Formula One leader Kimi Antonelli said Thursday that a Mercedes upgrade would help him bounce back from a first defeat of the year but team-mate George Russell warned that Lewis Hamilton was back to his 'beautiful best'.
Formula One leader Kimi Antonelli said Thursday that a Mercedes upgrade would help him bounce back from a first defeat of the year but team-mate George Russell warned that Lewis Hamilton was back to his 'beautiful best'.
Double Formula One champion Fernando Alonso said he was committed to Aston Martin on Thursday despite being linked to othe teams, but did not rule out leaving Formula One to race in a different series next year.
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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh from a spat with US leader Donald Trump, on Thursday met French President Emmanuel Macron to build on a nascent rapprochement and tighten ties.
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At least 101 million Europeans were forecast to swelter in temperatures of over 35C on Thursday, as scores of people were thought to have been killed by the heatwave.
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A French court ordered oil and gas giant TotalEnergies on Thursday to account for the emissions from the use of its products by clients, in a high-stakes climate case brought by NGOs and the city of Paris.
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French teaching unions on Thursday called for a strike to protest "unacceptable working conditions" as a severe heatwave shatters temperature records in the country.
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The US Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure hit a fresh three-year high in May, as elevated energy prices from President Donald Trump's Iran war pose a key test to his Republican Party ahead of midterm elections.
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Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka is through to the semi-finals of the Wimbledon warm-up tournament in Bad Homburg, Germany after a dominant win over Ekaterina Alexandrova on Thursday.
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The International Olympic Committee, meeting in an extraordinary session, on Thursday approved adding ski mountaineering, which made its Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina this year, to the 2030 Winter Games programme.
England captain Ben Stokes endured a frustrating return to international cricket as New Zealand batted through the opening session of the third Test at Trent Bridge on Thursday without losing a wicket.
Stock markets rallied Thursday after bumper earnings from US chip titan Micron helped calm investor worries about promised payoffs from the massive AI investment boom.
Poland and Ukraine struck a conciliatory tone Thursday as they opened the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Polish port of Gdansk after weeks of squabbling over historical differences -- albeit without President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Tunisia's humiliating exit from the 2026 World Cup after two heavy losses against Sweden and Japan delt a blow to Eagles of Carthage fans, who say it laid bare years of dysfunction within the football federation.
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Fans in bedrooms, cold drinks, iced lollies under canopy cover in the garden: a UK care home has been doing what it can to keep vulnerable residents cool amid Europe's heatwave.
E-commerce giant Amazon announced on Thursday an additional $13-billion investment by 2030 to expand its artificial intelligence footprint in India, months after declaring plans to invest more than $35 billion.
Volkswagen said Thursday that it would sell a majority stake in its marine engine unit to a US investment firm for 7.4 billion euros ($8.4 billion) as the struggling German carmaker pushes ahead with an overhaul.
At 15, like most Danish teenagers, Nora Pihl chose to get confirmed but for her, as for a growing number of young Danes, it wasn't a religious affair.
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