How many products in your daily life are made from fossil fuels? Coal, oil and gas are major ingredients for far more than just energy. Why are we so reliant on oil, and how difficult would it be to find other resources?
De 36-jarige 'Italiaan' die in Nieuw-Vennep de 59-jarige ABN AMRO-medewerkster Karin om het leven bracht luistert naar de Italiaanse naam Adil Qoraich. NH: "De verdachte komt oorspronkelijk uit Italië, spreekt Italiaans en een beetje Engels. Op dit moment zit hij in voorarrest in het Penitentiair Psychiatrisch Centrum binnen de gevangenis in Westzaan." Adil was in Nederland werkzaam als arbeidsmigrant: zo maakte hij vliegtuigen schoon op Schiphol. Meneer werd al vaker opgepakt: op 12 maart werd hij aangehouden op verdenking van winkeldiefstal en in december 2025 werd hij 'vervolgd' voor mishandeling in een gemeenschappelijke slaapruimte in een hostel in Amsterdam. "Het slachtoffer ligt die nacht in bed en schrikt wakker. De dader zou 'shut the fuck up, I am going to kill you' tegen zeggen en hem vervolgens slaan op zijn hoofd." Adil kampt met 'psychiatrische klachten'. "Hij zou in zijn thuisland zorg en een behandeling hebben geweigerd." Op 30 maart gaat dat helemaal mis: Karin, een directe collega van de in Amsterdam omgebrachte Leonie, wordt met een mes vermoord op een parkeerplaats in Nieuw-Vennep. Een dag later wordt Adil Q. opgepakt.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index op het Damrak veerde donderdag op na de verliesbeurt een dag eerder. Ook de andere Europese beurzen toonden overwegend herstel na de koersverliezen die volgden op de nieuwe Amerikaanse aanvallen op Iraanse militaire doelen. Iran reageerde daarop met aanvallen op Amerikaanse bases in Koeweit en Bahrein. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump verklaarde daarnaast dat de voorlopige vredesdeal met Iran wat hem betreft voorbij is.
De Amsterdamse hoofdindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,8 procent hoger op 1084,90 punten. De chipbedrijven ASMI, Besi en ASML stonden in de kopgroep met plussen tot ruim 3 procent. De AEX wist woensdag het verlies al beperkt te houden tot 0,3 procent, mede dankzij een sterke koerswinst van olie- en gasconcern Shell, dat profiteerde van de hogere olieprijzen.
De MidKap klom 0,9 procent tot 1079,33 punten. De beurzen in Frankfurt en Parijs, die woensdag tot ruim 2 procent verloren, wonnen nu tot 0,7 procent. Londen daalde 0,3 procent.
SEOUL (ANP/AFP) - Het Zuid-Koreaanse hooggerechtshof heeft de veroordeling van oud-president Yoon Suk-yeol voor het verzet bij zijn arrestatie in stand gehouden. Hij krijgt een gevangenisstraf van zeven jaar, dezelfde straf die het hof van beroep hem in april oplegde.
Yoon is verwikkeld in meerdere rechtszaken sinds hij eind 2024 de militaire noodtoestand uitriep om het parlement buitenspel te zetten. Vijf maanden geleden kreeg hij daarvoor al een levenslange gevangenisstraf.
Deze zaak draait om het belemmeren van de rechtsgang. Hij zou onder meer veiligheidsagenten hebben geïnstrueerd om zijn arrestatie tegen te houden. Het duurde begin 2025 dagenlang voor Yoon kon worden opgepakt in zijn presidentiële woning, onder meer omdat zijn veiligheidsagenten niet meewerkten.
Daarnaast werd Yoon in deze zaak beschuldigd van het blokkeren van kabinetsvergaderingen en het vervalsen van de handtekening van de premier in de aanloop naar het uitroepen van de noodtoestand.
With the World Cup down to eight teams, our writers assesses who’s left, identify the biggest remaining threats to France and make calls on who will lift the trophy
Lionel Messi. As he proved in thrilling style against Egypt, Argentina’s No 10 still has magic in his boots even at the age of 39. While his penalty record of four from eight attempts is much worse than you’d expect, he is clinical when it matters most. EA
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Fifa refereeing chief Pierluigi Collina defended the officiating in Argentina’s 3-2 victory over Egypt in the World Cup round of 16, dismissing allegations of bias and saying match officials operated with complete independence.
