LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Lake Placid is a picture-book village in the Adirondack Mountains offering tourists crisp air, pretty peaks, Winter Olympic sites and, lately, a lot more houses to rent for the weekend. The rising popularity of short-term rentals on services like Airbnb is alarming residents who fear they’re gobbling up so much of […]
So goes the neighborhood? Resort wrestles with rental rise Read More »
HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Prices and availability subject to change. LovehoneyThe orgasm balm reviewers swear by for female increased sensitivity and better sex. Orgasms can make your body do a lot of surprising things, from sneezing and crying to feeling shaky and headache-y. That’s in addition
This $15 Product Increases Female Sensitivity For Better Orgasms Read More »
Author Marian Keyes has told BBC Radio 5 Live she never really knows how her books are going to end when she’s writing them. Speaking to host Nihal Arthanayake, the Irish author, who has just released her new novel Grown Ups, said: “I might have some vague idea about how the plot will play out…
Marian Keyes: ‘I never know how my books will end’ Read More »
Image copyright Getty Images Households struggling with energy bills may get help from a government review of clean technology funding. At the moment, an annual levy is imposed on gas and electricity bills to fund renewables such as offshore wind. The burden falls disproportionately on the poorest in society, and it will get worse as
Poorer households may get help on energy bills Read More »
After living on California’s streets for a decade, Greg and Marie received a remarkable invitation. A local businessman asked if they wanted to share his $4m home. A year later, we reveal what happened next – and what the experiment tells us about America’s homelessness crisis. Video produced by Hannah Long-Higgins, Chelsea Bailey and Cody
When a homeless couple moved in with a millionaire Read More »
No sooner did the Times Square Ball drop than I embarked upon my own New Year’s ritual: plotting my escape from cold, gray New York. Would I beach-hop on the sunny shores of St. Barts? Post up within prime Instagram range of St. Lucia’s massive Pitons? Plop down at a tony resort in Turks and
Your Next Vacation, Paid For With Points Read More »
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some the week’s best technology stories including: Ride-hailing firm Uber receives a permit to test self-driving cars on public roads in California, nearly two years after one of its cars was involved in a fatal crash in Arizona Scientists successfully test a device that prints a bio-ink skin onto
Lumiere’s Train gets 4K treatment and other news Read More »
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thirty years after his hard-fought victory against boxing titan Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas is feeling healthy and basking in the glory he says he was denied at the time. “Right now, everything is looking up,” Douglas said in a recent Associated Press interview, noting he struggles with diabetes. “Feeling good and the
30 years after Tyson fight, Buster Douglas is ‘feeling good’ Read More »
A renowned Malian musician said when he came back to Paris on Monday from a concert tour in the United States, he opened the case to his kora and found the instrument in pieces. The musician, Ballake Sissoko, 53, blamed the Transportation Security Administration, prompting outrage among his fans on Facebook and international headlines. But
T.S.A. Denies Opening Case of Mali Musician Whose Instrument Was Destroyed Read More »
BEIJING — The death of a doctor who was reprimanded for warning about China’s new virus triggered an outpouring Friday of praise for him and fury that communist authorities put politics above public safety. In death, Dr. Li Wenliang became the face of simmering anger at the ruling Communist Party’s controls over information and complaints
Doctor’s death unleashes mourning, fury at Chinese officials Read More »
