Alisha Palmowski gave the British fans something to celebrate as she snatched victory on home soil in the F1 ACADEMY Feature Race at Silverstone.

Live coverage of Sunday's Formula 1 Pirelli British Grand Prix 2026.

Als actrice vond Marjan Berk zichzelf „een bruikbare kracht met aardige momenten”. Maar ze schreef ook zeer populaire boeken, en had succes met de fel-realistische tv-serie ‘Vrouwenvleugel’. Daarin kon ze naar eigen zeggen al haar principes kwijt.

Sinds 2022 heeft Nederland een vestiging van de European Sperm Bank, een Deens bedrijf. Onlangs lanceerde het een campagne met billboards. Gezien de affaires rond artsen die eigen sperma gebruikten, staat volgens ESB transparantie voorop. „We zouden heel graag een Europees register hebben, zodat we zeker weten dat een donor maar bij één spermabank heeft gedoneerd.”

Zonder enorme headliners, maar met een breed en eigenzinnig programma, beweegt Down The Rabbit Hole soepel tussen nostalgie en experiment. Het programma zit soms zó vol dat acts elkaar in de weg staan, maar de muziek, de ruimte en de opvallend vrolijke sfeer doen de elfde editie glansrijk slagen.

OPINION I write a weekly column called PWNED, about how poor security practices can lead to serious damage. Usually, there’s something funny in the malfeasance, like a CEO who kept every employee’s password in an Excel file on his desktop. However, I wasn’t laughing back in May when professional thieves invaded my 84-year-old mother’s entire financial life and managed to make off with $30,000 from her bank accounts alone. And they wouldn’t have gotten in if her financial institutions required multi-factor authentication (aka MFA or 2FA), a step too many institutions won’t take. One day in May, Mom got a call from the institution that runs her retirement savings account, who had identified a suspicious transaction and asked her if it was legit. She said no and they immediately protected her account. Then she checked her bank account at a different institution to see if it was compromised and found thousands of dollars transferred out of her checking and savings accounts. The thieves knew exactly how much they could withdraw each day, and used both withdrawals and transfers to a strange account. But the financial institution hadn't flagged the fraudulent activity. The thieves were so slick that they broke into her Gmail account and created spam filters to filter any mail from her bank or retirement savings provider to the trash so she wouldn’t get alerts about the transfers or about the fake accounts they made in her name. She spent hours on the phone reporting the theft to an unhelpful and incredulous fraud department who asked “Are you sure a relative didn’t do this?” We don’t know for certain how the crims got into my mom’s accounts, but we know she used the same or similar passwords on all of her accounts, and at least one of her accounts was part of a data breach a few years ago, so that info was probably available somewhere online. The miscreants then could have used this info to get into her retirement account, her bank, and her Gmail. None of this would have been possible if she had MFA enabled on those accounts, but neither Google nor her financial institutions require it. “Many consumers assume every bank requires 2FA, but that's not the reality,” said Gregory Shein, CEO of Nomadic Soft, a SaaS company that serves fintech clients. “Some financial institutions still treat it as an optional feature because they're balancing security against friction. Every extra login step can reduce conversions, increase support tickets, and frustrate less technical customers.” Indeed, while some banks such as PNC require MFA, others such as Bank of America, Chase, Capital One, and Citibank leave it as optional. Google’s accounts are also MFA-optional. Fortunately, after they spent hours telling my mom that someone in her family could have done the deed, and repeatedly putting her on hold, then forcing her to navigate a labyrinthine phone tree, the bank eventually agreed to investigate. A few weeks later, they restored the stolen funds. A not entirely happy ending My mother was lucky, because if money is stolen from your bank account, there is no guarantee that you will get it back, at least in the US. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, you have 60 days from the date of a bank statement to dispute any transactions. The bank also has 45 days to investigate, unless your bank account was just opened in the last 30 days or the fraudulent transactions took place outside the US. But the bank could very well decide that those fraudulent transactions look legitimate and refuse to reimburse you. If the bank doesn’t agree to reimburse you, your next step is to get a lawyer and attempt to sue. A quick search revealed dozens of lawyers in my area who specialize in dealing with this problem. It would be easy to blame my mom for being robbed. Using the same password in multiple places left her wide open for exploitation. However, her bank’s lack of a required second authentication factor also contributed. The bank doesn’t let you transact without a password, and it doesn’t issue you an ATM card without a PIN, because it knows that there has to be a required minimum level of security. Banks and other financial institutions know better. Google knows better. But they’re all putting convenience ahead of security when it’s your money that’s on the line. “Different segments of the population adopt technology faster or slower. If I’m a bank, I have to consider that very closely because I don’t want to lose any banking relationships.” Andrew Shikiar, CEO of the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that advocates for stronger login security, told me in an interview. “So I think there’s some concerns around friction that have held some banks and other service providers back from really pushing this more aggressively.” How effective is MFA? According to a 2019 article from Microsoft, MFA prevents 99.9 percent of attacks on your accounts. However, other experts say this number is exaggerated, as there are many ways to get past MFA if you’re a criminal, including social engineering and interception. One of the most common types of MFA, issuing a one-time passcode via an SMS message or an email, is inherently flawed. A determined thief can use social engineering to get a SIM card with your phone number on it, then get to your texts. And if your email itself isn’t perfectly secure and it is receiving an OTP, they can get to that too. Phishers can also trick you into giving up your OTPs by creating a fake website that looks like your bank’s login page. The right way to do MFA today is with a passkey. Passkeys are cryptographic key pairs where there’s a private key on the user’s device and a public key on the server. To access the key on the device, the user must either enter a PIN, touch a physical security key like a Yubikey, or enter a biometric login such as their face or fingerprint. Passkeys cannot be phished or intercepted, which is why they are known as “phishing-resistant MFA.” Unfortunately, a lot of banks are sticking with their OTPs. For example, when I went to set up MFA for a family member’s account with US bank Chase, using its website. Chase offered the chance to receive an OTP via email, SMS, or a phone call. The bank is rolling out passkeys, according to the FIDO Alliance. So are Wells Fargo, US Bank, and Bank of America. Some banks may be using better MFA only within their mobile apps. Chase’s app, for example, asks users to use a fingerprint or facial recognition at login, even though the website does not. However, if a thief wants to log in at Chase's website, there will be no biometric challenge. And if a user doesn’t have MFA enabled at all, it’s even easier for thieves to get in. “OTP is just another password. So it’s a shorter-lived one, but it really is just another password,” Shikiar said. “And there’s also usability issues. You’re juggling between your mobile and your desktop. It’s insecure, inefficient, and a really inadequate user experience.” What banks don’t seem to understand is that you’re only as secure as your weakest entry point. If security controls only exist on mobile apps, it doesn’t help with web-based attacks. If a level of security is optional, the majority of people won’t enable it. Thieves will take the path of least resistance, so service operators need to lock down all entry paths equally by default. Unfortunately, an approach that favors convenience over security will lead to a lot more people losing their money. And, ultimately, banks will lose money when they have to reimburse people for those fraudulent transactions. “I don't expect banks to be mandating passkeys and only passkeys for some time, but the more they push them, the more comfort there is,” Shikiar told us. “The sooner we’ll get to that point where it becomes a de facto default and then becomes really something that's either required or essentially required.” That time should be now. ®

