Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks Monday during a news conference at the State Department, where he announced the administration will rescind a 1978 department legal opinion that viewed settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as inconsistent with international law. Updated at 9:02 p.m. ET Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday the Trump administration’s…
Read moreTens of Thousands March Against Global Elites Ahead of G7
As representatives of some of the most powerful countries in the world prepare to gather for their annual Group of Seven (G7) meeting, this time at a castle in the German town of Elmau, tens of thousands marched through nearby Munich on Thursday to protest the summit’s politics of “neo-liberal economic policies, war and militarization,…
Read moreFacial Recognition-Fest: UK Police Scan 100,000 Concertgoers
Just in time for facial recognition technology to lose its few privacy allies in the U.S., police in the U.K. demonstrated just what that kind of mass surveillance of the public might look like in reality. Over the weekend, Leicestireshire police planted a series of “strategically placed cameras” throughout the grounds of an outdoor concert—ironically…
Read moreRaikkonen ‘happy’ with Halo on Ferrari’s new SF71H
Kimi Raikkonen insists that he is happy with the way that the Halo driver protection device had been incorporated into Ferrari’s 2018 car. The Finn was talking at Ferrari’s media presentation of the new SF71H, which features a Halo coloured in Ferrari red to better blend in. “The Halo, it looks so different,” acknowledged Raikkonen….
Read more‘Both Red Bull drivers at fault,’ says unhappy Marko
A visibly very upset Helmut Marko held both Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo accountable for the pair’s crash in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The Red Bull team mates were locked in a thrilling battle at the outset, racing wheel-to-wheel and even banging wheels on occasions. The hard racing was marginal at times but came to…
Read moreFood Smart Cities: Join the Food Revolution
We have an epidemic in India of food and lifestyle related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, hypertension, infertility and heart attacks. India is ‘Diabetes Nation’—with the number of diagnosed cases jumping from 8.2 lakh in 2004 (resulting in 2.6 Lakh deaths) to 180 lakh diagnosed in 2012 (7 lakh deaths). In 2010 alone, India spent USD…
Read moreBig fine for Ferrari; 30-second penalties for Hartley and Perez
Ferrari has been handed a 50,000 euro fine for the unsafe pit stop release that led to the injury of one of the team personnel. Kimi Raikkonen came in on lap 35 for a new set of tyres, However, a problem led to the car being waved out despite the left rear wheel not having…
Read moreGasly: Honda is ‘pushing flat out’ on ‘proper’ engine
Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly says that the team’s new engine provider is working flat out to prove itself. Honda’s previous partnership with McLaren collapsed at the end of 2017 after three disappointing seasons. The Japanese manufacturer has since made a new start with Toro Rosso as its works team in 2018. Despite a promising show…
Read moreHaas needs to make its own luck – Steiner
Haas’ early season form has put the US outfit among F1’s top mid-field contenders, but luck has enabled both Renault and McLaren to deliver more points, says team boss Guenther Steiner. Haas dominated its mid-field rivals at the outset in Melbourne, but its double pit stop blunder deprived the team of a significant haul of…
Read moreCoulthard backs new all-female single-seater series for 2019!
Thirteen-time GP winner David Coulthard is backing a new all-female single-seater championship – W Series – set to launch in 2019 to help female drivers in their quest to reach F1. The series will kick off in May 2019 and include six 30-minute rounds scheduled on European tracks, with drivers racing identical Tatuus F3-spec cars….
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