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The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008, at the Hungaroring (course shown) in Mogyoród, near Budapest, Hungary. It was the 11th race of the 2008 Formula One season. Contested over 70 laps, the race was won by Heikki Kovalainen for the McLaren team, from a second position start. Timo Glock finished second in a Toyota car, with Kimi Räikkönen third in a Ferrari. It was Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and it was Glock's first podium finish. The majority of the race consisted of a duel between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari, respectively. The two championship rivals began a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton sustained a punctured tyre just over halfway through the race, giving Massa a lead of more than 20 seconds over Kovalainen. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps remaining, allowing the McLaren driver to win. Räikkönen set the race's fastest lap in the other Ferrari, but was hampered by a poor qualifying performance and was stuck behind Fernando Alonso (Renault) and Glock in turn for almost all of the race. (Full article...)

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... that the 19th-century physician Alice Vickery (pictured), the first qualified woman chemist and druggist in Britain, advocated free love and believed that marriage was "legal prostitution"?

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... that although Mongols won the Battle of Tursko in 1241, at first the Polish forces managed to capture the Mongol camp?

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... that actress Kelly Thiebaud, known for her role as the antagonistic Britt Westbourne on General Hospital, previously appeared in music videos for French disc jockey David Guetta?

... that on the last meeting of the Drobnjaci clan held in Podmalinsko Monastery in 1840 they decided to inform Njegoš about their intention to kill Smail-aga Čengić?

... that the standard size of a platform tennis court was influenced by the presence of a rock and a steep hill in the backyard of the sport's co-inventor?

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Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden (pictured) is granted temporary asylum in Russia.

Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation upholds the four-year sentence of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud.

A new primate, the Lavasoa dwarf lemur, is discovered in Madagascar.

Mamnoon Hussain is elected as the new President of Pakistan.

Amid allegations of voting irregularities, the Cambodian People's Party wins a majority of seats in the National Assembly.

Publicis and Omnicom agree to a merger that would form the world's largest advertising group.

Egyptian security forces fire upon pro-Mohamed Morsi demonstrators in Cairo, leaving dozens of people dead.

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August 3: Independence Day in Niger (1960); Flag Day in Venezuela

1913 – A strike by agricultural workers in Wheatland, California, US, degenerated into a riot, one of the first major farm labor confrontations in California.

1916 – Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement (pictured) was hanged at London's Pentonville Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to win Irish independence from Britain.

1949 – The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.

2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Mayor of Tehran, began his term as the sixth President of Iran.

2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga was captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

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The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) is a large saturniid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, and common across the Malay Archipelago. Considered the largest moth in the world in terms of wing area, the species shows considerable sexual dimorphism, with females such as the specimen pictured here generally much heavier than males.

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