There are many online techniques for self-cutting a fringe – but would I end up looking like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction or a low-budget Grimes?

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I have had a fringe since I was 15 years old. I will never forget this life-altering haircut. For years before it I had been suffering lingering effects from a bob cut I received unwillingly in primary school.

You were not a cool person if you had a bob as an adolescent in the early 2000s. But finally, my hair had grown sufficiently for styling, and I got it cut to sit neatly on my shoulders with front bangs.

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Die Zeit’s online database of individuals’ Nazi membership is prompting a reckoning as people uncover ties to regime

Olaf Köndgen is 64 years old, a German citizen and a senior European human rights expert who has lived and worked in France for several years. Last month, Köndgen learned that he is also the son of a Nazi.

Despite a strong interest in history and its lessons, Köndgen is typical of many 21st-century Germans in having had only the roughest outlines of his own family’s complicity with Hitler’s regime.

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• Norris and Piastri call for long-term changes to sport

• Mercedes’ Wolff suggests battery needs to remain

Formula One is under increasing pressure to consider immediate changes and the long-term future of its new engines, with the world champion Lando Norris reiterating after the Miami Grand Prix that the only answer to address sport-wide dissatisfaction was to “get rid of the battery”.

At the meeting in Florida, which was won by Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, with Norris second, F1 and the FIA had brought in fresh regulations to address unhappiness and safety concerns prompted by the pivotal role energy management plays under the new 2026 formula.

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Austrian foreign minister says ‘forest of antennae’ at mission in Vienna being used for illicit collection of data

Austria has expelled three Russian embassy staff on suspicion of spying after determining that a “forest of antennae” on the diplomatic mission in Vienna, Europe’s espionage capital since the cold war, was being be used for illicit data collection.

“It is unacceptable that diplomatic immunity be used to commit espionage,” Austria’s foreign minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, said on Monday. She added that the three embassy staff – whose expulsions bring the number of Russian diplomats sent home by Vienna to 14 since 2020 – had already left the country.

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As Russian aggression continues and Trump’s US threatens Nato, it is even more vital for a unified defence of the continent

As we mark the 81st anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe this Friday, 8 May, it’s clear that Germany will again soon be the leading European military power.

Already next year its defence spending will be as much as that of France and Britain combined – and it is projected to be significantly larger by 2030. The German government’s declared goal is to have the strongest conventional army in Europe. True, France and Britain have nuclear weapons, but that means less money to spend on the rest of defence. So the question is not, will this happen? Barring unforeseen developments, it will. The question, particularly on this solemn anniversary, is, how can we ensure that this time the growth of German military power is a positive development for all of Europe?

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Een nieuwe week met nieuwe wegwerkzaamheden: Deze week gaat onder meer de Beneluxtunnel flink op de schop. Ook is er onderhoud op de parallelbaan van de A16 over de Van Brienenoordbrug richting het zuiden.

Een fietser is maandagmiddag aangereden door een automobilist aan de Marnixlaan in Vlaardingen. Daarna nam de automobilist de benen. De politie zoekt in de omgeving naar de verdachte.

Een fietser is maandagmiddag aangereden door een automobilist aan de Marnixlaan in Vlaardingen. Daarna nam de automobilist de benen. De politie zoekt in de omgeving naar de verdachte.

Het monument heeft wel vaker last minute schrobwerk nodig, maar dit keer was er „echt héél veel verf”. Als een soort brandweerdienst proberen maar liefst vijf busjes van Kunstwacht het monument schoon te krijgen. „Je mag je mening hebben. Maar op deze manier?”

Meanwhile, Russian attacks against Ukraine on Monday killed at least seven people and injured dozens of others.