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Cruise secrets: Why you should never use this queue when debarking

9/16/2018, 1:43:50 PM
CRUISE secrets have revealed how passengers can always avoid the long queues when boarding and debarking a ship, which can take precious time out of a trip. ✔ Cruises: Long queues form when passengers try to leave early (Image: Getty) Arrive early or arrive late, the latter being far less likely to have a delay Cruise-goer Cruise goers took to forum Cruise.co.uk to give their best advice on avoiding queues


Florence: After 3,375 cancellations, flights slowly resuming Sunday

9/16/2018, 2:47:16 PM
Flights were resuming at some hard-hit airports in the Carolinas, but normal operations remained days away for others amid lingering remnants of Florence. ✔ Other airlines were expected to restart operations there later Sunday, with near-normal schedules possibly by Monday ✔ Already, Sunday's cancellation tally was down from the 871 reported by FlightAware on Saturday and 904 on Friday ✔ (Photo: Wilmington International Airport (screenshot))


Seven reasons to be sleepless in Seattle

9/16/2018, 2:49:39 PM
FAMOUS for its Space Needle, rock legends, movie backdrops and pioneering industries, Seattle is a city busily creating the future on the other side of the world. ✔ Fares start from £259 one way, or £1,299 business class one way, including taxes and charges ✔ The Boeing aircraft factory, north of downtown, employs around 30,000 people ✔ Or stay downtown at Kimpton Vintage (hotelvintage-seattle.com, rooms available from £150) a smart, luxurious and spacious hotel close to the city centre


23 Things That'll Help Organize Your Trash Heap Of A Bag

9/16/2018, 12:13:40 PM
For when you insist on packing like Hermione on a horcrux-finding mission, but (sadly) have no magical powers. ✔ Get it from Amazon for $8.99 (available in several styles) ✔ A check-size accordion folder to avoid scrambling for the right coupon in the grocery checkout aisle ✔ Advertisement Tap to play GIF Reviews have been edited for length and/or clarity ✔ Check out all of BuzzFeed’s gift guides!


Lewis Hamilton: F1 champion admits he’s ‘broody’ but has ‘non-existent’ love life

9/16/2018, 3:53:37 PM
LEWIS HAMILTON, who won the F1 Singapore Grand Prix today, has admitted he is broody, but is currently single due to his busy schedule. ✔ It was the hardest decision we had to make, but we made it together ✔ Lewis Hamilton: F1 champion admits he’s ‘broody’ but is currently single (Image: GETTY) Lewis Hamilton: F1 champion wants children with 'someone special' (Image: GETTY) But the Tommy Hilfiger model insisted his love for cars came before his love life ✔ The British star beat off competition from runner-up Max Verstappen and rival Sebastian Vettel, who came third


The Latest: Flooded city sets curfew; roads unpassable

9/16/2018, 1:58:22 PM
NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Florence (all times local): 9:45 a.m. The mayor of a Fayetteville, North Carolina, suburb says about ✔ (Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP) Resident Joseph Eudi looks at flood debris and storm damage from Hurricane Florence at a home on East Front Street in New Bern, N.C., Saturday, Sept ✔ Roberts still had supplies like bottled water, but went ahead and closed so his employees could prepare their homes


Listen to bands from a kayak and listen to the dulcet tones of the ukulele on a weekend full of variety

9/16/2018, 12:22:37 PM
You can’t be bored on the upcoming Southern California weekend. Eat Greek treats, master the ukulele, play retro arcade games or watch a band from a kayak. ✔ You can’t be bored on the upcoming Southern California weekend ✔ Enter a Pac-Man tournament in the evening, or relax to retro tracks in the arcade lounge ✔ (805) 477-0470, lat.ms/rockonthedock Big Bear Lake Sundays are family day at Big Bear Lake’s 48th Oktoberfest, one of the longest-running German festivals this side of Munich


The Latest: Florence claims 14th victim, in South Carolina

9/16/2018, 3:34:30 PM
NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Depression Florence (all times local): 11:20 a.m. Former hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm Florence has clai ✔ (Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP) Yuri Hickey, right, and a worker from the Red Cross point at a weather report inside a storm shelter at Ridge View High School as remnants of Florence slowly move across the East Coast Saturday, Sept ✔ Roberts still had supplies like bottled water, but went ahead and closed so his employees could prepare their homes


Our readers share their stunning summer vacation photos. Take a look to inspire your next trip

9/16/2018, 1:46:50 PM
The passion that readers bring to these photos is a testament to their perseverance.


