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☆ A millionaire philanthropist led a double life as a sex predator who drugged teenagers and young men, court hears
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elliott was charged with rape, sexual assault, voyeurism, and possession of a controlled substance. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIan Elliott was a respected philanthropist in England until his history of predatory crimes was uncovered, per a police court report. The millionaire, once considered a "pillar'" of the Wisborough Green community in West Sussex, led a double life as a depraved sex offender. AdvertisementElliott's reputation was shattered when police unearthed hours of disturbing videos showing his predatory acts against teenagers and young men.

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☆ EY and Deloitte are scrutinizing staff workloads and quietly letting some workers go
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Now they’re scrutinizing employee workloads and letting go of "underemployed" staff, The Times of London reported . EY told Business Insider in a statement that it has "well-established performance management processes" that look at a variety of metrics. The Big Four firms, which include EY, Deloitte, PWC, and KPMG, have cut hundreds of jobs in the past year amid a challenging economic climate. It recently gave 3,000 staff poor performance reviews , which are internally known as "concerns," according to Bloomberg .

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☆ Maisie Williams says she struggled to find her identity while growing up on 'Game of Thrones:' 'I was so lost for so long'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Williams, 26, said she struggled to find her identity while filming "Game of Thrones." AdvertisementMaisie Williams had trouble finding her identity while growing up on the "Game of Thrones" set, saying, "I was lost for so long." Williams reflected on her life after "Game of Thrones" during an interview with The Sunday Times in London. Helen Sloan/HBOShe told the outlet that growing up on "Game of Thrones" meant forming her real-world identity became difficult. Williams told The Sunday Times in London that she tries to offer guidance to other child stars navigating the entertainment industry.

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☆ Russia's NATO neighbors are building hundreds of bunkers and anti-tank ditches in case of an invasion
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementEstonia, Lithuania, and Latvia are busy building massive defensive installations along their collective 1,000 miles of border with Russia and Belarus. The Baltic Defense Line, comprising hundreds of bunkers and other defensive measures, was a key part of an agreement struck between the three countries last month, prompted by the war in nearby Ukraine. Advertisement"A Baltic defensive line is a huge project," Lukas Milevski, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, wrote recently. A diagram of prototype bunkers published by Estonia's defense ministry shows how the oblong structures are designed to fit into a T-shaped dugout, their entrance protected by earthworks.

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☆ Forcing workers back to the office is 'dinosaur management' — and companies risk losing out, expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After the first rounds of return-to-office mandates in 2023, many companies are now introducing more punitive measures to make their employees come to the office — actively tracking attendance, micromanaging employees' time, and blocking remote workers from bonuses and career progression. AdvertisementThis week, Dell informed staff that most of its workers will have to come into the office an average of three days a week. Mike Blake/ReutersIn November, Amazon also added a no-promotions policy for perennial remote workers. For example, women — who tend to take on more responsibility for the family and therefore benefit more from flexible remote work policies — will take a bigger hit from punitive policies, Cooper said. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recorded a 16% increase in mental health disability complaints between 2021 and 2022 from employees who want remote work allowances, The Hill reported.

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☆ Amelia Earhart's relative says new sonar images could be aviator's vanished plane
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA relative of Amelia Earhart agrees that a recent sonar image could show the iconic pilot's long-vanished aircraft. It sure looks like a plane," Kleppner told The Times of London. AdvertisementEarhart and Noonan likely disappeared about 100 miles from Howland Island, near the site of the sonar images. Romeo and his team hope to retrieve the Electra from a depth of 16,400 feet if it proves to be Earhart's plane. AdvertisementThere's no guarantee it's been found, expert saysA map of the location where Earhart's plane is believed to have gone missing along her presumed flight path.

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The palace's disclosure that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer shattered that longstanding tradition. “The King has cancer,” the Times of London declared in a terse banner headline Tuesday. But in beaming a sliver of light from inside the palace walls and his own life, Charles has broken with his mother and royal tradition. HOW MUCH DOES THE BRITISH PUBLIC HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW? Charles' news was received with great sympathy in a country in which 3 million people live with cancer, according to Macmillan Cancer Support, a London-based charity.

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☆ With King Charles out of public duty, the pressure for royals to step up mounts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewThe announcement Monday that King Charles III has cancer has shone a light on just how fragile the British monarchy is. While he undergoes treatment, King Charles, 75, will "postpone public-facing duties" while continuing to work on his usual State business from home, according to the statement. With the king out of commission for public engagements, it will fall to the rest of the royal family to step more into the public eye while he heals. But the list of working royals is growing smaller and older. King Charles.

