ADVERTISEMENTAstana is a modern capital rising from the Kazakh steppe, known for its futuristic architecture, extreme climate, and role as a Central Asian political and cultural hub.The city defines itself in many ways – as a business centre, a cultural haven, a gastronomical pole, and more. Recently, it’s made strides to become a hotspot for international events.Over 500 events took place in Astana last year, attracting 13% more tourists to the city than the year before, according to Olga Abeldinova, Director of Tourist Services and Infrastructure Department at the Tourism Development Centre “Astana Tourism”.“We invite Class A stars, which attracts…

Hourly flights at beleaguered Newark Liberty International Airport will remain drastically reduced through the end of the year as construction and staffing shortages continue plaguing the busy travel hub, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Friday. Just 28 arriving and departing flights will be permitted each hour on weekends from Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, as critical airport construction presses on. The rest of the time, there will only be 34 arrivals and departures through Oct. 25, the FAA said in a statement. “The confirmed reduced rates will maintain safety while alleviating excessive flight delays at the airport due to staffing…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator there says the device wound up saving a woman’s life just three weeks afterward.David Sullivan, 62, made the journey to the Himalayas to place the lifesaving device on the mountain.He believes it is the world’s highest-positioned defibrillator, sitting more than 16,000 feet above sea level, according to news agency SWNS.EXTREME TRAVEL DESTINATION TO RESTRICT POPULAR MOUNTAIN ACCESSAfter losing four close friends — all under age 45 — to sudden cardiac arrest, Sullivan founded Code Blue CPR.He began traveling the globe as an…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned some 35 individuals involved in laundering money for Iran on Friday as the administration seeks to make a deal with Iran over its nuclear weapons program.A State Department spokesperson said in a statement that,”This network has laundered billions of dollars through Iranian exchange houses and foreign front companies to sustain Tehran’s campaigns of terror that undermine international peace and security and line the pockets of regime elites.”Meanwhile, tensions with Iran continue, with the Associated Press reporting that Western powers are…

By&nbspEuronews Travel&nbspwith&nbspAP Published on 05/06/2025 – 11:16 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTSevere storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said in a statement Thursday.The flight, travelling from Berlin to Milan with 179 passengers and six crew members, encountered turbulence so intense around 8:30 pm that the pilot was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Memmingen Airport in Bavaria. Eight passengers and one crew member were hurt.Three people were taken to the hospital in Memmingen for treatment; the other injured people were released after receiving outpatient…

Social media users opposed to President Trump sarcastically welcomed Elon Musk into the fold Thursday as he unleashed a torrent of X posts critical of the commander in chief.  “I ❤️ @elonmusk !!!! Don’t you?” conservative anti-Trump lawyer George Conway — whose ex-wife Kellyanne was senior counsel to the president during his first term — wrote on X, as Musk lambasted Trump’s support for the “One Big Beautiful Bill” working its way through Congress.  To which the Republicans Against Trump X account responded: “Not yet. Give it a few more anti-Trump tweets first.” When the world’s richest man took credit…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s vocal criticism of the tax cut package the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are advancing has left the company’s investors in limbo as Musk and the president trade verbal barbs over the bill. The billionaire’s time in the role was tumultuous for Tesla, which became the subject of boycotts in opposition to Musk’s role as the leader of the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which sent Tesla shares to their lowest levels of the year in March and April. Tesla shares rallied last month in the lead up to the expiration of Musk’s tenure as a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than researchers thought, according to a new study driven by an artificial intelligence (AI) model.A group of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and Denmark recently published their findings in the journal PLOS One on June 4.The researchers said they developed an AI-based date-prediction model named Enoch, a nod to the biblical patriarch of the same name.ANCIENT CHRISTIAN FIGURINES DISCOVERED IN 1,500-YEAR-OLD DESERT GRAVESEnoch “was trained as a machine learning-based date-prediction model applying Bayesian ridge regression on established handwriting-style descriptors,” according to the study. In order…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel is facing a deepening political crisis that could soon bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition, as one of its key ultra-Orthodox partners threatens to leave the government and back an opposition-led motion to dissolve parliament next week.  In a dramatic escalation on Thursday, the Council of Torah Scholars today instructed the Agudat Yisrael party to submit its own bill to dissolve the Knesset. Recent Israeli opinion polls indicate that Netanyahu’s coalition would likely lose power if elections were held today.The crisis centers on long-standing tensions over military conscription exemptions for…

Published on 04/06/2025 – 15:54 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTDespite warnings to stay away, hikers on Mount Etna were forced to flee this week after Italy’s most active volcano erupted.Footage from the mountain shared on social media showed tourists scurrying down the slopes as ash rose into the sky. Authorities had issued alerts on Monday morning after signs of increased volcanic activity, but dozens ignored them and climbed toward the summit anyway.“There was a big explosion and a crater collapsed but luckily it fell into a deserted area,” said Salvo Cocina, head of Sicily’s Civil Protection Department. “It’s very hard to block access [to…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.UK savers pay higher pension fees and miss out on interest payments by failing to shop around, industry figures have warned. More than 80 per cent of savers are unaware what they pay in pension fees, according to investment platform Interactive Investor. At the same time, 80 per cent of the 8.3mn current accounts in the UK containing balances of £10,000 or more are earning zero interest, said Spring, a savings app.Those failing to switch pension platforms when faced with higher administration…

Today’s agenda: Trump travel ban; Putin plans retaliation; Maga in Europe; inside Builder.ai’s collapse; and Janan Ganesh on Biden the scapegoatGood morning. We start with a look at how big institutional investors are shifting away from American markets as they “rethink” their US exposure.Why is this happening? President Donald Trump’s erratic trade policy has shaken global markets in recent months, sparking a sharp sell-off in the US dollar and leaving Wall Street stocks lagging far behind European rivals this year. Trump’s tax bill, which is forecast to add $2.4tn to Washington’s debt over the next decade, has also increased pressure…

She’s giving up her title. Rather than receiving the royal treatment after winning a worldwide beauty pageant in 2024, Rachel Gupta claims she was treated like second-class citizen — abandoned in a “dilapidated” house sans food, phone, money or security.  “The whole time that I was working with Miss Grand International, the last seven months, I was constantly harassed, manipulated, ignored and left to fend for myself,” a sobbing Gupta, 21, from India, revealed while virally renouncing her royal status on YouTube. “These have been the hardest few months of my life.” Rachel Gupta claims the Miss Grand International organization…

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Wednesday to pull federal grants for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority after it spent nearly $7 billion in taxpayer funds over a decade and a half without laying a single foot of track. In a more than 300-page report, Duffy detailed the missed deadlines and stretched budget for the long-running project — and gave the Golden State’s high-speed rail office 37 days to respond or lose out on around $4 billion in grants. “This report exposes a cold, hard truth: CHSRA has no viable path to complete this project on time or on budget,”…

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a progressive who is no fan of Elon Musk, seized on the business tycoon’s scathing rebuke of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, suggesting that Musk is “right” to excoriate the legislation. “It’s truly a wild wild wild day when I’m saying that Elon is right! Mark this one on your calendars folks! I agree… the Reconciliation bill is TRASH! Remember this… not one Dem voted for it, but at least 2 Republicans had the courage to vote against it, in the house! America deserves better!” Crockett declared in a post on her personal X account.GOP…