A record number of migrants are expected to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year and at least 2,000 have died making the voyage so far, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
In 12 hours time, after the easy chaos of the groups and the bargained passage through the early knock-outs, England will enter the third and potentially most joyous stage of their World Cup voyage so far: Gareth Southgate's Underdog Zone.
According to John Fossey, executive consultant at Drewry Shipping Consultants in London, container freight rates have dropped by double digits so far this year, with single-voyage contracts down as much as 30percentt.
This gives us a better idea of how SpaceX and Elon Musk plan to proceed with their goal to colonize Mars, and is the most info we've received so far about what a SpaceX Mars voyage would actually look like, but we'll still need more info (including who's footing the bill) from the man himself when he delivers a keynote at the International Astronautical Conference a little later on today.
To them the reductionist voyage that has taken physics so far has come to an end.
The five boroughs have never been lacking in their own body of literature, and so far 2009 (the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage) has given us several books worth celebrating.
Of the 300,000 refugees and migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to reach safety in Europe so far this year, more than 2,500 have died attempting the voyage, the UN's refugee agency estimates.
They say the sub is ready to go, but so far the seas have been too rough for his voyage to the deep to begin.
"So far we've only seen a small portion of their voyage," he says.
So far as we know, he never ventured on to the Atlantic, but he was fascinated by sea voyages and sinkings.
