MADRID (ANP/AFP) - Het Spaanse geboortecijfer is in 2025 voor het eerst sinds 2014 gestegen. Volgens het nationaal bureau voor de statistiek van Spanje werden er vorig jaar 321.164 baby's geboren. Dat waren 3159 baby's meer dan in het jaar ervoor. De stijging is rond de 1 procent. In 2014 begon het geboortecijfer te dalen en bleef dat doen tot vorig jaar.

Meer baby's betekent niet dat de bevolking toeneemt. Er overleden meer mensen in 2025 dan in 2024. Het land telde 446.982 sterfgevallen.

Spanje telt nu rond de 49,5 miljoen inwoners. Daarvan zijn er 7,2 miljoen buitenlander. De achtereenvolgende Spaanse regeringen hebben meerdere keren veel buitenlanders geregulariseerd. In januari nog kwam de huidige premier Pedro Sánchez met een plan een half miljoen buitenlanders zonder papieren te legaliseren, voornamelijk mensen uit Latijns-Amerika. Volgens Sánchez heeft het land anders onvoldoende arbeidskrachten.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Terugkijkend vindt D66'er Stientje van Veldhoven dat haar eerdere overstap van bewindspersoon naar lobbyist niet goed is gegaan. Dat zei ze woensdag na afloop van haar gesprek met formateur Rob Jetten. "Omdat het toch allerlei vragen opleverde, dat is niet goed voor de politiek," vindt de aankomend minister van Klimaat en Groene Groei.

In 2021 stopte Van Veldhoven als staatssecretaris voor Infrastructuur en Waterstaat om lobbyist te worden voor een ngo die zich bezighoudt met verduurzaming, een beleidsterrein waar ze zich ook als bewindspersoon destijds mee bezighield. Van Veldhoven heeft geen spijt van die stap. "Niet van het werk wat ik daar heb gedaan, wel van de manier waarop dat gelopen is." In haar nieuwe functie krijgt ze wederom met verduurzamingsvraagstukken te maken.

Van Veldhoven wil na haar rentree in de landelijke politiek niet betrokken zijn bij zaken rondom haar oude werkgever, die onder andere overheidssubsidies ontvangt. "Ik zal zorgen dat ik dat goed ga scheiden," zegt ze daarover.

Meer windenergie en verduurzaming

Van Veldhoven heeft in haar tijd als lobbyist gezien dat de internationale kijk op klimaat is veranderd. "In Amerika is echt duidelijk een andere koers gekozen, maar in China gaan ze twee keer zo hard. En Europa zit daar tussenin."

Als minister staat ze voor de taak om het uit zicht geraakte klimaatdoel weer binnen bereik te halen. Of dat gaat lukken, zegt ze nog niet. "Ik ga niet op dingen vooruitlopen." In het coalitieakkoord staan plannen voor meer windenergie en is veel geld uitgetrokken voor bedrijven die moeten verduurzamen.

GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs

Rémi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he says "are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers."…

Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans

Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and effectively unexploitable."…

Singer with a powerful four-octave range whose hits with Three Dog Night included Joy to the World

In the early 1970s, the pop-rock group Three Dog Night were selling more records and concert tickets than any other artists in America, and scored 21 consecutive US Top 40 hits, including three No 1s. Chuck Negron, who has died aged 83 after suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure, was a founder member of the group, and his powerful voice and four-octave range made him a crucial component of their sound. His luxuriant moustache also became an unmistakable visual trademark.

The group divided up their songs between three lead vocalists, with Danny Hutton and Cory Wells alongside Negron, but it was Negron’s voice to the fore on such hits as One, Easy to Be Hard, Old Fashioned Love Song, The Show Must Go On and Joy to the World.

Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains

The front-page headline in a recent Washington Post was breathless: “These companies say AI is key to their four-day workweeks.” The subhead was euphoric: “Some companies are giving workers back more time as artificial intelligence takes over more tasks.”

As the Post explained: “more companies may move toward a shortened workweek, several executives and researchers predict, as workers, especially those in younger generations, continue to push for better work-life balance.”

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now

You can make curd with almost any leftover fruit, as long as you add a little lemon juice for acidity and blend it to that familiarly special smooth texture

I love ingenious recipes like curd that have the superpower to turn a tired piece of fruit or a forgotten offcut into something utterly decadent. Lemon curd is the original and a classic, but you can make curd with almost any fruit, as long as you add a little lemon juice for acidity. Each version is intense, indulgent and dreamy. So, please approach with caution: this spread is deeply moreish, in the best possible way.

