Formula One: British Grand Prix, Team by Team Analysis

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrates his win on the podium with Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen (Image: Reuters)

Hamilton led every lap from pole position and also set the fastest lap to complete his fifth career Grand Slam.

Team by team analysis of Sunday's British Formula One Grand Prix, listed in championship order:
MERCEDES (Lewis Hamilton 1, Valtteri Bottas 2)

Hamilton led every lap from pole position and also set the fastest lap to complete his fifth career Grand Slam. It was his fourth win in a row at Silverstone and fifth in total at the circuit. He now has 57 wins and 67 poles, one short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record. It was also his fourth win of the season and he is one point off Sebastian Vettel's lead. Bottas went from ninth to second to complete the team's second one-two of the year. It was the 70th Mercedes win in Formula One.

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FERRARI (Kimi Raikkonen 3, Sebastian Vettel 7)

Both drivers endured late tyre drama and had to make pitstops, Vettel on the penultimate lap and Raikkonen earlier. The problem cost Vettel a place on the podium and saw Mercedes surge 55 points clear in the constructors' standings. Vettel had smoking brakes at the start.

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RED BULL (Max Verstappen 4, Daniel Ricciardo 5)

Ricciardo's run of five successive podiums came to an end but he still excelled in racing from 19th at the start to fifth. Verstappen started fourth, passed Vettel at the start and duelled with the German. He pitted as a precaution after Vettel's problem. It was his first finish since Monaco in May, ending a run of three retirements.

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FORCE INDIA (Esteban Ocon 8, Sergio Perez 9)

Force India opened further distance between them and Williams with their eighth double points finish in 10 races. The pair raced each other for most of the afternoon. Perez made a poor start with Ocon getting ahead. Both drivers made one stop.

WILLIAMS (Felipe Massa 10, Lance Stroll 16)

Stroll suffered some bodywork damage to his car, which affected his race and degraded the rear tyres. Massa started 14th and was happy to get a point, although he could not pass the Force Indias.

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TORO ROSSO (Daniil Kvyat 15, Carlos Sainz retired)

Kvyat and Sainz collided on the opening lap, putting the Spaniard out of the race and bringing out the safety car. Kvyat, who ran off track at Becketts and collected Sainz as he rejoined, damaged his car's floor and picked up a drive-through penalty for the second race in a row. The Russian now has nine points on his licence.

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HAAS (Kevin Magnussen 12, Romain Grosjean 13)

Both drivers did a one stop strategy. Grosjean had to make an unscheduled pitstop on lap 43 after contact with Marcus Ericsson's Sauber damaged the right rear tyre. Magnussen had contact with a Toro Rosso at the start.

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RENAULT (Nico Hulkenberg 6, Jolyon Palmer did not start)

Hulkenberg scored Renault's first points since Canada, on the team's 40th anniversary weekend. The German started fifth. Palmer's car lost hydraulic pressure on the formation lap.

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SAUBER (Marcus Ericsson 14, Pascal Wehrlein 17)

Wehrlein made three stops, changing to medium tyres when the safety car came out. He then changed to softs a lap later. They then lost grip and he had to change to supersofts.

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MCLAREN (Stoffel Vandoorne 11, Fernando Alonso retired)

Vandoorne came close to taking his first point of the campaign, after running as high as seventh. A delayed pitstop let Massa get ahead after they came out side-by-side. Alonso started last, with a 30-place grid drop, and retired on lap 35 with a fuel pressure problem.

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Beautiful Photos of Antarctica and an Voyage to Antarctica.

No place on Earth compares to this vast white wilderness of elemental forces: snow, ice, water, rock. Antarctica is simply stunning.

History

The names of explorers and their sovereigns and benefactors are written on Antarctica’s shores. Renowned explorers from Cook to Amundsen and Scott all tried to penetrate this vast, mysterious land: each with varying degrees of success. Visitors can follow in their footsteps and imagine what it was like to forge through the pack ice on a creaking wooden boat or to haul sledges across the polar plateau. Some of the historic huts actually remain, preserved frozen in rime ice, to tell the story of adventures long past.

Wildlife

This continent, preserved by the Antarctic Treaty, is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary species, adapted to life in their unique home. Some, such as the enormous whales, migrate far and wide, while others, such as the Weddell seal and the emperor penguin, remain close to the continent. Millions of seabirds skim the Southern Ocean, the world’s most abundant, and species such as far-flung albatrosses and petrels circle these waters. Antarctic wildlife is generally unafraid of humans. Visitors usually elicit no more than an uninterested yawn from seals and penguins focused on rearing their young and evading predators. The human reaction is, ironically, exactly opposite.

Inspiration

Antarctica possesses an unnameable quality. Call it inspiration, call it grandeur…it is simply the indescribable feeling of being a small speck in a vast, harshly beautiful land. A land where striated ice towers float among geometric pancake ice, literally untouched mountains rear from marine mist, and wildlife lives, year in and year out, to its own rhythms, quite apart from human concerns. To let our minds soar in a place nearly free of humankind’s imprint: this is magic.

