iTunes is getting some new Beatles material, up for pre-order now

If you want to listen to the absolute best of The Beatles, iTunes is possibly the best place to go. Pretty soon, the already extensive collection will get even larger with the release of some material in digital form for the very first time. Live at the BBC Volume 1 and Volume 2 will be available to download from mid-November at $19.99 a piece.

Between March 1962 and June 1965, The Beatles became a familiar presence on BBC airwaves, performing more than 80 songs during dozens of appearances on national radio. The first compilation of these sessions, Live at the BBC – originally issued in 1994, but now available digitally for the first time – is joined by a previously unreleased second volume of music from this exhilarating period in the band's history.

iTunes famously finally got The Beatles' collection into the store back in 2010, and is something yet to be matched by digital music competitors. It's also not the first batch of BBC content to hit the store in recent weeks, with some previously lost episodes of Doctor Who being remastered and released to iTunes.

Pre-order the new releases at the links below. Any Beatles fans out there pulling the trigger?

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'Bad Grandpa' sinks 'Gravity' to top box office

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apparently astronauts are no match for Jackass.

Paramount's "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" topped the weekend box office with $32 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, sinking three-week champ "Gravity" to second place.

"Bad Grandpa" stars Johnny Knoxville as an accident-prone grandfather in the hidden-camera comedy.

"It's been a very heavy fall in terms of the content of the movies, so I think audiences were ready for something completely lighthearted and out of leftfield," said box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Rentrak.

"Gravity," which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts on a troubled spacecraft, has soared since its debut three weeks ago. The Warner Bros. space adventure added another $20.3 million to its haul over the weekend, bringing its domestic ticket totals to nearly $200 million.

Paramount's president of domestic distribution said it's gratifying to see "Jackass" unseat the space adventure from its top spot.

"We weren't competing with 'Gravity,'" said Don Harris. "We were not competitive in any other way than who was going to be No. 1 this weekend."

Sony's high-seas thriller "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks, held on to third place with $11.8 million.

An all-star cast including Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz and Michael Fassbender wasn't enough to draw audiences to "The Counselor," which opened in fourth place. The gritty Fox drama is a "very challenging, provocative film," according to Chris Aronson, who heads distribution for Fox.

"We're fine," he said. "I know we have a very competitive environment."

He expects the film, written by Cormac McCarthy, to find its audience as it rolls out internationally in the coming weeks.

Another drama, Fox Searchlight's "12 Years a Slave," edged into the top 10 despite playing in only 123 theaters.

"This portends a tremendous expansion trajectory for the film" directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Eijofor, Dergarabedian said. "In a sea of films that are in over 1,000 theaters, '12 Years a Slave' is distinguishing itself by doing so well."

The overall box office is up 9 percent over the same weekend last year, Dergarabedian said.

"Fall is probably the best season to be a moviegoer," he said. "You can get really highbrow films, Oscar contenders, but you can also get something like 'Bad Grandpa,' which satisfies the needs for audiences to just have fun and check their brain at the door."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa," $32 million ($8.1 million international).

2. "Gravity," $20.3 million ($36.6 million international).

3. "Captain Phillips," $11.8 million ($12.1 million international).

4. "The Counselor," $8 million.

5. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," $6.1 million ($17.9 million international).

6. "Carrie," $5.9 million.

7. "Escape Plan," $4.3 million ($7 million international).

8. "12 Years a Slave," $2.15 million.

9. "Enough Said," $1.55 million.

10. "Prisoners," $1.06 million ($5.1 million international).

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Estimated weekend ticket sales Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:

1. "Gravity," $36.6 million.

2. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2," $17.9 million.

3. "Turbo," $14.2 million.

4. "Captain Phillips," $12.1 million.

5. "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa," $8.1 million.

6. "Escape Plan," $7 million.

7. "The Wolverine," $6.7 million.

8. "Insidious Chapter 2," $6.5 million.

9. "Now You See Me," $5.6 million.

10. "Prisoners," $5.1 million.

