Just a finish of eighth place was needed to secure the four points to land Hamilton out of reach of his last remaining title rival - Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. The Brit finished in second.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Formula One's image of oil and engines, noise and smells, is to be cast off as owners Liberty Media promise to make grand prix racing net zero carbon by 2030.

Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Hain has written to Downing Street calling for Hamilton to be rewarded with an upgrade on the MBE he received after he won his maiden championship in 2008.

Naturally, the whole sporting shindig began with a song, a mournful dirge to my ear. The BBC, we have long realised, has given up comprehensive TV coverage of games.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lewis Hamilton's extension to his London mansion was rejected by artists who claimed it would 'disturb' their 'working and living conditions'.

Lewis Hamilton has reignited a row with David Hockney (pictured) over an £18million west London home that the Formula One champion has allegedly never set foot in.

EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN McEVOY: F1 giants McLaren became the sport's first team to place staff on furlough, with their drivers volunteering to take pay cuts themselves.

Madonna revealed she would like a meeting with Pope Francis in a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Denton which aired on Tuesday night. 

The 83-year-old pontiff has scrapped an audience with tech chiefs including Microsoft and IBM executives today, a day after calling off an appearance at Mass in Rome.

Pope Francis was seen delivering his weekly Angelus prayer to an empty Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City this morning, as Italians stay home to combat the spread of coronavirus .

Charles Lawson of Pineville, Kentucky, was diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia after driving to the Pentagon with multiple weapons in his truck on Tuesday.

El Paso shooting suspect Patrick Crusius, 21, says he purchased his AK-47 rifle from Romania and his ammo from Russia in his August 3 attack in a Walmart that left 22 dead.

Pilot Anthony Vella 'craved' a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so flew his paramotor to El Paso's Walmart, Texas, to get ingredients and made the snack mid air, in clip posted on September 20.

Officer Kenneth Martin of the Fort Smith Police Department was named Employee of the Month after purchasing a shoplifting couple's groceries in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Thomas Markle has spoken exclusively to Channel 5 in a new television documentary and described Meghan and Harry's behaviour as embarrassing.

Bodycam footage shows the moment an officer approaches Emily Rae Stallard at a Tampa, Florida, Walmart while she is holding a lighter. She later denies the bomb-making materials are hers.

Stephen Hutchins, 37, of Conley, Georgia, was taken into custody by Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies on Sunday after leading them on a high-speed chase. He allegedly shoplifted a Walmart.

A wild fight broke out between Antwunette Echols (in white coat), Cia Gatlin (in black pants) and Teauna Lewis (in grey pants) inside the Davenport, Iowa, Walmart on Thursday.

The woman was paying for her items at an outlet in Yreka, California last week and reportedly became enraged after accusing the cashier of overcharging her.

Anna Cardwell, 25, made the surprise disclosure for the benefit of her 184k Instagram followers in a post on Thursday.

Sandra Kunz, 72, who worked at the Walmart Supercenter in Aurora, Colorado, passed away from complications related to the coronavirus on April 20.

Anna Campbell, 26, originally from Lewes, East Sussex, died fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian city of Afrin after it was hit by an air strike in March 2018.

Gold Star husband Joe Kent said the US only partnered with Syrian Kurds to defeat ISIS and insists America now has 'absolutely nothing to gain' from being in the region.

Figures from government ministers reveal that around 40 fighters have been convicted of terror acts - but most of those were crimes committed on British soil.

Donald Trump has boasted that the U.S. military raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that led to his death is a bigger triumph that Barack Obama's strike against Osama bin Laden.

US President Donald Trump has given a detailed account of how al-Baghdadi was chased by special forces and army dogs before getting trapped in a tunnel during the raid in Syria.

Diane Foley thanked Donald Trump via the James Foley Foundation page after the president announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday from Washington DC. 

Charlotte Coleman, who daughter, Olivia (pictured), died in the Manchester Arena attack of 2017 has praised US soldiers after they cornered the ISIS leader and he detonated his own suicide vest.

President Donald Trump revealed that U.S. troops had recovered 'highly sensitive material' during the night-time raid in Syria which ended when the jihadist leader blew himself up with a suicide vest.

After President Trump announced Sunday morning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog' in an overnight raid Robert J. O'Neill took to Twitter to bid adieu to the ISIS leader.

Donald Trump charged Adam Schiff with being the 'biggest leaker in Washington,' claiming this as the reason he did not share plans of the raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's hideout with Congress.

Kurdish guards are 'on high alert' today as they prepare for possible riots or attacks on the prison camps where thousands of ISIS supporters are being held (one of the prisons in Syria is seen above).

Trump described Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as 'whimpering and crying and screaming' when he killed himself in his Syrian compound. But the president did not have live video or audio footage.

Lieutenant General Scott Howell, of Cadiz, Kentucky, has been credited with helping plan and lead the dramatic raid to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria on Saturday night.

Donald Trump said on Monday he may release the footage of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi amid questions about his description of it.

Despite knowing US intelligence was closing in on a location for Baghdadi, President Trump still ordered US troops to be withdrawn from the volatile region of northern Syria earlier this month.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley couldn't confirm President Trump's account of how ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was 'whimpering' before he died.

Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said sensitive information was found when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by US forces in Syria on Sunday.

James Foley's mother has said that President Trump phoned her after the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid on Sunday that killed the ISIS leader to personally inform her the terror leader was dead.

Mohammed Ali Sajet, one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's closest confidants, provided key information that led U.S. forces to the ISIS leader's compound in Syria.

Kurdish intelligence operatives who supervised the informant passed the intelligence on to American forces before they raided Baghdadi's safe house in Syria on Saturday

Steven Sotloff, a 31-year-old freelance journalist taken hostage in Syria in 2013, was murdered on camera the following year by the ISIS militant notoriously known as Jihadi John.

The mole, a man of unidentified nationality, was actually inside al-Baghdadi's Syrian compound when U.S. Delta Forces raided it and killed the terror leader on Saturday.

President Donald Trump stood alongside Recep Tayyip Erdogan and listened during a joint press conference in the East Room as he described returning the letter.

Daniel Macleod, 36, of Crawley, claims that he lashed out in self-defence after he managed to disarm Mr Deghayes (pictured) who had come at him wielding a knife.

Bouthaina Shaaban, Assad's top adviser, has said that US President Donald Trump's plans to expand military operations in the country to acquire oil was like 'talking about stealing it'.

Nazh Chendi barely spoke a word of English when she arrived in Britain as a refugee from Syria eight years ago. She is now studying medicine at Cambridge University.

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls meets Karsten, 55, from Bremen in tonight's Travels In Euroland on BBC2, to find out why the gay man voted for far right party, Alternative for Germany.

In a post on Twitter, the father demonstrated the game which he has devised to protect his daughter from the 'psychological crisis' caused by near-constant explosions.

Camila Cabello took some time on her birthday on Tuesday to think about those a lot less fortunate than her - namely, the youth of Syria.