One immediately called an ambulance, another went looking for my younger son. And I still remember the small face of the girl who held her arm around me

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I was at the park with my two young boys, aged five and seven, riding scooters along a wide path that looped around the grass. My eldest has cerebral palsy, so my husband had modified a scooter with a large base so that we could ride it together. My son stood at the front and I stood behind him. It meant he could join in just like other kids, and he loved it.

When you have boys, you need to run them like dogs – the goal is to burn as much energy as possible every time you’re out of the house. So even though it had started to drizzle, we set off on another loop of the park on our scooters. But when we hit a puddle coming round the bend, the scooter slipped out from under me. We fell sideways, landing on the ground. I realised my son wasn’t conscious. In that moment all I felt was sheer terror.

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Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century

An increasing number of scientists think we have let the climate crisis fester for so long that our only hope to stave off ever-intensifying catastrophes is to use technological interventions. Cloud brightening, injecting sulphur into the atmosphere and the use of tiny mirrors in space – all of which might reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface – are among the concepts being promoted by entrepreneurs and governments alike. Geoengineering, they argue, is now inevitable.

Ever since the God of the Old Testament granted our species dominion over the Earth, ideas of remaking the world to better suit us have been a dominant thread in human thinking. We have for centuries toyed with grand ambitions to alter and re-form the climate and environment, many of which – in retrospect – seem doomed or absurd.

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Even though most of their instruments have been destroyed, teachers are restarting classes, using music to give relief to traumatised people

The three tents line a stretch of overcrowded, windswept sand, their windows open on to a view of the breaking waves of the Mediterranean. From inside comes the sound of singing, a strummed guitar, a violin and then a flute.

