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10 of Australia's best beaches

10/11/2018, 1:57:31 AM
With a coastline of more than 50,000 kilometers, Australia offers a staggering 12,000 beaches. CNN Travel helps guide you to 10 of the best for your sand 'n' surf holiday. ✔ Best for not swimming: 75 Mile Beach While this seemingly endless beach on Queensland's Fraser Island is stunningly scenic, it's not one you should visit for sunbathing and swimming ✔ For everyone else, the cove's red clay cliffs create a natural amphitheater, and are the ideal vantage point to watch annual competitions such as the Rip Curl Pro Surf and Music Festival


Singapore Airlines to launch world's longest non-stop flight from Singapore to New York

10/11/2018, 3:14:50 AM
SINGAPORE AIRLINES is to launch the longest non-stop commercial flight in the world, taking 19 hours from Singapore to the US. ✔ Singapore Airlines: The longest flight in the world is launching today from Singapore to New York (Image: Getty/Singapore Airlines) The next thing will be to see flights that go higher and faster Julian Bray There will also be more than 1,200 hours of programmes to keep everyone entertained onboard with films and TV shows to watch


In Lexington, Selfies With American Pharoah, Then ‘Bourbon and Branch’

10/10/2018, 10:49:05 PM
October is also racing season at Keeneland in Kentucky’s Bluegrass country, where farm visits, locavore restaurants and revived bourbon distilleries beckon. ✔ Amir Peay spent more than 10 years restoring the James E ✔ Now Tony Cenicola/The New York Times West Virginia’s Small-Town Revival Jada Yuan/The New York Times The 52 Places Traveler: São Tomé and Príncipe, Where Nature has the Upper Hand Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times A New Taste of Marrakesh Taylor Fladgate Six Places to Get a Taste of the Fall Harvest Trending Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 3 Storm Charges Into Georgia Stocks Plunge, as Fresh Tensions With China Batter Tech Shares A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ Turkey Names Saudi Operatives It Says Killed Dissident Journalist Limo Firm’s Operator Is Charged in Fatal Upstate New York Crash Opinion: A Damaging Bid to Censor Applications at Harvard Inside the C.E.O.’s Social Media Meltdown at Deciem Chinese Intelligence Officer Arrested and Is First Brought to U.S. for Prosecution


Spend a day in the Qanat Quartier

10/10/2018, 11:24:03 PM
This Venetian-esque district in Qatar is the hottest new place for locals and expats to live, work and play. ✔ You’ll definitely want to save room for the array of cute cafés and coffee bars that have opened up here, though, making this a thriving hub for informal eating, which makes a pleasant contrast to the fine-dining restaurants found elsewhere in the city


Eat At Taco Bell All Day To Find Out Which State You Should Live In

10/10/2018, 8:58:46 PM
Mmm... Taco Bell! ✔ Breakfast Crunchwrap Via tacobell.com Grande Scrambler Via tacobell.com Breakfast Quesadillia Via tacobell.com Cinnabon Delights Via tacobell.com Iced Coffee Via tacobell.com Hot Coffee Via tacobell.com Mountain Dew Kickstart (Orange Citrus) Via tacobell.com Orange Juice Via tacobell.com Crunchwrap Supreme Beefy 5-layer Burrito Crunchy Tacos Chicken, Steak, Cheese, or Beef Quesadillia Mountain Dew Pepsi Freezie Water Via Taco Bell Triple Double Crunchwrap Box $5 Nacho Fries Box $5 Cravings Box $5 Nacho Steak Box Via Taco Bell Mountain Dew Pepsi Freezie Water Via Taco Bell Did you know you can sign up for a BuzzFeed Community account and create your own BuzzFeed posts ✔ Here's a handy guide to help you start posting today! Looking for even more travel in your life


Greece Bans 'Overweight' Tourists From Riding the Famous Donkeys of Santorini

10/10/2018, 11:18:44 PM
The decision came after activists protested that the animals were suffering from spinal injuries and open wounds. ✔ The load on the backs of the Santorini donkeys is about to get lighter ✔ Many activists complained afterward that the animals were being treated inhumanely, and as a result, suffering from spinal injuries and open wounds ✔ After speaking with Mayor Anastasios-Nikolaos Zorzos of Santorini the petition was closed down, noting that Zorzos pledged to improve the conditions for working equines on the Greek Island


6 Gigantic Cat Breeds We Fell In Love With

10/10/2018, 9:36:53 PM
It’s probably really difficult to meet a cat lover who wouldn’t like to pet a lion, a puma, or a snow leopard. Unfortunately, these wild cats won’t let anyone near them, but there is a way to solve this problem! You can get a pet from our list. They are huge, but they are still cats. ✔ Siberian cats are also believed to be hypo-allergenic because there are very few allergens in their fur and saliva ✔ They were specifically bred in order to get a cat that would be extremely friendly with people ✔ Bonus: 4ft-long Samson is New York’s biggest cat ✔ Preview photo credit catstradamus / instagram


