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Art & Culture

The Coolest Art Scenes Around the World

Art, like travel, has the power to transcend boundaries, reflecting the unique cultural, historical, and social narratives of its environment. Around the globe, certain cities have emerged of late as…

Life in the UK Test: Mansoureh Farahani and friend.

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Expat News

What Does it Mean to Be British in 2025?

In 2024–25 the Home Office granted citizenship to over 215,706 applicants, 19 percent more than in the year ending March 2024, the highest annual total on record. Among them were…

Singapore’s Changi Airport begins work on ultra-modern Terminal 5.

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Expat News

Collapse, Comfort, and Billion-Dollar Beauty

As fortunes soar and coastlines sink, the contradictions of modern life grow ever sharper. Billionaires inch toward historic tax cuts while polar ice vanishes. Beauty routines go airborne, towers tumble,…

Cannes opens with a politically charged lineup and global spotlight.

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Glamour, Gold, and Gathering Storms

As Cannes rolls out the red carpet and Eurovision lights up Europe, deeper tremors—both geological and financial—are stirring beneath the surface. United Airlines goes luxe, experts warn of gold rush…

In Loma Linda California wellness begins with belief—and becomes habit.

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Blue Zone

Loma Linda, The Blueprint of a Long Life

In the hills east of Los Angeles lies a quiet anomaly in the American health landscape. Loma Linda California—a modest city of approximately 24,000 residents in San Bernardino County—is the…

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Field Notes

The Curious Case of South Ossetia

Editors Note: There is some disagreement over the name of the region examined in this article. The use of the names South Ossetia and Tskhinvali are the subject of debate…

Venice prepares to lift itself above rising floodwaters.

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Expat News

Lines Crossed and Ground Shifted

Tensions flare between India and Pakistan, Trump revisits Greenland, and Venice prepares to rise—literally. Meanwhile, new ID rules reshape American travel, and a symbolic Gulf renaming faces global resistance. As…

Sardinian Chronicles - Life in Sardinia unfolds in stillness, season, and sun.

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Blue Zone

A Sardinian Chronicle

They say time doesn’t exist in Sardinia. Or at least, not in the way it does elsewhere—racing past you with the sound of horns, ticking clocks, and unread emails. I…

An Bang beach on a typically perfect afternoon.

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Central Vietnam

An Expat’s Guide to An Bang Beach

Many readers may know that the city of Hoi An, in Central Vietnam, is home to the UNESCO World Heritage Ancient Town, one of the best-preserved trading ports in Southeast…

Spain recovers after one of its worst blackouts in history.

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Expat News

Power, Peaks, and Political Shifts

A blackout throws Iberia into darkness, Trump’s climate purge alarms scientists, and Everest access gets harder for amateur climbers. Meanwhile, Canada votes, Romania’s wild bears roam free, and astronomers detect…