Book it: Red Savannah (01242 787800; redsavannah.com) offers a week in a Grand Luxury Villa at Sugar Beach from £5,750 per person, based on two people sharing, including international flights and airport transfers. Five affordable family holiday ideas This year, the May half term for England and Wales begins on Friday May 24 and ends on … Read more
As the US counts down the final hours to the highly anticipated total solar eclipse on April 8, the astronomical spectacle will be witnessed across 15 states over North America. HOULTON, MAINE – APRIL 07: Eclipse glasses are worn by a statue of George Washington on April 07, 2024, in Houlton, Maine. Millions of people … Read more
Rock arches on Chad’s Ennedi Plateau or “Stone Forest.” getty Today is equinox—when the hours of darkness and daylight are identical across the globe—but in North America, everyone’s thinking about the upcoming total solar eclipse in just over two weeks. However, totality occurs occasionally on the date of the equinox itself. It last happened in … Read more
Updated Dec. 30, 2023 12:10 am ET A resilient U.S. economy and cooling inflation fueled an intense year-end bond rally. Now, some suspect investors are too sanguine about the months ahead. The rally marked the latest in a series of swings that sent the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury, which falls when bond prices … Read more
Genius bar is telling: No matter how connected we get to our phones, most people accept that they'll soon seem obsolete. The average phone in America … Source link
GIFTS AREN’T ALL you should be wrapping this season. If you’re remotely fashion-minded, now’s the time to swaddle yourself dramatically in oversize shawls and wraps. Stow away those wispy pashminas and grab one of the voluminous alternatives that billowed down fall runways, such as Michael Kors’s scarves, whose fringed ends practically tickled the ground. Consider … Read more
Tax breaks for charitable donations come in many flavors, and this year Congress has a new one for seniors called an IRA charitable gift annuity. It allows older owners of traditional IRAs to donate account funds to a charity and get tax breaks plus income payments for life. Brian and Deborah Smith of Park City, … Read more
DON’T LET the exposed brick fool you. Until recently, this vibrant kitchen in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was dingy, dull and stripped of original details—the victim of a hit-and-run renovation that removed every bit of character from the circa-1900 row house, says architect-designer Sarah Jacoby. The upshot? In 2022, when the new owners, an education administrator and … Read more
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, shocked the nation. It brought justifiable scrutiny on the law enforcement agencies that should have prevented it as well as those that investigated it. Historians, journalists and filmmakers continue to speculate on what happened. Sixty years later, government records are still being declassified and … Read more