The McLaren driver is close to sealing the first F1 title of his career. The 26-year-old Briton is 24 points ahead of teammate Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, whose brilliant comeback in recent weeks has given him a glimpse of a fifth straight crown.

The penultimate race weekend of the 2025 Formula One season is underway, with Max Verstappen’s Las Vegas victory in the previous round — along with the dramatic disqualification of both McLaren drivers — meaning the drivers’ championship is now a genuine three-way fight.

Key dates, teams, players, venues, favourites and tickets ahead of the 11th edition of the quadrennial tournament.

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Lando Norris is close to doing something nobody not named Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen has done since 2016: win a Formula 1 drivers’ championship. (That was Nico Rosberg, if you’re wondering. And it feels longer ago than it was.)

The inaugural Doha Film Festival in Qatar wrapped on Friday with the award for best feature film in the International Feature Film Competition going to Guillermo Galoe's "Sleepless City." The film, which had its world premiere in Cannes' Critics' Week,

Qatar weekly real estate trading hit $210.8m, with activity in Doha, Al Rayyan and Al Wakrah across land, residential and mixed-use assets