SBS will broadcast a cabaret show every Saturday evening for nine weeks from 9 January. Brigitte Kaandorp and Lenette van Dongen, among others, are among the comedians whose shows will be shown on SBS6. The series of cabaret shows starts with the television premiere of the show Number one by Ronald Goedemondt. A week later … Read more
Actor Bram van der Vlugt, who died on Saturday morning at the age of 86 from the consequences of the corona virus, crawled into the skin of the ‘adviser to Sinterklaas’ every year for about a quarter of a century. Yet it was not ‘his’ role, Erik van Muiswinkel tells NU.nl on Saturday. “It wasn’t … Read more
Prime Minister Mark Rutte and former members of government in the previous cabinet Lodewijk Asscher, Eric Wiebes and Frans Weekers are partly responsible for the brutal fraud approach that led to the dramatic childcare allowance affair. The Parliamentary Interrogation Committee Childcare Allowance writes in the final report on Thursday Unprecedented Injustice that the four men … Read more
Illustrator and art director Waldemar Post passed away on Thursday, reports de Volkskrant. He worked for that newspaper for about fifty years. Post ended up in hospital with corona complaints and died yesterday at the age of 84. Next de Volkskrant he also drew for various magazines such as HP / The Time, Playboy, Move … Read more
De Netflix-serie The Queen’s Gambit has made many people curious about the game of chess. Online chess is especially popular, as evidenced by the explosively growing number of members on online chess platforms. Good news: you don’t have to be a child prodigy to master the game. Chess grandmaster and former Dutch champion Jorden van … Read more
At least 24 people were killed in Central America by hurricane Iota. The death toll is expected to rise further as several badly affected areas are now inaccessible due to flooding, power outages and other storm damage. Iota landed in Nicaragua and continued to Honduras, where the hurricane weakened into a tropical storm. At least … Read more
Miljuschka Witzenhausen has the podcast together with her mother Astrid Holleeder Family secrets included. The idea for the podcast came about after Witzenhausen offered her followers to ask her mother about her book of the same name. Holleeder is with the book Family secrets nominated for the NS Audience Award. Witzenhausen called on her followers … Read more
Chip manufacturer Qualcomm may again sell 4G chips to Huawei from the United States, reports Reuters. These include 4G products for mobile devices, which are now exempt from US trade restrictions imposed amid mounting tensions with China. Qualcomm and all other US semiconductor companies were forced to stop selling chips to the Chinese technology company … Read more
For a new story on NU.nl we are curious about your questions about the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The companies Sony and Microsoft are reviving the battle for the best game console. What do you want to know about these next-gen consoles? What is the difference with the previous versions? And which … Read more
The president of the Turkish central bank has been fired and immediately replaced after the continued fall of the Turkish lira. The national currency has already depreciated more than 30 percent against the US dollar this year and the country is plagued by double-digit inflation. The resignation of bank president Murat Uysal was announced on … Read more