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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Forced to Resign as C.E.O. After 8 years of Service

Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and that he built into a transportation colossus, after a shareholder revolt made it untenable for him to stay on at the company. Mr. Kalanick’s exit came under pressure after hours of drama involving Uber’s investors, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous because the details are confidential. Earlier on Tuesday, five of Uber’s major investors demanded that the chief executive resign immediately. The investors included one of Uber’s biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber’s board.  The investors made their demand for Mr. Kalanick to resign in a letter delivered to the chief executive while he was in Chicago, said the people with knowledge of the situation. In the letter, titled “Moving Uber Forward” and obtained by The New York Times,

British Witchcraft Shop Under Attack by 'Christian Fanatics'

A British witch who owns a store for occult supplies says she and her staff members have been facing a campaign of “sustained, continuous harassment” for nearly a decade.  Toni Hunt, 61, told local media outlets there’s been a recent and frightening uptick in harassment and threats from people identifying themselves as members of local church groups. Most recently, police say, a group held a purported exorcism outside the shop and threatened to burn it down. Hunt’s shop Spellbound is located in Gloucester, while Hunt herself is a longtime resident of nearby Forest of Dean and a former police officer. Her harassers, meanwhile, have too much time on their hands and an excess of hostility, she tells Metro UK. She says a group of people have hurled eggs at the store, handed out Bibles outside, and, most recently, threatened to burn the store down with the staff inside. “It’s because we are Pagans and witches, and some people don’t understand what we believe,” she told the publicatio

Seventeen-Year-Old Muslim Girl Captured And Beaten to Death in Virginia

A 17-year-old Muslim girl identified as Nabra was kidnapped and beaten to death early Sunday morning in Sterling, Virginia. She was reported as missing at roughly 4 a.m. and now police believe they have found her body in a pond. According to Buzzfeed, Nabra was headed to Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center with friends at 3:30 a.m. They had taken a break from prayers in order to eat and, having done so, were returning to the Center. But before they arrived, two men with baseball bats emerged from a car and began attacking them. Everyone in the group fled to safety, or so they thought at the time. When the friends reassembled, they realized Nabra was nowhere to be found. “They all dispersed after the incident, and when they met back up they realized she was missing,” ADAMS board member Rizwan Jaka told Buzzfeed. At approximately 3 p.m. officers found the body of a female they believe to be Nabra in Sterling, Virginia. They have yet to confirm her identity. “Our detectiv

I want to kill all Muslims, says London mosque attacker

Worshippers leaving a London mosque just after midnight on Monday were helping an unwell elderly man when a van deliberately targeted them, eyewitnesses said, driven by an attacker who shouted: “I want to kill all Muslims”. The van swerved towards the people outside the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London just as they began to assist the man, who had collapsed. “He turned left into the alleyway, and he just drove at people,” eyewitness Abdiqadir Warra told AFP. “Some of them he took a few metres. A man was inside in the van, I saw with my eye, and the old man was also on the ground, and I see some people were also injured. Some of them were very bad.” Locals then pounced on the driver and pinned him down while waiting for the police to arrive. “The man, he tried to escape… but they caught the driver,” Warra said. Eyewitness Khalid Amin told BBC television that the van turned deliberately left and “just hit the people”. One man was trapped under the van and peo

Etisalat Is Giving Out N4000 to Customers that Recharge N200 On their Etisalat Line, Read the Details to know if You are Qualify to Win

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