Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, on Friday designated Col. Roderick Augustus Alba as the new spokesperson of the police force. “My marching orders to Colonel Alba are to sustain PNP public information programs with utmost transparency and public accountability by ensuring public right to information; and to promote public information consciousness among PNP Units and personnel,” Eleazar said in a statement. Alba will also serve as acting chief of the PNP Public Information Office, replacing Brig. Gen. Ronaldo Olay, who was promoted as acting director for logistics at the PNP Directorial Staff. Alba is a member of

The first space tourists on board the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission have landed safely on Earth after a three-day voyage. After completing the first-ever mission in Earth’s orbit with no professional astronauts on board, the four tourists splashed down off Florida’s coast. The Inspiration4 initiative is important, as it is SpaceX’s first voyage around the Earth with an all-civilian crew. The Crew Dragon capsule included billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman along with Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski. Isaacman, who bought the Inspiration4 startup from SpaceX, and his fellow crew members were launched on Sept. 15 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center