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The 23-year-old England forward's previous deal at Etihad Stadium was due to expire at the end of next season. It is understood the new contract will make Sterling one of the best-paid English players in the Premier League. "I'm delighted to sign. My development here has been incredible," said Sterling. "I felt from the minute I got here it was the right choice for me. It's paid off and I'm really grateful." Sterling, who has scored seven goals for the club this season, joined City from Liverpool in a £49m deal in 2015. He scored 23 goals last season as the Blues won the Premier League and Carabao Cup. Capped 46 times by England, he scored twice against Spain last month - his first international goals for three years. City director of football Txiki Begiristain said: "This is a significant moment for the club. Raheem has improved dramatically in the past two seasons and is now one of the Premier League's best attacking players. His statistics tell their own story. "He's quick, strong and excellent in front of goal - everything a modern-day forward needs to excel." The new deal comes in the week that German news magazine Der Spiegel alleged City overvalued sponsorship deals to help meet Uefa's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. City said they will not be commenting on the claims and that the attempt to damage their reputation had been "organised and clear".

What is it? Why did BMW wait for so long to launch a roadster version of the i8? A cynic may suggest that anyone who wanted an i8 had bought one already, and with some three-year lease deals of the early cars now coming to an end, now is a good time to tempt them into something else. Why would you want that 911, sir, when you can have an open-top version of one of these? After all, a production-ready i8 roadster concept was seen in early 2016, when the i8 coupé was only a year or so into its life, and at that point selling on the used market for more than it was new. In a world where frequent new variants are crucial to keeping up interest in your sports car no matter how radical yours looks – Porsche the master or stirring the mixing bowl another way every few months – BMW waited to launch this latest version of its sports car until demand had tailed off of the coupé. At the same time as launching the roadster, BMW has taken the opportunity to upgrade the petrol-electric plug-in hybrid drivetrain of the coupé to the more potent offering of the roadster. That upgraded drivetrain is focused on the electric side. The front wheels are driven through a 141bhp electric motor – an extra 12bhp from the earlier i8 coupé – and a two-speed automatic gearbox. The lithium ion battery is also larger – capacity rising from 7.1kWh to 11.6kWh – which gives the i8 roadster an electric-only range of 33 miles. It can travel up to 75mph on electric power, too, with charging times also cut thanks to an upgrading charging system. The mid-mounted 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, which drives the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic gearbox, carries over unchanged. The i8 roadster can therefore run on electric power as a front-wheel-drive car, or an all-wheel-drive car as a hybrid. BMW says only 60kg has been added to the weight at the kerb of the i8 roadster over the coupé, an impressively low figure, and far less structural reinforcement is needed than normal thanks to the i8 roadster using an aluminium chassis with a high-strength, carbonfibre-reinforced polymer passenger cell. What's it like? Time has been kind to the i8. Just look at it. It still looks like nothing else on the road, and you have to drive around in a hypercar to turn more heads. You get a child-like joy each time you see it and go to drive it. Behind the wheel, you notice passers-by and other road users feeling the same, even if your view out is nowhere as exciting as their view in, roof up or down. What’s different from the coupé? Not much, in truth. For however radical it is, the i8 is actually quite a typical conversion from coupé to roadster, a beautifully engineered folding soft-top roof mechanism bringing theatre to proceedings as well as dynamic compromises. Roadsters lose chassis stiffness in their transformation to coupé, and the biggest visual telltale sign is a wobbly interior mirror on the windscreen. The i8 roadster’s doesn’t wobble, though, but try to adjust it and you’ll know why: you need to give it a real forceful tug to adjust it. BMW has made it extra secure. Wonder why? The i8’s brief has always been open to fairly wide interpretation. Looking at it without any prior knowledge, you’d think it was a hypercar. On price and positioning, it’s a sports car. Spend any length of time in an i8 coupé, and it feels more like a GT. The i8 roadster feels even more like a GT than the coupé. It’s at its best enjoyed making brisk point-to-point progress on fast, smooth, flowing roads rather than as a memorable companion on your favourite British B-road. It’s properly quick in a straight line, with traction excellent, and in-gear acceleration that’s at times more supercar than sports car thanks to the support of the electric motor. The sensation of creeping around town in a car as dramatic-looking as the i8 in near total silence on electric power is one of the more unusual in motoring. Yet that sensation now also now comes with some added discomfort, as while the drivetrain might be silent, the chassis isn’t, thumping over bumps and with a low-speed ride that’s choppy at best. On anything but faster, smoother A-roads and motorways in and around the national speed limit, the i8 is just too darn firm. Not ‘sporty’ firmness, either, more the sort tuned into the suspension to try to mask the lack of body control. It’s far more fun accelerating out of a corner than slowing down and turning in for one, thanks to a combination of a weird numb and unresponsive feeling in the first half of the brake pedal travel, and a tendency to understeer when pushed. Still, it corners flat and it corners fast, without ever really involving you in anything other than when you floor the pedal on the way out of a corner to enjoy that point-to-point pace once more. It won’t surprise you to learn the official fuel economy of 141mpg is not an accurate figure – when the battery runs out, you’ll get a fairly steady 35mpg no matter what the road conditions, so divide that by the length of your journey and what you’ll manage to get from the 30 miles or so of electric power to know how efficient it’s going to be for you. But whatever the combined petrol-electric economy is, even at its worst, 35mpg is mightily impressive for a car with such sporting pretensions. Should I buy one? Calling things ahead of their time is quite a lazy thing to do, for we should instead adjust our thinking to try to see a creation as its maker. That’s relevant to the i8 – you know the future won’t look like this, and this car is instead 2014’s vision of the future rather than the present day’s, with everything that’s happened around electric cars and legislation in the intervening period. To that end, I doubt BMW would replace the i8, when electric cars of all types become the norm rather than a special preview of things to come. In this era, price and layout wise, the i8 is a sports car alternative to a Porsche 911. As a sports car, it just isn’t as good, as either a coupé or now a roadster. As a technological achievement and statement of intent for the way the industry is heading, the i8 is a modern great, and the roadster version that formula made more desirable with nothing more than the usual compromises such a conversion from a fixed roof brings. Is it particularly engaging? Not really. But then neither is the coupé. Yet the i8 is still beguiling enough to have our blessing, and in its niche class of one, the roadster is the variant to go for. Time and history will be very kind to a car as innovative as this. BMW i8 Roadster specification Where Warwickshire, UK Price £124,735 On sale Now Engine 3 cyls, 1499cc, turbocharged, petrol, plus electric motor Power 369bhp (combined) Torque 236lb ft at 3700rpm (petrol engine) and 184lb ft (electric motor) Gearbox 6-spd automatic for petrol engine, 2-spd automatic for electric motor Kerb weight 1595kg Top speed 155mph 0-62mph 4.6sec Fuel economy141mpg CO2 46g/km Rivals Porsche 911, Jaguar F-Type

