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President Mattarella van Italië opent 25e editie Winterspelen

MILAAN (ANP) - De Italiaanse president Sergio Mattarella heeft de 25e editie van de Winterspelen officieel geopend. Dat deed hij vanuit de presidentiële box in stadion San Siro in Milaan in aanwezigheid van onder anderen koning Willem-Alexander, koningin Máxima en prinses Amalia.

Kort daarvoor heetten Giovanni Malagò, de voorzitter van het organisatiecomité, en voorzitter Kirsty Coventry van het Internationaal Olympisch Comité (IOC) de atleten officieel welkom. Voor de 42-jarige Zimbabwaanse tweevoudig olympisch zwemkampioene zijn het de eerste Olympische Spelen als voorzitter, sinds zij in maart vorig jaar werd gekozen als opvolger van Thomas Bach.

Na het afleggen van de olympische eed werd de olympische vlam ontstoken. In Milaan gebeurde dat in de stad bij triomfboog Arco della Pace door skiërs Alberto Tomba en Deborah Compagnoni en in Cortina d'Ampezzo op Piazza Dibona door skiester Sofia Goggia.

De vlam begon eind november aan een rondreis die in Griekenland begon en op 4 december in Rome arriveerde. Daarna bezocht de vlam, aan de hand van 10.001 estafettelopers, meer dan driehonderd steden in Italië.

De Olympische Spelen duren tot en met zondag 22 februari.


Olympisch vuur ontstoken in Milaan en Cortina, Spelen officieel geopend

Na een ruim drie uur durende show en vlaggenparade is het olympisch vuur dan eindelijk ontstoken. Dat gebeurde op twee plekken: op het Arco della Pace in het centrum van Milaan…

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Slot hopes to press on with Liverpool’s recovery as Manchester City provide litmus test

Head coach says champions were ‘outplayed for large parts’ in 3-0 reverse last November, but are now more dangerous

The test for Liverpool against Manchester City on Sunday is not of their title credentials. That ship has sailed. Instead it is of how far Arne Slot’s side have truly progressed since their title defence was holed.

Slot feels Liverpool’s displays have warranted defeat only occasionally this season – late lapses, set-piece failures and wasted chances have been more common explanations than the overall performance – and the 3-0 reverse at the Etihad Stadium in November was certainly one of them. The controversy over Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed header at 1-0 still lingers for the Dutchman but does not prevent him holding his hands up.

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‘You have to be able to laugh at yourself’: Rosenior shrugs off online mockery

  • Chelsea head coach has been a target for ridicule

  • Rosenior hails positive change in culture at Chelsea

Liam Rosenior says life is too short to worry about people laughing at him. The 41-year-old has quickly become a figure of fun since his appointment as Chelsea’s head coach and was ridiculed after miscontrolling a dropping ball during his side’s defeat at Arsenal on Tuesday.

It was the latest example of Rosenior facing online mockery because of his quotes and mannerisms. He has been referred to as “LinkedIn Liam” because of some of his comments in press conferences and compared to David Brent. One meme had him mocked up as Will McKenzie, the nerdy lead character from The Inbetweeners.

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‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity

Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’

Rishi Sunak has described himself as being “British, English and British Asian” in a riposte to increasing racially charged language used by figures on the right.

The UK’s first British Asian prime minister was speaking after his identity was questioned in recent debate sparked by a claim by the podcaster Konstantin Kisin that Sunak was not English because he was a “brown-skinned Hindu”.

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Taylor Swift casts ‘insanely charismatic and lovable’ Graham Norton in music video

Opalite video reunites host and guests including Domhnall Gleeson and Lewis Capaldi from Swift’s October chatshow appearance

Graham Norton’s chatshow has long been an object of fascination for American stars, wowed by its combined star wattage, glasses of wine and Norton’s own quick-witted, lightly saucy repartee – and Taylor Swift has now taken that fandom to another level.

Norton has been cast in the music video for Opalite, the second single from her album The Life of a Showgirl to receive music video treatment after The Fate of Ophelia. Not only Norton, in fact, but the stars from the guest lineup who sat alongside Swift when she appeared in October 2025: actors Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith, and fellow chart-topping musician Lewis Capaldi.

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Calvert-Lewin caps fine win for Leeds to leave Nottingham Forest reeling

The job is not done yet, far from it. But on a rainswept evening in West Yorkshire, the collective response from everyone associated with Leeds United for each of their goals left you in no doubt that this had the whiff of a season-defining night.

With Leeds and Nottingham Forest sitting an advantageous but not decisive six points above the relegation zone before kick-off, and 18th-placed West Ham United away to Burnley on Saturday, it felt like both these famous old clubs knew victory here could dramatically shape the remaining three months of the campaign.

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‘We are all connected’: Winter Olympics opening ceremony stresses harmony and showcases Italy

A stunning curtain-raiser was a fitting celebration of the host country and the Games – with wider messages never far from the surface

This was an opening ceremony for the ages: effortlessly chic, bewitching and divine. Milan simultaneously delivered a three-hour love letter to Italy, and a plea for hope and harmony in a fractious world.

But not everyone in the 60,000 crowd at San Siro was listening. As the United States team, led by the speedskater Erin Jackson, made its way across the stadium it was loudly applauded. But then the TV cameras panned to the US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife, Usha, and the cheers turned to loud boos.

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Found Photograph

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Found Photograph

handwritten on back of photograph, “Calypso Band Aboard Freeport, March 18, 1973"

Coctail Hour, A16, Oakland

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Coctail Hour, A16, Oakland

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Found Photobooth Photograph

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Found Photobooth Photograph

I See It Clear When I Shut My Eyes

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I See It Clear When I Shut My Eyes

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Tips

This is a video of advice for squid fishing in Puget Sound.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Salesforce Shelves Heroku

Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a "sustaining engineering model" focused entirely on stability, security and support.

Existing customers on credit card billing see no changes to pricing or service, but enterprise contracts are no longer available to new buyers. Salesforce said it is redirecting engineering investment toward enterprise AI.

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AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs

Marketing stunt backfires with creators

The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…