In an interview published on inside.fifa.com on Thursday, Collina said criticism of referees was part of football but he condemned the questioning of the officials’ integrity after Egypt complained about the officiating following the defeat.
Continue reading...Like tradwifery for children, this revamp of the 19th-century settlers show is a precision-tooled and well-oiled machine. It’s a cosy world full of faith, hope and the American way
I never actually watched an episode of Little House on the Prairie, though it bestrode my late 70s-early 80s’ childhood like a ginghamed colossus. This is for the simple reason that Michael Landon’s bouffant hair frightened me. Bouffant hair is such a bad thing. But so great is the power of both the cultural cringe and osmosis that even the most militant Britisher of a certain age has absorbed to some degree the story of the pioneering Ingalls family and its on-screen aesthetic. For the younger folk – it’s tradwifery for children.
The series was of course based on the books (and named after the third in the series, which was published in 1935 and hasn’t been out of print since) by Laura Ingalls Wilder. They in turn were an account, shaped for a young readership, of her childhood spent moving across the American West in the 1870s and 80s, settling and resettling in different states as her parents sought their manifest destiny.
Continue reading...Using a digital flat-bed scanner, our picture editor Jonny Weeks adapts some of his favourite images from the tournament and explores the trend of alternative photography
Although I’ve edited thousands of football photographs over the years, I’ve never attended a World Cup match. I envy those who get to be pitchside with their cameras for such big events. Yet, as I’ve discovered during this tournament, you don’t have to be there to create experimental images of the tournament.
Slit-scanning is an alternative photographic process that I first tried many years ago. Using a narrow slit inside an analogue camera, the photographer winds a roll of film past the aperture to record the flow of time. It’s a tricky and laborious technique which produces curiously distorted results – almost like celebrating the problem of “rolling shutter”, which has vexed photographers for generations.
Continue reading...Each of the eight teams has at least one key strength, from Swiss speed to Spanish defence
The World Cup has reached the quarter-final stage and the favourites to reach the last four in descending order of likelihood, according to Opta, are France, Spain, Argentina and England. All eight remaining teams have positive data in their favour from the tournament, though.
Continue reading...Tottenham’s strategies have changed over the years and this summer’s transfer splurge marks a sharp turn away from the Levy years
A couple of weeks ago, Sotheby’s in London concluded one of its biggest art auctions. In all, the sale of 25 modern and contemporary works raised almost £300m. Seated Nude With Necklace, by Modigliani, went for £41.5m; La Belle Promenade, by Magritte, went for £13.5m. And amid all the feverish commentary on the resilience of the London art market and the enduring appeal of post‑war pieces among the younger generation of collectors, one question above all presented itself: was this all for the benefit of Roberto De Zerbi?
Naturally, it would be premature to link the sale of a significant portion of Joe Lewis’s art collection to the lavish summer transfer spending of the football club he owns. But of course money is money, and in a summer where Tottenham Hotspur are spending an unprecedented £230m in the transfer market, funded in large part through cash injections from the Lewis family, the connections make themselves. Are Tottenham’s owners selling off the family heirlooms to pay for Jan Paul van Hecke? And on a wider level, what exactly are the Premier League’s 17th-best club playing at here?
Continue reading...Whenever major reform is proposed the media, big business and Westminster quickly conclude it’s too expensive and disruptive. This doesn’t bode well for Andy Burnham
In an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. If a policy or a project for reforming the UK seems too risky, or can be made to seem so by its opponents, then it can usually be quickly killed off. It can be added to the pile of possible futures that never occurred.
In politics as in life, riskiness is sometimes real. To see that Brexit or Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not end well did not require huge foresight. Yet often the perception of risk is politically constructed: a reflection of powerful forces, their self-interest, and what they do or don’t want to happen.
Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...She was a member of the influential rap collective, then the alt-R&B hitmakers – but struggled to find her own voice. Now, after realising she ‘didn’t like anybody else’s beats’, she’s made a solo album that is truly hers
There was a time when Sydney Bennett really wanted “something to show for all of my hard work”. The 34-year-old singer-rapper-producer-engineer was a member of Odd Future, the anarchic Los Angeles rap collective that also included Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt. In 2011, that group birthed the Internet, the indie-R&B band Bennett formed with her best friend, Matt Martians. Since then, Bennett has released two acclaimed solo records, collaborated with Beyoncé and Kehlani, and been nominated for a Grammy, alongside the Internet.
