De Ondernemingskamer bekijkt de gang van zaken rondom de overname van OCI. Kleine beleggers vinden dat de Egyptische bezitter van een meerderheidsbelang in het chemiebedrijf zijn positie heeft misbruikt. Nederland moet „geen speeltuin worden voor miljonairs”.

De politie is op zoek naar een man die in Hellevoetsluis een dure tas heeft gestolen in een zonnestudio. De verdachte intimideert daarbij een medewerkster. Tijdens de diefstal probeert hij zijn gezicht bedekt te houden, maar dat gaat niet helemaal goed.

Het Dubbelmondepark in Dordrecht is tijdelijk afgesloten na de ontsnapping van twee Schotse hooglanders eerder deze week. De dieren belandden op de N3 en dat zorgde voor gevaarlijke taferelen.

The Titan dune field where NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will land in 2034 has a name: Ahmakiq Undae. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the name, and NASA announced it in an update as the spacecraft's 2028 launch edges closer. It is scheduled to arrive at Saturn's moon Titan in late 2034. Dragonfly's fabrication began in late 2024 and was completed about a year later. Most recently, engineers fitted the probe's wiring harness, which, according to NASA, includes an estimated 17,315 feet of conductor wire and 374 connectors, and weighs about 100 pounds. The harness is accompanied by a battery weighing in at almost 300 pounds. The nuclear-powered Dragonfly is an impressive piece of hardware. The fuselage is almost 13 feet long, and the arms will hold eight sets of rotors. The probe has landing skids and a cap on the end for its power source. The harness fitting means other Dragonfly components can be added, including its avionics and science instruments. During May and June, the rotorcraft was put through vibration testing, including suspending the fuselage on bungee cords to see how it behaves in the air, and a sealing test where engineers checked how well the structure keeps the environment out – Titan's atmosphere is, after all, dense, cold, and about 1.5 times the pressure of Earth's. Dragonfly isn't the first visitor to Titan - the European Space Agency (ESA) landed the Huygens probe there in 2005. However, while Huygens was a static probe that lasted just over an hour on the surface, Dragonfly is planned to spend at least 3.3 years exploring the moon's environment. According to NASA, the probe will explore "diverse environments from organic dunes to deposits associated with an impact crater – Selk Crater – where liquid water and complex organic materials key to life once existed together." The probe is effectively a flying laboratory and must withstand temperatures as low as minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 179 degrees Celsius) and potentially liquid methane rain. It also requires a heat shield to protect the spacecraft during its descent through Titan's dense atmosphere. Once on Titan, the plan is for the vehicle to fly to multiple locations during its mission. Installing the wiring harness (something familiar to anyone who has battled wiring looms on automobiles) and naming the landing zone are milestones on Dragonfly's journey to launch. Next will be connecting the wiring to science instruments as they are delivered, along with other flight components. In 2024, Dragonfly's total lifecycle cost was $3.35 billion - approximately twice the original estimate - and the mission was more than two years late, with the COVID-19 pandemic, supply-chain issues, and additional design work pushing up costs. The mission is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than July 2028 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. ®

Oud-minister Hugo de Jonge en meerdere familieleden van hem zijn ernstig bedreigd tijdens de coronapandemie. Hij zei dat hij en zijn gezin een nacht hun huis moesten verlaten, "omdat mijn huis werd bestormd", zei hij tegen de coronacommissie.

"Mijn dochter is zelf ernstig bedreigd en ze heeft serieus met de angst geleefd dat haar vader op een dag niet meer thuis zou komen", aldus De Jonge. De voormalige zorgminister zei dat ook zijn broers werden bedreigd toen hij minister was.

Volgens De Jonge zijn er nooit levensbedreigende incidenten geweest door de inzet van beveiligers en politieagenten.

Elegance Bratton’s civil rights drama in the Jim Crow south confronts you with almost unbearable brutality

Black people officially won the right to vote in the US in 1965 but many still encountered hurdles on their path to the ballot box: 11 states in the south quickly introduced a poll tax requiring an annual fee to be allowed to vote. The practice unambiguously targeted poor Black communities in an early form of thinly-veiled racist voter suppression. Vernon Dahmer wouldn’t stand for it. In January 1966 the Hattiesburg, Mississippi based Black activist and NAACP chapter head promised to cover the fee for those struggling to afford it. “It’s a proclamation that we here, that we matter,” he says in an early scene in By Any Means, a considered, if blunt, drama inspired by the real life aftermath of Dahmer’s murder by the Ku Klux Klan.

It is Mississippi in the mid ‘60s and Wayne Strider (a sturdy Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is new to the local FBI unit, having recently moved back to his home state from Chicago, and is dealing with bosses who turn a blind eye to racist crimes. “White guys can get away with murder,” says one Black colleague while shaking his head. After his boss receives a message from President Johnson to prioritize the Dahmer murder case, Strider is teamed up with a widely feared mobster Gregory Scarpa (Mark Wahlberg with a rather distracting prosthetic nose), who has been shipped in from Brooklyn as part of an off-book mission to track down the Klansmen and bring justice to the killers.

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At the end of a busy transfer window which spanned the World Cup, here are some of the subplots of the summer

The World Cup is always a good shop window. Yan Diomande was already a rising star at RB Leipzig but shining for Côte d’Ivoire in the US helped push up his price tag before a £115.7m move to Real Madrid. There were other breakout stars: Switzerland’s Johan Manzambi, whose signature Aston Villa pipped Newcastle to; Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Kerim Alajbegovic, who went to Juventus; and Ghana’s Caleb Yirenkyi, who is now in the Premier League with Coventry. Cape Verde’s cult hero Vozinha now keeps net for the Chilean giants Colo-Colo and Morocco’s attacking dynamo, Ismael Saibari, has rocked up at Bayern. Billy Munday

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Experts say that the smell comes from a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, and it can show up much earlier than one expects

Last week, my mom complained that she’s starting to smell “like an old person”.

She had grabbed her favorite sweater and draped it over herself at the movie theater. “It smelled like my grandmother,” she said, almost whispering. “I thought someone must have borrowed the jacket. But it was just me.”

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Joshua Livestro, de in 2018 overleden oprichter van opiniesite De Dagelijkse Standaard en ontdekker van de toenmalig een beetje in de vergetelheid geraakte journalist J. Niemöller, is aangetroffen op de mestvaalt van de columnistiek van Trouw. Daar houdt hij de plek van een queer vrouw van kleur bezet door over Brusselse politiek te schrijven. Want hee, de Smouterkabouter houdt ontzettend van Amsterdamse vrouwen tussen de 30 en 45, maar als het over serieuze zaken zoals Europa gaat dan heeft Trouw natuurlijk behoefte aan een oude witte man, zolang die man geen Sylvain Ephimenco heet tenminste. Livestro's eerste column, waarin geen enkele memorabele zin te vinden is en die verder een take over de Europese fractie van GroenLinks/PvdA bevat die we al 100x beter geïnformeerd bij Chris Aalberts hebben gelezen, kunt u gevoegelijk overslaan. Houdt u extra veel tijd over om naar die magistrale foto op die schitterende achtergrond te kijken. Benieuwd wanneer hij de Poetinkaart gaat trekken.