A66 remains closed near Middlesbrough after 14 ambulances attend scene early on Saturday morning

‘Multiple people’ have died in a collision involving a police vehicle near Middlesbrough.

A number of people were killed in the crash on the A66 in South Bank, North Yorkshire, in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to local authorities.

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English translation of Élisabeth, the New Wave director’s 1946 book about young lovers in prewar Paris, receives rave reviews as precursor to auteur’s cinematic work

In the dog days of the second world war, 24-year-old Maurice Schérer wrote a tale of young lovers in prewar small-town France. He described lazy August swims in the Marne River east of Paris. He wrote about age-gap affairs and semi-incestuous flirtations. Schérer gallantly used a nom de plume, Gilbert Cordier, to shield his Catholic family from scandal, but he needn’t have bothered as his concerns were unfounded. The finished novel, Élisabeth, barely made a ripple and quickly slipped out of print. Undeterred, Scherer adopted a second pseudonym – Éric Rohmer – and decided to try his luck as a film-maker instead.

Now – eight decades on from its first publication, 16 years on from its author’s death – Élisabeth belatedly returns from the cold. Republished in an English-language translation by Aaron Kerner, Rohmer’s book has been greeted with glowing reviews, hailed as a lost modernist classic and a crucial origin story for the award-winning director of Claire’s Knee, The Green Ray and My Night at Maud’s. “It would be a rewarding, exciting read even if the identity of its author were unfamiliar,” wrote Richard Brody in the New Yorker. The fact that it’s by Rohmer? That’s the icing on the cake.

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• Incident happened when Inter Miami met Philadelphia Union

• Argentinian lashed out at Quinn Sullivan in 2-2 draw

Lionel Messi has been fined for slapping an opponent during a Major League Soccer game. The 39-year-old Inter Miami forward lashed out at Quinn Sullivan of Philadelphia Union during their match on Wednesday, catching the midfielder around the back of the head.

The Argentinian appeared to be angry Sullivan had elbowed him after he had played the ball, with the referee intervening before the situation could escalate. The match at Subaru Park finished 2-2.

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️ F1 qualifying updates from 11am BST
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“And now excuse me while I interrupt myself.” Every summer, the F1 season channels the late Murray Walker, taking a month off, and every summer we do excuse it, and welcome it back. Here we go for the last 11 or 12 race weekends of the season.

Eleven or twelve because we still don’t know where the season will end: it should be in Abu Dhabi on the first weekend in December, a week after Qatar, but if Donald Trump’s war with Iran rules out those two then a European finale will be arranged, likely at Imola. Which should be fun, given the seasonal weather in November/December.

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De dag begon vroeg voor Zandvoortgangers (ca. 100.000) want voor 12.00 uur moest iedereen al klaarzitten voor de sprintrace. Als u er inmiddels zit: bedank de NS. Kunt u zich nu volledig richten op de baan, met oranje aan, Maxpet op, lunchbroodje met knakworst in de ene hand, beginbiertje in de andere. Of veilig en goedkoop thuis op de bank uiteraard. Alle racefans weten dat dit seizoen niet het leukste seizoen is omdat de regels de bolides hebben gecastreerd, maar er waren toch wat lichtpuntjes met het ontketende talent Antonelli en aardig wat spanning vooraan. Nu mag ook het Nederlandse publiek daar LIVE van genieten. Jammer dat Koorts Russell gisteren een goede dag had, maar gelukkig wordt die vandaag op zeker gepasseerd door Norris en Leclerc. Daarom voorspellen we Stijlloos dat Norris de sprint wint. Verstappen rijdt lekker door naar P4 en de rest zien we wel weer. En als iedereen op een gegeven moment lekker lam is gaan we nog even kwalificeren voor de race van morgen (om 16.00 uur hieronder te volgen). De zon schijnt, de vlaggen wapperen, het zand stuift op en Viaplay is graties op deze heerlijke Zandvoort-Zaterdag.
Update 11:55 - Vijf in de klok: BIER.
Update 12:00 - Een volledig Spaanse pitlane-start.
Update 12:04 - Jaaaa Max pakt weer binnenkant kombocht, levert NIKS op maar toch!
Update 12:09 - Top 4 binnen 2 seconden.
Update 12:17 - Gelukkig ook tijdens de sprintrace Viaplay-reclame.
Update 12:19 - In de reclame is Verstappen naar de staart van Piastri gereden.

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Akagawa fireworks festival
赤川花火大会

A jellyfish appeared in the night sky, it's a single large firework. Even Kamo Aquarium, also located in Tsuruoka City and famous for its jellyfish, must have been surprised.

夜空に浮かび上がったクラゲ、1発の尺玉です。同じ鶴岡市にあるクラゲで有名な加茂水族館もビックリですね。

Tsuruoka city, Yamagata pref, Japan

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Decodaira, Asagimadara
デコ平のアサギマダラ

The chestnut tiger butterfly is beautiful! In Shizuoka, where I live, the Eupatorium fortunei flowers bloom in early October, and the chestnut tiger butterflies make a brief visit around that time.