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NYPD: Cousin admitted fatally stabbing mom, 4 kids

Women gather on the steps of an apartment building opposite the scene of a brutal fatal stabbing, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York. Police say a mother and her four young children were killed in a late night stabbing rampage at a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, home. A Chinese immigrant, 25-year-old Ming Don Chen, was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Women gather on the steps of an apartment building opposite the scene of a brutal fatal stabbing, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York. Police say a mother and her four young children were killed in a late night stabbing rampage at a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, home. A Chinese immigrant, 25-year-old Ming Don Chen, was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Crime scene detectives investigate the scene of a multiple fatal stabbing Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in New York. Police said a mother and her four young children were stabbed to death in a brutal rampage just before 11 p.m. Saturday in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. The New York Police Department said a suspect, 25-year-old Ming Don Chen, a Chinese immigrant, was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in the stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

A crime scene detective leaps up the steps at the scene of a multiple fatal stabbing Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, in New York. Police said a mother and her four young children were stabbed to death in a brutal rampage just before 11p.m. Saturday. The working-class neighborhood is home to many Chinese immigrants. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Crime scene specialists work at the scene of a fatal stabbing, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police say a mother and her four young children were killed in a late night stabbing rampage at the Sunset Park, Brooklyn home, far right. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Medical Examiner Transport personnel prepare to place a loaded body bag into their vehicle after exiting the residence of a crime scene in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 where five people, including a toddler, were stabbed to death in New York. Emergency responders found three of the victims dead at the residence just before 11 p.m. Saturday. Two others were taken to Brooklyn hospitals, where they were pronounced dead. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in a stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home.

The suspect, 25-year-old Ming Don Chen, implicated himself in the stabbings late Saturday in the Sunset Park neighborhood, police said. Chief of Department Phil Banks said the victims "were cut and butchered with a kitchen knife."

Two girls, 9-year-old Linda Zhuo and 7-year-old Amy Zhuo, were pronounced dead at the scene, along with the youngest child, 1-year-old William Zhuo. Their brother, 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo, and 37-year-old mother, Qiao Zhen Li, were taken to hospitals, where they also were pronounced dead.

Chen is a cousin of the children's father and had been staying at the home for the past week or so, Banks said. He came to the United States from China in 2004 and seemingly struggled to make it, Banks said.

"Ever since he came to this country, everybody seems to be doing better than him," he said.

On Saturday night, Chen had apparently been acting in such a way that concerned Li, Banks said. She tried to call her husband, who wasn't home, but couldn't reach him.

Banks said Li called her mother-in-law in China, who also was unsuccessful in reaching her son. The mother-in-law reached out to her daughter, who lives in the neighborhood, Banks said.

She and her husband came to the house and banged on the door, then called 911. Officers in the area investigating another matter responded, Banks said.

"It's a scene you'll never forget," he said. The victims had wounds in their necks and torsos.

Chen was in custody and wasn't immediately available to comment. He also faces counts of assault on a police officer, which happened while he was being processed, and resisting arrest, Banks said.

Bob Madden, who lives nearby, was out walking his dog when he saw a man being escorted from the building by police. He was barefoot, wearing jeans, and "he was staring, he was expressionless," Madden said.

Yuan Gao, a cousin of the mother, said the man had recently moved to the area and had been staying with different people.

Fire department spokesman Jim Long said emergency workers responded just before 11 p.m. to a 911 call from a person stabbed at the residence in Sunset Park, a working-class neighborhood of adjoining two-story brick buildings with a large Chinese community.

Neighbor May Chan told the Daily News it was "heartbreaking" to learn of the deaths.

"I always see (the kids) running around here," Chan said. "They run around by my garage playing. They run up and down screaming."

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Obama appeals to allies to stick with health law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is appealing to its allies in Congress, on Wall Street and across the country to stick with President Barack Obama's health care law even as embarrassing problems with the flagship website continue to mount.

The website's troubled debut was overshadowed by the partial government shutdown that started the same day the website went live. Last week, Obama and Democrats walked away from a no-holds-barred fight with Republicans over debt and spending with a remarkable degree of unity, made all the more prominent by the deep GOP divisions the standoff revealed.

The debt-and-spending crisis averted for now, the spotlight has shifted to Obama's health care law and the web-based exchanges, beset by malfunctions, where Americans are supposed to be able to shop for insurance. The intensified focus has increased the pressure on Democrats to distance themselves from Obama's handling of the website's rollout as both parties demand to know what went wrong and why.

