Three men have been killed in the Moscow region, in what is described as the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
On the night of March 10, 2025, Ukraine launched what Russia described as the largest drone attack on the Moscow region since the full – scale war began. The Russian Defence Ministry said 337 drones were intercepted over Russia, with 91 shot down over Moscow region. (See video)
In the Moscow region, three men were killed while working at a distribution centre in the village of Yam near Domodedovo airport. 18 people, including three children, were injured. Dozens of vehicles were destroyed in a car park, and a supermarket and blocks of flats were damaged. Flight restrictions were imposed at Moscow’s major airports.
Hours before the attack, a meeting between US and Ukraine representatives in Saudi Arabia, aiming to end the war, was set to take place. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Ukraine might need to cede territory to Russia as part of a cease – fire agreement. Meanwhile, overnight, both sides reported drone attacks on their respective regions.
[ANDREI VOROBYOV]Vorobyev said two of the men died while starting their shift at a food distribution centre
[Reuters]Flight restrictions were imposed on Moscow’s four major airports due to the attack
This article from BBC Sport delves into Hamilton’s move to the sport’s most iconic team.
Courtesy EPA ‘Formula One pre-season testing 2025’ (2025)
“The sport’s biggest star… has joined its most iconic team.”
Benson, 2025
Reasons for the move
Hamilton signed with Ferrari in January 2024, just over six months after sealing a new contract with Mercedes.
Mercedes wanted to offer Hamilton only a one-year contract, but the seven-time world champion knew he wanted to stay in F1 longer. Mercedes’ reticence to commit to him led Hamilton to consider his future.
Hamilton, ambitious to win a record eighth title of which he was robbed in a mishandling of the rules during the race in Abu Dhabi 2021, approached Ferrari and the team were keen to take him aboard.
Hamilton’s 2024 Season’s Struggles
Mercedes’ poor performance in 2024 undoubtedly contributed to his decision to move for the 2025 season.
Hamilton was comprehensively out-qualified by team-mate George Russell, finishing 22 points behind after struggling with the characteristics of the car for the whole year.
Is he past his prime?
Hamilton turned 40 in January and is the second oldest driver in F1.
Whilst other drivers have continued in the sport past this age, it is known that sports performance deteriorates with ageing, which puts into question how much longer Hamilton will be able to cope with the physical demands and perform well in the sport.
Can he beat Leclerc?
Courtesy EPA ‘Formula One pre-season testing 2025’ (2025)
Hamilton’s new teammate is none other than Ferrari protégé Charles Leclerc, nurtured by the team since he was a teenager.
He is richly talented and regarded as possibly the fastest driver over one lap in F1 at the moment, excelling in qualifying.
Hamilton is aware of his rival’s talents: “Charles is very professional, very embedded in this team. He is very fast and I am completely aware of that. You have seen his qualifying laps.”
“I told him in Bahrain many years ago (in 2019) he had a bright future ahead of him. It is not going to be easy to beat him. Especially in his home. But we will work together and have some great races, I hope.”
“Charles is very professional, very embedded in this team”
Hamilton, 2025
What does he want to achieve?
Hamilton wants an eighth world title. Given his level of career success, and Ferrari’s history in F1, nothing less than a championship will suffice.
He says: “This team already has an insane legacy and are not short of championships they have won. They have a winning mentality in their DNA.
“The competition is fierce. It is going to be close. but I have a great team-mate, the energy I have seen from the team, there is magic here.
If this is not the case, the minimum of success would be to come out on top against Leclerc.
“There is magic here.”
Hamilton, 2025
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As The Economist put it, “A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting anti-trust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow.” Never mind that data isn’t particularly new (though the volume may be) – this argument does, at first glance, have much to recommend it.
Just as a century ago those who got to the oil in the ground were able to amass vast wealth, establish near monopolies, and build the future economy on their own precious resource, so data companies like Facebook and Google are able to do similar now. With oil in the 20th century, a consensus eventually grew that it would be up to regulators to intervene and break up the oligopolies – or oiliogopolies – that threatened an excessive concentration of power.
Many impressive thinkers have detected similarities between data today and oil in yesteryear. John Thornhill, the Financial Times’s Innovation Editor, has used the example of Alaska to argue that data companies should pay a universal basic income, another idea that has become highly fashionable in policy circles.
Link to the source article from BBCMusic ‘hot spots’ planned through new £20m academy (2025)
A major entertainment centre is fundraising to invest £20m into a new academy to develop the next generation of musicians.
The Glasshouse in Gateshead is aiming to support young musicians throughout their education and help them build a career in music.
Over the next two years, the academy will open four “music learning hot spots” in Middlesbrough, Carlisle, Sunderland and Kendal.
The organisation said the scheme had been designed to ensure young musicians could take their next step in developing their talent, whether that be picking up an instrument for the first time or pursuing a career.
Glasshouse CEO Abigail Pogson said the centre, previously called The Sage, had worked for the last 20 years to be a place people of all ages could make and experience music.
She said: “The Glasshouse Academy builds on this foundation by opening up even more opportunities for young people and ensuring the North East remains a thriving centre for music learning and professional development.”
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Later this year, the music centre will launch a £20m fundraising campaign, with the aim of raising £1m each year to fund the academy.
It has already received £2m from grant distributor The Foyle Foundation which will be invested over the next two decades.
Over the next two years, as well as creating the four learning hot spots, The Glasshouse intends to double the number of places available to young people wishing to learn music and expand its financial support to help people buy instruments.
Genetically engineered woolly mice could one day help populate the Arctic with hairy, genetically modified elephants and help stop the planet warming.
image from BBC ‘Woolly mice designed to engineer mammoth-like elephants’ (202
Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with “mammoth-like traits”. Colossal Biosciences’ eventual goal is to engineer mammoth-like creatures that could help stop arctic permafrost from melting.
Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.
Colossal Biosciences says that the experiments with hairy mice was a step towards genetically modifying elephants to be hairy and better able to withstand the cold.
Quine Wikimedia, ‘Woolly mammoth model Royal BC Museum in Victoria’ (2018)
Its stated goal is to create herds of what it calls mammoth-like creatures to live in the arctic tundra. The company says the creatures’ grazing habits would encourage grasslands to flourish and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being released from melting permafrost. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which is one of the main drivers of global warming. But critics say there are significant scientific challenges to overcome before these changes in mice can be tried out on elephants.
“We are on track to have the first cold adapted elephant by 2028 and that would mean having the first embryos by the end of 2026,” – Colossal’s co-founder and CEO, Ben Lam
How do you know when a pithy phrase or seductive idea has become fashionable in policy circles? When The Economist devotes a briefing to it.
In a briefing and accompanying editorial earlier this summer, that distinguished newspaper (it’s a magazine, but still calls itself a newspaper, and I’m happy to indulge such eccentricity) argued that data is today what oil was a century ago.
As The Economist put it, “A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting anti-trust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow.” Never mind that data isn’t particularly new (though the volume may be) – this argument does, at first glance, have much to recommend it.
Just as a century ago those who got to the oil in the ground were able to amass vast wealth, establish near monopolies, and build the future economy on their own precious resource, so data companies like Facebook and Google are able to do similar now. With oil in the 20th century, a consensus eventually grew that it would be up to regulators to intervene and break up the oligopolies – or oiliogopolies – that threatened an excessive concentration of power.
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