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Month: July 2018
When I first get a glimpse of Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, it’s like I’ve stepped into a compartment of my childhood brain. Here is a place where so many of my film, television and comic book heroes all live under one roof and, just for the day, I get to be a kid all over again. From favourites
The project aims to build an “underwater park” for sea life and create an artificial coral reef. Ten pieces of equipment provided by the Lebanese Armed Forces were sunk off the coast of southern port city of Sidon. The Friends of the Coast of Sidon, which led the initiative, said the equipment consists of six
A tattoo studio that claims to be the world’s oldest is at risk of closure because the owners of the building want to turn the space into a kitchen. Tattoo Ole has been operating in the heart of Copenhagen’s Nyhavn harbour since 1884 and has counted Frederick IX, the King of Denmark between 1947 and
Pictured: the sign out front of the original Hattie B’s hot chicken.© 2018 Brian Roberts Southern hospitality is real. For proof that it’s alive and well, just visit Nashville. There’s plenty to do in the Music City, or it’s latest nickname, Crane City. My Lyft driver called it that because Nashville has over 27 tower
The summer of travel strikes continues with industrial action affecting South Western Railway (SWR) routes beginning today and running for 8 days until the beginning of September. Action will apply across the network and impact journeys into London terminating at Waterloo, Victoria, Clapham Junction, Wimbledon and Richmond stations. When are the strikes taking place? Strike action
Editor’s Note — This article was originally published in 2013. (CNN) — At about 3,350 meters (almost 11,000 feet), Mount Etna is not only the highest and most active volcano in Italy but in all of Europe. Etna’s eruptions are relatively frequent. The result: a landscape that constantly changes as lava hardens, craters collapse and,
The popular tourist island of Lombok has been rattled by 6.4-magnitude earthquake that killed 17 people and stranded nearly 700 hikers on a volcano. Rescuers were working on Monday to help the trekkers down from Mount Rinjani after the earthquake caused landslides that cut off key trails off the peak. Authorities are attempting to assess
About A.D. Thompson Amy Drew has spent nearly three decades as a professional writer and roughly half her life as a Floridian. The words, she has found, come easier with bare feet and rum. A roller coaster enthusiast, A.D. readily admits there is fun amid the madness of the theme parks, but has found there
Has science found the answer to some of the world’s most problematic dishes? The Faux Fin by the Alpha Food Lab is a shark fin soup grown by “cellular architecture” — a man-made creation that could avoid the harvesting of shark fin using inhumane fishing practices. “Our main ingredient, shark fin, has been cultured in
Dozens of passengers at Gatwick Airport face delays and cancellations tonight after the main runway was closed for 37 minutes. A British Airways flight from the Sussex airport to Heraklion in Greece which had taken off just after 4pm turned around over Frankfurt and returned to Gatwick two hours later. The pilots of the Airbus
(CNN) — Beach holidays complete with sun loungers, sun cream and cold beers in the shade are probably not the first thing travelers associate with Germany. But the country of beer, bread and trains running (mostly) on time has an impressive 2,000 kilometers of coastline along the North and Baltic seas as well as over
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Easter Island, home to the mysterious Moai statues, is reducing the number of days tourists can stay on the island from 90 to 30 days. The decision has been made in an attempt to reduce the negative impact of tourism on the tiny island. Social and environmental concerns have been cited as reasons behind the rule
(CNN) — In the summer of ’69, 20-year-old Larry Syverson and his girlfriend Judy, 19, spent the day at Disneyland in California. Larry snapped a series of photos of Judy riding the roller coasters and exploring the park. She wore a pink shift dress and carried a white beaded bag, the epitome of ’60s chic.
On the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë’s birth, we highlight the celebrations taking place on the ‘Wuthering Heights’ author’s home turf. 1. Lily Cole and Maxine Peake celebrate Brontë Brontë 200 is tied to the Brontë Parsonage Museum (bronte.org.uk) in Haworth, West Yorks, where the sisters lived – and where Wuthering Heights was written. The centrepiece
Volunteers clearing plastic from a beach in Mumbai, India. Photo by Hemanshi Kamani/Hindustan Times Plastic has been much demonised recently, thanks to its impact on wildlife and the environment, which is starkly illustrated by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and pictures of seahorses clutching Q-tips or dead albatrosses with stomachs full of plastic. Despite the
There are lots of good reasons that Munich is most commonly associated with beer and sausages. Oktoberfest is certainly one reason, and its hundreds of beer gardens are another, with people gathering there every day to spend time with friends and, well, drink beer and eat sausages. But Munich is so much more. The capital
One of Britain’s biggest holiday firms is to stop selling tickets to marine parks that keep killer whales in captivity. Thomas Cook said it took the decision after more than 90 per cent of its customers said they were concerned about animal welfare. The company also took into account scientific evidence from specialists about the treatment of the
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