As the administration races to fix the website, it's deploying the president and top officials to urge his supporters not to give up.

"By now you have probably heard that the website has not worked as smoothly as it was supposed to," Obama said Tuesday in a video message recorded for Organizing for America, a nonprofit group whose mission is to support Obama's agenda. "But we've got people working overtime in a tech surge to boost capacity and address the problems. And we are going to get it fixed."

Whether through the website or other, lower-tech means, the administration needs millions of Americans to sign up through the exchanges for the law to succeed. While the website has become an easily maligned symbol of a law that Republicans despise, Obama said it's important Americans realize that "Obamacare," with its various patient protections, is much more.

"That's why I need your help," Obama told OFA's supporters.

The group has been organizing a multitude of events and social media campaigns around the health care law's implementation. OFA said those efforts will continue, but the group isn't adjusting its strategy in response to the website's issues.

Obama has turned to longtime adviser Jeffrey Zients to provide management advice to help fix the system. Zients, a former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget and a veteran management consultant, will be on a short-term assignment at the Health and Human Services Department before he's due to take over as director of Obama's National Economic Council next year.

Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden and top White House officials held a call with business leaders Tuesday about the health law and other issues. Business Forward, a trade group friendly to the White House, said the administration asked the group to invite leaders to hear directly from Biden.

In Congress, even staunch supporters of the law like House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer, the Democratic whip, have said the website's rollout was unacceptable. In a potentially worrying sign for Obama, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is calling for the White House to extend the open-enrollment period past March 31 in light of the glitches.

On Wednesday, the administration is sending Mike Hash, who runs the health reform office at HHS, to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers on the law's implementation.

An invitation to the breakfast meeting obtained by The Associated Press says it's restricted to members of Congress. But only Democrats were invited to that session, prompting protest from House Speaker John Boehner, whose spokesman called it a "snub" and said the administration should brief House Republicans, too, in the name of transparency and accountability. Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for HHS, said officials would be happy to honor additional briefing requests.

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Truly.am Uses Facial Recognition To Help You Verify Your Online Dates

One of the coolest hacks we saw at the TechCrunch Europe hackathon today was built by two coders from Uruguay who have been hacking their way around the world for the last few months. Truly.am lets you verify who you are talking to online. Say somebody on Facebook or a dating site sends you a picture. How do you know they really are the person in that photo? Truly.am uses some cool HTML5 tools like WebRTC and the SkyBiometry facial recognition API to verify your conversation partners (or the people you meet on online dating sites) really look the way they say they do.

Here is how it works: somebody you don’t know sends you a picture. You then go to Truly.am, upload this picture and enter the person’s email address. That person then gets an email and has to verify his or her identity by using their webcam to take a series of images to train the recognition algorithm. Once those images are uploaded to the Truly.am servers, the facial recognition service takes over and checks them against the original image. Once the results come back, Truly.am tells the user if the image matched and the requester, of course, also gets an email with the results.

As Agustin Haller and Dayana Jabif, the two coders behind the project, told me, you often want to remain anonymous on the net, but in some cases, you really need to know at least a bit more information about the person you are talking to. This hack was partly inspired by their own experience with Airbnb, but I have no doubt that users on online dating sites will love this product. On those sites, after all, fake photos still reign supreme.

The team plans to expand this idea to include data from LinkedIn, Xing and other professional services as well, but for now, the facial recognition app is available here and you can give it a try to verify your own potential online dates now.

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Georgia votes for president to succeed Saakashvili

Georgian Dream ruling coalition's presidential candidate Georgy Margvelashvili, left, kisses his daughter Anna, outside a polling station during presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Georgy Abdaladze)

Georgian Dream ruling coalition's presidential candidate Georgy Margvelashvili, left, kisses his daughter Anna, outside a polling station during presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Georgy Abdaladze)

Georgian woman crouches as she leaves a voting booth during the presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Georgian woman and her son cast a ballot at a polling station in the presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Georgy Abdaladze)

Georgians cast their ballots in the presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Georgians cast their ballots in the presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Georgians are voting Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and and a staunch U.S. ally. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgians voted Sunday for a president to succeed Mikhail Saakashvili, who during nearly a decade in power has turned this former Soviet republic into a fledgling democracy and a staunch U.S. ally.

