europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Paris, the capital of the French Republic, stretches across this photograph captured by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during her long-duration εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station.
From the Château de Versailles (bottom left) to Le Bourget Airport (top right), home of the Paris Air Show, the image encompasses many of the French capital’s most iconic landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame Cathedral and even the cauldron of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, visible in the Tuileries Garden.
Sophie shares this photograph on the occasion of the 2026 European Heritage Days, during which ESA’s historic headquarters located on rue Mario Nikis in Paris open their doors to the public. Each year, this open-house weekend offers a unique opportunity to discover a landmark centre of European space cooperation, where numerous missions and programmes are prepared and coordinated.
“For the European Heritage Days, Paris opens its doors... and so does ESA! The French capital is celebrating its history, culture and iconic landmarks. Have fun spotting them in this photo!” says Sophie.
This photograph was taken on 11 August 2026 from the International Space Station using a Nikon Z9 camera with a focal length of 400 mm.
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Credits: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot
Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, claims the king told him ‘we’ll forget her soon enough’
Earl Spencer has doubled down on his bombshell claim that King Charles said of Diana, Princess of Wales, “rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough” days after her death, saying he is telling the truth.
The alleged comments, revealed in Charles Spencer’s memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail, prompted Buckingham Palace to issue an extraordinary statement suggesting Diana’s brother had misremembered events, saying “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise”.
Continue reading...Payout of at least $10m to each association proposed
Leaders want plan to be considered by Fifa Council
The presidents of Uefa and Concacaf have written to Gianni Infantino requesting that Fifa release money from its $6bn (£4.5bn) reserves to its member associations, stating that the plan to fund them via the doomed Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme was unnecessary given the cash pile it is sitting on.
Aleksander Ceferin and Victor Montagliani proposed a payout of at least $10m to each of Fifa’s 211 member associations (MAs), initially as a one-off during the 2027-2030 commercial cycle. They called for an independent review of Fifa’s financial position and said their own study “raises an important question as to whether the proposed transaction was necessary to deliver greater resources to the MAs”.
Continue reading...Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike
Candidates always say it, but this time it’s true. When Israel goes to the polls on 27 October, it really will be the most important election in the country’s history – and not just for Israelis. I saw that for myself this last week, in a visit that served as a sharp reminder of both what is at stake – and the role of those watching from afar.
More than one voter I spoke to voiced the fear that, if the coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is returned to power next month, 27 October will not merely be Israel’s most important election: it will be its last. They were not referring to the absence of democracy in the occupied territory of the West Bank – which we’ll come to – but rather to Israel’s internationally recognised, pre-1967 borders: what you might call Israel-proper. There, the last four years have seen a sustained assault on the machinery of liberal democracy by the most rightwing government since Israel’s establishment in 1948 – a committed, focused attempt to remove the checks and restraints on its own power, installing instead a kind of elective dictatorship.
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist
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Continue reading...Critics say moves from leftwing incumbent president are electorally motivated two weeks before Brazil’s elections
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally motivated just two weeks before the presidential election.
On 4 October, the leftwing incumbent will face the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been gaining ground in recent weeks.
Continue reading...Civil rights groups say plan will make people ‘afraid to vote’ and violates the Voting Rights Act
A coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Trump administration officials on Friday, seeking to stop them from threatening to deploy federal law enforcement officers to polling stations in the US midterm elections.
The suit, led by the NAACP, alleges that by threatening to deploy law enforcement to survey elections and initiating new voter roll oversight, the Trump administration has violated a section of the Voting Rights Act which prohibits voter intimidation.
Continue reading...EINDHOVEN (ANP) - De prijs van diesel in Nederland stijgt zaterdag naar recordhoogte. Volgens consumentenvoordeelplatform UnitedConsumers, dat de prijzen bijhoudt, gaat de gemiddelde adviesprijs van de grote oliemaatschappijen dan voorbij de piek van 2,819 euro per liter uit april.
Vrijdag is de dieselprijs al een halve cent verwijderd van dat niveau. Brandstofexpert Derk Foolen van de organisatie bevestigt na berichtgeving door RTL Z dat de prijs zaterdag waarschijnlijk met 1 eurocent stijgt tot 2,824 euro per liter. Dat baseert hij op gegevens over zaterdag die UnitedConsumers al binnen heeft.
De olieprijzen liggen al maanden hoger door de Iranoorlog, waardoor automobilisten aan de pomp flink meer kwijt zijn dan voorheen. De laatste dagen laten de olieprijzen wel een lichte daling zien, door opluchting dat schade aan een aangevallen pijpleiding in Saudi-Arabië minder impact heeft dan gevreesd. Persbureau Bloomberg meldde echter dat staatsoliebedrijf Saudi Aramco volgende maand verschillende olieleveringen aan Europa niet uitvoert.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Twee eigenaren van in totaal acht restaurants van drie internationale Indiase horecaketens zijn aangehouden door de Arbeidsinspectie, meldt de organisatie. Ze worden verdacht van het uitbuiten van mensen en mensensmokkel.
Bij een controle van inspecteurs van de Arbeidsinspectie kwamen "ernstige misstanden aan het licht, met voornamelijk Indiase staatsburgers binnen de betrokken horecaketens", aldus de organisatie.
De aangehouden verdachten worden ervan verdacht op grote schaal misbruik te hebben gemaakt van de voormalige regeling Aziatische horeca. Bedrijven konden met die regeling relatief eenvoudig gespecialiseerde Aziatische koks naar Nederland halen.
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Een deel van de koks werd niet ingezet als specialistisch kok, maar als afwasser, schoonmaker, medewerker in de bediening of restaurantmanager.
De restaurants bevinden zich in onder meer Utrecht, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Hoofddorp en Hilversum. Naast de aanhoudingen is er beslag gelegd op onroerend goed, bankrekeningen, gegevensdragers en administratie.
NEW YORK (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Rebeca Grynspan uit Costa Rica is koploper in de derde informele stemming om de nieuwe secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties. Zij stond in de tweede informele stemming ook al in de top drie. Als Grynspan gekozen wordt, wordt ze de eerste vrouw aan het hoofd van de VN. Tot dusver waren alle secretarissen-generaal man, waardoor de roep om een vrouw te benoemen luider wordt.
Grynspan is econoom en voormalig vicepresident van Costa Rica. Ze werd in 2021 al benoemd tot eerste vrouwelijke secretaris-generaal van de Conferentie van de Verenigde Naties voor Handel en Ontwikkeling.
De termijn van António Guterres, de huidige secretaris-generaal, eindigt in december. Voor de formele stemming wordt met de informele stemmingen afgetast hoeveel steun er is voor de mogelijke kandidaten. De kandidaten moeten bij formele stemmingen een stem krijgen van negen van de vijftien leden van de raad en geen veto van de vijf vetomachten om de ronde door te komen.
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Wat bewoog de mensen die een jaar geleden bij rechts-extremistische rellen brand stichtten en in gevecht gingen met de politie? In de rechtszaal noemt de een zorgen om de toekomst van Nederland, een ander de woningnood. Weer anderen wijten het aan persoonlijke sores en de „wodka en benzo’s”.
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Instant click for me: how NYC street signs are made. “The sign shop…has a staff of 46 workers, including seven letterers who lay out signs by hand and a blacksmith who makes custom brackets to securely attach signs to traffic poles.”
