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Pubs are calling for licensing laws to be relaxed to allow venues to serve alcohol from 10:00 ahead of the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) wants pubs to be able to sell drinks before kick-off. The BBC understands it is unlikely as MPs would need to return to Westminster to change the rules temporarily. Pubs can open when they choose on Sundays, but when they can sell alcohol depends on each pub’s licence. Temporary tweaks to licensing laws that apply in England and Wales for special events have to be approved by…

Target and Home Depot are slumping. But more shoppers are heading to Walmart for groceries and essentials. Walmart (WMT)’s sales at stores open for at least a year grew 6.4% last quarter from a year ago, including a 24% increase in online sales. Walmart (WMT) said its grocery sales increased by high-single digits last quarter. The company raised its outlook for the remainder of the year, a signal it expects its strong run to continue. Walmart’s stock rose 2% during pre-market trading. — CutC by cnn.com

The early estimate of the areas encompassed by the devastating Maui wildfires includes about $1.3 billion of residencies, according to a recent preliminary estimate from CoreLogic. That figure tallies the “combined reconstruction value,” or how much it would cost to rebuild the structures in those preliminary areas. That doesn’t mean every building within those preliminary boundaries will need reconstruction, nor does it include the contents of those residences. In preliminary perimeters drawn by CoreLogic, the company found 2,808 Lahaina homes that have a reconstruction cost value of $1.1 billion. Pulehu has 275 homes with about $147 million in costs, and Pukalani has a…

On September 19, 2022, three days after Mahsa Amini died after being sent to a “re-education center” by Iran’s morality police for allegedly infringing the country’s strict dress code, photographer Yalda Moaiery was arrested, beaten and jailed. She had been taking pictures of the resulting protests in the capital Tehran, part of a wider, women-led movement that erupted across the country following 22-year-old Amini’s death. Moaiery was released on bail in December, reportedly pending a summons to begin a six-year prison sentence on anti-state charges. In January, a video of Moaiery was posted to her social media: dressed in an orange uniform, she sweeps…

In Nigeria, recycling is largely an informal process controlled by small companies, and waste often ends up in waterways and overflowing landfills. But where others see trash, 37-year-old Nigerian artist Chibuike Ifedilichukwu sees opportunity. He creates portraits of celebrities from discarded aluminum cans, making a bold statement about waste management in the country. Ifedilichukwu credits his eco-consciousness to his grandmother, who he lived with as a boy in Anambra state, southeastern Nigeria. He learned to weave at school there, but it wasn’t until recently that he began incorporating waste materials. One day in 2021, while accompanying his wife to an antenatal clinic, Ifedilichukwu says he stumbled upon a pile of dumped plastic strips. He took them home, wondering what to do…

Micah Russelll, a 28-year-old from Oklahoma City, is a full-time personal shopper and stylist who has shopped for over 370 people since March 2023. She has never met any of her customers in person, or even seen their image on a video call. Instead Russelll works completely remotely, requesting that her clients send through measurements and a Pinterest mood board of their vision to help her curate what she calls “sustainable style bundles” — packages of second-hand clothes specially selected to fit each client’s brief. Who would trust a total stranger online to build their dream closet? Hundreds of young…

Working underground in a Biosafety Level 3 insectary in Tres Cantos, Madrid, researchers at the pharmaceutical giant GSK were frustrated. The mosquitoes they were using to study experimental medicines for malaria had developed a pesky problem: They were becoming resistant to the parasite, plasmodium, that causes the ancient disease. “We needed to get this testing up and running as soon as possible,” said Dr. Janneth Rodrigues, GSK’s scientific leader of global health medicines research and development. “So we tried to find out the reasons for this loss of susceptibility.” It turned out that the mosquitoes harbored a bacteria that secreted…

At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. The issue came less than a week after X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly affirmed the company’s commitment to brand safety for advertisers. The nonprofit news watchdog Media Matters for America documented in a report published Wednesday that ads for a host of mainstream brands have been run on the account, which has shared content celebrating Hitler and the Nazi Party. Ads for brands including Adobe, Gilead Sciences, the University…

More than one million people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since April, according to the United Nations, as fighting between two warring factions plunges the country into civil war. The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than 3.4 million people inside the country, a report released on Tuesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Those who escaped Sudan have arrived in other countries in the region including Egypt, Libya, Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Heavy fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April, triggering a mass exodus of refugees…

NBA star James Harden expressed disbelief after Chinese fans snapped up 10,000 bottles of his own-branded wine in seconds, demonstrating the massive reach of livestreaming in the country, where basketball is loved by millions. The veteran Philadelphia 76ers guard on Tuesday joined the livestream of online celebrity Crazy Brother Yang to promote his J-Harden brand wine as 15 million viewers tuned in, state-run tabloid Global Times reported. “How many bottles do you usually sell in a day … from one store?” Yang asked Harden, who replied: “A few cases.” Yang then told the star to watch how quickly they could sell them.…