But if the music evokes calm and harmony, the surroundings do not: rows of crowded makeshift shelters swelter in Gaza’s summer heat, young children picking their way through rubble, battered cars and pony carts clogging a potholed road. Above, Israeli military drones hum and buzz.

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JOHANNESBURG (ANP) - Motorcrosser Jeffrey Herlings is tweede geworden bij de Grote Prijs van Zuid-Afrika. De 31-jarige Brabander moest de 19-jarige Belg Lucas Coenen voor zich dulden en zag de leider in het wereldkampioenschap van de MXGP verder uitlopen.

De vijfvoudig wereldkampioen eindigde in de eerste manche als tweede achter de Belgische klassementsleider. In de tweede manche moest de Nederlander opnieuw genoegen nemen met de tweede plaats achter Coenen.

Coenen leidt in het WK met 566 punten. Herlings volgt met 498 punten op de tweede plek.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Schrijfster en columniste Marjan Berk is zondag in Amsterdam overleden. Dat heeft haar familie bekendgemaakt. Berk, die op 11 juli 94 jaar zou zijn geworden, schreef tientallen boeken en was jarenlang columnist. In 1994 won zij een Gouden Televizier-Ring voor de televisieserie Vrouwenvleugel.

GSTAAD (ANP) - Beachvolleyballers Stefan Boermans en Alexander Brouwer hebben het prestigieuze Elite16-toernooi in Gstaad gewonnen. In de finale in Zwitserland versloeg het Nederlandse koppel de Amerikanen Trevor Crabb en Chase Budinger in drie sets: 26-28 21-17 15-11.

Katja Stam en Raïsa Schoon veroverden brons in Gstaad. Het duo verloor de halve finale van Megan Kraft en Kelly Cheng uit de Verenigde Staten. Daarna was er een zege in de strijd om de derde plek tegen het Amerikaanse koppel Julia Donlin/Lexy Denaburg: 21-19 21-11.

Na het zilver in Ostrava is het de tweede medaille op rij voor Stam en Schoon.

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247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. "They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable."

After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range, according to Recurrent, a data-science company that provides a battery-monitoring tool for EVs — better than many in the auto industry expected...

Potential new car buyers' fear of having to pay for a battery replacement is the number one reason they choose to steer clear of EVs, according to a 2025 survey from industry research firm AutoPacific. When early EVs hit the market, buyers' concerns were well-founded. Roughly one in 12 EVs built from 2011 to 2016 have had to have battery replacements. But new data shows that more modern EVs are doing better so far. Among EVs built from 2022 on, 0.3% have had battery replacements, according to a 2025 study from Recurrent. As battery technology has advanced, EVs have avoided problems like the ones that plagued the original Nissan Leaf when it hit the market in 2010, for example. Those cars lacked the battery-cooling technology that is in newer EVs, and they made headlines for wearing down quickly. Buyer perception hasn't quite caught up, according to Scott Case, co-founder and chief executive of Recurrent...

The newest battery-powered EVs have lifespans comparable to internal-combustion-engine vehicles, even when driven more miles, according to Viet Nguyen-Tien, a research officer at the London School of Economics who focuses on Evs. Improvements in car batteries' chemical contents, battery-management systems and thermal regulation have been the difference in making batteries last longer and cost less, Nguyen-Tien said. Battery prices have fallen more than 90% since 2010, according to a BloombergNEF report from late last year. Industry analysts say battery-replacement costs are also improving as more EVs are designed for repairability in the long-haul. An out-of-warranty battery replacement can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $16,000, depending on the manufacturer, according to Recurrent. But many EV manufacturers have shifted to allow smaller components of their battery packs to be repaired, which can allow owners to avoid the full costs of a battery replacement, Case said.

EV batteries aren't without their challenges, though. A battery that is frequently fast-charged with high power loses its range, on average, at twice the rate of a battery charged at a lower power, according to telematics company Geotab. Frequently charging a battery to 100%, or letting it rest at 0% for extended periods, can also reduce range long-term. And EVs regularly deliver less range in extreme cold or heat.
The article also includes two new projections on EV adoption:

"The share of new EVs sold is expected to nearly double to 11% of new-car sales in the U.S. by 2030, according to industry consulting firm AlixPartners."
"Globally, EVs already make up 15% of new-car sales and are expected to form nearly a quarter of the global market by 2030, according to AlixPartners."

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Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia

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Rundle Street, Kent Town, South Australia