BRUSSEL (ANP/AFP) - Brussel verwacht dat Meta het "verslavende ontwerp" van zijn platforms in Europa aanpakt, meldt de Europese Commissie donderdag. Dit volgt op een schikking van het techbedrijf in meerdere Amerikaanse staten over vergaande beperkingen op het gebruik van Facebook en Instagram door tieners. De Europese Commissie concludeerde in juni al dat Meta in overtreding was met digitale EU-regels met het verslavende ontwerp van Instagram en Facebook.

Volgens een woordvoerder van de Commissie heeft de EU, die Meta vorige maand opdroeg zijn platforms veiliger te maken voor kinderen op straffe van hoge boetes, sindsdien nieuwe gesprekken gevoerd met het bedrijf. "De bal ligt bij Meta", zegt de woordvoerder. "Meta weet wat we van het bedrijf verwachten. Nu is het aan Meta om in de EU met concrete toezeggingen te komen om ook onze kinderen te beschermen."

In de VS beschuldigden 29 staten Meta ervan zijn platforms opzettelijk een verslavend ontwerp te geven.

Moscow threatens retaliation after Andy Burnham says UK will help Ukraine start producing long-range missiles

Russia has said it could retaliate against the UK for its support of Kyiv by striking military targets inside and outside Ukraine, amid reports that the director of the CIA warned the Kremlin against attacking Nato during a secretive visit this week.

Andy Burnham, Britain’s prime minister, said on Monday the UK would allow Kyiv access to classified technology to start ⁠its own production of Storm Shadow ​long-range ​cruise missiles. Maria ⁠Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Thursday Britain and France were “playing ⁠with ​fire”.

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The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly

• Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
• Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom
• Clowns, corsets and kings: Tim Curry – a life in pictures

As Dr Frank-N-Furter, the gender-nonconforming alien mad scientist who presides over Richard O’Brien’s glam rock musical, admits two innocents to his gothic castle and induces them into all sorts of delicious naughtiness, Curry is so thrillingly liberated as to seem a menace. An irresistibly appealing menace. Apparently able to arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once, Curry wraps his mouth around the double-entendres and belts out the lyrics with lip-smacking relish, and fully fleshes out this avatar of sexual confidence. The film earned one of the original cult fandoms, the stage musical endures and many other actors have pulled on Frank’s corset and high heels – but the role indelibly and for ever belongs to Curry.

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BVB are re-energised while Leverkusen have stabilised but the question remains: can anyone stop the champions?

The Franz Beckenbauer Supercup has a modicum more intensity than most of its European equivalents. There are many reasons for this. The Bundesliga’s traditional season curtain-raiser pitting league champions against cup winners is not played on neutral territory, giving it the feeling of a domestic game with proper stakes. German fans would also never accept it taking place on foreign soil, as the Borussia Dortmund managing director, Carsten Cramer, reiterated in clear terms over the course of the weekend. It feels like a match, rather than a showpiece.

It had one other factor to ratchet up the adrenaline this year. It was the sense that the two teams that most expect to be the season’s best, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, were the participants, with last term’s second-placed side hosting the champions. There was enough in the game to suggest that the latter might be able inconvenience the former, as Bayern held on to win the season’s first trophy after BVB followed a thoroughly dominant first half from the visitors with a vastly improved second period of their own in reply.

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With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist

• Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97
• A life in pictures

I once had an argument about Yayoi Kusama with Peter Gabriel. Not in person – I’ve never met the prog rock hero. But after I recorded some critical comments on her work for the BBC, I watched the segment only to see Gabriel passionately defending her. My onscreen cynicism seemed harsh indeed compared with his soulful appreciation of all those dots.

My scepticism about Kusama started the first time I saw her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The context is significant because after a big dose of Jackson Pollock’s looping, tangled forests of colour and line (colour as line), Piet Mondrian’s pulsing Broadway Boogie Woogie and other great abstract art, Kusama’s dots appeared to me static, planned, predictable. I wasn’t excited or moved.

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We maken Nederland natter om ons te wapenen tegen klimaatverandering. Maar wat betekent dat voor muggen, vogels en virussen? Bijvoorbeeld voor het westnijlvirus, waaraan deze week iemand overleed?

Rodriguez

Weer voor Rotterdam ☀️ - 27-08-2026 13:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 24.6°C · Zonnig ☀️ | Min 17.3°C / Max 28.2°C | Kans op neerslag 22%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 17.3°C, Max 28.2°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1008.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 115°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 14:00: 27.0°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 53%, 🧭 1009.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 149°
• 15:00: 28.2°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 49%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 16:00: 27.7°C (Zonnig) ☀️, Kans op neerslag 35%, 🧭 1008.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.8 km/u (4.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 17:00: 27.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1009.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: ↗ 244°
• 18:00: 26.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 21%, 🧭 1008.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.2 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: → 254°
• 19:00: 25.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 20%, 🧭 1008.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 269°
• 20:00: 24.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1008.3 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 6.8 km/u (1.9 m/s), richting: → 292°
• 21:00: 23.8°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 28%, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ↗️ +0.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 3.2 km/u (0.9 m/s), richting: → 252°
• 22:00: 22.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1009.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ← 111°
• 23:00: 21.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 47%, 🧭 1007.5 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 144°
• 00:00: 21.7°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 57%, 🧭 1008.5 hPa ↗️ +1.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 304°
• 01:00: 21.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 67%, 🧭 1008.0 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• vrijdag 28 augustus: Min 17.3°C, Max 21.9°C (Zware regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 16.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 56%, 🧭 1007.5 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.2 km/u (5.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 215°
• zaterdag 29 augustus: Min 17.1°C, Max 21.3°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 65%, 🧭 1008.6 hPa ↗️ +1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 24.4 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 212°
• zondag 30 augustus: Min 17.0°C, Max 21.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 46%, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.7 km/u (6.3 m/s), richting: ↗ 219°
• maandag 31 augustus: Min 15.5°C, Max 19.8°C (Lichte onweersbui) ⛈️, Neerslag 11.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 62%, 🧭 1009.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.6 km/u (7.7 m/s), richting: ↗ 235°
• dinsdag 01 september: Min 14.6°C, Max 19.7°C (Lichte buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 7.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 36%, 🧭 1015.7 hPa ↗️ +6.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.8 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↗ 239°
• woensdag 02 september: Min 14.2°C, Max 18.0°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 6.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 38%, 🧭 1018.6 hPa ↗️ +2.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.9 km/u (5.5 m/s), richting: → 250°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 13:15): 24.6°C (Zonnig)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 27.9°C (+3.3°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 115°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 40.0 km/h (11.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 53%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1009.2 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 29.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 4.8
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 06:45 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 20:40

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 57 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 8.4 μg/m³
• PM10: 13.8 μg/m³

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