アサギマダラ、綺麗ですね！私の住む静岡では10月上旬にフジバカマが咲き、そのタイミングでアサギマダラがちょっとだけ立ち寄ってくれます。

Kitashiobaramura, Fukushima pref, Japan

ZANDVOORT (ANP) - De tribunes rond het circuit van Zandvoort stromen zaterdag vol voor de eerste sprintrace ooit in de Formule 1 in Nederland. Maximaal 105.000 racefans zullen de Brit George Russell om 12.00 uur van poleposition zien vertrekken. Max Verstappen vertrekt van de zesde positie.

De Dutch Grand Prix staat dit jaar voor de laatste keer op de Formule 1-kalender. De zaterdag en zondag zijn al enige tijd volledig uitverkocht. Na de sprintrace staat op zaterdagmiddag de kwalificatie voor de race van zondag op het programma. De GP van Zandvoort begint om 15.00 uur.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Opnieuw zijn door de regen van de afgelopen week wat droogtemaatregelen afgeschaald.

Het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland laat weten dat "we de waterpeilen terugbrengen naar het normale zomerpeil, we schakelen terug naar de gebruikelijke wateraanvoer en de vispassages gaan weer open". Dit waterschap bestrijkt het gebied van Wassenaar tot Amsterdam en van IJmuiden tot Gouda.

En Waterschap Drents Overijsselse Delta meldt dat de waterstand in de IJssel de afgelopen dagen is gestegen tot boven de kritische waarde bij gemaal Ankersmit in Deventer. Daarom is één pomp van het gemaal weer aangezet. "Dit betekent dat we weer meer water kunnen oppompen om de regio Deventer en een groot deel van Salland van water te voorzien." De tijdelijke noodpomp is uitgezet.

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Decodaira, Asagimadara
デコ平のアサギマダラ

The chestnut tiger butterfly is beautiful! In Shizuoka, where I live, the Eupatorium fortunei flowers bloom in early October, and the chestnut tiger butterflies make a brief visit around that time.

アサギマダラ、綺麗ですね！私の住む静岡では10月上旬にフジバカマが咲き、そのタイミングでアサギマダラがちょっとだけ立ち寄ってくれます。

Kitashiobaramura, Fukushima pref, Japan

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The team behind the Searching for Skylab documentary is releasing almost every surviving piece of video it could find from the mission. The collection will span three volumes and 26 DVDs, including an updated version of Searching for Skylab, which we reviewed in 2019. It gathers almost everything the team could find that was downlinked from the station or returned to Earth aboard the three Apollo spacecraft that visited it. Interested in the prelaunch preparations, briefings, and launch itself? It's all there. How about the efforts to make the station habitable after a solar array and shield were torn off during launch? Yep – that's there too. That time the crew tested maneuvering equipment inside Skylab that would become the Manned Maneuvering Unit used during early Shuttle missions? Also there. Skylab was NASA's first space station. Launched in 1973 aboard the final Saturn V to fly, its orbital workshop was based on the S-IVB rocket stage. The mission almost ended in disaster when one solar array and the station's micrometeoroid shield, which also served as a sunshade, were torn away during launch. The first crew deployed a parasol to protect the station from the Sun and freed the remaining solar array, which had been pinned down by debris. Three crews visited the station, with the last returning to Earth in 1974. Skylab re-entered in 1979, scattering debris across a sparsely populated part of Western Australia. Rather than an expanded cut of Searching for Skylab, the collection is a companion archive aimed squarely at completists. Those seeking an accessible introduction to the missions should start with the documentary; these discs are for viewers who want the surviving footage in all its raw detail. The collection is a labor of love for Dwight Steven-Boniecki, who told The Register that material gathered for Searching for Skylab supplied about half of its footage. "Intense searches uncovered a lot of previously forgotten footage. Things like rollout and launch TV were a crucial discovery to round out the sets. As it turns out, some of the footage comes exclusively from kinescopes in my possession." Steven-Boniecki recalled tracking down footage of a tour conducted by the SL-2 crew during the first crewed mission. "I located the footage but sans audio," he said. "I got in touch with a collector who had a copy of the downlink, but no technical means of recording the audio, other than recording it on their mobile phone. "So I had them point their iPhone at the screen and hold it near the loudspeaker from the projector. Using the off-the-screen footage, I was able to synchronize the audio with the pristine footage I had. I had to apply noise reduction using a learned noise print of the projector to eliminate as best as possible all extraneous noise. To top it off, the audio was already bad when it was sent down in 1973, due to signal strength during the telecast. "I opted to have subtitles for that particular segment, as understanding what the crew were saying proved to be difficult." Most experiments aboard Skylab were recorded and transmitted later. Conferences, spacewalks, and the crews' initial entry and setup tended to be broadcast live, while film canisters containing several reels from each mission returned with the astronauts. "One instance for SL-2 had me dancing for joy," recalled Steven-Boniecki. A set of observations from the Apollo Telescope Mount did not show up on any data cards in any of the official archives he searched. "It turns out a kinescope I had won in an auction years earlier contained nearly 30 minutes of solar observation TV. It was silent, so I used mission audio recorded on the same day, that closely matched the point at which this TV feed was recorded. "A similar situation arose with one of the training films where tests were done transporting items via an EVA. This reel has not been located anywhere, and I suspect the film is the only surviving master, as the reel specifically states 'Do not Project' on it." Indeed, some clips lack audio, and the video quality reflects the era. Blu-ray would have required fewer discs, but, as Steven-Boniecki noted, "the benefit of HD is lost on the sequential color TV kinescopes." We looked at Volumes 1 and 2, which cover SL-1 (the launch), SL-2 (the first crew, comprising Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz), and SL-3 (the second crew, which consisted of Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma). The forthcoming Volume 3 covers the final Skylab crew, SL-4 (Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue). A physical copy of Searching for Skylab can be found in the Volume 1 case. Steven-Boniecki isn't quite done with the story of Skylab. After plans to use the Space Shuttle to boost Skylab's orbit came to nothing, controllers reactivated the station and attempted to control its attitude ahead of re-entry. "The planned Vol. 4 set will cover the reactivation and subsequent re-entry of Skylab over Western Australia," he said. "There is some outstanding footage, including the Channel 9 Australia TV of Skylab breaking up in the night sky!" Volume 4 is still several months away while Steven-Boniecki transfers the footage and masters the discs. "Plus," he added, "it will give people time to save for it." An important factor: the sets are not cheap, although they contain a great deal of material. Each physical DVD volume costs £89.99 plus postage. Digital editions cost $69.99 for Volume 1 and $79.99 each for Volumes 2 and 3. As the team notes, this is very much for "hardcore space fans." After Volume 4, Steven-Boniecki plans to gather footage from another often-overlooked mission and Apollo's last hurrah: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). "Work has already begun," he said. "There is a LOT of unseen footage there!" ®

