De Rotterdamse dragqueen Mandy McCandy is door naar de volgende ronde van The Voice of Holland. Met haar uitvoering van When We Were Young van Adele wist ze stoelen te laten draaien. Daarmee zet het Rotterdamse drag-talent een volgende stap op een landelijk podium.

Zaterdag stierf een radicaal-rechtse activist na twee dagen eerder te zijn aangevallen door ogenschijnlijk antifascistische demonstranten in Lyon. Vooraanstaande politici houden de radicaal-linkse partij LFI verantwoordelijk, die partij ontkent alle betrokkenheid.

Elke week legt Annemiek Leclaire een lezersvraag voor aan deskundigen. Deze week: geven we onze dochter een fatbike als ze havo 3 haalt?

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Yvette Cooper may think so, and use of epibatidine may seem exotic, but experts say situation is more ambiguous

It was a very particular choice of weapon, but experts say it remains unclear whether the dart frog toxin used to kill the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was intended to convey a message.

Known as epibatidine, the poison is produced by wild dart frogs native to parts of South America – meaning Navalny could not have accidentally taken the poison.

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The answer to today’s peaky poser

Earlier today I set you this logic puzzle. Here is is again with the solution.

(If you found it too simple. Here’s a harder version.)

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Property where abuse took place purchased for $13.4m in 2023 by Texas businessman Donald Huffines’ family

The family of a self-identified “Trump Republican” running for office in Texas bought Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch where the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents.

A spokesperson for Donald Huffines, a Texas businessman and former GOP state senator now running for comptroller, confirmed the purchase to the Santa Fe New Mexican, a local media outlet.

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It’s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president’s thumb is at half-mast. It’s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK

When Liz Truss tweeted a photo of herself standing next to Donald Trump, she captioned it “right about everything”. All that effort, all that security clearance and long-haul travel and whatnot, to reach the pinnacle of proximity to your spiritual leader, and that’s the best she could come up with? It was bafflingly lame. And yet the least confusing thing about this scene were the words.

What exactly is going on in this photo? Truss clearly knows where she is, because she’s grinning with a kind of victorious serenity, as if she’s finally achieved the plaudit she knew all along was hers. At the same time – not wishing to be unsisterly – she doesn’t appear to have brushed her hair, so it doesn’t feel like this photo opportunity was in anyone’s diary. It looks like a selfie you’d catch when you run into your favourite contestant from The Traitors on your way through an airport. No time to worry about your grooming; it’s the chance of a lifetime, every second counts.

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Check out the best images from day 10 of the Games, from alpine skiing to medal-biting celebrations

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• Meillard takes title after Norwegian loses grip on gold

• 39-year-old Briton finishes 17th in final Olympic race

As the Rocket zigged and zagged for a fifth and final time at a Winter Olympics on Monday, another skier made a very different kind of exit.

Coming into the final run of the men’s slalom, the Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath knew that victory was there for the taking – until he straddled a gate. Gold was gone. A heartbroken McGrath – who had hoped to deliver victory in honour of his grandfather who died on the day of the opening ceremony – threw his poles as far as he could and trudged across the slope into the woods.

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F1 has announced a multi-year extension with the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to host a Grand Prix in 2028, 2030, and 2032, in addition to the event scheduled in 2026. From this year, the race will also be re-named as the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.

Aston Martin have admitted they are not where they want to be following the first 2026 pre-season test in Bahrain, but there's still plenty of hope for the team's future ambitions.

Street photography captures fleeting moments that reveal how someone saw the world at a particular time. We often find ourselves sharing photographers’ current views of their cities and neighborhoods through our In Frame with Flickr posts, but today we’ve decided to take a little trip back in time.

Street photography can show us many frozen moments in time, something as nostalgic as an old school ice cream truck with the neighborhood kids gathering around but it’s also a way to preserve history, our communities, our challenges and lessons learned. Some of these scenes may feel familiar while others show us things we’ve never seen. Whether these photos spark your own memories or offer a window into an era before yours, we hope you’ll enjoy this installment of In Frame with Flickr as we explore classic street photography.

Have some street photos of your own you’d like to share? Past or present, share them over in our new Photojournalists of Flickr group or Flickr Social for us to check out and appreciate your unique perspectives. Until next time!

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak is maandag vrijwel gelijk geëindigd. Bouwer Heijmans eindigde opnieuw fors hoger na de presentatie van de jaarcijfers vrijdag. In het kielzog klom BAM mee, de concurrent komt later deze week met cijfers.

Heijmans was net als vrijdag koploper van de MidKap-index. De bouwer klom ruim 10 procent. Het bedrijf had de vorige handelsweek met een stijging van meer dan 15 procent afgesloten. De winst van het bouwbedrijf is in 2025 flink gestegen en het bedrijf verwacht dat dit jaar door te zetten. Concurrent BAM klom 4,6 procent.

De AEX-index eindigde nog geen 0,1 procent lager op 993,10 punten. De MidKap steeg 1 procent tot 1014,31 punten. De DAX in Frankfurt daalde met 0,5 procent, Londen en Frankrijk stegen licht tot 0,3 procent.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Nederland en veertien andere westerse landen staan in een verklaring stil bij het overlijden van Aleksej Navalny twee jaar geleden. Hun regeringen pleiten daarin opnieuw voor een "grondig en transparant" onderzoek naar de omstandigheden rond de dood van de Russische oppositieleider.

"Wij benadrukken dat de Russische autoriteiten uitsluitend verantwoordelijk blijven", schrijven ze. Vijf Europese landen, waaronder Nederland, meldden zaterdag na onderzoek dat Rusland Navalny heeft gedood met gif. Rusland ontkent dit. Nabestaanden zeggen al langer dat Navalny is vermoord.

In de verklaring staat dat de mensenrechtensituatie in Rusland "snel is verslechterd voorafgaand aan en sinds deze tragische gebeurtenis". De landen wijzen het Kremlin aan als schuldige en prijzen onder meer Russische mensenrechtenverdedigers die, ondanks de toegenomen risico's, hun werk voortzetten. Rusland moet volgens hen "volledig voldoen aan al zijn internationale verplichtingen en alle politieke gevangenen vrijlaten".

Je kunt ChatGPT álles vragen, maar of je ook een goed antwoord krijgt? Deze youtuber vroeg of hij beter te voet of met de auto naar de carwash 100 meter verderop kon gaan. Vervolgens ging het helemaal mis met de chatbot...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a "supply chain risk" -- meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios.

The senior official said: "It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this."

That kind of penalty is usually reserved for foreign adversaries. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told Axios: "The Department of War's relationship with Anthropic is being reviewed. Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight. Ultimately, this is about our troops and the safety of the American people."

Anthropic's Claude is the only AI model currently available in the military's classified systems, and is the world leader for many business applications. Pentagon officials heartily praise Claude's capabilities.

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Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset

Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.…