Fed-up of the seemingly endless influx of travelers at Yosemite and Yellowstone?
Good news – there’s hundreds of other national parks to choose from, scattered about the US.
Each emanate their own unique majesty, with sights that hold their own with more notable attractions. They show that while the façade of Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon will forever be draws, there’s plenty more to our nation’s parks.
Haters of long lines will be happy to know there are several
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee has voted to hold base rate at its current level of 5.25 per cent by a margin of 7-2, with two members voting for a 25 basis point cut to 5 per cent.
The FTSE 100 is up 0.4 per cent in afternoon trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are ITV, Wood Group, BAE Systems and Hipgnosis.
JERUSALEM – Following Secretary of State Antony
More than two decades after Gladiators first aired, the hit show is coming back on the BBC with a brand new cast.
The iconic show, which originally aired on ITV from 1992 to 2000, is making an epic return to screens with an 11-episode season later this year.
The fearsome group includes trained rugby players, accomplished swimmers, sprinters and powerlifters as well as a former Premier League referee.
Here are the new Gladiators:
Bionic
At a towering 6ft 6in it’s
Social media has seen interesting changes recently.
The dramatic changes at Twitter – now rebranded as ‘X’ – saw many SEO professionals looking for new social media platforms to maintain their community connections.
We saw the rise of BlueSky, Mastodon, and Threads, and renewed interest in LinkedIn and Reddit as marketing channels for brands.
As big shifts happen in SEO and search following the introduction of generative AI, this could be a time when social media evolves.
As marketers experiment
Most people working in SEO will tell you that we have just been through an exceptional period of change and rapid learning required.
From the explosion of generative AI – first from ChatGPT and then Bard running to catch up.
The Google updates that were unrelenting.
And Universal Analytics finally being deprecated and switched off, with GA4 being a steep learning curve for anyone who wasn’t prepared in advance.
In 2024, as the dust settles around the introduction of gen
Red knots in their breeding plumage feed at Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico. Julián Garcia Walther/Undark
This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Twice a year, members of a subspecies of red knots—salmon-colored sandpipers—migrate thousands of miles between their wintering grounds in northern Mexico and breeding sites in the Arctic tundra, encountering myriad obstacles along the way. Thought to migrate during both day and night, brightly lit cities likely disrupt
The family of Kfir Bibas, a baby who was snatched and taken into Gaza by Hamas, faced yet more anguish today after the terrorists offered to hand over the bodies of three hostages to Israel.
Hamas claimed that Israel had refused its offer to hand over the three bodies without naming the dead.
But it comes a day after the terrorists claimed – without providing evidence – that the ten-month-old, his four-year-old brother Ariel and his mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas, 30,
Opinion may be divided about the pleasure of attaching planks to your feet each winter and hurtling down vertiginous slopes on slippery white stuff.
While some are of the misty-eyed, ‘mountains are calling’ school of thought, others may be more of the ‘skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg’ persuasion.
If you are the latter – or just a skier/snowboarder who likes to branch out – here’s
Freefalling 8,000ft above Cabo San Lucas was certainly a different way of seeing this star-studded resort city with the white sand beaches and azure waters zooming closer second by second.
In a bid to explore the more adventurous side of this glitzy coastal destination in the Mexican state of Baja California which is beloved by everyone from George Clooney to Justin Bieber, I’d signed up for skydiving on day four of my vacation with a run of other adrenaline-pumping activities
