Pop Culture
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Airbnb says users will now be able to book luxury services like personal trainers, massages and chefs on its redesigned app as it continues to expand beyond its main short-term rentals business. “People choose hotels for their services. People choose Airbnbs for the space… now, we’re giving you the best of both worlds”, the company’s…
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Gilles Bastoni is Cannes’ celebrity concierge. Here is his tailor-made list for a sublime Cannes getaway – from luxurious star-studded venues to escapes at sea.
Every May since 1946, the red carpet has been rolled out onto Cannes’ palm-lined boulevards for its International Film Festival, turning the French Riviera resort city into a playground for silver screen stars. Much like the celebrities it attracts, Cannes isn’t camera shy: it’s a postcard-perfect town bursting with fuchsia bougainvillea and resplendent ivory-hued facades.…
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Invented to satiate pregnancy cravings, Dubai chocolate is a rare combination of creativity, flavours and social media success that has broken all industry records.
It was a cold, damp evening in Munich in December 2024, but the festive tunes and the twinkling fairy lights at the Marienplatz Christkindlmarkt (Christmas market) lifted my spirits. With a mug of glühwein (hot mulled wine) in hand, I made my way to the candy stall to get my usual supply of German Christmas…
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Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a lesser-known Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan, explored the trauma and meaning of war – and prefigured current fantasy art. On a rocky beach that glows red with lava, smoke-breathing dragons surround wretched-looking prisoners beseeching an angel to deliver them from suffering. The oil painting Death of the Dragon by…
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Amtrak’s new high-speed trains will be held back by tracks that greatly limit how quickly they can move
The US is a country of 340 million people, 71 interstate highways, more than 5,000 public airports, and currently no high-speed railways. Yet with two high-speed rail (HSR) projects now under construction, and others planned, is the US finally on track to start catching up with the fast trains seen in China, Japan and Europe?…
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Ursula von der Leyen’s text messages with the boss of Pfizer are at the centre of the case
The European Commission was wrong to refuse to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer during negotiations to secure Covid-19 vaccines, the EU’s top court has ruled. The General Court said the commission had not given a plausible explanation as to why the exchanges between its president and…
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Luigi Mangione attends a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court on Feb. 21, 2025.
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The 22nd Amendment leaves none of the wiggle room that Trump’s lawyers exploited in Trump v. Anderson.
President Donald Trump said “I’m not joking” when he told NBC News on Sunday that his allies have been pushing him to run for a third term — but added that “it is far too early to think about it.” I disagree: It is not at all too early to think about whether and how a…
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joins Katy Tur as Senate Democrats aim to curb President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and are launching a social security “war room.”
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Alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua and from the Salvadoran gang MS-13 being subdued upon their arrival at the Terrorism Confinement Center in the city of Tecoluca, El Salvador, in an image released on March 31.