George Russell won his third Grand Prix of the season with victory in Baku, the Mercedes man standing on the top step of the rostrum for the first time since Austria. In doing so, he cut team mate Kimi Antonelli's lead in the Drivers’ Championship to 66 points.
Lando Norris has apologised to Franco Colapinto for comments he made immediately after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, admitting “it was wrong of me” to do so.
World’s biggest economies release lists of products in latest move away from trade war – but no strategic goods are included
The US and China have released reciprocal lists of goods worth about $30bn each on which they plan to cut tariffs, ranging from consumer electronics and agricultural products, to artificial flowers and live dolphins.
The announcements are the latest tack away from the intense trade war between the world’s two largest economies that dominated much of last year, though major strategic products are not included and no timeline has yet been given for the reductions.
Continue reading...The Israeli prime minister’s remarks at the UN weren’t just motivated by personal animosity
In a boastful and defiant speech to the United Nations on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu called out a list of villains he insisted are intent on destroying Israel and promoting an anti-Jewish conspiracy by accusing Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza. He singled out the leaders of Hamas, Iran, Qatar and Turkey, among others. But Netanyahu spent considerable time on the global stage attacking an unusual target: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City.
Netanyahu accused Mamdani of promoting antisemitism, falsely claimed that he supports Hamas, and argued that since the mayor took office in January, “many Jews no longer feel safe in New York.” The Israeli leader also criticized Mamdani’s wife for liking social media posts that supported the Palestinian cause soon after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. Overall, Netanyahu seems to have devoted more time in his nearly 40-minute speech to singling out Mamdani than any other political leader, including Israel’s traditional enemies.
Continue reading...‘Rugby’s in people’s blood here’: mutiny rising in west Wales as Scarlets fight WRU plan | Andy Bull
No one at Parc y Scarlets understands why they and the Ospreys are on the chopping block for the union’s proposal to cut a club by 2028
Eight o’clock, Saturday night and at Parc y Scarlets the fans are starting to sing. Their scrum-half, Dane Blacker, has just come skipping through half a gap in the Cardiff line. Blacker has slipped the ball on to their loping lock, Sam Lousi, who has flicked it out the back of his hand to the centre Joe Roberts. And Roberts has juggled it up from one hand to the other, gathered it back in and gone sprinting in to score in the corner. They’re leading 5-0 and in the stands it’s Sosban Fach and Hymns and Arias and “Scarlets! Scarlets! Scarlets!”
And somewhere in among it all, reports will say later, a new chant too – “Dave Reddin’s a wanker”.
Continue reading...‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’
We always had a vision of mixing acid house with indie rock, and we managed to rent a space and build our own studio in London’s Shoreditch area, long before it got trendy. I had a little vocal booth called Hattie Jacques, in honour of the Carry On films but also because it’s Cockney rhyming slang [for shakes]. We spent all our money rewiring it, and that’s where we wrote, recorded and produced Ready to Go – 100 mixes later!
Continue reading...NEW YORK (ANP) - Wall Street is maandag met verliezen begonnen aan de nieuwe handelsweek. Dat kwam onder meer door hernieuwde zorgen bij beleggers dat de inflatie verder wordt aangejaagd nu de olieprijzen weer stijgen. Daarnaast zijn beurshandelaren voorzichtig in afwachting van cijfers over de Amerikaanse inflatie en het belangrijke banenrapport van de overheid die deze week naar buiten komen.
De olieprijzen stegen nadat president Donald Trump dit weekend een Iraans voorstel voor een staakt-het-vuren afwees. De heropening van de Straat van Hormuz was onderdeel van dat voorstel, maar de belangrijke zeestraat blijft voorlopig grotendeels gesloten voor scheepvaart. Een vat Brentolie werd 1,8 procent duurder op 106,20 dollar. Amerikaanse olie steeg eenzelfde percentage tot 94 dollar per vat.
De Dow-Jonesindex stond kort na opening 0,8 procent lager op 51.417 punten. De S&P 500-index zakte 0,5 procent tot 7701 punten en de techgraadmeter Nasdaq daalde 0,6 procent tot 26.924 punten. Op vrijdag werden nog winsten geboekt op Wall Street.
Olie- en gasconcerns Chevron, Exxon Mobil en ConocoPhillips profiteerden van de stijgende olieprijzen met koerswinsten tot 1,4 procent. Luchtvaartmaatschappijen Delta Airlines, United Airlines en American Airlines daalden juist tot ruim 4 procent.
Nvidia steeg 3,5 procent. De belangrijkste verkoper van AI-chips brengt een softwareplatform uit om te voorkomen dat AI-agenten zich misdragen. Een eerdere hack van OpenAI bij Hugging Face had volgens het bedrijf daarmee voorkomen kunnen worden. Ook gaat Nvidia zijn aandeleninkoopprogramma vergroten met 150 miljard dollar naar 235 miljard dollar.
Tesla daalde 2,3 procent. Zakenbank JPMorgan verlaagde het koersdoel voor de bouwer van elektrische auto's, omdat wordt gerekend op tegenvallende leveringen in het derde kwartaal.
Farmaceutisch concern BioNTech, bekend van zijn coronaprikken, gaat drie fabrieken in Duitsland sluiten, omdat het geen koper kan vinden. Daardoor komen 1800 banen in gevaar. Het aandeel verloor 1,5 procent.