Kimi Antonelli will line up in P3 for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, but the Mercedes driver felt that he could have achieved a higher position had it not been for an earlier error.

George Russell had to settle for P8 in Saturday's Qualifying session for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, meaning he will start seventh in Sunday's race.

Lando Norris qualified sixth for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia after struggling to keep up with McLaren’s rivals.

A delighted Lewis Hamilton has reflected on how he secured P2 in Qualifying at the Sepang International Circuit.

Red Bull's Isack Hadjar was third quickest in Qualifying but will start P8 in the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia following a grid penalty.

Max Verstappen secured his first pole position of 2026 during Qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, an achievement that the Red Bull driver felt was an "amazing moment".

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen topped each segment of Qualifying at the Sepang International Circuit on his way to clinching pole position.

An estimated 2.3 million cancer cases worldwide in 2024, about one in eight, were attributable to infections, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology. "This recent Lancet data is a profound reminder that a significant portion of our global cancer burden is fundamentally preventable," said David Greenberg, MD, of Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, in a news release. "We have historically siloed infectious diseases and oncology, but they are deeply intertwined. By shifting our focus toward aggressive infection control, we can literally vaccinate and treat our way out of millions of future cancer diagnoses." From a report: The study found that an estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases were attributable to infections globally in 2024, equivalent to 12% of all cancer cases. Of these, the largest number (760,000 cases, or 4%) were caused by H. pylori, followed by HPV (750,000 cases, or 4%), HBV (360,000 cases, or 2%), EBV (260,000 cases, or 1%) and HCV (160,000 cases). More than three quarters of infection-attributable cancers occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Eastern Asian had the largest burden, with 990,000 cases (42% of the global total). Rates were also higher than the global average in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

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Putin reportedly raised the deal during a Sept. 5 meeting with Witkoff and Kushner at the Kremlin.

Vier jaar geleden fietst Matthijs over de Oostzeedijk naar zijn werk. Als hij een plantje aan een lantaarnpaal ziet groeien, krijgt hij een spontaan idee. "Waarom zouden we niet elke lantarenpaal in Nederland zelf kunnen vergroenen?"

Weer voor Rotterdam 🌤️ - 03-10-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 20.1°C · Licht bewolkt 🌤️ | Min 13.3°C / Max 20.9°C

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 13.3°C, Max 20.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 237°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 20.6°C (Licht bewolkt) 🌤️, 🧭 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: → 282°
• 15:00: 20.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: → 283°
• 16:00: 20.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: → 291°
• 17:00: 20.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 306°
• 18:00: 19.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 312°
• 19:00: 19.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 314°
• 20:00: 18.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 342°
• 21:00: 17.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1030.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.8 km/u (1.6 m/s), richting: ↓ 2°
• 22:00: 17.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1030.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.1 km/u (1.7 m/s), richting: ↓ 359°
• 23:00: 16.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1030.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.7 km/u (1.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 32°
• 00:00: 16.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1030.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 4.0 km/u (1.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 46°
• 01:00: 16.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1029.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 5.0 km/u (1.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 28°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zondag 04 oktober: Min 14.9°C, Max 21.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1028.8 hPa ↘️ -0.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↓ 20°
• maandag 05 oktober: Min 13.4°C, Max 21.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.3 hPa ↘️ -4.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 229°
• dinsdag 06 oktober: Min 11.0°C, Max 18.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1018.9 hPa ↘️ -5.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 7.6 km/u (2.1 m/s), richting: ↑ 164°
• woensdag 07 oktober: Min 12.5°C, Max 18.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1011.6 hPa ↘️ -7.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.0 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↓ 12°
• donderdag 08 oktober: Min 11.5°C, Max 14.4°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 7.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 65%, 🧭 1010.3 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.6 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↓ 350°
• vrijdag 09 oktober: Min 12.1°C, Max 16.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 16%, 🧭 1016.6 hPa ↗️ +6.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 18.2 km/u (5.1 m/s), richting: ↓ 5°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 20.1°C (Licht bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 19.4°C (-0.7°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: → 270°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 19.1 km/h (5.3 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 50%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1029.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 3.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:46 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:15

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 61 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 13.0 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.2 μg/m³

