Formula One: Lewis Hamilton to race in Abu Dhabi after negative Covid-19 tests

ABU DHABI (REUTERS) – Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton will race for Mercedes in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi season-ender after he tested negative for Covid-19 in multiple tests, the team said on Thursday (Dec 10).

Hamilton, who was replaced at last weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix by fellow Briton George Russell, had already arrived in Abu Dhabi after completing quarantine in Bahrain, Mercedes added.

Russell will now return to Williams for the weekend.

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Ellen DeGeneres says she has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Ellen DeGeneres announced on Thursday that she tested positive for the coronavirus.

“Fortunately, I’m feeling fine right now,’’ Ms. DeGeneres, the host of the daytime talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” wrote in a statement she posted to Twitter.

Ms. DeGeneres said that anyone who had been in close contact with her had been notified, and that she was following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“I’ll see you all again after the holidays,’’ she wrote. “Please stay healthy and safe.’’

What does no deal Brexit mean for property? England average house price to fall by £15k

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How will no deal affect house prices? It’s not easy to say for sure, as the market is always fairly tricky to predict. However, it certainly will have an affect.

An analysis from KPMG has found house prices could drop by six percent next year without a deal.

This would cause the average house (worth £256,000) in England to fall in value by £15,360 – a huge financial blow to Britons.

Things are gloomier, according to the report, in London where prices will fall by seven percent.

However, the firm went so far as to say a drop between 10 and 20 percent is “not out of the question.”

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Thirty-Year Bond Auction Attracts Above Average Demand

The Treasury Department announced the results of this month’s auction of $24 billion worth of thirty-year bonds on Thursday, revealing the sale attracted above average demand.

The thirty-year bond auction drew a high yield of 1.665 percent and a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.48.

Last month, the Treasury sold $27 billion worth of thirty-year bonds, drawing a high yield of 1.680 percent and a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.29.

The bid-to-cover ratio is a measure of demand that indicates the amount of bids for each dollar worth of securities being sold.

The ten previous thirty-year bond auctions had an average bid-to-cover ratio of 2.33.

These states have the worst drivers, new study says

Study: People who drive this car are most likely to have speeding tickets.

See where they fall: Cars with the most speeding tickets, Jeep, Subaru and Dodge all made the list.

Alaska has one of the smallest populations of drivers in the U.S., but a new report says they are the most dangerous as a group.

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Analysts at Car Insurance Comparison have crunched the numbers related to fatal car accidents and combined a number of factors to come up with the list.

The annual study looks at the death rate and where states rank regarding the number of fatal accidents involving failure to obey laws, careless driving, drunk driving and speeding along with several subcategories of each.

Alaska was followed by New Mexico, Montana and Texas (tie), Colorado, Nevada, Hawaii and South Carolina (tie), Delaware and Arkansas in the top 10.

PEOPLE WHO DRIVE THIS CAR GET THE MOST SPEEDING TICKETS

Alaska was also found to be worst for drunk driving and speeding, New Mexico for careless driving and Colorado for failure to obey violations.

On the other end of the list, Utahns were found to be the best drivers, followed by Iowans, New Jerseyans, Minnesotans and Marylanders.

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Harare Orders a Thorough Check of Imported Cars

Zimbabwe has ordered all motor vehicles imported from Japan to undergo inspection for radiation contamination, with the move set to start at the Beitbridge border post with immediate effect. Zimbabwe’s motor assembling industry has all but collapsed. Nearly all the vehicles on its roads are refurbished imports, mostly from Japan. Figures from the Beitbridge border post show that up to 200 pre-owned vehicles from Japan pass through the border daily into the Zimbabwean market.

States Urge Top Court to Reject Texas Bid to Overturn Biden Win

Pennsylvania and three other states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an unprecedented Texas lawsuit that would overturn their presidential election votes and reverse Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.

In a court filing Thursday, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin offered the court multiple grounds for quickly disposing of the lawsuit.

“Texas’s effort to get this court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact,” the states argued. “The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”

Backed by Trump, Texas is seeking to block those states from casting their collective 62 electoral votes for Biden when the Electoral College meets on Monday. In an unprecedented claim, Texas says its rights were violated because those states unconstitutionally expanded mail-in voting and opened up their elections to fraud and irregularities.