SÃO PAULO (ANP) - Alan Permane blijft langer teambaas van Racing Bulls, het zusterteam van Red Bull in de Formule 1. De 59-jarige Brit heeft bijgetekend tot eind 2031, meldt de renstal in een persbericht.

Permane is al meer dan dertig jaar werkzaam in de Formule 1 en sinds 2025 teambaas bij Racing Bulls. Onder zijn leiding eindigde het team vorig jaar als zesde in het wereldkampioenschap van de constructeurs. Dit jaar strijden de 'Bulls' nog met de coureurs Arvid Lindblad en Liam Lawson om de vijfde plaats.

"Alan levert fantastisch werk. De vooruitgang die het team heeft geboekt, is een direct gevolg van zijn ervaring, toewijding en competitieve instelling", zegt Oliver Mintzlaff, de grote baas bij Red Bull. "Hij brengt helderheid, kalmte en een diepgaand inzicht in wat er nodig is om in de Formule 1 te presteren."

Racing Bulls heeft de bezetting voor 2027 nog niet bekendgemaakt. Permane liet eerder weten dat Lindblad en Lawson wel in beeld zijn, maar dat ook de Bulgaarse jongeling Nikola Tsolov meedingt naar een stoeltje.

HELSINKI (ANP/AFP/BLOOMBERG) - De uitstoot van CO2 in China is afgelopen kwartaal het sterkst gedaald sinds de coronalockdowns van 2022. Dat constateert de Finse klimaatdenktank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). Volgens de organisatie is dit vooral te danken aan de Iranoorlog.

De uitstoot ging met 3,1 procent omlaag. De ernstige verstoring van het scheepvaartverkeer door de Straat van Hormuz heeft de olieleveranties aan China zwaar getroffen. Door de hoge olieprijzen verliep de overstap op elektrische auto's sneller en daalde de vraag naar chemicaliën, terwijl er door lagere temperaturen minder kolen nodig waren voor stroom voor airconditioners.

China is de grootste uitstoter ter wereld en verantwoordelijk voor meer dan 30 procent van de wereldwijde broeikasgassen. De regering heeft wel beloofd zich meer in te spannen om de CO2-uitstoot te verminderen en vergroening te versnellen, met als doel om in 2060 CO2-neutraal te zijn. Het land bouwt ook gigantische zonneparken in zijn woestijnen.

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The Italian trumpeter’s group – featuring an old friend – rip through originals and free improvisation while balancing late-Miles funk with excellent vocals and horn ballads

Miles Davis was the gamechanger behind at least three landmark transformations in jazz-making methods between the late 1940s and the 1960s – yet he was perhaps too instinctively lyrical, and too worldly, to take the freedoms he helped unleash too far from the marketplace. In 1960s Europe, a different story emerged, as African American free jazz innovations by Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others flowed into cultural traditions from Scandinavia to Spain, Soviet Russia and East Germany, inviting unions with contemporary classical and local folk music along the way.

But Miles’s unique sound remained as a key inspiration to two gifted trumpeters in Poland’s Tomasz Stańko (1942-2018) and the Italian Enrico Rava, even as they also drew on European eclecticism. Rava continues to rip through the walls of linear post-bop mazes, and use raw sound as if it were his everyday speech, just as Miles once did – as confirmed by Corners, recorded with his young Fearless Five group plus his longtime friend Joe Lovano on saxophones.

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This blog post is based on a recent sermon I preached on Psalm 46, exploring God as our true refuge in an uncertain world.

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I don't know about you, but I frequently find myself looking through old photos on my phone. I look back at pictures of me from my university days and can't help but question my fashion choices at the time.

Sometimes your Facebook memories are not the most forgiving and can't help but make you cringe a little when you see what you were like many years ago.

Or perhaps, more recently, I find myself looking back at pictures of my kids to see how quickly they have grown up. Looking at how small they once were compared to how big they are now.

Often enough, we can look back at these pictures as a reminder of what life was like then and how things have changed now.

And this reminder of looking to the past is what verse 8 of our Psalm is encouraging us to do. It invites us to do something similar. Not by looking at our own past, but by looking at God's works throughout history.

We are to remember what He has done so that we can trust Him with what He will do.

I'm getting to the age where I can look back at various parts of my life, some of which I found hard, and can see clearly how God brought me through them and had His hand on the situation.

The psalmist invites us to, as verse 8 says, "come and see the works of the LORD", calling us to remember God's mighty acts in history as evidence that He is sovereign. In other words, God is sovereign over history.

We can see in verse 9 how God is the one who has the power to end wars by breaking bows, shattering spears, and burning chariots. Ultimate peace is achieved not by our own human effort but by God's decisive intervention.

So, knowing these fundamental truths from the past, how does this transform our future? In other words, what is the antidote to living a life of uncertainty and chaos in the present? How can we find this security and comfort?

The answer might not be as obvious as you think.

