure. These include:
insufficient computer modelling of the parachute dynamics
the saturation limit for the IMU was set too high
inadequate handling of IMU data by the guidance software
an inadequate approach by team members towards detecting faults
problems with the management of subcontractors
In order to ensure that lessons are learned before a joint
Esa-Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) rover is sent to land on Mars, the
inquiry panel made several recommendations.
The report authors
catalogue a series of necessary upgrades to onboard software, as well as
suggesting improvements to the modelling of parachute dynamics.
They
also recommended a more stringent approach - including better quality
control - during the procurement of equipment from suppliers.
Crucially,
the inquiry also recommends greater outside oversight of the design
process for the upcoming rover mission by partner organisations with
specific competencies.
These suggested partners include Nasa's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - which has already overseen the
successful landing of several robotic missions on Mars
At least 26 people were injured,
four seriously, when turbulence hit a China Eastern Airlines flight from
Paris on Sunday, state media reports.
The turbulence struck as flight MU774 was on its way to Kunming, in the southern Yunnan province.
Passengers suffered broken bones, cuts to the scalp and soft tissue injuries, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
China Eastern Airlines later said it was crucial passengers wear seatbelts as flights descend.
"I
was on the flight, and I felt like I would not survive," the Hong Kong-
based South China Morning Post quoted one passenger as saying on the
Weibo microblogging site.
"Many people were injured, and among them, many had not buckled up."
Xinhua said (in Chinese) that two violent bumps and many small bumps occurred over about 10 minutes.
It
said that during the turbulence, several passengers' heads and
shoulders collided with the luggage racks, some luggage racks broke from
the impact, and some luggage fell off the racks and hit customers.
The airline said on its Weibo account (in Chinese) that the Airbus A330, that had taken off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, landed safely in Kunming.
The
pilot reported problems with the engine of the plane, another Airbus
A330, about one hour after taking off. Passengers told media they smelt
something burning inside the aircraft.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the man had swum across a
particularly narrow part of the fast-moving river after attaching foam
to his shoulders to help him stay afloat.
Last week, a North Korean soldier walked across the heavily-guarded border that separates the countries.
Soldiers had previously been defecting at the rate of about one a year.
The
latest defector, thought to be in his early twenties, was spotted at
Gimpo, just west of the southern capital Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported.
He screamed "Don't kill me, I am here to defect", at a South Korean marine who had seen him, Yonhap said.
The soldier will now be questioned by military officials.
North
and South Korea are technically still at war, since the conflict
between them ended in 1953 with a truce, not a formal peace treaty.
Seoul
says more than 30,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since
the end of the Korean War, the majority via China, which has the longest
border with the North.
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