Changi Airport is like a holiday destination in itself. Whether you have time to explore Singapore or not, there are enough things you can do at the airport while you wait for your next flight. It’s no surprise that it has won the Best Airport in the World award third year in a row this year! So here’s a list of reasons why you need to check out this […]
If anything unusual happens to you Friday, you’ll be right to say it was “once in a blue moon.” The July 31 appearance of the month’s second full moon will be the first such occurrence in the Americas since August 2012. Every month has a full moon, but because the lunar cycle and the calendar year aren’t perfectly synched, about every three years we wind up with two in the […]
After the trailer for Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic, a new trailer for a documentary called Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine which addresses the controversy surrounding the maverick has arrived. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, the documentary highlights the life of the late Apple co-founder, reports aceshowbiz.com. Combining old footage and new interviews, the movie centres on Jobs’ private and personal life and how he became a […]
At the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, in the Bronx, Helen Moses, 90, had news. “There’s not going to be a wedding,” she said. It was an afternoon in June, just one month since Ms. Moses had announced her plans to marry Howie Zeimer, the man down the hall. She spoke, as always, with absolute finality. “I’d first like to live together for a while,” she said. “I don’t want to […]
A heart-stopping public service advisory by American communications company AT&T is winning rave reviews and scorching the charts on video-sharing sites worldwide. Discouraging people from using phones while driving, the ad tells a deeply personal story of four protagonists – a young child riding a bike, a man who is trying to his family back on their feet, a mom who is taking her daughter to her first day of […]
I work while I travel As you might know from previous posts, I’ve been an au-pair and this is how I started traveling long term. I was 18, just finished senior high and had absolutely no money. I didn’t even have a bank account. So I worked my way around and moved to London, one of the most expensive European cities. I got paid to live there and I worked […]
Wolfgang Schauble has done right by the Euro zone, but the Greeks believe that doesn’t necessarily mean he has done right by them. A Greek publication recently carried a photo of a vampire with this caption: ‘For five years now he has been sucking your blood.’ The reference was not to any vampire, but to one of the key persons in the tough Grexit negotiations, the wheel-chair bound German Finance […]
Almost 300,000 people tweeted #Mecca_live as part of a campaign to get Snapchat to feature the Saudi city – which is closed to non-Muslim visitors – on their app. Snapchat launched its “live” feature last year. It allows users to contribute videos and pictures to a live stream, which, like other content on the app, disappears after a short period of time. While Snapchat focuses on locations of its own […]
WhatsApp just keeps on growing, adding new features and users all the time. The prospect of sending texts and making calls for free has tempted a whopping 800 million people onto the Facebook-owned app at last count. If you’re one of them, chances are there are a few elements of the app that still seem bewildering or annoying – the good news is many of them can be fixed if […]
Los Angeles: Courtesy an old family picture posted on Facebook, an emotional mother reunited with her son in the United States after 15 years, when the child was kidnapped by his father. Hope Holland had not seen her son Jonathan since he was a three-year-old. His father had kidnapped him and fled across the border to Mexico in 2000. Hope and her now 18-year-old son are flying back to the […]
