The last thing any tourist wants is to buckle up for a boring attraction.
So a new study that reveals ‘the 100 most boring attractions across the globe’ serves a useful purpose for those keen to guarantee a holiday free from the mundane.
America, it seems, needs to up its game on the excitement front, with attractions in the country occupying the top seven spots, beating Shrek’s Adventure London into eighth place. And four Legoland Discovery Centers make the top
Nearly 2,000 years since it was buried by volcanic rubble, the lost city of Pompeii is yielding even more astonishing discoveries.
Archeologists have uncovered remarkably preserved ‘fresco’ paintings on a wall at a former private residence along Via di Nola, one of Pompeii’s longest streets.
One of the stunning artworks depicts Helen of Troy, a beautiful woman in Greek mythology, meeting Paris, prince of Troy, for the first time.
According to legend, the resulting elopement between the two sparked the
There’s a new face kicking up a dietary storm across social media with his expletive-peppered videos that don’t mince their words.
‘You don’t need this sugary sh*t’, is his verdict on cakes, while ‘if you feed this to your kids you are neglecting them, you should be ashamed of yourself’, is his take on sweets.
And then a damning verdict on processed food: it ‘kills more people than alcohol’.
The videos are the work of a former NHS psychiatric nurse,
The UK state pension notoriously pays a meagre income that barely covers the basic cost of living in retirement.
Even those who receive the full £11,500 a year face a shortfall of almost £3,000 on what is required for a ‘minimum’ standard of living, according to pension industry guidelines.
But are British pensioners really any worse off than their counterparts in Europe and around the world?
And just how generous are state pension schemes in other countries?
With the help
Europe’s best cities for residents and tourists have been revealed, with each ranked in an annual league table in terms of prosperity, livability and lovability.
The continent’s top destinations were evaluated by Resonance Consultancy, which took factors such as Tripadvisor reviews and education and work opportunities into account, as well as dozens of other metrics.
The report looked at more than 180 cities with populations of more than 500,000, in order to identify the Top 100 places to live,
The upcoming total solar eclipse has sparked a frenzy of excitement across the world – with eager tourists clamoring to find the perfect spot to witness the natural phenomenon unfold in front of their, albeit shielded, eyes.
Such is the fevered excitement surrounding the event that cities and areas positioned along the path of the eclipse have seen a staggering surge in hotel and Airbnb bookings, prompting prices to soar to thousands of dollars a night.
Some cities in Texas,
Slimming jabs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been linked to 20 deaths in Britain, MailOnline can reveal.
None of the fatalities, which have all occurred since 2019, are proven to have been caused directly by the game-changing weight loss injections.
But health chiefs tasked with policing the safety of the jabs admit there is ‘a suspicion’ they may have been to blame.
One of the deaths was in someone in their 30s.
Experts today warned Brits against buying semaglutide —
Dreaming is often dismissed as irrelevant and unimportant because it occurs while you’re asleep or lacks the logic that guides you during waking hours.
But that is a huge mistake. We should see dreams as a different form of thinking. Each night, the brain – from which our consciousness and self-awareness arise – liberates us from the constraints of habit and the limits of our daily existence.
When we dream we are in a world completely of our own making,
As Easter approaches, so does the amount of sweet chocolatey treats on offer across supermarket shelves.
And now the most calorific festive eggs have been revealed – with one coming in at early 3,000 calories for one package.
Elsewhere, a list of the 20 Easter eggs with the most calories, compiled by sports nutrition experts at Bulk (www.bulk.com/uk), saw options starting from 1,600 kcal and going upwards.
Coming in at the top was the KitKat Caramel Cookie Collision Incredible Egg
For me, as a neurosurgeon and a research scientist, dreams hold a particular fascination. Having spent my life immersed in the brain, I am not only infatuated by its infinite complexity but captivated to the point of obsession by what remains one of its greatest and most mysterious features — dreaming.
The source of dreams is the same as all mental activity, waves of electricity moving across the brain every moment we’re alive. Dreams are a product of normal brain
