A rocket ship set to launch from California's Mojave Desert could herald a giant step toward the long-awaited dream of space tourism for Virgin Galactic.

More than 1,100 firefighters continue to battle the raging Alberta wildfire, which has already consumed an estimated 1,600 buildings in and around Fort McMurray, Canada.

A French prosecutor says that some doctors who treated the co-pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet felt he was unfit to fly, but did not tell his employers because of German patient secrecy laws.

A French prosecutor says that the co-pilot who apparently crashed a Germanwings jet intentionally into the Alps had vision problems and feared going blind.

Authorities now have even more evidence that a Germanwings co-pilot deliberately crashed a plane into the French Alps in March. They're finding that evidence in the flight data recorder from the plane -- but it's from a different flight, earlier in the day.

German prosecutors say the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before the plane crashed last week.

According to the Associated Press, the crash of Flight 9525 appears to be intentional.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot who survived the breakup of a Virgin Galactic spaceship was unaware his co-pilot had prematurely unlocked the craft's re-entry braking system, then was thrown clear of the disintegrating craft.

About two dozen nations are assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.