Halloween is here and everyone’s dressed up — even our favorite restaurants and food brands. Fishwife showed off an array of tinned fish costumes. The Los Angeles izakaya Ototo is temporarily taking on the form of a Japanese 7-Eleven, while the Minnesota barbecue truck Animales is imitating McDonald’s. In Washington, D.C., restaurant staff is dressed…
Pompeii plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalised tickets from next week in an effort to cope with overtourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said. This summer, a record 4 million people visited the remains of the ancient Roman city, buried under ash and rock after the eruption…
Recruitment companies have warned about declining confidence across Europe and the UK, as political uncertainty adds to concerns about economic growth. The FTSE 250 recruiter PageGroup said on Monday that profits had dropped by nearly a quarter in Germany and 17% in France during the last three months of 2024, compared with the same period…
Donald Trump has chosen the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as the next US ambassador to Israel. Huckabee has a track record of hardline, occasionally provocative, pro-Israel rhetoric and previously said Israel has a rightful claim to the West Bank, which he refers to by its Hebrew and biblical name of Judea and Samaria. The…
President-elect Donald J. Trump reiterated his support for undoing a major provision of his 2017 tax law on Saturday when he told more than a dozen House Republicans at his Florida estate to come up with a plan for increasing the state and local tax deduction, according to four lawmakers who attended. Republicans put a…
A new age of commercial moon exploration is upon us, and one of the most exciting missions yet is about to launch—one laden with rovers, a drill, and even a hopper spacecraft that will try to “jump” into a permanently dark lunar crater to search for ice. The IM-2 mission, from Texas-based company Intuitive Machines,…
Kim Kardashian has a new Number One Girl — the SKIMS co-founder just revealed BLACKPINK’s Rosé is the face of her brand’s Valentine’s Day campaign … tapping the singer to rock sexy pajamas for the occasion. The “APT.” hitmaker posed in front of the camera and showed off a bunch of different holiday-themed ‘fits from…
Donald Trump’s order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has led the US air force to suspend course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the US military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, a US official said on Saturday. The famed Black aviators included 450 pilots who fought overseas in segregated units…
Retail sales in Great Britain were weaker than expected in November despite stores starting to cut prices early as part of Black Friday discounting in the run-up to the key Christmas shopping season. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales volumes rose 0.2% month on month in November, falling short of the 0.5% that…
A major fall in the number of days National Disability Insurance Scheme participants are staying in hospital is saving the public health system “hundreds of millions of dollars”, the federal government said. NDIS participants who were medically cleared to leave hospital had previously been waiting an average of 160 days to be discharged due to…