The answer can be found in verse 10: "Be still, and know that I am God." This is our antidote to living in our chaotic world.

"Be still." Two very simple words which bear a lot of weight.

It sounds a little too simple, doesn't it? How are we meant to be still in the storm of life by just "being still"? But if there is one lesson we can learn throughout all of Scripture, it's that when God speaks, things happen.

So, when God says, "Be still, and know that I am God", we can take comfort knowing that this will bring real peace to our troubled storms.

Mark 4 provides a directly relevant example of what this looks like in practice. Verse 39 says:

"He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, 'Quiet! Be still!' Then the wind died down and it was completely calm."

While the disciples were terrified and Jesus was asleep, they woke Him, and He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And what happens? The powerful, raging storm comes to a stop and it immediately becomes completely calm.

Just imagine what God can do in our lives when we fully come to Him with our troubles and our anxieties.

But let's be clear for a moment. The famous command, "Be still," is not merely an encouragement to relax, put our feet up and stop caring. Instead, it's a call to cease striving and acknowledge God's supreme authority.

It means we are to put down our guard. It means we are to stop trusting in our own ways but to trust in Him alone.

I'm sure this is something many people (myself included) struggle with.

I'm not thinking of specific people in mind when I say this, but perhaps you are someone who spends so much time building your career path.

You obsess about wanting to earn more and more money, for you to invest in a high-gain investment portfolio so you can become financially independent and not have to rely on others.

Or maybe you are someone who cares deeply about what your Instagram profile says about you to the world.

You build a heavily curated list of reels and stories which tries to capture every amazing part of your life online and to sell how great you are and why people need to like you.

In other words, in both these situations, you could be striving for approval, striving for fame, striving for self-sufficiency.

You could very well be striving for all the good things in life but still not striving for Him — the one that matters the most!

It's a call to trust and surrender.

And because of this, we see in verses 10–11 how the psalm concludes with God's promise that "He will be exalted among the nations and throughout the earth."

It's a reminder that eventually, God will rule over all and will receive all the authority and glory. God will ultimately be recognised by every nation and every person — whether that's willingly in worship or unwillingly in judgement.

At the end of the day, God will have the final say. All of it will be seen to. All injustice will be seen to. God will have victory over war and conflict.

And so, verse 11 concludes this Psalm by getting personal for the Christian. It applies the truth of verse 10 personally: the God who will one day be exalted over all the earth is already "with us" and is "our fortress".

If you are a Christian today, because of this news we can have confidence right here, right now. We can have confidence today because God, the sovereign King, the one who has authority over all things, is on our side.

Verse 11 brings the Psalm full circle. If you are a Christian, the God who rules over all nations is also "with you" and remains, as verse 11 says, "our fortress".

