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Like the redesigned Audi A5 that was unveiled beside it at the 2016 Paris auto show, the all-new 2018 Audi Q5 is a model that looks a lot like its predecessor. In fact, many may confuse the new-generation Q5 as little more than a facelift—the new car’s side profile and rear-end design, in particular, look nearly identical to the current Q5’s. Fortunately, touches such as a chunky, Q7-inspired grille, LED headlights, and swollen front fenders that flow into the hood help give the 2018 Q5 a fresh-faced look when viewed head-on. Sharing its platform with both the Audi A4 and A5, the Q5 has lost as much as 198 pounds compared with the outgoing model, according to Audi, in spite of a half-inch increase in wheelbase and 1.3 inches more overall length. Most of the additional space from the wheelbase’s growth spurt is dedicated to rear-seat legroom, which is up by 0.4 inch. Audi claims that luggage space has grown as well.Although Audi will offer the Q5 with several powertrains in other markets, our Q5 initially will be available with a single engine choice: a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder with 252 horsepower and 272 lb-ft of torque. Power will be channeled through a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission to all four wheels via Audi’s latest Quattro all-wheel-drive system with Ultra technology. No longer employing a center differential, the Q5’s system uses two clutches to distribute torque front-to-rear. One is located just aft of the transmission, the other within the rear axle. This setup also allows the Q5 to disengage drive to the rear wheels when it isn’t needed, reducing drag and saving fuel. Although it didn’t take the stage in Paris, a higher-performing SQ5 will debut alongside the Q5 upon its market release in early 2017. Like the new S4 and S5, the SQ5 will be motivated by a 354-hp 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 engine with a “hot vee” design, with one twin-scroll turbocharger residing between the cylinder banks.Inside, the Q5 benefits from materials and build quality typical of the four-rings brand. An analog gauge cluster is standard, but consumers can opt for Audi’s 12.3-inch Virtual Cockpit LCD screen. Also optional is an 8.3-inch center-mounted infotainment display and MMI Touch, the latter of which can recognize handwriting and common gestures, such as pinching to zoom. Audi has yet to release U.S. pricing for the 2018 Q5, which will be built at a new plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico. The current car’s base price is $41,850, and we don’t expect that figure to change radically with the 2018 model—just as its design hasn’t.

Marcus Rashford's stunning free-kick means Manchester United have the advantage after the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo. United's 1-0 victory in Spain means they are heavy favourites to clinch a place in the final in next week's return at Old Trafford. We already knew he was a pacey and skilful striker but Rashford's winner took many people by surprise, including Celta Vigo goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez. Could the 19-year-old add even more facets to his game to fulfil his full potential, and how will he do it? Pat Nevin, who was co-commentating on the game for BBC Radio 5 live, explains why Rashford should look to Thierry Henry and Cristiano Ronaldo for inspiration to improve, and how his set-piece ability is already reminiscent of another Old Trafford legend. Nevin: "If I may steal a line off 5 live commentator John Murray, who I was working with on Thursday night, when we watched Rashford's free-kick again off-air he said it was like one of David Beckham's. "He was right. Rashford's body shape and even the position of his foot when the ball left his boot was exactly like Beckham's. "That was really surprising because very few people hit a ball the way Beckham does - he has a very unique technique. "When he was asked about what his secret with free-kicks was, Beckham always said it was just down to practise, and the time he spent to get every part of executing them exactly right. "To hear United boss Jose Mourinho talk after the Celta Vigo game about how Rashford has been working on that area of his game too, thinking he will be ready when his chance comes, then you have to applaud it. "That is the kind of approach you need to get to the very top, no matter how talented you are. "Look at where Cristiano Ronaldo was in his early days at United, and the player he has become.

US and South Korean agents are plotting to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media report. A statement by the ministry of state security said a terrorist group backed by the CIA and South Korea's intelligence agency had entered the country to attack with a bio-chemical substance. It said North Korea would find and "mercilessly destroy" the terrorists. It comes amid high tensions in the region. The statement, carried by North Korean news agency KCNA, said the alleged plot included the use of "biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance". What's changed between US and N Korea?Trump: I would meet Kim Jong-un The Supreme Leader would have been targeted at a military parade and public procession, with the results not be visible for six to 12 months afterwards, it said. The statement alleges that a North Korean, which it identifies only by the surname "Kim", had been "corrupted and bribed" by South Korean intelligence services while he was working in Russia. It lists several payments made to him, and says on his return to Pyongyang he was instructed to provide detailed information about a frequently used event ground and to assess possible methods of attack. "Korean-style anti-terrorist attack will be commenced from this moment to sweep away the intelligence and plot-breeding organisations of the US imperialists and the puppet clique," the statement says. A war of words between the West and Pyongyang has escalated in recent weeks, with North Korea threatening to carry out a sixth nuclear test. On Saturday North Korea conducted its second failed ballistic missile test in two weeks. The US has sent a warship to the region and installed a controversial anti-missile defence system in South Korea.

