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Schumacher disappointed with eighth on grid

Mercedes' Michael Schumacher felt he could have qualified higher than eighth at the Brazilian Grand Prix, but lost tyre temperature making way for traffic ahead of his flying lap




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Schumacher allowed Rosberg past

Michael Schumacher said that he let team-mate Nico Rosberg past because he was in a better position to challenge Jenson Button ahea




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Whitmarsh congratulates Red Bull on title

Although they may have been bitter rivals for the majority of the 2010 season, there is a deep respect between McLaren and Red Bull according to Martin Whitmarsh




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Hamilton fined and reprimanded for running out of fuel

Lewis Hamilton has kept his pole position after a post-qualifying stewards investigation in Montreal




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Ross Brawn rues Schumacher tyre gamble

Mercedes boss Ross Brawn admitted that a gamble in trying to use Michael Schumacher's softer tyres for too long cost his team more points the Canadian Grand Prix




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Massa clash was a racing accident - Liuzzi

Tonio Liuzzi believes his first lap clash with Felipe Massa at the Canadian Grand Prix was a racing accident but admitted it cost him dear




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Massa laments 'horrible' Canadian Grand Prix

Felipe Massa was left to ponder what might have been after two separate racing incidents ruined his chances of a points finish




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Schumacher escapes penalty for tangling with Massa

Michael Schumacher was not penalised for his part in colliding with Felipe Massa while racing for position towards the end of the Canadian Grand Prix




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Another problematic race for Williams

Sam Michael was left to lament yet another problem filled race for the struggling Williams team in the Canadian Grand Prix




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Fry has no concerns about Schumacher's form

Mercedes CEO Nick Fry has no concerns about the performance of Michael Schumacher at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix




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Media hits out at 'sad postscript ' Schumacher

Two races into his much-publicised comeback and Michael Schumacher is already feeling the heat after finishing tenth out of 14 finishers at the Australian Grand Prix.




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Alonso dismisses Schumacher claims as 'nonsense'

Fernando Alonso has revealed that Michael Schumacher suspected he deliberately held up the German during qualifying in Melbourne




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Hamilton makes peace with McLaren

Lewis Hamilton admitted he "understood" the pit-stop strategy which left him fuming in the closing stages of the Australian Grand Prix




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Australian start time to be made earlier

An earlier race start time for next year's Australian Grand Prix is likely, Michael Schumacher has revealed




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Australian GP boss labels F1 drivers 'prima donnas'

The boss of the Australian Grand Prix Ron Walker has labelled Formula One drivers "lazy prima donnas" after they complained about low light levels at this year's race




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Magnussen not ready to deputise for Alonso in Melbourne

Kevin Magnussen says he would not feel fully prepared to race for McLaren in Australia if Fernando Alonso is declared unfit for the season opener




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Hamilton laments nightmare weekend so far

Lewis Hamilton said the Japanese Grand Prix had so far been one of the worst weekends of his season




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Schumacher happy with sixth in Japan

Michael Schumacher said that sixth place was the best he could have achieved after achieving his best result of the season to date




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Massa blames ill fortune for disappointing Sunday

Felipe Massa refused to take the blame for his move on the opening lap that led to his retirement, instead blaming bad luck




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Montezemolo expects Massa to bounce back

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is expecting Felipe Massa to return to form in the final three races and get amongst the five title challengers




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Nasr quickest as McLaren-Honda makes limited progress

The third day of pre-season testing in Jerez saw Sauber's Felipe Nasr at the top of the timesheets, while McLaren made limited progress with its new Honda-powered MP4-30 and Red Bull were delayed by a lengthily Renault engine change




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Schumacher demoted to 12th after safety-car penalty

Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn said they were confident there would be no penalty after Schumacher's last-lap overtake of Fernando Alonso




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Mercedes appeals Schumacher penalty

Mercedes will appeal the stewards' decision to penalise Michael Schumacher for overtaking Fernando Alonso at the final corner of the Monaco Grand Prix




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Mercedes ponders Schumacher appeal

Mercedes has not decided whether to proceed with its appeal against the decision of the stewards at the Monaco Grand Prix




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Loose manhole cover caused Barrichello's crash

A loose manhole cover was responsible for causing Rubens Barrichello's spectacular accident in the Monaco Grand Prix




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Much work to do, says Massa

Felipe Massa admitted the team has much hard work to do in the weeks ahead if it is to hold onto the lead of the drivers' and constructors' standings




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George Christensen revives diplomatic spat with threat to summons Chinese ambassador

Coalition backbencher wants to know why ambassador threatened a trade boycott after Australia called for international inquiry into coronavirus

Diplomatic tensions between Australia and China may be reignited with an extraordinary threat by a Coalition backbencher to summons the Chinese ambassador to answer questions from a parliamentary committee.

