Month: January 2024

Three people who’ve lived with chronic migraine discuss what their journey has taught them, from the benefits of exercise to the importance of speaking up for yourself. Exercise Your Body and Mind Lindsay Weitzel, PhD, is an author and a podcast/webcast host for the National Headache Foundation. My earliest memory was a migraine around age 4. I had head pain every day after that, until age 30. It was so serious that it caused me to have something called complex regional pain syndrome, which feels like fire burning down to your bone marrow. I was a competitive swimmer. I used ... Read more

  Fabio Fabbi stands out as one of Italy’s most celebrated and commercially successful artists within the realm of Orientalism. This Italian artist was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1861, Fabbi’s artistic journey began at the Academia Di Belle Art in Florence, where he delved into the realms of sculpture and painting during the 1880s, earning accolades and prizes in both disciplines. Subsequently, his artistic pursuits led him on a transformative journey through Paris, Munich, and eventually Egypt. Returning to his homeland, this orientalist painter Fabbi dedicated himself entirely to painting and received the prestigious appointment as a professor at ... Read more

Prices for food, feedstuffs, and beverages (FFB) will rise over the course of 2024, with the production of coffee and cocoa forecast to fall by nine percent and 13 percent respectively for the 2023/24 crop season, research suggests. After three years of extreme volatility, commodities prices are set to broadly stabilise in 2024, despite the many geopolitical headwinds impacting the global economy at the moment, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has said. Their new whitepaper – the Commodities Outlook 2024 – has stated that this holding pattern for commodities prices in 2024 will ensure markets remain volatile in the short ... Read more

Ryanair has issued a flight warning for British tourists as “high winds” could cause disruption for travellers on January 31. An airline spokesperson said: “Potential disruptions to and from the UK on Wednesday, January 31 due to high winds. “Affected passengers will be notified and any passengers travelling to and from the UK on Wednesday, January 31 should check their Ryanair app for the latest updates on their flight. “We regret any inconvenience caused to passengers by these weather conditions which are outside of Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating to and from the UK on Wednesday, January 31.” ... Read more

Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is already a “failure” which has damaged his military enormously, not to mention Russia’s economy, the director of the CIA has said. With his country’s “weaknesses” exposed, Putin’s “overblown ambitions” have left NATO “larger and stronger”, Bill Burns claimed. In an essay written for the US-based Foreign Affairs website, Mr Burns offered a scathing assessment of the Russian President – and urged Ukraine to underscore the high cost of the ongoing conflict. He explained: “One thing I have learned is that it is always a mistake to underestimate his fixation on controlling Ukraine and its ... Read more

He later invested £250,000 in their business and said it was their link to Meghan that sealed the deal. “The moment you told me about hounding down Meghan Markle, you had me,” he quipped. But just because Meghan didn’t get these earrings as a gift, that doesn’t mean she hasn’t accepted freebies before. Prince Harry revealed his wife accepted free gifts that were sent to her at Kensington Palace, and would distribute them among her staff. “She shared all the freebies she received, clothes and perfumes and make-up, with all the women in the office,” he wrote in his memoir ... Read more

Henry Cavill‘s spy movie Argylle hits cinemas this weekend and the trailer for his next action movie has now landed, reuniting the Superman star with director Guy Richie, almost a decade on from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The 40-year-old actor (who’s a bookies’ favourite for the new 007) may have lost out to Daniel Craig for Casino Royale, but just like Argylle, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has a James Bond connection too. The film’s official synopsis reads: “Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is an ... Read more

Charles Courtney was an American Impressionist painter and was born in 1861 and later in 1881 moved to place called Sandusky, Ohio. He studied for one year at design school in Cincinnati named Cincinnati School of Design and afterwards, started a promising and brilliant career and got himself enrolled in the National Academy of Design after moving to New York City in 1882. He has studied and enhanced his art style with some of the well known painters named Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant and Henri Lucien Doucet. He also studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. Charles became a teacher ... Read more

Argos has announced a surprisingly good and pretty rare deal on the latest iPhone 15. As most Apple fans will be well aware, getting a reduction on the US firm’s latest tech can be hard to find but that’s exactly what Argos shoppers are enjoying right now. As well as cuts to that all-new iPhone there are also lower prices on the rebooted Apple Watch Series 9 and popular iPad Air. Let’s start with that iPhone reduction. Argos has announced a “great new price” on this device with the larger 256GB Plus model dropped from £999 to £949 – that’s ... Read more

Vladimir Putin is facing a rare form of dissent in the heart of Russia, as groups led by mothers and wives are demanding their loved ones to return home from the front. The Russian President angered thousands of women, many of whom were previously his supporters, by walking back on the promise not to mobilise the country to beef up the troops fighting in Ukraine. In September 2023, one year after Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russia, the first group of Russian women demanding the return of soldiers emerged. Angered by the announcement men continue to serve until the ... Read more