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Liam Lawson will replace the injured Isack Hadjar at Red Bull for a second consecutive race when the Formula One championship reaches Monza for this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. The New Zealander stepped in for Hadjar at the Dutch Grand Prix and will again drive alongside Max Verstappen at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza from 4 to 6 September. Red Bull said Hadjar was continuing to make “encouraging progress” after suffering a wrist injury during the summer break, but added that it would take “no unnecessary risks” with his return to competition. Lawson scored a seventh-place finish at Zandvoort on his…

The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has told the judge it remains unable to reach a unanimous verdict after five days of deliberations, deepening uncertainty over the fate of the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children. Judge William Sullivan responded by giving the 12-member panel a Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, directing jurors to make a final and serious effort to resolve their differences. The instruction is used in Massachusetts when a jury reports that it is deadlocked and can be delivered no more than twice before a mistrial must be declared. Clancy, 36, has admitted strangling Cora, five, Dawson,…

Hundreds of federal agents have been diverted from their usual duties to search voter registration records across the United States for non-citizens, despite longstanding evidence that unlawful voting is extremely rare. The operation, known internally as the Unlawful Voter Initiative, is being run by the Department of Homeland Security ahead of November’s midterm elections. Agents are examining state voter rolls and matching personal details, including dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers, against immigration and citizenship records. Documents and training videos reviewed by The New York Times show that investigators have also been instructed to use public voter-registration websites…

Senegal is to rework its public debt as part of a proposed 2.2 billion US dollar (£1.7 billion) International Monetary Fund programme, two years after undisclosed borrowing triggered a financial crisis and brought its previous support package to a halt. The plan was announced by economy and finance minister Cheikh Diba alongside a new Senegal Debt Treatment Plan. The government says the initiative is intended to reduce the cost of servicing its liabilities and restore room for investment, although it insists the measures do not amount to a conventional debt restructuring. The IMF said on Tuesday September 1 that its…

Fans have questioned whether a filter had altered North West’s appearance after the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West appeared with a noticeably different-looking nose in a new TikTok clip. North posted the video this week on the joint TikTok account she shares with her mother, prompting online discussion about the effect used on her face. Some social media users speculated that the shape of her nose had been digitally narrowed, while others suggested the change could be the result of make-up, contouring or a beauty filter. There has been no suggestion from North or Kim that the teenager…

West Bromwich Albion, Middlesbrough and Wrexham are among the clubs in action on Wednesday night as Sky Sports provides live coverage of the latest EFL fixtures, including scores, match updates and free highlights. West Brom host Charlton Athletic at The Hawthorns in a 7.45pm Championship kick-off, while Wrexham travel to Millwall for a game starting at the same time. Middlesbrough face a later test against Burnley at Turf Moor, with that match scheduled to begin at 8pm. EFL live coverage on Sky Sports The evening follows a difficult weekend for two of the featured sides. Middlesbrough defeated West Brom 3-1…

A man has been rescued from inside a San Francisco rubbish truck after he was swept up with the contents of a commercial bin and carried into the vehicle. Firefighters were called to Mason Street, near Eddy Street and the Powell Street BART station, at about 4.10am on Wednesday, 2 September, after a passer-by heard shouting from the back of a Recology truck. The vehicle’s driver had emptied a dumpster into the truck before realising someone was trapped among the rubbish. The man had reportedly been searching through the bin when it was collected. Firefighters remove rubbish by hand About…

Rescuers in Nepal are racing to reach workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels, as the search for survivors enters its second week after catastrophic flooding killed more than 1,200 people along the country’s border with China. Authorities believe dozens may still be alive in underground chambers protected from the torrent of water, ice, rock and mud that tore through mountain valleys. Around 900 hydropower workers remain unaccounted for, although the wider number of missing people is considerably higher. At the Rasuwagadhi Hydroelectric Project, officials believe 46 workers could be sheltering in a room-like structure inside a tunnel. Amhsu…

More than 3,000 people invested their savings in Bournemouth-based Ethical Forestry Limited between January 2008 and December 2015, but prosecutors say the company’s former directors diverted millions of pounds into luxury lifestyles. Matthew Pickard, Stephen Greenaway and Paul Laver are being sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after admitting fraudulent trading linked to the £70 million investment scheme. The company promoted forestry investments in Costa Rica, persuading members of the public to move money from pension schemes into plantations which were supposed to generate returns when the trees were harvested. But the court heard that although some trees were planted, no…

A US appeals court has ruled that a federal judge did not have the authority to erase former Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s court-martial conviction, restoring the legal force of the punishment imposed after he left his post in Afghanistan. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the dismissal of Bergdahl’s claims, finding that a district court could not use a collateral challenge to set aside a military court judgment. The decision overturns a 2023 ruling by District Judge Reggie Walton, who had vacated orders and rulings made in Bergdahl’s case after…