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Barrichello defends steering-wheel claims

Rubens Barrichello has denied suggestions he recklessly endangered his Formula One rivals at the Monaco Grand Prix




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Hill has doubts over benefits of driver stewards

Damon Hill is no longer sure former drivers should be acting as full FIA stewards at grands prix




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FIA confirms it will review safety car rules

A change to the safety car rule that caught out Michael Schumacher at the Monaco Grand Prix should be in place for the European 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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Kubica not expecting Monaco repeat

Robert Kubica has played down the chances of a repeat of his Monaco performance at this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix




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Driver and team reaction

After a gruelling race in the heat of Sepang the competitors offer their thoughts




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Hamilton 'very happy' with sixth

Lewis Hamilton confessed himself happy with sixth place at the Malaysian Grand Prix after the McLaren driver fought his way up from 20th on the grid




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Button rues early pit gamble

Jenson Button said his gamble to pit early to change to Prime tyres during the early stages of the race cost him a better result




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Vettel survives stewards' enquiry

Sebastian Vettel came out of a post-race stewards' enquiry unpunished after winning Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix




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Post-race driver rundown

A closer look at who did what at the Malaysian Grand Prix




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Ferrari rues disaster weekend

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has warned his team that its performance at the Malaysian Grand Prix was not worthy of a championship-winning outfit




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Sutil hails 'great achievement'

Adrian Sutil said his fifth place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix was a 'great achievement' for the Force India team




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Virgin achieves first race finish

Nick Wirth, Virgin Racing Technical Director, said that Lucas di Grassi's 14th place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix was great reward for everyone involved with the team




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Boullier happy with 'another great result'

Renault team principal Eric Boullier hailed Robert Kubica's fourth place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix as 'another great result' for the team




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HRT's 'fantastic day'

Team principal Colin Kolles and driver Karun Chandhok both described HRT's double finish as 'fantastic' after Chandhok and team-mate Bruno Senna finished 15th and 16th respectively in Malaysia




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Lotus taking positives

Heikki Kovalainen says the Malaysian Grand Prix was a positive race for the team as both cars made it to the finish line, albeit in 17th and 18th positions




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Kobayashi surprised by retirement

Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi said he was surprised with the engine failure that ended his Malaysian Grand Prix




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Alguersuari happy to score first points

Jaime Alguersuari said that securing his first points finish in Formula One had given him confidence for the future




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Williams off the pace, admits Hulkenberg

Williams new boy Nico Hulkenberg admitted that his team has a lot of work ahead of them after finishing tenth in the Malaysian Grand Prix




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Button working flat-out to resolve handling problems

Jenson Button has flown back to Woking to work in McLaren's simulator in the hope of resolving some of the set-up problems he experienced at the Malaysian Grand Prix




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Renault unhappy with Hamilton's weaving

Renault team boss Eric Boullier believes Lewis Hamilton should have been penalised for weaving on the straight ahead of Vitaly Petrov during Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix




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FIA clarifies position on adjustable ride heights

The FIA has clarified the rules on adjusting ride heights between qualifying and the race, after paddock rumours suggested Red Bull was running a self-altering system




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Emirates Airline reports 21% increase in full-year profit; sees coming year severely impacted by coronavirus pandemic

The Emirates Airline and Group chairman does not see air travel returning to normal for at least another 18 months.




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Anthony Fauci will follow 'modified' quarantine after exposure to White House aide with coronavirus

Fauci is the third high-ranking member of the White House coronavirus task force to enter some form of quarantine.




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Coronavirus live updates: India infection cases top 60,000

India's health minister said the country is carrying out 95,000 tests per day.




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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly no longer an advisor to the company

While Schmidt might not have his technical advisor role anymore, he remains an Alphabet shareholder after leaving the board seat he held for 18 years.




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Tesla files complaint in federal court claiming 'no rational basis' for factory shutdown

Tesla alleged in a lawsuit that California's Alameda County, where the automaker has a factory, went against state rules and "created a legal quagmire."




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Tesla prepared to move out of California amid fight over factory shutdown, Musk tweets

Tesla had wanted to start production again in Fremont, California, on Friday afternoon, but officials said the company did not have authorization to break shelter-in-place rules. The plant is where the company makes vehicles for Europe and North America.




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Thousands attend Belarus military parade despite pandemic – video

Thousands of people, including elderly veterans of the second world war, turned out for Belarus’s Victory Day parade despite the coronavirus epidemic. Images from the parade showed large crowds as the country’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko, boasted of holding the only parade in the former Soviet Union to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany

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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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South Korea takes first cautious steps into a post-Covid world

Some bars and restaurants are open – with distancing – and schools are starting back, but the country isn’t taking freedom for granted

On a recent evening in Seoul, colleagues and students sat around plastic tables outside restaurants, their chatter interrupted only by the filling of tiny glasses with soju spirit.

