An old friend comes knocking.

De Netflix-documentaire ‘Kylie’ toont een popzangeres die door volharding en niet aflatend enthousiasme het maximale uit haar talent haalt.

De aangekondigde maatregelen zullen in elk geval de loonkloof zichtbaar maken en bedrijven die daar niet aan meewerken beboeten. Dat is een begin, maar het is de vraag of dat voldoende is.

Elke week legt Annemiek Leclaire een lezersvraag voor aan deskundigen. Deze week: mijn dochter steelt snoep.

De hypotheekrente heeft sinds eind 2023 niet meer zo hoog gestaan als nu. Hoe komt dit, en wat zijn de gevolgen? En ligt het scenario van 2022 voor de hand?

DEN BOSCH (ANP) - De hockeysters van Amsterdam hebben de landstitel gewonnen. Het elftal van trainer Jesse Mahieu versloeg regerend kampioen Den Bosch na shoot-outs. Voor Amsterdam is het de 22e landstitel uit de clubgeschiedenis en de vijfde deze eeuw. Den Bosch blijft op 23 landstitels staan.

De shoot-outs op hockeycomplex Oosterplas in Den Bosch waren nodig na een eindstand van 2-2. De eerste ontmoeting in Amstelveen was zaterdag ook in 2-2 geëindigd. Amsterdam won de shoot-outs met 4-3.

DOHA (ANP/AFP) - Een delegatie Iraanse hoogwaardigheidsbekleders is maandag aangekomen in de Qatarese hoofdstad Doha. Dat meldt persbureau AFP op basis van een ingewijde. Het zou gaan om onder anderen de Iraanse parlementsvoorzitter Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, buitenlandminister Abbas Araghchi en een topman van de Iraanse centrale bank.

De delegatie zal in Doha onder andere spreken over "aan de Straat van Hormuz gerelateerde zaken" en het verrijkte uranium waarover het land beschikt. Ook de bevroren Iraanse tegoeden zouden worden besproken.

De VS eisen al lange tijd dat Iran afstand doet van zijn verrijkt uranium. Iran heeft het bezit daarvan meermaals een onvervreemdbaar recht genoemd en lijkt vooralsnog niet van plan af te wijken van die lijn. Mochten de VS en Iran binnenkort tot een principeakkoord voor een staakt-het-vuren komen, dan zullen de Iraanse nucleaire ambities pas in de daaropvolgende gesprekken op tafel komen, aldus het Iraanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken eerder op maandag.

PHNOM PENH (ANP/AFP) - De veroordeelde Cambodjaanse oppositieleider Kem Sokha heeft gratie gekregen. Dat meldt senaatsvoorzitter en oud-premier Hun Sen op sociale media. Kem Sokha werd in 2023 veroordeeld tot 27 jaar huisarrest voor verraad.

De nu 72-jarige Kem Sokha werd in 2017 opgepakt. Hij werd ervan beschuldigd om samen met de Verenigde Staten de regering omver te willen werpen, op dat moment geleid door Hun Sen. Kem Sokha heeft de beschuldigingen altijd ontkend.

Volgens mensenrechtenorganisaties was zijn vervolging bedoeld om hem en zijn populaire oppositiebeweging uit de politiek te weren. Eind april had een Cambodjaanse rechtbank een hoger beroep van Kem Sokha nog verworpen.

Hun Sen bekleedt als senaatsvoorzitter nog steeds een belangrijke rol in de Cambodjaanse politiek. Hij is de vader van de huidige premier Hun Manet.

The Spurs are up against the best team in the NBA in the Western Conference finals. But their star player has enough sorcery to give them confidence

Victor Wembanyama called for the ball. His San Antonio Spurs were up by nine at the tail end of the second quarter, but had led by as many as 16 in the first half. Down 2-1 in the Western Conference Finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder, building the lead in the final seconds of the half felt urgent – in the previous game, the Spurs had exploded into a 15-0 lead, only to lose heavily. In Game 4 on Sunday night, the klaxon was closing in, and so might the Thunder. Wembanyama got in a couple dribbles, but only had time to reach half-court before the clock forced him to shoot. He hoisted the ball into the air from 43ft; the buzzer sounded. The ball slammed cleanly into the basket.

