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Mikel Arteta was left furious with referee John Brooks last night, despite Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Sunderland.
Before Bruno Guimarães gave Arsenal the lead in a tight match that Régis Le Bris’s team were arguably unlucky to lose, David Raya made a brilliant save to deny Enzo Le Fée from the penalty spot. Arteta, however, did not believe that Ezri Konsa had hauled Dan Ballard to the ground, instead blaming the Sunderland man for pulling down his opponent.
Continue reading...The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal
Recently, I overheard a conversation in a cafe where someone described their toast as “awesome”. I felt myself bristle. Not because the toast wasn’t good – I didn’t taste it – but because I remember a time when “awesome” meant something that inspired awe: towering mountains, the vastness of the night sky, the haunting song of a humpback whale. Now it’s being used to describe breakfast.
“Fantastic” has met the same fate, shedding its fantastical origins to become a synonym for “great”. Meanwhile “literally” has been so thoroughly abused that it can now mean something that is, quite literally, not literal.
Continue reading...Chefs in the east of the country are shunning imported produce for local ingredients, reinforcing how food is intertwined with a region and its people
‘It’s a magical place, and not just because of the hotel.” Standing outside the greenhouses at Högbo Brukshotell, two hours north of Stockholm, Stefan Johansson is talking about far more than hospitality. The former head chef, now responsible for sustainability at Högbo, has spent much of the past decade helping reshape the way this corner of Sweden grows, cooks and thinks about food.
The catalyst was disarmingly simple. Years ago, a journalist asked Johansson why he was cooking the food he was cooking. Like many ambitious Swedish chefs, Stefan trained in Stockholm’s top restaurants, where ingredients from around the world were only a phone call away. The question lingered long after the interview ended.
Continue reading...Experts believe one-third of wildfires in France are set deliberately, with arson the biggest single cause of forest fires last year
One is a boy of 15, who threw a burning cigarette into a wood near Bordeaux. Another is a 36-year-old man who set a paper bag of rubbish on fire in bushes near Perpignan. A third is a 50-year-old woman accused of lighting 17 fires south of La Rochelle.
According to the French interior ministry, since the start of a summer in which a record 115,000 hectares of forest, scrub and heathland have gone up in flames, 514 people – including 198 minors – have been arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires.
Continue reading...The billionaire and the party have developed a symbiotic relationship to spread their far-right views both in Germany and the US
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party rattled European politics this week after a convincing victory in a German state election, which placed it only a few seats away from forming the country’s first state-level far right government since the second world war.
Elon Musk was thrilled.
Continue reading...Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising
Britain is embarking on one of the largest overhauls of its electricity grid in generations – a megaproject in which five times more infrastructure will be built by 2030 than was constructed during the previous three decades.
Tens of billions of pounds are being spent on new pylons, subsea cables and converter stations to connect a growing fleet of wind and solar farms and carry clean power to where it is needed.
Continue reading...Criminals exploit demand for iPhone 18 Pro and foldable Duo to trick people eager to get their hands on one
Apple has just launched a range of new iPhones, including a foldable handset, just as you decide it is time to replace your own ageing mobile. But you balk at the £1,199 price tag for the cheapest of the new options.
Searching online for a better price with the words “cheap”, “iPhone” and “deal”, you come across a website which offers an iPhone 18 Pro for a couple of hundred pounds less than the Apple site. You pay for the new phone via a bank transfer and wait for it to arrive.
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The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's largest, was seized by Russian forces in the early weeks of the Ukraine war.
The civilian death toll has risen sharply in Ukraine over the past two months as Russia steps up attacks on power plants and other infrastructure.
America's highest court heard Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial on Thursday, CNN reports. But they add that "the former crypto mogul who was convicted of defrauding investors by secretly diverting billions of dollars of their money" also asked America's high court "to throw out a court order requiring him to pay $11 billion as part of his sentence."
Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after prosecutors said he directed billions of dollars from the crypto exchange FTX to a hedge fund he controlled called Alameda Research, where the funds were used for risky investments, political donations and his own personal benefit. The Supreme Court appeal, which was reviewed by CNN, raises a technical question about evidence that was submitted at his trial, and whether Bankman-Fried should have been permitted to demonstrate that his investments were ultimately sound and would have covered any losses by FTX customers.
