17 minutes ago F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Race start time and schedule as George Russell starts on pole

F1 live updates from Vegas on a day where Max Verstappen could claim the 2024 drivers title

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36 minutes ago Islamic State is primed to be thorn in the side of incoming Trump administration

The terrorist group has been looking to be active this holiday season, with online chatter about attacks increasingAmid a presidential campaign with foreign policy discussions more focused on the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the Islamic State stayed under the radar while calling on supporters and operatives to attack Americans on election day.The FBI thwarted a serious plot in Oklahoma City only weeks before the vote, prompting a similar public reaction to news involving the terror group that has become customary of late: is the Islamic State a renewed threat? Continue reading...

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36 minutes ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for lemongrass tofu with noodles | The new vegan

Fried tofu in a zippy, salty-sour sauce and tangled in a bed of noodlesI went to Bath recently to do an event at Topping & Company for my new book, Dinner, and fell so in love with the city that I seriously thought about moving there. I forced myself to think about what I’d miss about London, and Kingsland Road, with all of its Vietnamese cafes, immediately popped into my head. I’d miss walking past all those windows steamed up from the hot pots and pho, and the smell of lemongrass in the air. All that thinking made me very hungry, and today’s recipe is the result. Perhaps if I can recreate those smells and steamed windows in my own kitchen one day, I could move. We’ll see Continue reading...

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57 minutes ago Actress Ashley Jensen surprises schoolchildren with an exclusive premiere of a new film

The 'Shetland' star joined schoolchildren on a knitted red carpet to launch a Shaun the Sheep animation for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day

Culture

67 minutes ago BBC Saturday Kitchen fans left furious Luke Evans breaks major rule on show

Luke Evans appeared on the BBC show to cook a dish with chef James Martin.

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97 minutes ago India reap the rewards of patience after Australia hit the brakes | Geoff Lemon

Visitors ease away to a commanding lead as Australia fade to the point of missing small moments on day two of the first Test in PerthImagine you’re doing the Keanu Reeves bit in Speed. You’re on a bus that can’t drop below 50 miles an hour or it will explode. It’s high-octane stuff, even if the bus is running on diesel. You have to avoid collisions, do sick jumps, kindle a romance with Sandra Bullock. But then imagine there’s a change in script. Dennis Hopper rings up with a different idea. Now, the bus has a maximum speed. And that speed is 10 miles an hour. Chill.It was this sort of change that came over the first Test between Australia and India on its second day. On the first day, Australia had taken all 10 India wickets for 150, then lost seven of their own by stumps for 67. But af...

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2 hours ago Gary Lineker delivers brutal putdown to his potential successor as Match of the Day host... leaving Micah Richards in hysterics!

Gary Lineker has delivered a brutal putdown to Micah Richards amid suggestions that the popular pundit could succeed him as Match of the Day host.

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2 hours ago India dominate day two as Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul grow lead over Australia

Opening pair guide the visitors to 172-0 after their bowlers dismiss Australia for 104 at Optus StadiumThere it is! Rana short and nasty, Lyon punches it, fist rather than bat, to gully for a looping catch, KL Rahul running in with his locks flowing. Lyon just couldn’t evade that, the ball followed him. Good fast bowling.33rd over: Australia 79-8 (Starc 11, Lyon 5) Bumrah to Starc, nasty bouncer first ball that’s just over his front shoulder, Starc having to work to evade it. Then nearly getting a leading edge as Starc tries to clip across his pad to a ball angling away. Does make contact with the same shot next ball to midwicket. He’s rotating strike decently but how long can it last? Bumrah cuts Lyon in half. Surely a wicket comes shortly. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘The rising smoke and setting sun made a magical backdrop’: Jurica Galić’s best phone shot

On assignment in South Sudan, the Croatian photographer used a natural framing device for this award-winning imageBefore he arrived for his three-day stay, Jurica Galić knew that the South Sudanese Mundari people set fire to dried cow dung before sunset to repel mosquitoes. What the Croatian photographer and travel journalist didn’t know was the depth of harmony between the tribe and their cattle, nor how he would capture it.“Ankole are breeds of domestic cattle originating from east and central Africa, characterised by their huge horns,” Galić says. “My goal was to capture the relationship between man and nature, and while staying in the camp I came up with the idea of taking some photos through the horns of one of the animals. They became the frame, leading the viewer to the scen...

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3 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: As Russia's threats grow more chilling, my three radical steps to make us PUTIN

Even for this government there was something particularly cack-handed about announcing cuts to our defence capabilities on the same day British-made missiles hit Russia.

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