Robin heeft in de cel gezeten voor een dodelijk verkeersongeluk. Maar tot bezinning lijkt hij niet gekomen. In juni dit jaar jakkert hij met 200 kilometer per uur over de snelweg, op een plek waar hij 100 mag.

• Club’s owners FSG move swiftly to fill key post

• Move comes amid upheaval in Anfield hierarchy

Liverpool have appointed Julian Ward as their sporting director for a second time following the departure of Richard Hughes to Al-Hilal.

Ward, who was Liverpool’s sporting director for one season in 2022-23, has returned to the role after spending the past two years as technical director for Fenway Sports Group, the club’s owners.

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• Manchester City news and Nations League buildup

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Before we take a break from talking about City, here is everything you need to know about the hearing and charges:

“There is no episode in English football’s history that even resembles a precedent for the epic Manchester City disciplinary drama, which encapsulates the modern game at breaking point. Here was a grand, stoic old club, taken over in 2008 by Abu Dhabi royalty and mega-funded to imperious success, then crowned serial champions by a league simultaneously pursuing charges of monstrous financial cheating…”

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Her Troubles-set debut became a hit TV series starring Gillian Anderson. Now the novelist has returned to her teen years for a follow-up. She talks about her journey from chef to author, and how her cancer diagnosis inspired her to write

Louise Kennedy’s life has hardly wanted for dramatic events, but the recent past has been spectacularly busy, even by her standards. You wouldn’t know it to look at her, as we chat in the sitting room of the house in Sligo that she shares with her husband, son and daughter, but this is the home that she once thought would be repossessed. The couple bought it “for stupid money” in 2007, when they also opened a restaurant, initially so successful that the only way seemed to be up. The following year, financial mayhem descended on Ireland, their customers ebbed away, and the Celtic Tiger years morphed into a country racked with job losses, bankruptcies, apparently endless debt. “I didn’t think I’d ever be able to keep the house,” she says, glancing around an elegant room dotted with beautiful objects and plants, but nonetheless relaxed and comfortable. “I’d say we only got out of negative equity about a month ago. There are probably arguments for moving now, but I’m so proud that we managed to hold on to it, I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to be carried out of here in a box.”

Kennedy had been a chef for 30 years, working all over the place from Dublin to London and, for two years, Beirut, before ending up in Sligo, on Ireland’s west coast, not far from the border with her native Northern Ireland. Crucially, she had never given a thought to writing, not since a teacher had admired a poem she wrote when she was seven. Now, she is about to publish her second novel, Stations, which follows a collection of short stories, The End of the World Is a Cul-de-Sac, and her debut, Trespasses, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s prize for fiction and won other prizes in Ireland and the UK in 2022 and 2023. Last year, Trespasses gained further acclaim when it was adapted for Channel 4 in a production starring Gillian Anderson as the mother of Cushla, the young Catholic teacher who falls in love with Michael, an older, married Protestant lawyer, in 1970s Belfast.

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As Britain goes mad for yam, shortage of planting material and concerns over control of crop prompts sales halt

In a corner of north London on a weekday morning, Filipino cuisine is thriving: diners at Mama & Sons in Kentish Town are making their choices, and one of the most popular items on the menu is the ube ice-cream sandwich. It’s easy to see the appeal of the light, fluffy bun encasing a purple scoop of ice-cream.

The owner of the cafe, Omar Shah, says ube – a vibrantly purple root vegetable long-beloved in the Philippines – has exploded in popularity in the UK. Just when he thinks it has reached its peak, it becomes “even more popular”. And this year, he says, has been no exception.

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Audi brought a significant upgrade package to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but it's not produced the desired results so far as both drivers were eliminated in Q1.

Arvid Lindblad offered a particularly critical assessment of his individual performance after Qualifying at the Baku City Circuit, suggesting that he has recently “been trying to be too special”.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Premier Rob Jetten en minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen spreken zaterdagochtend met ChristenUnie-leider Mirjam Bikker en Kamerlid Pieter Grinwis. Ze laten de partij de nieuwe begrotingsplannen zien waar Jetten vrijdag over sprak tijdens zijn persconferentie.

Voorafgaand aan het gesprek zeiden Jetten en Heinen nog niets over de inhoud. Bikker en Grinwis waren benieuwd waar het kabinet mee komt.

De premier en minister spreken zaterdag ook nog met PRO en Volt en erna met JA21 en de SGP.

