Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
2 mn readShares in US chocolate maker Hershey have jumped by more than 10% after a report that Mondelez International, which owns UK-based Cadbury, has approached the firm about a potential buyout. A deal could create a snack food giant with combined sales of almost $50bn (£39.2bn) a year. Both Mondelez and Hershey declined to comment on […]
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7 mn readStumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through everything we do online. For Kaitlyn Arford, a 31-year-old freelance writer based in Kentucky, US, memories of her early experiences with the internet all coalesce around one website: StumbleUpon. “Any time I had a […]
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3 mn readKenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of […]
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7 mn readAs glaciers and ice patches melt, they reveal untold stories of human skill, adventure, faith – and deadly conflict. Some 5,000 years ago, a tattooed man in his 40s, with brown eyes and thinning black hair, climbed a steep mountain in the Ötztal Alps, on the border between what is now Italy and Austria, to a mountain ridge more than […]
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4 mn readLinking eight Balkan nations, the new Trans Dinarica cycling trail twists through some of the continent’s most stunning – and least-visited – landscapes. The asphalt vanished as the road gently climbed through the pastures. Two small dogs ran towards me from a wooden Montenegrin shepherd’s hut, happily wagging their tails. I was tempted to play with […]
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3 mn readThe House approved the massive $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, after a controversial provision on gender-affirming care prompted backlash from Democrats and threatened to topple the must-pass bill’s chances in the chamber. In a 281 to 140 vote, the House approved the 1,800 page national security legislation to authorize funding for […]
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