Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden appeared in good spirits as she started the fourth day of her trip to Bangladesh with a business breakfast.

The royal, 46, chatted with representatives of multilateral banks and international financial institutions over breakfast at the InterContinental Hotel in Dhaka.

The mother-of-two looked typically chic and wore a blue suit with an elegant cream blouse for the occasion.

Later, Victoria visited the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka and its ambassador, Alexandra Berg von Linde. The royal family appeared pleased as she received a bright yellow bouquet at the embassy.

Victoria then swapped her heels for a casual pair of trainers and a floral dress as she enjoyed a ride on the back of a rickshaw.

With a beaming smile, the 46-year-old made herself comfortable as she sat in the cycle rickshaw.

The mother-of-two wore a pair of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers, but with added glamor thanks to the floral detailing on the side.

To match the theme of her sneakers, Victoria opted for a casual boho-chic dress with a floral and paisley print.

Today is the final day of Victoria’s trip to the South Asian continent, which she undertook as part of her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

It comes after Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden beamed yesterday as she unveiled a portrait of herself during a visit to the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh.

The royal, 46, appeared in good spirits as she uncovered the large portrait with visible excitement on her face.

It was the second day of Victoria’s trip to Bangladesh, which she is carrying out as part of her role as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador.

The regal portrait will hang on the wall of the Asian University for Women in Chattogram – an independent institution that welcomes all students, regardless of their background.

During the visit, the heir to the Swedish throne also talked to the students and interacted with their work.

The 46-year-old also delivered a speech to staff and students of the institution, which is committed to promoting women’s education.

Elsewhere on the day, Victoria visited the UNDP rural climate change adaptation project in the Khulna district of eastern Bangladesh.

Victoria embraced the tradition and wore a floral headpiece for the project, which has received contributions from both Sweden and the UNDP.

Earlier that day, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden appeared cheerful while holding a goat during a visit to a climate change project in Bangladesh.

The heir to the Swedish throne, 46, wore a red and white floral lei around her neck as she visited the women-led community project in Khulna district on Tuesday.

The royal looked bright and breezy in flared white trousers with a blue summer print, which she teamed with an oversized T-shirt and trainers.

Victoria went for natural makeup and her brunette locks were pulled back into a relaxed bun as she smiled for the cameras while holding a small goat, while in another move she held a fish.

The mother-of-two looked in good spirits as she was shown around the facility, which has received contributions from both Sweden and the UNDP.

She chose to wear a simple silver necklace along with earrings, a bracelet, a watch and rings.

Princess Victoria once again showed off her style credentials during her trip to Dhaka yesterday.

She wore a striking pleated swan print dress by Swedish designer Jennifer Blom as she visited the Foreign Service Academy to see how the country is using digital solutions.

Victoria put her best fashion foot forward for the visit, pairing her statement dress with a vibrant cherry red handbag.

Victoria first wore the colorful dress in 2017, when she celebrated 100 years of independence in Finland together with other members of the Swedish royal family.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden beamed as she held a goat during a visit to a climate change project in Bangladesh.

The heir to the Swedish throne, 46, wore a red and white floral lei around her neck as she visited the women-led community project in Khulna district on Tuesday.

The royal looked bright and breezy in flared white trousers with a blue summer print, which she teamed with an oversized T-shirt and trainers.

Victoria went for natural makeup and her brunette locks were pulled back into a relaxed bun as she smiled for the cameras while holding a small goat, while in another move she held a fish.

The mother of two looked in good spirits as she was shown around the facility, which has received contributions from both Sweden and the UNDP.

The visit is part of the royal family’s work as a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

She chose to wear a simple silver necklace along with earrings, a bracelet, a watch and rings.

Princess Victoria once again showed off her style credentials during her trip to Dhaka yesterday.

She wore a striking pleated swan print dress by Swedish designer Jennifer Blom as she visited the Foreign Service Academy to see how the country is using digital solutions.

Victoria put her best fashion foot forward for the visit, pairing her statement dress with a vibrant cherry red handbag.

Victoria first wore the colorful dress in 2017, when she celebrated 100 years of independence in Finland together with other members of the Swedish royal family.

Yesterday she opted for stylish light blue pointed heels and a practical beige shopper, which she elegantly hung over one shoulder.

