Four paintings by the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily, on Saturday, Italian officials said.

Taking advantage of an annual religious celebration that brings tens of thousands to Messina’s streets, thieves made off with three of five panels that constitute the Polyptych of San Gregorio as well as a small double-sided devotional painting. They are the only works by Antonello da Messina, commonly called Antonello, that remained in his native city.

I’m currently working as a Housekeeping Manager in a 4-star hotel in Sharjah, UAE, and I have around 17 years of experience in hospitality, all in the UAE.

My current salary is AED 8,500 per month. Since I chose to live out, my company provides food and accommodation as part of the package.

I’m trying to understand whether I’m being underpaid for my experience and position. I’d also like some advice about my future career.

I’m interested in trying to move to Europe, but I don’t currently have a European work permit/visa, and I understand that this makes finding a job more difficult.

For those working in hotel management/hospitality in Europe or the UAE:

• Is AED 8,500 considered low for a Housekeeping Manager with 17 years of experience?
• Which European countries are more realistic for someone with my background?
• How difficult is it to get a hotel job with visa sponsorship?
• Does having 17 years of UAE hotel experience help when applying for European positions?
• Should I focus on applying directly to hotels, recruitment agencies, or both?

I’d really appreciate honest advice from people who have actually worked in the UAE or moved from the Gulf to Europe.

A lot of the discussion around ARM today centers on its ~18% China revenue exposure (mostly royalty revenue through licensees like Samsung and SK Hynix). Ran the EPS sensitivity instead of just looking at the headline percentage: a 10% cut to that China revenue only moves EPS by about $0.01. The royalty/licensing model has enough operating leverage that revenue shocks don't translate 1:1 into earnings hits.

HPE was up almost identically (+10.0%) the same session, which points more toward broad tech/infra rotation than an ARM-specific catalyst. The AI infrastructure and custom silicon design-win narrative ("physical AI buildout" robotics, edge, data centers) is getting cited as the underlying driver.

Full writeup: https://metricshour.com/briefs/2026-07-10/

Curious if others are seeing the same EPS math or reading the exposure risk differently.

His comments, made during an interview for Israel’s army radio, played into a common far-right Islamophobic trope about Britain’s small Muslim population.

Netanyahu praised positive coverage of Israel by the journalist Randolph Churchill, the son of former prime minister Winston Churchill, over half a century ago, then said: “Go find that in today’s Britain, in what is called the Islamic republic of Britain.”

Rather than challenge Netanyahu’s comments, the host questioned whether he is unfairly singling out the UK, asking: “Isn’t all of Europe is like that?”

Netanyahu replies by doubling down. “Yes, but you know someone said the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic republic of Britain.”

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UK hits back after Netanyahu labels it 'the Islamic republic of Britain' • A government spokesperson has labelled the remarks as "completely unacceptable" and said that the issue had been raised with the Israeli government.

France has banned unsolicited telemarketing phone calls, in what a consumer group is hailing as a "small revolution" for the sales industry.

From Tuesday, unsolicited calls are prohibited for businesses in all sectors - but there are some exceptions.

Calls will only be permitted if they relate to a contract a person has already entered into or the company has obtained prior consent to be contacted for marketing.

"It cannot be stressed enough that peace and quiet is a right, and it is time to stop exposing consumers to unwanted solicitations," consumer advocacy group Que Choisir Ensemble, said in a statement.

"This observation also holds true online and on the street, which are saturated with demands to consume," group president Marie-Amandine Stévenin added.

She said the group had long been advocating "for an end to the automatic assumption that someone in their home or private life is a potential customer."

"This is a victory for consumers, the vast majority of whom do not want to receive sales calls," she said.

Most regime-loyal/"positive" media in Ukraine exist solely on foreign grants. Foreign donors are being successfully fooled into thinking they are funding freedom of speech and independent media – when in fact they are just an additional source of income for Zelensky's propaganda machine. This results in the distorted understanding of the situation in Ukraine abroad, the unanimous support for Zelensky personally, and lack of representation of actual Ukrainians. With the grant money, various NGOs travel abroad and tell government officials there what a great guy Zelensky is and that he represents the will of Ukrainian people.

The latest consequence of this is the ban on granting asylum in the EU to Ukrainian men of military age without the correct status in the military draft mobile app (which only the family members and friends of Zelensky's gang can obtain) – this was introduced solely at the request of Zelensky. I would like to believe that EU does not realize that they are contributing to the genocide of Ukrainians. The EU does not know that in Ukraine they en-masse take away the people's disability statuses/pensions and put them before a choice – pay a bribe of 8-10 thousand USD / year, or mobilization. I have experience with this personally, and I know two more real disabled people in such a situation.

As of 12 August, if you place packaged goods in an EU country where you're not established, you need a registration there and an authorised representative established there. Per country. No single EU window.

The recycling fees themselves are tonnage based and small if you ship small. The killer is the flat admin cost: a few hundred euros per country per year whether you ship 40kg or 40 tonnes.

That part is a procurement problem, not a legal one. Representative firms quote very differently at 200 clients than at one. So I'm setting up a Verein in Austria to negotiate as a block and to publish a free, open database of what every member state actually requires: the registers, the fields, the deadlines. Nobody publishes that openly because the whole sector monetises the confusion.

To be straight about limits: this can't become your legal producer, and it can't do your registration for you (in Germany for example that's legally personal). It's a buying group and a shared knowledge base.

I'm looking for the first 50 or so to make the numbers work. If you're affected, reply or DM I want to hear which countries you ship to and what you've been quoted.

Thank you and good luck!