SpaceX's first tourists have started their space cruise

Four American space tourists began an incredible weightless journey on Wednesday in a SpaceX spacecraft, where they must spend three days in orbit around the Earth without any professional astronauts on board, a first, historic. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at the scheduled time, 20:02 local time (00:02 GMT Thursday) from the mythical launch pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in a rumble and a fireball illuminating the night. A few minutes later, the first and second stage of the rocket separated, leaving the Dragon capsule and its passengers alone in the cosmos. "Few have been there before and many will follow. The door is opening now, it's pretty incredible," billionaire Jared Isaacman, the mission commander, said from inside the capsule after reaching space. They must travel further than the International Space Station (ISS), at a targeted orbit of 575 km. They will circumnavigate the globe about 15 times every day.

Inflation obliges, the Smic will increase by nearly 35 euros gross on October 1st

Employees paid at the Smic will receive nearly 35 euros gross more on October 1, thanks to the mechanical revaluation of the minimum wage due to inflation, such an increase during the year linked to price developments being unprecedented for ten years. The last automatic increase in the minimum wage due to inflation, excluding 1 January, was 2.1% on 1 December 2011. Currently 1,554.58 euros gross per month, the Smic will be increased to 1,589.47 euros, an increase of 34.89 euros, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labour, published after a meeting with the group of experts on the Smic. The gross hourly minimum wage to increase from 10.25 to 10.48 euros. This increase is mechanical because the Labour Code (Article L3231-5) provides that "when the national consumer price index reaches a level corresponding to an increase of at least 2% compared to the index observed" when establishing the Smic "immediately preceding", the minimum wage is raised "in the same proportion" the following month.

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The personal data of about 1.4 million people, who carried out a Covid-19 test in France mid-2020, were stolen "as a result of a computer attack".

For the first of its magical trio, Paris Saint-Germain was shaken by Club Bruges and brought back only a draw (1-1) from Belgium, without a goal from Messi, neither Neymar nor Mbappé, Wednesday for the entry into the Champions League.