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☆ 'Sex and the City' creator Candace Bushnell says Netflix won't pay her royalties as it plans to air all 6 seasons: 'The way men do business is a Ponzi scheme'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewNetflix will stream all six seasons of "Sex and the City," but its creator, Candace Bushnell, won't get a dime. The Times of London noted that Bushnell only received $100,000 for the screen rights to "Sex and the City." "The percentage of women in the 1% who made their own money is about 3.5%, and that's shocking," Bushnell told The Times of London. Advertisement"You know, it's a television product, done with Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker, who have both worked with HBO a lot in the past," Bushnell told The New Yorker. Bushnell is now performing a one-woman show called "True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City."

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☆ Ukraine says it can't fire more than 2,000 shells a day as Western allies fail to meet pledges: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ukraine is limited to firing 2,000 artillery shells a day, roughly one-third of Russia's capacity, the country's defense minister, Rustem Umerov, said in a letter seen by Bloomberg. While Ukraine's Western allies stall, and US military aid is held up in Congress, Russia has ramped up production. AdvertisementMartin Herem, commander of Estonia's defense forces, told Bloomberg last week that he believes Russia is now capable of producing several million shells a year. Shell hunger is not a new problem for Ukraine — throughout the last year, soldiers often reported having to husband their ammunition supplies. Alongside further appeals to its allies, Ukraine has, in recent months, been refocusing on its domestic military production capacities.

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☆ Ukraine should give its soldiers weed instead of opioids so it can avoid a US-style drugs crisis, doctor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A doctor said Ukrainian soldiers should be prescribed cannabis instead of opioids. Ukraine is staring down an epidemic like in the US, Viktoriya Yevseyeva told The Times of London. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementCannabis should be prescribed to the Ukrainian military instead of opioids because Ukraine is on the verge of an epidemic similar to that of the US, a Ukrainian doctor said. Viktoriya Yevseyeva, an anesthetist at the Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center, highlighted the epidemic risk to The Times of London .

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☆ Sharon Stone wants 2024 to be her year of love
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Sharon Stone is opening up about her dating life – and 2024 could be a good year for it. But that may very well happen,” the Golden Globe-winning actress told The Times of London in an interview published Friday. “I went on the @bumble dating sight (sic) and they closed my account,” she wrote in a Twitter post. Don’t shut me out of the hive.”In 1984, Stone married producer Michael Greenburg, but the pair split three years later. In a 2018 interview with Grazia magazine, Stone said she has high expectations of the men in her life.

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☆ How Ron DeSantis learned to embrace mainstream media and turn off Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Steve Contorno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

“I came in not really doing as much media,” DeSantis told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday. After keeping the mainstream press at arm’s length early in his presidential campaign, DeSantis now will seemingly talk into any camera that is rolling. But ignoring it was worse.”A spokesman for the DeSantis campaign did not respond to questions from CNN about this story. Ron DeSantis Prev NextInstead, after launching, DeSantis engaged in a lengthy tour of the conservative media ecosystem – radio, TV and influential podcasters. “But conservative media is reactionary to what the mainstream media covers.

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☆ Facebook staff were less willing to talk to the press than dissenters in the Middle East, a reporter says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An NYT reporter said talking to Middle East dissenters was easier than getting to Meta staff. AdvertisementGetting Meta staff to speak was more difficult than finding Middle East dissenters willing to do the same, a reporter told a new documentary about Mark Zuckerberg. Sheera Frenkel of The New York Times made the comments in "Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse" that's being broadcast on Sky Documentaries in the UK this week. She described a culture of fear within staff at the Facebook and Instagram owner about the media. Sheera Frenkel reports on cybersecurity for The New York Times.

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☆ Sheryl Sandberg: Rape should never be used as an act of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic and disturbing accounts of sexual violence. Sheryl Sandberg, a longtime advocate for women and girls’ rights, spoke out against Hamas’ use of sexual violence as a war tactic, saying at the United Nations Monday: “Rape should never be used as an act of war.”“Silence is complicity,” Sandberg said. Witnesses to the aftermath of the attacks say women and girls were sexually assaulted, tortured and killed. In an op-ed published by CNN last month, Sandberg called on the global community to put aside political differences and speak out. “The silence on these war crimes is deafening,” Sandberg added.

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☆ Putin fears the wrath of soldiers' wives as the Kremlin tries to 'pay off' potential protesters, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russian soldiers and their wives are becoming increasingly unhappy with long deployments. The outlet reported that the Kremlin believes most wives are more concerned about the paycheck than their husbands returning from war. AdvertisementThe report comes after the wives of deployed soldiers held a rare public protest in Moscow on November 7. In its latest briefing note, the MoD cited that On 27 November 2023, a prominent online group for soldiers' wives published a manifesto against "indefinite mobilization." Recent requests by soldiers' wives to hold protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg have been denied.