During her visit, the heir received a pale pink scarf, which she wrapped around her neck, made from traditional fabrics used in the country.

She also received flowers from Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Minister of State for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Victoria attended the event: Innovate Together for Zero Digital Divide at the Foreign Service Academy, a training institute for foreign service officers of the Bangladesh Civil Service.

The Royal Family heard how technology has created various opportunities in sectors such as education and healthcare, as Mr Palak announced Bangladesh’s goal to ensure citizens have equal access to the digital world.

Victoria attended as part of her role as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, which she has held since October last year.

In her role as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, she plays a key role in increasing awareness and commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Victoria said at the time: “It is a great honor to have been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNDP. It gives me additional opportunities to support the work for the Sustainable Development Goals.

“I look forward to immersing myself in UNDP’s work to prevent many of the difficult challenges facing the world today that affect people around the world.”

Sweden has said it will discuss with NATO leaders plans to step up militarization of the island of Gotland, a 1,000-square-mile spit of land widely seen as the most strategic location in the Baltic Sea.

Described by analysts and commentators as a ‘gigantic aircraft carrier’, Stockholm-ruled Gotland lies just 200 kilometers off the coast of NATO’s Baltic triad of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but also just 470 kilometers north of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The prime location offers enormous advantages in the deployment and control of air and sea traffic in the Baltic Sea, and is regularly cited by military analysts and commentators in the Russian media as a highly desirable target.

Sweden maintained a military presence on Gotland during the Cold War and at its peak the island housed some 25,000 troops, but in 2005 it was almost completely demilitarized.

With Sweden’s accession to NATO now complete, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the prospect of rearmament of Gotland was “an obvious topic to be discussed with our new NATO allies” as part of a broader increase in military preparedness in the Baltic Sea.

“Anything to do with the Baltic Sea is such an obvious candidate (for deploying military resources),” Kristersson told the FT in an interview earlier this week.

‘That applies in terms of presence on Gotland, but also in terms of surveillance, in terms of submarine capabilities.’

Russian military analyst and retired navy captain Vasily Dandykin told Russian news channel Sputnik that a remilitarization of Gotland would be seen as a major problem in the halls of the Kremlin.

‘The size of this island allows aviation, airfields and naval bases… (to serve) the dream of both the NATO bloc and the Americans to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO sea… We understand what kind of threat is this,’ Dandykin said.

‘At least more intensively [Russian] exercises will take place in the Baltic Sea. We must understand that Finland is also already a member of NATO. Therefore, our actions will be adequate – both from Kaliningrad, where the Baltic Fleet is stationed, and from the rest of Russia.”

Sweden has not gone to war in more than two centuries and until recently had limited its military capabilities to such an extent that its population, so ill-prepared for the possibility of conflict, even developed a term for it: ‘fredsskadad’, or ‘fredsskadad’ . peace damaged’.

Sweden’s demilitarization of Gotland in 2005 raised concerns among NATO allies, especially the Baltic states that had only just joined the alliance a year earlier.

War planners have long struggled to figure out how to prevent these countries from being cut off from their allies if Russian land forces were to seize the 40-mile Suwalki Gap between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

If the Kremlin were to also gain control of Gotland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would remain sandwiched between the Russian mainland to the east, Kaliningrad to the west and yet another strategic location to the north.

NATO repeatedly urged Stockholm to recognize Gotland’s strategic importance, but the government continued its demilitarization and the Swedish armed forces effectively abandoned their “giant aircraft carrier.”

Fears for the Baltic states were justified in 2013 when Russia carried out a widely condemned military exercise in which two of Moscow’s Tu-22M3 nuclear bombers, along with an escort of Su-27 fighter jets, carried out dummy bombings, deploying their wings within a radius of only 38 kilometers from the nuclear bombers. Island.

This shock prompted Stockholm to restart a program of steady rearmament, but it was not until Russian tanks and fighter jets crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24, 2022 that the militarization of Gotland accelerated.

The invasion of Ukraine marked a turning point in Swedish foreign policy, prompting the government to abandon its two-century policy of military neutrality and non-alignment and to apply to join NATO.

Two years later, SwedenThe flag was raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Monday, cementing the Scandinavian country’s place as the security bloc’s 32nd member.