The first AIB model of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 graphics card has been pictured. The leak comes from Elchapuzasinformatico who managed to find pictures and specifications of the KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EX-OC White graphics card. KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 Specifications Revealed – Features Single Slot, Low-Profile Design For Entry Level PCs The KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White is an interesting graphics card. Not only does it feature a single slot design but also comes in a low-profile form factor. The specifications for this card reveal that we are looking at the new Pascal GP108-300-A1 GPU which was confirmed a few days ago. The graphics card is aimed to tackle the Radeon RX 550 with a similar price tag. Before we get to the specifications, let’s take a detailed look at this low end card. As mentioned, it’s a low profile, single slot solution meant to be housed in small ITX cases. It’s perfect for streaming media in compact HTPC setups. The card comes with a pure white PCB and there’s a single fan cooler embedded in the aluminum heatsink that cools the GPU and memory chips. The card sports a 2 phase design that will be enough for this low-end card. In terms of display I/O, the card features a single DVI and HDMI 2.0b port. There’s no power connector on the board since this card features a TDP of 30W. While this variant uses a PCIe 3.0 x8 link, some cards would be available with x4 interface. NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 With GP108 Has Decent Specifications For The Price The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 is going to utilize the new GP108 GPU that is based on the Pascal architecture. It may be based on the same 16nm FinFET process that is utilized by other Pascal architecture based GPUs.

Volkswagen Group profits have soared in the first quarter as cost-cutting measures kick in, the German car giant has said. Volkswagen Group also sold more models with higher profit margins, a spokesperson said. Group profit before tax rose 44.3% to 4.6bn euros (£3.9bn), one of the carmaker's highest quarterly results to date. Meanwhile, the group's troubled flagship brand also saw profits surge. Volkswagen brand operating profits rose to 869m euros from 73m euros the year before, although accounting changes meant sales revenues declined 24% to 19bn euros. Investors have said a turnaround at VW's namesake brand, which has had high fixed and research and development costs, is key to turning it into a more appealing business, although VW last year overtook Toyota as the world's biggest selling carmaker. Group changes Since the VW diesel emissions scandal broke in 2015, the group has made a number of structural changes. These include streamlining vehicle development, cutting material costs by reducing complexity in parts, dropping unprofitable models and shifting more power to brands and regions to respond more quickly to market needs. "Our efforts to improve efficiency and productivity across all areas of the company are also paying off," chief executive Matthias Mueller said. "The healthy quarterly figures strengthen our resolve to continue our chosen path," he added. The group saw "solid earnings in Western Europe", he said, and also benefited from favourable exchange rates. Quarterly profit at luxury division Audi slipped to 1.2bn euros from 1.3bn euros a year earlier as VW's biggest earnings contributor pushes into new models and technologies.

Phil Neville was at the Bernabeu for BBC Radio 5 live to witness Cristiano Ronaldo, his former Manchester United team-mate, scoring a hat-trick for Real Madrid in their 3-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg win over Atletico Madrid. Here are his thoughts: I listened to my dad talk for 20 years about George Best and Pele and Cristiano Ronaldo is easily the equal of those. What sets Ronaldo and Barcelona's Lionel Messi apart is that they deliver on the big occasion. We aren't talking about the two best players in the world, we are talking about the two best players who have ever lived. I think that's how good these two players are. They take you to places no other player in the world can - and on Tuesday we saw a phenomenal performance from Ronaldo. You are talking about someone who scores left foot, right foot and he is fantastic in the air. The way he can control the ball with both feet, the speed at which he runs - at 32 years of age he has just scored a hat-trick in a semi-final. Match report: Real Madrid 3-0 Atletico Madrid Relive all the action from the Bernabeu Football Daily podcast Ronaldo and Messi push each other on. Messi got all the plaudits after the recent match against Real Madrid, but Ronaldo has raised the bar again. Every time I see him I am amazed at his drive and determination to be the best in the world - and on Tuesday it was a 'wow' performance from him. He has natural ability coupled with hard work. He is a tremendous example of where hard work can take you. When we were at Manchester United he said he wanted to go on to be the best player in the world. He had the self-belief to get to the very top. I look at Chelsea's Eden Hazard sometimes and wonder if he has that. United's Carrington training ground is maybe a mile, two miles around. Every single day he used to take a ball after training and run and do his tricks for a mile, two miles at a time. His drive and his ability to practise every single day is just phenomenal. When he gets back to his house after the match against Atletico, he will have an ice bath, eat the right things at the right time to refuel his body, stretch - and he will have a masseur there. His professionalism, drive and desire are amazing. I read an article before the second leg of the quarter-final against Bayern Munich and it was very scathing. It said he had lost speed and was not a team player - but he scored a hat-trick against Bayern. His form is not dwindling. If anything it looks like he is getting stronger because he is being managed well. He has been rested well by Real boss Zinedine Zidane, and look at the sharpness and speed he still possesses. He is a physical specimen, a total athlete. Real Madrid were far too good on the night - they could have been 3-0 up at half-time and the man of the moment got three goals on the biggest stage. Atletico Madrid cannot play at the level Real did. They played like a team that did not believe they could go to the Bernabeu and win - they were cautious, poor with their passing and there was no belief in their body language. I have watched Atletico boss Diego Simeone a lot this season and he looks like someone who is coming to an end at the club, that he cannot take the team any further. He has got a big decision to make at the end of the season and it would not surprise me if he left to go to the Premier League or to Inter Milan. I talked before the match about what big occasions Champions League semi-finals are - but for Real it looked like a normal game of football. How Ronaldo scored his hat-trick

In my teens, I worked as an artisanal miner, waist deep in water, sieving the gravel to find a diamond. Growing up in diamond-rich eastern Sierra Leone, it was the natural thing to do. Jobs were, and still are, few and far between, so the gemstones were a magnet. They persuaded many to drop out of school, but I worked as a miner mostly during school holidays and sometimes at weekends. The Kono District was densely po[CENSORED]ted because the sparkling stones could be found virtually everywhere, sometimes through sheer luck. My parents joined thousands of people from across the country, as well as The Gambia, Mali, Senegal and even Lebanon, to go to Kono in the hope of making a quick fortune. Blistered palms I grew up there and my work as a miner was hard. I dug the river beds for gravel and extracted the often muddy earth looking for diamonds. The pickaxes and shovels would blister my palms and the sieve would harden or even deaden my fingers, often breaking my fingernails. And because I had to also lift sacks full of dry red tropical gravel, my head and neck were almost always in pain. Diamond deposits were sometimes so close to the surface in parts of Kono that it was common for people to pick up tiny gemstones that had been loosened by a heavy downpour. I found a tiny stone once or twice in my birthplace, Bumpeh. I did not know their true worth, but got enough money to see me through for about a week. Africa's biggest diamonds: 1. Cullinan Diamond, found in South Africa in 1905, weighed 3,107 carats 2. Lesedi La Rona, found in Botswana in 2015, weighed 1,111 carats 3. Excelsior Diamond, found in South Africa in 1893, weighed 995 carats 4. Star of Sierra Leone, found in Sierra Leone in 1972, weighed 969 carats 5. Incomparable Diamond, found in DR Congo in 1984, weighed 890 carats Source: Mathew Nyaungwa, Rough and Polished After doing my school-leaving exams, I took to full-scale mining to help pay for my university studies. Apart from mining in Kono, I also went to Tongo Fields in neighbouring Kenema District. There, I discovered that the life of an artisanal miner was like that of an indentured labourer. Diamond diggers generally had two layers of sponsorship, and still do. The Group of Geng, or Gang, is what the diggers are called. In language which harks back to the days of slavery, each group has a Master who looks over them. He is also in charge of providing food, accommodation and medicine. But when I was there, conditions were such that only one square meal a day was assured - and please do not ask how the sauce tasted. We often slept on the floor of a room or veranda, with bedbugs and mosquitoes biting us in turns. As for health care, Panadol was all we would get if we fell ill. Then there was the Supporter - the person who would provide the funds for the Master. We rarely got to know him personally. He tended to be a big businessman or diamond dealer, and he provided us with tools and monthly allowances. Like me, most diggers did not know - and still do not know - the real value of their diamonds. So, it was easy for the Master and the Supporter to connive and dupe us about the price.