Het Erasmus MC doet al tientallen jaren onderzoek naar ouderdomsziektes in de Rotterdamse wijk Ommoord. Maar als het aan hoofdonderzoeker Arfan Ikram ligt, steken de onderzoekers binnenkort de Nieuwe Maas over. De verschillen tussen Ommoord en Zuid kunnen nieuwe inzichten brengen.

• First shakeup in 2026 race sees home rider take lead

• Narváez surges through to deny Aular on the line

Ecuador’s Jhonatan Narváez (UAE Team Emirates XRG) powered to the line, claiming victory on stage four of the Giro d’Italia, outpacing Orluis Aular, with home rider Giulio Ciccone taking over the leader’s pink jersey after crossing the line in third.

The first shakeup in this year’s race coincided with its arrival home in Italy following the opening three stages in Bulgaria, and after Aular hit the front ahead of Ciccone, Narváez came from behind and left the Venezuelan behind.

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James Shirah struck groomsman Terry Taylor Jr with SUV after they had an argument at wedding afterparty in 2024

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A man from Michigan has been ordered to spend at least 30 years imprisoned after killing his own groomsman on his wedding day.

James Shirah, 24, from Flint, was sentenced on Monday in Genesee county court for the death of his best friend, Terry Taylor Jr, who he ran over with a sport-utility vehicle during an argument on 30 August 2024.

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• Former captain, 32, won more than 100 caps for Georgia

• World Rugby found evidence of urine sample swaps

The biggest anti-doping investigation in World Rugby’s history has resulted in six of Georgia’s men’s team and a medical official being handed lengthy bans, with their former captain Merab Sharikadze suspended for 11 years. Working alongside the World Anti-Doping Agency, evidence was uncovered of urine swapping and advance warning of drug tests being given to players.

No firm proof was uncovered of attempts to mask the use of performance-enhancing substances but World Rugby did find evidence that urine sample substitutions had taken place to conceal non-performance-enhancing substances such as cannabis and tramadol.

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VELDHOVEN (ANP) - ASML en de vakbonden zijn een sociaal plan overeengekomen. Daarin is het uitgangspunt volgens alle partijen om zoveel mogelijk gedwongen ontslagen bij het bedrijf te voorkomen. De chipmachinemaker kondigde eind januari aan dat zo'n 1700 medewerkers met managementbanen ontslagen zouden worden. Dat aantal kan nog "honderden mensen" lager uitvallen, zegt een woordvoerster van ASML dinsdag.

In het sociaal plan dat ASML en de vakbonden FNV, CNV, De Unie en VHP2 zijn overeengekomen, staat onder meer dat het bedrijf getroffen collega's van werk naar werk wil ondersteunen. Als dat niet mogelijk is, zal ASML ondersteuning bieden bij het vinden van een andere baan. Werknemers die uit dienst gaan, krijgen een vergoeding mee ter waarde van een bruto maandsalaris per gewerkt dienstjaar bij de chipmachinemaker.

Het akkoord wordt nu voorgelegd aan de vakbondsleden. Volgens vakbond De Unie biedt het sociaal plan een goede basis voor de medewerkers.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Ondernemend Nederland (ONL) pleit ervoor dat het kabinet zich inzet om de Europese CO2-heffing uit te stellen. Volgens de ondernemersorganisatie komt het bedrijfsleven door deze extra heffing nog verder onder druk te staan.

Vanaf 2028 wordt in de EU een CO2-prijs ingevoerd voor onder meer autorijden en gasverwarming via het emissiehandelssysteem ETS2, waardoor fossiele energie duurder wordt. Sommige huishoudens kunnen hierdoor straks tot 70 euro per maand meer kwijt zijn.

"Ook ondernemers worden hierdoor getroffen. In het ergste scenario betaal je per liter brandstof straks 35 cent meer. Als je een vrachtwagen vol moet tanken, is dat een schrikbarend totaalbedrag", zegt ONL-voorman Erik Ziengs. "Nederland is al structureel het duurste land binnen Europa op het gebied van brandstof. Dit kan niet langer zo doorgaan", waarschuwt Ziengs.

ONL, met een achterban van tienduizenden ondernemers, pleit al langer voor een verlaging van accijnzen en btw op brandstoffen om bedrijven en consumenten te ondersteunen.

The US Department of Justice has begun accepting applications from victims of the AirBit Club crypto Ponzi scheme for a slice of more than $400 million in forfeited assets tied to the fraud. The compensation fund currently lists about $150 million as available for payout. Launched in 2015, AirBit Club’s schtick was that it ostensibly offered investors guaranteed daily passive income through cryptocurrency mining and trading. It was pitched as a trustworthy multi-level marketing initiative, although prosecutors have since said it mainly preyed on “unsophisticated investors,” running conferences and expos as ways to demonstrate its legitimacy. Members were given access to an investor portal, which would display sums they wanted, and expected, to see – daily profits building as promised. However, these figures were entirely fabricated. Investors’ money was never used for cryptocurrency mining or trading; instead, prosecutors said, it was pocketed by the fraudsters behind AirBit Club and used to fund additional recruitment events across the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Of course, when investors tried to withdraw their funds, they were met with delays, fees sometimes exceeding 50 percent, or just plain old account freezes. According to a dedicated website established for the compensation scheme, victims must meet a number of criteria in order to prove their eligibility, including that they used their own money to invest, did so without willful ignorance of the scam’s illegitimacy, and that they had funds still inside AirBit Club at the time of its collapse in August 2020. Those who withdrew their funds before that time, likely incurring the huge withdrawal fees to do so, will not be eligible. “Investor euphoria over new technology is all too often fertile ground for fraudsters,” said US Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York. “It is our job to root out those fraudsters." “Here, the defendants led a multimillion-dollar pyramid scheme based on lies about virtual currency trading and mining. They now face justice, and this outcome should deter anyone who may be tempted to target others with false promises of high returns in virtual currency investments.” Five AirBit defendants Five defendants involved in the AirBit Club scam were sentenced in 2023 after pleading guilty, including co-founders Pablo Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos, who received prison terms of 12 years and 40 months, respectively, in addition to extensive forfeiture orders. Both Rodriguez and Dos Santos were previously sued by the SEC in 2017 for their roles in a separate pyramid investment scheme, Vizinova, and paid $1.7 million in penalties. Cecilia Millan and Karina Chairez were identified in court documents as senior promoters in the AirBit Club scheme. Millan was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release, while Chairez received a sentence of one year and one day in prison followed by three months of supervised release. The final member was Scott Hughes, described as the scheme’s attorney. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to laundering approximately $18 million for AirBit Club, through domestic and foreign bank accounts, as well as an attorney trust account that was reserved for handling his practice’s clients’ funds. He also helped the group erase negative articles about it from the internet. In one case, Hughes engaged a website removal company to remove 15 articles calling AirBit a scam. The group paid $3,000 for each of the 15 takedowns, court documents stated. ®

Hoewel D66, VVD en CDA in het coalitieakkoord afspraken de hypotheekrenteaftrek ongemoeid te laten, zou deze door een belastingverhoging onbedoeld tóch verruimd worden. De Tweede Kamer, waaronder de D66- en CDA-fracties, wil dat nu tegenhouden.