DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het aantal faillissementen is in oktober op jaarbasis met 27 procent toegenomen, meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). In totaal gingen vorige maand 322 bedrijven failliet. Dat zijn 69 faillissementen meer dan in dezelfde maand een jaar eerder, en één meer dan in september.

De faillissementsgraad, het aantal faillissementen per 100.000 bedrijven, kwam vorige maand uit op 8,5. Een jaar eerder werden er per 100.000 bedrijven nog 6,8 bedrijven failliet verklaard. De faillissementsgraad geeft volgens het CBS een zuiverder beeld van de ontwikkeling van het aantal faillissementen. Ook bedrijfstakken kunnen hiermee beter met elkaar vergeleken worden. Het aantal bedrijven kan namelijk fluctueren door de tijd heen en sterk verschillen tussen bedrijfstakken.

In de horeca waren relatief gezien de meeste faillissementen. Per 100.000 bedrijven in die sector gingen er meer dan 25 failliet, een jaar eerder waren dat er ruim 23. In de industriesector steeg de faillissementsgraad het sterkst, van 19,5 vorig jaar naar bijna 25 in oktober 2026.

In Rotterdam begint vandaag het hoger beroep tegen Erasmusschutter Fouad L. De man, die in 2023 een drievoudige moord pleegde, werd vorig jaar veroordeeld tot een levenslange gevangenisstraf. Maar zowel het Openbaar Ministerie als de schutter zelf willen dat dit veranderd wordt in een kortere gevangenisstraf in combinatie met tbs. Voorafgaand aan het hoger beroep zet Rijnmond de feiten nog een keer op een rij.

In Rotterdam begint vandaag het hoger beroep tegen Erasmusschutter Fouad L. De man, die in 2023 een drievoudige moord pleegde, werd vorig jaar veroordeeld tot een levenslange gevangenisstraf. Maar zowel het Openbaar Ministerie als de schutter zelf willen dat dit veranderd wordt in een kortere gevangenisstraf in combinatie met tbs. Voorafgaand aan het hoger beroep zet Rijnmond de feiten nog een keer op een rij.

BONGURI has added a photo to the pool:

遊具名は「ゲロゲロ滑り台」だそうです。
Photo taken at Aburagafuchi Waterside park, Anjo city, Aichi pref.

The unofficial Taliban restriction has forced women into desperate and absurd situations as they seek medical help, according to interviews given to the Guardian and Zan Times

Farida*, 37, woke up in excruciating pain one night with a toothache. Over the next few days, the pain intensified. “My teeth had been ruined for years. My molars on both sides of my mouth were severely damaged. I couldn’t sleep at night and could barely eat.”

Farida and her family had returned from Iran earlier this year to live in Herat, a city in western Afghanistan. Like many migrants forced to return, they have struggled to find work and income. In their straitened circumstances, visiting a doctor has become a luxury but the pain forced Farida to a dental clinic in the Bakrabad area of Herat in early July.

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This soft-but-dense, velvety delight is cake at its most pudding-like. It’s at its prime still warm from the oven, but gets gloriously fudgy after a night in the fridge

The note by Elizabeth David is helpful here: “This cake can also be eaten like a pudding” for its soft-dense-velvet-texture. But I am jumping ahead: this week’s column started in Ferrara, a city in the wetlands of the Po delta in the north-eastern corner of Emilia-Romagna. Half medieval lanes and half green avenues and parks, Ferrara is home to one of Europe’s most imposing red-brick castles, one that provides a home to an annual journalism festival run by the magazine Internazionale. Ferrara is also known for a cake. In fact, it was after a discussion about translation and fact-checking with the Italian writer Domenico Starnone and the translator Ann Goldstein that I first ate a wedge of chocolate, butter, egg, sugar and flour torta tenerina.

Having just mentioned fact-checking, I am now going to side-step the origin stories. The name, however, more or less translates as “little tender one”, although that “little” refers more to the fact that it is a bit tender, rather than being on the small side. Especially because tenerina recipes from Ferrara call for tins ranging from 24-26cm in size, which produce slender cakes that are gently cracked on top and tacolenta (sticky) within; in fact, another name for the cake is torta tacolenta.

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• Creation of Sport Org sparks disquiet at governing bodies

• Smaller sports concerned they might be taken over

The leaders of Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic sports have been responsible for some of the country’s greatest successes over the past two decades. But there are changes afoot that are increasingly ruffling feathers and stoking fears.

Most people will not have heard of Sport Org, the organisation recently set up by UK Sport. Essentially, it evolved out of British Curling, and now uses its leaders and expertise across curling, para-curling, para table tennis, squash and, from 2030, bobsleigh and skeleton.

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The British actor took up writing and producing to have control over what she stars in after a scandal involving some of the most powerful men in the film business

After a recent run as an assassin, a serial killer and a gangster, Charlotte Kirk was looking for something a little lighter, and surely nothing can be more jolly, more wholesome than a Christmas romcom. In Christmas & Chaos, Kirk plays Sadie, a pop star in search of a hit – or, to be more precise, three hits for a new musical by an impresario (a comedic Jason Isaacs who only appears on screen via video call). She has just a couple of weeks to come up with something with handsome-and-heartbroken composer (Ben McGregor).

Kirk, who also produced the film, approached Jamie Adams, director of several low-budget British films, including Black Mountain Poets, intrigued by his regular use of improvisation. They worked out the story together, says Kirk, but made it without a script. All they knew was that “this was a Christmas movie, these two have got a deadline to make these hit songs and maybe there’ll be some kind of romance. And then it became something else, which is even more interesting.”

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Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

The recent US elections reminded the Thursday quiz that we have just passed the sixth anniversary of Rudy Giuliani’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference, which was not only hilarious in and of itself, but sparked one of the best viral laughing videos of all internet history. Whether you will be laughing as hard after facing this week’s quiz remains to be seen. Here are 15 punchlines in search of a question about topical news, general knowledge and pop culture. Let’s be having you!

The Thursday news quiz, No 272

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References raise questions over whether claims about bankable stars have been ignored by entertainment industry

The comedy sketch opens in a doctor’s office, with a trouserless David Walliams apparently being treated for a fictional sexually transmitted disease. The doctor tells him it is bad news and he needs to contact “everyone you’ve been intimate with over the last year”.

The camera closes in on the comedian’s shocked expression before he gasps: “Everyone?”

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