The Dutch government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte has resigned over a childcare subsidies scandal.

Mr Rutte, who leads the conservative People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy as part of a four-party ruling coalition, stepped down following a cabinet meeting.

In a statement, Mr Rutte said: “We are of one mind that if the whole system has failed, we all must take responsibility, and that has led to the conclusion that I have just offered the king, the resignation of the entire Cabinet.”

He added that he would continue to work to compensate affected parents.

The other parties in the Netherlands’ leadership had called for Mr Rutte to go after an inquiry labelled the mismanagement a decade of “unprecedented injustice”.

The report found last month that around 10,000 families had been made to repay tens of thousands of euros of subsidies after being wrongly accused of fraud.

This lead to cases of unemployment, bankruptcy and divorce.

Previously, €500m (£445m) had been earmarked to compensate around 20,000 families.

Janet Ramesar, a parent who was waiting for the news of Mr Rutte’s resignation, said: “It’s important for me because it is the government acknowledging, ‘we have made a mistake and we are taking responsibility,’ because it’s quite something what happened to us.”

Parliamentary elections are due to be held on 17 March, with the current government expected to stay on until then in a caretaker role.

Mr Rutte is expected to lead his party to the polls, with polling suggesting it will win the most seats and in the driving position to form the next coalition.

Lodewijk Asscher, has already stepped down as the leader of the Dutch Labour Party.

While he is not in the current coalition, he had been involved in a previous government.

Mr Rutte’s resignation to King Willem-Alexander is the first government collapse in the country since 2012.

Then, it was again Mr Rutte at the helm, although that dissolution was due to disagreements over austerity measures.

The Netherlands is currently amid its tightest lockdown of the pandemic, and Mr Rutte has been considering tighter action.

South America’s most successful golfer, Angel Cabrera, has been arrested in Brazil for extradition to his native Argentina to face charges over several alleged crimes.

The two-time major title winner, who was on Interpol’s red code list, was held by federal officers in Rio de Janeiro.

A police statement said an arrest was made in an upper class area of the city, but did not name the suspect, describing him only as a 51-year-old Argentine.

Two federal police sources based in Rio separately confirmed that Cabrera was the detained man, the Associated Press said.

The arrest was authorised by Brazil’s top court and the man will be held until he is returned to Argentina, the police statement said.

Officials in Argentina have charged a suspect with assault, theft, illegal intimidation and repeated disrespect to authorities between 2016 and last year, the statement added.

Cabrera’s former wife, Silva Rivadero, filed two charges against the golfer, Argentinian media reported earlier this month.

Another former partner of his, Cecilia Torres, had also made claims against the golfer, the reports added.

Cabrera won the US Open in 2007 and the Masters two years later and has tournament victories on both the PGA and European tours.

He has most recently been active on the PGA Tour Champions circuit for players aged over 50.

At least nine people were left needing hospital treatment after a bus fell 15m (49ft) off a bridge and into an underpass in New York.

The articulated passenger transport – like a bendy bus – crashed at about 11pm local time on Thursday.

The nine people rescued suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), with the driver believed to be among them.

Photos from the scene showed the blue bus with its front half broken through a railing and touching the tarmac below.

The back end of the vehicle is seen stationary on the level above, with the two ends held together by the torn articulation.

In a video from the crash, which happened in the Bronx, people can be heard saying the scene was “like in a movie”.

Superheroes like Spiderman have often been seen stopping public transport from plunging to the roads below in New York.

A spokesman from the police said the bus driver was “unable to navigate the roadway and went off the road”.

FDNY deputy chief Paul Hopper, who oversaw the medical side of the incident, said: “The bus fell approximately 50ft [15.2m] onto the access road.

“The patients suffered injuries consistent with a fall from such a great height.”