For Saakashvili, it's a bitter departure. The vote is expected to cement the control of his rival, billionaire Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose coalition routed Saakashvili's party in a parliamentary election a year ago.

Ivanishvili's chosen candidate, Giorgi Margvelashvili, a former university rector with little political experience, is expected to win Sunday's election. But much uncertainty remains.

Ivanishvili has promised to step down next month and nominate a new prime minister, who is almost certain to be approved by parliament. Under Georgia's new parliamentary system, the next prime minister will acquire many of the powers previously held by the president.

Ivanishvili has not yet named his choice to lead the country. And he says he intends to maintain influence over the government, although how is not entirely clear. But his fortune, estimated at $5.3 billion, gives him considerable leverage in this country of 4.5 million people with a gross domestic product of $16 billion.

Much uncertainty also hangs over Saakashvili's future. Since last year's election and what was in effect a transfer of power, dozens of people from Saakashvili's team, including several former government ministers, have been hit with criminal charges and some have been jailed, including the former prime minister.

Ivanishvili confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press that Saakashvili also is likely to be questioned by prosecutors once he leaves office next month.

Prosecutors have reopened a criminal inquiry into the 2005 death of Zurab Zhvania, who was Saakashvili's first prime minister. Zhvania's death was attributed to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty gas heater, but his brother has accused Saakashvili of hiding the truth.

Saakashvili also may face questioning over the 2008 war with Russia, which ended with Russian troops in full control of two breakaway Georgian republics. His opponents accuse him of needlessly antagonizing Russia and giving Moscow a pretext to invade.

Saakashvili repeated Sunday that he has no plans to flee the country. "No one can forbid me either to leave the country or to stay, but I do not intend to leave Georgia," he told television journalists while jogging along the Black Sea coast in western Georgia.

His party needs its candidate, former parliamentary speaker David Bakradze, to finish a strong second among the 23 candidates to maintain political influence. Bakradze now leads the opposition faction in parliament.

Bakradze faces the biggest challenge from Nino Burdzhanadze, a veteran politician who boasts of good relations with Moscow and has called for Saakashvili to be jailed.

While Ivanishvili made his money in Russia and has had some success in restoring trade ties with Georgia's hostile neighbor, he has maintained the pro-Western course set by Saakashvili.

"Nobody can change this. This is the will of the Georgian people, to see their country in the EU and in NATO," said Alexi Petriashvili, one of Ivanishvili's ministers. "The majority see the U.S. as Georgia's strongest strategic partner."

If not for Washington, Georgia most likely wouldn't have survived as an independent state, Petriashvili told the AP. He pointed to Washington's support for the closing of Russian military bases in Georgia in 2005.

The U.S. supports Georgia diplomatically and financially, with assistance in 2013 totaling about $70 million.

Ivanishvili's government has come under pressure from U.S. and EU officials to show that the justice system isn't being used to settle political scores and to refrain from jailing Saakashvili.

Many Georgians became deeply disillusioned with what they saw as the excesses and authoritarian turn of the later years of Saakashvili's presidency.

The achievements of the early years, however, are difficult to deny. Saakashvili brought the economy out of the shadow, restored electricity supplies, eradicated a corrupt traffic police force, and laid the foundation for a democratic state.

Georgia's GDP has quadrupled since Saakashvili became president after leading the peaceful 2003 Rose Revolution.

"Yes, everyone forgot how we sat in the darkness and what kind of roads we had," Marina Vezirishvili, 46, said after voting in Tbilisi. "But just so you know, I'm not a member of Misha's party and I didn't vote for their candidate."

Saakashvili, commonly known as Misha, has earned wide international respect for allowing the government to change through the ballot box rather than through revolution for the first time in Georgia's post-Soviet history.

