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⁠Elfyn Evans ended years of heartache, and a quarter-of-a-century wait for Britain, by winning the World Rally Championship title with Toyota after a dramatic season ⁠finale in Sardinia on Sunday. The ⁠Welshman had been ​championship runner-up five times in the last six years but emerged triumphant after a final Powerstage duel with teammate Oliver Solberg ended with the charging Swede crashing ⁠out two corners from the finish while on course to take the crown. Solberg, 25, ran wide and careered down a bank before getting the car back on the road. ⁠He still won the rally but lost the crucial bonus points on offer for the top five in the ​final stage. Evans, with co-driver Scott Martin at his side, ‌became the first British world ‌rally champion since Englishman Richard Burns in 2001 and only the third since Scottish driver Colin McRae became ‌the first in 1995. Sweden’s Solberg, son of Norway’s 2003 champion Petter, ended the season as runner-up. The final standings left Evans on 243 points, Solberg on 238 and Sami Pajari on 237 in what was also the end of an era for the sport with new regulations in force next year.

Culture and EducationRight after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, UNOOSA, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, was established and has since been monitoring developments across more than 77 successful lunar missions and other journeys while also taking a lead role in the annual World Space Week, which runs from 4 to 10 October. What you need to knowThis year’s theme, Rocket revolution, focuses on the rapid transformation of how we reach space – now expanding through commercial launch providers, reusable rockets, university teams, and other innovatorsMore than 50,000 events are planned in more than 100 countriesThe week represents the world’s largest space eventWhat’s the UN doing in space? Early this year, the UN hosted four astronauts who just returned from outer space, carrying out the farthest human spaceflight in history when they travelled beyond the far side of the Moon. But, the UN has been involved in space affairs for decades. The General Assembly created a committee in 1959 to govern the exploration and use of space for the benefit of all – focused around peace, security and development.

TORONTO — Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: It is election day in Quebec on Monday. Polls suggest the Parti Québécois is in the lead with leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon asking voters to give the separatist party a majority in the province’s legislature. If the PQ wins, Plamondon has promised to hold a referendum on independence, but not until after U. S. President Donald Trump is out of office.

Chilean President José Antonio Kast hosted an official delegation of World Rugby leaders at the Palacio de La Moneda on October 02. The high-level institutional gathering marked the official launch of the 2026 World Rugby Junior Challenger. This newly established tournament is taking place across Santiago from October 02 to October 17, 2026. The World Rugby u20 event serves as a clear testament to the explosive growth rugby is experiencing across Chile. Driven by continuous state backing, strategic grassroots infrastructure investments, and the rising popularity of the sport, the oval ball has successfully captured the imagination of the Chilean public. Local enthusiasm has reached an all-time high as the country solidifies its identity as a prominent rugby nation.

Evans went head-to-head with his team-mates Sami Pajari and Oliver Solberg in the deciding rally with all three vying to be crowned world champion for the first time. Playing host to the season finale for the first time, the sandy and rough gravel roads of the Italian island proved as demanding as usual. Following a hot and dry summer, the loose and sandy surface would produce a significant road cleaning effect for the three contenders to deal with during the first full day on Friday.

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“You can run really fast and then have a 20-minute break, or you could run slow and have a one-minute break,” Harder said. “The idea is you run as fast or as slow as you want. You just have to get the 6.7 kilometres done every hour and be ready to go the next hour.”The race continues until runners are eliminated by failing to complete a loop in the allotted time, choosing to stop or, ultimately, until one runner remains. The math adds up quickly. Completing 24 loops means running 160.8 kilometres, or 100 miles. Harder’s 42-loop performance in Lethbridge amounted to about 281 kilometres, or 175 miles, and was enough to place him among the top qualifying performances during the two-year qualification period. The world team championship is held every two years, alternating with an individual world championship. For the team event, each country has up to 15 runners. The athletes start their loops at the same time, with each country’s total number of completed loops added together at the end. “The team with the highest total loops around is the world team championship, or world team champion,” Harder said.

Last February, a Tomahawk cruise missile struck an Iranian elementary school, killing more than 150 people, most of them children. President Trump initially suggested that it could have been somebody else's Tomahawk: "Whether it's Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk – a Tomahawk is very generic, it's sold to other countries, but that's being investigated right now," he said. When Iran put out video as evidence that it was a U. S. missile, Hany Farid, one of the world's foremost experts on deepfakes, was contacted by several media outlets to determine if it was real or fake. A professor at Dartmouth College, Farid is also co-founder of GetReal Security, a cyber security firm. "What was difficult about this case was you had very little to work on," he said. "We had a very grainy, shaky video. The missile is extremely small. And we had to reason about the physical plausibility of that missile striking the ground. " But he also had certain aspects that he could study scientifically, involving the speed of sound, the speed of light, and the size of the missile: "And those three things were enough for us to say that this is physically plausible," he said.

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