Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley has confirmed that the F1 outfit has been put into administration following a court hearing in London on Friday. On Wednesday, the Silverstone-based team was named on a winding-up list of companies by the Companies Court. The originator of the petition was unknown, but the hearing was ultimately…
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has joined the growing number of Formula 1 teams to unveil their brand new team for the 2018 F1 eSports Series. Brendon Leigh, Harry Jacks, Patryk Krutyi and Dani Bereznay have been recruited as the team’s drivers for this year’s competition. Mercedes-AMG Petronas eSports will be based at the premises of the…
Lance Stroll heads to Monza hoping to build on his success in last year’s Italian Grand Prix, but will it be the Canadian’s final performance behind the wheel of a Williams? Discussions and negotiations are in full swing behind the scenes of Formula 1 as several teams contemplate potential in-season driver changes if Stroll’s anticipated…
As hackers continue to rampage through closely-guarded information systems and databases with monotonous regularity, there is a tempting new target for cyber-attacks: the world’s nuclear facilities. A warning has already been sounded by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has urged the world community to intensify efforts to protect nuclear facilities from possible attacks….
Products that have been salted, cured, or otherwise processed to enhance flavor are “carcinogenic to humans,” the Paris-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found in its report, published in the Lancet Oncology. That puts processed meat in the Group 1 carcinogenic category alongside substances like tobacco, alcohol, and plutonium. And non-processed fresh meats…
U.S. and Afghan troops did in fact break through a locked gate outside of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic last week in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where 22 patients and staff were killed in a U.S. military bombing days earlier, a Department of Defense official admitted Monday. Pentagon spokesperson Jeff Davis said the soldiers…
Theoretically, it would be a great story for the American press: an autocrat so obsessed with overthrowing the leader of a neighboring country that he authorizes his intelligence services to collaborate with terrorists in staging a lethal sarin attack to be blamed on his enemy and thus trick major powers to launch punishing bombing raids…
IDEAS Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. This is the text of a speech delivered by Ian Bremmer on November 18 at the 2019 GZERO Summit in Tokyo. China has made its decision. Beijing is building a separate system of Chinese technology—its own standards, infrastructure, and supply chains—to compete with the…
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Residents in several Bolivian cities are reporting food and gasoline shortages because of protests by supporters of President Evo Morales, who resigned and fled to Mexico after a disputed election and nationwide unrest. Bolivia’s interim government said Monday that its efforts to resupply La Paz faced challenges because demonstrators cut…
When Aurora Lo Porto noticed an alarming escalation of racist attitudes on social media in Italy during the past two years, she felt the impulse to act. The medical student had noticed that in her once-welcoming hometown of Catania, Sicily, neighbors and acquaintances had started speaking about immigrants only through harmful stereotypes and unverified data….