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Londoners 'speed date' for the ideal housemate
Londoners 'speed date' for the ideal housemate

"I'm a software engineer," says Josephine Wright, cocktail in hand, as she introduces herself to another woman at a bar in west London. Loud chatter and laughter is interspersed with the sound of cocktail shakers at work behind the bar.

Argentine lithium a boon for some, doom for others
Argentine lithium a boon for some, doom for others

Anahi Jorge, 23, works for a lithium extraction company in Argentina, earning four times the salary of a local government worker in her village of Susques. Some residents, many of them Indigenous, have used their savings from years of work on lithium plants to start their own companies, running transport for workers or starting small hotels.

France reports over 140 cyberattacks linked to Olympics
France reports over 140 cyberattacks linked to Olympics

French authorities said on Tuesday that more than 140 cyberattacks were reported during the Paris Olympics, but none of them disrupted the competitions. During the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, organisers reported 450 million such operations, twice as many as during the 2012 London Olympics.