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In 2016, Claudia was working as a police officer in Stockholm, where she had been living for nine years. Although she enjoyed her work, she had a long-held ambition to become an entrepreneur. “A lot of people find it strange that anyone would want to give up a stable career,” she says. “I wanted to meet like-minded people, so I posted a message on a women’s social group on Facebook asking if anyone knew about any interesting events for startups, and whether anyone wanted to join me.” Although she says she found it scary putting herself out there, she was…

Luke Littler hopes to inspire other young people to play darts after his historic world championship run.The 16-year-old newcomer took the sport by storm when he was beaten by world number one Luke Humphreys in the final at Alexandra Palace on Wednesday night. He was just one victory away from becoming darts’ youngest champion and earning sporting immortality, but he lost 7-4 in the final.His performances over the past fortnight have earned him celebrity status and transcended the darts world as everyone wants a piece of the action from the teenager from Warrington.Littler left school in the summer with just…

Russian hackers inside Ukraine’s biggest telecoms company since at least May – Kyiv spy chiefRussian hackers were inside Ukrainian telecoms company Kyivstar’s system from at least May last year in a cyber-attack that should serve as a “big warning” to the west, Ukraine’s cyber spy chief told Reuters.The hack, one of the most dramatic since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly two years ago, knocked out services provided by Ukraine’s biggest telecoms operator for about 24 million users for days from 12 December.In an interview, Illia Vitiuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, disclosed exclusive details about the…

Usman Khawaja claims David Warner sacrificed his image for the good of Australian cricket and the aggressive opening bat never wanted to be the attack dog he was told he was.But Khawaja was heartened that when Warner took to the Test pitch for the last time, his childhood friend was now playing the game he loved in the way he had always wanted.Warner, who was bowled out for 34 in the first innings of the final Test on Thursday, slipped after catching and bouncing the ball from the hands of spin all-rounder Agha Salman.”He’s been playing really well this series,”…

“You talkin’ to me?” One of the most famous speeches of the past half-century is delivered with only a mirror for an audience. Alone in his cramped bedsit, clothes drying on a line in the corner, Travis Bickle dons a green army jacket and practises pulling out a pistol. And so unravels Taxi Driver, the classic film study of isolation and lethal madness. “Well, I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talkin’ to?”Where does it come from, the paranoia that shrouds Bickle? From steering a yellow cab around and around New York’s concrete claustrophobia. “There…

The first Black president of Harvard, who resigned Tuesday after a successful rightwing campaign to oust her, warned that the tactics used against her were “merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society”.“Trusted institutions of all types – from public health agencies to news organizations – will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility,” Claudine Gay wrote in the New York Times on Wednesday, a day after she announced she was resigning from her position.Gay, a political scientist who was appointed six…

According to the latest details reported by local media, a Japan Airlines plane was engulfed in flames after all 379 passengers and crew members escaped. The pilot was initially unaware that the plane was on fire.The passenger plane collided with a Coast Guard aircraft after landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday night. All but one of the six people on board the small plane were killed.Video taken by passengers showed a ball of fire suddenly erupting from the plane before it came to a stop, and the fire began to spread from underneath the plane.But the Japan Airlines pilot…

It has long been known that the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein operated at the center of a globe-spanning network of the rich, famous and powerful but the documents released Wednesday were nonetheless shocking in revealing the sheer magnitude of his elite circle.Through the prism of a defamation lawsuit involving allegations against the Wall Street “estate planner” Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the scale of their social network came into harsh focus.The 2024-page document released by the US judge Loretta Preska has been sought since 2016. It may be only the first to flesh out the extraordinary web Epstein…

Previously redacted names of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s vast network of friends and business associates were revealed this week in the form of nearly 1,000 pages of court records, which were released this week. Three unsealed.Those associates, as well as many of the names of Epstein’s inner circle – who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges – had previously been redacted from court documents.In anticipation of these revelations, there has been speculation on social media as to what their consequences will be. To help you understand the importance of this more clearly,…

When Jerry Mai migrated to Australia from Vietnam with her parents at six years old, a whole new way of eating opened up for her. She grew up eating instant noodles and “heavy meals” like fried rice for breakfast, so seeing friends eating cereal felt exciting and new. She had Fomo for their sandwiches at lunchtime even while tucking into rice paper rolls, rice and leftover curries.“I used to love to go to my friend’s house because her parents would always make us a butter and honey sandwich and we’d have it with a cup of cordial,” the executive chef…