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Lewis Hamilton wins his third F1 World Championship –
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling United States Grand Prix to seal his third World Championship. Hamilton pressured team-mate Nico Rosberg into a mistake during a frantic last 10 laps after a safety car and swept by to take his 10th win of 2015. It was an exciting climax to a race of fluctuating fortunes, lead changes and superb racing in changing conditions. Hamilton becomes only the second British driver after Sir Jackie Stewart to win three Formula 1 drivers’ titles. [BBC] See List of the Day
Lewis Hamilton

Moto GP: Valentino Rossi penalised for kicking Marc Marquez –
MotoGP championship leader Valentino Rossi will start the final race of the season from the back of the grid after kicking Marc Marquez off his bike during the Malaysian Grand Prix.Rossi finished third but was given three penalty points following a post-race investigation. He later accused Marquez of “making me lose the championship”. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa won the race, with Jorge Lorenzo second. The final race takes place in Spain on 8 November. Rossi now leads Lorenzo by just seven points in the championship. [BBC]
Valentino Rossi

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Confusion as Turkey clocks defy time-change delay –
Confused Turks are asking “what’s the time?” after automatic clocks defied a government decision to defer a seasonal hour’s change in the time. Along with other countries, Turkey had been due to “fall back” an hour on Saturday at the end of summertime daylight saving. The Turkish government however decided to postpone the change until after upcoming polls. But some clocks have changed the time regardless – causing bewilderment.
The hashtag #saatkac – or “what’s the time?” – is now trending in Turkey as Twitter users express confusion. [BBC]

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Formula One Grand Prix Winners

Rank	Country	Driver	Wins	Seasons active	First win	Last win
1	Germany	Michael Schumacher	91	1991–2006 2010–2012	1992 Belgian Grand Prix	2006 Chinese Grand Prix
2	France	Alain Prost	51	1980–1991 1993	1981 French Grand Prix	1993 German Grand Prix
3	United Kingdom	Lewis Hamilton	43	2007–	2007 Canadian Grand Prix	2015 United States Grand Prix
4	Germany	Sebastian Vettel	42	2007–	2008 Italian Grand Prix	2015 Singapore Grand Prix
5	Brazil	Ayrton Senna	41	1984–1994	1985 Portuguese Grand Prix	1993 Australian Grand Prix
6	Spain	Fernando Alonso	32	2001 2003–	2003 Hungarian Grand Prix	2013 Spanish Grand Prix
7	United Kingdom	Nigel Mansell	31	1980–1992 1994–1995	1985 European Grand Prix	1994 Australian Grand Prix
8	United Kingdom	Jackie Stewart	27	1965–1973	1965 Italian Grand Prix	1973 German Grand Prix
9	United Kingdom	Jim Clark	25	1960–1968	1962 Belgian Grand Prix	1968 South African Grand Prix
9	Austria	Niki Lauda	25	1971–1979 1982–1985	1974 Spanish Grand Prix	1985 Dutch Grand Prix
11	Argentina	Juan Manuel Fangio	24	1950–1951 1953–1958	1950 Monaco Grand Prix	1957 German Grand Prix
12	Brazil	Nelson Piquet	23	1978–1991	1980 United States Grand Prix West	1991 Canadian Grand Prix
13	United Kingdom	Damon Hill	22	1992–1999	1993 Hungarian Grand Prix	1998 Belgian Grand Prix
14	Finland	Mika Häkkinen	20	1991–2001	1997 European Grand Prix	2001 United States Grand Prix
14	Finland	Kimi Räikkönen	20	2001–2009 2012–	2003 Malaysian Grand Prix	2013 Australian Grand Prix
16	United Kingdom	Stirling Moss	16	1950–1962	1955 British Grand Prix	1961 German Grand Prix
17	United Kingdom	Jenson Button	15	2000–	2006 Hungarian Grand Prix	2012 Brazilian Grand Prix
18	Australia	Jack Brabham	14	1955–1970	1959 Monaco Grand Prix	1970 South African Grand Prix
18	United Kingdom	Graham Hill	14	1958–1975	1962 Dutch Grand Prix	1969 Monaco Grand Prix
18	Brazil	Emerson Fittipaldi	14	1970–1980	1970 United States Grand Prix	1975 British Grand Prix
21	Italy	Alberto Ascari	13	1950–1955	1951 German Grand Prix	1953 Swiss Grand Prix
21	United Kingdom	David Coulthard	13	1994–2008	1995 Portuguese Grand Prix	2003 Australian Grand Prix
23	United States	Mario Andretti	12	1968–1972 1974–1982	1971 South African Grand Prix	1978 Dutch Grand Prix
23	Argentina	Carlos Reutemann	12	1972–1982	1974 South African Grand Prix	1981 Belgian Grand Prix
23	Australia	Alan Jones	12	1975–1981 1983 1985–1986	1977 Austrian Grand Prix	1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix
26	Canada	Jacques Villeneuve	11	1996–2006	1996 European Grand Prix	1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix
26	Brazil	Rubens Barrichello	11	1993–2011	2000 German Grand Prix	2009 Italian Grand Prix
26	Brazil	Felipe Massa	11	2002 2004–	2006 Turkish Grand Prix	2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
26	Germany	Nico Rosberg	11	2006–	2012 Chinese Grand Prix	2015 Austrian Grand Prix
30	Sweden	Ronnie Peterson	10	1970–1978	1973 French Grand Prix	1978 Austrian Grand Prix
30	South Africa	Jody Scheckter	10	1972–1980	1974 Swedish Grand Prix	1979 Italian Grand Prix
30	United Kingdom	James Hunt	10	1973–1979	1975 Dutch Grand Prix	1977 Japanese Grand Prix
30	Austria	Gerhard Berger	10	1984–1997	1986 Mexican Grand Prix	1997 German Grand Prix