“Russia’s brutal, large-scale invasion of Ukraine united Sweden behind the conclusion that full NATO membership is the only reasonable choice,” Kristersson said.

Now the Scandinavian state appears fully aware of the Russian threat and has developed a well-trained and well-equipped military that boasts one of the most advanced submarine fleets in the world and a highly capable air force, with around 80 Gripen fighter jets.

Swedish armed forces are now also involved in the Nordic exercises of NATO’s massive military exercises, Steadfast Defender 2024, which will see around 90,000 troops take part in large-scale war games taking place from January to June.

‘We are modest, but also proud. We know that expectations are high for Sweden, but we also have high expectations for ourselves,” Kristersson told reporters earlier this week after his country’s accession to NATO.

“We will share burdens, responsibilities and risks with our allies.”

The country has been working closely with the security alliance during military exercises in recent years, even before joining.

Sweden also meets NATO’s defense spending target of 2% of gross domestic product.

Sweden’s entry into the security alliance last week came days after Germany’s defense minister said Putin’s military could launch an attack on allied countries within “five to eight years.”

Boris Pistorius said the US, UK and EU “hear threats from the Kremlin almost every day… so we have to take into account that Vladimir Putin could one day even attack a NATO country.”

Pistorius told German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel: “Our experts expect a period of five to eight years during which this could be possible.

“We must learn to live with danger again and prepare ourselves – militarily, socially and in the field of civil protection,” he concluded, pointing to an alarming speech by the Swedish Minister of Civil Defense earlier this year in which he called on citizens to prepare. for the prospect of war.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas believes a confrontation between Russia and NATO is even more threatening, giving Europe just three to five years to prepare for a serious military threat on the alliance’s eastern flank.

And Admiral Rob Bauer, the chairman of NATO’s Military Committee, urged both citizens and governments to prepare for cataclysmic conflict and the chilling prospect of conscription.

‘We must realize that it cannot be taken for granted that we will have peace. And that’s why we [NATO forces] have the plans, that is why we are preparing for a conflict with Russia,” Bauer told reporters after a recent meeting of NATO defense chiefs in Brussels.

‘But the discussion is much broader. It is also the industrial base and also the people who need to understand that they have a role to play.”

A series of fascinating, reworked maps have revealed the most popular jobs around the world – and being a pilot tops the list as the world’s number one dream job in 2024.

On the main map – generated using the search analytics tool Ahrefs – countries are colour-coded to indicate the jobs their residents are most interested in learning about for a career change.

The sentence ‘how to become a pilot‘ was keyed 50,000 times on the internet in January 2024, with the search tops in 55 countries around the world, including Britain, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, Kenya, Somalia, India, Saudi Arabia and Japan.

According to research by career site Jobseeker, this is the second most popular job in the world flight attendantwhich generated 29,000 searches and is at the top in America, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

Be one fashion model ranks third (25,000 searches) worldwide and is the number 1 career choice in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq and Morocco.

Jobseeker said: ‘Europe was a key driver of this trend, along with that of the continent [prominence] as a fashion powerhouse likely to influence locals.”

The rest of the top five consists of psychologist (fourth, 17,000) – top in Australia and Bolivia – and ‘influencer‘ (fifth, 17,000), top in Colombia, Venezuela and South Africa.

Doctor is sixth in the rankings (15,000) – top in Uganda and DR Congo – lecturer comes seventh (14,000, seventh) and is top in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia; while you have a lawyer comes in eighth place (14,000). A legal career is the first choice in Haiti and Liberia.

The rest of the top 10 consists of fireman (ninth, 14,000 and top in Chile) and ‘entrepreneur‘ (13,000 and top in Guinea).

Outside the top 10 list, the maps show Montenegro breaking European trends, with people daydreaming about life as musicians.

While Australians are curious about psychology, there are numerous jobs piqued interest across the islands of Oceania, from photographer in Samoa and the Cook Islands to singer in New Caledonia and YouTuber in Fiji.

In South America, Argentinians are looking for details on how to become a chef, while Bolivians’ dream job is a photographer.

The survey shows that Peruvians want to become teachers, citizens of football coaches in Paraguay and Uruguayans want to become YouTubers.

