As the 2026 season continues in Shanghai this weekend, we look at the best head-to-head battles to watch out for.
Oscar Piastri was ruled out of his home event in Melbourne as he crashed into the wall on his way to the grid.
As F1 moves on to the Shanghai International Circuit for the Chinese Grand Prix, Need to Know is your all-in-one guide with statistics, driving pointers, strategy tips and more.
After an eventful first round, there are plenty of talking points ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix, and the F1 TV crew are here to run through them all.
A Pew Research Center survey found that only 53% of U.S. adults went to a movie theater in the past year, while 7% said they've never seen a movie in a theater at all. "The findings reflected a domestic box office still fighting to regain its footing since the COVID-19 pandemic, when ticket sales collapsed 81% in 2020 due to theater closures," reports Variety. From the report: In 2025, moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada bought 769.2 million tickets, less than half of the all-time peak of roughly 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002, according to data from Nash Information Services. However, an August 2025 study field by NRG/National Research Group showed that 77% of Americans ages 12-74 went to see at least one movie in a theater in the previous 12 months.
Box office revenue peaked at an inflation-adjusted $16.4 billion in 2002, and annual ticket revenue held relatively steady through the 2000s and 2010s before falling to under $3 billion in 2020 when theaters closed for months. Last year, U.S. theaters sold just over $9 billion worth of tickets, per media analytics firm Comscore. The number represents a recovery, but nowhere near a full one, as ticket sales have been lagging around 20% below pre-pandemic levels.
Box office revenue peaked at an inflation-adjusted $16.4 billion in 2002, and annual ticket revenue held relatively steady through the 2000s and 2010s before falling to under $3 billion in 2020 when theaters closed for months. Last year, U.S. theaters sold just over $9 billion worth of tickets, per media analytics firm Comscore. The number represents a recovery, but nowhere near a full one, as ticket sales have been lagging around 20% below pre-pandemic levels.
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Exclusive: Lab tests discover ‘new form of insider risk’ with artificial intelligence agents engaging in autonomous, even ‘aggressive’ behaviours
Robert Booth UK technology editor
Rogue artificial intelligence agents have worked together to smuggle sensitive information out of supposedly secure systems, in the latest sign cyber-defences may be overwhelmed by unforeseen scheming by AIs.
With companies increasingly asking AI agents to carry out complex tasks in internal systems, the behaviour has sparked concerns that supposedly helpful technology could pose a serious inside threat.
Continue reading...Mathias Döpfner beat the Mail to seize a British institution. But whether he will be a sobering or malign influence is not yet clear
After fighting off one foreign takeover, staff at the paper that broke the news of the second world war might have been expected to react badly when meeting their potential new German owners on Monday. Instead, journalists at the Telegraph felt “optimistic”, “enthusiastic” and even “cautiously pleased” – one called a takeover by media conglomerate Axel Springer the “best possible outcome”.
The reason for this Panglossian response is partly hope that Axel Springer and its boss, Mathias Döpfner, might genuinely be keen on journalism, and partly exhaustion at the end of a wildly convoluted three-year takeover battle. The fight says a lot about the state of the print news business – upended by technological and economic headwinds yet still seen as an attractive bauble for rich power players and important as a home for journalism. For how much longer this persists could well depend on what Axel Springer and its part-owner and boss Döpfner do with it.
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With Keef-style riffs and full-blooded commitment to the bit, resurgent brothers Chris and Rich Robinson resurrect the rocker lifestyle of eras past
Time is not linear for Chris and Rich Robinson. When their group the Black Crowes first surfaced in the late 80s, music was deep into one of its magical transitional eras, technological advances sling-shotting pop into unexpected futures as techno, hip-hop and acid house left rock’n’roll looking like a period piece. The Robinsons clearly hadn’t received the memo, arriving in a blaze of paisley and patchouli with an inspired Otis Redding cover that dragged its 60s Stax strut all the way into the early 70s, redressing it in bell-bottomed denim and Sticky Fingers swagger.
Almost 40 years later, little has changed within the Crowes’ hermetically sealed hotbox. There have been calamitous splits, amicable hiatuses and radical lineup rejigs, to the point where the brothers are the only founding Crowes left. Yet they remain proud exiles from Main Street, and from the 21st century. It makes their 10th album an irresistible pleasure. In this grimmest of moments, with war and genocide and maniacs at the wheel across the globe, who could blame anyone for escaping into the simpler world conjured here, governed by Keef-worthy riffs, infallible slip-slide grooves and the kind of rock’n’roll misadventure that’s always been rejuvenated in the Crowes’ hands?
Continue reading...In her wisdom, Mum taught me to roll with the punches, and reassured me that she’d always be there – even when I staggered in much the worse for wear
What my mum taught me best is her expression: “Let’s play it by ear.” That might sound like an excuse for disorganisation and procrastination, but what she’s really saying at the end of every phone call is: “Life happens, plans change, and we’re always here for you – whatever time you decide to roll up.”
That’s her to a T – putting everyone else first. Even now, at 50, if I go out for a drink or to a gig with my brother and crash at my parents’ place, Mum will still stay up to be sure I’ve made it home safe.
Continue reading...BOEDAPEST (ANP) - Hongarije en Oekraïne hebben opnieuw ruzie over de aanvoer van Russische fossiele brandstoffen. Oekraïne heeft meerdere aanvallen uitgevoerd op een pijpleiding die gas van Rusland naar Hongarije brengt, klaagt de Hongaarse buitenlandminister.
Minister Péter Szijjártó hoorde van Rusland over de vermeende Oekraïense droneaanvallen op de TurkStream-leiding, die via Turkije naar Europa loopt. "Oekraïne blokkeert al onze olieaanvoer, en nu nemen ze ook onze gasbevoorrading onder vuur", zei Szijjártó.
Oekraïne wil de Hongaarse energievoorziening platleggen in de hoop zo de Hongaarse premier Viktor Orbán volgende maand een verkiezingsnederlaag te bezorgen, stelt Szijjártó. Orbán papt aan met het Kremlin en stribbelt steevast tegen bij EU-steun aan Oekraïne.
Hongarije verwijt Oekraïne ook dat het blijft verzuimen de pijpleiding te repareren waarmee Boedapest nog altijd Russische olie importeert.