Ex-England footballer also admits to failing to provide a specimen as he appears at Basingstoke magistrates court

The former England footballer Raheem Sterling has admitted dangerously driving a Lamborghini on the motorway.

Sterling pleaded guilty at Basingstoke magistrates court on Tuesday to driving a Lamborghini Urus dangerously on the M25, the M3 and the A327 before he crashed on 28 May.

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Natalie Greenwood says surgery is no ‘magic fix’ for chronic pelvic pain – a view backed up by a new study

“It’s really frustrating to be in this cycle of continuous surgery. It makes you feel helpless,” says Natalie Greenwood, of a condition that affects her so badly she is “non-functioning most of the time because of the constant fatigue”.

Greenwood, 36, needs to have an operation every few years to limit the impact of the endometriosis that gives her chronic pelvic pain, as well as extreme tiredness and brain fog.

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Een publiek van oude mensen zit in het zaaltje van hun verpleeghuis aandachtig te luisteren naar een oude zanger en zijn jonge pianist. Hun repertoire bestaat uit mooie, schrijnende liedjes, misschien wel te schrijnend voor dit publiek, bedenk ik op de eerste rij naast mijn vrouw en haar buurvrouw. Hebben ze het zonder deze liedjes al niet moeilijk genoeg?

Dat de koopkracht volgend jaar voor de meeste mensen licht daalt, komt niet door economische ontwikkelingen.

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Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 after September's record-breaking Patch Tuesday addressed almost 1,000 vulnerabilities across the company's products – and introduced several new problems. Those problems are related to USB Audio Class 1.0 devices, Remote Desktop Services, and host folders shared with certain Hyper-V-based Linux virtual machines via Plan9. While the Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services issues are fixed, there is still work to do on USB audio. The update restores multichannel playback on USB Audio Class 1.0 devices that continued to work in stereo, but other affected devices may remain silent, have unresponsive volume controls, or display "This device cannot start (Code 10)" in Device Manager. Owners of devices still giving them the silent treatment were told: "Microsoft is working on a resolution and will update this documentation when more information is available." The cumulative update also includes protections for CVE-2026-62721, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows User-Mode Power Service. Separate September security updates for Excel also broke that rarely used function, Paste, on some installations. Microsoft has yet to issue a fix. Readers were impressively supportive of Microsoft's efforts to ensure its patches don't disrupt workflows. Paratiritis noted: "The issue with all these versions of Excel is understandable, considering such changes require testing, either manual or automated, which cannot be taken for granted for such cryptic functionality as Paste." Roj Blake suggested that perhaps somebody had tried submitting a bug report, but was unable to paste the data for some reason. ®

A Swiss court has sentenced a 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware developer to 12 years and nine months in prison for his role in attacks on companies including Stadler Rail. Zurich District Court found that the man developed LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim, but was not the mastermind behind the operations. He also received a ten-year ban from Switzerland. The judgment is not final and can be appealed. He had been held in pretrial detention since October 2021 and consistently denied knowing that his software was being used for criminal purposes. He said the source code found at his home in Basel-Landschaft came from his consulting work for an unidentified IT security client. The court rejected that explanation because extortion messages were also found among his data, SWI reported. The ransomware developer was also found guilty of playing a key role in high-profile ransomware attacks, including the one that hit Stadler Rail in 2020 [PDF]. Not to be confused with the more recent attack on the rolling stock manufacturer – that one was claimed by Everest – the earlier breach occurred in May 2020. At the time, Stadler Rail did not use the word "ransomware," but said the attack involved malware, that it "most likely led to a data leak," and that "the offenders tried to extort a large amount of money," threatening to leak the files if the ransom was not paid. As it did following this year's incident, Stadler refused to pay. The 2020 Nefilim ransom demand was reportedly $6 million. The court also found that he played a key role in attacks on HVAC company Meier Tobler and software company Crealogix. In September 2022, Zurich prosecutors reported that a suspect had been arrested in Basel-Landschaft in October 2021 on suspicion of money laundering and data corruption. The statement accused the perpetrators of involvement in attacks on more than 1,800 individuals and institutions across 71 countries, causing estimated losses of several hundred million Swiss francs. The same law enforcement action in 2021 led to the identification of other alleged members of the three ransomware operations, none of whom were named. Volodymyr Tymoshchuk was formally indicted in the US last year and was described by prosecutors as the mastermind of all three ransomware crews. Unlike many others, Tymoshchuk has not yet been arrested, but is on the FBI's most wanted list, with an $11 million bounty placed on the information that could lead to his arrest or conviction, or that of other key leaders. He was allegedly responsible for attacks on at least 250 companies, including the infamous Norsk Hydro attack in 2019. ®

De sabotage op het treinspoor dinsdag is volgens premier Rob Jetten "ontwrichtend en levensgevaarlijk". Hij zegt nog niet of het terrorisme is of niet. Daarvoor wil hij het politieonderzoek afwachten.

