DEN HAAG (ANP) - Beachvolleyballers Stefan Boermans en Alexander Brouwer hebben de Nederlandse titel veroverd. Het duo, dat sinds mei samenspeelt, was in Den Haag in de finale veel te sterk voor Matthew Immers en Leon Luini: 21-14 21-11.

Voor Boermans (31) was het zijn derde nationale titel op rij, nadat hij het NK de afgelopen jaren al won samen met Yorick de Groot. Met zijn nieuwe partner Brouwer (36) schreef de Hengeloër in juli al het prestigieuze Elite16-toernooi in Gstaad op zijn naam.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De gesprekken over de rijksbegroting tussen kabinetsleden en oppositiepartijen gaan de komende dagen verder. Maandag spreekt PRO met zowel de premier als vicepremiers en met minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen (VVD), melden bronnen aan het ANP.

JA21, SGP, BBB en ChristenUnie spreken maandag ook met Heinen. Volt gaat juist langs bij Jetten en de vicepremiers. Het blijft vooralsnog bij gesprekken met afzonderlijke oppositiepartijen, behalve JA21 en SGP die samen optrekken in de onderhandelingen.

Afgelopen week waren er losse gesprekken met premier Rob Jetten en vicepremiers Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) en Bart van den Brink (CDA) op het ministerie van Algemene Zaken, en met Heinen op het ministerie van Financiën. "Dat is eigenlijk best nuttig", zei Jetten vrijdag over die losse trajecten. De gesprekken die hij voerde, zouden meer over politieke samenwerking gaan, terwijl Heinen het over "details van de begroting" had. De verwachting was vorige week al dat Heinen later alsnog bij Jetten en de vicepremiers zou aanschuiven.

Embassy in London says Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in diplomatic post

Russia has withdrawn its ambassador to the UK, it has emerged, as the Kremlin continues to try to put pressure on Britain over its support for Ukraine.

Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in the diplomatic post, according to the Russian embassy in London.

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers whether there is sufficient global physical capacity for all our discarded and worn-out purchases

• This week’s question: If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly?

If consumer capitalism continues at its current rate, will we reach a point at which there is literally no space left on Earth for all the stuff that has been created? Alex Robinson, Alnwick, Northumberland

Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

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Andy Burnham hopes we’ll forget the big stuff if he sorts out our minor frustrations and low-level gripes. Pothole politics hasn’t won me over yet, but I know some changes that could

This is a vulnerable confession, but I spend way too much time on the social media of the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Whether he is seemingly effortlessly speaking Mandarin, hanging out with kids or charmingly accepting that he should wear a cycle helmet, the man with the million-watt smile is my antidepressant. (Even more vulnerable confession: I believe, irrationally, he is looking after my elder son, who lives there.)

This means that I know all about Mamdani’s fight against what Business Insider recently deemed the “annoyance economy” – daily frustrations that make you poorer or drive you slowly, miserably mad. These include the absurd complexity of cancelling subscriptions; hidden fees; getting charged more for something you looked up last week, because of cookies; never being able to find a public toilet; and potholes. He has taken to responding when he gets tagged in people’s “Mamdani, fix this” posts to the point where Britons online are even jokily asking him to take on their problems.

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The ​s​tudio’s co-founders on ​accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other’s best ally

Peter Lord and David Sproxton are the founders of Aardman Animations. The pair began animating as teenagers, selling their first short – starring a superhero called Aardman – to the BBC’s Vision On in 1972. In 1977, they created Morph for the children’s programme Take Hart. The studio’s breakthrough into adult audiences came via Channel 4’s Conversation Pieces series, and its animators, including a young Nick Park, went on to make Wallace & Gromit, whose films have won multiple Academy Awards. Aardman became employee-owned in 2018, with Lord and Sproxton transferring majority ownership to staff to safeguard the company’s independence. They were knighted earlier this year.

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• Signing will take City’s window spending to nearly £200m

• Moroccan stood down from Lille’s game against Angers

Manchester City have agreed a deal with Lille worth €95m (£81.4m) plus €5m in potential add-ons for Ayyoub Bouaddi, with the Morocco midfielder’s arrival to take the club’s summer spend to nearly £200m after Elliot Anderson’s £116m signing earlier in the window.

