Future Food Quick Bites: Just Chicken, Tesco & Crowdfunding Galore

4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eat Just’s vegan chicken, Beyond Meat’s Walmart expansion, and Tesco’s collab with La Vie. New products and launches...

Longevity travel emerges as the new goal for wellness-focused travelers

Longevity travel is the ticket everyone suddenly wants stamped. Cultural experiences inspired by the Blue Zones are becoming signature add-ons that give trips authenticity and staying power. With more than half of Americans willing to spend on...

The AI bubble and the US economy

The US stock market continues to hit new record highs; the bitcoin price is also close to highs and the gold price has rocketed to all-time highs. Investors in financial assets (banks, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds etc) are...

What a newly identified portrait of a black Napoleonic soldier reveals about British Army diversity

The Napoleonic wars were fought on a bigger scale than any conflict that had gone before. Though concentrated in Europe, their impact was global. They conjure up images of huge battles fought between armies in colourful and flamboyant uniforms....

Cemeteries shift from solemn spaces to tourist attractions

Historic burial grounds join travel itineraries this season, with crowds eager to explore the sculptures and secrets tucked between the headstones. Guided walks in Virginia, lantern-lit tours in New York and music-filled gatherings in Philadelphia...

EU-Backed Project Deploys OTEC Demonstration Unit off Canary Islands

A new storm-resistant ocean energy prototype has been installed off the coast of Gran Canaria, developed under the EU’s Horizon Europe-funded PLOTEC project, as a next step in harnessing ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) as a source of...

Ascott expands brands in Europe

SINGAPORE, 22 October 2025: The Ascott Limited, a wholly owned lodging business unit of CapitaLand Investment (CLI), has signed seven new properties through franchise and management agreements totalling nearly 1,100 units across Vienna and...

Sustained growth through creative destruction: Nobel laureates Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

The idea of ‘creative destruction’ was first coined in the 1940s by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter. He used the term to encapsulate the idea that economic progress carries with it significant disruption: every major innovation since the...

Elvis Smylie: A little more conversation

Tracing Elvis Smylie’s wild ride from teenage prodigy to 2024 BMW Australian PGA champion. Is an encore coming at Royal Queensland? A year in professional golf can provide a lifetime’s worth of learning experiences. Elvis Smylie discovered as much...

Winter vegetables in search of new foreign markets

The white turnip, fennel, carrot, and lettuce trade is showing extremely positive signs, and the current weather conditions are favouring a smooth production. "Our forecasts are optimistic," reports Antimo Filetti from L'Ortolana. "These...

15 beautiful places to visit in Europe this fall

Insanely diverse, Europe’s beauty constantly comes as a surprise. Where else on earth, after all, can you go from puffing volcanoes to wave-whipped ocean, Alpine peaks to Arctic islands, white-sand beaches to shimmering blue glaciers, vine-strewn,...

The Star Calibrator - A Western Perspective from Within China

The Star Calibrator A Western Perspective from Within China By Julio Ceballos, Spanish business development consultant in China and author of Watching Rice Grow and The Star Calibrator Why Was This Book Written? For twenty years, I have worked,...

Salmonella in tomatoes continues to sicken people in the U.S. and Europe

A multi-year Salmonella outbreak has resulted in more than 400 people in 17 countries falling sick. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said there are 437 confirmed Salmonella Strathcona infections between January 2023...

‘Peak Creeping’ and Athleisure tourism make Byway’s trends list

With more people than ever opting for overland trips, bookings up 80% year-on-year, it’s not surprising that Byway’s 2026 travel trends report spotlights the biggest shifts in flight-free families, AI-driven planning, and Byway-coined concepts,...

The Crashing Failure of the Feminist Movement

Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a democratic republic that our Founding Fathers had envisioned. It was and continues to be clear to them that America’s strength is...

Economic Forum Of The Bosnian Community Held In Graz

The Economic Forum 2025 was organized by the Bosnian Academic Society in Austria (BADA), and this year again, as stated by BADA, it brought together prominent experts in the fields of psychology, economics, management, and education. In addition...

Eurostat data reveals over 79 million tonnes of packaging waste generated in EU

Eurostat has published data revealing that 79.7 million tonnes of packaging waste were generated in the EU in 2023, equivalent to 177.8 kg per inhabitant. While this is a reduction of 8.7 kg per capita compared with 2022, the figure remains 21.2...

Jannik Sinner Breaks Silence on Davis Cup Controversy With a Bold Stance: “Accept All the Criticism”

“It’s a big slap in the face for Italian sport.” Former Italian ATP icon Nicola Pietrangeli had a harsh reaction earlier this week to compatriot and 24-year-old star Jannik Sinner’s shocking Davis Cup call. Owing to a hectic schedule, the former...

Three Cultures Center Groundbreaking & Autumn Open House at Handsell

The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance (NHPA) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Three Cultures Center and host an Autumn Open House at Handsell (4837 Indiantown Road, Vienna, MD) on November 8th. The ceremony begins at 11:00...

"There Are Three Obvious Reasons Why Trump Gave Putin A 'spanking'"

6 And began to finally put pressure on Russia. US President Donald Trump announced the cancellation of the summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest, explaining it was the "wrong moment" and lack of perspective. He added that Putin was willing to...