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(CNN) —  Flying an aircraft to the edge of space usually involves a jet engine, a full tank of fuel, a whole load of noise and a pilot with the kind of Right Stuff needed to reach for the stars. Not any more. This week the experimental Airbus Perlan Mission II pressurized glider got there by silently riding atmospheric pressure waves. And then it kept going -- smashing the record for human flight in a winged aircraft by reaching more than 76,000 feet. This meant the flight crossed the Armstrong Line, the point in the atmosphere beyond which the blood in a human's body will boil unless it's protected. Which means it's probably safe to say chief pilot Jim Payne and co-pilot Morgan Sandercock also have the Right Stuff. The achievement, claimed on Perlan 2's Twitter feed, comes just days after the pair took the experimental glider to 62,000 feet and a year after it hit 52,221 feet over the same region, El Calafate in Argentine Patagonia. "Achieving t...

Lionel Messi scored Barcelona's 6,000th goal in La Liga on Saturday to put his side ahead in their season-opening 3-0 win against Alaves. Messi spectacularly sent a free kick under the jumping Alaves wall in the 64th minute to push Barcelona onto 6,000 goals from their 2,801 games since 1929. Only Real Madrid have scored more goals in the league, with 6,041 in 2,800 games. After Philippe Coutinho doubled Barcelona's lead in the 83rd minute, Messi scored his second goal of the day with the last kick of the game to increase his all-time La Liga tally to 385 goals -- or 6.4% of all of Barcelona's league goals in their history. FC Barcelona ✔ @FCBarcelona GOAL in @ LaLigaEN : Keep them coming! # BarçaAlavés 12:41 AM - Aug 19, 2018 14.1K 4,147 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy "Sometimes in games like this you have to just wait for Leo to go and do his thing," Barca's S...

Thanks to the  2-1 win against Sevilla  in the final of the Spanish Super Cup played in Tangier, Morocco, Leo Messi has become the player with most honours in the Club’s history. The first trophy of the season takes the Argentine’s total to 33, moving past another Barça legend, Andrés Iniesta who has 32. The midfielder who now plays in Japan had an identical record to Leo Messi as a Barça player and both had topped the record previously held by Xavi Hernández with 25 following victory in the 2015 Club World Cup against Argentine club River Plate in Japan. With Iniesta no longer at the Club, Messi takes over the record on his own as he continues to consolidate his legacy as the best player in FC Barcelona history, one that just keeps growing and growing. source

FC Barcelona  and  Sevilla FC  have reached an agreement for the transfer of  Aleix Vidal . Sevilla FC will pay FC Barcelona 8.5 million euros, plus 2m in variables. FC Barcelona expresses its gratitude to Aleix Vidal for his commitment and dedication and wishes him every success in the future. The player from Puigpelat ends his time at Barça after three seasons, from 2015/16 to 2017/18, and returns to the club he was signed from. 49 games and eight titles Aleix Vidal played a total of 49 games and scored four goals in the three seasons he played at FC Barcelona. During this period, the Catalan also won eight titles: two Leagues, three Copas del Rey, a Spanish Super Cup, a Club World Cup and a European Super Cup. These were added to the UEFA Europa League that he had already won before arriving in Barcelona. source

A seventh person died in a northern California wildfire Saturday, officials said, as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires in the state expanded by more than 25 percent overnight and continued to spread. More residents were ordered to evacuate their homes as weary firefighters endured high temperatures and gusting winds. The Carr fire, about 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento, claimed the life of a power company lineman Saturday, according to a CBS affiliate citing a spokesman for the PG&E Corporation. Neither a spokesman with the electric company nor fire officials were immediately available for comment. No other details about the death were made public. The Carr fire, one of the most destructive in California history, had already killed six people, including a great-grandmother and two children, and a firefighter and bulldozer operator. Two other blazes collectively called the Mendocino Complex burned in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties, about 90 miles n...

Google could be preparing to launch a search engine in China that would conform to the country's strict censorship laws, after previously opting out of country in 2010. The search tool would blacklist search terms and websites referencing human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protest, according to  documents seen by the Intercept . The documents reportedly reference a project codenamed Dragonfly that has been underway since spring 2017. The company withdrew from providing search tools to the Chinese market in 2010, and its international search engine is blocked by the country's so-called " Great Firewall ." The version of the search engine Google is reportedly building would comply with China's censorship laws, even though the country is  cracking down harder than ever to limit free speech online . "We provide a number of mobile apps in China, such as Google Translate and Files Go, help Chinese developers, and have made significant invest...