Optimisation is a genuinely powerful way of thinking, and within its proper territory, I would not dream of talking anyone out of it. The trouble begins when we extend it, quietly and without ever quite deciding to, from the parts of life that have settled goals to the whole of a life, whose goal is exactly the thing in question. You cannot optimise a journey before you have worked out where you are going, and the peculiar ache of the thin life is that it has mistaken motion for direction.

"I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada's negotiators to return to Ottawa. They have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal. At midnight tonight, the U.S. intends to impose a 50% tariff on roughly $28 billion of Canadian goods. Canada will match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses." - PM Mark Carney

News Reports: CBC: "American tariffs on Canadian goods take effect after trade talks fall apart" NBC: "U.S.-Canada trade talks collapse, setting new 50% tariffs in motion" FT: "Canada vows to match US tariffs as trade talks collapse" The new 50% tariffs levied on Canada by US regime leader Donald Trump will apply to numerous goods, in flagrant violation of the terms of CUSMA/USMCA.

The strike is the first on Ozon so far, after weeks of attacks targeting its larger rival, Wildberries.

The strike is the first on a facility owned by online retailer Ozon, coming after weeks of drone attacks on its larger rival Wildberries.

A rapidly developing El Nino is already reaching record-setting levels for this time of year and is expected to intensify further over the coming months. "The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future," writes renowned climate scientist James Hansen at Columbia University in New York in a newsletter sent today. Climate scientists disagree over whether it has already surpassed previous "super El Nino" events on every metric, but several say the signal is unprecedented in forecasts and could ultimately become the strongest modern event on record. New Scientist reports: There are different ways of measuring El Ninos, which occur when warm surface waters spread eastwards along the equator across the surface of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Hansen thinks the best measure is how much warmer than usual the upper 300 meters of the eastern tropical Pacific becomes. "Our preferred metric, the heat anomaly in the upper 300 meters of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean... already exceeds the 1997-98 super El Nino," he writes.

[...] What's clear is that this developing super El Nino will soon exceed previous events on all measures. "I have never seen an El Nino signal this intense in our forecasts," [Adam Scaife at the Met Office, the UK's national weather service] said in a statement released today. "If the forecast is accurate... then 2026 will far exceed our recent experience of El Nino and its worldwide climate influences."

While Hansen is comparing the developing super El Nino to other modern events for which we have direct temperature records, Hayley Fowler at Newcastle University in the UK thinks it could also exceed historical events suspected to be even larger. "The super El Nino evolving in the Pacific will likely be the biggest ever recorded, reaching or exceeding the levels of the 1877-1878 El Nino which caused widespread impacts, including famines and around 50 million deaths (3-4 percent of the global population at the time), mostly across Asia and South America," Fowler said in a statement.

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