18/05/2016 Newsround

I'm Jenny, live with all the top stories this Wednesday.

Nasa launches a super balloon to the edge of space.

The meteor caught on camera, and the man cresting the waves

and wowing the crowds with this amazing surf stunt.

First up, today the Queen has given an important speech in Parliament.

It's a yearly tradition for her to announce what the government

The speech included plans to make sure everyone has a fast

internet connection, and ways to encourage investment

in new technologies, like driverless cars

And to find out more about the tradition of the queen's

speech, go online - you can also find out

what makes a good location for a space port

and how magnets could change the way we travel in the future.

The International Space Station has been circling our planet since 1998.

This week it achieved a truly epic milestone.

The International Space Station has passed its 100,000th

It's travelled more than 2.6 billion miles.

That's about the same distance as ten trips from Earth to Mars.

The ISS is home to six people, who circle the Earth every 90

minutes, and get to enjoy a spectacular sunrise

And it's been part of 1,922 scientific investigations.

It's been 15 and a half years of continuous human presence

Over 220 astronauts and cosmonauts from 18 different countries have

The Space Station travels at around five miles per second,

Pretty fast for something that's 357 feet long.

That's about the same length as a football pitch.

The ISS probably won't reach 200,000 orbits before it's retired,

but for now, this spacecraft has some more cruising to do.

It's a tribute to the teams that designed it, that put it together;

the programmes that keep us flying safe.

Sticking with space, and Nasa have successfully launched

a super pressure balloon, from New Zealand.

532,000 cubic metres, and will carry out

Scientists say the balloon will circle the globe once

every one to three weeks, and will even be visible

The aim is for it to stay in the air for more than 100 days.

It is almost a textbook launch. It was very nice. The winds cooperated.

It blew down the runway as we expected and was spot-on.

Football now and Liverpool are fighting for the Europa League

They're taking on defending champions Sevilla in the final

We asked Liverpool fans to tell us what a win would mean for them.

I'll be really happy if Liverpool win.

I think the score will be 4-1 to Liverpool.

It would be an awesome win and I think they'll

And Class 6 at St William of York Catholic Primary School

sent in their thoughts, here's a couple.

Paige says, It would mean the world to me

and Frankie would be willing to redo SATs if it meant

Thanks so much for all those comments.

Next, they're loud, they're large and living in people's back gardens.

These peacocks are on the the move in Suffolk

The birds have damaged plants, cars and woken people up

No one seems to know where they came from.

A local farmer has offered to take them in, but catching the peacocks

to re-home them is proving to be very difficult.

A US police sergeant looking for speeders captured something

What looked like a giant fireball streaking

across the sky was caught on Sargent Tim Farris'

The bright flash was seen from several states and is thought

to have been left by a meteor burning up as it passed

Next up, to the coolest surfer around and the trickiest of tricks?

22-year-old former world champion Gabriel Medina wowed judges

by doing - watch this - a backflip whilst competing in the Oi Rio Pro

It's the first time a surfer has ever landed a backflip in a

That's all from the team today, but Newsround's back,