Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has spent much of the last 12 years living in the shadow of frenzied speculation over her infamously fractured relationship with her famous Scientologist father – and as she takes her first steps into adulthood, it seems she is finally ready to answer the question of her future with the Top Gun star once and for all.
Today, the teenager will mark her milestone 18th birthday without her dad Tom, 61, who has
It is a question that frequently pops up on pub quizzes: how many of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can you name?
Perhaps more pertinently, how many are still standing?
The answer, as a new book reveals, is only one: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, by historian Bettany Hughes, tells the story of each of the glittering marvels of engineering.
Five of the six that are now lost to the past
‘I never expected to live so long, and I don’t take it for granted, even now,’ says Lea Glaskie who will celebrate her 106th birthday in February.
Born in 1918, a year before the first commercial flight in Europe (from London to Paris, taking two and a half hours) and in an era when central heating, double glazing, fridges and washing machines didn’t exist, and most houses only had outside toilets, she has lived through seismic changes in British society
November 22, 2023
Just a glance at 2023 border contracts suggests that more walls, detention centers, and expulsion flights are coming.
Children observe the movements of the US Border Patrol agents from the Mexican side where the border meets the Pacific Ocean, Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday, November 16, 2018.
(Rodrigo Abd / AP Photo)
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Neil and Michele Travis from Cheshire splurged £6,000 on business class flights with Aer Lingus as a special treat for themselves and their 20-year-old daughter, Georgia. Their plan was to visit friends in Fort Lauderdale, who they hadn’t seen in five years. However, their excitement turned to shock when they arrived at JFK International Airport on June 16, only to discover their connecting flight with Jet Blue, Aer Lingus’ partner airline, did not exist.
Despite the availability of a fully
For thousands of years, humanity has wrestled with the idea we may not be alone in our solar system.
Speculation that aliens might exist dates back to philosophers in ancient Greece, but it was the middle of the 20th century when people’s imaginations really began to run riot — suddenly ‘little green men’ were everywhere in popular culture.
Although the use of the phrase is believed to have originated in 1908, it was between the 1920s and 50s that green
It has been six years since astronomers found strong evidence that a mysterious ninth planet might exist at the far reaches of our solar system.
But the so-called theoretical world – dubbed Planet X – has still not actually been seen by anyone, and for the meantime remains just that, a theory.
If it is real, scientists say it could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and may take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make one
You wouldn’t think that everyday items like baby formula, wireless headphones and memory foam mattresses were linked to space travel.
But they are just some of the many inventions that came about because of a desire to get astronauts into orbit, or off the back of experiments carried out on the International Space Station.
Camera phones, the computer mouse and even some ski boots also have their roots buried in the cosmos, along with better water filtration systems and scratch-resistant
There are many things that James Bond is well known for, including martinis, a brassy theme song and an almost unbelievable amount of success with wooing the ladies.
But what makes the fictional spy truly iconic is his vast array of high-tech, and occasionally absurd, gadgetry.
The first Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale’, was published in 1952, but Ian Fleming’s character didn’t become properly associated with gizmos until he hit the screens a decade later.
To celebrate 60 years since the
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This is the 100th and final installment of the series.
This week she talks with two women who were brought together by an extraordinary act of courage: During World War II, Clémentine Lestang’s great-grandfather, a member of the French resistance, rescued Meredith Moseley’s grandfather, a U.S. Army pilot, after he
