Gabriel Bortoleto believes Audi "can be fighting for points" in the Italian Grand Prix, having just missed out on reaching the top 10 in Qualifying by the smallest of margins.
Chris Medland picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day at the Temple of Speed.
We have picked a four-leg Bet Builder for Monza, including podium finish and top-six selections.
Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams on race day at Monza.
The drivers and teams report back on all the action from the Temple of Speed after Qualifying for the 2026 Italian Grand Prix.
George Russell was unexpectedly pipped to pole position for the Italian Grand Prix by Alpine’s Pierre Gasly.
CNN reports that alcohol "may play a greater role in death from numerous types of cancers in the United States than previously known, according to a new study."
"While it's true that overall cancer mortality has declined, we found the percentage of cancer deaths proportionally attributable to alcohol rose over 58% in people 20 and older over the last 33 years," said the study's first author Dr. Chinmay Jani... It didn't take much alcohol to raise one's risk — about one standard drink a day, every day, Jani said. In the US, a standard drink is 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor...
Alcohol is ethanol or ethyl alcohol, which is broken down by the liver into acetaldehyde, a
"probable human carcinogen," the National Cancer Institute states on its website. While the liver will further break down acetaldehyde into a harmless molecule called acetate, the process isn't foolproof: acetaldehyde may damage DNA and interfere with DNA repair before conversion into acetate is complete. Alcohol also contributes to oxidative stress, which damages DNA, proteins and cell function and creates inflammation. Drinking alcohol also weakens the cells in the mouth and throat, making them more susceptible to carcinogens. That's even more likely to occur with smoking cigarettes, a major source of acetaldehyde. In addition, alcohol interferes with the break down and absorption of key nutrients thought to decrease cancer risk — vitamins A, C, D and E as well as folates in the vitamin B complex, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The study, which was published Monday in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas journal, analyzed more than three decades of US data gathered for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The GBD study is a massive scientific effort to measure health, mortality and disabilities from hundreds of risk factors, diseases and conditions in more than 200 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2023, the total number of yearly alcohol-linked cancer deaths more than doubled, rising from 11,361 to 23,126 in the US.
Men and adults age 55 and older experienced the greatest impact; alcohol-related cancer mortality rate in older males climbed nearly 24% over the 33-year period. For men, liver cancer deaths showed the strongest link to alcohol, followed by esophageal and colorectal cancers. For women 55 and older, breast cancer was the top killer, followed by liver and colorectal cancers.
"While it's true that overall cancer mortality has declined, we found the percentage of cancer deaths proportionally attributable to alcohol rose over 58% in people 20 and older over the last 33 years," said the study's first author Dr. Chinmay Jani... It didn't take much alcohol to raise one's risk — about one standard drink a day, every day, Jani said. In the US, a standard drink is 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor...
Alcohol is ethanol or ethyl alcohol, which is broken down by the liver into acetaldehyde, a
"probable human carcinogen," the National Cancer Institute states on its website. While the liver will further break down acetaldehyde into a harmless molecule called acetate, the process isn't foolproof: acetaldehyde may damage DNA and interfere with DNA repair before conversion into acetate is complete. Alcohol also contributes to oxidative stress, which damages DNA, proteins and cell function and creates inflammation. Drinking alcohol also weakens the cells in the mouth and throat, making them more susceptible to carcinogens. That's even more likely to occur with smoking cigarettes, a major source of acetaldehyde. In addition, alcohol interferes with the break down and absorption of key nutrients thought to decrease cancer risk — vitamins A, C, D and E as well as folates in the vitamin B complex, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The study, which was published Monday in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas journal, analyzed more than three decades of US data gathered for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The GBD study is a massive scientific effort to measure health, mortality and disabilities from hundreds of risk factors, diseases and conditions in more than 200 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2023, the total number of yearly alcohol-linked cancer deaths more than doubled, rising from 11,361 to 23,126 in the US.
Men and adults age 55 and older experienced the greatest impact; alcohol-related cancer mortality rate in older males climbed nearly 24% over the 33-year period. For men, liver cancer deaths showed the strongest link to alcohol, followed by esophageal and colorectal cancers. For women 55 and older, breast cancer was the top killer, followed by liver and colorectal cancers.
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My father doesn’t ask for help from just anyone. And yet he asked for mine. He believed in me
My dad and I believe in many of the same things: cheesecake; the Geelong football club; my mum. And that we should immediately be experts at anything. First try. No practice. No revision.
