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Summer is well and truly here with many people taking a break from everyday life to enjoy a holiday. And the royals are no different and often use August as a time to chill out and recharge their batteries by leaving their palaces and taking a short break. But with the world at their fingertips, where are the royals heading? Are they enjoying staycations or are they jetting off the far-flung destinations? Well, here we take a look at where some of them, including the Queen , Prince William and Kate have reportedly travelled to this summer - and why they've picked these destinations... Prince William and Kate Middleton - Isles of Scilly William and Kate are reported to have taken George, Charlotte and Louis on holiday to the Isle of Scilly this summer ( Image: Getty Images) Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis with dad Prince William ( Image: KENSINGTON PALACE/AFP via Getty) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge reportedly whisked … [Read more...] about Royal holiday hotspots – William and Kate’s private island and tranquil retreats

In the evenings, when my particular piece of Earth has turned away from the Sun, and is exposed instead to the rest of the cosmos, I sit in front of a keyboard, log on, and seek out the windows that look down at the planets and out at the stars. It's a markedly different experience from looking at reproductions on paper. What I see is closer to the source. In fact, it's indistinguishable from the source. These are images that have never registered on a negative. Like the Internet itself, they are products of a digitized era. Over the past couple of years I've been monitoring the long rectangular strips of Martian surface being beamed across the void, in a steady stream of zeroes and ones, from the umbrella-shaped high-gain antenna of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. These pictures are so fresh that their immediacy practically crackles. Call it "chrono-clarity." That bluish wispy cloud, for example, hovering over the Hecates Tholus volcano, which rears above the pockmarked surface … [Read more...] about A Space in Time

by JOSEPH WECHSBERG 1 THE claque at the Vienna Staatsopor was an exclusive group of forty innocent opera lovers with uncompromising ideas about good music and good singing. Joseph Schostal, the claque chef, a dignified man with black sideburns, high-toned principles, and great authority, who gave us free standing room admissions in the fourth gallery in return for applause, never failed to remind us of the claque’s “classical tradition.” I became a full-fledged member of the illustrious body in the twenties, when I studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. Every once in a while, Schostal called a meeting at his permanent headquarters, the back room of the Peterskeller, a traditionless beer cellar across from the Staatsoper, and over foam crowns of Gösserbräu reminisced about the history of the claque. The founder of the noble institution was the Great Schoentag, who commanded a social position in Kaiser Franz Josef’s Vienna before the turn of the century. Schoentag went out … [Read more...] about The Battle of the Claque

close Video Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie battle over French vineyard Legal experts May Mailman and Bryan Rotella weigh in on the 'Brangelina' feud over the sale of French vineyard stakes involving a Russian oligarch on 'Fox News @ Night.' NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Angelina Jolie said her ex-husband Brad Pitt was "becoming a monster" when he allegedly flew into a drunken rage during a 2016 fight on a plane that left their children scared, according to explosive FBI documents recently obtained by People magazine. Jolie, 47, told authorities that Pitt "ranted" on the private flight from France to Los Angeles in front of their six children and "mimicked the behavior of a monster," screaming at them, People reported . The kids were "shell-shocked" during the Sept. 14 blowup, said Jolie, who added that she was "frozen, scared and didn't know what to do" in the moment, according to the documents. Pitt, 58, allegedly … [Read more...] about Angelina Jolie says Brad Pitt became a ‘monster’ on infamous 2016 plane fight, new docs reveal

JACKSON, Wyo. — Hours after her landslide loss, Representative Liz Cheney wasted no time Wednesday taking her first steps toward what she says is now her singular goal: blocking Donald J. Trump from returning to power. Ms. Cheney announced that her newly rebranded political organization, the Great Task, would be dedicated to mobilizing opposition to Mr. Trump. And in an early morning television interview, she for the first time acknowledged what many have suspected: She is “thinking” about running for president in 2024, she said on NBC’s “Today Show,” and would decide in the “coming months.” Despite the effort to shift quickly from her defeat to her future, Ms. Cheney and her advisers remained vague about precisely how the congresswoman, who lost to a Trump-backed primary challenger by 37 points in Wyoming on Tuesday, planned to build a movement that could thwart a figure with a strong hold on many of his party’s voters and a set of imposing advantages. Allies, advisers and … [Read more...] about After Loss, Cheney Begins Difficult Mission of Thwarting Trump

The Manhattan District Attorney’s attempts to flip former President Donald Trump’s loyal money man have officially failed, as the tax-dodging ex-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg took a plea deal Thursday morning and won’t testify against his lifelong boss. Instead, he’ll get what some might consider a sweetheart deal for a 75-year-old man who kept his lips shut and wouldn’t implicate his old boss: six months or less behind bars. His legal team expects him to realistically spend three months in prison, and he will face five years of probation after serving his sentence. He will also have to pay back $1,994,321 in taxes he owed, prosecutors said in court. In return, Weisselberg has also agreed to openly testify about the way the Trump Organization rewarded him with untaxed corporate perks for years in the form of expensive tuition payments for his grandkids at a top-tier Manhattan private school, a luxury car to use anytime he wished, and a fully-paid swanky apartment … [Read more...] about Trump’s Money Man Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty

State-run transport corporations will feature CCTV cameras as part of measures to ensure safety of women and children, Transport Minister M R Vijayabhaskar said on Saturday The CCTV cameras would be installed in a phased manner, he said, adding that the move would help reduce incidents of crime. Making a slew of announcements in the assembly after winding up the debate on demand for grants to his department, he said air conditioned sleeper coaches would be introduced on long distance routes and the number of buses with toilet facilities will be increased in a staggered fashion. Noting that the two buses with toilet amenities have received good response, he said that Wi-fi facility will also be provided in all air conditioned government buses. It may be recalled that late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had in 2013 launched two State Express Transport Corporation luxury buses with pantry and toilet amenities on the Srirangam-Chennai route. It was the first such initiative by a … [Read more...] about TN Govt buses to have CCTV cameras, a/c sleeper coaches

The internet has sided with a mom who let her "entitled" son fly economy after he complained about her paying first-class tickets for the nanny and her son. In a post shared on Reddit on Wednesday, the mom, who goes by the username u/TAMommaof3, explained that she and her husband had their now 18-year-old child when they were 17, and since then they've worked their way up to a life of luxuries. When her son, Matt, was 11, he had a "complicated personality change", so they moved him to a private school, and according to the post, "maybe the contact with other teenagers brought out a selfish and elitist side of him." The family recently went on an international holiday with Matt and their other two children and decided to take their nanny and her son with them, paying for first-class tickets for everyone, but Matt wasn't happy about their parent's decision. She wrote: "Matt, on a random day, overheard me talking to my husband that I was planning to pay for a first-class … [Read more...] about Mom praised for flying “entitled” son in economy and the nanny first class