Adventure

Antarctica’s surreal remoteness, extreme cold, enormous ice shelves and mountain ranges, and myriad exotic life forms invariably challenge you to embrace life fully. Everyone – scientist, support worker, government official and tourist alike – who comes to this isolated continent, must ‘earn’ it, whether by sea voyage or flight. Ice and weather, not clocks and calendars, determine the itinerary and the timetable of all travel here. Expect experiences unlike any other, whether whale-watching across the open sea, spying a penguin rookery, or framing that perfect photograph of an awe-inspiring ice-form. Today, it’s even possible for visitors to climb Antarctic peaks or kayak icy waters. But there is nothing quite like the craggy crevasses of a magnificent glacier or the sheer expanse of the polar ice cap.

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SCARY clip of a plane crash

Firefighters responded to a plane crash this morning at Keene and Sunset Point. No injuries were reported to the two occupants.

The very thought of a plane crashing is extremely terrifying. And to be an unwitting witness to the same can give you many sleepless nights. Two police officers from Pinellas County in Florida, US, were caught in a such a situation when they saw a plane crash right in front of their eyes. The incident happened on November 19 at around 10 am, when the two police officers were answering a call for service.

In the video, one can see the plane flying dangerously low and crashing moments later. The officers rushed immediately to help and the entire footage was captured in the officers’ dash cam. The video was posted by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office on their Facebook page, where it is says that the pilot and the passengers thankfully remained unharmed.

Photos of the rescue operations were later posted on Facebook by the Clearwater Fire and Rescue Department. The plane’s wing was completely destroyed.


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A barrel of fun! Indian man who has been feeding monkeys for DECADES

• A man in India gets swarmed by a barrel of hungry monkeys wanting his food
• Krishna Kumar Mishra, 79, has been feeding monkeys for the last four decades 
• He collects leftover food from hotels and homes and receives donations too 
• He wants to 'spread love and humanity', finds feeding the monkeys satisfying  

A man in India gets completely swarmed by a barrel of monkeys who are eager to eat the bread in his hands.

Video captured by a couple of stunned onlookers shows the 79-year-old man, named Krishna Kumar Mishra, approaching the monkeys with a bag full of bread.

Mr Mishra, from Raibareli in northern India, is said to be a spiritual leader who has been feeding monkeys for the last four decades. 

Wearing orange robes, he is seen laughing as he begins to feed the hundreds of monkeys.  

Some of the animals even climb onto Mr Mishra's head and shoulders in a race to be first to the bread.

Mr Mishra soon becomes lost in the sea of monkeys, who drag him to the ground and sit on his belly.

For years, Mr Mishra has been collecting leftover food from hotels and homes to feed his animal friends.

He said: 'My motive is to spread love and humanity in the world. 

'These hungry animals roam here and there in search of food and I find it satisfying to feed them.' 

When he can't find food, Mr Mishra is known to cook chapatis for the monkeys.

Never missing a feeding day, he said: 'My wife was not very happy with my hobby but I get complete support from my daughters. 

'Even people from across the nation who wish to feed these animals help me with donations.' 

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A voyage to the Republic of Maldives, Asia.

Unrivalled luxury, stunning white-sand beaches and an amazing underwater world make the Maldives an obvious choice for a true holiday of a lifetime.

Unbelievable Beaches

The Maldives is home to perhaps the best beaches in the world; they’re on almost every one of the country’s nearly 1200 islands and are so consistently perfect that it’s hard not to become blasé about them. While some beaches may boast softer granules than others, the basic fact remains: you’ll find consistently whiter-than-white powder sand and luminous cyan-blue water like this almost nowhere else on earth. This fact alone is enough to bring over a million people a year to this tiny, remote and otherwise little-known Indian Ocean paradise.

Resorts for Everyone

Every resort in the Maldives is its own private island, and with over 100 to choose from the only problem is selecting where you want to stay. At the top end, the world’s most exclusive hotel brands compete with each other to attain ever-greater heights of luxury, from personal butlers and private lap pools to in-room massages and pillow menus. It’s not surprising that honeymooners and those seeking a glamorous tropical getaway have long had the country at the top of their wish lists. But there’s choice beyond the five- and six-star resorts. Other islands cater for families, for divers, for those on a (relative) budget, and anyone wanting a tranquil back-to-nature experience.

Independent Travel

In the last few years, these incredible islands have finally started to open to independent travellers, meaning you no longer have to stay in resorts and remain separate from the local population, something that has kept backpackers away for decades. Intrepid individuals can now make their own itineraries and travel from island to island by public ferry, staying among the devout but friendly local population. With a fast-growing number of privately run guesthouses on inhabited islands, the Maldives and its people are now more accessible than ever.

Underwater World

With some of the best diving and snorkelling in the world, the clear waters of the Maldives are a magnet for anyone with an interest in marine life. The richness and variety is astonishing; dazzling coral walls, magnificent caves and schools of brightly coloured tropical fish await you when you get down to the reef. In deeper waters lurk manta rays, turtles, sharks and even the world’s largest fish, the whale shark. The best bit? The water is so warm many people don’t even wear a wetsuit.

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