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    Wie kijkt ook er ook naar de Netflix-serie Human Vapor? Geregisseerd door Shinzo Katayama (die ook de sublieme serie Gannibal regisseerde), gebaseerd op een sfeervolle gothische griezelfilm uit 1960 van Ishirō Honda, die de eerste Godzilla-film regisseerde. Hoe dan ook, een belangrijk plotelement in Human Vapor is het melodramatische popliedje in de video hierboven, dat van grote betekenis is voor twee van de hoofdpersonen, en dat steeds de transformatie van één van hen tot een menselijk gas triggert. Wat voor mij persoonlijk weer van grote betekenis is, omdat precies dit liedje, Ellie, My Love van The Southern All Stars, mij ook uit het diepe dal hielp waarin ik me bevond toen ik in 2013 eenzaam en getraumatiseerd door Tokio zwierf. In een aftands winkeltje in een winkelcentrum dat er nog net zo uitzag als toen het in de jaren 60 werd opgeleverd, browsde ik door een enorme verzameling oude filmposters toen Ellie My Love door de speakers klonk. Niet het soort muziek waar ik doorgaans enthousiast van word. Het is melodramatisch, sleept een beetje, is gezongen met enorm veel pathos, die wat krakerige, kwelende stem, de behaagzieke clichés. Een doelbewuste crowd-pleaser waar je moeder als een blok voor […]

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Tsja deze next level lijkenpikkerij kan natuurlijk ook. Jammer dat Paulien Cornelisse dood is, ging Donald Trump maar dood, of ging Benjamin Netanyahu maar dood. Nogal simplistisch en lui, die 'waarom nou ik' of 'waarom nou zij'-take als iemand dood is. Waar stopt die uitruil van levenswaarde eigenlijk? Is de dood van Paulien Cornelisse wel okee als iemand als moeder Teresa wel blijft leven? En als je een soort constructie maakt waarbij je ieder goed mens wegstreept tegen ieder slecht mens, blijft er dan 1 middelpunt over, een moreel nulpunt, bij wiens dood je kan stellen dat het gewoon 'goed zo' is? Misschien kan DPG-columnist Marcel Rözer bij z'n eindredactie een complete lijst inleveren met mensen die dood mogen in plaats van Paulien Cornelisse. Dan kan de Gelderlander die dodenlijst mooi afdrukken op spread zodat heel Nijmegen-Kwakkenberg weet waar Marcel Rözers ondergrens ligt.

Would-be marketers enticed by online talk of entering a world of travel and easy cash find that the reality is rather different

Months before she entered the Love Island villa, the content creator Yasmin Hadlow promised viewers of her online videos that they could “catch flights and get paid mid-air”. All they had to do, she said, was send her a direct message with the word “freedom”.

The 23-year-old is among several influencers and celebrities, including the former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, working for PlanNet Marketing, which recruits people to work as independent travel agents with a separate US business, InteleTravel.

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Untying the knot is having a television moment with the launch of the HBO legal thriller War and BBC’s The Split Up

There were 105,002 divorces in England and Wales last year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Right now, it feels like there are almost as many on TV.

The new HBO legal thriller War, which launched on Sky Atlantic on Friday night, chronicles what it calls “the highest-profile divorce case in UK history”. This enjoyably juicy eight-parter is joined in the weekend schedules by the BBC ​drama The Split Up – a Manchester-based spin-off from Abi Morgan’s The Split – following a British Asian family law firm specialising in elite divorces.

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I didn’t realise my school infatuation was just making fun of me, but then an episode of the cartoon series taught me the attributes of true companionship

When I was seven, I was obsessed with one particular classmate. She was the only girl taller than me and she never let me forget it. She was allowed to wear colourful nail polish and had shiny Lelli Kelly shoes, while I had short, plain nails and had to make do with classic black Clarks. I craved her approval.

That spring she got an iPhone, and deliberately shunned me for a while afterwards. I cried for hours, but I wasn’t confused. I understood, and even respected it. Why would she grace me with her aura? I was lucky she let me sit at her table at all, even if it was only to taunt me for still bringing in a packed lunch. She was my best friend – I was always holding out hope that one day I would be hers.

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No, I don’t want to go for a girl walk before my girl dinner with my girl mates: I am a grown woman who walks and eats and votes – and, patriarchy, I am on to you

This morning, after waking up with my girl cats, I made myself a cup of girl coffee then got stuck into some girl work. I took a break to lift some girl weights, then sent some more girl emails. Finally, after my girl dinner, it was time to get some sleep ahead of another long, hard day of being a girl.

I know what you’re thinking: why is this woman so insistent on gendering her unremarkable activities, and infantilising herself when she is clearly an adult? It’s a fair question. Since the pandemic, when “hot girl walks” followed Megan Thee Stallion’s 2019 song Hot Girl Summer to become one of the first big TikTok trends, this framing has become dismayingly ubiquitous, in person and online.

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It launched the careers of Jesse Plemons and Michael B Drama, and let its stars improvise in a way that was fresh and new. This show about smalltown US football was confident, trailblazing – and wonderful

I’ve been around the south of the US enough to have seen the importance of football: little burgs where the high-school football field has stands that wouldn’t disgrace a League Two soccer club in the UK. Friday Night Lights, which was first broadcast 20 years ago, is set in the most fervent edges of that world, smalltown Texas, where what happens under the floodlights at the end of the working week defines the mood of the place for days to come.

