UTRECHT (ANP) - Rabobank en hypotheekdochter Obvion passen de hypotheeknormen per maart 2027 aan. De bank doet dit na intensief overleg met de toezichthouders, die de wens hebben uitgesproken om bepaalde regels te herzien. De nieuwe regels gelden alleen als een klant wil herfinancieren of verhuizen, of bepaalde wijzigingen aan de bestaande hypotheek wil doorvoeren.

Vanaf maart 2027 wordt bij het bepalen van de maximale hypotheek vijftien jaar voor de pensioengerechtigde leeftijd rekening gehouden met het verwachte pensioeninkomen. Dat is op dit moment tien jaar voor de pensioendatum. Ook wordt er rekening gehouden met de levensverwachting bij de nieuwe norm, iets wat bij de oude norm niet gebeurt. Op 85-jarige leeftijd mag de hypotheekschuld maximaal 70 procent van de woningwaarde bedragen. Hierdoor kan deze groep vanaf volgend jaar minder lenen, vooral als ze hun hypotheek willen verhogen, oversluiten of verhuizen.

De precieze datum van het nieuwe beleid wordt later bekendgemaakt.

BEIJING (ANP) - Tallon Griekspoor is in de eerste ronde van de China Open uitgeschakeld. De 30-jarige tennisser verloor in Beijing in drie sets van de Rus Andrej Roeblev: 4-6 7-5 6-7 (6). Roeblev treft nu zijn landgenoot Roman Safiullin.

Griekspoor, de huidige nummer 55 van de wereldranglijst, werd direct in de eerste set gebroken. Roeblev (de nummer 24 van de wereld) wist zijn eigen opslagbeurten wel te winnen en pakte de set met 6-4. Griekspoor had in de tweede set aan een break in de twaalfde game genoeg om de stand gelijk te trekken. In de derde set was er geen break en moest een tiebreak de beslissing brengen. Roeblev won die met 8-6.

Griekspoor heeft nog geen succes gekend deze weken in China. Hij verloor vorige week ook al in de eerste ronde op het toernooi van Chengdu.

PARIJS (ANP/DPA) - De Franse premier Sébastien Lecornu houdt donderdag een crisisberaad met zijn ministers over de escalerende onderwijsprotesten in Frankrijk.

Scholieren protesteren sinds vorige week onder meer tegen overvolle klaslokalen, een tekort aan docenten en vervallen gebouwen. Op verschillende plekken in het land is de situatie geëscaleerd. Zo is de hal van een middelbare school in Nantes in brand gevlogen, is te zien bij Le Parisien. Ook vuilnisbakken staan bij verschillende scholen in brand.

Alleen al op woensdag arresteerde de politie meer dan 600 mensen. De arrestanten worden verdacht van brandstichting en aanvallen op politieagenten. In sommige gevallen heeft de politie traangas gebruikt tegen de demonstranten.

Ook op universiteiten vinden inmiddels protesten plaats. Op ongeveer dertig campussen zijn blokkades gemeld, volgens de studentenvakbond Union Étudiante.

HILVERSUM (ANP) - De uitzending van De slimste mens van donderdagavond begint met een kort eerbetoon aan jurylid Paulien Cornelisse. Zij overleed woensdag aan kanker. Presentator Herman van der Zandt zal het woord tot de kijker richten, laat een woordvoerder van KRO-NCRV weten.

De slimste mens werd woensdag in overleg met de familie van Cornelisse niet uitgezonden, omdat KRO-NCRV het passend vond om stil te staan bij haar overlijden "en ruimte te geven aan het verdriet en gemis". Die aflevering wordt nu donderdag uitgezonden. Vrijdag is er een dubbele aflevering, zodat het schema weer kloppend is.

Cornelisse is nog te zien als jurylid in de populaire kennisquiz. Ze nam die functie vorig jaar over van Maarten van Rossem.

Cabaretière Claudia de Breij heeft een optreden donderdag afgezegd. Ze zou in Den Bosch een try-out van haar oudejaarsconference houden, maar ze zegt dat ze het niet aankan na het overlijden van Cornelisse. "Ik trek het niet. Die kleedkamer was zo van ons samen", schreef De Breij op Instagram.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Apartment building built in 1910 in Gilbert Place, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

27 Gilbert Place is a historic property located in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, South Australia (Postcode 5000). Known as the former Bank of South Australia stable yard, it features a striking bluestone/sandstone façade with an elegant, unusual stone archway over the main entry.

Property History & Overview
• Heritage Significance: The location originally served as a stable yard for the Bank of South Australia, complete with a two-storey stone stable structure surviving at the rear.
• Evolution of Use: Throughout the decades, it has lived multiple lives. It serves as an architectural landmark, formerly functioning as the Roma Cinema, and has more recently transitioned into boutique commercial, gaming, and medical/dental suite spaces.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Apartment building built in 1910 in Gilbert Place, Adelaide CBD

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Kyiv’s long-range strikes are headache for Trump before crucial midterms, while analysts’ claim war in Iran is responsible for rising prices

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Ukraine is pressing on with strikes on Russian oil refineries, defying Donald Trump, who blames the attacks for exacerbating a global diesel shortage and pushing up fuel prices.

