49+ min ago (795+ words) Lando Norris sees his world championship lead cut to 12 points on a calamitous day for his McLaren team Lando Norris's bid to become Formula One world champion will go to a season finale in Abu Dhabi next weekend after Max Verstappen cashed in on a calamitous McLaren strategy decision to win the'Qatar'Grand Prix. Norris, who finished only fourth, will head to the concluding round just 12 points ahead of Verstappen with Oscar Piastri, runner-up to the Red Bull driver under the lights on Sunday, 16 points adrift with 25 left to play for. McLaren were in control of the 57-lap contest, despite Norris dropping from second to third behind Verstappen at the start. Piastri led, but both he and Norris were told not to pit when a safety car was deployed on the seventh lap after Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly collided. Of…...

49+ min ago (795+ words) Lando Norris sees his world championship lead cut to 12 points on a calamitous day for his McLaren team Lando Norris's bid to become Formula One world champion will go to a season finale in Abu Dhabi next weekend after Max Verstappen cashed in on a calamitous McLaren strategy decision to win the'Qatar'Grand Prix. Norris, who finished only fourth, will head to the concluding round just 12 points ahead of Verstappen with Oscar Piastri, runner-up to the Red Bull driver under the lights on Sunday, 16 points adrift with 25 left to play for. McLaren were in control of the 57-lap contest, despite Norris dropping from second to third behind Verstappen at the start. Piastri led, but both he and Norris were told not to pit when a safety car was deployed on the seventh lap after Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly collided. Of…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago (885+ words) Around 27,000 former students are not repaying their bills, worth a total of "1bn, despite earning enough to do so Thousands of former students who owe around "1bn after moving abroad following their studies in the UK are failing to repay their loans despite earning enough to do so, The i Paper can reveal. More than 27,000 people who moved overseas have so far failed to repay nearly "38m of their loans despite earning more than the threshold that would require them to begin repayments in their respective countries. The Student Loans Company (SLC) adjusts the threshold in individual countries based on living costs and currency exchange rates. Figures obtained by The i Paper through freedom of information laws show that, as of April 2025, nearly 27,500 people in more than 150 countries, from Iceland to the Maldives, had failed to pay up on time, with 455 former pupils…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago (589+ words) Forecasters have warned the public that fast flowing and deep floodwater caused by heavy rainfall from Monday could pose 'a danger to life' Severe weather warnings are in place across the UK with heavy rainfall and flooding expected this week. South Wales, which earlier this month saw heavy flooding due to Storm Claudia, has been placed on an amber weather alert from Monday through to Tuesday with some areas at risk of 120mm of rain. Yellow warnings for rain are in place from midnight until 3am in Tuesday and covers the majority of Wales , the south west of England and parts of the north west. Another yellow weather runs from midnight to 9pm on Monday covering the south west of Scotland. While Sunday brought respite for many parts of the UK, forecasters have warned that meteorological winter " which begins on 1 December " is "back…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago (661+ words) Bath head coach Johann van Graan compares 'hungry' Henry Arundell for pace to South Africa legend Bryan Habana after his electrifying brace against Saracens STONEX STADIUM " In a crowded field of contenders for the wing positions in the England team, Henry Arundell could nose himself in front if he carries on delivering the rounded performance that helped defending champions Bath to a second win in 12 visits to Saracens. Recent evidence from England's autumn series at Twickenham points to Arundell being just below the front rank in head coach Steve Borthwick's thinking. England had first-choice wings Tom Roebuck and Tommy Freeman injured for the concluding match against Argentina but they did not turn to Arundell, despite his exciting cameo two weeks previously when, as a substitute versus Fiji, he sprinted to a try, chasing a loose ball. Instead England recalled Saracens…...

4+ hour, 5+ min ago (472+ words) Anthony Taylor took centre-stage as 10-men Chelsea held Arsenal Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal (Caicedo sent off 38, Chalobah 48 | Merino 59) STAMFORD BRIDGE " The kind of moment of madness on which titles are decided, Moises Caicedos red card was the ultimate get-out-of-jail card. Arsenal did not take it. Despite Chelsea battling for an hour with 10 men, Mikel Artetas side were restricted to eight attempts and, though they came from behind to secure a point, have to look back on this as a missed opportunity to go nine points clear. Yet however much Taylor is always berated at Stamford Bridge, there is no getting away from Chelseas fundamental problem. This was their seventh red card of the season " including one for Enzo Maresca " and it is precisely that ill-discipline which betrays the naivety that is likely to prevent them from challenging too closely for the title....

5+ hour, 17+ min ago (245+ words) Rachel Reeves has become the Road Runner chancellor, but it's not a long-term strategy What does Labour mean by its Budget? It is an odd question to have to ask days after the Chancellor delivered her second budget. At this point it might be assumed that a government with a large majority, settled into the realities of power, would be able to tell us something about what it wants to do " and what it does not. " All budgets are exercises in giving with one hand to take with the other, shaping these pros and cons around a political project. The bigger problem for the Reeves and Starmer enterprise is that this major set piece event left voters and investors vastly unclear about the shape of the final product. Was it a budget after which middle England was supposed to be…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago (742+ words) Is the president willing to start a war in America's back yard? In a very literal sense, Venezuelan President Nicol's Maduro must have spent the weekend wondering whether he is coming or going. On the one hand, the White House last week held out the possibility of him traveling to the United States for an unprecedented, face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump. On the other hand, the US leader then spent the weekend indicating the prospect of military strikes to oust Venezuela's leader from power. Confusion abounded in both Washington and Caracas. It was fueled by Trump's social media posting in which he claimed that he was closing Venezuelan air space, an apparent indication that an American ground assault on the country might be edging closer. "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago (977+ words) Ian Birrell writes a weekly column for The i Paper. He is a former deputy editor of the The Independent and has won awards for his foreign reporting, feature writing, campaigning and commentary IMPARTIAL NEWS + INTELLIGENT DEBATE Putin is pushing two vile myths about Ukraine " and Trump is helping him Our resolve is being tested, but this is why we must stand firm The long overnight train journey from Warsaw to Kyiv ran like clockwork, as it has throughout the war, and the hours flew by chatting to my fellow passengers. They included a top child psychiatrist, who shook his head in bafflement at Russia's cruelties as he told me hideous stories of kids left traumatised by horror. There were Korean defence contractors, executives from a Japanese firm that recycles rubble into new building materials, and a young Chinese man…...

5+ hour, 19+ min ago (1187+ words) One insider suggested Your Party would either succeed or die a Trotsky-esque death over the coming months Your Party's inaugural conference was supposed to be the moment the left united under a new kind of politics, but instead the two-day gathering has been marred by personality clashes and fraught infighting. Central to the project's woes is the feud between its co-founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, who have made little secret of their animosity for one another. Sultana used her conference speech to hit out at "the expulsions, the bans, the censorship on conference floor, a line widely read as a veiled dig at Corbyn, who was sitting directly behind her. It came after independent councillor James Giles, a close ally of Sultana's, who chaired her eve-of-conference rally, said he had been barred from the conference venue over a "supposed…...