In one respect this decision is not altogether surprising.

Tributes have flooded in for actor Eric Dane, who died on Friday aged 53.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts “stranded” in space, came close to catastrophe because their spacecraft wasn’t ready to fly, according to a scathing report by the space agency.

Donald Trump has said he will direct the Pentagon and other US agencies to release “government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life”.