The 18-year-old was stood down from Lille’s Ligue 1 match against Angers on Sunday before a medical with City and his transfer becoming official in the next few days.

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The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Soms moet een agent geweld gebruiken in zijn werk. Vincent Cozijn legt in zijn proefschrift het geweldsmonopolie van de overheid langs de wettelijke meetlat.

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De laatste keer Tarzanbocht, de laatste keer Gerlachbocht, de laatste keer Hugenholtzbocht, de laatste keer Hunserug, de laatste keer Slotemakerbocht, de laatste keer Scheivlak, de laatste keer Mastersbocht, de laatste keer Bocht 9, de laatste keer Bocht 10, de laatste keer Hans Ernst Bocht (1), de laatste keer Hans Ernst Bocht (2), de laatste keer Bocht 13 (Max Verstappenbocht), de laatste keer Arie Luyendykbocht, de laatste keer finishen, de laatste keer het volkslied, de laatste keer de koning op de baan, de laatste keer de koning (Max Verstappen) op de baan, de laatste keer genieten, de laatste keer juichen, de laatste keer oranje, de laatste keer Zandvoort missen door de NS, de laatste keer duur bier, de laatste keer gezeik van plezierhaters, de laatste keer een Stijlloze Voorspelling voor de Grote Prijs van Nederland (Max Verstappen wint), de laatste keer dat Max Verstappen de Grote Prijs van Nederland wint (hopelijk), de laatste keer de laatste keer. Zonde dat Zandvoort de F1 uitzwaait. Vandaag zwaaien we daarom 72 rondes lang terug naar dat prachtige circuit. Nog één keer gaan de lichten uit, en dan gaat het licht uit. Zandvoort, bedankt!

Update - Baan is natter dan Jade Anna. WE ZIJN BEGONNEN. Norris behoudt plek 1.
UPDATE - MEGACRASH VERSTAPPEN. Oei oei oei. Raakt controle kwijt door stukje gras en klapt tegen de zijkant. Einde race voor Max. Rode vlag.

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In a future edition of The Antiques Roadshow, the hosts might get all excited about a mint Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows… with a sticker on the box instead of a printed Tetris promotion. Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen explained the reasoning behind using the sticker instead of simply printing what was in the box. Microsoft hadn't locked down the rights for Tetris before the first print run of the packaging, so went with what it had. The Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows debuted in 1990, the same year that Windows 3.0 was released and ushered in an era of Microsoft desktop dominance. Three more iterations of the entertainment pack followed, which included FreeCell, before Microsoft pulled the plug in 1992 (although a Best Of version arrived in 1994, and there was another version for Windows CE later in the 1990s). We'll draw a discreet veil over the ad-festooned version currently in the Microsoft Store. The floppy disks in the box included several card games, Minesweeper, and a Windows version of the fiendishly addictive and massively popular game of the era, Tetris. But it might not have gone that way. Chen explained in a post on his Old New Thing blog, "At the time the first run of boxes were being printed, the negotiations to license Tetris hadn't yet concluded. There was a chance that the negotiations would fall through, and the Entertainment Pack would have to be released without Tetris." So, rather than risk throwing away a production run, Microsoft went ahead with the Tetris-less branding, and added a sticker when the deal was done. Later print runs made the sticker part of the box art, hence the rarity of the original. Microsoft has a bit of a history of inadvertently creating collectibles. Chen recalled an incident with Windows 95, when an anti-piracy hologram on the case depicted a child pointing at a computer monitor and the Windows 95 logo. The child was shirtless, which caused offense in some quarters. Microsoft's solution? A new hologram with the baby in a shirt and overalls. However, some original versions still exist. Chen said, "So if you still have your copy of Windows 95, go look at the hologram. If the baby in your hologram isn't wearing a shirt, you have a genuine collector's item." We can just imagine the excitement at the recording now, as someone produces not only a stickered version of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows, but also the topless baby version of Windows 95… ®