A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner turned around during a flight from Hong Kong to Delhi on Monday morning and flew back to the airport of departure. This was because the pilot suspected a technical malfunction. The Hong Kong airport authority has since announced that the aircraft landed safely and requested assistance. The incident comes a few […]
The former CEO of cosmetics company Estée Lauder passed away on Saturday. The company announced this on behalf of the family on Sunday. Leonard Lauder was 92 years old. Lauder was the eldest son of the founders of the American cosmetics giant. In 1958, he joined his parents’ company and served for over sixty years
The housing construction is stagnating while the Netherlands needs 100,000 new homes annually. Many obstacles hinder construction companies, but what is the real problem? And is the fall of the cabinet, with large construction ambitions but few results, a problem or a solution? “I was very happy when the cabinet fell, because the rent freeze
Unions FNV and VVMC are threatening a new rail strike on Tuesday, with NS personnel in the northwest and east of the country, including around Amsterdam and Schiphol, ceasing work. First, the unions want to talk with NS on Monday morning. The unions have already sent the notification letter for the strike to NS. “We
In the column The Greenhouse, climate reporter Jeroen Kraan writes weekly about what he notices. This week: a walk through the history of the earth makes the astronomically large climate impact of humans clear. I am standing in the Diemerpark in Amsterdam, but I imagine myself somewhere deep in the Milky Way, 4.6 billion years
Cars are getting bigger and more luxurious. This is bad for the environment, fuel consumption, and parking. Road safety also suffers, according to new European research. Why are we increasingly buying a large SUV instead of a modest passenger car? Cars have been growing in size since the 1990s, but this ‘autobesitas’ is increasing even
The recommended price for gasoline rose by more than 1 cent per liter on Saturday due to tensions in the Middle East. At TotalEnergies and Texaco pumps, it even increased by 2 cents per liter. Diesel has also become more expensive. The national recommended price for Euro95 is now an average of 2.122 euros, compared
The American president Donald Trump earned a lot last year from income from cryptos and his golf resorts. Money also came in from the sale of, for example, Trump Sneakers and perfumes, according to a document released on Friday, as reported by news agency Reuters. The disclosure form for Trump’s finances shows, according to the
Boeing delivered an aircraft to a Chinese airline on Saturday for the first time since President Donald Trump imposed a wave of import duties in early April. This appears to be a sign of rapprochement between the two countries, as Washington and Beijing try to reduce tensions. A 787-9 Dreamliner from Juneyao Air departed from
My iPhone looks very different this week than in recent years. I have installed a test version of iOS 26, the new operating system for iPhones that everyone can use in the coming fall. Apple announced iOS 26 this week as the biggest innovation since the arrival of iOS 7 in 2013. Not only Apple