He taught me this in kindergarten. Every day he pushed me to be brilliant. We played spelling games in the car and did maths workbooks for fun. Before I started school I had “published” a library of my own books, complete with copyright information. I had become – and I’m assuming this is true of most Guardian writers – a precocious kid who irritated everyone around her by being boisterously, aggressively right about everything all of the time. Just like my dad. (Obviously I’ve grown a lot since then.)
Continue reading...A first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented
On a quiet street in western Sydney, Farhana Laffernis races her curious English staffy and boisterous three-year-old daughter in the front door.
Inside, her three-year-old wears a pink tutu and excitedly babbles as she cuddles her toy doll. The family life Laffernis has built did not come easy.
Continue reading...Fiery Diamond League comments partially walked back
On Hocker: ‘Cole and I talked it through after the race’
The double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen has issued a part-apology for calling his rivals “losers” and a “bunch of cowards” after a spicy men’s 1500m Diamond League final on Friday.
However, Ingebrigtsen has continued to maintain that he was still right to accuse the Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker of cowardice – because he asked for a strong pace and swapped in his own pacemaker only to then hide behind others in the race.
Continue reading...The Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created
“Hello … hello … It’s good to be back.” With these words – and the unfortunate possibility of a royalty payment to a certain disgraced ex-pop star – this highly enjoyable fan-worship documentary revives the memory of last year’s staggering and already mythic Oasis reunion tour. It also recollects how effortlessly funny the Gallagher brothers are, like a great comic double act. There’s a big laugh in the tense scene in the rehearsal room, when Liam finally shows up after Noel and everyone else had been there for hours – and the very first thing that comes out of his mouth is a fierce and magnificently sullen objection to the baffles on the drum kit: “They’re giving me the hump.”
Yet to the surprise of many who did not believe, and these biblical echoes are strangely appropriate, Liam and Noel did not fall out; the resulting stadium tour put a fresh coat of paint on the word “phenomenon”. Middle-aged and elderly people together with young people sporting bucket hats, some accompanied by their pets in bucket hats, sang their hearts out as if it was the 90s again and Manchester City had just won the World Cup 10-0 (although this film was evidently completed before Wonderwall’s moment at this year’s World Cup).
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The French-size problem at the heart of the EU.
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BRUSSEL (ANP) - Femke Broeders-Bol (26) is bij haar eerste finale van de Diamond League op de 800 meter tweede geworden. In het Koning Boudewijnstadion in Brussel noteerde de Nederlandse 1.54,81. Audrey Werro, de Europees kampioene uit Zwitserland, was nipt sneller en won in 1.54,75. Saida Tsehaye uit Ethiopië werd derde: 1.57,57.
Broeders-Bol won de voorgaande vijf edities de Diamond League-finale op haar oude discipline, de 400 meter horden. Eind vorig jaar maakte ze de keuze om over te stappen naar de dubbele afstand zonder obstakels.
Op de 800 meter heeft ze al in haar eerste seizoen aansluiting gevonden met de absolute top. Vorige maand maakte ze haar EK-debuut met een bronzen medaille. In de finale evenaarde ze het Nederlandse record waarmee Ellen van Langen op de Spelen van Barcelona in 1992 goud won (1.55,54). Bij de daaropvolgende Diamond Leagues scherpte ze die toptijd afgelopen weken tot twee keer toe aan: in Lausanne klokte ze 1.55,41, in Zürich dook ze daar nog ruim een halve seconde onder met 1.54,71.
BRUSSEL (ANP) - Nadine Visser (31) is bij de finale van de Diamond League vijfde geworden op de 100 meter horden. De Europees kampioene noteerde 12,54 seconden en zag de Amerikaanse wereldrecordhoudster Masai Russell naar de winst lopen in 12,30 seconden. Devynne Charlton uit de Bahama's werd tweede (12,33), voor de Jamaicaanse Megan Simmonds (12,43).
Visser verkeert dit seizoen in uitstekende vorm. Vorige maand in Birmingham won de Noord-Hollandse op de 100 meter horden na acht grote finales zonder medaille (op WK's, Olympische Spelen en EK's) voor het eerst de Europese titel.
Russell verbrak vorige week bij de Diamond League in Zürich het wereldrecord met een tijd van 12,09 seconden. In die race eindigde Visser met haar beste seizoenstijd van 12,34 als derde. In de buurt van die tijd kwam ze in het Brusselse Koning Boudewijnstadion niet.
De Nederlandse recordhoudster stond dit seizoen zeven keer aan de start van een wedstrijd in de Diamond League en eindigde slechts eenmaal buiten het podium, op de vierde plek. Ze werd vier keer derde en eindigde twee keer als tweede.
In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van zaterdag 5 september.