Buoyed up by that shot and the Thunder clanking almost all their three-point attempts off the rim as if in solidarity with one another, the Spurs completed a 21-point annihilation to tie the series.

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Tehran says ‘contradictory statements’ from US and Israeli interference hindering negotiations

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Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure.

Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s negotiating team, also said future management of the strait of Hormuz was a matter for Oman and Iran to reach agreement on, and that it was not tolls that were being proposed but “fees for navigational services”.

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The battle for the top four in Italy was overshadowed by violence in Turin, where Juve joined Milan in missing out

The stage was set for a grand finale: five games to settle season-long battles at either end of the Serie A table. Top spot was decided – Inter claimed their 21st Scudetto at the start of this month – but there were four teams contesting two Champions League berths, while Lecce and Cremonese fought to escape relegation. All of them would play simultaneously. Or at least, that was the plan.

Among these five games was a derby between Torino and Juventus. As kick-off approached, supporters clashed close to the stadium. One, a 36-year-old Juve fan named Marco Leonardo Basoccu, was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after suffering a head wound.

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Scientists say record-breaking heat is a reminder of how climate crisis is affecting lives

The fierce heat sweeping Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with highs of up to 35C still to come on Monday afternoon.

A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at London’s Heathrow on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Offfice, beating the previous May record that was set in Camden Square in 1922 and reached again in Tunbridge Wells and Regent’s Park in 1944.

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Investigators claimed that the devices found on the hull of the ship were “factory-made naval magnetic mines manufactured in a NATO country.”

