Businessman stands trial over death of Maltese journalist killed by bomb in her car after she reported on corruption

Moments before the explosion that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist screamed in panic, a witness has told the trial of the man accused of ordering her murder.

Caruana Galizia was killed in 2017 by a remotely detonated bomb placed under the driver’s seat of her car, after writing a series of reports on political and financial corruption in Malta. The government’s handling of the investigation led to mass protests and ultimately to the resignation of the Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat.

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England winger on his thirst for self-improvement, triumph at the Azteca and the ‘spiritual’ Thomas Tuchel

It was a lighthearted moment – despite the language used – and Anthony Gordon saw the funny side. But trust the England winger to find a way to use it as fuel. It is what he does, what he has always done, since his childhood in Liverpool. It has helped him to reach the point where he completed a £60.7m transfer to Barcelona from Newcastle at the end of May. And it is driving him before Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against Norway in Miami.

Most people have seen the clip. There were 26 minutes on the clock at the Azteca Stadium on Sunday; England goalless against Mexico in the last 16. The Mexico manager, Javier Aguirre, who admits that swearing is second nature to him during matches, was in the mood to show off his English. He called out Gordon’s name and when the player turned around, he had a piece of advice. “Fuck you,” Aguirre shouted, before creasing up with laughter. Gordon did the same.

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The local truckers association has said it may suspend operations, after several eyewitnesses decried the murder of Ahmad Esleem

A Palestinian driver bringing food aid from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) into Gaza has been killed by an Israeli soldier, according to eyewitnesses and the local truckers association, which said it may suspend operations in protest.

Ahmad Esleem was shot in the head on Wednesday when an aid convoy stopped because of a breakdown to one truck soon after entering Gaza, according to three accounts. Israeli soldiers ordered the drivers to dismount and one of them shot Esleem in the head when his hands were raised.

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Britain expands heat alerts while estimates suggest June’s death toll could surpass 20,000 across continent

The UK is sweltering through the peak of its third heatwave of the year as countries around Europe struggle to recover from an early onslaught of baking summer heat.

Punishing temperatures pushed higher by fossil fuel pollution have broken records across the continent in recent weeks. Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record, scientists confirmed on Thursday, accompanied by high global ocean temperatures that could cause “mass-mortality events” for some species.

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• Four-time champion dominates 17km climb to win stage six

• French president Emmanuel Macron in attendance

Tadej Pogacar powered alone to the summit of the mighty Col du Tourmalet, deep in the Hautes-Pyrénées, and rode on to victory on stage six to Gavarnie-Gèdre, taking an emphatic overall lead in the 2026 Tour de France.

In the shadow of the towering cliffs of the Cirque de Gavarnie, and under the gaze of President Macron, Pogacar was imperious. Only his perennial rival, Jonas Vingegaard, was able to give chase and by the end of the stage, even his resistance seemed futile.

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De voordracht van Miriam Harika (Pro) voor het wethouderschap was omstreden vanwege klachten over haar functioneren als topambtenaar. De gemeentelijke ombudsman adviseerde de raad met klem af te zien van haar benoeming. Intussen sturen de raadsleden een andere kandidaat onverwachts naar huis.

Na de trein worden nu ook de tram, bus en metro gratis voor vier- tot elfjarigen. Dat gaat ten koste van de „te generieke” korting voor 65-plussers. Ouderenorganisaties hebben kritiek. „Ouderen zonder auto hebben simpelweg geen alternatief.”

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Parents' attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on their children, according to new research. Caregivers who mismanage their devices can both exacerbate "insecure attachment" and make healthy relationships more anxious and avoidant for children, according to the findings, which were published last month in Frontiers in Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal. The study, which surveyed 600 minors in the US from 12 to 17 years old, found that kids reported feeling marginalized or neglected by parents glued to their screens. "A child with insecure attachment may lack confidence or display a lower sense of self; demonstrate difficulty with interpersonal relationships and intimacy; and possess an unwillingness to take risks necessary to achieve success," reports Bloomberg, citing one of the study's researchers.

This type of behavior has become normalized: 2024 Pew data found that nearly half of U.S. teens say their parents are at least sometimes distracted by phones during interactions. "When parents were asked about their own behavior, far fewer said this was an issue," the report adds. "Still, earlier Pew data from 2020 found most parents feel their phones can interfere with quality family time, with 68% reporting being 'at least sometimes' distracted by them.

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted. “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”

LONDEN (ANP) - Tennisster Linda Nosková heeft voor het eerst de finale van Wimbledon bereikt. De 21-jarige Tsjechische versloeg op het Londense gras in de halve finale Marta Kostjoek uit Oekraïne: 6-4 6-4. Daarmee krijgt het vrouwenenkelspel dit jaar een Tsjechische finale met daarin Karolína Muchová (29) als opponente van Nosková.

De jonge Tsjechische is bezig aan haar vierde Wimbledon en kwam nooit verder dan de vierde ronde. Kostjoek, de Oekraïense nummer 13 van de wereld, had niet eerder de halve finales bereikt.

De eerste set was voor een scherper ogende Nosková. De Tsjechische nummer 12 van de wereld had genoeg aan een late break. In de tweede set kwam de Tsjechische met een overtuigende lovegame opnieuw een break voor (3-1). Ze leek haar eigen opslagbeurt vervolgens te behouden en zo verder uit te lopen, maar Kostjoek brak terug en kwam op 3-3. Kostjoek leverde bij een 5-4-achterstand opnieuw haar servicebeurt in, wat haar meteen de wedstrijd kostte.

KOPENHAGEN (ANP/BELGA) - Een rechtbank in Denemarken heeft luchtvaartmaatschappij KLM een boete opgelegd van 3 miljoen Deense kronen, omgerekend 400.000 euro, vanwege "greenwashing". Daarbij doen bedrijven zich groener voor dan ze in werkelijkheid zijn.

