NEW YORK (ANP) - Anouk Koevermans heeft het hoofdtoernooi van de US Open bereikt. De 22-jarige tennisster versloeg Mariam Bolkvadze uit Georgië in de derde ronde van het kwalificatietoernooi: 6-3 7-6 (5).

Koevermans debuteert in New York op een grandslamtoernooi. Haar wedstrijd tegen Bolkvadze werd donderdag afgebroken vanwege aanhoudende regen. Ze had toen de eerste set gewonnen en de tweede set was zes games onderweg (3-3).

Arantxa Rus plaatste zich eveneens voor het hoofdtoernooi van het laatste grandslamtoernooi van het seizoen. De 35-jarige tennisster versloeg de Zwitserse Susan Bandecchi (1-6 6-3 6-4) in de laatste ronde van het kwalificatietoernooi. Rus stond donderdag met 4-1 achter in de eerste set toen het begon te regenen.

Tallon Griekspoor, Botic van de Zandschulp en Jesper de Jong staan in het hoofdtoernooi bij de mannen.

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - Roeiers Simon van Dorp (29) en Melvin Twellaar (29) hebben de wereldtitel in de dubbeltwee veroverd bij de WK roeien in Nederland. Op de Bosbaan in het Amsterdamse Bos bleven de Nederlanders de boten uit Servië en België ruim voor.

Het Nederlandse duo greep een kleine voorsprong vanaf de start, maar kreeg in het middendeel flinke tegenstand van de Servische boot. In de laatste 500 meter wisten Van Dorp en Twellaar hun voorsprong uit te diepen tot ruim 3 seconden.

Het is de eerste wereldtitel voor TeamNL op de WK in eigen land. Twellaar werd al eens wereldkampioen in de dubbeltwee, waarin hij ook twee keer olympisch zilver veroverde. Voor Van Dorp is het de eerste grote titel in zijn carrière. Hij won op de Olympische Spelen in Parijs in 2024 brons in de skiff en werd dit jaar bij Twellaar in de dubbeltwee gevoegd.

De roeiwedstrijden op de Bosbaan lagen door onweersbuien bijna twee uur lang stil. Na de hervatting werden de A-finales naar voren gehaald, waardoor Van Dorp en Twellaar uiteindelijk met 'slechts' een uur en twintig minuten vertraging startten. Bij hun start brak de zon net door.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Twee van de Nederlanders die worden vermist na de overstromingen in Nepal en China waren op terugtocht van een bedevaart naar Tibet. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van de Isha Foundation, de organisatie achter de reis, na berichtgeving van De Telegraaf.

De 51-jarige Maaike en de 29-jarige Christiaan zijn onderdeel van een groep van tachtig mensen die vanuit de Nepalese hoofdstad Kathmandu waren vertrokken naar de als heilig beschouwde Tibetaanse berg Kailash. Ze waren woensdag op de weg terug en net bij de grensovergang van China en Nepal aangekomen toen de overstroming plaatsvond. Sindsdien is er geen contact meer met de groep.

"Wij staan in direct contact met de families en dierbaren van de getroffen personen", zegt de woordvoerder. Hij kon niet zeggen uit welke gemeenten de twee Nederlanders komen.

De Isha Foundation heeft centra in verschillende landen en wordt geleid door de Indiase yogi Sadhguru. Die zei woensdag in een emotionele videoboodschap dat er geen informatie is over wat er met de groep is gebeurd, maar dat "gezien de omvang van de verwoesting" het er slecht uitziet. De leider van de pelgrimsgroep liet negen minuten voordat de overstroming plaatsvond weten te zijn aangekomen bij het douanekantoor. Dat gebouw is door de overstroming "weggevaagd", zegt Sadhguru.

Een derde Nederlander die wordt vermist, is volgens het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken een vrouw die in Nepal woont.

Moscow recruits an estimated 1,000 people a day but western officials say it cannot keep up with casualty level

Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said.

While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the last two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured.

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Leading cardiovascular health groups reclassify overlooked causes and introduce sex-specific diagnostic thresholds

Doctors have agreed the world’s first universal definition of a heart attack, paving the way for millions of women to finally receive better treatment after decades of being “deprioritised”.

In one of the biggest procedural shake-ups in a generation, the world’s four leading cardiovascular health groups have signed off on new guidance for healthcare professionals when seeing suspected heart attack patients.

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Each year, the Guardian reaffirms its commitment to the environment – both in our reporting and how we operate as a business. From critical tipping points to war in Iran, this is how the last 12 months have looked

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Today marks the end of the Guardian’s annual climate support campaign. Each year, during the campaign, we remind our audience about the Guardian’s role in covering the threats to our planet and the importance of independent journalism in telling that story. Our climate pledge is a reminder of the environmental values we place at the heart of our reporting and our organisation.

Since our 2025 climate pledge, the world has experienced extreme levels of heat as well as extreme forms of denial and abdication in the face of the climate crisis. But, across the world, there have also been inspiring efforts to tackle it.

We will be publishing our annual company emissions data in the autumn, explaining what drives our emissions and where they have risen and fallen.

We have started the process of estimating our emissions from generative AI usage. We hope to report on this next year.

