
Hamilton Takes First Ferrari Pole in Mexico City
Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second to top Mexico City qualifying. Kimi Antonelli, fourth, can still clinch the title on Sunday.
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Lewis Hamilton beat George Russell by nine-thousandths of a second to top Mexico City qualifying. Kimi Antonelli, fourth, can still clinch the title on Sunday.

Two men in armour charged at each other on rented e-bikes in east London. Lime had already said its bikes are not for jousting.

Police in London arrested 139 people at a demonstration backing Palestine Action, a group banned under terrorism law. Officers had warned that attending would mean arrest.

Researchers at IBM linked two superconducting processors by cables around 80 cm long. The links held up through repeated warming and cooling.

The Chancellor would not say young workers will be paid the same minimum wage as adults before the next election. He also signalled tough choices on departmental spending.

The exchange says it has replaced most of the stolen assets and plans to reopen withdrawals on Sunday. The FBI named North Korea as responsible.

Both Brentford goals went in off Nikola Milenkovic. Oliver Glasner then spent 14 minutes saying Nottingham Forest must change.

Network Rail says Paddington will shut from Christmas Day to New Year's Eve, with Elizabeth line and Great Western services cut back until early January.

A Cardiff solicitor who billed Cancer Research UK for wills he never wrote has received a suspended sentence. The charity says the lost money could have paid for 48 biopsies.

A single paragraph in the 166-page budget creates a protected category for projects whose future savings outweigh their cost. Nobody yet knows what will qualify.

Jamie Carragher said his language about Aston Villa was "clumsy and wrong". Villa had said on Friday that they would start legal action over his podcast comments.

The first direct flight from Copenhagen landed in the "City of Icebergs" as Greenland pushes to grow tourism.

Styles played the first of two Halloween concerts at Madison Square Garden and sang the Stevie Wonder song from his 2010 audition in matching clothes.

The singer joked about weak ticket sales on her US tour by dressing as a seating plan covered in blue dots.

The chancellor says new offshore wind bids will be signed off only if the grid can take all their power without raising costs for consumers.