Do your 2020 resolutions involve getting healthier? How about traveling more? You can easily knock two goals out at once by paying a visit to some of the world’s more health-conscious countries. The Bloomberg Global Health Index is a study that ranks 163 countries based on variables such as life expectancy, environmental factors, and health risks including malnutrition, high blood pressure, and tobacco use—and the latest edition will help you decide which destinations to visit next. The bad news: The United States did not make the top 10 (it currently sits at position 35). The good news: Some of our absolute favorite countries are ranked among the world’s healthiest, which means you can sample some amazing cuisines and see one-of-a-kind landscapes while tackling those resolutions. Without further ado, here are the healthiest countries to visit in 2020.
Since the early days of Hollywood, celebrities have been buying each other’s houses, either as a moving-up status symbol or to be assured of being in the right celebrity neighborhood equal to their peers. As neighborhoods close to the studios became heavily populated, Calabasas and Hidden Hills in the western end of the San Fernando Valley became more exclusive with their protected gated communities and homes that provided more breathing space.
Why do many people go shopping the minute they have money in their wallets? Material wealth brings you happiness, albeit temporarily. Only a few days after a new purchase, the thrill, pleasure, and enjoyment you felt begins to fade.
It turns out that as soon as you get used to your new purchase, your level of satisfaction decreases and you feel compelled to go shopping again for the next exciting thing. This vicious cycle repeats itself over and over again.
From Tokyo to Sao Paul here are the world’s most crowded cities that you need to remember when planning your next trip!
The 97th Oscar Awards have finally wrapped up with Joaquin Phoenix and Renée Zellweger coming in at the top! The Best Picture was awarded to the international film ‘Parasite’ while Toy Story 4 came out the winner for Best Animated Feature Film. All in all, almost every nominee won in at least one category making this Oscar Awards, one for the books!
Celebrities are now making their way over to the official after party where the young and talented Grammy award winning singer Billie Eilish will take centre stage!
Aviation—like much of the travel industry—remains a male-dominated space. Even in 2019, female pilots still only account for an estimated 4.4 percent (or 6,994) of commercial pilots in the US and UK, according to the Centre for Aviation. Recently, aviation history was made when passenger Dr. John Watrel learned that the duo piloting his Delta Boeing 757 flight was in fact a mother and daughter.
Captain Wendy Rexon and her first-officer daughter, Kelly Rexon, are the first mother and daughter pair in history to pilot a commercial flight together. As it ends up, flying is a family business when it comes to the Rexons. Wendy and her two daughter are airline pilots along with Wendy’s husband, who is a pilot for American Airlines.
From their latest fling to those age old love stories that stood the pressure of the tabloids, Hollywood’s stars came out on Monday to grace the Oscar Awards red carpet. Flaunting their colour coordinated outfits and decked in the best of designer jewellery – the 2020 red carpet left the paparazzi blinded by their public displays of affection, style and their starry eyes expressions to each other.
Sim Leisure Group Ltd, a leading theme park developer and operator based in Penang, Malaysia, has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sri Lanka’s Elpitiya Plantations PLC, to set up its world-class ESCAPE theme park in Galle.
Having been granted preliminary approval to commence construction and barring unforeseen circumstances, the Group aims to commence construction of ESCAPE Sri Lanka in March 2020. Both parties also expect the signing of the definitive agreement in relation to ESCAPE Sri Lanka later this month, which includes the entry of a strategic joint venture partnership whereby Sim Leisure and Elpitiya (or its nominee) are the proposed joint venture partners of Venture Valley. The Company will make the necessary announcements in due course.
Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) and The Lesser Bohemians (2016) are renowned for their elliptical Joycean prose – and credited with triggering a fresh wave of experimental Irish fiction. Her third novel is more conventional in form, but no less mesmerising for it. Its nameless – and entirely rootless – narrator charts her endless journey from hotel room to hotel room in cities ranging from Paris to Auckland (and the many sexual encounters she has along the way), but her peripatetic lifestyle has a cost. Provocative in every sense of the word.