02.18.19

The real national emergency is the triviality of our politics
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) learned that President Trump would declare a national emergency to shift around money to finance his border wall, her denunciation was predictable. Observing the "unease," even among many Republicans, over Trump’s abuse of his power, she noted that "if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency — an illusion that he wants to convey —...
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02.17.19

Is the world's most expensive painting a FAKE? Louvre snubs 'Leonardo da Vinci' painting
The Salvator Mundi was thought to be painted by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, but doubts have been cast over the painting's authenticity. He has reportedly written to French President Emmanuel Macron to warn him against inaugurating the Louvre's Leonardo exhibition this autumn if the allegedly fake painting is included - which would be 'almost scandalous'. The painting was also said to be facing a snub from the Louvre in Paris, who were reported to have scrapped plans to display...
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02.17.19

Aerial photographs reveal how the £125m Chinese replica of Titanic is taking shape
The construction of a full-size replica of the Titanic in China is nearing completion as investors continue to plough millions into the project. The copy of the luxurious passenger ship, which sank in 1912 killing 1,500 people, will be a part of a grand theme park in Sichuan, south-west China, and is being painstakingly reproduced. Romandisea, the company which is building the replica ship, had initially planned to introduce a high-tech simulation to let tourists relive the moment when the ship...
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02.17.19

Dipping below the surface at the Burj Al Arab to discover the luxury hotel's TURTLE hospital
The set up – known locally as the Turtle Hospital – is part of the Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project (DTRP) based at the Burj and the neighbouring Madinat Jumeirah resort. Only hawksbill and green turtles nest in the Arabian Gulf and although hawksbills are the species most likely to be found on the beaches of Dubai, globally they are classed as 'critically endangered' with only an estimated 8,000 breeding females left in the world today. Once Abdul and his team...
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02.17.19

A review of Severin*s
A quick Google of luxury hotels in the Austrian ski village of Lech brings up a flurry of options, with many boasting a perfect online review average of five stars. We’re staying in Severin*s (it doesn’t countenance apostrophes) - The Alpine Retreat in Lech and it ‘only’ has an average, at the time of writing, of 4.3 out of 5. It ranks as not just one of the best places I've stayed in a ski resort, but as one of...
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02.16.19

California issues warning to avoid skiing over Presidents' Day weekend because there's TOO MUCH snow
Keen snow sports fans in California and across the West Coast have been ordered to stay home this holiday weekend because ski resorts were taking in too much snow. Winter weather enveloping California's mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents' Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it. Mammoth Mountain was about to break...
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02.15.19

Remote British market town will become one of the first places in the world to get 5G internet
It is one of the first places in the world to receive a 5G mobile network, giving its 1,100 residents internet speeds most city-dwellers could only dream of. Now the tiny market town has beaten major cities including Manchester to spearhead the UK rollout of 5G technology, which promises internet speeds up to 20 times faster than the current 4G system. Daniel Heery, the founder of Cybermoor, said: ‘Rural areas get left behind by the main internet providers, which means...
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02.15.19

China closes Mount Everest base camp in Tibet to deal with escalating waste problems
Chinese authorities have indefinitely closed the base camp of its side of Mount Everest to visitors, state media reported. The Everest base camp in Tibet will be closed to visitors without a climbing permit until further notice as part of efforts to clean up the garbage that has accumulated at the site. Those with climbing permits would be allowed to go to the base camp or higher, according to Xinhua News Agency. The Chinese Mountaineering Association said 40,000 visited its base...
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02.15.19

Wild lynx to be reintroduced to Britain after more than 1,000 years
But the Lynx UK Trust is set to submit a second licence application this summer to bring the big cats back to Kielder Forest in Northumberland. The organisation has also selected three forest areas in Scotland for lynx, with an application due in the autumn which could see lynx return to the UK this year. Phil Stocker, chief executive of the National Sheep Association, added: 'In recognition of the fact that lynx, as opportunistic predators, could pose a threat to...
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