When your job is to plan other people’s vacations, you probably have a pretty impressive travel bucket list of your own. HuffPost reached out to travel experts and professional trip planners to get the scoop on where they’re personally vacationing this summer and why. Travel consultants often get perks and discounts when they travel, but […]
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Niagara Falls and its surrounding parks see millions of visitors a year, and all that foot traffic results in a lot of trash — 832 metric tons each year from the Canadian areas alone. Still, park sanitation workers were surprised to find a piano, broken into pieces, among the items left in the garbage one
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Hawaii’s iconic Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater as rising sea levels caused by global warming overtake its white sand beaches and bustling city streets. That’s alarming for a state where beach tourism is the primary economic driver. So state lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would defend against routine coastal flooding that may
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The luxury luggage market is having a bit of a moment thanks to folks who can’t decide whether Away suitcases and other bags with features like built-in charging are worth it. Lucky for us, that means there are now plenty of luggage options out there to ease our most common packing problems. Take this Genius
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When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, they imposed an extremist version of Islamic law across the country. They tried to erase all traces of a rich pre-Islamic past and ordered the destruction of ancient statues, including the world’s tallest standing Buddhas. Those memories are still alive for millions of Afghans. And now
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Kenyan Peter Tabichi, who has been teaching for 12 years, was recently named the best teacher in the world. The science teacher and Franciscan friar at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School spoke to BBC Africa about what winning the Global Teacher Prize means to him, what might make him stand out from other teachers,
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As the final session of the current European Parliament wrapped up, a Slovenian MEP took the opportunity to give a musical performance. “It is our responsibility to keep Europe together. Let’s rebuild Notre-Dame and Happy Easter,” Lojze Peterle told his fellow MEPs. He then played a rendition of Ode to Joy – the EU anthem
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Twenty years on from the Columbine school shooting, those who survived are still deeply impacted by what happened. Twelve students and a teacher were killed in the massacre in Colorado on 20 April 1999. It shocked the nation. Frank DeAngelis was the school principal. He begins each day by saying the names of the 13
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The British supermodel says she was rejected from a recent campaign because of her “skin colour”. Naomi Campbell was speaking in Lagos, Nigeria, where she is attending the Arise Fashion week, an event that showcases diversity and the best fashion designers from across Africa. She told the BBC’s Mayeni Jones that she was baffled when
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As talks between Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban continue, women in the country are worried they will lose the rights they have come to enjoy since 2001. Zan TV is the only Afghan television channel just for women, and trains women to do all the jobs in journalism, from production to presenting. The ambition is
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