PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De prijs voor diesel aan de Franse pomp is zondag naar een nieuw recordniveau gestegen van gemiddeld 2,41 euro per liter. Dat meldt het Franse persbureau AFP op basis van een analyse van de brandstofprijzen van duizenden tankstations in Frankrijk die worden bijgehouden door het ministerie van Economische Zaken.
De gemiddelde prijs van benzine (Euro95) is nu 2,17 euro per liter in Frankrijk. De brandstofprijzen zijn de laatste tijd gestegen door de hogere olieprijzen vanwege het escalerende geweld in het Midden-Oosten, waarbij onder meer een belangrijke oliepijpleiding in Saudi-Arabië is stilgelegd na een droneaanval.
Ook in Nederland zijn de prijzen aan de pomp gestegen, met een landelijke adviesprijs voor diesel op een record van 2,824 euro. Voor benzine is dat 2,712 euro per liter, nadat eerder in de week een record van 2,726 euro werd aangetikt. Deze prijzen worden doorgaans alleen langs snelwegen gevraagd, elders zijn de prijzen vaak lager.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De 24 verdachten van de rellen op het Malieveld zaterdagmiddag zijn vrijgelaten, meldt de politie. Het grootste deel van de verdachten heeft de politie zaterdag al laten gaan, laat een woordvoerder weten.
Hij wil niets zeggen over de identiteit van de verdachten, het tijdstip van de vrijlatingen en ook niet of de verdachten met een dagvaarding of een bekeuring naar huis zijn gestuurd. Zij moeten zich volgens de woordvoerder op een later moment komen verantwoorden.
Zaterdag liet de politie weten dat de verdachten onder meer vastzaten op verdenking van verboden wapenbezit en het negeren van het noodbevel. Het ging volgens de politie om steekwapens of boksbeugels. Twee ANP-verslaggevers zagen dat er ook minderjarigen werden aangehouden.
BRUSSEL (ANP/BELGA) - De Belgische minister Vanessa Matz kan niet naar de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties in New York. Ze heeft om medische redenen een speciale zuurstoffles nodig en die mocht het vliegtuig niet in, meldt haar kabinet.
"Het transport daarvan aan boord van vluchten naar de Verenigde Staten is verboden en er was deze keer geen uitzondering mogelijk op die regel", wordt uitgelegd. De reis is daarom te risicovol voor de bewindsvrouw, die gaat over Digitalisering.
De minister heeft last van clusterhoofdpijn en dat betekent dat ze extreme hoofdpijn kan krijgen. De medische zuurstof helpt tegen de symptomen.
Matz zou in New York onder meer gaan meedoen aan overleg over digitalisering en kunstmatige intelligentie, onderwerpen die hoog op de internationale agenda staan. Ook zou ze koningin Mathilde vergezellen bij activiteiten.
Als een miljonair wordt gevraagd wat de 'slechtste' en de 'beste' kant is van rijk zijn, dan verwacht je dat het antwoord respectievelijk 'niets' en 'alles' is. Maar dat gaat niet altijd op.
Het maakt je lui ‘Nu ik niet meer hoef te werken, doe ik bijna niets anders dan internetten. Op den duur wordt dat meer dan vervelend.’
ZAANDAM (ANP) - Atlete Asayech Ayichew heeft de veertigste editie van de Dam tot Damloop op haar naam geschreven. De 21-jarige Ethiopische verbeterde met een tijd van 50.05 het record van de Noorse hardlooplegende Ingrid Kristiansen, die in 1987 tot een tijd van 50.31 kwam.
Kristiansen was eregast bij de jubileumeditie. De inmiddels 70-jarige Noorse stond bij de finish toen Ayichew over de streep kwam. Voor Ayichew was het de tweede zege in de Dam tot Damloop. Ze was eerder de snelste in 2024.
De Dam tot Damloop is een wedstrijd over 10 Engelse mijlen (16,1 kilometer) van Amsterdam naar Zaandam. Voor de jubileumeditie verkocht de organisatie 46.000 startbewijzen.
Veel lof voor clubs en bonden die vrouwen de mogelijkheid geven hun eicellen in te vriezen. Maar er is ook ongemak. Want als de baas betaalt, is het dan ook de baas die bepaalt?
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"I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as "a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning."
TRUMP: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 [...] and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.
It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now [...] they are going straight at AI. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!
However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI "Czar" — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!
Trump concluded by saying AI "is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful... We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!"
But what exactly is AI Force? "The White House did not immediately respond to a request to clarify whether the agency would be military or civilian," notes the Washington Post. So now "The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement," Politico reported Saturday afternoon:
Four representatives for the sector, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO that the industry was not widely informed of Trump's decision prior to the Truth Social post. "Nobody knows what the idea even is," one of the people said. Another said that feedback on the idea was not widely solicited within the industry. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
"I think that he clearly feels pressure to say something, but he's torn because he's just spent the last few days saying that the whole thing is a hoax," Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, said of Trump and his prior dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios. Since the departure of David Sacks, who stepped down as the Trump administration's previous AI czar earlier this year, the White House has been "making up AI policy as it goes," Kovacevich added. "I think it's clear they've really missed the presence of an organized leader like David Sacks was."