While the attempt to compel the ambassador to appear at a hearing in Canberra is almost certain to fail because of diplomatic immunity, the push interrupts a pause in public sparring between the two governments over the response to Covid-19.

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May 10, 2020: So You Want To Write A Game

Not going to lie to you, it's a sweet gig, but there are a LOT of things you should know before you take the plunge.

Luckily, our pals at Kobold Press have compiled many of them into the new edition of their fantastic book, Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design, Second Edition. You can buy physical or digital versions at that link, and the lessons are good reading even if you aren't looking to publish a game, but just run a campaign with friends.

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Warehouse 23 News: Your Own Dungeons, Just A Doodle Away!

Draw some cards, then draw your way through a dungeon – it's Deadly Doodles! This fast-paced fun game for 1-4 players is available in both print and PDF forms, thanks to Warehouse 23!




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Madhya Pradesh Accident: नरसिंहपुर में ट्रक पलटने से 5 मजदूरों की मौत, 11 घायल

नरसिंहपुर। एक दुखद खबर मध्य प्रदेश से है, यहां के नरसिंहपुर जिले की सीमा पर एक बड़े सड़क हादसे में पांच मजदूरों की मौत हो गई है और 11 मजदूर घायल हो गए हैं, प्राप्त जानकारी के मुताबिक शनिवार देर रात




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Seoul mayor orders bars, clubs shut after new Covid-19 cases in South Korea

South Korea's capital has ordered the closure of all clubs and bars after a burst of new cases sparked fears of a second coronavirus wave as President Moon Jae-in urged the public to remain vigilant.





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Woman Takes Nuclear Revenge Against Company

This woman took a truly nuclear revenge against a company that was up to all kinds of no good. The best part about this revenge, other than the fact that she brought justice to the company, was her added touch of subscribing everyone at the company to hundreds of different email alerts. She left the operation in complete and utter chaos. 




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Canadian Woman Arrested And Jailed In US For Driving With Canadian License

The Ontario woman is looking for an apology from the police in Georgia, who arrested, handcuffed, and charged her because she was driving with a Canadian license. No idea what those cops were thinking. Sheesh. 




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Nightmare Fuel Telepresence ‘Bot May Become Your Last Friend

After this pandemic thing is all said and done, historians will look back on this period from many different perspectives. The one we’re most interested in of course will concern the creativity that flourished in the petri dish of anxiety, stress, and boredom that have come as unwanted side dishes …read more




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Darkly daring: dramatically gothic lips

Try a dark matt lipstick, but don’t be scary

Unless you are into goth, you wouldn’t look to The Addams Family for beauty inspiration. However, there’s a modern way to go there without alarming anyone on Zoom, and the fresh take at the Max Mara SS20 show makes the case. If you find the requisite black lips intimidating, replace with a less macabre deep burgundy or aubergine. Swap matt alabaster skin for something a little less lifeless – a decent tinted moisturiser will warm things up. Finish with a pastel wash of colour across the eyes. Immediately, everything looks less intense. Morticia would be mortified.

1. Jimmy Choo Seduction Lipstick in Purple Night £50, harrods.com
2. Huda Beauty Pastel Obsessions £27, selfridges.com
3. Laura Mercier Caviar Mascara £22, spacenk.com
4. Smashbox Always On Liquid Lips in Disorderly £19, smashbox.co.uk
5. Glossier Skywash Eyeshadow £15, glossier.com

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Never Rarely Sometimes Always review - profoundly moving abortion drama

Eliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story about a US teenager seeking a termination is heartbreaking and painfully authentic

From Eliza Hittman, the remarkable writer-director of It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, comes another drama that manages to blend the gritty authenticity of a documentary with the poetic sensibility of pure cinema. In her impressively measured and beautifully understated third feature, Hittman tells an oft-hidden story of reproductive rights – an age-old issue that has urgent contemporary relevance. Yet Never Rarely Sometimes Always never feels polemical. On the contrary, it is perhaps best described as a perfectly observed portrait of female friendship; a coming-of-age story with road-movie inflections, piercingly honest and deeply affecting.

