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Kitchen and her husband, described as her “soul mate”, were starting a six-week holiday to Singapore, Indonesia and Australia when the incident happened in May 2024.The turbulence hit over Myanmar, with the flight then diverted to Bangkok, in Thailand, for an emergency landing. “There had been some turbulence over Europe, and it had been shaky over the water, but it was around 10 hours into the flight when we encountered the main turbulence,” Kitchen said.”It was so severe; it felt like the aircraft was dropping. I noticed my Kindle and Geoff’s phone had fallen to the floor, and I thought…

Capital B, the Euronext Growth-listed company that bills itself as Europe’s first bitcoin treasury company, has raised €21 million ($24 million) in a private placement backed by Blockstream’s Adam Back and asset manager TOBAM — money it says could buy 270 more bitcoin and push its stack to roughly 3,415 BTC. The company said Friday that a total of 36,219,070 shares were sold at €0.58 each as part of the deal, a 6.45% discount to Wednesday’s closing price. Capital B said the net proceeds are expected to reach about €19.9 million after fees and transaction costs. JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French…

The rock energy continued on the main stage as Fontaines DC followed Charli, with both acts billed as headliners for the opening night of Reading.Fans had to wait about half an hour longer due to a delay, but the Irish rock band from Dublin soon won them back around as they launched into hits like Favourite and I Love You. They closed out the set with their Grammy-nominated track Starbuster from their fourth album, Romance, with the crowd responding by chanting the lyrics back to them. Ahead of Charli’s set, grime artist Skepta also channelled some Brat energy when he…

Babar Azam’s prolonged Test batting slump continued at Lord’s as the Pakistan captain fell for just 6 runs in the second innings against England.Chasing a daunting 389-run target, Pakistan suffered another early setback when Jofra Archer dismissed Babar, who failed to make an impact with the bat once again. The dismissal added to a difficult period for the former Pakistan captain, who has not scored a Test century since December 2022 despite coming close to the milestone on several occasions.Babar’s latest failure comes as Pakistan attempt to stay alive in a Test where England have been firmly in control.Yousuf takes…

MHT CET 2026 CAP Round 4 option entry begins for BE, BTech admissions The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, Maharashtra, has started the Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test (MHT CET) 2026 Centralised Admission Process (CAP) Round 4 option entry for Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and Bachelor of Technology (BTech) admissions.Candidates can now submit and confirm their preferred colleges and courses through the official MHT CET CAP website. The option entry window will remain open from August 30 to September 1, 2026.A total of 23,107 vacant seats are available for the fourth round of the counselling process.MHT CET…

In MicroStrategy Bitcoin news, MSCI is considering rules that could remove Strategy Inc. from its global equity indexes, potentially adding strain to the financing model behind the company’s Bitcoin holdings. The proposal is not specific to Bitcoin: it focuses on whether companies are primarily engaged in accumulating assets rather than operating businesses, according to Bloomberg. STRATEGY PUSHES BACK ON MSCI INDEX PROPOSAL!@Strategy responded to MSCI’s latest consultation that could remove $BTC treasury firms from major indexes under new “non-operating company” rules. The company said digital assets are assets, index providers should measure markets… pic.twitter.com/0Mga2P9YIe — Crypto Banter (@crypto_banter) August 14,…

Four days waited for Warsh, whose hawkish Jackson Hole speech surged the dollar and crushed gold. The level maps had their cleanest week; lanes graded inside.

A num­ber of futur­ists, philoso­phers, and technophiles believe we are approach­ing what they call the “sin­gu­lar­i­ty”: a point in time when smart machines become much smarter, stronger, and faster than their cre­ators, and then become self-con­scious. What­ev­er the chance of this occur­ring, it’s worth­while to pon­der the con­se­quences. But we do already, all the time—in exis­ten­tial­ly bleak sce­nar­ios like Blade Run­ner, the Ter­mi­na­tor series, the reboot­ed Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca (and its failed pre­quel Capri­ca). The prospects are nev­er pleas­ant. Robot­ic engi­neers in these worlds hard­ly seem to both­er teach­ing their machines the kind of moral code that would keep them from…

Win or lose, Trinity Rodman has been serving looks of love at Ben Shelton all summer. And only a couple of world-class athletes could say that they wished their schedules kept them apart more…

Too much digital ink has been spilled over the younger generation’s sexual pessimism and aversion to sex on screen. It seems that online discourse among Gen Z has increasingly framed sex through the language of objectification, trauma and consent, often treating sexuality itself as suspect. Unsurprisingly, the arguments over sex scenes have become perennial fodder for the film community: whether they’re gratuitous or necessary, exploitative or artistically justified, with the same familiar impasse resurfacing time and again.On paper, Gregg Araki is the perfect filmmaker to combat this puriteen moral panic. The New Queer Cinema luminary has spent decades making films with sex…