The youngest woman ever elected to Congress has a problem - she can't afford her rent. That is until she starts her new job in January. After telling the New York Times she's waiting for her first paycheck before renting an apartment in Washington DC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is again being called the "millennial Congresswoman". On Friday Fox News presenter Ed Henry suggested the 29-year-old wasn't telling the full truth because she wore "multi-thousand dollar outfits" in a magazine. Ms Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter, pointing out the clothes were loaned to her for the photo shoot. Her comments, "I've really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January," got many on Twitter empathising with her.

A gunman has opened fire at a bar in California killing at least 12 people, including a police officer. The shooting began at about 23:20 local time on Wednesday at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California about 40 miles (65km) north-west of Los Angeles. At least another 10 were also injured. Officials say the suspect was found dead inside and have not yet identified him. They do not yet know his motive for the shooting. At least 200 people were reportedly inside the bar attending a college country music night at the time. "When deputies arrived they heard shots being fired, it was an active shooter situation," Ventura County Sheriff's office spokesman Eric Buschow said earlier. The police officer who was killed has been named as Ventura Sheriff's Sergeant Ron Helus - a 29-year force veteran an father-of-one who was due to retire next year. He was shot several times and later declared dead at a local hospital.

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Sales of new cars in the UK recovered slightly in October, although they were still down on a year previously. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT), sales fell to 153,000 units during the month, down about 3% year on year. It is an improvement on September, when there was a 20.5% decline. The new figures come as Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is to reopen its Solihull plant in the West Midlands after a two week shutdown. Grant worries The SMMT said there had been strong growth in alternative-fuelled vehicles (AFV), with combined plug-in hybrid and battery electric registrations up 30%. Manufacturers are also worried about the potential risks of Brexit. They fear that an end to frictionless trade could disrupt their "just-in-time" supply chains, hurting production. JLR, the UK's biggest carmaker, had also blamed weakening global demand and falling diesel sales for its decision to pause production in Solihull from 22 October. Last week JLR said car sales had fallen sharply, taking it into a loss for the three months to October. Its revenues were £5.6bn on sales of 129,887 vehicles in the three months to the end of September. As a result JLR's parent company, Tata Motors, reported a net loss £110m for the quarter.

