After two podiums in three races, Charles Leclerc remains confident in the force that is Ferrari.
Liam Lawson has gone a long way to rebuilding his F1 career after a shock demotion from Red Bull just two rounds into the 2025 season, becoming a consistent points scorer for Racing Bulls since then. But he is not the first driver to show resilience after a setback, as F1.com details below…
The Grammy and Emmy-winning ‘first lady of Celtic music’ was credited with popularising Irish music and lyrics to new audiences
Moya Brennan, the lead singer of Irish folk group Clannad, has died aged 73.
In her later years, Brennan had been living with pulmonary fibrosis and faced the possibility of a double lung transplant. A statement from her family said she died peacefully in the company of loved ones in her native County Donegal.
Continue reading...Catherine Lampert is a historian, curator and model who spent much of her time sitting for her famous friends. She tells us what the likes of Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Euan Uglow meant to her
Last November, a work titled Potiphar’s Wife by British painter Euan Uglow appeared in a private sale by Christie’s in London. “We were all so excited,” says art historian and curator Catherine Lampert. “I had tried many times to find out where that picture was.” It depicts a woman lying on the ground against a blue wall, legs crossed and arms stretched out behind her to, it seems, stop a man in a T-shirt from leaving. Both cling to a beautifully draped length of orange cloth.
This is the last painting Uglow talked to Lampert about as he lay dying of cancer in August 2000. She had known him since her early 20s, had organised his first big show in 1974 and in those final months of his life, she was working on the catalogue raisonné of his paintings – an annotated list of Uglow’s complete works.
“Euan was quite cryptic,” she says. “But in the last months, he let me record him in anticipation of this book and then he would be quite” – she taps the table decisively with her hand – “‘This is what this picture is about.’ The last time I went to see him in hospital, he said, ‘Let’s get to work.’” Lampert only recorded a few minutes that day. But the details she gleaned – about the vertical yellow band that anchors the whole composition being “satiny and still” and the way the drapery “moves” – she treasured like gold dust.
Lampert is sitting at an aged square table that has been in her London home for 50 years, as has she. The many people who have sat around it (Uglow and Frank Auerbach among them), not to mention the art (Alison Turnbull) and photography (David Hockney in Lucian Freud’s studio; Auerbach and Leon Kossoff at a dinner) on the walls, speak to her status as a quiet giant of contemporary art.
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The British government has signed a deal with Rolls‑Royce to carry out the design work on small modular reactors (SMRs).…
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: For years pop culture has treated April 25 as the "perfect date," thanks to the famous Miss Congeniality line about needing only a light jacket. But new analysis from WeatherBug suggests that idea does not actually hold up when you look at the numbers. After reviewing U.S. weather data from 2018 through today, the company concluded that October 8 delivers the most reliable combination of comfortable temperatures and low rainfall nationwide. According to the analysis, the average conditions on that day land around 66F with just 0.0573 inches of precipitation.
The study used population weighted weather data drawn from roughly 20 million daily WeatherBug users across the United States. When the company compared all days of the year, April 25 ranked only 80th, averaging about 60F and roughly 0.1297 inches of rain. The broader dataset also shows July dominating the hottest days of the year while January owns the coldest, with January 20 averaging just 33F nationally. While no single date guarantees perfect weather everywhere in a country as large as the U.S., the numbers suggest early October may quietly offer one of the most reliable windows for comfortable outdoor conditions.
The study used population weighted weather data drawn from roughly 20 million daily WeatherBug users across the United States. When the company compared all days of the year, April 25 ranked only 80th, averaging about 60F and roughly 0.1297 inches of rain. The broader dataset also shows July dominating the hottest days of the year while January owns the coldest, with January 20 averaging just 33F nationally. While no single date guarantees perfect weather everywhere in a country as large as the U.S., the numbers suggest early October may quietly offer one of the most reliable windows for comfortable outdoor conditions.
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Het waren opzienbarende cijfers: in een paar jaar tijd was het aandeel Britse jongvolwassenen dat regelmatig naar de kerk gaat verviervoudigd. Maar de peiling deugde niet.
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Première presse, de type manuelle, installée à Cambridge Massachusetts en 1639 par Stephen Daye. Elle marque le début de l’imprimerie en Amérique du Nord britannique et un tournant pour la diffusion des textes religieux, administratifs et éducatifs dans la colonie. Cambridge est ainsi devenu un centre imprimé précoce et durable, lié ensuite à l’essor de l’édition autour de Harvard.
Actionnée par force humaine, elle est typique des premières presses typographiques.
Elle nécessite encore quelques petits réglages, mis en évidence dans l'animation.
Forum voor Democratie-Kamerlid Pepijn van Houwelingen moet een boete van 450 euro betalen. Het gerechtshof Den Haag legde hem deze straf op voor het beledigen van twee ministers via X. Het Kamerlid had in september 2023 een bewerkte afbeelding op X gezet. Daarop stonden de toenmalige ministers Ernst Kuipers (Volksgezondheid) en Karien van Gennip (Sociale Zaken) met een nazivlag. De ministers deden aangifte van dit bericht.
In eerste aanleg was Van Houwelingen voor dit feit veroordeeld tot een voorwaardelijke geldboete. Het Kamerlid was hiertegen in hoger beroep gegaan.
Het hof oordeelt dat het bericht van Van Houwelingen beledigend is doordat het suggereert dat de betreffende ministers nazi's zijn of sympathiseren met het nazi-gedachtegoed. Hierdoor zijn ze in hun goede naam en eer aangetast. Bij de bepaling van de op te leggen straf heeft het hof onder meer meegewogen dat de belediging via X een groot bereik heeft gehad en dat de belediging gericht was tegen twee politieke ambtsdragers.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De vooruitzichten voor de stabiliteit van het Nederlandse financiële stelsel staan op code oranje. Dat meldt het Financieel Stabiliteitscomité (FSC), dat bestaat uit vertegenwoordigers van de Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) en het ministerie van Financiën.
De internationale economische onzekerheid is volgens het comité toegenomen, mede door de escalatie van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten, oplopende energieprijzen en wereldwijde verstoringen in de activiteiten van bedrijven van grondstof tot eindproduct. Ondanks de verhoogde geopolitieke spanningen en macro-economische onzekerheid zijn de Nederlandse economie en financiële sector volgens het FSC vooralsnog wel "veerkrachtig" gebleven.
De risico's voor mogelijk langdurige gevolgen voor inflatie en economische groei zijn echter toegenomen. Het FSC benadrukt dan ook dat waakzaamheid nodig blijft, onder meer door het risico van forse correcties op de financiële markten en langdurige verstoringen in de energiemarkt.