He also argues that the $11 billion forfeiture violates the 8th Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines. "Where the government pursues a theory of fraud under which it doesn't matter whether any victims lost money, introducing evidence suggesting that people actually lost money is distracting and prejudicial," veteran Supreme Court attorney Jeffrey Fisher told CNN. "All the more so where the truth is the victims did not lose money, and the defendant is unable to make that clear."
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the arguments earlier this year.
Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024 after prosecutors said he directed billions of dollars from the crypto exchange FTX to a hedge fund he controlled called Alameda Research, where the funds were used for risky investments, political donations and his own personal benefit. The Supreme Court appeal, which was reviewed by CNN, raises a technical question about evidence that was submitted at his trial, and whether Bankman-Fried should have been permitted to demonstrate that his investments were ultimately sound and would have covered any losses by FTX customers.
He also argues that the $11 billion forfeiture violates the 8th Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines. "Where the government pursues a theory of fraud under which it doesn't matter whether any victims lost money, introducing evidence suggesting that people actually lost money is distracting and prejudicial," veteran Supreme Court attorney Jeffrey Fisher told CNN. "All the more so where the truth is the victims did not lose money, and the defendant is unable to make that clear."
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the arguments earlier this year.
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Deze zomer kende relatief weinig muggenoverlast, meldt de website Nature Today. Volgens onderzoekers van Wageningen University & Research (WUR) komt dit waarschijnlijk door de extreme droogte en hoge temperaturen van de afgelopen tijd.
De zogeheten muggenoverlastindex, die de onderzoekers bepalen op basis van meldingen via muggenradar.nl, lag deze zomer 16 procent lager dan het gemiddelde over de jaren 2020 tot en met 2025. Muggen hebben plekken nodig waar gedurende enkele weken achter elkaar water staat waarin larven zich kunnen ontwikkelen, zoals plantenpotten, emmers en schotels gevuld met water. Door de warme droge zomer waren er veel minder van dit soort broedplaatsen beschikbaar.
Op plekken waar het water wel lang genoeg bleef staan, konden muggen zich door de recordhoge zomertemperatuur sneller ontwikkelen. "Volgens ons muggenontwikkelingsmodel vliegt rond deze tijd al de zesde muggengeneratie rond. Niet eerder was dit zo vroeg in het jaar", zien de onderzoekers.
In dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van het belangrijkste en meest opvallende 112-nieuws van zondag 13 september.
In het centrum van Rotterdam heeft in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag een dixi in brand gestaan, waarbij het vuur oversloeg op een bouwkeet. Op beelden van 112-fotografen is te zien dat de metershoge vlammen ook dichtbij huizen kwamen.
Bij een slagerij in Rotterdam-Noord is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag een explosie geweest. Daardoor barstte een ruit en raakte de gevel beschadigd. Dat melden 112-fotografen.
Rotterdam hangt vol camera’s. Niet alleen politie en gemeente houden een oogje in het zeil, ook winkeliers, horecaondernemers, coffeeshophouders en inwoners filmen erop los. De Vlaamse kunstenaar Maarten Inghels fietste en wandelde zes dagen door de stad, op zoek naar een route waarop hij ongezien kon blijven.
Voetbal is een spel van negentig minuten en aan het eind verlies je je tanden, want die zijn eruit geslagen door een doorgesnoven Jhon van Burgerking. Zo rond als een tonnetje was hij de clown van het Nederlandse profvoetbal en daarna ging hij in de hennepteelt, in mishandeling en in de striptenten. Kennelijk deed hij ook nog aan voetbalcoachen, want samen met zijn broer was hij 'werkzaam' bij GVVV. Daar ramde hij gisteren IN DE RUST de tanden uit de mond van een speler van de tegenstander. Die speler was eerder van GVVV naar IJsselmeervogels gegaan en blijkbaar is dat verboden. Van Burgerking is samen met die broer van 'm per direct weggejorist en opgerot. En dan hoeft de KNVB hem alleen nog maar een levenslange schorsing op te leggen - in het voetbal kunnen we deze lui missen als kiespijn.
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BONGURI has added a photo to the pool:
根尾東谷川最上流の上大須ダム。中部電力の水力発電ダムだそうです。
Photo taken Neo area, Motosu city, Gifu pref.