Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli will start a Formula 1 Grand Prix from pole for the first time in China, becoming the youngest to ever do it in the process.
Nina Gademan dominated the opening race of the 2026 F1 ACADEMY season, leading every lap from reverse grid pole to take her second win in the all-female series.
Kimi Antonelli claimed his maiden pole position in Qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix to become F1's youngest ever Grand Prix polesitter.
ABU DHABI (ANP/RTR/AFP/BLOOMBERG) - Bij een groot oliecomplex in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten is zaterdagochtend brand ontstaan na een aanval met een drone. Volgens de autoriteiten ontstond de brand bij het Fujairah-complex door resten van een neergeschoten drone.
Een verslaggever van het Franse persbureau AFP zegt zwarte rookwolken te zien boven Fujairah. Er zijn geen gewonden door de aanval en de brand wordt geblust. Sommige activiteiten rond het laden en lossen zijn wel stilgelegd.
Het Fujairah-complex ligt ten zuiden van de Straat van Hormuz en de terminal exporteert nog olie. Er zijn eerder ook al aanvallen gedaan op het complex met veel olieopslagtanks.
De aanval op Fujairah kan een vergelding zijn van Iran na de Amerikaanse bombardementen op het Iraanse eiland Kharg in het noorden van de Perzische Golf.
Summer holidaymakers opting for ‘more familiar, easy-to-reach locations’ as travel industry counts cost of Middle East conflict
Holidaymakers who had planned to visit the eastern Mediterranean this summer are moving their trips to the west and the Caribbean because of the US-Israel war on Iran, travel companies have said.
Travellers from the UK and mainland Europe are increasingly swapping their holiday destinations away from Cyprus, Turkey and Greece towards Italy, Spain, Malta and Croatia, as the region around the Middle East grapples with flight cancellations and airspace closures.
Continue reading...He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam
Donald Trump is lost in his fog of war. He compounds confusion with improvised fabrications as his naive expectation of a lightning victory has been sunk in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, he felt certain, would easily follow the “perfect scenario” of Venezuela, accede to naming a leader who would instantly do his bidding, and there would be no disruption of the oil markets – “a strong game plan”, stated Karoline Leavitt, his White House press secretary, who defends each of his changeable excuses with equal ferocity.
There may be few if any facts underlying the delusions upon which Trump constructs his vapid explanations and evanescent strategies. The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump’s shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are. Searching for reason in the jungle of Trump’s tales may compel hopelessly sensible people to superimpose logic where there is none in order to satisfy the need for some semblance of soundness.
Continue reading...Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon
For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special.
For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan.
Continue reading...Erratic rhetoric, shifting goals and mixed signals leave allies, foes and voters unsure what the president wants from war
“Mr President,” said a reporter. “You’ve said the war is ‘very complete’ but your defence secretary says, ‘This is just the beginning’. So which is it?” Donald Trump’s eyes darted left and right then down. “Well, I think you could say both,” he parried.
The confusing answer at a press conference in Doral, Florida this week did not befit a wartime leader armed with stirring rhetoric and a lucid plan. But it was entirely on brand for the 47th US president. The tumultuous style that Trump brings to election campaigns, dealing with Congress and global trade relations has now been imported to the theatre of war.
Continue reading...For these art forms to thrive, they need to attract young people. The Oscar contender’s comments are just the conversation starter they need
Rebecca Humphries is an actor and author
Timothée Chalamet thinks no one cares about opera or ballet. He told Matthew McConaughey so. Also, the entire world.
“I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this any more’,” Chalamet said in a recorded conversation for Variety.
Rebecca Humphries is an actor and author
Continue reading...Dr Brian Elmore witnessed a public health crisis unfold at the border near El Paso. He reflects on why it was like a ‘perverse Groundhog Day’
In late spring 2024, Dr Brian Elmore was working out of a mobile clinic, providing medical treatment to migrants in Ciudad Juárez, just south of the US-Mexico border wall. One of his patients, a Venezuelan man with a fractured arm and a detached left chest from his sternum and clavicle, told Elmore that Mexican immigration officials broke his arm when he first got to town, and that rubber bullets fired by Texas national guardsmen had caused his chest injuries.
The man somehow had managed to fashion a shoddily made splint for his arm, but his chest would require surgery. When an ambulance arrived, the criminal group that controlled the riverine area refused to let him leave. The Texas guardsmen looked on from the US side of the river. “It was heartbreaking,” Elmore said of the spectacle.
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