Britain's biggest satellite operator, Inmarsat, awaits the launch of the spacecraft that will complete its new £1bn global telecommunications network.

The badger cull is to be extended into Dorset following pilots in Gloucestershire and Somerset, the government announces.

A French satellite system pictures a rubble pile where the Temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra in Syria used to stand.

A UK-built satellite delivered the first orbital picture to US disaster response coordinators following Hurricane Katrina. Ten years on, a British spacecraft has re-imaged the Mississippi Delta.