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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,

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

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

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

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Aero Contractors Airline, at the weekend, gave out no fewer than 10 returned flight tickets to members and officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in Sokoto State. The tickets enroute Sokoto-Abuja or Lagos were offered to six corps members who emerged winners at this year’s NYSC beauty pageant show sponsored by the airline. The contestants were drawn from ten Platoon units established in the camp with fashion parades, quiz that centred on both National youths’ scheme knowledge and current affairs. Three NYSC officials were also benefited from the gesture. Speaking at the event, the Station Manager of Aero Contractors, Alhaji Abdulmalik Jubreen, said the gesture was another ways of showing appreciation to corps members flying the airline. Jubreen who described the airline as NYSC friendly flight in the state since its debut operation in 2013, also added that the airline supported the event as part of its social responsibility. His words: “Our target is

The Facebook logo is displayed in a start-up companies   [+] A day after Facebook launched a  blog series  exploring its safety and privacy measures, the  Guardian  has reported that some of the company’s own moderators found themselves at risk on the platform. According to the  Guardian,  Facebook “inadvertently” exposed the personal details of content moderators to suspected terrorist users on the site. The security slip reportedly affected over 1,000 Facebook employees in 22 departments through the company’s moderation software, which employees use to review and, as appropriate, remove content flagged for sexual material, hate speech, or terrorist propaganda, among other things. Approximately 40 of those workers affected were from a counter-terrorism unit in Dublin, Ireland, at Facebook’s European headquarters. The breach reportedly resulted from a bug in Facebook’s moderation software that was discovered in 2016, and which caused the personal profiles of content mod