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1. French government on verge of collapse as PM Barnier faces no-confidence vote  The Independent
2. France’s Looming Dilemma: No Confidence, No Government, No Budget  The New York Times
3. French government faces no-confidence vote on Wednesday  The Guardian
4. French government heading towards collapse as PM Barnier faces no-confidence vote  Sky News
5. Marine Le Pen threatens to bring down French government over pension tax  The Telegraph

European companies are more bold in addressing the Chinese government with difficult issues than many of the elected leaders of Europe.

2JGF0WH I wish my family was with me this Christmas. a young woman using a laptop and crying on the sofa during Christmas at home.

More than 100 years ago, a ship left a Nova Scotia harbor carrying a precious cargo that few today would recognize as valuable. The crew, full of optimism, was bound for Wales hoping that the metal they carried would lead them to riches. Unfortunately, they never made it. A German U-boat lurking in the cold Atlantic waters fired a torpedo and the ship went down, sinking to the ocean floor along with its mysterious cargo. At the time, the metal seemed unimportant, but its true value wasn’t fully realized until later. Читать дальше...

It seems that Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to transform the FBI into the president’s billy club, hasn’t quite won over all of the president-elect’s allies, according to MSNBC.

British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period, a new report shows

Biology textbooks may need a revision, say scientists, who present new evidence that an arm-like structure of mammalian brain cells may be a different shape than scientists have assumed for more than a century.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Closing arguments will begin on Monday in the trial of a tech consultant in the 2023…

Author Marisa Mackle has said MasterChef host Gregg Wallace ruined her 40th birthday with a two hour long foul-mouthed talk about sex while in a five-star restaurant

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us. A new study reveals that clams called heart cockles have unique structures in their shells that act like fiber optic cables to convey specific wavelengths of light into the bivalves' tissues.

American actor Kevin Spacey visited over the weekend areas near the Israel-Gaza border that were impacted by the Oct. 7...

Liz Moore, the LPGA's corporate secretary, will serve as interim commissioner until a replacement is named. "I'm proud of the unprecedented growth the LPGA has enjoyed since I began my tenure," said Marcoux Samaan, the LPGA's ninth commissioner. "The strategy we have built for growth and impact along with the infrastructure we have added to capitalize on the tremendous opportunity ahead will serve the LPGA well in the coming decades." Marcoux Samaan's tenure included the LPGA's largest period of growth... Читать дальше...

In January Donald Trump will be able to pick up his pardoning pen when he returns to the White House. Several convicts are already vying to be on his clemency list, James Liddell writes

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McLaren told Lando Norris several times not to hand Oscar Piastri a payback Qatar Grand Prix sprint race win because it was concerned about the threat from Mercedes George Russell.Norris said after he finished second in the first, shorter contest of the weekend at the Losail circuit that he had been planning to give Piastri the sprint victory if the chance arose as a thank you for the ... Keep reading

Valtteri Bottas has hailed the effect of his Sauber teams latest upgrades on car performance after qualifying 13th for the Qatar Grand Prix and finishing 12th in the sprint event but acknowledged the improvement has come rather late for him.Bottas is out of an F1 race drive next year since all the other seats are filled, and he and Zhou Guanyu are to be replaced by Nico Hulkenberg and ... Keep reading

An Israeli Defense Forces soldier originally from Long Island, New York and previously thought to be held hostage by the militant group Hamas is dead, Israeli officials confirmed on Monday.

Lando Norris says he had made his mind up already in Brazil to sacrifice a Formula 1 sprint win for Oscar Piastri as payback for what his team-mate did there.The Briton dominated the Qatar sprint race from the start, and spent much of the event backing off to help his pursuing team-mate stay in the DRS zone as he fought against the pursuing George Russell.But as the cars came out of the final ... Keep reading

Al-Shaair sparked outrage during the Texans' 23-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars after flying into Lawrence with his elbow first, despite the rival quarterback sliding to give himself up on the play.

Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen has been summoned to the Qatar Grand Prix stewards for driving unnecessarily slowly during qualifying, in which he appeared to block George Russell.The Red Bull driver, who clinched his first grand prix pole since June's Austrian Grand Prix, was on a slow lap ahead of a final flyer - but Russell caught him through the Turn 12-13-14 trio of ... Keep reading

McLaren says it cannot be happy with its current trajectory if it is to have any hope of targeting both Formula 1 championships next year.The Woking-based team could clinch the constructors title in the Qatar Grand Prix today, which would be the first time it has done so since 1998 when Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard were its drivers.Having missed out on the drivers crown, with Lando ... Keep reading

After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also: Formula 1F1 Qatar GP ... Keep reading

George Russelllabelled McLaren's tactics "infuriating" after being relegated to third place in the Qatar F1 sprint, having qualified second and fallen fractionally short of pole position yesterday.McLaren's Lando Norris claimed pole, with team-mate Oscar Piastri in third, but the Australian made a bold move past Russell's Mercedes around the outside into Turn 2 on the opening lap to claim second ...

Abbi Pulling clinched the F1 Academy title on Saturday after she finished second in the first race of the Losail round.Pulling arrived in Qatar knowing that she needed just 18 points from the final two weekends in order to take the F1 Academy title, regardless of what chief rival Doriane Pin could achieve.Beaten by both Mercedes-backed Pin and Ferrari representative Maya Weug in qualifying ... Keep reading