After George Russell's sudden exit from the lead of the Canadian Grand Prix, F1.com looks back at eight other occasions where drivers were dramatically forced to retire whilst in P1.

Glazenwassen op grote hoogtes is een zwaar en tijdrovend vak. Voor een schoonmaakbedrijf uit Soest genoeg reden om het werk met een drone te doen. Wat betekent dit voor de glazenwasserspraktijk?

Hoge belastingen, maar ook een hoge ‘kale’ prijs maken benzine in Nederland peperduur. Wie tankt, betaalt sowieso 1,02 euro per liter, ook als de benzine zelf gratis zou zijn.

Oud-zorgminister Bruno Bruins (VVD), in het begin van de coronacrisis verantwoordelijk voor de virusbestrijding, zag het als zijn belangrijkste taak om informatie over het virus…

Het kabinet blokkeerde deze week de overname van Solvinity, het bedrijf achter DigiD, door het Amerikaanse Kyndryl. De stap past in een trend om internationale spelers minder snel een belangrijk rol te geven in cruciale sectoren.

DE BILT (ANP) - Voor het oosten van het land is code oranje afgegeven vanwege zware onweersbuien die plaatselijk kunnen voorkomen. Het KNMI meldt dat er bij de buien kans is op grote hagelstenen, zware windstoten en veel regen in korte tijd.

Code oranje geldt tot in de loop van de avond voor de provincies Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel en Gelderland.

Kenneth Law, who sold lethal chemicals online with instructions on how to use them, admits counselling or aiding suicide

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A Canadian man who mailed “suicide packets” of poison to more than 100 people in dozens of countries – including Canada, the UK, the US, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand – has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of assisting suicide.

Kenneth Law appeared in a packed courtroom in Newmarket, Ontario, on Friday to enter the plea, and sentencing is expected to take place in September. Prosecutors agreed to withdraw 14 murder charges in exchange for Law’s plea.

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Brent crude futures down 19% since end of April amid hopes of US-Iran peace deal, while stock markets rally

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Oil prices are on track for their biggest monthly fall since 2020, as investors hoped for an end to the US-Israel war on Iran.

The price of Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, was down 1.3% on Friday at about $92 and 19% since the end of April.

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Refugee charities say the numbers revealed in Freedom of Information data are ‘shocking’

Lone children were held at UK-run detention centres in France on nearly 300 occasions last year, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Data obtained by the Guardian shows they are part of about 900 instances when unaccompanied minors have been detained at British short-term facilities near Calais and Dunkirk over the last four years.

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UCLA has entered pre-litigation discussions with Oracle, one of the suppliers underpinning its finance transformation project, which has been delayed by nearly six years. The project has been on pause since August 2024 while the giant US university considers its options, including whether to continue using the vendor. The Regents of the University of California's Compliance and Audit Committee recently listed a proposed settlement with Oracle America over an alleged contract breach as an action line on its meeting agenda. UCLA Faculty Association member Dan Mitchell noted the item “likely refers to the failed Ascend 2.0 matter”, referring to the project name for the university’s finance and procurement system transformation. A spokesperson for UCLA said in a statement emailed to The Register: "UCLA does not comment on confidential pre-litigation matters or potential settlements. The university continues to evaluate the most effective path forward for financial systems modernization." A report presented to the University Regents Finance and Capital Strategies Committee in March last year said that among the “Top Issues, Risks and Challenges” the UCLA project leadership faced was “Oracle’s lack of responsiveness — particularly regarding licensing costs and support.” The report, based on data from up to December 2024, listed it among issues under ongoing evaluation. It shows the project's original $120 million budget was revised down to $98.9 million, with $13.5 million spent to date. Oracle has so far declined the opportunity to comment. The project started in April 2018 and was originally expected to end in July 2020. It is a “comprehensive business transformation initiative designed to modernize the University financial, budgetary, and research administration operations by migrating to the Oracle Cloud SaaS solution,” the document said. It also included retrofitting any systems which connected with the main finance system. The procurement module, BruinBuy Plus went live in January 2024, but the main “Oracle Financials go-live has been paused since August 2 [2024] and is undergoing program assessment,” the document said. Among the mitigation plans in the review was to “finalize the decision on whether to continue with the current vendor or explore alternatives” based on a reassessment of the tool and the provider. The university is yet to announce the results of planned work to “determine the viability of the current software provider and explore alternatives if needed.” According to a report from campus newspaper Daily Bruin, UCLA currently uses legacy financial systems software designed in the 1980s when the university’s operating budget was just 7 percent of its current size. It is a mainframe-based "ancient relic of a system" one interview said. A presentation given during the May 2024 Ascend 2.0 quarterly town hall estimated the total cost was projected to be roughly $286 million, with around $213 already spent, the report said. ®