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2015)
  • Israeli border police shoot dead a 17-year-old girl after she allegedly approached them with a knife in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. (The New Daily AU)
  • A Palestinian stabs an Israeli settler in Gush Etzion. (Ynet)

Business and economics

• The United Parcel Service pilots’ union authorizes its executive board to call a strike at the board’s discretion as contract talks slog into a fifth year. This, in the wake of competitor FedEx pilots’ approval of a new six-year contract. (WSJ)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 17 people are killed and 71 injured following a fire in a karaoke bar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. (AP via Fox News)
• European migrant crisis
  • The bodies of 40 migrants wash ashore on the Libyan coast with another 30 people missing. (AAP via SBS)
• At least four people are dead and a number missing as a tour boat carrying 27 people sinks off the coast of Tofino on Vancouver Island off the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia. (CTV), (CNN)

International relations

• European migrant crisis
  • Thirteen European and Balkan leaders meet about the migrant crisis at an emergency summit in Brussels, Belgium; Turkey did not attend. The Prime Minister of Slovenia says the EU will ‘start falling apart’ within weeks if the migrant crisis continues unchecked. Huge divisions remain among EU states over how to deal with the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants. (Chicago Tribune) (Radio New Zealand) (Daily Mail)

Law and crime

• 2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash
  • Police have updated information on the casualties from this crash. Four died and 47 were injured; five remain in critical condition. (Q13 Fox) (Lethbridge Herald)
  • The attorney for Adacia Chambers, the woman whose car plowed into homecoming parade crowd, says he doesn’t think his client was intoxicated at the crash. Tony Coleman said, “I don’t believe right now that she was intoxicated. … she’s suffering frommental illness.” (USA Today) (KFOR)
• More than 200 bears are killed in a single day in the U.S. state of Florida after state officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years; supporters say the aim is to cut down on the surging population of black bears, but animal rights activists have criticized the hunts as cruel and ineffective. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• Argentine general election, 2015
  • Voters in Argentina go to the polls to select a new President and legislature with the presidential election to go to a runoff on November 22 as neither candidate could secure a majoriey. (BBC), (CNN)
• Polish parliamentary election, 2015
  • Voters in Poland go to the polls for a parliamentary election with the opposition Law and Justice party performing well in exit polls. (BBC)
  • Exit polls show Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by eurosceptic Jarosław Kaczyński and the new PM Beata Szydło, won an absolute majority in today’s general elections. Kaczyński is the twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczyński, who died in a 2010 jet crash. The PiS picks up 242 out of 460 seats in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, ousting the governing Christian democratic Civic Platform (PO) party gets 133 seats and becoming the first party to win a majority in its own right since the collapse of communism in 1989. Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz has conceded defeat. (NDTV) (Newstalk)
• Tanzanian general election, 2015
  • Voters in Tanzania go to the polls for an election with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi facing the greatest challenge to its dominance in over 50 years. (Washington Post)
• Ivorian presidential election, 2015
  • Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for a presidential election with incumbent Alassane Ouattara favoured to win. (AP via New York Times)
• Republic of the Congo constitutional referendum, 2015
  • Voters in the Republic of the Congo go to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso to seek another term. (AP)
• Guatemalan general election, 2015
  • Voters in Guatemala go to the polls for the second round of voting in a presidential election with former TV comedian Jimmy Morales winning a landslide victory. (Wall Street Journal), (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
• Haitian presidential election, 2015, Haitian parliamentary election, 2015
  • Most polls in Haiti’s high-stakes presidential, second rounds of legislative, and local elections closed on schedule. Voting was relatively orderly across the nation of some 10 million people. Voters have 54 contenders for president to choose from; a runoff between the top two candidates is scheduled for December 27. (Miami Herald) (NBC News) (SABC)
• Ukrainian local elections, 2015
  • Voters across Ukraine go to the polls to elect regional leaders amid widespread frustration over a sagging economy and stalled reforms nearly two years after the Ukrainian revolution. (Washington Post) (Global Voices)
• Elections in the United States
  • Louisiana gubernatorial election, 2015
    • Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter and Democratic state Representative John Bel Edwards top two Republican candidates for spots in the November 21 runoff election. Edwards wins 40 percent and Vitter 23 percent of the primary vote, according to unofficial returns. (AP)

Sports

• Lewis Hamilton wins a third World Drivers’ Championship in Formula One, as his team Mercedes secures the Constructors’ Championship. (The Guardian)

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