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Flora Badger is taking three teenage girls on their first holiday abroad this summer.She contacted BBC Your Voice to share her frustrations in watching holiday prices fluctuate. Flora first considered booking in April to avoid the expensive summer months, but says she held off over situation in the Middle East and fears of getting stuck abroad. She ended up booking to go to the Spanish island of Lanzarote in September.”Price was a huge, huge issue,” she says. “It’s very frustrating how much it increases in the school holidays.”At the end of the day they need a treat, we’ve been saving…

Polymarket, the crypto-native prediction market, has begun supporting instant Bitcoin deposits over the Lightning Network. The feature uses infrastructure from Spark, a Bitcoin protocol built for payments and stablecoins.  In a post on X, Spark told users they can deposit BTC to the platform with more speed and more privacy than the older method offered. The move extends a funding push that started in October 2025, when Polymarket switched on standard on-chain Bitcoin deposits. Those deposits carried a wait: most on-chain Bitcoin transactions need three to six confirmations, a window of 10 to 60 minutes, before a platform credits an…

Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon go Instagram official: Inside the luxury USD 12 million Los Angeles home they live in Brad Pitt and his girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, have seemingly taken their relationship to the next level by making it Instagram official. The couple’s social media debut comes months after reports that they had moved in together at the Oscar winner’s newly purchased Los Angeles estate, offering fans another glimpse into their increasingly serious romance.The jewelry executive reposted a series of affectionate photos to her Instagram Stories on Monday, marking the first time she has shared pictures with Pitt…

By Mark James, updated July 7, 2026 Anyone who has spent time pricing tokens learns to ignore the headline and ask one question first: what does this actually convert to, and how much friction sits between the number on the screen and money I can move? A token can show a large supply, a flashy market cap, and a generous airdrop, and still be worth very little once you account for lockups, thin liquidity, and the gap between quoted price and realized price. Promotional offers from sweepstakes casinos reward the same instinct. High 5 Casino promo codes advertise figures that…

In a thrilling Round of 16 showdown, Argentina emerged victorious, defeating Egypt 3-2. Lionel Messi was visibly overcome with emotion, shedding tears of joy at the end of the match. (AP Photo) Lionel Messi could not contain his emotions at the final whistle as Argentina staged a sensational late comeback to beat Egypt 3-2 in the Round of 16. After watching old rivals Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar suffer painful exits in previous matches, the Inter Miami star shed tears of joy as the reigning champions secured their place in the quarter-finals.At the final whistle, after Argentina’s victory over Egypt was…

Manu Agrawal (Credits: LinkedIn) For many students, a college fee receipt marks the beginning of higher education. For software engineer Manu Agrawal, it came with a sacrifice he says he has never forgotten.In a recent LinkedIn post, Agrawal recalled how his father sold his mother’s jewellery to pay his Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) fees.“₹15,000 per semester. That’s all it cost. But we didn’t have it,” he wrote.According to Agrawal, he watched his mother hand over her gold bangles without saying a word. “She didn’t cry. She just looked at me. I didn’t sleep that night,” he said.A journey shaped…

Bitcoin is holding near $64,033, up 0.76% over the past 24 hours and roughly 6.3% higher on the week, a modest but meaningful recovery that has traders asking whether institutional money is finally returning in force. The answer, based on the flow data, is: cautiously yes. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs, regulated investment vehicles that hold BTC directly on behalf of shareholders) just ended a painful outflow streak, and the numbers behind that reversal are worth examining closely. Bitcoin ETFs snapped a five-day losing streak that had drained approximately $1.7 billion in net redemptions. The rebound has since extended, with data showing…

Asked to iden­ti­fy “the Athens of the South,” many Amer­i­cans might well point to Athens, Geor­gia, espe­cial­ly if they hap­pen to be fans of REM, the B‑52s, or Of Mon­tre­al. In fact, that title was claimed by Nashville, Ten­nessee as ear­ly as the eigh­teen-fifties, when the city put into action its ambi­tious plans for a pub­lic edu­ca­tion sys­tem. By the end of that cen­tu­ry, Nashville boast­ed not just more than 20 col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties (Van­der­bilt being the best known today), but also a full-scale repli­ca of the Parthenon, the ancient tem­ple to the god­dess Athena. It was built for the…

“Now he faces the challenge of adapting to his new circumstances while holding onto the things he loves,” a GoFundMe for Brodie Terry statedBrodie TerryCredit: GoFundMeNEED TO KNOWBrodie Terry, 11, and his dad were out fishing in Florida on June 27 when he was attacked by an alligator, authorities and family saidBrodie’s father attempted to save him, and the boy’s hand was severed when the alligator rolled, said a relativeThe child is currently recovering at his Pennsylvania homeAn alligator bit an 11-year-old boy who was visiting Florida from Pennsylvania with his family, resulting in the loss of his hand. The incident…

When you’ve got a lion behind you and the sea in front of you, the only choice is to dive in and hope for the best. So says Mariama (Sokhna Diallo) a Senegalese immigrant in Cyprus who, the day after her 18th birthday, has been turfed out of a special facility for child refugees and told she has to fend for herself now. With no papers or prospects, Mariama sneaks back to the facility at night, and it’s up to the taciturn cook and cleaner, Stella (Elena Kallinikou), to turf her out each morning. And that’s an easy job for Stella as she’s…