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Turkey is experiencing a massive drop in tourism with hotels left empty as tourists reportedly head to Greece instead. On April 1, 2024, Greece launched visas on arrival for Turkish visitors and under this scheme Turkish citizens are entitled to visit 10 Greek islands with an express visa for up to seven days.This has caused the number of Turkish tourists in Greece to surge while many hotel rooms in Turkish resorts are said to have “remained empty”, according to VisaGuide.World. During the first 10 days of April, the islands of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Rhodes combined welcomed 20,690 Turkish tourists, many of whom in previous years when it was trickier to secure visas are...

A notorious New Orleans manse is seeking a new owner — one who’s undaunted by its dark history. The Big Easy’s legendary Lalaurie mansion has hit the market, with seller and energy trader Michael Whalen seeking $10.25 million for the historic, ghost story-steeped Empire Style estate, the Wall Street Journal first reported. The over 10,000-square-foot eight-bedroom abode has long been rumored to be haunted, and is a fixture of many paranormal tours of the town. “I’m Catholic, and that kind of stuff doesn’t scare me,” the mostly Texas-based Whalen told the Journal. Whalen — who purchased the 10-bathroom property for approximately $2.1 million...

Sylvester Stallone and, later, Vogue food columnist and cookbook author Barbara Kafka once called this sun-filled modernist house in upstate New York home, and now it can be yours for $4.3 million. Located at 40 High Ridge Road in Garrison, New York, and built in 1969, the flat-roofed home was recently gut-renovated by the Brooklyn-based design firm Madderlake. The “Rocky” star owned the river-view residence in the late 1980s, and Kafka picked it up in 1999 and lived there until 2015. The current owner is Shea Spencer, founder of the management agency Artist Commissions; she rents out theproperty for photoshoots with major brands, including Marc Jacobs and Bergdorf Goodman,...

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The discovery of a ship, missing for five centuries, in a southwest African desert, filled with gold coins, is one of the most thrilling archaeological finds in recent times. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus) was a Portuguese vessel that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal on Friday, March 7, 1533. Its fate was unknown until 2008 when its remains were discovered in the desert of Namibia during diamond mining operations near the coast of the African nation. When it sank in a fierce storm, it was on its way to India laden with treasures like gold and copper ingots. Two thousand pure gold coins and tens of thousands of pounds of copper ingots were discovered on the Bom Jesus, almost all...

Portuguese soccer icon Cristiano Ronaldo is constructing a mansion near Lisbon that might soon steal the crown for Portugal’s most expensive residence. New details have emerged regarding the sprawling spread that Ronaldo — who rakes in $216 million annually with the Saudi Arabian team Al-Nassr — has commissioned to be built in the popular beach town of Cascais. The property, which is set to be located in the oceanside Quinta da Marinha area, will span nearly 10,000 square feet along the Atlantic coastline and be bursting with opulent amenities. So many that may make it, once completed, potentially the nation’s priciest pad, according to Idealista, noting that the...

An historic estate formerly occupied by relatives of the noblewoman depicted in the “Mona Lisa” — arguably the most famous painting in the world — has hit the market. Set in the countryside of Scandicci, a 50,000-person municipality just west of Florence, Italy, the more than 700-year-old villa once belonged to the family of Francesco del Giocondo, who commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his wife, Lisa del Giocondo. It has been on display at the Louvre in Paris since the late 1700s and, to this day, receives hordes of visitors who clamor for a quick snapshot of the tiny frame. The property is seeking $19.66 million and is listed with Sara...

 Guinness World Records (GWR) frequently showcases many achievements accomplished by individuals worldwide. One recent highlight features an Egyptian man who set the world record for the fastest time to visit the new Seven Wonders of the World. Magdy Eissa, 45, set the new record in 6 days 11 hrs and 52 minutes. He used only public transport to visit the new Seven Wonders of the World. He beat the previous record set last year by Englishman Jamie McDonald. Speaking to GWR, Mr Magdy said that planning his record-breaking route was a "monumental" task which took almost one and a half years. "I had to navigate a complex web of flights, trains, buses, subways and walking between...

My paternal grandparents had nine children, and my father was the eldest. Before he turned 17, my father took on almost all the major responsibilities in the household because after him, my grandmother gave birth to four daughters and could not handle heavy work. Back then, my father had to take care of his siblings and tend to the fields during the day while helping my grandmother make bricks to build a five-room house in the evening. My grandfather worked as the commune’s clerk and did not engage in household chores. When my father turned 17, he joined the military, later leaving his hometown and settling in a big city. After my grandmother passed away, my grandfather transferred...

A woman in China who received multiple money transfers amounting to 2.26 million yuan (US$310,000) from a stranger, and returned all the funds without hesitation, has won praise for her honesty. The woman, surnamed Wang, said she received a number of phone calls at the end of June from someone she did not know, Henan TV reported. “That person called me again and again. So I finally picked up the phone,” Wang, who lives in Xuchang, Henan province, central China said. “A woman cried on the phone, telling me that she got it wrong by transferring 2.26 million yuan to me.” The stranger, surnamed Tian, said she had sent the money through Alipay, a mobile payment...