ATHENE (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Er is zeker één dode gevallen na een explosie vrijdag in de binnenstad van de Griekse hoofdstad Athene, meldt de Griekse brandweer. Een gebouw van twee verdiepingen stortte vrijdagochtend in. Reddingswerkers hebben het lichaam van een jonge vrouw aangetroffen tussen het puin. Er worden nog vijf mensen vermist.

Het slachtoffer is vermoedelijk een Amerikaanse toerist die samen met haar man en een ander stel in een vakantieappartement op de eerste verdieping verbleef, aldus het Griekse persbureau ANA. Reddingswerkers zijn in het puin op zoek naar meer slachtoffers.

De toeristen zouden vrijdagmiddag uitchecken en daarna een vlucht nemen vanaf de luchthaven van Athene, maar ze kwamen volgens de politie niet opdagen. Er wordt ook gezocht naar een ouder echtpaar dat in een van de appartementen woonde.

Het is nog niet bekend wat de explosie heeft veroorzaakt. De burgemeester van Athene, Haris Doukas, verwees vrijdag naar een mogelijke gasexplosie.

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Britain’s Royal Air Force has gained some space cadets, in the form of No. III Space Effects Squadron, tasked with protecting critical satellites that the UK relies on for communications and navigation. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harvey Smyth announced the new unit at an inaugural UK Space Power Conference in London, saying it will safeguard the vital benefits that space gives to our armed forces, and be capable of denying those benefits to our adversaries. Smyth added that the RAF’s headquarters at High Wycombe transitioned to become Air and Space Command just a few weeks ago. According to the MoD, the existing No. I Space Operations Squadron and No. II Space Warning Squadron give the RAF the ability to watch and warn of threats in space, but the latest unit will have the ability to act against those threats. How, you might ask, given the UK has limited launch facilities and no anti-satellite missile systems, as far as we are aware? This will be accomplished using “advanced technology,” we are told, including electronic warfare, to “disrupt, degrade and deny hostile actions.” In fact, the government says the UK has formally ruled out destructive anti-satellite missile testing, and instead continues to work through the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. That implies the use of ground-based jamming systems to disrupt or neutralize any nefarious foreign satellites. We asked the MoD for further details on what the space force’s capabilities consist of, exactly, but a spokesperson told us there is not much more that can be said as the information is classified. However, the MoD does say the squadron will support both offensive and defensive space operations and will expand over time as new capabilities enter service. The MoD states that satellites are critical for both national security and daily life, enabling intelligence gathering and missile warnings, while also providing telecoms and weather forecasts. The emergency services rely on satellite navigation systems for emergency responses, and energy networks use the same systems to organise power grids, making use of the precise time coding in such signals to synchronise operations. Last year, The Register reported that the MoD was working with the UK’s Space Agency on finding ways to protect orbiting satellites with technology that can spot when lasers are being used to try and dazzle them and disrupt communications. Four countries are known to have tested anti-satellite missiles; the US, Russia, China and India. The most recent incident was when Russia destroyed one of its own defunct orbiters in 2021, endangering the International Space Station. The ISS also had to conduct manoeuvres the same year to avoid space debris created by China blowing up one of its own satellites years earlier. In 2022, the United Nations passed a US-led resolution calling on countries to commit not to conduct any similar anti-satellite missile tests. That hasn’t stopped China, for one, looking at other ways of taking out orbital assets if it considers it necessary, looking at employing lasers and high-power microwaves to disable them. The US Space Force also claimed to have observed Chinese satellites practicing “dogfight” manoeuvres in orbit. ®

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Dat het slecht gaat met de leesvaardigheid van jongeren mag inmiddels geen verrassing meer heten. Maar oplossingen voor het probleem zijn ook niet zomaar voorhanden. De Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB) probeert die impasse nu te doorbreken met de lancering van een serie boeken met smaakjes.

Grote literaire werken als Knielen op een bed violen en De ontdekking van de hemel liggen binnenkort in de smaken Fresh Mental Mojito, Pineapple Peach Mango en Coconut Latte in de schappen. De boeken komen bij kiosken en boekwinkels te liggen, maar moeten ook eenvoudig online te bestellen zijn, vindt CPNB.

“Boeken moeten niet te versmaden zijn”, licht een CPNB-woordvoerder toe. “We hebben een test gedraaid met smaakjesboeken en die resultaten zijn zeer veelbelovend. Jonge proefpersonen verslonden de literatuur werkelijk, sommigen spraken van echte page-eaters.”

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