Volgens de Deense consumentenombudsman had KLM namelijk een misleidende reclame over de duurzaamheid van vliegreizen dankzij 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' (SAF). In 2023 verspreidde KLM een reclamespotje op de radio en Spotify. Daarin had het bedrijf het over "een grote stap voorwaarts naar iets duurzamere reizen". Daarnaast beweerde KLM dat het "voortaan voor alle tickets een groter aandeel duurzame vliegtuigbrandstof" gebruikt, terwijl SAF in werkelijkheid 1 procent uitmaakte van de brandstofsamenstelling.

De reclame "gaf consumenten het idee dat reizen met KLM voordeliger zou zijn voor het klimaat dan het in werkelijkheid was", aldus de rechtbank in Kopenhagen, die KLM veroordeelde voor "misleidende handelspraktijken". KLM zei in een reactie "kennis te nemen" van het vonnis.

Combing through job postings and company help wanted pages for a position that matches your resume is the very definition of drudge work. Now, there's an AI designed to suck up information from the web, do the search for you, and even help you apply. Software developer Tarun Gupta created just such a tool in the form of Autopilot-Jobhunt. When configured with a profile of the user and their desired jobs (and what they absolutely won’t accept in an opening), A-J will scan the web while users sleep, take stock of the positions that are a good match, and then send a Telegram message to its user. That message includes all matching openings, scored against the user's resume and ranked according to the AI's assessment. Users can ask A-J to format a resume and cover letter tailored to the position, which it’s up to the user to review and send - the bot won’t do so automatically. You might be thinking that an AI-crafted resume and cover letter would be a bad strategy for getting your foot in the door at a company you’re keen to work for, but that might not be the case, actually. As we reported last year, researchers found that some AI hiring bots, often the first line a company uses to separate the wheat from the chaff, favored applications generated by the same AI model they used for screening - suggesting the human touch may be worth less than you think in the modern job market. A-J is designed to be free to use (what hard-up developer can afford to do hundreds of AI API calls a night, after all?), and relies on free models to comb the web for jobs. TinyFish’s AI web agent is used to crawl for jobs, while OpenRouter provides the API for one of several default free AI models that A-J will run through, starting with Llama and falling back to free versions of Nvidia’s Nemotron, Google’s Gemma 4, and Alibaba’s Qwen3 when all else fails, or quotas run out. Claude Code and the Anthropic API can be used in place of OpenRouter if you’ve got tokens to spare. For those concerned about A-J broadcasting personal details to the web, Gupta writes that it’s designed to be private, providing an entire privacy readme as part of the project’s GitHub documentation. As mentioned above, A-J never applies for a job on a user’s behalf, and the config file where users link to their locally stored Markdown-formatted resume and set other options is gitignored so it won’t ever be committed by accident. That said, resumes do get routed to the LLMs OpenRouter is configured to use. Gupta said those who want to avoid sending that data through OpenRouter can use Claude Code instead, provided they have an Anthropic subscription that supports it. As for who could make use of the tool, it’s configured by default for software developers, and for good reason: According to Hiring Lab data published on Wednesday, the number of job openings for software developers has risen by 15 percent since Anthropic released Claude Code in February 2025, while openings for all other jobs have fallen by seven percent over the same timeframe. Still, young college graduates in a variety of career fields report not being able to find a job, so the tool could be of use to anyone with the willingness to reconfigure it for a different career field. AI companies, fintechs, and Silicon Valley heavyweights might be programmed into A-J by default, but they can be freely added, removed, and reconfigured as desired. It’ll probably take some work to get Autopilot-Jobhunt configured for your particular needs, but if you’re having trouble landing a role, giving it a shot can’t hurt. ®

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U moest zo nodig naar de Efteling, en dat werd een uur lang in de rij staan, dat werd een stortbui, dat werd doorweekt door met wachten, dat werd vervelende jongeren en Claudia de Breij die voordringen, dat werd ze toch maar voorlaten om het 'leuk' te houden, dat werd vrij snel geen zin meer, dat werd honger maar dat kost weer een uur in een andere rij, dat werd de vraag: WAAROM?, dat werd ja eindelijk aan de beurt o nee toch niet hij zit vol dan maar als eerstvolgende, dat werd het leven haten, dat werd een attractiebediende die lacht alsof hij er genoegen in schept u te naaien, dat werd 'hè hè na twee uur mag ik dan' en dat werd eigenlijk veel liever gewoon alleen maar dood willen. Nou precies als u zover bent wil de Efteling u best ophangen. In de 'Missie Luminar', de nieuwe toevoeging aan het martelinstrumentarium uit het sprookjesbos dat in 2029 gereed is. Kost 50 miljoen, maar dan heeft u het strakjes 'leuk'. Wij hebben tzt een begrafenis moeten naar The Odyssey maar veel plezier alvast.

Door een stroomstoring ligt het treinverkeer tussen Schiedam-Centrum en Rotterdam Centraal al uren stil. Er rijden tot zeker 20:45 uur geen treinen. Tussen Rotterdam Centraal en Dordrecht rijden minder treinen door de storing. Volgens spoorbeheerder ProRail wordt een kapot onderdeel vervangen.

Every year in the heart of North America through the spring and early weeks of summer the gastronomic anticipation builds, radiating outward across the continent, exciting imaginations and stimulating appetites in even the most isolated coastal metropolises, until a day in mid-July when The List is at last released to a hungry world — the list of new foods at this year's Minnesota State Fair. 36 concoctions (only 5 of which appear to be on a stick or skewer) are slated to bow this year, joining the roughly 1,600 other culinary offerings at the 2026 Great Minnesota Get-Together (running August 27 to September 7).

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