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While some teams have cheered the idea, others have blown a gasket. Ferrari, the sport's oldest and most illustrious team, this week threatened to quit Formula One unless the plans were parked. On Friday, Team Ferrari filed an injunction in a French court to block the cap. Rivals Renault, Toyota, Red Bull and Torro Rosso all issued similar warnings. "If the regulations for 2010 will not change," read a Ferrari statement, "then Ferrari does not intend to enter cars in the next Formula One world championship." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
There is no shortage of ambition packed into the rocket that lifted off from French Guiana at lunchtime on Thursday. The celestial mission carries two space telescopes that aim to unravel the universe's biggest mysteries: the life and death of stars...
...This is the London debut of Bel Canto, www.lebelcanto.co.uk, an established Paris eatery which harmoniously pairs understated French cuisine with theatrical entertainment of the highest order - the front-of-house ensemble are all trained opera singers specializing in bel canto (meaning beautiful singing), the melodic Italian vocal style of the 18th and early 19th centuries, which impresses with all manner of embellishments, fast scales and long trills. The playlist judiciously balances pieces that appeal to the aesthete yet remain accessible to the opera-ignorant: most of the extracts - performed for a couple of minutes at approximately 15-minute intervals...
...police were not aware of the Franco-Belgian surveillance operation, they had no reason to suspect the five people in the back of the camping car of anything other than trying to illegally cross the border. While police held Ayachi and Gendron, they let the other five go. The French official says the Italians had "no reason not to do what they always do with illegal aliens - they expelled them." The upshot: nothing much is known about the five suspected suicide bomber volunteers beyond their nationalities. "That means they're still out there somewhere, presumably as ready to strike...
...they aren't the only ones. French authorities involved in the surveillance of the network that was the target of the Dec. 11 Brussels raid worried that the intervention was premature, allowing other suspected radical members - known to have been in Afghanistan or to be en route back to Europe - to go to ground once word of the bust got to them. "They're still out there, and we have no idea if they were involved in the recruitment of the five [Palestinian and Syrian] suspected suicide bombers - or whether those kamikazes might have been trained and recruited...