Prins Harry zei dat de tabloid Daily Mail het leven van zijn vrouw Meghan Markle tot een „absolute misère” had gemaakt. De Britse rechter acht echter onvoldoende bewezen dat de krant op een onjuiste manier aan zijn informatie kwam. De uitgever zegt zo’n 50 miljoen pond aan proceskosten te willen verhalen op de prins en zijn mede-eisers.

Ruim een week reed er geen enkele trein vanaf Rotterdam naar het zuiden. Eén van de belangrijkste spoorverbindingen van Nederland kwam stil te liggen door een brand in een kabelgoot langs het spoor. De oorzaak? Een knik in een kabel, mogelijk als gevolg van uitzetting door de hitte.

Ruim een week reed er geen enkele trein vanaf Rotterdam naar het zuiden. Eén van de belangrijkste spoorverbindingen van Nederland kwam stil te liggen door een brand in een kabelgoot langs het spoor. De oorzaak? Een knik in een kabel, mogelijk als gevolg van uitzetting door de hitte.

After four years of operations around the Moon, NASA's CAPSTONE mission has bitten the lunar dust, in a manner of speaking. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) was launched in 2022, with a primary mission to validate the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) intended for NASA's "paused" Gateway space station. Launched in June 2022 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, CAPSTONE had a troubled start to life, briefly giving controllers the silent treatment before slipping into lunar orbit in November 2022. The diminutive spacecraft was the first US commercial mission to orbit the Moon and spent an initial six months checking out the NRHO planned for the Gateway before its mission was extended and the spacecraft became, according to NASA, "a testbed for advanced communications, networking, autonomous navigation, and software-defined satellite technologies." The spacecraft was used to try out autonomous navigation software, which is useful when NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has limited availability. During the Artemis II mission, for example, communications passes dropped to just a few per week. CAPSTONE was also used to test delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN), designed to handle lengthy communications delays and frequent signal gaps. "CAPSTONE became the first to fly the latest DTN protocols beyond Earth orbit and the first to run them in NASA's core Flight System, an open source framework that can be implemented on any spacecraft," NASA stated. However, continued NASA funding appears to have required justification after CAPSTONE completed its primary mission. On July 6, the agency announced that its CAPSTONE activities ended last month. While the spacecraft had a productive second life, hosting new applications and experiments, uncertainty around Gateway's future could have put a question mark over continued operations, although NASA has not stated that this was the case. It is unclear what a NASA-free future looks like for CAPSTONE. The spacecraft was designed and built by Terran Orbital and is owned and operated by Advanced Space. "Advanced Space will continue to use the spacecraft as a technology development testbed," NASA said. ®

Supporters hope to stop 17th-century Villa Europa passing into private hands after Wolfgang Porsche unexpectedly put it on market

Austrian cultural figures have launched a campaign to buy a villa once home to the writer Stefan Zweig after its owner, the automotive magnate Wolfgang Porsche, unexpectedly put it on the market following a row over his plans to build a private tunnel for his car collection.

Zweig, the Austrian Jewish writer whose novels inspired the Wes Anderson film The Grand Budapest Hotel, lived in the 17th-century property until 1934 when he was driven out of Salzburg by the Austro-fascist regime and his family was forced to sell it at a rock-bottom price.

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Varenna’s authorities say wandering around the village shirtless or in swimwear is now banned

A fishing village by Lake Como has imposed fines of up to €200 (£171) for those who wander around with bare chests or in swimwear, in the latest attempt by an Italian holiday destination to crack down on uncouth tourists.

Varenna has been feeling the strain from an increasing number of visitors and so authorities were moved to introduce a raft of new rules aimed at preserving the village’s appearance and guaranteeing a smidgen of peace and quiet for its year-round population of roughly 650.

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FOIX (ANP) - Mads Pedersen heeft de vierde etappe van de Tour de France op zijn naam geschreven. De Deen van Lidl-Trek was na 181,9 kilometer tussen Carcassonne en Foix de beste in de sprint van de kopgroep van tien renners. Zijn Amerikaanse teamgenoot Quinn Simmons werd tweede en de Spanjaard Raúl García Pierna werd derde.

De Noor Torstein Træen van UNO-X Mobility heeft de gele leiderstrui overgenomen van de Sloveen Tadej Pogačar, die met de andere klassementsfavorieten in het peloton op ruime achterstand reed.

Voor Pedersen is het de derde etappezege in de Ronde van Frankrijk. Hij won in 2022 de dertiende rit in Saint-Étienne en in 2023 de achtste rit in Limoges. Voor de Deen is het de eerste overwinning in 2026.

De vijfde etappe van de Ronde van Frankrijk gaat van Lannemezan naar Pau en biedt mogelijk de eerste kans op een massasprint.

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