- SportsCNN
'I have walked this sport alone,' says Lewis Hamilton after record-equaling title win
Lewis Hamilton may be Formula One's most successful driver but after securing a record-equaling seventh world title on Sunday the Briton said he still had plenty left to achieve -- namely making his sport and the world "more diverse and inclusive."
- WorldThe Telegraph
Police block church doors after pastor vows to hold service in defiance of lockdown rules
Police were forced to block the entrance of a church after a pastor vowed to hold Sunday service in defiance of lockdown rules because he "serves a greater good". Lead pastor Regan King, 28, had vowed to hold a full indoor church service at The Angel in north London during an interview with BBC Radio 4 yesterday [sunday] morning. But following his radio interview the Met Police were alerted to his plans and four officers arrived at the church around 9.15am to stop a group of 30 worshipers from entering the premises. Police allowed 15 people who were attending a support group for vulnerable adults to remain inside, while another 15 took part in a socially distanced outdoor service nearby. Asked why he had planned to breach the restrictions, Mr King said: "Because I believe we serve a greater good. We have a greater good than whatever this is." Referring to the police presence, he said: "This is not something I ever wanted.
- CelebrityHarper's Bazaar
Margaret Thatcher's Children Reportedly "Cannot Bear to Be in the Same Room"
Carol won I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2005, but Mark was reportedly Margaret's favorite.
- WorldThe Telegraph
Armenians burn their homes ahead of mass exodus
As his wife and daughters said goodbye to their home, Gulgen Tomanyan loaded the family’s possessions onto a truck and prepared to escape a contested land. “Danger is coming,” said Mr Tomanyan, 60. “We’ve lived here for over 20 years but have no choice but to leave. Where will we live now? I do not know. I cannot tell you.” Mr Tomanyan and his family are among thousands of ethnic Armenians fleeing their villages in the separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of a November 15 deadline that hands control of part of this disputed territory to Azerbaijan. Some residents have even taken to burning down their homes, refusing to leave them to Azerbaijanis who are expected to return following the handover and were themselves evicted in the early 1990s as part of the region's desperate cycle of displacement. Ethnic Armenians fear revenge attacks once the area is relinquished to Azeri forces as part of the Russian-brokered peace agreement which ended weeks of fierce fighting.
- BusinessQuartz
A US rare earths miner is staging a comeback to take on China
The Mountain Pass mine in California was shuttered in 2002, squeezed by China's low prices. Now it's part of an effort to rebuild the US rare earth supply chain.
- NewsBleacher Report
Video Will This Be an 'Oh S--t' Chargers Game?
@LefkoeBR thinks so, as Bosa and Ingram put some real pressure on Tua (The Lefkoe Show)
- WorldThe Telegraph
Sweden 'got it wrong on herd immunity'
The predecessor of Sweden's state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has accused him and his team of failing to adequately prepare Sweden for the second wave of coronavirus infections, because "wishful thinking" led them wrongly to believe that immunity would leave the country protected. Annika Linde, who served as state epidemiologist from 2005 until Tegnell took over in 2013, told The Telegraph that the Public Health Agency of Sweden had throughout the pandemic shown a reluctance to plan for the worst. "Wishful thinking - when you don't believe in the worst scenario - has been guiding Swedish decisions too much," she said. "The Swedish authorities have been slow all the time. Instead of being proactive, they've run after the virus, and the virus has been able to spread too much before they take action." When Tegnell returned from his summer break at the end of July, he argued that the sharp drop in cases in Sweden over the preceding three weeks could, at least in part, be explained by greater immunity within the population. He predicted that this immunity would make controlling the infection much easier for Sweden over the winter than it would be for neighbouring Denmark, Norway and Finland, which, unlike Sweden, imposed lockdowns.
