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Tennis great Martina Navratilova still remembers the moment when, at age 53, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.The athlete had always been fit, eaten a nutritious diet and led a healthy lifestyle, but it had been four years since her last mammogram.“I was so shocked that there was anything going on with my body,” Navratilova, now 65, told TODAY.“But you can be the healthiest person on the planet and still get cancer. You are definitely improving the odds by being healthy, but you’re not totally eliminating the possibility.”Navratilova was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, which has been called “the…

On paper, a boiler suit sounds like an easy thing to wear this fall. You slip on the utilitarian one-piece, and voila, you’re instantly dressed! But turns out, there’s an art to styling the boxy staple—and model Gigi Hadid has all the tips and tricks. Over the past few years, the catwalk star has been wearing them nonstop, always making them feel polished and fashion-forward despite their more rugged, car mechanic-esque feel. Hadid’s love of boiler suits can be traced as far back as 2018, around the time her modeling career truly began skyrocketing. That year, she was spotted at the…

Terra Classic (LUNC) continues to show extreme volatility in the market on a massive amount of trading volume. The coin – often referred to as Terra Luna Classic – is down 4% over 24hrs but remained in the top 10 by trading volume in the same time period with $440 million of LUNC traded.Despite its extreme volatility, LUNC remains 7% up in the past seven days at the time of writing and more than 30,000% up from its May low following the de-pegging and collapse of the original Terra Luna coin and UST stablecoin.Price Prediction – Can LUNC Reach $1 by…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Persistently high inflation, the Federal Reserve’s tightening policy and record-breaking US debt have wreaked havoc on US Treasuries this year. Now, economists are noting a fundamental and worrisome imbalance in the bond market. There are trillions of dollars worth of bonds for sale, they say, but a growing scarcity of buyers. If this trend persists, it could lead to credit problems and inhibit…

Vertu Motors predicted that long waiting times for new cars would “cushion” the industry from an economic slowdown in the short term, as the dealership group raised profit expectations for the year because of higher prices.The UK’s fourth-largest car dealer by sales said profits would be ahead of expectations after a “very patchy” supply of new cars kept prices for first and second-hand models artificially high.A worldwide shortage of semiconductors has forced global car manufacturers from Toyota to Volkswagen to curtail production, leading to waiting times of up to a year for some models.Although shortages began during the height of…

Welcome back. Among all the unpopular professions in the financial sector, short sellers are among the least loved. Sometimes, however, they are alive to dangers that are missed by the rest of the market.Investors who sold out of Lehman Brothers in 2007 — when chief executive Dick Fuld said he wanted to tear short sellers’ hearts out — would have saved serious money. Had German regulators looked into allegations of fraud at Wirecard — instead of banning the shorting of its stock — they might have averted an epic institutional humiliation.As vast (and urgently needed) investment floods into green assets,…

Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman for allegedly not wearing her headscarf correctly could have “a crucial impact in Europe”, an Iranian-French academic told Euronews.”It’s not enough for Europe just to support verbally,” Azadeh Kian, a sociology professor at the University of Paris-Diderot told Euronews on the sidelines of a European Parliament debate on Iran.”I think that Europe needs to continue to talk with the Iranian authorities and ask them to stop shooting the people,” she added.Kian said that the protesters in Iran were demanding “secularisation” and separation between “religion and the state” as part of a…

European airlines and airports, reeling from delays that caused widespread disruption as demand roared back after COVID-19, are counting the cost of efforts to avoid a repeat next summer.Industry leaders meeting at the headquarters of air traffic control agency Eurocontrol sparred on Wednesday over who was to blame for the chaos that upset passengers and politicians.”We found ourselves more in the news than we would have wished over the summer,” Olivier Jankovec, director general of airports association ACI Europe, told a Eurocontrol conference.Labour or parts shortages and strikes led to cancellations of hundreds of flights, prompting some airports to introduce…

Conor Benn has returned an “adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug”, a statement from Matchroom and Wasserman Boxing read ahead of his fight with Chris Eubank Jr.The fight will still go ahead.”We have been made aware that a random anti-doping test for Conor Benn conducted by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association returned an adverse analytical finding for trace amounts of a fertility drug,” the statement read. BoxingHearn: AJ-Fury off but we’re happy to continue discussionsYESTERDAY AT 17:13″The B sample has yet to be tested, meaning that no rule violation has been confirmed. Indeed, Mr Benn has not…

Hwange, Zimbabwe – Ten-year-old Simba Mulezu was driving cattle home from his mother’s corn fields when the ground gave way under his feet, plunging him into burning coal underground. The incident left him with permanently deformed limbs. “I spent several months in hospital and Hwange Colliery Company did not assist me with hospital bills and other necessities,” Mulezu, now 22, told Al Jazeera. “[Only] my parents and relatives have stood by me.” Coal fires have become a major issue over the past five years in Hwange, occurring regularly in various areas of the mining town. One blaze has been burning…