SpaceX has successfully landed and recovered a rocket on an ocean platform for the first time, after launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station. About two-and-a-half minutes after Friday afternoon’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida the main part of the two-stage booster separated. The Falcon 9 craft turned around and headed toward a so-called drone ship – …

A Google Maps tour of Dublin, narrated by Colin Farrell, takes the virtual tourist to key landmarks linked to the 1916 Easter Rising. Plus we pick some of the best guided tours and pubs if you’re visiting for real Courts of appeal … a view of the river Liffey and the four courts at dusk. Photograph: Alamy “Aterrible beauty is …