An American Grad Student Has Spent A Week Detained In An Israeli Airport

10/10/2018, 9:28:11 PM
Lara Alqasem, a grad student whose grandparents are Palestinian, has spent more than a week in detention appealing her deportation. ✔ View this post on Facebook Lara served as president of a chapter of one of the most extreme and hate-filled anti-Israel BDS groups in the US, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said ✔ The US Embassy in Jerusalem has reportedly visited Alqasem to ensure she is being provided food and water, but is legally unable to advocate on her behalf


The 5 most harrowing moments in Ryan Gosling's space epic 'First Man'

10/10/2018, 9:59:54 PM
From fiery crashes to hair-raising re-entries, these were the most terrifying moments in Ryan Gosling's Neil Armstrong space drama 'First Man.' ✔ Chazelle shows the audience Armstrong’s perspective as he parachutes to safety, looking at the singed metal that could have been him ✔ The former Crown actress plays Armstrong's first wife, Janet ✔ Shannon Finney/Getty Images Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide


Opinion | Of Trump, Taylor Swift and the Cat

10/11/2018, 12:40:09 AM
And now, on the lighter side of the news.… ✔ In which speech, she appeared to paraphrase a famous Holocaust poem about fear and apathy ✔ Boddie A Damaging Bid to Censor Applications at Harvard Trending Hurricane Michael Updates: Storm Charges Northwest, Leaving Destruction in Florida Opinion: I'm Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot Naming Names, Turks Turn Up Heat on Saudis in Consulate Case Stocks Plunge, as Fresh Tensions With China Batter Tech Shares At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line Limo Firm’s Operator Is Charged in Fatal Upstate New York Crash Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ Opinion: White Male Victimization Anxiety A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed Opinion: The ‘Greatest Hoax’ Strikes Florida


Royal wedding photographer reveals how to take perfect family snap

10/11/2018, 12:31:54 AM
Alexi Lubomirski was asked by the now Duke and Duchess of Sussex to take their now famous engagement photographs at Frogmore House in Windsor. He photographed the big day itself, too. ✔ He's snapped everyone from Blake Lively to Beyonce, but photographer Alexi Lubomirski has admitted he still thought he was being pranked when he got the call about a certain royal engagement shoot ✔ 'You need to encourage people and sometimes direct them


19 Of The Best Subscription Boxes For Kids

10/10/2018, 10:09:53 PM
From crafts to books to costumes to other monthly surprises that kiddos will adore! ✔ But mostly I just love the die-cut classics! Mrs. Grossman's has always offered such a unique variety of quality stickers ✔ Check out all of BuzzFeed’s gift guides! The best things at three price points The best things at three price points More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews


What does the world's next tallest tower look like now?

10/11/2018, 1:58:01 AM
These are the images that show what will soon be known as the world's next tallest building rising from the desert. When the 3,280-feet-tall (1,000-meter-tall) Jeddah Tower, in Saudi Arabia, opens in 2020, it will knock Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa off its throne as the tallest skyscraper in the world by 236 feet (72 meters). Construction of the landmark is estimated to cost $1.4 billion. ✔ Since November 2017, two of the project's most prominent backers -- Saudi Arabia's Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a prolific investor and businessman, and Bakr Bin Laden, chairman of Jeddah Tower's construction company Bin Laden Group -- have been caught up in the kingdom's anti-corruption purge, which saw hundreds questioned on accusations of corruption


Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed?

10/10/2018, 10:49:02 PM
Long derided as relics of an oppressive regime, the country’s Communist-era buildings are being given a second look, and a new life. ✔ ALMOST 30 YEARS have passed since Communism came to an end in Eastern Europe a sudden and dramatic collapse that, in fact, began in Poland, with the rise of the country’s Solidarity labor movement ✔ Flora Hanitijo Watch Ellie Kemper Share a Goofy, Prehistoric Joke Sebastian Sabal-Bruce The Actor-Playwright Exploring What It Means to Be African in America Trending Hurricane Michael Live Updates: Category 3 Storm Charges Into Georgia Stocks Plunge, as Fresh Tensions With China Batter Tech Shares A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ Turkey Names Saudi Operatives It Says Killed Dissident Journalist Limo Firm’s Operator Is Charged in Fatal Upstate New York Crash Opinion: A Damaging Bid to Censor Applications at Harvard Inside the C.E.O.’s Social Media Meltdown at Deciem Chinese Intelligence Officer Arrested and Is First Brought to U.S. for Prosecution


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