Human beings are yet to land on Mars but they'll soon to leave their mark on it after NASA offered the public an opportunity to send their names to the Red Planet. Names will be delivered, stencilled on chips, via NASA's Mars 2020 rover and people will receive their own souvenir boarding pass and 'frequent flyer' points. The rover, a robotic scientist weighing more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilograms), is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020 and land on Mars in February 2021. It will search for signs of past microbial life, characterise the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

Video: Stolen motorhome involved in chase collides with cars and trees. 😱 #fools

#Meanwhile in Florida... Vacationer captures the bizarre moment an alligator is spotted lying on a gator-shaped pool float at his Airbnb. 🐊😂 #funny

Trump's golf bill now tops $100 million with $81 million alone spent golfing in Florida – and the bill will go up when he stays at his own course in Ireland during visit to Europe for D-Day anniversary.

Texas homeowner shoots dead a 19-year-old man outside his home on Tuesday night, after possibly mistaking the teenager’s paintball gun for a firearm. The fatal shooting happened at 11.30pm in East Houston last night, shortly after ‘some sort of disturbance’ involving more than a dozen teens gathered outside of a home was reported to authorities. According to police, the father ‘believed’ a group of teenagers were shooting at his home on Force Street, and, feeling threatened, he fired one shot in return at the alleged perpetrators. A 19-year-old male was struck by the bullet and rushed to hospital where he later died. 😱

4 dead as killer tornadoes, floods slam Central US.
A violent storm system blasting through parts of the central U.S. was linked to four deaths while fueling almost 60 tornado reports Monday and Tuesday – with more damage expected Wednesday, forecasters warned. Severe storms, possibly with large hail, were forecast for Wednesday from Texas to the Great Lakes, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters had placed portions of eastern Kansas and western Missouri under a "moderate" risk for severe weather later Wednesday. That's level 4 on the 5-level risk scale for severe storms. Flooding was a concern to the south: Residents of some small towns in Oklahoma and Kansas were being urged to leave their homes as rivers and streams rose. The Arkansas River is approaching historic highs, while the already high Missouri and Mississippi Rivers were again rising Wednesday. 😱💦🌪

The tension! 😱

Road accident in Thailand 😂

'It was a direct hit': Monster tornado tears through Jefferson City in Missouri causing 'catastrophic damage' and a 'mass casualty event' as twisters across the state kill three and the National Guard is called in. 😱🌪💦

Shocking moment an unarmed black man walking between traffic in Philadelphia is shot by a plain-clothes officer through the closed window of an unmarked police car 'because he feared he was about to be robbed' 🔫👮🏻‍♂️ #shooting

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has sparked outrage from lawmakers after announcing that American hero Harriet Tubman will not appear on the $20 bill as planned for 2020. The US Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Tubman next year, Mnuchin said on Wednesday. In 2016, the Treasury Department said it would replace former President Andrew Jackson's image on the front of the bill with that of Tubman by 2020, along with redesigns of the $5 and $10 bill. Democratic Rep Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, grilled Mnuchin on the status of the redesign of the $20, $10, & $5 bills proposed during the Obama Administration at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday morning.

HBO has released a new poster and photos from the upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch. Series stars Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) are seen during a table read in one of the photos, but the rest of the images feature members of the massive behind-the-scenes team that helped put the show together. The two-hour documentary is slated to air Sunday, May 26 at 9 PM ET on HBO, the same time slot Game of Thrones has had for the past eight seasons.

What a trip! California CBS News sound engineer inadvertently got high on LSD for NINE HOURS after he touched a 1960s synthesizer coated in the drug decades ago and ingested it through his skin. 🤪 #facepalm #lol