Britt Daniel, the frontman of the Texas band Spoon, grew up in one such town, Temple. “Friday Night Lights is based on Odessa, and Odessa and Temple are very, very similar,” he told me in 2017. “The high schools used to play each other at football, and they’re the kind of towns where everything happens on Friday because it’s the football game. I didn’t really think about it until many years later, but you really risked being beaten [up]. Not just harassed, but beaten. Everywhere you went, you really had to look over your shoulder. If you were at the mall, if you were at the parking lot, if you were at a party – people really wanted to fight.”

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He’s the titan of TV who revived a flatlined Doctor Who and turned British queer life into jaw-dropping drama. But the screenwriter’s groundbreaking writing has sometimes made him a target of hate – from homophobes and Whovians alike

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Russell T Davies is a man who prefers to look on the bright side. That time he was gay-bashed by a gang of bus conductors? “People have been beaten up far worse than me, that was just a bit of a thumping in the street.” When the production schedule of his dystopian drama Years and Years forced him back to work within days of his husband’s death? “Writing was a nice escape.” Even a story about his “tough” father branding him “yesterday’s man” after his initial departure as showrunner on Doctor Who concludes with a cheerful: “I knew I wasn’t.” It’s easy to see how he’s earned a reputation as the most affable man in TV, if not the world. So why has he taken to keeping a kitchen knife by his front door, “ready to use”?

“I’m called a paedophile and a groomer online by people like [Father Ted creator and anti-trans activist] Graham Linehan, and now people believe what they read. People believe it when they’re told the Earth is flat,” he says. His support for trans rights has resulted in years of death threats and “groomer” smears, which he used to brush off. “But the online world is becoming the real world. People have worked out my address, and one person turned up at my house. If you believe a paedophile lives here, it’s not the maddest thing in the world to come and get me. I’ve been saying for years that our rights are paper-thin, and here we are. What scares me is that I can’t see an end to it. Nothing is going to unseat these tech barons – it will require some sort of revolution to stop them. So for the first time in history, hatred is being monetised by an algorithm.”

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Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that searched for the ur-animals, wandered the poles, rained on Mars, and destroyed the solar system.

First, scientists present new evidence that the first animals appeared more than 800 million years ago, a truly ancient origin that suggests our metazoan ancestors survived a period known as Snowball Earth, when our planet is thought to have been nearly completely frozen. Then: Earth’s poles won’t sit still, the sepulchral stuff of life, and a dramatically shortened lifespan for our solar neighborhood.

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I trace my ancestry to Snowball Earth

Durbin, Orin Lole et al. “Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations revives pre-Ediacaran divergence estimates for animals.” Science Advances.

When did the first animals emerge on Earth? It’s a question that has provoked centuries of scholarly debate, and also inspired some wonderful answers in myth and legend (I’m partial to the Bible’s tidy solution: day six checklist).

The earliest animals that are clearly preserved in the fossil record lived during the Ediacara period some 574 million years ago, but the origins of our diverse metazoan family are likely much older. Now, scientists suggest that animals may have appeared on Earth a whopping 800 million years ago, during the ancient Tonian era, according to a new estimate of the dawn of animals.

“The timing of the origin of animals on Earth has puzzled scientists for centuries,” said researchers led by Orin Lole Durbin who was at the University of Oxford during this research and is now at Virginia Tech. “Unambiguous animal body fossils within the Ediacara Macrobiota provide a hard minimum calibration of 574 [million years] for crown Metazoa. Animals must have evolved before this date. Determining a maximum calibration for animals (a date at which they had not yet evolved) is a more complex task.”

Estimated timeline for the origin of animals based on molecular clock analyses. The grey bar on the right of the image is the origin of animals based on an Ediacaran upper calibration. The grey bar to the left is the origin based on older deposits in the Tonian period, as suggested by the new study. Image: Orin Lole Durbin.

The team turned to molecular clock analysis, a technique that uses the rate of genetic mutations in lineages as a rough way to reconstruct evolutionary timelines. The researchers focused on two fossil deposits—China’s Weng'an Biota and Mongolia’s Kheseen Biota, which date back 590 and 550 million years respectively—to extend the possible timeline of animals back more than 200 million years earlier. 

If animals really did appear in the Tonian era, it means that our earliest metazoan ancestors survived episodes of so-called “Snowball Earth,” when our planet was almost fully covered in ice. These early critters were likely simple marine sponges and comb jellies that lived for hundreds of millions of years until their descendents exploded into the kaleidoscopic variety of animals that persist to this day.