One of the tech industry representatives said they were confused about whether the task force would be charged with formulating more AI regulations or recommending policies that would further stimulate the tech's development. Taylor Barkley, director of federal government affairs at the industry-aligned Abundance Institute, is eyeing it as a way to solidify a light-touch government approach to the technology he says will foster innovation. "Any AI Force or AI Czar should have one job: keep the field open so entrepreneurs at every scale can compete, free from onerous regulation," he told POLITICO. "Existing criminal and civil law can handle bad actors. New permission regimes will stifle the very activity America needs most."
It's worth noting that the day before, California's governor made an announcement. "With Donald Trump and Congress asleep at the wheel, Governor Gavin Newsom is once again taking the lead to strengthen AI safety for all Americans," the governor's office announced Friday. Newsom issued a strong executive order convening experts to help California create new AI safety laws and reporting rules, possibly even requiring safety auditors embedded in labs and emergency "kill switches" in frontier models.
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Bridget Phillipson says Burnham’s past criticisms of US president not an issue as PM prepares to meet Trump at UN
Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.
Burnham is expected to meet Trump early next week at the UN general assembly summit in New York, the pair having previously spoken twice by phone since Burnham entered No 10.
Continue reading...Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans
When Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s debut film as a solo writer-director, came out in 2022, it was a big success, creating a buzz among horror connoisseurs, garnering good reviews, and grossing $46m. Then his second film, Weapons, came out in 2025 and did even better. Mounting industry buzz around the project crystallised into a fierce bidding war; Jordan Peele was reportedly desperate to produce and, incensed by his failure to secure the rights, allegedly fired his managers. The rumours went viral, resulting in a wave of incredible PR that saw the film wildly outperform box office expectations and win an Academy Award (for Amy Madigan’s blunt-fringed, bonsai-pruning best supporting actress turn as instantly classic villain Aunt Gladys).
Even if Cregger had not had a box-office smash that crossed over into awards contention, there would still be an atmosphere of hushed expectation around his next move. Both Barbarian and Weapons addressed hot-button issues – sexual assault and school shootings, respectively – while resisting easy interpretation. Both, too, started out seemingly heading in one narrative direction, before thrillingly careening off elsewhere. Thus, with just two features, Cregger had established a reputation for totally terrifying, utterly unpredictable and – most importantly – genuinely original movies.
Continue reading...Another true-crime drama about a woman accused of murder is hitting our screens, feeding into our culture’s unhelpful obsession with ‘female rage’
On 20 June 1893, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a packed courtroom waited with bated breath for the jury to return its verdict following a gruelling double-murder trial. Against a backdrop of intense media interest, they had heard the prosecution argue that the accused had hacked to death their own parents with a hatchet, had burned their clothing to hide evidence of blood, and had done so out of hatred. The question the jury was asked to answer was simple – was Lizzie Andrew Borden guilty of murdering her father and stepmother? Jurors took just one hour to reach a decision: not guilty.
Yet, almost as soon as the trial came to an end, the mythmaking around Borden began – from fevered speculation about her motives and the infamous nursery rhyme to the many film and TV retellings of the story. The latest incarnation, Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, opens with an axe-wielding Borden committing the murders, and frames the crimes around a fictionalised queer romance between her and the family’s housemaid, Bridget Sullivan.
Continue reading...The multidisciplinary artist delves into pockets of history, including within her family, for the largest ever debut of new work staged at the Guggenheim
Taryn Simon is seated in a conference room at the Guggenheim, looking dazed. Her new show, Father Country I Do Love You, opens in under three weeks. It’s a big deal, the first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist in the iconic spiral rotunda, and the largest debut of new work ever staged at the museum. There’s still a lot of work to be done.
Downstairs, the lobby is being transformed into the Bangkok living room of Jim Thompson, a silk businessman-slash-spy who disappeared in 1967. Simon’s father, a US government worker, was living in Thailand at the time and figured that the Chinese got him, if not a tiger. When Simon was nine, the father and daughter recreated Thompson’s famous wood-panelled den back in Long Island. “And then I built it here with fake teak,” she says, voice wilting. “It’s driving me nuts. I’ve spent so much time trying to make non-teak look like teak.”
Continue reading...Six-part drama Gènesi tells the story of Adriá’s Catalan restaurant El Bulli from the day he arrived as a kitchen hand
Revered and reviled, during the 28 years he presided over El Bulli, a small restaurant in a remote corner of Catalonia, Ferran Adrià changed cooking for ever.
Now he is the subject of Gènesi (Genesis), a six-part TV drama screening on Catalan television with a worldwide release later in the year that recounts the story of El Bulli from the day he arrived there in 1983 as a kitchen hand with no background at all in haute cuisine.
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