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When Airbnb began in San Francisco in 2008 the name was inspired by private hosts providing air mattresses for paying guests to stay in their living rooms – and offering B&B stays.Things have moved on a little since then, with some properties costing more than £42,000 a night. Admittedly, this would get you a villa sleeping 16 on a beach in the Turks and Caicos islands with a two-level pool, cocktail lounge, private dock and home-theatre.There are now more than eight million listings worldwide, with 220,000-plus in the UK alone.Founders Brian Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia – who struggled…
By STEPHEN M. LEPORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 01:18 EST, 4 January 2025 | Updated: 08:07 EST, 4 January 2025 JD Vance was hospitalized for a minor sinus surgery after he attended the Senate swearing-in ceremony Friday. Vance was there to support newly elected Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno just weeks before he replaces Kamala Harris after Donald Trump defeated her in the November presidential election. It was reported, however, that Vance had been hospitalized following the swearing-in ceremony, which Harris presided over. A spokesperson for Vance confirmed to Fox News that this was no emergency and a surgery the vice president-elect had on the books…
By NATALIA PENZA Published: 06:19 EST, 3 January 2025 | Updated: 06:58 EST, 3 January 2025 A Brazilian influencer whose staggering 32-stone weight loss made him the star of a reality TV show has died aged 37 after piling on the pounds again following the loss of his dad and brother ahead of a new attempt to drop to just 15 stone without surgery or medicine.Gabriel Freitas, whose 70,000 Instagram fans were following his daily battle to shed his excess pounds, passed away following a heart attack on December 30 as he napped in bed although close friend Ricardo Gouvea…
By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 16:50 EST, 3 January 2025 Evri’s boss has brushed off criticism of its customer service record following its best Christmas.Martijn de Lange said the parcel delivery group delivered a record 173m parcels during the nine weeks to December 28, up 12 per cent on last year, despite adverse weather such as Storm Darragh.Evri linked its performance to the £35m it invested in recruiting 9,000 extra couriers and other workers, as well as in new delivery vehicles. Black Friday sales were responsible for the busiest single week in the courier’s 50-year history, with Evri delivering a…
Ferne McCann has opened up about the ‘ups and downs’ of her relationship with fiancé Lorri Haines after being forced to hit back at split rumours.The former TOWIE star, 34, denied claims back in November that she’d parted ways with Lorri, 33, after they’d reportedly had ‘one big blow out over something and nothing’.And in a new interview, Ferne has told how despite the couple facing ‘tough’ times of late, they are stronger than ever with Ferne looking forward to the New Year ahead. The TV personality, who is set to make her debut on Dancing On Ice next week, detailed her…
Anyone uploading videos of their scenic hike in a rural area with 5G is exposed to nearly twice the radiation of someone in a city, according to a new study.Researchers believe the extra radiation stems not from 5G cell towers, but from users’ own mobile devices which work overtime to get out a signal in rural areas. A team at the Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), tracked 5G cell phone users’ exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) across two cities and three rural communitiesRF-EMF are the means by which radio waves transfer energy, allowing wireless devices to communicate…
America’s top doctor has called for warning labels on alcohol highlighting the link between booze and cancer. US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy issued a new advisory this week recommending that all alcoholic beverages include a cigarette-style warning on their packaging.He said that research from other countries had shown that pictures showing the health effects of smoking would work better for alcohol.Alcohol is as one of the leading preventable causes of cancer in the US, the advisory notes, linked to nearly 100,000 cancer cases and about 20,000 deaths each year.Research over the past four decades has revealed a ‘causal relationship’ between alcohol use and increased…
Families wanting to visit London for a weekend of sightseeing face paying hundreds of pounds to visit iconic tourist attractions – versus just pennies 50 years ago. This year, Which? Travel analysed how tourist attractions have skyrocketed in price since its first issue in 1974, revealing how the cost of a day out in the capital has far outstripped the rate of inflation. A ticket to the world-famous Kew Gardens was just 1p (9p in today’s money) in 1974, now rising in price from between £12 and £24 per adult. In 1974, entry to the Tower of London was 10p – the equivalent of 90p…
Playboy twins Alon and Oren Alexander were stopped in their tracks by a 17 year-old girl in an Aspen nightclub who Alon later subjected to a brutal rape, it is claimed. Maylen Gehret alleges she was raped by Alon, 37, in a Colorado hotel room while his real estate tycoon twin Oren attacked her friend on another bed.It comes as Alon was denied bond over federal rape charges against dozens of other women between 2010 and 2021. Oren will have to wait until next week for a decision in his case, while their co-accused older brother Tal Alexander, 38, was already denied…
Around 1,700 Ukrainian troops equipped by the West have disappeared after being trained in France, leaving the remainder of their brigade to face Putin’s wrath alone.The 155th Mechanised Brigade, one of Ukraine’s few units equipped with advanced Leopard 2 battle tanks, was supposed to bolster the country’s defences. Instead, at least 50 soldiers disappeared while the unit trained in France, and by the time it entered its first battle, 1,700 troops had gone absent without leave.Even as late as November, 500 soldiers remained unaccounted for, sparking a crisis for the brigade, also known as Anne of Kyiv in honour of its historical…