"We have to recognize, whatever our position is inside Georgian political fights, that Georgia has been a great example," said Joao Soares, head of an election monitoring mission from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

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Vettel claims 4th straight F1 world title in India

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany waves to the crowd after winning the Indian Formula One Grand Prix and his 4th straight F1 world drivers championship at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany waves to the crowd after winning the Indian Formula One Grand Prix and his 4th straight F1 world drivers championship at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany throws his trophy in the air after winning the Indian Formula One Grand Prix and his 4th straight F1 world drivers championship at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany celebrates on the track after winning the Indian Formula One Grand Prix and his 4th straight F1 world championship at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany is held aloft by second placed Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany and third placed Lotus driver Romain Grosjean of France after winning the Indian Formula One Grand Prix and his 4th straight F1 world drivers championship at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. Red Bull's chief technical officer Adrian Newey , left. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Red Bull driver Mark Webber, right, of Australia is met by a teammate after his car stopped during the Indian Formula One Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

GREATER NOIDA, India (AP) — Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel claimed his fourth straight Formula One championship Sunday after turning in a trademark clinical performance to win the Indian Grand Prix.

Starting from pole, Vettel dominated the Buddh International Circuit to join F1 greats Juan Miguel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as just the third driver to win four consecutive championships. The only other driver to win four championships was Alain Prost.

"You've won it in style," an elated Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Vettel over the car radio immediately after the race. "Brilliant stuff. You've joined the greats."

Vettel finished almost 30 seconds ahead of second placed Nico Rosberg in a Mercedes, with Lotus driver Romain Grosjean taking his second straight third place after starting from 17th on the grid.

After taking the checkered flag, Vettel performed several donuts on the track before climbing from his car, acknowledging the crowd and kneeling with his head bowed to the track. He then climbed the pit lane fence to embrace members of his team.

"I'm overwhelmed, don't know what to say," he said immediately after the race. "It is one of the best days of my life.

"I think back about where I started, when F1 was so far away. I have so many people to thank from go-carting to junior categories of F1," he added. "I always tried to listen, learn. It has been incredible to compete against the best, it is a very tough field, and come out on top of the world."

With Vettel's win, Red Bull has also claimed its fourth straight constructor's title, despite losing Mark Webber to mechanical problems while in second place.

Ferrari's Felipe Massa was fourth with teammate Fernando Alonso finishing a disappointing 11th.

Vettel, at 26 the youngest driver to win four world titles, has now won 10 races this season, including the last six. He has won all three Indian GP races from pole.

A clearly emotional Vettel, taking occasional swigs from his celebratory magnum of champagne, thanked his team, his family, spoke of his respect for the Indian people and rivals including Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Webber in a post-race media conference.

"To win four titles, I don't know, it's just a big number you know? Four titles," he said. "Fangio put the number of five titles and everybody appreciated him as the best driver in the world. Michael (Schumacher) came along ... it's incredible that one guy managed to score more championships than (Fangio) did.

"I'm way too young to know what it means (to win four titles). ... It's difficult to realize something that nobody can take away from you basically."

Starting on the quick but fragile soft tires, Vettel lasted just one lap before switching to the medium compounds, emerging from the pit lane in 17th place.

With Webber in the lead, Vettel wove his way back toward the front, gradually narrowing the gap to the lead and passing second placed Perez on the 22nd lap to move into second.

Once Vettel overtook Perez, it was only a matter of time before Webber would be forced to change tires and relinquish the lead. Webber eventually entered the pits for his first tire change to soft tires on the 29th lap.

Vettel made his second and last stop on the 32nd lap to take on new medium tires, returning to the track just over eight seconds behind Webber.

Webber failed to make up enough time on the soft tires before switching back to mediums two laps later, effectively handing the race to Vettel.

"I'm not that old yet, I have goals, maybe in 10 years' time, I'll understand what we have done," Vettel said.

Red Bull ordered a stunned Webber to stop while in second place on the 42nd lap due to a problem with his car's alternator.

"Disappointing, but there's not much I can do," Webber said. "There was something wrong with the car, so we had to stop straight away."

With the Australian out, the race became a tussle for the lesser podium places, with pacesetting Rosberg passing Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen for second on the closing laps.

Grosjean drove a dogged race to defy the odds and reach the podium after being eliminated in the first qualifying session Saturday.

"The car came back in the race, our strategy was good," he said. "It was tough, I'm very proud."

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