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We all have plenty on our To Do lists, but Japanese tidiness expert Marie Kondo has more ambitious aims than most.”My personal goal is to tidy up the world,” she tells Sky News, “to take these Japanese sensibilities and in a small way, improve the world around us.” Image: Pic: KonMarie Actively tidying from the age of five by putting things in order at home for her mother and in her classroom for fellow pupils, Kondo founded her own organising consulting business at 19 while still a student.Five years working as an attendant maiden at a Shinto shrine helped hone…

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Shakira has said she put her “career on hold” for a long time to be with her former partner Gerard Pique while he played football. The Colombian popstar and former professional Spanish footballer were together for 11 years before announcing their separation in June 2022 and have two children. Shakira, 47, is due to release her first album in seven years – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, which translates to Women No Longer Cry.Reflecting on the time that has passed since she released 2017’s El Dorado, she told The Times: “For a long time I put my career on hold, to…

Mountaineer and adventure filmmaker David Breashears, best known for an IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest, has died aged 68.Breashears was found unresponsive at his home in Massachusetts on Thursday and died of natural causes, said his business manager Ellen Golbranson. She added that “the exact cause of death remains unknown at this time”.Breashears was an experienced mountaineered who climbed the world’s most challenging peaks. As a cinematographer he worked on documentaries and feature films.According to his website, in 1983, he transmitted the first live television pictures from the summit of Everest, and in 1985 he became the first American…

Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been convicted of sexual harassment and given an eight-month suspended prison sentence by a court in South Korea.The 79-year-old actor, who was charged with two counts of sexual harassment in 2017, had denied the allegations. The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Court also ordered him to attend a sexual violence treatment programme.As he left the court on Friday, he told reporters he planned to appeal against the decision.He has seven days to do this or the ruling will be upheld. The controversy over the accusations of sexual harassment saw him dropping out of…

“Technical issues” that affected Sainsbury’s in store contactless payments and online delivery services have been resolved after causing chaos for shoppers.The supermarket said on Saturday morning that it was unable to fulfil the “vast majority” of online deliveries, while staff waited outside some stores to tell customers they could only pay with cash. Tesco also cancelled some online orders as both supermarkets said they were experiencing technical problems.In an update this afternoon, Sainsbury’s said: “We can confirm that contactless payments are now back up and running in all our stores, alongside all other forms of payment.”Our Groceries Online ordering system…

Cara Delevingne has praised firefighters after her two cats were rescued from a huge blaze that ripped through her Hollywood mansion.Her Studio City home, reportedly worth $7m (£5.5m), was engulfed in flames and smoke on Friday morning, causing the roof to collapse. Image: Safe and sound. Pic: Cara Delevingne/Instagram It took 94 firefighters more than two hours to extinguish the blaze, which gutted much of the property and left it burned and smoking.The British-born model and actress feared her beloved cats had been lost in the fire, but has now posted pictures on Instagram of the cats apparently safe and…

Marks & Spencer (M&S) is nearing a deal with one of Britain’s biggest high street lenders to overhaul its banking arm as a financial services and loyalty ‘superapp’.Sky News has learnt that M&S and HSBC, whose UK arm owns M&S Bank, are close to announcing a new long-term relationship agreement that will pave the way for an overhaul of the business. M&S Bank has more than 3m customers, offering personal loans, travel insurance, store payment cards and a buy now pay later credit product.Sources said the long-running talks between M&S and HSBC had focused on concluding a deal before the…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s a comet that has been spotted from Earth for the first time in 71 years.The 12P/Pons-Brooks comet is growing brighter and is now visible in the night sky – but you’ll still need binoculars or a telescope to see it. Image: A composite photo of the comet taken in Cumbria. Pic: PA/Stuart Atkinson However, it may be visible to the naked eye in the coming weeks.It has already had several outbursts of activity, according to Dr Megan Argo, an astrophysicist at the University of Central Lancashire.”If we’re lucky, it may…

“One, two, three, four – let me hear you scream if you want some more…”Anyone who got within a sniff of a dancefloor in the mid-noughties will know the lyrics, the hypnotic electro beat, possibly the gymnastics-inspired video typical of chart-friendly club tracks of the era (because if it didn’t look like a sexy work-out, were you even making dance music?) Twenty years later, it’s happening all over again. Princess Superstar’s Perfect returned to the charts in the UK earlier this year – and entered the Billboard chart in the US for the first time ever – thanks to its…