While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans
As soon as the barrier broke, a flood of poison brought death to the river. Gushing through the fragile wall built to hold back mining waste in Zambia’s copper belt in February 2025, more than 50m cubic litres of acid and heavy metals poured into the Chambishi stream – a tributary of the Kafue River, the country’s longest waterway.
Thousands of lifeless fish rose to the surface as a plume of acid floated downriver, leaving dead crocodiles and other wildlife in its wake.
I was sick and tired of the world treating me like a victim, so I decided to flip the narrative. At 25, I tried out for my local volunteer fire academy
When I was six years old, my entire body went up in flames. It was 1992, in my home town of Hawthorne, Nevada. My older brothers were out playing and I went to call them for dinner. I followed their voices, just a few houses down from ours, to find them playing with a bowl of kerosene they’d found and a lighter. When they flicked the lighter, the bowl caught fire. My brother freaked out and kicked it over in a bid to contain the flames. They weren’t aware I was just inches away.
Soon I was submerged in flames. The pain was excruciating. I was tackled to the ground by a neighbour I’d never met, who covered me in a sleeping bag, extinguishing the flames. It haunts me to this day to think of what he would have seen: a six-year-old boy on fire outside his house.
The actors and creator Steven Knight discuss the Shelbys’ big-screen swan song, how fans propelled the show to success, and that undercut
In June 2023, Barry Keoghan texted Cillian Murphy to wish him a happy Father’s Day. The pair had shared the screen six years before, in the film Dunkirk. “Cillian and Colin [Farrell] are people I admire greatly, and always keep in touch with,” says Keoghan. A reply from Murphy pinged back soon after: “Thank you. Would you like to play my son in Peaky Blinders the movie?”
Murphy remembers it a bit differently: that he was the one initiating contact (which is how Tim Roth and Rebecca Ferguson came on board). But he’s happy to let Keoghan’s version be recorded as fact.
joshuark shares a report from Reuters: Microsoft has filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in support of Anthropic's lawsuit asking the court to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Defense designation of the AI startup as a supply-chain risk. In an amicus brief filing in a federal court in San Francisco, Microsoft backed Anthropic's request for a temporary restraining order against the Pentagon order, arguing that its determination should be paused while the court considers the case. Microsoft, which integrates the AI lab's products and services into technology it provides to the U.S. military, said that it was directly impacted by the DOD designation.
"Should this action proceed without the entry of a temporary restraining order, Microsoft and other government contractors with expertise in developing solutions to support U.S. government missions will be forced to account for a new risk in their business planning," the company said. Microsoft's filing argued the TRO is needed to prevent costly disruptions for suppliers, who would otherwise have to rapidly rebuild offerings that rely on Anthropic's products. The judge overseeing the case must approve Microsoft's request to file the brief before it is officially entered, but courts often permit outside parties to weigh in on important cases.
We beginnen deze vrijdag met veel bewolking en de passage van een actief regengebied van west naar oost. Later in de ochtend wordt het vanuit het westen alweer droger en zeker vanmiddag kan de zon ook af en toe doorbreken. Het blijft dan op de meeste plaatsen droog. De temperatuur komt uit op maximaal 10 graden, maar zal daar vanmiddag iets onder liggen. De eerst nog stevige zuidwestenwind, die aan zee soms hard kan zijn met windkracht 7, neemt in de loop van de ochtend in kracht af en draait naar het westen.
Het Amsterdamse Van Gogh Museum heeft een schilderij van de Franse vrouwelijke kunstenaar Virginie Demont-Breton verworven. Het werk was volgens het museum een inspiratiebron voor Van Gogh, die ook een eigen interpretatie van het schilderij maakte.
Het museum kocht het schilderij via Gallery 19C tijdens de early access van de kunstbeurs TEFAF in Maastricht, die zaterdag begint en duurt tot en met donderdag. Het museum kon niet zeggen hoeveel het werk heeft gekost. Het is het eerste schilderij van Demont-Breton dat in een openbare Nederlandse collectie te zien is.
Lang gezocht
"We hebben heel lang gezocht naar dit schilderij en we zijn verheugd dat we het aan de collectie kunnen toevoegen", zegt Emilie Gordenker, directeur van het Van Gogh Museum. "Het is ook geweldig dat deze belangrijke vrouwelijke kunstenaar nu in een Nederlands museum te zien is."
Het werk wordt in het najaar opgenomen in de vaste collectie van het Amsterdamse museum, bij andere werken van kunstenaars die Van Gogh bewonderde.