Month: July 2021

Revolut’s new travel booking feature, Stays. Revolut LONDON — European fintech giant Revolut is jumping into the travel industry. The London-based firm launched a new feature Tuesday called Stays, which lets users book hotels and other accommodation through its app. Customers can receive up to 10% cashback on bookings made through Revolut, the company said.
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Credit: Dellon Thomas / Pexels Skinny jeans are a thing of the past now that wide-leg pants are dominating current fashion trends. You can dress up wide leg pants for work, evening events, or a night at the club. You can also dress down with wide-leg jeans for superbly comfortable weekend wear or running errands
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Christian PetersenGetty Images The tables are turning for pop superstar Adele, who—despite keeping a low profile following her divorce from Simon Konecki, which was finalized in March 2021—appears to have found love stateside. The British singer was recently spotted laughing and cheering alongside sports agent Rich Paul at Game 5 of the NBA Finals, in
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Reese’s Book Club announced its late summer 2021 YA pick: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee. Described as “the perfect end-of-summer escape” in the club’s Instagram announcement, The Downstairs Girl is YA historical fiction set in the post-Civil War (“New”) South. The story follows 17-year-old Jo Kuan who works as a lady’s maid in Atlanta
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(Reuters) — Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion — once Egypt‘s largest port on the Mediterranean — and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country said on Monday, July 19. The city, which controlled the entrance to Egypt at the mouth
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Samba TV has provided an update on the number of U.S. Smart TV terrestrial households which have tuned into Disney+ Premier’s Black Widow with a running cumulative U.S. household viewership of 2 million. Last weekend, Samba TV reported that 1.1M U.S. households bought Black Widow in its first weekend. That means an additional 900K households bought the Scarlett
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Vaccinated holidaymakers, it’s time to rev your engines. For if you glance up through the windscreen to our holiday traffic lights, you’ll see a distinctly green hue to the ‘amber list’. Four months after Ryanair met criticism for its misleading ‘Jab and Go’ advert, that sentiment will soon become the reality. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
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Credit: Skinner Auctioneers The world’s oldest bourbon whiskey has been auctioned for US$137,000. Skinner Auctioneers who oversaw the bidding process said the bottle, better known as the Old Ingledew Whiskey, was most likely bottled between 1763-1803 after undergoing a Carbon-14 dating test. “We took a sample and tested by Carbon-14 dating, and determined that with
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