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Updates from the 2pm BST start time at the Imola CircuitHave any thoughts? Send them to Luke via email“I’ve always been an F1 fan,” says tennis’s world No 2, Aryna Sabalenka. “I’m super excited to feel the atmosphere. It’s so cool, being here around the cars … it’s something new, something different.Can Sabalenka imagine speaking to media right before walking on to court for a match? “It’s so different,” she replies. “I cannot see myself doing all this stuff before the biggest match of my life. It’s really cool to see.” Continue reading…

Rescue workers continuing to search for those missing under the rubble following attack on Nuseirat refugee campRead more of our Israel-Gaza war coverage hereHere is a video of the Israeli war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, threatening to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza:Here are some of the latest images coming out from the newswires: Continue reading…

The chat-free salon session is now a thing, but is it really that hard to feign a bit of interest in your stylist’s love life and holiday plans?How important are you? So ­important that only other important ­people are permitted to speak to you? So eminent your hair must be snipped in monastic silence?I ask because hair stylist Kati Hakomeri has introduced a “silent service” at her salon, Parturi Kati, in Helsinki. Clients can book the online option: “A haircut without talking. After the consultation you can be on your own, recharge your batteries and relax”. Hakomeri says she’s an introvert herself, and her ­clients could be busy professionals or exhausted mothers. Continue reading…

AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.comGoogle announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to general knowledge questions, what they see first will now be an AI-generated summary.Google touted AI Overviews at its annual I/O developer conference as a way of delivering customers quick answers and simplifying the online search experience, but it also has another effect on the way that people engage with the internet: keeping users, and advertisers, on Google.com. It’s a new era in Google’s years-long quest for your attention. Continue reading…

Pigeons are friendly, acrobatic and affordable, and these days they are winning the hearts of more and more youthful pigeoneersWhen Boris the fantail arrived in Callum Percy’s life in 2020, the 29-year-old trainee teacher was immediately smitten. Boris had been discovered by a family friend in a dishevelled state after what looked like a run-in with a sparrow hawk, its blond-white tail as fluffy as a cumulus cloud.“We called him Boris after the prime minister as his feathers were all over the place when we found him,” Callum laughs as his 13-strong flock of fantails, frillbacks and capuchines coo in the aviary behind him. He and his girlfriend, Serena Mihaila, 24, also a trainee teacher, installed the 6ft by 4ft wooden and mesh aviary and nesting area in the garden of their Derby home earlier this year.For now, Callum and Serena are fancy birders – they keep their frilled, coloured and crested feathered friends for the sheer pleasure of appreciating their looks. But next year, when the couple buy their own home, they would like to start exhibiting at shows. That means upstaging Boris and co with some purer-breed pigeons, such as frillbacks with more erect frills or capuchines with elaborate, super-fluffy head crests. At show, these headturners will be assessed for their appearance, good breeding and how they sit in their handlers’ hands. Continue reading…