“The possibility of a pre-Ediacaran origin and diversification of animals means we cannot discount hypotheses that link the timing of animal diversification to Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations,” according to the study. “The causes and trajectory of animal evolution will remain uncertain until paleontological and geochemical data provide sufficient confidence in maximum calibrations to ensure a reliable timescale.”

In short: Respect your sponge elders.  

In other news…

A pole-ing error

Domeier, Mathew et al. “Quadrupolar sea level fluctuations reveal episodes of rapid polar wander.” Science.

Earth is a roiling mess of shifting continents and squishy innards, a situation that constantly throws its spin axis off balance and prompts the geographic poles to drift. This phenomenon, known as true polar wander (TPW), is distinct from Earth’s wandering magnetic poles, which are shaped by interior core-mantle processes. 

Right now, TPW is clocked at a slow rate of 10 centimeters per year, but scientists have found evidence of “fast” episodes of TPW that pushed the poles off by thousands of miles over millions of years, which has knock-on effects for ocean and land distribution across the globe. 

A team has now pinpointed several of these fast episodes over the past 320 million years, “confirming that protracted rapid TPW has occurred on Earth and that couplings among Earth’s rotational dynamics, mantle processes, and surface environments can be strongly episodic,” according to their study.

“These findings refute the view of TPW as negligible or persistently slow and highlight the need to consider TPW as an episodic control on sea level change and likely other global environmental and biological dynamics,” said researchers led by Mathew Domeier of the University of Oslo. 

In addition to these long-term natural changes, recent human activity has slightly impacted TPW, especially the construction of dams and the glacial melt of anthropogenic climate change. So the next time you address a letter to Santa at the North Pole for your kid—or yourself, no judgement—make sure you have the most up-to-date coordinates.

It’s raining formaldehyde—formalallelujah! 

Koyama, Shungo et al “Global Distribution of Atmospheric Formaldehyde Deposition Correlated with Water Vapor on a Warm Early Mars.” The Planetary Science Journal.

Formaldehyde, the toxic chemical, has a bit of a morbid reputation—exposure to it can be fatal and it’s a common ingredient used to embalm corpses. But, paradoxically, formaldehyde (H₂CO) also helped pave the way for the emergence of life on Earth as a precursor of bioessential elements such as sugars, amino acids, and nucleobases.

If life ever flourished on Mars, formaldehyde would likely also have been part of the story. To map out the possible distribution of the chemical on ancient Mars, scientists ran models of its atmosphere between 3.6 and 3.8 billion years ago, when the red planet was warmer and wetter. The results showed that formaldehyde was strongly associated with water vapor, suggesting that the chemical rained down from the ancient skies into Martian waterways.

“Significant atmospheric deposition of H₂CO is observed over water bodies, including the northern ocean,” said researchers led by Shungo Koyama of Tohoku University. “We suggest that basins adjacent to persistently humid regions, which likely experienced H₂CO accumulation and subsequent organic synthesis, could be potential landing sites for future missions to investigate ancient chemical evolution and whether it led to the origin of life.”

Hopefully, future missions to Mars will leave any signs of life with no place left to formalde-hide. 

Update the cosmic actuary tables

Batygin, Konstantin et al. “Terminal Instability of the Solar System Triggered by Stochastic Solar Mass Loss.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the solar system has been diagnosed with terminal instability and has been given a mere six billion years to live.  

That’s the upshot of a new study that modelled the solar system’s future as the Sun becomes a red giant star and, ultimately, collapses into a stellar husk called a white dwarf. 

Though the dying Sun will consume Mercury, Venus, and perhaps even Earth, scientists have previously assumed that the giant outer planets might be relatively unscathed by its death—perhaps surviving for up to 100 billion years after the main-sequence lights go out. But updated simulations suggest that these distant objects may be thrown into fatal chaos as early as the red giant phase, and that they are unlikely to survive more than a billion years after the Sun’s transition to a white dwarf.

“[Isaac] Newton, contemplating the drifting orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, suspected that the planetary order was mortal, and three centuries of celestial mechanics…have progressively deferred that verdict, most recently to timescales far beyond the age of the Universe,” said researchers led by Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology. “Our results return the solar system’s dissolution to astrophysically familiar territory, and relocate its cause: not the slow seep of chaos, nor the chance encounter with a passing star, but the Sun itself, which in dying does not merely enlarge the planetary system it built—it shakes it, and more often than not, spills it.”

“Newton’s envisioned instability is real after all,” the team. “He was mistaken only about the perpetrator.”

What a great story to kick off this spooky season! Planetary order is mortal, but cosmic horror is eternal. 

Thanks for reading! See you next week.