We are now facing an extraordinary situation in which billions of people around the world are asked to stay-at-home, borders across the world are closing, schools and universities have transitioned their classes online, nonessential businesses are shuttering and companies are requiring their employees to work from home. The impact is noticeable at many top travel destinations, [...]
Images Showing How Brazil Is Unique And Different From Other Places
Some individuals find it difficult to comprehend the thought of living in an apartment without carpeting or having nearby valet parking. The country of Brazil has a lot more to offer than just these two highlights. In this culture, it is not uncommon to see ladies without razors, and they clean their homes in ways that you would never expect to see. Even simple gestures [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Trek These 6 Overrated Mountains
Save Your Energy For Something Better Climbing or hiking mountains is a great way to challenge yourself and enjoy nature. However, it’s become too commercial in some places, and many mountains are too dangerous for the average person to ascend. After all, why should people risk life and limb for beautiful mountains that can be appreciated in videos? The reality is that too many [...]
Postcard from Paradise: Anguilla
Your own private stairway to (beach) heaven! Coming with a group of friends? Getting in some bonding time with your grown children? Vacationing with extended family? Treating Gramma and Grampa to a Caribbean holiday? One tropical hotspot can match everyone’s vacation style, this postcard from paradise, Anguilla in the northern Caribbean. Given its name (Anguilla = eel in [...]
Why Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat
Japanese Eating Habits It’s no secret that Japanese people are some of the healthiest in the world. The diet of Japan is one that lends itself well to low-calorie eating in small portions, with healthy foods that promote strong bones, muscles, and internal organ systems. But have you ever thought about just what it is about Japanese eating habits and Japanese living that makes [...]
Game of Thrones Filming Locations Around the World
GOT Locations Game of Thrones was filmed in 6 different countries throughout 45 locations. Take a tour with us as we review some of the more memorable locations. Tours of each location are available and we’ll share the tour information at the end of this article. San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain This is Dragonstone castle. [...]
The Most Terrifying Roller Coasters on Earth
Looking for death-defying fun? Got a need for speed? Then you’ve come to the right place because with close to 4,000 roller coasters in the world, how do you know which ones to try? We’ve reviewed the best of the best and compiled this list of the most thrilling, frightening and totally sick roller coasters around the globe. Intimidator 305, Kings Dominion, VA At 90 mph [...]
The Results Are In: These Are the Best Burgers in the World
There are two kinds of people in the world - burger people and pizza people. If you belong to the first category, you've come to the right place. A burger with a side of fries is the ultimate meal for many of us, and there's almost nothing that says "America" like a good burger. Even vegetarians couldn't live without their veggie burger. Some people would travel for miles in [...]
The Texas Way: Amusing Texas Signs
Once upon a time, Texas was a no man’s land, but today it’s no longer the land of cowboys and outlaws we’re used to imagining when thinking of Texas. It is one of the biggest states in the U.S, and as such, it’s very diverse; there’s a big difference between the large metropolitan cities of Texas and its rural areas. Yet, countless stereotypes exist about [...]
What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas: A Throwback to the Glory Days of Sin City
“Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” reads the sign welcoming you to the Sin City, and fabulous it is. Not many cities in the U.S have kept their reputation over 50 years the way Las Vegas have – it was always considered the city of unlimited fun and options, the place to go to unwind and have a good time, and that is still the case today. The city was founded in 1905 but it wasn’t [...]
The World’s Most Stunning Botanical Gardens
Love gardens? You'll love our collection of botanical gardens around the world. If you can't see them live, then take our tour, it's the next best thing. Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden Beautiful garden decorations in Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden. Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden is a 500-acre botanical garden in Chonburi Thailand. Nong Nooch Tropical [...]
Stephanie Del Valle Representing Puerto Rico Wins Miss World 2016
Miss Stephanie Del Valle representing her country Puerto Rico, in the Miss World 2016 has won the top prize in the 66th edition of the pageant. The competition which has been on for more than three weeks now with 117 contestants was finalized on Sunday, 19th December, 2016 at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The event was hosted by Miss World 2013 Megan Young [...]
12 Random Facts About Algeria You Need To Know
It is a North African country with Mediterranean coastline and Saharan desert interior. It is bordered by, among other countries, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, and Libya. Lining the hillside Casbah quarter is the Kachaoua Mosque with its narrow alleys and stairways. However, are these generally known facts about Algeria all the facts there are to know about the country? [...]