We have undertaken our B Corp recertification in line with the new standards introduced by B Lab in 2026. We will find out our result later this year.

We have participated in advertising industry working groups that published a methodological framework that aims to capture the emissions impact of digital and print advertising.

We open ourselves up to scrutiny by independent third parties, such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and B Corp, so they can assess the robustness of our targets and our internal policies.

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Much like Central Cee, the Chelsea attacker is a distinct presence and right now is perhaps the only truly creative English player out there

This week Central Cee launched his new Premier League song, called The Team. It owes its existence to a youth-centred, fist-bumping corporate tie-in with Coca-Cola, the press release for which appears to have involved a man in golf-casual clothing frowning at his computer screen for half an hour before typing “cool urban street words, what are?” into the AI search box, then nipping off for a quick brain-bowl strategy lunch with Roger from the Bluesky Synergy hub.

The song is really good, because Central Cee is really good. He’s super-smart with words, funny and snappy, but also surprisingly tender and raw.

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Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm

The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum.

The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”.

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Before becoming prime minister, Andy Burnham favoured a £500,000 donations cap. In office, he’s backing away. That is a mistake

On the campaign trail in Makerfield, Andy Burnham told a democracy activist that he favoured a political donations cap of around £500,000 and wanted it reduced over time. His government is now resisting amendments that would move in precisely that direction. Mr Burnham was right in May. He is wrong now. It is difficult to argue that restricting a single person to giving half a million pounds a year to a political party would damage democracy. Such a cap would only affect the mega-rich. Reducing the cap would force parties to wean themselves off the present regime that allows the rich too much say.

There are two contra arguments swilling around Labour. The first is that there should be room for wealthy, progressive donors – whose cash helps rebut claims that Labour is in the pocket of the trade unions. The second is the warning from unions that a cap could undermine their ability to contribute to the Labour party.

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The British Museum’s landmark cultural exchange is a symbol of post-Brexit rapprochement between Britain and France

“Harold Rex interfectus est”: King Harold is killed. As every British schoolchild knows, the Bayeux tapestry depicts a turning point in the history of these islands: defeat at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, which would lead to the ascent of William the Conqueror to the English throne. Its return to the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years is being hailed as a hugely historic moment in its own right. The loan of the tapestry (technically an embroidery of wool on linen) to the British Museum in exchange for UK treasures from Sutton Hoo is the ultimate manifestation of soft power – a 70-metre symbol of post-Brexit Anglo-French rapprochement in comic-strip form.

Ticket sales for the exhibition, which opens on 10 September, were the biggest in a single day in the museum’s history, with online queues of 80,000. Radio 4 is devoting a day of special broadcasts to mark the arrival of the tapestry, including a new drama with verse from the poet laureate Simon Armitage. The museum’s videos explaining this tale of ambition, friendship, betrayal and revenge are fittingly narrated by Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman. Norman-mania is here.

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Structural engineer who worked with the architect Richard Seifert on striking modernist buildings

As a modern high-rise city, London had its skyline shaped through the acumen of the pioneering structural engineer Wilem Frischmann, who has died aged 95. Widely considered among the most influential engineers of his generation, he was best known for his work with the modernist architect Richard Seifert. The 34-storey slab of Centre Point at the east end of Oxford Street, and the City’s NatWest Tower (now Tower 42), at 600ft high, once Europe’s tallest building, were landmark structures, establishing Frischmann’s reputation for engineering innovation.

Conventional wisdom held that London’s soft clay soil could not support high-rise towers, but Frischmann proved otherwise, developing the use of large-diameter piled foundations that made such structures achievable. “I was told you can’t build tower blocks on clay, so I made a point of showing that you could,” he told the Observer in 2018. The method involved drilling a series of closely packed piled foundations to distribute the building load. Frischmann would inspect the holes himself, and once got stuck in one, being obliged to spend the night there until finally extracted.

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Pontiff, who has caught the eye in trainers and a baseball cap, praised for taking dress to ‘heavenly heights’

For the first time in a decade, Vanity Fair has released a best-dressed list. Featuring 70 names, the list ranks the most fashionable people in the world in 2026. The lineup includes the usual suspects spanning Hollywood actors and global pop stars but nestled among the Hollywood stars is an unexpected entrant. Pope Leo XIV.

The 70-year-old head of the Catholic church has been praised by the magazine for taking papal style “to heavenly heights”. His most memorable look? A simple white cassock styled with a pair of Nike trainers.

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Experts say imported eggs served in cafes and restaurants may be behind hundreds of infections and one death

Salmonella cases in the UK are expected to rise until the common source is identified, something that is notoriously difficult to establish, experts have warned.

There have been 474 confirmed cases and one death linked to the current outbreak, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), with the latest investigations suggesting it is associated with eating imported eggs in cafes and restaurants.

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Na maanden wachten krijgt de bemanning van het schip BAM Arion eindelijk het welverdiende salaris van in totaal 200.000 euro. Sinds mei ligt de bulkcarrier aan de ketting in de Waalhaven. Vrijdagochtend is het schip in Rotterdam geveild voor zo'n 8 miljoen euro.