Britain's ambitions for AI, advanced chips, and clean energy rest on mineral supply chains dominated by China, and MPs say they cannot establish whether ministers have a credible plan to reduce that dependence. The House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee has set ministers ten tests for securing critical minerals. Its verdict is hardly glowing – it cannot be confident the government passes any of them. The tests cover whether ministers know which industries and technologies need protecting, what minerals they require, where supplies could be disrupted, and how domestic production, overseas partnerships, skills, and financing will close the gaps. In a report published today, the committee warns that diversifying supplies will take ten to 15 years, and will require sustained investment and cooperation with allies. Completely cutting China out is neither realistic nor desirable, it says. Leaving Beijing with so much leverage is another matter. Critical minerals underpin everything from batteries and semiconductors to datacenters and military equipment. The designation reflects their economic or security importance and vulnerability to supply disruption, rather than membership of an especially exclusive geological club. The UK – like pretty much all major industrialized economies including the US, the EU, Japan, and India – is almost entirely dependent on imports of these materials and mineral products. But digging up more ore outside China would solve only part of the problem. The bigger bottleneck is processing. Citing International Energy Agency figures, the committee says China is the leading refiner for 19 of 20 strategic minerals, with an average market share of 70 percent. A different flag over the mine does not necessarily mean a different route through the refinery. The exposure extends beyond chips and batteries. As The Register reported in August, erbium is used to amplify signals in fiber-optic links, while yttrium goes into components including ceramic capacitors. IEEE Spectrum warned that China effectively monopolized the processing of both into the industrially usable materials manufacturers need. That concentration has already caused disruption. China's rare earth export controls in April 2025, introduced following US tariffs, rippled through manufacturing supply chains and forced temporary automotive plant closures. British manufacturers can suffer even when Britain isn't the intended target. The committee also highlights gallium and germanium, used in advanced semiconductors for radar, communications, and electronic warfare. China accounts for 95 percent and 93 percent of their global production respectively, according to the report [PDF]. Beijing flexing its leverage over chip materials is not new. China announced export licensing requirements for gallium and germanium in July 2023 amid tightening Western restrictions on semiconductor technology. Yet MPs say the government has not clearly identified which domestic industrial and technological capabilities it wants to protect, making it difficult to determine which supply chains deserve priority. Nor do import statistics reveal the whole exposure. Minerals can arrive inside batteries, magnets, and other manufactured components, disappearing from view as individual materials. Businesses themselves may not know precisely what lies several layers down their supply chains. The committee wants confidential mapping and stress-testing with firms in critical sectors, followed by joint purchasing arrangements with allies to give new mining and refining projects dependable customers. Committee chair Liam Byrne said: "Critical minerals are the alpha of the new economy. We cannot re-arm Britain, build AI or deliver net zero unless we secure the minerals these technologies depend on. "Yet sixteen years after China first weaponised its chokehold over rare earths, Britain remains dangerously exposed. We don't know enough about what minerals we need or where to find them. Our energy costs make processing uneconomic, we're exporting valuable metal waste, and our public finance institutions are shackled by outdated rules." More than a shopping list The committee's five-part prescription is to identify the capabilities Britain must protect, map their mineral needs, expand domestic mining, processing, and recycling, pool purchasing power with allies, and establish a dedicated financing facility. The proposed facility would bring together public funding bodies to back projects through grants, equity, loans, guarantees, and long-term purchase agreements. "We're never going to eliminate Chinese minerals from our supply chains. But it's foolish to leave Britain exposed to economic coercion when we could be building alternative supplies," Byrne said. "That's why we need a new Critical Minerals Finance Facility with the financial firepower to invest in new mines, processing plants and recycling, working with our allies to share the costs." The report argues that existing institutions leave gaps, particularly for early-stage projects. It recommends expanding UK Export Finance's remit and allowing British International Investment to take equity stakes in overseas mineral projects. Long-term purchasing commitments and price guarantees could help keep strategically important projects commercially viable despite volatile mineral prices. There is also material closer to home. The report says 80 percent of UK metal products classified as waste are exported. MPs want better sorting and separation infrastructure, alongside more detailed trade data to establish exactly what valuable scrap is leaving the country. For domestic projects, they recommend designated critical mineral clusters with permitting deadlines, help navigating approvals, energy support, and priority grid access. Stockpiles could provide a short-term buffer too. The committee calls for an initial reserve covering approximately 60 days of minerals needed for defense capabilities, while stressing that warehouses are no substitute for diversified supply. None of this offers a quick escape from dependence on China. The committee's argument is that Britain needs to decide what it must protect, work out what those industries actually consume, and help finance alternatives before the next disruption. "De-risking even a prudent proportion of our supplies will take over a decade. Britain cannot afford to drift," Byrne said. "We must act now before dangerous dependencies become strategic liabilities." ®

NHS England CEO Sir Jim Mackey plans to tell Palantir to clear future claims about its Federated Data Platform's benefits with his team – although he admits that could be difficult to enforce. Speaking to the Health and Social Care Committee this week, Labour MP Ben Coleman noted that NHS England had cautioned against attributing improvements directly to the platform, but said newly appointed Palantir UK senior vice president Tom Watson "is making claims that [Palantir] is making a difference, and that it's due to Palantir that changes are taking place." Responding, Mackey said he would write to Palantir and "tell them that they have to share with us and clear with us any benefits claimed in the future." But getting Palantir to comply could be another matter. "They should share them with us, but contractually, it looks hard to enforce," Mackey said. The planned letter follows repeated questions about the evidence NHS England and Palantir have used to promote the Federated Data Platform (FDP). NHS England awarded the £330 million contract to a Palantir-led consortium in November 2023 to help improve planning and efficiency. In July, campaign group Foxglove wrote to the UK health minister questioning figures used in Parliament to justify the contract. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) also began examining the evidence. NHS England had said that as of June, 139 trusts used the platform, with 137 reporting benefits. It said an Inpatient Care Coordination Solution tool based on the FDP had helped hospitals perform procedures on an additional 111,589 patients. However, a Freedom of Information request later found that nearly a third of NHS trusts using Palantir's health data platform were performing fewer patient procedures than before it went live. Later that month, the OSR said NHS England had accepted that it needed to communicate its claims about FDP performance more clearly. The regulator noted that NHS England had published on its website a caveat saying that it could not "draw conclusions about cause and effect as other variables have not been controlled for." Last month, Watson, the former deputy leader of the Labour Party, sought to rebut what he described as misinformation about the FDP, repeating the statement that 137 trusts were already reporting benefits without mentioning the caveats. In a statement on X, Watson said the OSR had pointed out that there had not yet been a study on the FDP that controls for other factors like staffing level changes or industrial action. "That's a fair note of caution." In a prepared video, he said Northampton General Hospital, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital had all produced figures showing they are benefiting from using the platform. "Can we prove that every one of those procedures happened because of our software? No. But does that mean we should ignore what the hospitals are telling us? Of course not," he said. In February 2026, NHS England awarded a contract to Imperial College Projects to independently evaluate the FDP. The findings are not expected until after ministers decide whether to extend the contract, which currently ends in March 2027. ®

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