Feature first-timer (and accomplished musician) Sidney Flanigan is superb as Autumn, a 17-year-old from Pennsylvania who discovers that she cannot get an abortion in her home town without parental consent. Quietly desperate, Autumn reluctantly confides in her more outgoing cousin Skylar (rising star Talia Ryder, soon to be seen in Spielberg’s West Side Story), who agrees to accompany her across state lines to New York. The pair imagine that the trip will be brief but find themselves spending days and nights on the streets, waiting for the procedure that Autumn was denied in Pennsylvania.

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Himesh Patel: ‘It felt odd making a show about a pandemic’

The former EastEnders actor talks about shooting a pilot on a deadly virus, telling British stories with a difference – and how playing a bit part as a pigeon changed his career

The so-called “curse of EastEnders” – the struggle for soap actors to transition into more prestigious dramatic roles after leaving the show – always weighed heavily on the mind of Himesh Patel.

So when he decided to leave the soap in 2016, after nine years playing Tamwar Masood, he knew whichever role he chose next would be critical in breaking typecast, perhaps even defining the rest of his career. He went to a friend whose theatre company, withWings, took inventive musical adaptations to the Edinburgh fringe. That year they were doing Le Bossu, a retelling of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Patel mentioned that he wanted to get out of his comfort zone and do some theatre. “He came back to me and said, ‘Cool, well, I can offer you the role of a pigeon.’”

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Can Iraq's new PM, and the region, escape Suleimani's long shadow?

Rise of spy chief to premier comes as Iran struggles to maintain momentum months after killing of powerful general

In late February, six weeks after the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani was killed by a US drone, a candidate for Iraq’s vacant premiership was nervously preparing for an interview that would secure him the role.

Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s rise from intelligence chief to the seat of national power had been unorthodox, as was the journey he had just made – from Baghdad, where high-stakes appointments like his had mostly been made over the past decade.

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Close your eyes and imagine seeing the art world's treasures as if for the first time | Laura Cumming

The museums of Europe have begun reopening their doors to art lovers desperate to see old favourites and new works

I am cursing my bad luck not to be stuck in lockdown in the Prado. A friend wishes she had stowed away in a closet before they bolted the doors of the National Gallery. Others would give anything for a week in the Rijksmuseum, a day in the Uffizi, an hour with Rembrandt or Vermeer, even just a few minutes with a Samuel Palmer moonscape in the Ashmolean or a Turner sunrise at Tate Britain. Museums are places of the heart.

We see art in time and place; we cannot see it otherwise. Of course there are other whereabouts of the works we most long to set eyes on again, during this evil pandemic: the cave paintings at Chaumet in France, Fra Angelico’s Annunciation in a Florentine monastery, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty coiled in the glistening waters of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. These were all chosen in an unofficial and entirely self-selecting Twitter survey (mine), along with Leonardo’s The Last Supper and James Turrell’s Deer Shelter Skyspace, framing the blue heavens above Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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Working with women makes the world a better place | Torsten Bell

Research finds that both male and female judges are more likely to employ female clerks if they have worked with women

Discrimination over jobs is bad. Bad for those discriminated against, and bad for society, as talent is wasted and divisions sown.

Women reaching senior leadership positions in organisations is generally a sign of success for gender equality – but it can also lead to increased equality elsewhere. That is the important finding from new research on the (not famously diverse) world of judges. The study looks at the hiring of law clerks by senior judges in the US.

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Itoje and Mako Vunipola will stay at Saracens, believes England coach Mitchell

  • Sarries players urged to focus on international future
  • ‘I’m quite confident that they will make good decisions’

Maro Itoje and Mako Vunipola have been urged to make “good decisions” for their international careers by the England defence coach, John Mitchell, with both players yet to commit to Saracens next season.

Itoje had hoped to receive dispensation to continue his England career while spending next season on loan in France at Racing 92 rather than in the Championship with relegated Saracens. However, that move was blocked by the other Premiership clubs since it did not meet “exceptional circumstances”, the loophole that allows England’s head coach, Eddie Jones, to select overseas-based players in the event of an injury crisis.