ISTANBUL (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Minstens 150 mensen zijn in Istanbul tijdens een pro-lhbtqi-demonstratie opgepakt door de Turkse politie. De demonstranten hadden zich verzameld voor het gerechtshof in Çağlayan, een wijk in Istanbul. De politie hield ze aan voordat ze een persverklaring konden afleggen.

De betogers droegen een spandoek met de tekst: "lhbtq zijn is geen misdaad".

Twee dagen geleden viel de politie al woningen en bars van lhbtqi'ers binnen. Ook blokkeerde de overheid websites van lhbtqi'ers en waren er invallen in verenigingsgebouwen. De minister van Justitie zei dat deze arrestaties onderdeel zijn van president Recep Tayyip Erdoğans 'Decennium van het gezin'. Dat initiatief zou kinderen en de maatschappelijke orde moeten beschermen.

Maandag uitte de Europese Unie zorgen over de eerdere arrestaties. Desondanks wil de Turkse minister van Justitie ermee doorgaan.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Aanhangers van Extinction Rebellion hebben dinsdag bij Prinsjesdag een blauwzwart goedje op de ramen van de ingang van het tijdelijke gebouw van de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag gegooid. Volgens de groep ging het om nepolie. De ramen van het Kamergebouw moesten daarom schoongemaakt worden, zag een ANP-verslaggever.

Eerder gooiden activisten van de groep rode verf op de route van de glazen koets voor Prinsjesdag. Dat was volgens de activisten nepbloed. Extinction Rebellion klaagt over miljardensteun van het kabinet voor "grote vervuilers".

Over the past six months (leisurely) and in the past three weeks (intensely), I’ve cleaned out and packed up my entire house where I’ve been living for the past 10 years. I went through every bit and bob of what I owned and either:

• gave it away (fiddle leaf fig, grill, chairs, stuffed animals,¹ blender, rugs)
• sold it (car, coffee table, lamp, iPad)
• put it into storage (art, mementos, chairs)
• took it with me (very little, mostly clothes & computing things)

Parting with my possessions was surprisingly easy. I’d been planning this move for a while now and had time to get used to the idea and say my farewells. And the concept of having a bunch of stuff, 95% of which I never used or thought about or even remembered owning, was really starting to make me itch. So out it went; I felt lighter with each thing that exited the house.

But I wasn’t expecting the spice drawer.

I was working my way through the kitchen when I opened the drawer with all of my spices and baking supplies. A pause. What do I do with these? I picked up a jar of smoked paprika and was suddenly flung back in time to 12 years ago. I remember exactly where I bought that paprika and why.

I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and was still trying to figure out how my new household was going to work. My kids came over a few times a week; what the hell were we going to eat for dinner? I was competent but not confident in the kitchen; Meg is a great cook and I couldn’t match her effort or output. I had to come up with my own meals that a) I could cook, b) the kids would actually eat, and c) were somewhat healthy.

One of the recipes I found was for smoky corn chowder, so I headed to the grocery store on 23rd St. to buy ingredients, including a jar of smoked paprika. The kids loved the corn chowder and it became a favorite of ours — something that they only ate over at Dad’s house.

Over the years, the kids and I amassed a small collection of recipes we loved and often had at my house — caldo verde, lasagne, buttermilk pancakes, taco salad, apple pie, and others — and the spices to cook them: oregano, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, basil, baking soda, Ortega Taco Seasoning Mix 😂. I pulled each spice container out of the drawer and tried to remember what I’d cooked with it, what dishes it was in that we’d eaten together. I opened the tops to sniff some of the spices and was more strongly pulled back into those times when my kids were small and I was worried — no, I was terrified — about not being up to the task of filling their tummies, minds, and souls with the good stuff on my watch.

Man, so much of our time together revolved around food. The spice drawer hit me hard because it was a powerful olfactory reminder not only of the delicious meals we’d shared but also of my insecurity around parenting, how I slowly gained confidence, and how I eventually found freedom & pride in what I was able to offer my kids.

In the end, I had to throw all the spices out — no takers for half-used, decade-old containers of parsley flakes or jars of cumin — but I’ll always remember cleaning out that drawer and all of the memories it stirred up. Proust had his madeleines, but I doubt I’ll ever pass by a jar of smoked paprika in the supermarket or in someone’s spice drawer without feeling all of it all over again.

1. I gave away a bunch of miscellaneous stuffed animals that my kids had accumulated over the years — not the beloved ones — and I was sitting working on my deck when a woman showed up to collect them. “Are you the stuffed animal guy?” she called to me. “Yes,” I said, “and I don’t think I’ve been referred to like that before.” In telling this story to others, she became “the stuffed animal lady”. Everything is relative. ↩

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Syutkin and his wife wrote a weekly cooking column for The Moscow Times until Russia banned it as “undesirable” in July 2024.

Esteban Ocon just missed out on points at the Spanish Grand Prix with an 11th-placed finish.