Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft.

Pettit and his crewmates, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner , orbited the Earth 3,520 times.

The trio touched down in a remote area south-east of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 6:20am (0120 GMT ) after undocking from the space station just over three hours earlier .

Meenakshi Raghavan , 82 , is widely thought to be the oldest woman in the world to practise Kalaripayattu .

The ancient Indian martial art originated at least 3,000 years ago and is regarded as India 's oldest martial art.

Her four children were also trained in the art form by her and her husband.

Barbara Lee is the new mayor of troubled Oakland , California , a city she represented for more than two decades in Congress .

Lee , 78 , is a Black female trailblazer who represented the city in Congress for over two decades .

Lee issued a statement Saturday as mayor-elect, saying that her chief opponent, Loren Taylor , had called to concede the April 15 race.

Lee was endorsed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and other previous Oakland mayors.

Don Pettit , Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed from the International Space Station .

Pettit was born on April 20, 1955 , in Silverton , Oregon , but said that the feeling of being home is relative to where you have been.

The U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reached the ground in Kazakhstan at 9:20 p.m. EDT ( 0120 GMT or 6:20 am . local time April 20 ) Pettit 's total time in space is 590 days .

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .

Pearlman was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville , Alabama in 2009 .

He was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

Thousands join anti-Trump protests across the US on Saturday to protest recent actions by President Donald Trump .

The demonstrations were intended to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War .

Many called for the return of Kilmar Ábrego García , a citizen of El Salvador , who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador .

Pakistan has deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month , among more than 80,000 who have left ahead of a 30 April deadline.

Pakistan has accelerated its drive to expel undocumented Afghans and those who had temporary permission to stay.

Between 700 and 800 families are being deported daily , Taliban officials say, with up to two million people expected to follow in coming months .

Some expelled Afghans say they had been born in Pakistan after their families fled conflict.

Michigan 's Fred Richard and Paul Juda finish first and second in the all-around and Wolverines team total of 332.224 edged them past five -time defending champion Stanford .

Stanford 's Asher Hong took home the individual title in the floor exercise ( 14.600 ) Oklahoma finished third with 327.891 , ahead of Nebraska ( 326.222 ), Penn State ( 317.258 ) and Illinois ( 316.293 ) Penn State and Oklahoma hold a record 12 national titles.

Michigan State baseball defeated Ohio State 11 -4, fueled by 17 hits and three home runs.

The win was the fourth straight for the Spartans , who seem to have gotten their season back on track after a five -game losing streak in early April .

The Spartans are trying to make their way into the postseason Big Ten tournament, an event they've only reached once 2019 .

Redshirt-sophomore Tate Farquhar earned the win Friday , allowing just one hit and striking out a career-high five in four innings. MSU has two more games against Ohio State — a 3:30 p.m start on Saturday and at 1 p.m. on Sunday — and four more Big Ten series in the regular season , starting with three games in Ann Arbor against Michigan next weekend . Contact Nathaniel Bott at [email protected] and follow him on X @Nathaniel_Bott.

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall was first discovered in 2014 by a team led by István Horváth , Jon Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly .

It's a filament of the cosmic web around which the first galaxies in the universe gathered and grew.

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) were key to the discovery of this vast cosmic structure.

The team found that it extends over a larger radial range than previously calculated.

Gamma-ray bursts are useful measurement tools in cosmology.

The HerculesCorona Borealis Great Wall is a vast 10 billion light-year structure of galaxies.

Researchers say GRBs cluster in the northern part of the celestial sphere over Earth .

The team reached their new hint at the size of the giant structure using a database of 542 GRBs.

Dan Caldwell , Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick were among four officials in Hegseth ’s inner circle who were ousted this past week .

The three were escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.

The upheaval comes less than 100 days into the Trump administration where the Pentagon has found itself frequently in the epicenter of controversial moves.