• Sprint sensation clocks 20.05 secs at Queensland Championships
• 17-year-old runs fastest 200m in world this year in U20 heat

Sprint sensation Gout Gout, Australia’s fastest man over 200m, has lit up the track with a world-leading run during the under-20 heats at the Queensland Athletics championships on Sunday.

Gout blitzed the field by more than two seconds to cross the line in 20.05s for the fastest all-age 200m recorded across the globe in 2025. The 17-year-old smashed the 20.13s clocked by Zimbabwe’s Makanakaishe Charamba in Texas last month.

Rightwing campaign propelled by tech billionaire accuses General Services Administration’s 18F of being a far-left cell

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Federal employees in a little-known office dedicated to tech and consulting services were at work on the afternoon of 3 February when Elon Musk tweeted about their agency for the first time.

“That group has been deleted,” Musk wrote .

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One of five rookies on the grid this season, Ollie Bearman’s first weekend in F1 couldn’t be going much worse so far.

The Brit put his Haas into the wall in FP1, missed FP2 as repairs were made, and subsequently spun off and beached his car in Fp3, meaning he had only 13 laps of practice before qualifying.

Hip hop trio Kneecap appeared to show head of King’s Domain statue beheaded nine months ago

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The solid bronze severed head of Melbourne’s decapitated King George V statue appears to have briefly reappeared in public, gracing the stage during a performance by a visiting Northern Irish hip hop group.

The statue in the King’s Domain parklands was beheaded during the King’s Birthday Weekend in June 2024 – one of a series of anti-colonial acts of sabotage targeting British memorials in Melbourne.

• British No 1 defeats defending champion 6-1, 0-6, 6-4
• Draper to face Holger Rune after he beat Daniil Medvedev

Of the four previous times that Jack Draper and Carlos Alcaraz had stood across the net from each other, half of their meetings had ended with a distraught Draper aborting the match due to injury. While Draper attempted to keep up with the most successful player of the new generation, their rivalry underlined the biggest obstacle in Draper’s career: his own physical frailty.

Physically, mentally and in every other category, however, the British No 1 has dramatically improved over the past year as he has established himself as one of the very best players in the world. Amid a fortnight that has showcased the best tennis of his life, Draper held his nerve in a turbulent, chaotic tussle to close out a remarkable 6-1, 0-6, 6-4 win over Alcaraz and reach his first Masters 1000 final at Indian Wells.

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• Mauvaka made head-to-head contact with Ben White
• Scotland coach believes hooker should have seen red

France’s prowess in claiming the Six Nations in such commanding fashion was undercut by what Gregor Townsend claims is a failing in rugby’s current judicial system. Peato Mauvaka was shown a yellow card midway through the first half for making head-to-head contact with Ben White, following his deliberate lunge at the Scotland scrum-half after play had stopped.

The incident was referred for a bunker review, which came back with the finding the contact had not been dangerous. Thus, the card remained at yellow, and Mauvaka returned to the field after 10 minutes in the sin bin.

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Health secretary says the scrapping of NHS England is ‘beginning, not end’ of bid to slash ‘bloated bureaucracy’

The health secretary has declared that scrapping NHS England is “the beginning, not the end” and has vowed to continue “slashing bloated bureaucracy”.

Wes Streeting suggested hundreds more quangos could be in the line of fire after the prime minister announced this week the end of the body overseeing the health service in England.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Streeting said: “ The abolition of NHS England – the world’s largest quango – is the beginning, not the end.

“Patients and staff alike can see the inefficiency and waste in the health service. My team and I are going through budgets line by line, with a relentless focus on slashing bloated bureaucracy.”

NHS England has managed the health service since 2012, when it was established to cut down on political interference in the NHS – something Streeting described as an act of “backside-covering” to avoid blame for failures.

But on Thursday, Keir Starmer announced this would come to an end as he unexpectedly revealed the government would abolish NHS England in an effort to avoid “duplication”.

In his Sunday Telegraph article, Streeting suggested more was to come, saying new NHS England chair Penny Dash had “identified hundreds of bodies cluttering the patient safety and regulatory landscape, leaving patients and staff alike lost in a labyrinth of paperwork and frustration”.

The move towards scrapping NHS England and other health-related quangos marks a change in direction for Streeting, who in January said he would not embark upon a reorganisation of the NHS.

He told the Health Service Journal he could spend “a hell of a lot of time” on reorganisation “and not make a single difference to the patient interest”, saying instead he would focus on trying to “eliminate waste and duplication”.

But in the Telegraph article, Streeting said he had heard former Conservative health ministers “bemoan” not abolishing NHS England, adding: “If we hadn’t acted this week, the transformational reform the NHS needs wouldn’t have been possible.”

The government expects scrapping NHS England will take two years and save “hundreds of millions of pounds” that can be spent on frontline services.

But during the week, Downing Street would not be drawn on how many people were facing redundancy as a result of the changes.

The Guardian reported on Friday that the jobs cull from the government’s radical restructuring of the NHS will be at least twice as big as previously thought.

The staff shakeout caused by NHS England’s abolition and unprecedented cost-cutting elsewhere will mean the number of lost posts will soar from the 10,000 expected to between 20,000 and 30,000 .

Many thousands more people who work for the NHS’s 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) in England will see their roles axed , as well as the 10,000 working for NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) who have already been earmarked to go.