They had something to celebrate. Last week, South Korea, once the hardest-hit country outside China, took a cautious first step into a post-coronavirus world, less than four months since it reported its first case.

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For God and Country review: Christian case for Trump is a thin read indeed

Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president

Ralph Reed, an evangelical leader and conservative political activist, first met Donald Trump in 2011, after being “coincidentally” seated next to Ivanka Trump at a meeting. The following year, he writes now, at his own Faith & Freedom conference, Trump “bounded on stage to the thumping strains of ‘Money, money, money’ from For the Love of Money, a song by the 70s soul group the O’Jays”.

Related: Who is Kayleigh McEnany – and why is she saying nice things about Donald Trump?

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Only 50% of Britons would download NHS tracing app – poll

Teething problems threaten the effectiveness of government ‘test, track and trace’ strategy

Just over half the population is likely to download the NHS app developed to track and trace cases of coronavirus, new polling suggests, amid concerns that test result delays could hamper its effectiveness.

A narrow majority of 52% of people told an Opinium poll for the Observer that they were likely to download the app, which alerts users if they have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus.

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Elon Musk threatens to move Tesla HQ out of California over Covid-19 restrictions

Tesla sues state authorities over lockdown after Fremont factory stopped from reopening

Tesla is suing local authorities in California as the electric carmaker pushes to reopen its factory there and chief executive Elon Musk threatens to move the company’s headquarters to Texas or Nevada.

Musk has been pushing to reopen Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory after Alameda County’s health department said the carmaker must not reopen because local lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in effect.

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Two-week quarantine will cripple us, aviation industry warns Boris Johnson

Air travel bosses want assurances that science is driving the move, and that a clear exit strategy is in place

A two-week quarantine period for all travellers arriving in Britain risks devastating an aviation industry already crippled by the Covid-19 outbreak, Boris Johnson is being warned.

It is understood that the 14-day quarantine period will be announced by the prime minister, alongside a slight loosening of the lockdown measures that were introduced to slow the spread of the virus. Mass quarantine upon arrival has not previously been used as part of Britain’s response.

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Hundreds queue for food parcels in wealthy Geneva

Over 1,000 poorer working people and undocumented migrants waited for hours for basics

More than 1,000 people queued on Saturday to get free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland.

The line of people stretched for more than 1km outside an ice rink where volunteers were handing out about 1,500 parcels to people who started queuing as early as 5am.

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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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Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories.

John Byron Kuhner’s Leo Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories Will Devastate Your Children and Make You Want to Die begins: The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, also a gentleman farmer, operated an ancestral estate called Yasnaya Polyana that included a small school for the children of the peasants who labored there. Tolstoy was known to drop by from […]





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भारत बायोटेक के साथ मिलकर ICMR बनाएगा कोरोना की वैक्सीन

नई दिल्ली। देश में कोरोना वायरस महामारी का कहर कम होने का नाम नहीं ले रहा है. देश में 56 हजार से ज्‍यादा मामले सामने आ चुके हैं। कोरोना वायरस से निपटने के लिए हर मोर्चे पर तैयारी की जा रही




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चिंताजनक: पिछले 24 घंटों में आईटीबीपी के 6 और CISF के 13 जवानों में कोरोना संक्रमण की पुष्टि

नई दिल्ली। कोरोना वायरस के चलते देशभर में लागू किए गए लॉकडाउन का यह तीसरा चरण है। केंद्र और राज्य सरकारों की हर संभव कोशिशों के बावजूद कोरोना मरीजों का आंकड़ा तेजी से बढ़ रहा है। कोरोना वायरस महामारी ने अब




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VIDEO: आतंकवाद पर फिर बेनकाब पाकिस्तान, हिजबुल प्रमुख ने खुलेआम आतंकी नायकू के लिए रखी शोक सभा

नई दिल्ली। आतंकवाद को लेकर पाकिस्तान का असली चेहरा एक बार फिर दुनिया के सामने आ गया है। आतंकी गतिविधियों के खात्मे को लेकर दोहरा रवैया रखने वाला पाकिस्तान आज भी आतंकवादियों का समर्थन कर रहा है। इसका ताजा उदाहरण पाकिस्तान




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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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Разработчики стека шрифтов Linux отказались от поддержки мягкого сглаживания

Некоторые пользователи, которые используют метод хинтинга "hintfull", могли заметить, что при переходе с версии Pango 1.43 на 1.44 отображение некоторых семейств шрифтов ухудшилось или полностью сломалось.