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Kismet Kebabs remains one of the UK’s largest kebab meat suppliers. In 2024, the company was accredited by BRCGS (Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standards), a global food safety standard recognised in 130 countries. Once BRCGS became aware of court proceedings against Kismet Kebabs, its accreditation was reviewed and last month the firm was found to be compliant.In a statement, Kismet Kebabs Ltd said the business was “significantly different” to how it was run five years ago.”It is important to recognise that the matters in question relate to historical events and do not reflect the standards, systems, management structure, or…

Wavespace, a Bitcoin neobank serving the Eurozone, has announced MiCA compliance of its ‘self-custodial’ debit card. The young fintech company is at the cutting edge of Bitcoin payments technology in Europe, with support for the Lightning Network, and auto DCA to self-custody.  Debit cards in the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry have traditionally worked by preloading custodial accounts with bitcoin or stablecoins. The process of preloading was usually on-chain, taking time to settle and requiring manual input from the user to send from self-custody wallets or cold storage. If the preloaded balance ran out on the card, spending would not…

The short answer: maybe.City officials confirmed to the BBC that someone applied for a street closure permit near the arena over the 4 July Independence Day weekend. The BBC’s US media partner, CBS News, said on Tuesday that the couple are planning a rehearsal dinner for about 100 people at the arena’s Infosys Theater.And high-profile friends of the couple, including actress Lena Dunham and frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, were spotted on Thursday evening in formal attire.On Thursday night, Swift and Kelce donated $26m (£19.4m) to charities in the US close to their hearts, including organisations in New York, Nashville -…

Julian Nagelsmann, Jürgen Klopp Julian Nagelsmann has stepped down as Germany head coach after the team’s shock exit from the FIFA World Cup, bringing an end to his tenure less than three years after taking charge.The German Football Association (DFB) confirmed Nagelsmann’s resignation on Friday, four days after Germany were knocked out by Paraguay in the round of 32 following a 1-1 draw and a penalty shootout.The result marked Germany’s third straight World Cup campaign ending before the round of 16.His resignation came after discussions with the federation. Nagelsmann had earlier indicated he intended to stay on despite having two…

IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur launch India’s first practice-oriented Bachelor of Cybersecurity programme Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have jointly launched India’s first practice-oriented four-year Bachelor of Cybersecurity (B.Cyber.) programme, which will begin with the academic year commencing July 2026. The undergraduate course has been introduced to address the growing demand for trained cybersecurity professionals and combines academic learning with extended practical training.The programme is designed to prepare students for securing India’s expanding digital infrastructure, strategic sectors and emerging cyber ecosystem. Admissions for the programme are being conducted jointly by IIT Madras and IIT…

The Solana Foundation launched a fully onchain governance system on July 1, 2026, giving validators and SOL stakers a formal, binding mechanism to vote on protocol-level decisions for the first time in the network’s history. The system, called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs, is stake-weighted, Merkle-verified, and live at governance.solana.com, according to the Foundation’s announcement. The central design question SGPs answer is not technical implementation but intent: OCC Research describes the model as a “representative democracy with voter override,” where validators cast votes by default but any individual staker can directly override that vote with their own stake weight deducted…

What Is Self-Study? Self-study is the process of learning independently, without ongoing instruction from a teacher, trainer, or educational institution. It generally involves setting learning goals, selecting resources, and evaluating your own progress. In the workplace, self-study is more than just reading or watching videos. It means taking charge of your own learning so you can keep up with changes, build new skills, and keep growing in your career. Self-learning also differs from formal learning. In formal learning, teachers follow a set curriculum, but with self-learning, you decide what, when, and how you learn. Unlike school or university, self-education puts…

And Billy Joel did the same for the pals invited to his annual summertime kickoff, turning a 2015 barbecue at his sprawling Long Island estate into surprise vows as he married equestrian Alexis Roderick.  As for Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, they ensured that no one crashed their party, marrying on July 3, 2021 at his 1,300-acre Oklahoma ranch.  “It was beyond what I thought it was going to be,” the No Doubt frontwoman later confessed to Jade Iovine on her Tell Me About It podcast. Reflecting on how lucky she felt, Stefani added, “My spiritual journey has really guided me…

What does it look like to build a life with someone you’ve never actually been in the same room as? Birds of War defies the typical screen love saga, framing its story around a fragile connection built entirely through a phone screen.What begins as a strictly professional connection between Janay Boulos, a Lebanese, London-based BBC reporter, and Abd Alkader Habak, a Syrian frontline activist, quickly evolves into something more radical. As citizens of two historically clashing countries, their bond is controversial, so much so that Boulos must keep the relationship hidden from her parents. What unfolds is a forbidden, boundary-breaking love story. Get more Little White Lies Over a 13-year period…

Many of our founding fathers are familiar names, but a few others’ contributions are largely unnoticed and underappreciated. John Taylor of Caroline is one such man. Modern critics often dismiss the founders’ contributions because they were also slaveholders, which was true of Taylor, though he wrote of it negatively. His goals of freeing and “re-exporting” slaves to Africa to avoid violent revolt might strike modern readers as objectionable, but were fairly progressive for the time. With this context understood, it is most accurate to view Taylor as producing a defense of agrarian democracy. Joseph Stromberg called Taylor “the philosopher and…