In Asia, becoming a pilot or a model is the best choice, but not in China, where journalism is the first career choice, while becoming a teacher is the dream role in Taiwan.

Afghanistan and Yemen are also bucking the trend in Asia: their citizens would prefer to be writers.

A Jobseeker spokesperson said: ‘Our Dream Jobs campaign was incredibly exciting to develop, revealing key patterns and differences between what we see as a dream job.

‘While the prospect of becoming a pilot is a strong theme in the research, the sheer variety of career paths indicates that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to career satisfaction and fulfillment. We’re happy to see more modern avenues, like influencers and YouTubers, making the list. Who knows what people’s dream jobs will be as professions evolve over the next 10, 20 and 50 years?

‘Every country in the world has a unique view of what a dream career means.’

To gather the data, Jobseeker has compiled a ‘seed list’ of 35 jobs commonly defined as dream careers. This list was then uploaded to Ahrefs and ranked based on total global search volume.

Countries across the six populated continents were rated against the 35 dream jobs using the search template ‘how to become one.’ [JOB TITLE]’, with the end result being the most sought-after dream job per country.

Data was collected through internet searches for January 2024.

For more information visit www.jobseeker.com/en/resume/articles/dream-jobs-around-the-world.

By A. James for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 8:14 PM EST, March 6, 2024 | Updated: 8:14 PM EST, March 6, 2024

Five Europeans have died in an outbreak of avian chlamydia that has spooked health chiefs.

Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued an urgent warning about an ‘unusual’ increase in the number of people developing psittacosis in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Sweden.

The flu-like illness, nicknamed parrot fever, is caused by a type of chlamydia common in birds.

It is different from the species responsible for the human STD and is not spread sexually.

Psittacosis usually causes mild symptoms such as headache and coughing. Still, in severe cases it can lead to severe pneumonia and meningitis.

It can be especially problematic for the elderly or those with weakened immune systems.

Surveillance data shows that rates of psittacosis, also called ornithosis, in Austria are up to seven times higher than expected.

The WHO said: ‘Although birds carrying this disease could cross international borders, there is currently no evidence that this disease is spread nationally or internationally by humans.

‘Generally speaking, people do not spread the bacteria that causes psittacosis to other people, so the chance of further transmission of the disease from person to person is small.

‘If the correct diagnosis is made, this pathogen can be treated with antibiotics.’

Officials have urged pet owners, who are most at risk, to keep cages clean and avoid overcrowding.

Workers who have regular contact with potentially infected birds, such as pet store employees and veterinarians, should also maintain good hand hygiene, the WHO said.

Infected birds do not always show signs of illness. Sick birds may have no appetite, inflamed eyes, breathing difficulties and diarrhea.

Parrot fever is a respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydophila psittaci.

The bug can infect people who are exposed to infected birds, especially parrots, parakeets, budgerigars and cockatiels.

Pigeons, pigeons, ducks, turkeys and chickens can also be infected.

Infection usually occurs by inhaling airborne bacteria from bird droppings, feather dust, or respiratory secretions.

Human-to-human transmission is possible, but rare, studies show.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no evidence that the bacteria is spread by preparing or eating poultry.

In most recent cases, people had been exposed to domesticated or wild birds that were infected, the WHO said.

Denmark, where around two dozen human cases of psittacosis occur each year, has recorded 23 cases since the end of 2023, including four deaths.

However, officials suspect the number of cases is much higher.

One got parrot fever from a pet bird. Of the remaining 15 for which exposure information was available, 12 had contact with wild birds.

Three had no history whatsoever with the animals.

Another fatal accident was recorded in the Netherlands, where twice as many cases were registered as in previous years.

Of the three other countries under the WHO flag, Austria recorded fourteen confirmed cases in 2023. Normally the country only sees two per year.

The latest figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show four laboratory-confirmed cases of psittacosis in England in 2023.

In Britain, parakeets, the only wild parrot species in Britain and a popular pet, may pose a particular threat due to their large numbers across the country.

Scientists have long been concerned about rising numbers of rose-ringed parakeets, which are largely concentrated in suburban areas, especially in gardens and parks in England’s leafy south-east.

By Zeenia Naqvee

Published: 07:12 EST, March 5, 2024 | Updated: 10:47 AM EST, March 5, 2024