Michi Benthaus traveled into space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-37 mission, becoming the first wheelchair user to blast past the Kármán Line.

The Russian military has captured the Ukrainian mining city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, which has been under assault for about a year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian journalists on Monday. Peskov said that President Vladimir Putin has been informed.

Conservationists continued rescue efforts on Friday to guide a humpback whale recently freed from a sandbank off Germany's Baltic Sea coast. Teams used inflatable boats in Lübeck Bay to escort the whale, which had been stuck near Timmendorfer Beach since Monday, toward deeper waters.