Still, around the time of her last album, 2022’s Broken Hearts Club, she started hoping for an award or public recognition. But then she bought a house – a nice spot on the same street she grew up on in Mid-City, LA – “and now I’m happy”. I look at her quizzically, sitting across from me in a private room in a hotel in east London, as she takes a sip of pineapple juice. It was as simple as that, I ask? She lets out a guffaw, flashing a set of perfect teeth. “I’m afraid it was,” she says, grinning conspiratorially.
Continue reading...One of the Bayern and France playmaker’s early coaches tells the story of how a move to Reading kickstarted a career
If Michael Olise wins the World Cup, there will be a corner of a Hayes housing estate that is for ever France. It is Olise’s corner, a scrap of parkland grass among the west London suburban homes where a seven-year-old practised his football with his brother, Richard. “Football in these conditions, it’s just freedom,” Olise told L’Équipe last month. “It’s not really learning in the strict sense. It was simply the pleasure of playing football. I just loved it.”
Sean Conlon, one of Olise’s early coaches with Old Isleworthians in west London, recalls: “I would go over to his house and he would be practising outside with Richard. That little estate probably really aided him; there weren’t a lot of cars but it had quite a lot of concrete open space and then a small green. He’d just be practising out here all the time, obsessed with football.”
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PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, where each week we share the saga of an organization that couldn’t get out of its own way when it comes to security. This week’s tale comes courtesy of Dahvid Schloss, a professional red teamer who was also involved (as a supervisor) in last week’s story about hackers shoveling snow in order to gain access to restricted areas. This time, it was Schloss himself who broke in, and he used the promise of better connectivity to do it. On one assignment, Schloss was asked to test the physical and network security of a company that was near the top of the Fortune 500 and had a reputation for sponsoring and providing the trophy for an international sporting competition. According to him, there were three copies made of the trophy: one for the winner, one for the host nation itself, and one for the sponsor. When Schloss was conducting his audit, the location he visited was undergoing construction, creating problems with the office Wi-Fi that all the employees noticed and hated. So when Schloss and his team invaded the place and started probing the wireless network, no one questioned them. “So, you got three of us that are kind of walking through this campus with antennas sticking out of our laptops. We were not being secretive at all, but we figured this is California and there’s plenty of tech bros and nerds everywhere so antennas sticking out of a computer is not going to scare people,” Schloss said. “But everyone kept coming up to us – not to ask us if we were supposed to be there, but to ask us if we were going to fix the Wi-Fi.” After wandering the building, Schloss and his team came to the marketing department where one of the trophies, which he estimates was worth at least $250,000 (or, perhaps, priceless as there are only three), was sitting in a case. Knowing that his job was to test overall security and not just network security, he opened up the case and proceeded to remove the trophy. Someone from the marketing department saw Schloss pulling the trophy out of the case and talked to him while he was doing it. Their question: “Are you here to fix the Wi-Fi?” When he answered “yes,” the marketing people ignored him as he slipped the trophy into his backpack. He took the trophy out of the building and held onto it for two and a half weeks, with no one saying anything about it. However, when it came time for him to give a presentation to the company executives, he brought the prize with him. “We walked to the boardroom and the first thing I do in this boardroom is I pull out the trophy and I put it on the table,” Schloss told us. “And all these executives are sitting around there as we're about to give this security report on where the maturity is at and that was like enough said, right? You could see the eyes just popping open.” What we can learn from this story is that employees tend to trust people in the workplace, even outside contractors. If they think that someone belongs in the building, they won’t question that person’s motives, even if they see them doing wrong. I’m reminded of a situation that took place at a job I was working at many years ago. It was around 6 pm and most people had left the office, but the cleaning lady was there sweeping up when I heard a commotion coming from my coworker’s cubicle. My colleague, who had been at the gym and left her wallet at her desk, returned to find the cleaner taking cash out of her wallet. At first I didn’t believe it and thought there must be a misunderstanding because the cleaning lady, unlike Schloss’ set of fake Wi-Fi repairmen, was legitimately supposed to be working that night. However, my coworker caught her red-handed and she later admitted stealing the money. So train your staff to question everyone, especially strangers who look like they belong in the building. ®