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PSG's record £198m splurge on Neymar will stand for years as symbol of crisis | Jonathan Wilson

Elite clubs will prey on desperate ones in the hunt for bargains as the game reels from its biggest financial hit since the 1930s

Even at the time – in 2017 – the fee Paris Saint-Germain paid Barcelona for Neymar was extraordinary: £198m was 125% more than the previous record, set a year earlier when Manchester United had signed Paul Pogba from Juventus. Transfer records simply aren’t broken by that amount in the usual run of things. It was a statement signing, a deal designed not only to land the player, but to emphasise PSG’s financial power, to highlight their status as a super-club while inflating the market to a level at which only the mega-rich could compete.

Three years on, with football suspended across the globe and major leagues desperately seeking ways to get games on to stave off financial apocalypse, the world looks very different. A model predicated on constant growth has received an abrupt shock.

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Silverstone marshals wary of extra risks to F1 going behind closed doors

Volunteers who help the British Grand Prix run smoothly want to get back trackside but questions remain on safety and testing

“We are like one big family,” says Carolyn Doyle of the bond between the marshals of the British Grand Prix. “We are there because we love it and we want to achieve the same thing – that’s what makes it really special.”

Much as it does bring great pleasure to this selfless collective, the sport knows their presence is invaluable. As Silverstone considers hosting two consecutive races behind closed doors in July, the volunteer marshals are having to consider the new realities imposed on Formula One by the coronavirus crisis.

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'They lynched him': Ahmaud Arbery's father on the killing of his son

Marcus Arbery Sr says Ahmaud’s death at the hands of two white men, while he was out for a run, was an act of racism

Marcus Arbery Sr says his son was just like him, fit and athletic.

Related: ‘Every stone will be uncovered’: how Georgia officials failed the Ahmaud Arbery case

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Rosena Allin-Khan: 'If Matt Hancock found my tone difficult, that's on him'

The Labour MP and A&E doctor on her run-in with the health secretary and her shifts on the hospital frontline

When Rosena Allin-Khan stood up in the House of Commons last Tuesday to address the health secretary, Matt Hancock, she anticipated being stonewalled. She didn’t expect to become the story.

In her other life, the MP for Tooting is an A&E doctor and intensive care specialist and has been working 12-hour hospital shifts throughout the pandemic. Allin-Khan reported that the government’s failures were contributing to a greater loss of life and she wanted answers on its testing strategy. The health secretary awkwardly responded by suggesting that Allin-Khan’s testimony was untrue and moreover, that she “might do well to take a leaf out of the shadow secretary of state’s book in terms of tone”.

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I’ve craved a slower pace of life – and want to make it permanent | Dear Mariella

When lockdown has ended, we must continue to live simpler lives to benefit both us and the planet, says Mariella Frostrup

The dilemma I know we’re in the middle of a global pandemic with the economy knackered and the free world led by a man like Trump. I know our freedom has been temporarily taken away from us. But I’m dreading the end of lockdown.

For years I’ve craved a slower pace of life. Lockdown has allowed me to spend time with my family – and not on the relentless promise of success in my career. It has allowed me to play and learn with my child, rather than rush to drop-off or pick-up at wraparound care. It has allowed me to walk in woodland rather than standing on a crowded commuter train. In many ways it has been idyllic.

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The 'United States of Europe' speech that Winston Churchill so nearly made

A recently discovered document sheds new light on the wartime leader’s ‘iron curtain’ address

It was a speech that electrified the world, one that coined a phrase that was to characterise the political era that followed the second world war. But its content could have been very different, reveals a document freshly unearthed by a historian researching the life of Winston Churchill.

On 5 March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri, before a huge crowd which included the US president, Harry Truman, Britain’s wartime leader issued a famous description of the political division that was opening across Europe between the Soviet-dominated Communist east and the western democracies. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,” Churchill declared, “an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

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As Germans prepare for foreign holidays, I console myself with travel books

We might have to watch the rest of Europe return to the beaches while we’re still stuck at home

In the past month some mundane words seem to have regained their old mystery. “Travel” is one. In my dutiful daily hour on the rusting exercise bike in the garden I’ve been listening to favourite audiobooks of the remarkable far away: Jan Morris in Venice, Peter Matthiesson in the Himalayas, Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia. In the absence of the possibility of any kind of abroad the great descriptive passages seem doubly evocative.

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