Ja okee het mag niet enzo maar dit is een potje gruwelijk hey. Even de metro tot stoppen dwingen door een fiets op het spoor te kegelen en dan met je 'graffiticrew' (Locos Worldwide) in een paar minuten tijd die hele metro van een nieuwe laag verf voorzien. AMSTERDAM NIGHTMARE. Het gebeurde allemaal bij station Henk Sneevlietweg en de bestuurder (piloot?) van de metro is 'heel erg geschrokken'. FOEI, maar we hebben mooi wel vette beelden.
‘On us to make it better this year,’ goalkeeper admits
He credits self-belief as key to making decisive saves
David Raya has said Arsenal are using the pain of losing on penalties against Paris Saint-Germain in last year’s Champions League final to “make it better this year”.
The Spain goalkeeper produced an outstanding save to help Arsenal hold off Slavia Prague on Wednesday as Mikel Arteta’s side moved up to third in the league standings with 10 points from four matches.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Experts say Albrecht Altdorfer’s 1520 landscape is ‘one of the most exciting discoveries imaginable’
An exceptionally rare painting, described as one of the earliest landscapes in western art, goes on auction in London next month.
It was completed around 1520 by Albrecht Altdorfer, who is widely regarded as Europe’s first pure landscape oil artist.
Continue reading...Daukes was an outgoing 10-year-old when he met boys’ club leader John Phillips. As an adult, he lived through years of chaos and self-sabotage, while repressing his experiences. Then he found out his brother had been abused by Phillips too
In early 2020, Johnny Daukes found an old storage box in his loft with a big black folder inside marked Toxic Hazard. It was stuffed with old sheets of paper: every song he’d written, starting as a teenager, just a boy with a guitar, then for Fin, his 90s indie band, and then his five solo albums.
By that time in his life, Daukes was 55 and deep in turmoil. He and his younger brother were working with the Metropolitan police to build a criminal case against the man who had sexually abused them both as children. Every case of historical abuse can disrupt a family, but this one was truly labyrinthine. Their abuser, John Phillips, had gone on to marry their sister and have 10 children. Every relationship was affected – cousins, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, godchildren and every variety of in-law.
Continue reading...A Democratic sweep has changed Washington’s balance of power. But from gambling legislation to stadium subsidies, both parties have helped build the system that enriches American sports’ billionaire owners
Before a single vote was cast this election cycle, the technocrats and oligarchs who own American sports had already voted. Pro sports owners put more than $100m into this cycle, according to Front Office Sports. But Tuesday night was a referendum not just on Donald Trump and Maga policies, but on the puppeteers who pull America’s strings. The people voted, and the owners lost.
Before anyone frames this as a rescue, a word about the rescuers. Democrats are the instrument for ending Maga, and they are also the other face of the same coin. Think Republicans are behind all of our ills? Think again. New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, placed his state’s first legal sports bet in 2018. Illinois governor JB Pritzker signed sports betting into law a year later. New York’s mobile sportsbooks went live under Governor Kathy Hochul in 2022, with the state taking 51% of the revenue. Pritzker and Hochul both won Tuesday, and all of them are Democrats. In some of the biggest betting markets in the country, the bookmakers’ most reliable partner has been a Democratic statehouse.
Continue reading...As GTA 6 looms, we look at the films that have influenced Rockstar’s creatives, from Heat to Bonnie and Clyde, via Boyz n the Hood and Speed
Grand Theft Auto is arguably the most cinematic video game series ever made. Over the past three decades, the games have studied and stolen the themes, conventions and visual dynamism of great gangster and action movies, applying them to open worlds filled with low-life characters and grand set-piece possibilities. Here then are the movies (and TV show) that have shaped the GTA experience, from the 1996 original to this year’s inescapable instalment.
Continue reading...A stricken container ship shed tonnes of tiny pellets called nurdles on the west coast. Five years on, locals are counting the cost to marine life and livelihoods
On the beach in Pamunugama, on Sri Lanka’s west coast, women in uniform work under the scorching sun. They sift through rubbish washed ashore, searching among the usual litter for something much smaller: tiny plastic pellets.
Five years ago, in May 2021, this same beach was swamped with pellets as smoke rose over the Indian Ocean.
Continue reading...De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky hoopt dat de Verenigde Staten zijn land meer zullen steunen nu de Democraten een grote overwinning hebben behaald in de Congresverkiezingen. "Er is hoop dat het tot een machtsevenwicht komt en dat we meer ondersteuning krijgen", zei Zelensky in een interview met de Duitse omroep ZDF.
Sinds het aantreden van de Republikeinse president Donald Trump stellen de VS zich niet langer op als steunpilaar van Oekraïne, maar als bemiddelaar. De afgelopen weken was er opnieuw ruzie tussen Washington en Kyiv. Trump gaf Oekraïne de schuld van hoge brandstofprijzen. Het land zat enkele dagen zonder cruciale Amerikaanse inlichtingen en satellietcommunicatie.
"De Democraten hebben het heel duidelijk over het steunen van Oekraïne", zei Zelensky tegen ZDF. Ook dat "zij van het vernieuwen van de band tussen de VS en Europa spreken" geeft hem moed.
De Republikeinen verloren dinsdag de meerderheid in beide huizen van het Amerikaanse parlement aan de Democraten.