Why US Olympic Swimmer, Ryan Lochte Lied About Rio Robbery
US Olympic Swimmer, Ryan Lochte lied about being robbed at a gunpoint at Shell gas station on a night out in Rio earlier this month just to cover up for his disgraceful act. Brazilian authorities say the American swimmers actually vandalized a gas station and then got into an heated argument with security guards there. It all started when the swimmer and three of his [...]
10 Random Facts About Pakistan You’ll Love To Know
Pakistan is a country in Southern Asia. It shares borders with Afghanistan, India, China, and Iran. The population is put at about 197 million. The capital is Istanbul. Here are more Random facts about Pakistan that you would love to know. The five main ethnic groups are Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, Baloch, and Muchajir. The country’s constitution grants freedom of religion. [...]
10 Funny Facts About North Korea You Need To See
North Korea also known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country located in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and has border with China, Russia, and South Korea. The name Korea is derived from the Kingdom of Goguryeo and its also spelled as Koryŏ. North Korea can be described as mountainous region as 80% of the country is [...]
EgyptAir Crash: All Mapped Bodies Recovered From The Sea Floor
Mapped remaining bodies of the EgyptAir plane 'Flight MS804' that crashed into the Mediterranean on May has finally been recovered by a search vessel John Lethbridge belonging to Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search. The search for the bodies of the victims of the EgyptAir Flight MS804 has been going on since the incident. The EgyptAir Flight MS804 crashed on Thursday 19 May [...]
Man Sentenced To Death For Leaking State Secrets In China
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking state secrets to foreign agencies. The man identified as Huang Yu, is a computer technician from Sichuan. Huang Yu worked for for an encryption research institute in Sichuan province but was sacked due to his incompetence. After loosing his job one day, he contacted a foreign spy agency online to sell some important [...]
Groom Crashed Ferrari Spider He Rented For His Wedding Day
A groom named Usman Ali is now in a huge debt after he crashed Ferrari 458 Spider worth £240,000 in the wall in Burnley. Fortunately the groom and his bride Sakina Parveen came out from the car unhurt. A friend of the groom told Dailymail UK that he was a car fanatic who owns a Golf GTI, and rented the super car for his wedding. He said: 'He's a good lad and he works [...]
Jamaica Plans To Drop Queen Elizabeth As Their Official Head Of State
Jamaican Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen, announced plans on Thursday to make constitutional amendment to drop Queen Elizabeth as their official head of state and replace her with a non-Executive President in the country. The Queen, who has a ceremonial role in the country, is represented on the island by the governor-general, who is appointed on the advice of the [...]
Groups In Pakistan Protest The Right To Kill Their Wives And Daughters
Hardcore Islamic groups in Pakistan are protesting the right to murder their wives and daughters if need arise after the Pakistani government introduced the Protection of Women Against Violence Bill. The group attempted to block the legislation, saying it would “destroy the family system in Pakistan” and “add to the miseries of women”. Wives and daughters are often still [...]
Iceland PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson Resigns After Being Linked To Panama Scandal
Iceland PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has temporarily resigned from office amid mounting public outrage that he hid millions in offshore account as shown on documents allegedly leaked from a Panamanian law firm. According to a government press statement, in the face of growing popular uproar in his tiny mid-Atlantic nation over his links to an offshore company in a Caribbean tax [...]
Brussels Airport Reopens After 12 Days Of Terror Attacks
Brussels airport partially resume passenger flights on Sunday 3 April with an enhanced security after last month terrorist attacked one of the airport's departure halls. The move comes after days of negotiations between airport and police officials on new security arrangements. Brussels Airport, which usually handled about 600 flights a day will begin with three on Sunday. [...]
California Becomes The First State To Approve $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage
California has approved a $15 per hour minimum wage for all workers in the state, becoming the first State in the US to sign the bill into law CNN Money reports. Both the State Assembly and State Senate passed the measure on Thursday afternoon. Governor Jerry Brown said he would sign it on Monday. "No one who is working full time in California should live in poverty due [...]
2002 Nobel Prize Winning Author Imre Kertesz Dies At 86
Hungarian Novelist and and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, Imre Kertesz has died after suffering from Parkinson's disease for several years. He was born on November 9, 1929, Budapest, Hungary and was 14 when he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland in June 1944. Hungarian President Janos Ader said Kertesz's life was a [...]
Explosion Hits Police Vehicle In Turkey’s Diyarbakir
More than ten people, including three members of Turkish security forces have reportedly being killed after after a blast hit a police vehicle in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Thursday. Medical personnel and ambulances have been rushed to the scene of the incident to attend to the injured ones. More details soon. [...]