Some of the tropes are familiar, but this brutally violent and gripping film sidesteps the cliches with committed acting and fierce storytelling punch

Rising stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth bring A-game performances for this brutally violent, gripping British prison movie, as lethal and nasty as a sharpened toothbrush. Screenwriters Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran and director Cal McMau are feature first-timers, creating a film that is a deserved Bafta nominee in the outstanding British debut category. Some of the tropes are familiar, but this film sidesteps the cliches with the committed acting and fierce storytelling punch.

The scene is an overcrowded jail (filmed in Shepton Mallet) whose ugly savagery and chaos we periodically see through the smartphone screen of someone gleefully filming it – the kind of jail which has forced the government’s policy of early prisoner release to take pressure off the system. Jonsson (from TV’s Industry) is Taylor, a shamblingly submissive and timid drug addict, who can hardly believe that this new arrangement means he is due for parole in a fortnight; he is pathetically excited at the thought of seeing his teenage son.

A Paris exhibition showcases how the Magnum agency founder documented not just battle but also victims of war

It is not often that you get to see a war photographer at work. Certainly not one who more or less defines our idea of the profession as it exists today, is widely considered to be its greatest practitioner and has been dead for more than 70 years.

But as part of its new retrospective, the Museum of the Liberation of Paris has produced a remarkable candid film of Robert Capa on the job. He is largely unaware he is being filmed and the cameramen mostly do not know they are filming him.

• Benfica manager strongly criticised by Kick It Out

• Uefa investigating Real Madrid player’s claims

The anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out has accused José Mourinho of gaslighting for his response to Vinícius Júnior’s allegations of racist abuse. Vinícius reported that he was racially abused by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni during Real Madrid’s Champions League playoff first leg. On Wednesday, Uefa said it would “investigate allegations of discriminatory behaviour”.

Mourinho, the Benfica manager, has been heavily criticised for appearing to suggest Vinícius had provoked the abuse with his celebration after scoring the only goal early in the second half.

The drama about two startup innovators defeated by their egotistical overreach feels as if it presages these AI times

The crisis facing a couple of middle-aged Belgian tech bros in the 1990s might be better suited to a European streaming-TV drama – maybe with the two antiheroes’ travails confined to the first episode, setting up a lengthier intergenerational drama taking us to the present. Nonetheless, here it is: a feature film in the Berlin competition from screenwriter Angelo Tijssens and director Anke Blondé, handsomely produced and shot, and impeccably acted. But it’s also weirdly parochial, leaving you with the sense that it has not reached beyond its immediate concerns; and it’s not clear as to why, exactly, we need a fictionalised crisis from the 90s inspired by a real-life financial fraud scandal.

Well, perhaps the point is that very smallness and sadness: a pathetic tale of the first, almost-forgotten dotcom bust, which holds an omen for our AI-obsessed present. Arieh Worthalter and Jan Hammenecker play Geert and Luc, two balding guys who, in the late 90s, are Belgium’s pinup boys of tech innovation. Their startup company has gone public and made them both very rich, and all their local friends, family and businesses have plunged every cent of their savings into shares. Geert and Luc are now poised to turn the mud of Flanders into a European Silicon Valley.

Milano Cortina​ has cutting‑edge replays, chase‑cam drones and exuberant commentary ​bringing a wave of unexpected nostalgia for anyone who grew up on 90s extreme‑sports games

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As someone whose childhood holidays consisted of narrowboating along the Grand Union canal or wandering the harbour-side at Whitby looking for vampires, I have never been on a skiing break. The idea of plummeting down a hill on anything but a plastic sledge is totally alien to me. And yet, my wife and I have been gripped by the Winter Olympics, especially the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events. And I think I know why. Those events are really channelling the look and feel of the wintery sports sims I’ve always loved – especially those that arrived during a golden period in the mid-1990s.

This was the era in which snowboarding was exploding in popularity, especially among twentysomethings with disposable incomes and no responsibilities – which coincidentally was the games industry’s target market at the time. Perhaps the first title to take advantage of this trend was Namco’s 1996 arcade game Alpine Surfer, which challenged players to stand on a snowboard-shaped controller and swoop as quickly as possible down a mountainside – it was one of the most physically exhausting coin-ops I ever played. Later that year came the self-consciously hip PlayStation sim Cool Boarders, and then in 1998, my absolute favourite, 1080° Snowboarding on the N64, with it’s intuitive analog controls and incredibly authentic sound effects of boards cutting through deep, crisp snow.

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