Kyiv struck an oil facility in Russia’s southern Samara region overnight, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday in a statement on social media. The Ukrainian president added that a Russian vessel in the Black Sea was hit, as well as a launch and storage site for attack drones in the Oryol region.

• LA and San Diego among favoured host cities for 2028

• 19-team event would go ahead without bidding process

The United States is poised to host the first Women’s Club World Cup in January 2028, becoming the latest in a series of major Fifa tournaments staged in North America.

The Guardian has learned that discussions to bring the competition to the US are at an advanced stage, with Los Angeles and San Diego among the favoured host cities.

Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in

DataOne, the Microsoft-linked New Jersey datacenter recently hit with a $1m fine for running unpermitted generators, emitted large amounts of health-harming air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in, according to public records obtained by Floodlight.

The Vineland facility’s 62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them operating without permits. The New Jersey department of environmental protection last week fined the company over the fleet but did not disclose how long the generators had been operating nor how much air pollution they had released into the surrounding community over the past year.

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President’s outlandish and extensive conspiracy theories endanger US freedoms, health and science, experts say

Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has often launched outlandish conspiratorial attacks on critics and foes that mock them and label their views as hoaxes, prompting scholars and legal experts to say Trump’s attacks endanger US freedoms, public health and science.

Trump’s extensive use of conspiracy theories is the hallmark of an authoritarian leader that has weakened trust in the coming midterm elections, dangerously ignored scientific evidence, and often pushed for prosecutions of his political enemies in ways that seriously erode civil liberties, say critics.

Seven hundred offenders from dozens of prisons in England and Wales expected to be freed on Thursday

• Enver Solomon: Releasing prisoners won’t solve the crisis in English and Welsh jails. Here’s what will

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Prisoners have thanked Andy Burnham as they celebrated walking free from jail early.

The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with 700 offenders expected to be freed across England and Wales under the government’s plan to ease prison overcrowding.

A 15-minute tour of former NFL coach Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft city. As previously mentioned, he started playing the game to connect with his kids and never stopped. (This is only part 1 of ???)

Against a patchwork wall of hammered copper, a black veil appears to billow in mesmerizing motion. The fabric-like layer writhes and twists against the glimmering backdrop, revealing its diaphanous texture as it unfolds to translucence. Like a curtain flapping in an open window, the digital projection floats across the metallic surface of one of teamLab’s latest works.

Part of teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity at the Smart Museum of Art, “Sea of Darkness, Memory Shining from the Depths” is one of several new commissions from the international art collective. Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko in 2001, teamLab consists of hundreds of artists, animators, musicians, mathematicians, developers, engineers, and more who tap into the provocative intersection of art, science, and technology.

The collective has long been interested in the limits of human perception and imagination. Through interactive and immersive installations, they invite viewers into a world where boundaries are suspended and continuity in space and time are key. teamLab was one of the earliest adopters of incorporating digital technologies into experiential works, and they continue to use basic software and programs most people have access to.

Today, encountering such elegant, yet technologically simple digital works is rare as we witness the exponential rise of AI and a collective outsourcing of much of our lives. In contrast to the tech evangelists and the luddites, teamLab’s approach is decidedly human without eschewing the digital. Works like “Order in Chaos” respond to physical touch, shooting a cacophony of vibrant lines across the floor, walls, and a grid of screens in the gallery. Riotous in energy, the piece “is an attempt to expand painting from a completed image, or a perspective illusion of space, into a spatiotemporal pictorial space that is continuous with the real space,” the collective says.

Bridging divides between time and location also emerges in “Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II,” which corresponds to its current exhibition’s environment. While on view in Chicago, for example, the floral piece brightens as the sun rises and darkens when it sets. As fall turns to winter, so will the ecosystem on the screen.

Closing the exhibition is one of teamLab’s most ingenious pieces, “The World of Irreversible Change.” Depicting a serene animated community as it goes about its day, the paneled digital work is programmed to respond to human touch by triggering a year-long, irreversible state of war and bloodshed between the inhabitants if the piece is tapped too many times. Several editions of “The World of Irreversible Change” were created, although the iteration on view at the Smart Museum is the only to exist in its original, pristine condition (it’s understandably cordoned off for preservation).

As Inoko tells us during a walkthrough of the exhibition, when the battle breaks out, the community can never return to its quieter days of peace. Eventually, all the people die, and the once thriving metropolis turns desolate. After a few years, shrubs begin to pop up and later still, bird song rings through the skies. But humanity never returns, a poetic if not cautionary tale for our era.

teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity is on view through February 21 at the Smart Museum of Art. Explore more of teamLab’s works on its website and YouTube.

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