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A British woman and her husband won more than $180 million in a lottery in 2012. AdvertisementGillian Bayford and her then-husband won the equivalent of $187.5 million in a EuroMillions lottery in August 2012. Bayford told The Sun that she gave roughly £20 million, about $25 million, to her family members but has since severed ties with them, even missing out on an invitation to her brother's wedding. Despite offering her family financial help, Bayford told the newspaper that relationships dramatically deteriorated. Speaking to The Sun about her family, Bayford said: "They're rubbing people's noses in it by flashing their cash, which I think is downright nasty."

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☆ ‘Fleece Vest’ and ‘MAGA Hat’ Discuss Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker previously served as Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013-2018. Prior to that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal from 2009-2013. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

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☆ Russia has activated a sleeper network of spies in Ukraine to try to exploit internal divisions, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia has activated a sleeper network of spies in Ukraine to exploit tensions, an official said. Oleksiy Danilov told The Times of London that they are spreading "false narratives" to sow division. AdvertisementIn recent months, Russia has activated a web of sleeper agents in Ukraine to try to exploit "so-called tensions" between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and military leaders, according to a Ukrainian official. Danilov told the newspaper that other tactics being deployed by the Russian agents include stirring up opposition to the government, setting up anti-war protests, and targeting soldiers' relations. Russia and Ukraine have struggled to make any significant breakthroughs in recent months along the 745-mile front.

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☆ Israeli hostages feared they were about to be executed when they were led out of Gaza's tunnels for release
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hostages were scared they'd be killed when they were moved from the tunnels they were being held in. One hostage told her family they only realized they were being freed when they saw Red Cross buses. When the hostages were led out of the tunnel, they feared they were about to be executed, Mayan Moshe said. AdvertisementVideo footage on the Dailymail.com showed Hamas members and Red Cross workers leading Moshe and the other hostages out of buses during the first release of Israeli hostages on Friday. Hamas released 13 Israeli and four Thai hostages on Saturday, the IDF said, in the second exchange of captives.

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☆ IDF 'rejuvenation complex' near Gaza has concerts, massage chairs, buffet, and more — a stark contrast to the horrors of the conflict zone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Videos uploaded to TikTok show a new "rejuvenation complex" for Israeli soldiers. The images portray a sharp contrast to the scenes of humanitarian crisis over the border in Gaza. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTikToks uploaded by user Shita Hakdosha show a newly-opened "rejuvenation complex" for soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces who have served in Gaza. At least 56 Israeli soldiers have been killed fighting in Gaza, and hundreds have been wounded.

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☆ Putin fears the wrath of soldiers' wives, as the Kremlin tries to buy-off potential protestors, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russian soldiers and their wives are becoming increasingly unhappy with long deployments without rotation. AdvertisementThe Kremlin is concerned that the disgruntled wives of conscripted soldiers unhappy with long deployments could become a significant political headache, reports say. The Kremlin believes that most wives are more concerned about the paycheck than their husbands returning from war, the outlet reported. The report comes after the wives of deployed soldiers held a rare public protest in Moscow on November 7. AdvertisementRecent requests by soldiers' wives to hold protests in Moscow and St Petersburg have been denied.

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☆ A pilot who decapitated a wingsuit flyer with his plane's wing has been found guilty of manslaughter
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An experienced skydiver was decapitated by the wing of a plane seconds after he jumped. The French pilot has been found guilty of manslaughter and operating an aircraft without a valid license. The president of a French court said there had been a lack of communication between the victim and the pilot. AdvertisementA French pilot who decapitated a wingsuit flyer with the wing of his plane has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The pilot was found guilty of manslaughter and operating an aircraft without a valid aeronautical license, the Montauban criminal court ruled on Tuesday, French outlet Le Parisien reported.

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☆ Napoleon Didn’t Really Shoot Cannons at Egypt’s Pyramids
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” opens for Thanksgiving holiday viewing, scenes from the film’s trailers are making waves. That was especially true of a sensational depiction of French troops led by Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor firing cannons at the pyramids of Giza. “I don’t know if he did that,” Mr. Scott told The Times of London. “From what we know, Napoleon held the Sphinx and the pyramids in high esteem and used them as a means of urging his troops to greater glory,” said Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. “He definitely did not take pot shots at them.”

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☆ Javier Milei, Rishi Sunak and the War for the Soul of the West
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

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