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Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Image caption The titular character is played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot Lebanon has banned superhero blockbuster Wonder Woman from cinemas, because the title character is played by an Israeli actress. Gal Gadot was formerly in the Israeli army. Military service is compulsory in the country. The Lebanese interior ministry banned the film hours before its release, on a recommendation from the General Security directorate, reports say. The nations are officially at war, but have observed a ceasefire since 2006. A formal request to ban Wonder Woman was first made by the Ministry of Economy and Trade, which oversees a long-standing policy of boycotting Israeli exports, which it considers "enemy attempts to infiltrate our markets". But the decision took cinemas by surprise. One of the first indications that the ban was approved came from Lebanon's Grand Cinemas chain,  which tweeted  on Wednesday: "#WonderWoman has been banned in

Image copyright NASA Image caption The spacecraft should launch from Cape Canaveral in 2018 The US space agency has renamed its mission to "touch the Sun" after a living scientist. The Solar Probe Plus mission will now carry the name of Eugene Parker, who conducted pioneering work on the "solar wind" - a stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun's "atmosphere". The spacecraft will swoop to within four million miles of the Sun's surface, enduring temperatures of about 2,500C. The mission is due to launch in 2018. "Nasa has never named a spacecraft after a researcher during their lifetime," said Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of Nasa's science mission directorate. The change, which comes a few days before Prof Parker's 90th birthday, means that Solar Probe Plus, will now be known as the Parker Solar Probe. Plans for solar 'close encounter' Getting ready for the mission to Hell The mission was original

Image copyright AFP Image caption Flight MH128 was bound for Kuala Lumpur, but was airborne for just minutes A Malaysian Airlines plane has been forced to turn back to Melbourne airport after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit. Flight MH128, bound for Kuala Lumpur, was forced to return "due to a disruptive passenger", a statement from the airline said. The captain turned the plane around after being alerted to a "passenger attempting to enter the cockpit". The plane has landed safely and has requested security assistance. Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai also confirmed the flight had "landed safely after being forced to turn back due to a disruptive passenger attempting to enter flight deck". Aviation analyst Alex Macheras‏ tweeted that the passenger claimed to have explosives, citing air traffic control radio - a report which is still unconfirmed. The statement from Malaysian Airlines said the plane was in the air for

Image copyright AFP/GETTY IMAGES Image caption Etienne Cardiles (centre) paid tribute to Xavier Jugelé (pictured, right) at a remembrance ceremony on 25 April The French policeman who was killed by a jihadist on Paris' Champs Elysees in April has been married in a posthumous ceremony with his gay partner. The wedding of late Xavier Jugelé and Etienne Cardiles was conducted in the presence of former President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. France is one of the few countries where posthumous marriages are permitted by law. Mr Jugelé was shot dead on 20 April while on duty on the famous avenue. Two other officers were wounded in the attack - just days before the first round of the French presidential elections. The attacker, who was later named as convicted criminal Karim Cheurfi, was shot dead by security forces. A note defending so-called Islamic State was found near his body. In pictures: Attack on police in Paris Who was the slain policeman?

Image copyright REUTERS Image caption Facebook said that sharing the girl's details would compromise the privacy of her contacts A court in Germany has ruled that the parents of a dead teenage girl have no right to access their daughter's Facebook account. The 15-year-old was killed by a train in 2012 and her parents were trying to establish if she had committed suicide. They had sought access to her chat messages and posts in order to find out whether she had been bullied. But Facebook argued that opening up the account would compromise the privacy of the teenager's contacts. A first court in Berlin had ruled in favour of the family, saying that the contents of the girl's account could be seen as similar to letters and diaries, which "can be inherited regardless of their content". But an appeals court has now ruled in favour of Facebook, saying that a contract existed between the girl and the social media company and that it ended with her death.

Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Image caption The Three Mile Island nuclear installation is set to close 40 years after a partial meltdown No one died, there were no direct health impacts, but the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear accident burned so deeply into the US psyche that it has helped limit the future use of the power source across America. A major factor in turning the accident into a "disaster" was timing. Just 12 days before the 1979 accident that saw a partial core meltdown at one of the two reactors at the Pennsylvania plant, The China Syndrome was released in cinemas across the US. The film's plot centred on a major safety issue at a California nuclear plant. It was a spooky backdrop to the worst real world nuclear accident in US history. While citizens were frightened by TMI, so too were investors. The accident happened after just three months of commercial operation causing the plant owner to go bankrupt. The whole clean up effort took 14 years and cost

U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Axios news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Trump who has previously called global warming a hoax, refused to endorse the landmark climate change accord at a summit of the G7 group of wealthy nations on Saturday, saying he needed more time to decide. He then tweeted that he would make an announcement this week. Fox News also cited an unidentified source confirming the pullout. The accord, agreed on by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015, aims to limit planetary warming in part by slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Under the pact, the United States committed to reducing its emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. Axios said details of the pullout are being worked out by a team that includes EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The choice is between a formal withdrawal that c