Leave it to Amy Schumer. The funny lady watched the New York Mets play the Philadelphia Phillies with her dad and boyfriend in New York on Sunday afternoon when the infamous kiss cam zoomed in on her in the crowd at Citi Field in Queens. And when she realized the camera was on her, the…
Protests have been roiling Hong Kong for the past five months, but a significant escalation this week has seen public transportation shutdowns, violent protests across the territory and, as of Wednesday, foreign universities recalling their students out of fears for their safety. Thousands of arrests have been made, hundreds have been injured, and countless petrol…
On Tuesday night, an American exchange student in Hong Kong received an email from her university back in the States. “Urgent & Important,” read the subject field. It said that because of protests at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)—where 20-year-old Sandra had been living since August—her safety was in jeopardy and “mandatory repatriation”…
The 15-year-old Robert Irwin, the son of late conservationist Steve Irwin, spoke about the danger of climate change and his father’s legacy. “The amazing thing with our dad was that he was talking about climate change and the effects that it had kind of before it was as popular as it is now,” Irwin told…
McLaren IndyCar president Bob Fernley has left the team following its inability to put Fernando Alonso on the grid of the Indy 500. Fernley, the former deputy team principal of Force India in F1, was nominated as McLaren’s project leader to guide its return to the Brickyard as an independent concern. The Woking-based outfit confirmed…
Despite securing his second win of the season in Hockenheim, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen downplayed his championship chances, insisting Mercedes remained “miles ahead”. In a race marked by changing conditions and multiple Safety Car periods, strategy and skill played a crucial role in surviving the German Grand Prix’s chaos. But Red Bull and Verstappen worked…
Scuderia Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto believes the stewards’ decision not to take further action in the incident opposing Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is wrong, but the Italian outfit won’t contest the ruling. Ferrari was hoping the stewards would have followed the Scuderia’s view that Verstappen had caused a collision and pushed Leclerc…
Daniil Kvyat isn’t about to forget his German Grand Prix weekend that was marked by a chaotic race and his third career podium in F1, all achieved the day after becoming a father for the first time. From 14th on the grid, Kvyat struggled to hold his own before switching to intermediate tyres, mimicking the…
Max Verstappen has taken part in 92 Grand Prix races and come out victorious in seven of them, including last weekend in Germany. But astonishingly, since making his Formula 1 debut at the 2015 Australian GP in Melbourne, the 21-year-old Dutch racer has never succeeded in claiming pole position. That is, until now. “It’s incredible!”…
It was but a seventh-place finish for Daniel Ricciardo in Sunday’s British Grand Prix but the Renault driver felt the performance represented a “big result” for his team after its Austrian travails. From seventh on the grid, Ricciardo lost a spot to McLaren’s Lando Norris at the start but the Aussie kept his head down,…