Droom je ervan om te trouwen? Voor de meeste mensen is het een dag om nooit meer te vergeten, maar ook een duur geintje. De kosten verschillen per gemeente enorm: waar je in de ene gemeente klaar bent voor een paar honderd euro, lopen de kosten in andere plaatsen op tot bijna 1500 euro.

De zomervakantie is begonnen in de regio Noord, de vakantie in andere regio's volgen binnen enkele weken. Dat moment is voor Rijkswaterstaat de aanleiding om een aantal grote klussen op te pakken. In de regio Rijnmond gaat het om de A27, de A20, de Papendrechtsebrug (N3) en de Algerabrug (N210) die wekenlang niet toegankelijk zijn.

De zomervakantie is begonnen in de regio Noord, de vakantie in andere regio's volgen binnen enkele weken. Dat moment is voor Rijkswaterstaat de aanleiding om een aantal grote klussen op te pakken. In de regio Rijnmond gaat het om de A27, de A20, de Papendrechtsebrug (N3) en de Algerabrug (N210) die wekenlang niet toegankelijk zijn.

Vlaardinger Djan van der Kraan is blind, maar heeft aan ambitie geen gebrek. Hij wil leraar worden en staat al, samen met geleidehond Terry, voor de klas.

The 29-year-old forward always avoided attention, but his World Cup goals have dragged him into the centre of the conversation

We have to talk about Mikel Oyarzabal. When Spain scored their third goal against Austria in Los Angeles, cameras caught Lamine Yamal’s little brother celebrating, fists clenched and shouting “come on!”. The picture couldn’t have been more perfect, and not just because Keyne is impossibly cute. Even the apparent imperfection was just right. On the row below, clapping and half-hiding the three-year-old, was a woman in sunglasses, prompting a Spanish TV commentator to post: “The blonde in front has denied us the best sticker of all time.” To which the striker Borja Iglesias replied: “The blonde in front has given you two goals today, my friend.”

Turns out the blonde woman is Oyarzabal’s mum: her name is Dorleta and it was her son who had just scored his second goal of the game and his fourth of the tournament. Two days later, after the Selección had finished their first training session in Dallas, Marca asked Oyarzabal if he had seen the footage.

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Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

• ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

• What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found.

When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire – built by the US firm CoreWeave and the Scottish company DataVita – would be powered entirely from on-site renewables and built by 2030.

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Australian government confirms it was informed by China of its intent to conduct the test on Monday

China has conducted a long-range missile test in the South Pacific, in a move the Australian government condemned as “destabilising to the region” and which was also criticised by other regional leaders.

A ⁠test missile topped with ‌a ‌dummy warhead landed ‌in “designated waters” of the Pacific, China’s state news agency Xinhua ‌reported on Monday. The missile test was a “routine arrangement” of China’s annual ⁠military training, with prior notification to relevant countries, Xinhua said.

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De derde etappe van de Tour de France gaat maandag door, maar met beperkingen. Vanwege de natuurbranden in de regio is bij de laatste veertig kilometer tot finishplaats Les…

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