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According to the website bestvaluefares.co.uk, the majesty of Brighton Pavilion matches that of northern India’s marble wonder, while Cheddar Gorge’s dramatic cliff faces are said to “closely mimic” those of the Arizona landmark.
Hadrian’s Wall is compared favourably to the Great Wall of China, Snowdonia National Park is billed as the budget alternative to the Rocky Mountains, Piccadilly Circus is cited as Britain’s answer to New York’s Times Square, and Hollywell Bay in Cornwall is said to rival Bondi Beach.
It adds that anyone planning a trip to Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world’s highest waterfall at 3,212 feet, will find a visit to the 658-ft Eas a' Chual Aluinn in Scotland equally rewarding.
The claims follow the launch of a Visit Britain “staycation” campaign, urging Britons to take their holidays at home this summer.
It is backed by celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Julie Walters, Rupert Grint – the Harry Potter actor – and Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery.
Steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, destroyed on September 11, has been sent to India and China for recycling.
New York-based Metals Management said it had bought 70,000 tonnes of steel from Ground Zero, some of which had already been shipped to Southeast Asia.
Metals Management president Alan Ratner said four or five ships had sailed from New York carrying scrap steel, among it "very dense" steel girders from the collapsed twin towers. He said the towers were expected to yield somewhere between 250,000 and 400,000 tonnes of scrap for recycling.
Shipping sources in Madras said that a 33,000 tonne consignment had already arrived on board the cargo ship Borzna, with a third of the consignment made up of scrap from the twin towers.
They said the scrap had been bought at $120 per tonne and a second ship carrying a similar cargo was soon to arrive in Kandla on India's West Coast. Three more were on their way to China, they said.
Ratner said the City of New York would be keeping some of the scrap to build a memorial to those killed on September 11.
Stalking victims could be given the power to appeal against lenient sentences handed down to their attackers for the first time under Government plans announced on Monday.
Ministers are consulting on allowing victims of stalking, harassment and some other serious sexual crimes to ask for cases to be reviewed if they feel justice has not been served.
Anyone convicted of indecent images offences could also face more prison time, as ministers embark on a review of how the criminal justice system works for victims.
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Crowds screamed and cheered with joy as Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint carried the Olympic Torch through the streets of Hendon.
Hundreds of people lined The Burroughs to catch a glimpse of Rupert, who plays Ron Weasley in the Blockbuster movies.
The sun shone brightly as the star ran from Middlesex University and along the road waving to fans caught up in the Olympic fever.
Shireen Yousefi, 13, from Whetstone, waved a handmade banner for the star along with her friends and family.
She said: “It was really exciting. It was really cool to see Rupert Grint - I'm a big Harry Potter fan.
Bonita Leung, 20, from Edgware said: “The atmosphere was really cheery. Everyone was really excited about the torch and Rupert – it’s a great celebration of the Games.
Ten-year-old Annalida Jaeger was thrilled to see the torch being carried by Rupert.
New Zealander Annalida, who is visiting family in Golders Green, said: “It was extremely fun. I enjoyed it when balloons were released and seeing Rupert. It was really really cool.
New Delhi: The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that India and Uzbekistan should work for increasing trade between these two nations to the tune of 1 bn USD by March 2018. He was interacting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uzbekistan, Mr. Abdulaziz Kamilov who called on him, here today.
The Vice President said that India and Uzbekistan have close cultural and historical connections and our peoples have similar developmental aspirations. He further said that traders and travelers over centuries helped exchange of ideas between countries. He expressed his happiness over several cultural events which wer...
The Uzbekistan Foreign Minister has expressed his happiness over visiting India which has strong cultural heritage. He hoped that discussions during the visit will help in identifying new areas of cooperation and take relationship to a higher level, he added.
Angel Haze went to war with her label and won. After leaking her debut Dirty Gold online earlier this week, the Detroit-born rapper’s release date was moved up from March 4 to December 30.
For those that didn’t get a chance to hear the full album on SoundCloud before it was removed, she has posted a sampler of all 12 tracks.
If you’re feeling empty, you’re not alone. Many of us feel empty in different ways. For instance, you might feel empty because something is missing in your life, said Kaitlyn Slight, a marriage and family therapist in Raleigh, N.C. This might be emptiness from a loved one moving or passing away, she said.
Or the emptiness might stem from “slowly abandon[ing] ourselves, not listening to our own hopes and desires.” You might abandon yourself unintentionally or unknowingly because you’re striving for perfection or others’ approval, she said. You might stop caring for yourself while focusing on your career. For instance, yo...
Slight’s clients also mention feeling numb or alone. They mention that work is unsatisfying, they feel unsuccessful, their relationships are unfulfilling or nothing is exciting.