Queen goes to church at Balmoral with William, Charles and Camilla

9/16/2018, 1:10:24 PM
Her Majesty looked in great spirits, no doubt delighted to be spending time with her grandson Prince William, 36, who joined her in the back of her chauffeur-drive Bentley to Crathie Kirk. ✔ Prince William is paying his second visit of the summer to the Scottish estate, having joined his grandmother at the end of August ✔ It's the second visit of the summer to Balmoral for Prince William who looked smart in a dark suit and red and blue tie  The Queen's eldest grandson kept her company on the journey to church, which is one of the most important parts of the monarch's weekly routine  He was accompanied by his wife Kate and their children Prince George, five, Princess Charlotte, three, and three-month-old Prince Louis ✔ In a documentary to mark the Queen's 90th birthday, Princess Eugenie explained: 'It's the most beautiful place on earth


Air pollution particles found in mothers' placentas

9/16/2018, 12:45:17 PM
New research shows direct evidence that toxic air – already strongly linked to harm in unborn babies – travels through mothers’ bodies ✔ It is very evident to us they are black sooty particles ✔ Dr Christian Schyllert, at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, said: This study suggests [these] children have worse life chances when it comes to their education and their future jobs ✔ He said one possible reason could be that children with asthma are known to have lower school attendance


Wajib review – raw nerves beneath the ancient hurts

9/16/2018, 12:45:15 PM
Annemarie Jacir pits tradition against modernity in this bittersweet comedy about a father driving around Nazareth with his hipster architect son ✔ Shadi’s girlfriend, Nada, is the daughter of a high-profile intellectual, for whose radical politics Abu Shadi has no time ✔ The result is a film of surprising warmth and generosity, which takes a situation riven by discord and turns it into a melancholy song of resolution


Inside Katie Hopkins' downfall - 'fired' from jobs, forced apology and huge debt

9/16/2018, 3:40:44 PM
The controversial rent-a-gob has had a nightmare few months since taking on Jack Monroe in a legal case - and failing miserably ✔ Some 11 months later, Mail Online revealed her column had been dropped by mutual consent and her contract would not be renewed ✔ Earlier this year she put her luxury mansion on the market to recoup some of the money, but in May filed for an IVA to manage her crippling debts


Microsoft Surface Go review – Does this portable PC pack enough to challenge Apple’s iPad?

9/16/2018, 12:32:02 PM
MICROSOFT Surface Go makes its intentions of rivalling the iPad clear from the moment you lay hands on its 10-inch screen, but does the PC hybrid do enough to challenge Apple’s tablet champion? Here is Express.co.uk’s review of the Microsoft Surface Go. ✔ But the tablet’s ambition is ultimately hamstrung by a few ugly asterisks that prevent it from being the all-encompassing productive powerhouse it aspires to be ✔ This means Microsoft's suite of productivity apps can be harnessed to get work done anywhere ✔ They insisted issues may have been limited to our review unit but this publication found they were replicated in our second Surface Go device


The State Department's silence on racism is deafening

9/16/2018, 3:11:30 PM
David Love writes that in the age Trump, the US State Department has turned its back on the fight against racism and xenophobia. Even worse, the agency seeks to remove anti-racist language from international documents. ✔ In his interview this past July with The Sun, a British tabloid, Trump decried immigration, saying that migrants have changed the fabric of Europe ✔ How can the United States ever hope to combat racism in the world when its leader seems to be helping to spread it


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