Victory would have taken Liverpool three points clear at the top of Group C but they drop to second following Napoli's draw with Paris Saint-Germain in Italy. Forward Pavkov headed his side into the lead after 21 minutes and fired a powerful effort into the bottom corner to make it 2-0 shortly afterwards. The hosts dominated the first half and came close through Vujadin Savic and El Fardou Ben Nabouhane before Pavkov's opening goal. Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge squandered a great chance from six yards out in the 17th minute. The Reds had more than 80% of the possession and hit the woodwork twice in the second half but could not score as Red Star recorded their 10th clean sheet in their last 15 home games in Europe.

Republicans and Democrats are battling for control of the two houses of Congress, which make America's laws and as such impact hugely on public life. Governor posts and seats in state legislatures are also up for grabs. The first polls will close on the East Coast at 18:00 EST (23:00 GMT), and early results should follow soon after. The mid-term elections come halfway through Mr Trump's four years in office and follow a divisive campaign. Mr Trump attended three rallies on the final day of campaigning on Monday, telling his supporters: "Everything we have achieved is at stake tomorrow." Barack Obama - on the campaign trail for the Democratic party - said "the character of our country is on the ballot". What is at stake? Americans are voting for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of 100 seats in the Senate - the two bodies that make up Congress. Governors are also being chosen in 36 out of 50 states.

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That scene has just repeated among the vine-ribbed hills around Alba, Asti and Cuneo in Italy, the Italdesign Zerouno gathering clusters of cyclists, smartphone-wielding truckers and gawping hikers as it bounds between villages. The Zerouno is the latest supercar born out of the Italdesign studios in Moncalieri on the edge of Turin, one of literally dozens of extreme sports cars to have emerged from this temple of creation over the past 50 years. What’s different about the Zerouno, apart from it being extreme enough of construction, speed and price to be classified as a hypercar, is the nature of its industrial-sized mission. All five of these €1.5 million machines (yes, you read that right, and that’s without taxes) are already sold, as are two of the final five of the targa-roofed Zerouno Duertas. That mission is to be a high-speed calling card for Italdesign, whose remit has changed. You may recall that this achievement-rich Italian vehicle design and engineering business, founded in 1968 by designer Giorgetto Giugiaro and engineer Aldo Mantovani, was in 2010 bought by the Volkswagen Group, thus ending its independence while also ensuring that it benefited from a regular supply of work.

City took just six minutes to open the scoring as Wesley Hoedt smashed an attempted clearance of Leroy Sane's cross into his own net, before Sergio Aguero doubled their lead by tapping in Raheem Sterling's cross. David Silva slammed home their third from Sane's flick-on after 18 minutes but Danny Ings did pull one back from the spot after Ederson brought him down in the area. Sterling then netted either side of the break to complete an impressive personal performance, while Sane added a late sixth to cap off a fine afternoon for Pep Guardiola's men. Both of the England forward's goals were assisted by Aguero, as the Argentine first crossed for Sterling to stroke in, before a slide-rule pass enabled the 23-year-old to finish emphatically. Sane's goal came deep into injury time, firing past Alex McCarthy following a lightning counter-attack with Southampton legs tiring. Guardiola's side have now won eight of their past nine matches across all competitions, although Ings' penalty was the first league goal they have conceded in six games. Liverpool had moved above City after their draw with Arsenal on Saturday evening but the Reds held on to top spot for less than 24 hours. Meanwhile, Saints are now seven Premier League games without a victory and lie 16th. Free-scoring City City's thumping win marked the 12th time that Guardiola's side have scored five or more goals in a single Premier League game since the Spaniard arrived at the club - no other team has done so on more than six occasions in the same timeframe. And they threatened from the off, as Southampton had already been warned of their hosts' attacking quality several times, before Hoedt's attempted clearance ended up in his own net. Aguero had already spurned one good chance before he turned in Sterling's cross for his 150th Premier League goal, after the England forward and Bernardo Silva linked up classily. David Silva then added his side's third in the 18th minute, his powerful volley from Sane's flick-on leaving McCarthy helpless, but before then the Blues had seen a number of dangerous attacks break down. The home side eased off after this early blitz, which saw them enjoy 81% of the possession in the opening 20 minutes, with a fifth straight league win over Southampton already in the bag.

Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have rejected a bid for independence. Final results showed that 56.4% chose to remain part of France while 43.6% voted to leave - a tighter result than some polls had predicted. Turnout was about 81%. The vote was promised by a 1988 deal that put an end to a violent campaign for independence. President Emmanuel Macron said it showed "confidence in the French republic". "I have to tell you how proud I am that we have finally passed this historic step together," he added. New Caledonia has large deposits of nickel, a vital component in manufacturing electronics, and is seen by France as a strategic political and economic asset in the region.

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