Suicide Bomber Killed And Injured Several People In A Pakistan Park
More than 50 people have been killed and several injured after a suicide bomber detonate a bomb in a public park in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday. It is speculated that the suicide bomber targeted Christians celebrating Easter in the park and most of the dead and injured are women and children. Bodies were lined up by the side of a fairground ride after the tragic [...]
Bernie Sanders Wins Three States In Western Caucus Contests
Bernie Sanders scored three wins in Western caucus contests Saturday, giving a powerful psychological boost to his supporters but doing little to move him closer to securing the Democratic nomination. While results in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii barely dented Hillary Clinton's significant delegate lead, Sanders' wins underscored her persistent vulnerabilities within her [...]
ISIL Second In Command Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Killed In US Raid
ISIL second in command Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli and some of ISIL key leaders were Killed in a US raid on Thursday in Syria. US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said: “We have systematically eliminated ISIL’s cabinet, and killed several key ISIL terrorists." He served as a finance minister for the depraved group, and was a "well-known" terrorist within ISIL's [...]
Adam Johnson Jailed For Six Years For Having $exual Relations With An Underage Girl
England soccer star and ex-Sunderland player Adam Johnson, has been jailed for six years for having s^x with an underage girl. Bradford Crown Court heard the $exual activity with the girl happened in the footballer's Range Rover in January 2015 and that he had continued to engaged in $exual activity with her knowing she was under 16. Judge Jonathan Rose told Adam Johnson [...]
Poland Break Promise To Accept 7,000 Migrants After Brussels Attacks
Poland promises to shelter 7,000 migrants under a resettlement system adopted last year by European Union members, but Poland's prime minister Beata Szydlo told Superstacja TV on Wednesday. that she sees no possibility of accepting any refugees following the Brussels attacks. Poland’s previous government promised to take in several thousand of the refugees arriving in Europe [...]
Muitiple Explosions Rocks ‘American Airlines’ Check-in Desk At Brussels Airport
Multiple explosions rocked Brussels airport on Tuesday, the blasts which are believed to have centred on the American Airlines check-in desk killed and wounded "several" people. Belgian media reported that numerous people had been injured in the airport's departure hall. Police are talking about at least one death, with reports from the scene of 11 or more deaths. The [...]
Hackers Attempts To Siphon $24 Million From Uganda Central Bank
Government officials and hackers have unsuccessfully tried for the fourth time to siphon money from the largest budget holders in Uganda since July 2015 via Uganda central bank. The hackers targeted the accounts of the Defence, Energy, Agriculture ministries and the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA). Bank of Uganda communications director Christine Alupo said: “The [...]
Stray Lion Injured An Elderly Man In Kenya
A male lion injured an elderly man in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after straying from a nearby national park. on Friday. According to Paul Udoto, spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service said the lion was later captured and returned to the park, the man was rushed to hospital and he is now in a stable condition. KWS, which manages the country's safari reserves including the [...]
Putin Says Russia To Start Withdrawing Armed Forces From Syria
President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Damascus rejected any suggestion of a rift with Moscow, saying President Bashar al-Assad had agreed on the "reduction" of [...]
Hope For Maria Sharapova As Her Confession Could Reduce Punishment
According to a lawyer who has handled athletes failed drug test cases before said Maria Sharapova punishment could be reduced for openly admitting that she failed drug test at the 2016 Australian Open. The tennis superstar who made the confession during a news conference on Monday in Los Angeles, said she didn't read an email that revealed the 2016 banned drug list. Porsche, [...]
Woman Dies After Being Trapped In A Lift For A Month
Chinese Woman identified as Wu was found dead inside an elevator at the apartment complex where she lived. The woman died of thirst and starvation after being trapped in the elevator for one month Two maintenance company workers have been arrested by the police for negligence. Power was switched off to the elevator, which was stuck between the 10th and 11th floors, and the [...]
Maria Sharapova Failed Drugs Test For Australian Open
Former world no 1 and five-times grand slam champion Maria Sharapova, has admitted she failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance called Meldoniun. She has been taking the drug for the past ten years due to health issues and the substance was only banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency as of January 1. The 28-year-old Russian tennis player held a press [...]
Email Inventor Ray Tomlinson, Dies At 74
Internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who is credited with the invention of email has died at the age of 74, he died on Saturday morning. The US computer programmer came up with the idea of electronic messages that could be sent from one network to another in 1971. His invention included the ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses, which is now standard. Ray [...]
Former US First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies Age 94
Former US first lady Nancy Reagan, has died from congestive heart failure on Sunday morning in her home at the of age 94. She is known for her influence and devotion to President Ronald Reagan during his eight years in the White House and his decades outside it. Reagan became one of the most influential first ladies in US history during her Republican husband’s [...]