In een woning aan de Jan Luykenstraat in Papendrecht is dinsdagmiddag brand uitgebroken. Het vuur ontstond even voor 15:30 uur op zolder. De vlammen waren hevig, maar de brandweer had de situatie al snel onder controle.

The Phantom of the Opera komt in 2028 naar het Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam. Voor het eerst in 35 jaar keert de musical terug naar Nederland. Het theater biedt de voorstelling vier dagen in de week onderdak, zolang er belangstelling is en hoopt in het eerste jaar op 300.000 bezoekers.

Disabled Aotearoa/New Zealand parrot uses broken beak to achieve status. Without a curvy upper beak to get in the way, Bruce the kea uses his lower beak to stab or joust at other birds in his social group.

• Player lost concentration after spectator’s criticism

• Trump edges in front of Wilson after early reverses

Shaun Murphy has criticised an audience member who berated one of his shots during the opening session of his first-round match against Fan Zhengyi at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.

Murphy said he lost concentration after a spectator in the front row muttered “shit shot” during a gruelling battle which the former champion edged 5-4, going into Tuesday evening’s conclusion.

This report will be updated later.

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In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, when asked to explain the apparent about-face that led him to advocate the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, quoted a beloved Israeli pop ballad. “What you can see from there, you can’t see from here,” he said, referring to the shift in perspective he had supposedly undergone since coming to power.

Although the 2005 Gaza disengagement was perhaps less a change of heart than one of strategy, as his senior adviser later admitted, the lyric became a byword of Israeli politics, an oft-cited reminder that perspective is everything.

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Eveline van Bavel zoekt een plek voor – steeds meer – ouderen die na een ziekenhuisopname niet terug naar huis kunnen. Sommigen kunnen hun problematische thuissituatie lang verbloemen. „Hij kreeg nog wel diepvriesmaaltijden bezorgd, maar warmde die niet meer op.”

Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million

The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.…

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. “The word salads that we might identify as AI today may not be the kind of machine-made writing that we will see tomorrow.”