If you’re feeling empty, seeing a therapist can help. In particular, it’s important to get screened for depression. How you handle your emptiness depends on what’s causing it. Here are several suggestions from Eder and Slight.
1. Gently acknowledge the emptiness.
If you’re experiencing emptiness that’s more like a gaping hole, acknowledge it, and be gentle with yourself, said Eder, LPC, a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colo. Don’t beat yourself up for feeling this way. Don’t try to dismiss or change your feelings.
2. Spend time with yourself every day.
“[F]ight the urge to turn to the outside world for fulfillment,” Slight said. Instead of trying to fill the void with drugs, alcohol, TV, computer games or anything else, look within and spend time with yourself, she said.
Because different activities work for different people, you might find that meditation, writing or exercise helps you refocus on yourself.
3. Explore your current feelings.
Eder suggested setting a timer for five minutes and noticing what you’re feeling right now. “It doesn’t have to be earth-shattering.” You might write “bored” or “distracted” or “curious,” she said. If you’re having a hard time naming your feelings, Google “feelings list,” she said.
4. Explore your feelings of emptiness.
Slight suggested exploring the below questions. We can do this while journaling, taking a walk or drinking a cup of tea, she said.
Have I been judging myself or comparing myself to others?
Do I tell myself positive things?
Or do I tend to notice failures or call myself ugly or stupid?
Are my feelings being considered in my relationships, or am I minimizing what I am feeling?
Am I actively tending to my physical and health needs?
Have I turned toward behaviors or addictions to avoid my feelings?
Am I focusing solely on the needs of another person or people?
What am I trying to prove or win?
Am I blaming myself or feeling guilt about things that are out of my control?
Am I showing myself compassion like I would with a close friend or family member?
Am I asserting myself in my decisions and respecting my personal opinions?
It’s important to acknowledge and accept your feelings of emptiness. It’s important to be self-compassionate. “Whether you are experiencing difficult relationships, losses or feeling a lack of purpose or meaning, you are worthy of living a fulfilling and meaningful life,” Slight said.
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Snoring might not be your biggest problem.
We all know whether we're a morning or an evening person. Some of us prefer to get up early, whereas others like to stay up late into the night.
If you and your partner live together and you are at opposite ends of the scale, you might find some clashes in your routines.
To some extent our body clock — or chronotype — is determined by our environment, such as how much light we're exposed to. But what you might not know is there are physiological and biological differences to the two body clock types, and you have a genetic predisposition to one of them.
In other words, you and your partner may behave differently because you're wired that way.
These differences are clear in the levels of the two hormones involved in regulating sleep. Melatonin rises in the evening and helps prepare our bodies for sleep, whereas cortisol rises in the morning and helps us to wake up. For night owls, melatonin increases later in the day, while cortisol rises earlier in morning ...
From these biological differences our different habits and routines arise. This is fine if you live alone and you've worked out your own rhythm, but research has shown that if two people live together and their "sleep habits" don't match, conflicts can arise in their relationship.
There are well-known sleeping problems such as snoring and insomnia, which can keep one partner up late into the night, making them function poorly the next day and having a negative impact on their mood. But routine clashes can also be a problem. For example, if you're in bed by 10 p.m. and your partner comes in and w...
According to sleep scientist Elise Facer-Childs, a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, having a partner with a different chronotype to you isn't necessarily a disaster.
"I'd say there's two different ways you could look at it," she told Business Insider. "[Saying] 'We're different chronotypes so let's try and shift so we can be the same,' and maybe there'd be benefits to that, but on the other side of things, saying 'We're different chronotypes, but let's use that to our advantage.'"
For example, research often focuses on sleep, and the benefits of getting enough consistent hours of it to be healthy. However, what isn't so well researched is how it can be beneficial to be up at different times of the day.
"In terms of something like childcare or parenthood, you could definitely use something like different chronotypes as an advantage," said Facer-Childs. "If one parent much preferred the evening, and likes getting up later, and the other one much prefers the morning, you could see how that could really work."
Instead of battling over whose turn it is to get up in the morning, two people could be better suited to getting the kids up or feeding the baby at night depending on how their body clocks work.
On the other hand, studies have shown that sleeping alone can be better for you. However, there's a psychological impact if you and your partner choose to sleep separately.
"You don't associate sleeping in separate rooms as something good," Facer-Childs said. "So there's a weigh up between people actually preferring to sleep with their partner, even if it means their sleep is of poorer quality."
It's more or less common sense to try and be a bit quieter in the morning if your partner is still asleep, or avoid don't turning bright lights on if you come to bed later than them. However, as sleep seems to be something we take for granted, it might not be so obvious.
Facer-Childs said it's also important to work out whether the sleep is affecting the relationship or the other way around. Anxiety and stress can be linked to sleep disturbances, and sometimes these can be amplified when you're in a bad relationship. In those cases, it's something that needs to be looked at from the ps...
