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Antonelli wins Chinese Grand Prix

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19-year-old Kimi Antonelli wins his first Formula 1 victory for Mercedes  and the second youngest Grand Prix winner in history, after leading team-mate George Russell who came second in the Chinese Grand Prix. Mclaren failed to start. Antonelli’s controlled drive after briefly losing the lead at the start to Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari. Only Max Verstappen, who won for the first time aged 18 at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, has taken the chequered flag in F1 at a younger age than Antonelli. Russell’s second place ensures he keep the championship lead, by four points from Antonelli. Behind them Hamilton and Ferrari … Continue reading Antonelli wins Chinese Grand Prix

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Baltic crusades adapted by Nazi expansionism

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Crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last Pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea region between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Led by Catholic rulers, churchmen, and most importantly of all, the warrior monks of the Teutonic Order, they sought to expand Christendom through conquest and conversion. In the process they forged a new world with a profound legacy that resogates into the present. Aleksander Pulskowski, professor of medieval archaeology at the UK’s university of Reading, explores how the construction of castles and towns, and the introduction of new languages, technology, monetary economies, and … Continue reading Baltic crusades adapted by Nazi expansionism

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Inflation, growth, unemployment, balanced budgets are weaponized to enforce market dependency

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Amid financial crisis, pandemic and war, Capitalism seems invincible. Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, Clara E Mattei illustrates its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different Yanis Varoufakis. Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This book reveals the true role: to convince us there’s no alternative to capitalism. Mattei rips the mask off our economic system, and unpacks key concepts like growth, inflation, unemployment and balanced budgets to show how they’re weaponized to enforce market dependence, not freedom, stripping us of the power to shape the democratic decisions that govern our … Continue reading Inflation, growth, unemployment, balanced budgets are weaponized to enforce market dependency

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Political power, religion, and perpetual dissent

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Mohammed Hanif, Booker-longlisted author’s lively and rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. Rebel English Academy is set during the rapid descent of semi-socialist Pakistan into neither its first nor last period of military dictatorship. In 1979, the army’s hanging of leftist prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto precipitates mysterious changes in the Punjab province.  Sir Baghi, a closeted gay communist English teacher who stopped volunteering his critiques of the government after being subjected to brutal torture, when a widow and former track runner Sabiha Bano, on the run arrives at his door … Continue reading Political power, religion, and perpetual dissent

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A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

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“Every Successful marriage has its own private language.” So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London life. It is for spiky millennial screenwriter Phoebe and her charming loafer of a partner, Tony. John Lanchester, a former restaurant reviewer, brochettes the pretensions affluent, middle-aged metropolitans when architect Jack says at a Notting Hill dinner party that Yotam Ottolenghi had destroyed British cooking and “done more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe”. Jack’s wife Kate, who is one of the novel’s two narrators, finds him dead from … Continue reading A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

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Global purchasing power

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2, 500 years of international currencies the future of the U.S. dollar as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies are revealed. Recently the US dollar has fallen more than 10 per cent against other major currencies since the beginning of 2025, and this especially has questioned the its future, that how long can it remain the world’s premier currency and should it fall what will replace it? Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction and fraying international alliances. In Money Beyond Borders, Barry Eichengreen, a leading authority on … Continue reading Global purchasing power

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India win T20 World Cup final

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ICC  Men’s T20 World Cup- Final at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad India vs New Zealand India 255-5 off 20 ov  Samson 89 off 46, 5 fours, 8 sixes, Sharma 52 off 21, 6 fours, 3 sixes, Kishan 54 off 25, 4 fours, 4 sixes, Neesham 3-46, Ravindra 1-32, Henry 1-49. New Zealand 159 ao off 19 ov  Selfert 52 off 26, 2 fours, 5 sixes, Santner 43 off 35, 3 fours, 2 sixes, Bumrah 4-15, Patel 3-27, Pandya 1-36, Sharma 1-5.           India win by 96 runs India win their third T20 world title and becomes the first team to win on home soil. … Continue reading India win T20 World Cup final

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Family tensions amid America’s immigration policies

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Lionel Shriver’s A Better Life, is a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration, where a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant- who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Shriver rages about the influx of illegal immigrants to America, but when asked if he writes op-eds about this, he replies “Oh no, no, no, no,.. I most certainly do not,”. Gloria Bonaventura, living in a sprawling house in Brooklyn with her 26-year-old son Nico, an Italian American engineering major  who spent  four years since graduation telling on the dime of his divorced mother of three, decides … Continue reading Family tensions amid America’s immigration policies

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Bethell’s ton invain as India beat England to reach T20 World Cup final

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ICC Men’s T20 World Cup  Semi-final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. England 246-7 (20 ov) Bethell 105 off 48, 8 fours, 7 sixes, Jacks 35 off 20, 4 fours, 2 sixes, Pandya 2-38, Patel 1-35, Chakravarthy 1-64, Bumrah 1-33, Arshdeep 1-51. India 253-7 (20 ov) Samson 89 off 42, 8 fours, 7 sixes,  Kishan 39 off 18,  4 fours, 2 six, Dube 43 off 25, 1 four, 4 six, Jacks 2-40, Rashid 2-41, Archer 1-61. India win by 7 runs England won the toss and decided to field. Jacob Bethell’s thrilling century was invain as India pipped England by seven runs to reach the … Continue reading Bethell’s ton invain as India beat England to reach T20 World Cup final

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Allen Smashes 10 fours and 2 sixes in his unbeaten 33-ball century

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ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at Eden Gardens, Kolkata South Africa vs New Zealand South Africa  169-8 (20 ov)Brevis 34 off 27, 3 fours and 2 sixes, Jansen 55no off 30, 2 fours and 5 sixes, McConchie 2-9, Ravindra 2-29. New Zealand 173-1 (12.5 ov) Seifert 58 off 33, 7 fours, 2 sixes, Allen 100 off 33, 10 fours, 8 sixes, Rabada 1-28. New Zealand win by 9 wickets. New Zealand’s Finn Allen knocks five consecutive boundaries in one over of Corbin Bosch, and smashed an unbeaten 33-ball century  to demolish 2024 runners-up South Africa by nine wickets in T20 Men’s World … Continue reading Allen Smashes 10 fours and 2 sixes in his unbeaten 33-ball century