Een ongeval met een vrachtwagen en een caravan zorgt woensdagmiddag voor flinke verkeersproblemen op de A16 bij Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
De rechter heeft een 33-jarige Rotterdamse veroordeeld voor een fataal ongeluk op de A15 bij Barendrecht, op 29 december 2024. Zij krijgt een taakstraf van 240 uur.
RUK is built around an unexpected balance between the strength of stone, the organic form of a pear, and the warmth of coffee. The name expresses permanence, while the visual language combines soft silhouettes with raw, stone-inspired textures.
Pictures of Georgia Democrat looking into middle distance proliferate – and social media skills have boosted his profile
Delivering a speech in Atlanta last month, Jon Ossoff accused Donald Trump of corruption, incompetence and fecklessness, and peppered his remarks with substantive observations of dates and times and places. But the comment that ricocheted across the internet – a clip of just a few seconds – was an almost-throwaway reference about how the US president wants to “travel with Natalie” onboard Air Force One.
The crowd cheered the US senator, who is running for re-election in battleground Georgia and is increasingly seen as a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2028. But his target audience that day – and this year – spanned far beyond the concert hall.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots with an increase of antibiotic-resistant genes, study finds
Microplastics act like a “Trojan horse” delivering pollutants, pesticides and bacteria through the soil, a five-year multinational research project has found.
The EU-funded project, which has so far resulted in 22 peer-reviewed studies, found microplastics in the soil of all 227 agricultural fields it tested across 11 European countries. The researchers said this poses a global threat, with healthy soils essential for life on Earth.
Continue reading...The actor makes her directing debut with a raw, fascinating film about her 2008 collaboration with the British dancer
In the way that wedding rehearsals can be more emotional than the big day – all the untidy feelings that will be tucked away for the cameras still on show – this documentary from Juliette Binoche feels raw and unguarded. It goes behind the scenes of Binoche’s collaboration with British dancer Akram Khan; their dance-theatre piece, a love story entitled In-I, premiered in London to mixed reviews in 2008. Now, all these years later, Binoche makes her directing debut with a film that is essentially a study of their artistic process. And it’s unexpectedly fascinating, watching two world-famous performers pushing themselves outside their comfort zones, exposed and vulnerable – particularly Binoche, who had never danced professionally before.
In-I in Motion is a film of two halves, ending with a performance on stage in front of an audience, the set designed by artist Anish Kapoor: a vast screen in murderous red. The first half is more interesting, shot fly-on-the-wall style during the months it took to create the piece in a studio. Binoche and Khan work with acting coach Susan Batson, who at one point thunders: “THIS IS FULL OF SHIT!” (never mind La Binoche’s Oscar). For some audiences, it will have a whiff of theatrical cringe; the endless stewing and fretting over how to achieve something truthful is ripe for spoof. But the pure intensity and focus is thrilling to watch.
Continue reading...A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence
This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe and replace it with another that shows the real scale of territories. That’s right – when it comes to size, the map of the world we have all grown up with is not accurate. The main loser of land on the Mercator map is Africa, and the new “Equal Earth” map reflects its true proportions. I spoke to our west Africa correspondent Eromo Egbejule about his extensive reporting on the map changes, and why people feel so strongly about it.
Seeing the new map transposed over the old might make you feel oddly disoriented. Logically, there is absolutely no immediate tangible impact on one’s life that comes out of knowing that the entire top part of the northern hemisphere is so much smaller than you were led to believe. And yet, there is still something agitating about it, like you’ve been the subject of a lifelong trick, or at least a breach of trust.
Continue reading...The liquid from a jar of olives is naturally chock-full of savoury flavour, so why should it go to waste? It’s perfect for sprucing up a salad
Olive brine is a simple byproduct that has so much flavour, and it elevates a classic salade nicoise dressing while keeping things colourful, elegant and relatively simple.
Continue reading...Deputies vote to end capital punishment despite opinion polls showing that two-thirds of French people favour the death penalty
From Paul Webster in Paris
27 August 1981
Government announces before vote on moratorium that any projects above 50MW must submit assessments in planning process
Large-scale datacentres will face mandatory environmental assessments before they can go ahead, the Scottish government has announced, amid growing public concern about the impact of the AI boom.
Ahead of a vote on a moratorium on new hyperscale datacentres in Holyrood on Wednesday, the Scottish government has tightened rules for new projects by requiring any above 50MW to submit environmental impact assessments, but stopped short of agreeing to an outright halt.
Continue reading...United won game after controversial Fernandes equaliser
City to blood youngsters for Carabao Cup game against Norwich
Enzo Maresca says Manchester United cannot complain about the controversial derby winner on Sunday because Manchester City are still awaiting an apology from the referees’ chief, Howard Webb, for a match-defining decision in the same fixture three years ago. City lost at Old Trafford in 2023 after Bruno Fernandes equalised despite Marcus Rashford being in an offside position.
Marseca was Pep Guardiola’s assistant at the time and had to witness Rashford’s winner minutes later. “The goal was not a regular goal, if you remember,” Maresca said. “And to be honest, no one apologised. We are still waiting for the apology for that goal. Sometimes it happens for you, sometimes it happens against you. It’s football.”