As for the perfect chronotype match, there is no such thing. Facer-Childs says it's not a disaster if you are the same chronotype and it's not a disaster if you're opposites.
"It's probably unrealistic to find your perfect chronotype because everything is a balance in a relationship," she said. "Just like you don't expect to find somebody that follows exactly the same working schedule, or has the same hobbies, we can't necessarily expect someone to have exactly the same sleeping patterns as...
What's important, though, is talking and being open about it with your partner. If you hate their schedule, say so, and you can probably work something out. Just don't brush it off as a minor issue, because sleep is vital to our health.
"Sleep is extremely important and we do see it as a bit of a luxury in this day and age I think," Facer-Childs said. "The whole 'I'll sleep when I'm dead' motto. It's more like you don't sleep and you will be dead."
PRAGUE -- RFE/RL says it will appeal to the Supreme Court of Russia to throw out a 100,000 ruble ($1,440) fine imposed in July under the country’s controversial "foreign-agent" law.
The decision comes after a December 13 ruling by the Moscow City Court to reject RFE/RL's appeal following an August 21 district court decision to keep the fine in place.
The fine was imposed over what the courts ruled was RFE/RL’s failure to comply with obligations to report on its operations in Russia following the designation of it and several of its divisions as “foreign agents” by the Justice Ministry in December 2017.
The designation was based on a law signed by President Vladimir Putin in November 2017 allowing the government to apply the label to media outlets that receive funding from abroad, subjecting them to the same requirements as nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding and are deemed to engage in politica...
RFE/RL has paid the fine but contends that it was unable to fulfill the reporting requirement by the April 15 deadline because the Justice Ministry, despite repeated requests, failed to provide forms and set out the details of the reporting procedure in a timely manner.
Official reporting instructions for non-Russian legal entities like RFE/RL were published only on April 16.
The expansion of the already much-criticized “foreign-agent” legislation to include media outlets drew sharp criticism from Western governments and rights activists who say the Kremlin uses it to suppress information.
"The ruling by the Moscow City Court is the latest effort by Russian authorities to hamstring our company and particularly the work of our journalists in Russia," said RFE/RL acting President Daisy Sindelar.
"Our job is to provide balanced, objective reporting about events in Russia and worldwide," Sindelar added. "Any suggestion that our journalists are agents of any government is false."
Russian officials have said that expansion of the “foreign-agent” law to media outlets was a “symmetrical response" after Kremlin-supported satellite TV network RT was required to register its U.S. operating unit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. RT has been accused by U.S. intelligence authorities of spreadin...
U.S. officials argue that the U.S. and Russian laws differ substantially and that Russia uses its foreign-agent legislation to silence dissent and discourage a free exchange of ideas.
RFE/RL is a private, nonprofit organization funded by a grant from the U.S. Congress and overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which supervises civilian government broadcasting and media operations.
U.S law guarantees the editorial independence of RFE/RL by establishing an information firewall between the organization and the U.S. government.
Along with RFE/RL, which includes its flagship Russian-language service Radio Svoboda, Russian authorities slapped the “foreign-agent” label on Voice of America (VOA), which is also overseen by the USAGM, as well as Current Time TV -- a Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA – and several other ...
Introducing the new Cyntur JumperPack Mini, a small, portable 12,000 mAh lithium-ion battery pack that not only has a 2.1 Amp fast-charge USB port, but also sports jumper cables that can be used to jumpstart 12 volt cars, trucks, SUVs, boats, or even snowmobiles. According to the spec, anything up to and including an 8...
The Cyntur JumperPack Mini is a small, portable 12,000 mAh lithium-ion battery pack that not only has a 2.1 Amp fast-charge USB port, but also sports jumper cables that can be used to jumpstart 12 volt cars, trucks, SUVs, boats, or even snowmobiles.
THE numbers are headline grabbing in any context.
But behind the more than 7000 subcontractors and suppliers left owed in excess of $500m by Queensland construction industry insolvency in the past five years are real people.
Some lose everything - homes, businesses and livelihoods and never recover.
Others like Alison Daniels and husband Dave battle on and survive in a tough industry where getting paid remains the hardest part of a day's work.
When a builder simply stopped paying on a Gladstone job for which they were owed $250,000 the Coolum couple were left precariously exposed.
"It was the most stressful time of our lives," said Alison, who managed the books and juggled the bills.
"It's something I've been trying to wipe out of my mind. It was very hard. Because we were new to construction we didn't know how to fight.
"I was doing all the finances and at the end of the month had to pay all the suppliers, subcontractors, machine expenses and employee wages. At the end of each month I was crying, wondering where to find the money.
"I'm someone who wants to pay on time and when you can't, the phone calls start. You tell people the situation and try to pay a bit at a time but that puts them in a tough position.

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