10K views · 68 reactions | A routine train journey has ended in tragedy, with two people killed when the XPT service from Sydney to Melbourne derailed near Wallan. 150 passengers were forced to clamber from the mangled wreck, the locomotive flung on its side like a toy. #9News | 9 News Melbourne | Facebook

9.7K views · 69 reactions | Serious questions are being asked about how the XPT train travelling from Sydney to Melbourne went off the tracks at high speed just before 8 o'clock last night. Extended coverage on 7NEWS tonight at 6.00. Read more: 7news.link/2V7TfQV #7NEWS | 7NEWS Melbourne | Facebook

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida. The rocket was carrying two Nasa spacecraft deployed towards Mars. The Escapade satellites will take 22 months to reach Mars and will orbit the planet to measure its atmosphere and magnetic field. The reusable booster powering New Glenn also separated from the rocket's upper stage and touched down on a floating landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean, in a successful first for Blue Origin.