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Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) has reported the country’s first-ever personal data breach caused by the actions of an autonomous AI agent. Francisco Pérez Bes, president and deputy of the AEPD, said in a Monday blog post that an individual deployed an AI agent that used a “known large language model (LLM)” to carry out the attack on an organization. The agent scanned “generic files” before accessing the organization’s system, then ran vulnerability scans to find flaws that would give it read/write access to files containing personal data and invoices. Pérez Bes did not name the LLM used to support the attack, but said whoever was behind it used the agent to “successfully chain together different phases of the attack.” This demonstrates that AI-supported attacks are no longer theoretical, he added, and called on organizations to embrace defense tools that are capable of keeping pace with the speed at which agentic attacks can be executed. “Human supervision remains essential, but it must be supported by detection, containment, and response mechanisms capable of operating quickly enough,” said Pérez Bes (machine-translated). “The arrival of AI agents in the offensive arena should prompt an immediate review of security and data protection models. “Data protection officers, managers, and delegates must prepare for a scenario in which the speed of attacks will increase, but in which the same fundamentals will continue to be crucial: Understanding the processing activities, minimizing data, limiting access, correcting vulnerabilities, controlling suppliers, and being prepared to respond.” The Register asked AEPD for more information. Spain’s first AI agent attack comes as the AEPD recently recorded its busiest year for data protection complaints. According to its most recent annual report, covering 2025, the agency received 30,931 complaints – the most in its history – representing a 64 percent increase compared to the year before. And although Spain is only now getting its first taste of a security mishap caused by a naughty agent, cases involving the foremost US AI houses are already heavily documented. OpenAI’s claim in July that its agents escaped a sandbox and started attacking Hugging Face kickstarted something of a battle between it and rival Anthropic over whose agents could take the most liberties with their security. Both companies have reported several instances of their agents going rogue, escaping "secure" environments and going walkies across the internet to attack unwitting organizations. OpenAI has been circumspect about the true scale of its rogue agents’ damage, as third-party reporting showed more websites than it was letting on were taken over. Similarly, Anthropic has said that its AI agents had, in four cases now, accessed third-party systems in attacks that, if carried out by a human, could see them convicted under computer laws. ®
ARNHEM (ANP) - De ongeveer honderd boeren die zich hadden verzameld bij het provinciehuis van Gelderland hebben Arnhem verlaten. De trekkers die geparkeerd stonden op een plein in het centrum van de stad zijn toeterend weggereden, zag een ANP-verslaggever. Boeren luisterden naar speeches en hebben direct aan Statenleden hun zorgen kunnen overbrengen.
De bijeenkomst was georganiseerd omdat de Provinciale Staten de stikstofplannen van de provincie woensdag bespreken. Gelderland wil onder meer zones van 500 meter rond de Veluwe en drie andere kwetsbare natuurgebieden aanwijzen waarin de stikstofuitstoot fors omlaag moet. De Gelderse politiek stemt daar volgende week over.
De boerensprekers riepen de aanwezige Statenleden op tegen de plannen te stemmen en "terug te gaan naar de tekentafel". "We kunnen als landbouw hier absoluut niet mee vooruit", zei een vertegenwoordiger van de Nederlandse Melkveehouders Vakbond. Hij riep het Gelderse bestuur op naar de zorgen van boeren te luisteren en "toekomstbestendig beleid" voor het platteland te maken.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De Amerikaanse investeerder KKR zet de komende weken Flora Food Group, het Nederlandse voedingsbedrijf achter merken als Becel, Blue Band en Bertolli, in de verkoop. Dit meldt Sky News, zonder bronnen te noemen.
De verkoop zou het voormalige Unilever-onderdeel kunnen waarderen op 7 miljard euro. Eerder dit jaar schreef Financial Times al dat KKR af wil van het bedrijf.
In 2021 kondigde Flora Food Group aan dat het tegen 2025 zijn volledige assortiment plantaardig wilde maken, en presenteerde het zich als "de grootste producent van plantaardig voedsel ter wereld". De groei van zuivelalternatieven sloeg echter om.
De verkoop van plantaardige boter en smeerproducten daalde in 2025 respectievelijk met 4 en 10 procent ten opzichte van het jaar ervoor. Upfield werd afgesplitst van Unilever en in 2018 gekocht door KKR. Het bedrijf werd later hernoemd tot Flora Food Group.
1 minute 49 second music video to new song by Music Duo Yello [SLYT] New Music from Yello. First since 2020
Video Producer & Director: Ernst Gamper Think you don't know Yello's Music.? Then let me introduce you to the song Oh Yeah. [SLYT 3 minute 5 second music video] Warning. Bone fide Earworm. :: ChikaChika :: You're welcome.
Video Producer & Director: Ernst Gamper Think you don't know Yello's Music.? Then let me introduce you to the song Oh Yeah. [SLYT 3 minute 5 second music video] Warning. Bone fide Earworm. :: ChikaChika :: You're welcome.