OPINION At Google's I/O 2026 developer conference last week, the company's Search VP Liz Reid celebrated the rapid growth of AI Mode, which Google refers to as its end-to-end AI search experience. External observers refer to it as simply as the end of search. "We're seeing phenomenal growth with AI mode queries more than doubling every quarter since launch," said Reid, noting that AI Mode now has more than one billion monthly users. She continued, "But what's even more remarkable, you're asking your real questions in all their super specific and detailed glory, knowing search can really tackle them." Reid is absolutely right! We put this real question to AI Mode, "Why does Google Search suck now?" And you won't believe the answer! (Actually, you won't be surprised.) The Chocolate Factory's AI search substitute offered this completely trustworthy reply: "You are definitely not imagining it. Users, tech critics, and researchers have documented a measurable decline in Google Search quality. The core issue is that the search engine no longer feels like a tool designed to find the best corner of the web; instead, it feels like a vehicle designed to keep you on Google-owned properties or clicking on monetized links. "The degradation of Google Search stems from a mix of aggressive monetization, an ongoing arms race with web spammers, and the disruptive introduction of AI features." Despite the absence of explicit blame assignment and the obsequious initial sentence, this all seems reasonable. However, in the low-rent area of the results page, there was some fine print: "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses." In other words, Google disclaims responsibility for AI Mode while providing a way for you, the user, to double-check its responses. If you look carefully at the results, you may see citation links back to the websites laundered to generate the unvouched-for text. The top AI Mode paragraph represents the remains of four morsels of online text swallowed and digested by Google's site crawler: "This is Why Google Search is Dying* and How to Search Instead" from Tadeusz Szewczyk's seo2 blog, "Why Has Google Search Become So Annoyingly Bad? (and some useful workarounds)," a post to Medium by Terry Hutchins, a Reddit thread titled, "Is Google Search actually getting worse, or is it just me?" by Severe_Aardvark_3109, and "Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case" by Alex Tabarrok. The second paragraph is calling from within Google's house. It's sourced from a YouTube video by AlexFalcone and a different Reddit thread, "Am I going crazy or are search engine results becoming less and less accurate?" by Ok-Extent-7596. Google generously presents these links, in the form of inline citations or source chips – clickable, numbered footnotes that have been embedded with AI Mode emissions – as a nod to shouty traditionalists who value information provenance. Not that it helps these websites much. As noted recently by SEO biz Ahrefs, "Google's AI Overviews now result in a 58 percent lower average clickthrough rate for top-ranking pages, up from 34.5 percent just eight months ago." (Google last year said the opposite.) AI Overviews differ from AI Mode. AI Overviews have been integrated into the Search experience and appear in response to certain kinds of queries, generally atop traditional search results. AI Mode "expands on the benefits of AI Overviews with more advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities," as Google puts it in its explainer [PDF]. It's accessible through a tab icon on the right-hand side of Chrome's omnibox when a new tab is opened and through an "AI Mode" button within the Google.com search box. They may or may not provide similar answers and may or may not cite the same sources. For example, when we put the question "Why does Google Search suck now?" to AI Overviews, here's what we got: "Google Search often feels worse today because it prioritizes profits over precision. The search results page is heavily cluttered with AI-generated summaries, sponsored ads, and search-engine-optimized (SEO) spam, which forces you to dig past multiple links to find the actual information you want." Google's AI again cites Szewczyk's seo2 blog as a reference, along with two new sources, "These Results Illustrate Why Google Search Is So Awful in 2025," from Make Use Of, and "Enough is enough: I ditched Google's broken search engine and boosted my productivity," from Android Authority. Just for the sake of completeness, here's AI Overview answering, "Why is Google Search great?" "Google Search is great because it combines unmatched speed, advanced AI capabilities, and a massive index of information. It does more than just provide links, allowing you to easily plan trips, research local businesses in your immediate San Francisco vicinity, and understand complex topics with minimal effort." Among the five citation links for that result, three reference Google blog posts. The privacy intrusion – having the browser surface location information unbidden – is just a reminder about the consequences of browser personalization. This is the new (horrible) normal Like it or not, there's going to be more AI in search going forward. Reid described how Google's redesigned Search box now includes deeper AI integration. "We're making it even easier to continue the conversation with Search, bringing AI Overviews and AI Mode into one seamless AI search experience, so you can flow effortlessly from your question to your response on the main search results page to follow-ups in AI mode," she said. Why not just let users decide which sites they trust? The anticipated result, at least among those outside of Google, is that search results links to external websites will be further deemphasized. The problem with this approach is that it means Google makes its AI into a traffic routing layer, as opposed to presenting a set of site and document referral options that users can select. It wants to direct the flow of traffic instead of just providing a map. The endgame, presumably, is capturing some portion of automated transactions made by software agents through mechanisms like Google's Universal Cart, Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). When Google itself cautions, "AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses," why not just let users decide which sites they trust for themselves, rather than burying source information in footnote links and directing those using its AI service to handle the fact-checking? AI models can be quite helpful for coding questions. They're a vast improvement over man pages for looking up esoteric command line flags and options. But they should be kept separate from search. If they must be entrusted with automated browsing, their decisions or recommendations should be subject to user discretion and review. Search assumes source visibility and invites searchers to consider whether they trust sites enough to visit them. It demands mental engagement and decision-making to move from a list of results to query resolution. That's a role people should play. AI presents an answer, one that's so easy to accept it comes with a reminder to double-check. But it's an answer without responsibility or liability. It's not the right answer for the web. ®

De Roparun draait om het steunen van mensen met kanker, en voor veel mensen heeft dat een persoonlijke motivatie. Zo ook voor de ongeneeselijk zieke Jeroen van Leeuwen. Hij had één grote wens: nog één keer de Roparun meemaken.

Worm living in a glass castle among thousands of new marine species. Thousands of species have been discovered lurking and thriving in our oceans, as part of an effort to catalogue 100,000 new species.

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