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Nestlé said it was the target of a major chocolate heist last week.”We can confirm that 12T of KitKat products were stolen while in transit between our factory in Central Italy and their destination in Poland,” KitKat said in a Sunday Instagram statement.The company said it was working with local authorities and supply chain partners to investigate the case.”The good news: there are no concerns for consumer safety, and supply is not affected,” it added.Several media outlets reported that 12 tons amounts to more than 400,000 bars of the crunchy wafer chocolate, and that the robbery happened on Thursday.The bars…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Natalie Chiu, 36, the cofounder of Saicho. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.I’ve always liked going out for good food, but when wine pairings were involved, I felt second-class because of my alcohol intolerance.I would order juice or a glass of water instead. I felt like I was missing out on a big part of that dining experience.It changed when I met my husband, Charlie. For our first date, we celebrated our birthdays together at a fine-dining restaurant in London. He loves having drinks, so I wanted to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Natalia Mogollon, a 38-year-old Colombian-Canadian Twitch streamer and OnlyFans model in Texas, who holds an O-1B extraordinary artist visa. It has been edited for length and clarity.Living in this country has boosted my career in so many ways.I had been living in Saskatchewan, Canada, for over a decade after moving there from Colombia after high school, and I was very lonely while creating content by myself. In 2021, I moved to Austin, Texas, to live around other creators and streamers.Being a high earner on OnlyFans helped me get the O-1B visa,…

At 5:30 a.m., the place looked like any other resort on the coast of Bali, Indonesia. Empty pools, a vacant dining hall, and the curtains on every room closed so tight that light would think twice before entering.By 5:45, the camp woke up. Before the sun had risen, people poured café lattes and demolished bunches of bananas before wriggling into wetsuits and hauling pastel surfboards into vans.As I watched this structured chaos from a sofa in the café, it hit me that this was no usual holiday — and certainly no usual work trip. At this surf camp, people flew…

Oil prices rose on Sunday as some Middle East officials gathered in Islamabad to discuss de-escalation efforts to end the US and Israel’s war on Iran.Brent oil reached $115.73 a barrel when markets reopened, a $3 increase from its Friday high of $112.57. Western Texas Intermediate hit $103.13 a barrel on Sunday. Oil prices have surged since the US and Israel began bombing Iran at the end of February, and Iran retaliated by essentially closing the Strait of Hormuz. About 20% of the world’s oil supply and liquified natural gas passes through the waterway off Iran’s coast. Major oil hubs…

It’s not easy being the world economy right now.One month into the US and Israeli war on Iran, the shock is upending everything from supply chains to air travel.As the price of a barrel of oil settles in at north of $100, up from $70 before the war, gas prices in the US are flirting with $4 a gallon, the highest since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. And on the other side of the world, consumers in places like the Philippines and India are waiting hours in line for fuel as governments ration dwindling supplies.”No country will be immune to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joshua Dat, 33, owner of Datz Deli and creator of the Mac Patty in New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity.My dad is an amazing chef. He’d been working in kitchens his whole life, and I felt like people never valued him the way they should have.When I turned 29, I took all the money I’d saved from age 17 and invested it in opening a store in Hollis, Queens, with him. We named it Datz Deli — now home of the famous Mac Patty.It was a…

Pokémon cards aren’t just childhood collectibles anymore.Some owners are increasingly treating the popular 1990s and 2000s trading cards like alternative assets, with some of the rarest cards outperforming traditional benchmarks like the S&P 500 in recent years.During key periods like the pandemic boom and another surge in 2025, trading card indexes tracking Pokémon sales posted gains that far exceeded the S&P 500’s long-term average annual return of 10% to 12%, according to trading card valuation tool Card Ladder. The comparison isn’t perfect — stock data spans decades, while trends in trading card values are shorter and more volatile — but…

Kelly He-Sun landed one of the corporate world’s most competitive jobs as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and got promoted to a project leader by age 25.But she didn’t see herself doing consulting forever, so in 2024, she quit after almost six years. She planned to spend time traveling and creating fashion and lifestyle content, but when she made a video about working in consulting, it took off.”I made a video about the number of hours we typically work, and it just blew up. I didn’t expect it to draw that kind of attention,” she told Business Insider. “That’s…

Earlier this month, a leader of the agency tasked with regulating markets and protecting investors laid out the agency’s priorities, tying plans to open retirement funds to private-market investments and to boost crypto to America’s 250-year history of enabling the “pursuit of happiness.” Loading audio narration… You wouldn’t know from Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Mark Uyeda’s March 19 speech that the biggest names in private credit are facing record investor redemptions amid criticism of their valuation policies and their exposure to troubled software companies. Private credit was only mentioned once.Uyeda said that the government’s role is not to protect…