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Over two-thirds of startup founders have a fear of failure, per the Founder Resilience Research Report, 2024.Skynesher | E+ | Getty ImagesStartup founders face immense pressure to succeed, but it can be even more challenging to let go of a failed business and find success after.Building a startup has always been risky. Since 1994, the five-year survival rate of small businesses in the U.S. has hovered around just over 50%, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By 2018, the five-year survival rate was 57.3%.Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsBy 2018, the five-year survival rate of small busineses was 57.3%.Bureau of Labor…

In a photo taken on May 26, 2016 a mobility scooter sits parked before rice fields in Gunwi, some 200 kilometres south of Seoul. By 2030, a quarter of all South Koreans will be over 65 years old, and the overall population is expected to peak at around 52 million the same year before entering a period of steady decline. This so-called “silver tsunami” poses a major challenge for Asia’s fourth-largest economy as the young, working-age population declines and the cost of caring for the elderly escalates. And in remote, rural communities like Gunwi, which lies some 200 kilometers southeast…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The International Paralympic Committee has lifted the partial suspensions of Russia and Belarus.The IPC general assembly in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday first voted against a full suspension for Russia by 111 to 55, with 11 abstentions, and then voted against a partial suspension by 91-77 (with eight abstentions). It also voted against a full suspension for Belarus by 119 to 48, with nine abstentions, and against a partial suspension by 103-63 (10 abstentions). The decisions raise the possibility of a clash with each sport’s governing body ahead of the Milan-Cortina Paralympics in Italy from…

LONDON (AP) — The historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age is being celebrated Saturday on the 200th anniversary. On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile (42-kilometer) journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between Shildon and Stockton via Darlington in the northeast of England.It was a small but significant milestone which augured rapid changes in the way Britain, and subsequently the world, lived, traded, traveled and communicated.Though the Stockton & Darlington was not…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 44 people across Gaza, health officials said Saturday, as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war. Among the dead were nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to staff at Al-Awda Hospital, where the bodies were brought. Five others were killed when a strike hit a tent for the displaced, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the dead. Israel’s army said they were not aware of anyone being killed by gunfire Saturday…

Subic Bay is back in play as the Philippines weighs US security guarantees against China’s economic leverage and military pressure, a high-stakes balancing act between survival and prosperity. This month, multiple media outlets reported that the US Navy plans to establish a military storage facility in the Philippines’ Subic Bay by September 2026, according to lease documents. The US has requested proposals for a five-year lease on a 25,000-square-meter climate-controlled warehouse and maintenance shop within the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Freeport area, located within 16 kilometers of the existing US Marine Corps prepositioning program site. The facility, which reportedly will…

Sep 27, 2025, 12:02 AM ETHARRISON, N.J. — It’s been a whirlwind year for Gotham FC midfielder Jaedyn Shaw.When she joined the club earlier this month, on the heels of her headline-making trade – Gotham acquired her from the North Carolina Courage for a National Women’s Soccer League-record $1.25 million in intraleague transfer funds – the team became her third in a long year that has sent her from coast to coast.But when the 20-year-old took her new home pitch for the first time Friday night for Gotham’s 3-0 rout of the Portland Thorns FC, the New York City suburbs…

An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s Atlantic coast featuring savannahs, forests and estuaries are among 26 new UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves.The United Nations cultural agency says the reserves — 785 sites in 142 countries, designated since 1971 — are home to some of the planet’s richest and most fragile ecosystems. But biosphere reserves encompass more than strictly protected nature reserves; they’re expanded to include areas where people live and work, and the designation requires that scientists, residents and government…

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The people of Seychelles voted Saturday in an election to choose a new leader and parliament, with President Wavel Ramkalawan seeking a second term in Africa’s smallest country.Ramkalawan’s chief political rival, Patrick Herminie of the United Seychelles Party, is a veteran lawmaker and parliamentary speaker from 2007 to 2016.Polls opened at 7 a.m. in a sign of what was expected to be a strong voter turnout in the tourist haven, where the president is elected for a five-year term. Long lines formed at many polling stations across the country Saturday. Electoral authorities said all stations opened…

James Comey is indicted Former FBI director James Comey was charged with lying to Congress on Thursday as the Trump administration escalated its campaign against the president’s perceived enemies.Here is a summary of what happened, the backstory on the Trump-Comey relationship, and here is our analysis of Trump’s campaign of retribution. Kimmel is back on the airJimmy Kimmel was back on his late-night show on Tuesday, receiving big ratings after his brief suspension by ABC. He pushed back against his critics and said the affiliates who took him off the air for his remarks about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk…