Haas have asked for a review of the decision to disallow Oliver Bearman’s final qualifying lap at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. The Briton’s final lap was fast enough to qualify him to move beyond the first knock-out session, but it was deleted by governing body the FIA on the basis it was set after the…

Girma Legesse smiles with his coffee – credit Farm Africa Coffee for Conservation, supplied The existence and consumption of coffee has many advantages in human society, but perhaps the lesser reported advantage is what it can offer the environment. There is arguably no other monocrop so capable of thriving in an intact, natural ecosystem, and…

Officials in Palm Springs, California are investigating a car explosion on Saturday morning that killed one person and damaged a fertility clinic. The explosion happened just before 11:00 local time (19:00 BST) less than a mile from downtown Palm Springs, near several businesses including the American Reproductive Centres. In a statement, the fertility clinic said…

Girma Legesse smiles with his coffee – credit Farm Africa Coffee for Conservation, supplied The existence and consumption of coffee has many advantages in human society, but perhaps the lesser reported advantage is what it can offer the environment. There is arguably no other monocrop so capable of thriving in an intact, natural ecosystem, and…

Indy Almroth-Wright BBC News, South Facebook Martyn Sadler and Jennie Logan died in the fire at the Bicester Motion business park Tributes have been pouring in after the deaths of two firefighters and a 57-year-old man in a fire at an Oxfordshire business park. Firefighters Jennie Logan, 30, and Martyn Sadler, 38, died in the…

125 years ago today, L. Frank Baum’s first children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in the US. The first edition was printed and bound by Baum himself for presentation to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. The first 10,000 copies sold out fast, and by 1938 over a million were sold. Telling the…

Facebook Martyn Sadler and Jennie Logan died in the fire at the Bicester Motion business park The firefighters who died in a blaze at Bicester Motion have been named as Jennie Logan and Martyn Sadler, while the member of the public who died is David Chester. Police said both firefighters worked at Oxfordshire Fire and…

A family-run dairy business has reached a significant milestone this week: Müller UK & Ireland donated the equivalent of four million meals through its partnership with FareShare, an ongoing effort to support low-income people across the UK by transforming surplus food into vital meals. FareShare is the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, handing out good-to-eat…

Getty Images The King is now estimated to be worth £270m more than his late mother the Queen The number of UK billionaires has fallen while King Charles’ personal wealth has jumped to equal former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List. The annual list…

307 years ago today, Maria Agnesei was born in Milan. She is the first woman in the Western World ever to be appointed as a professor of mathematics at a university. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. Her name is remembered most often today through her mathematical…