De FIFA gaat een onderzoek instellen naar de acties van Argentijnse spelers na afloop van de halve finale van het WK tussen Argentinië en Engeland.

Lunchen is op de Britse werkvloer „een kort en eenzaam gebeuren”. In de kleine kantines speciaal voor taxichauffeurs doet een traditioneel ontbijt van bacon, ei en worstjes het altijd goed.

Tim Post dacht aanvankelijk dat dromen iets zweverigs waren, maar ontdekte een wetenschappelijke wereld erachter.

Onderzoekers zien dat de democratie onder grote druk staat. Ze waarschuwen voor ”de mogelijkheid van beginnende autocratisering in Nederland” en pleiten er bijvoorbeeld voor om politieke benoemingen in de rechterlijke macht onmogelijk te maken. „Politici moeten zich bewuster zijn van hun signaalfunctie richting burgers.”

Hij weet niet precies waarom, maar Menno uit Dwingeloo zou toch eigenlijk “dat Soldaat van Oranje weleens willen zien”. De 34-jarige hovenier vertelt: “Het voelt alsof het opeens weer heel erg leeft onder de mensen, ik denk dat ik daarom wel zin heb om er nu eindelijk eens heen te gaan. Het is alsof er iets in de lucht hangt. Je hoort er veel over, dan zal het wel goed zijn. In die Hangaar, toch? Lijkt me wel vet.”

Menno heeft naar eigen zeggen niks met musicals: “Daarom heb ik het zo lang voor me uitgeschoven. Maar het verhaal lijkt me wel interessant, dus moet het er nu toch maar eens van komen. Het is in Valkenburg hè? Ook wel leuk, ben ik nog nooit geweest. Lijkt me wel gaaf hoor, met dat vliegtuig.” Hij staart even voor zich uit. “Ja, ik ga het nu eindelijk eens doen. Morgen is vandaag toch?”, sluit Menno vrolijk af, voordat hij online op zoek gaat naar kaartjes voor de musical.

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Pollution levels in the city were elevated as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south across a huge swathe of the US

The sun shone feebly through the thick haze. The smell of burning wood hung thick in the air. Many New Yorkers donned masks as the air quality plummeted amid health warnings.

The National Weather Service issued an air-quality alert because pollution levels were elevated as smoke from raging Canadian wildfires drifted south across a huge swathe of the US, reaching all the way to New York City and even beyond out into the Atlantic.

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Over the last month, states across the country have experienced record rainfall and flash flooding

Climate change is driving increasingly common bouts of heavy rain in the US that cause deadly and damaging flash floods that will only become more frequent and intense as the crisis worsens, experts say.

A year after deadly flooding in central Texas that swept through a children’s summer camp, the state and other parts of the United States are again experiencing unusually heavy rain. Over the last month, states like Alaska, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania have all experienced record rainfall, causing flash flooding across the country.

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Ransomware has soured production at Coca-Cola-owned Fairlife, forcing the dairy business to temporarily halt production at its US plants. In an SEC filing on Thursday, Coca-Cola said Fairlife detected "unauthorized access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems," in what it described as a ransomware event. The company said it immediately activated its incident response and business continuity plans, brought in outside cybersecurity experts, and notified law enforcement. Fairlife has halted production at its US plants while Coca-Cola investigates the ransomware attack, but its Canadian facilities are still running. The business, which was fully acquired by Coca-Cola in 2020 and makes ultra-filtered milk and Core Power protein shakes, said the quality and safety of the products themselves have not been affected. The drinks giant said it is still investigating the incident and working to restore affected systems, adding that it has not yet determined whether the attack is reasonably likely to materially affect the company. The filing sheds little light on the technical details, other than confirming that production-related systems were affected. It remains unclear whether the ransomware reached operational technology used to run Fairlife's manufacturing facilities or whether production was suspended because supporting IT systems were taken offline as part of the company's response. Coca-Cola also hasn't said who was behind the attack or whether any data was stolen. No ransomware gang has publicly claimed responsibility at the time of writing, although such claims often surface days after an attack if negotiations fail or the attackers decide to increase the pressure. The Register asked Coca-Cola how many Fairlife facilities were affected, whether customer or employee data was compromised, whether operational technology was directly impacted, and when it expects US production to resume, but didn't receive an immediate response. The criminals may not have milked the company for a ransom yet, but they've already curdled production. ®

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WIJ ZIJN NEDERLAND. De blikken polonaise is verslagen. Na een jaar met file (geen idee) hedenochtend weer eens GEEN FILE. Nul komma nul kilometer. Is dit land ons land nog wel, ja, dit is het land van de VVD, van de Madlener Highways, van automotive klungel Koos Spee, van Mark 'sjakie' Harbers en van Vincent Karremans - al is die laatste een verrader, met z'n ""benenwagen"". Nee, dan wij. We scheuren 130 met de vlam in de pijp & 180 linkerbaan, triple zo hard als toegestaan. We komen op tijd op ons werk. We hadden vanochtend zelfs tijd een gehaktballetje uit de pan te trekken bij de Esso. We zwaaien naar links en daar rijdt niemand, we steken een middelvinger op naar rechts en daar rijdt óók niemand, en de schooiers van XR hadden kennelijk ook een dagje ijsvrij. NUL KILOMETER, met tot slot een dienstmededeling voor iedereen die in het veevervoerabonnement van het rijdende afvalverwerkingsbedrijf Koolmees Travels is getrapt: uw abonnement is doorlopend en zal stilzwijgend tegen een veel hoger tarief worden verlengd.

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Astronomers have directly detected helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away that sits in its star's habitable zone. The finding marks the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-like planet in the habitable zone, strengthening the case that some planets orbiting red dwarfs can retain atmospheres and potentially support liquid water. "We have actually detected directly the helium present in the atmosphere itself, and that's the first direct detection for any rocky exoplanet, which is really exciting ... and then there's this added bonus that it's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching for life," lead author Collin Cherubim, who recently earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University, told Space.com. "It feels kind of surreal." From the report: This exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, was first discovered in 2017 by a team led by astronomer Jason Dittmann who is now a co-author on this new discovery. "This planet was found like 10 years ago, and we're just now saying, okay, that's an atmosphere," Dittman told Space.com. "We're slowly narrowing the gap and checking these boxes ... we're finding a planet that's rocky, a planet that's of the right temperature and now ... it's like okay, we finally found one that has an atmosphere."

And being a rocky planet, "there's definitely a surface ... it's made of rocks," Dittman said. What does the planet's surface look like? We can't say yet, but the researchers who found this planet's atmosphere think there's a good chance it could have water. While it orbits a red dwarf star, which is smaller and cooler than the sun, it orbits closer than we do to our star, maintaining a temperature that keeps the planet in the "Goldilocks zone" where liquid water could exist on its surface. "It probably also has a lot of water," Cherubim said. "If it has some amount of atmosphere that can provide a bit of a greenhouse effect, which we know that it does now ... it will very likely be what we consider to be habitable conditions on Earth, and conditions that would likely support liquid water."

So is it Earth-like? While it's certainly not an Earth copy, this planet can be considered Earth-like in two main ways, Cherubim shared. One: its overall composition. The planet is rocky, likely with an iron core and (now we know) it has an atmosphere. And two: the planet's temperature is just right for liquid water, which is necessary for life at least as far as we understand it on our planet. [...] "I'm not claiming this planet has life," Cherubim made clear. With further investigation, scientists could better understand what else might be in this planet's atmosphere, and they could confirm if it has water. Further observations might not be able to confirm habitability or identify any life on the planet, but they could at least help us to better understand planets like this. The findings have been published in the journal Science.

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