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A frequent flyer has questioned if she was overcharged after she forked over $2,300 after she used her nickname to book a flight. An unnamed husband took to Reddit to reveal that his wife tends to go by her nickname, Cathy, and booked the flight with this name. However, because her full name, which is Catherine, is listed on her passport, the couple ran into issues when traveling. He revealed that his wife had to splash out a whopping $2,389 to change the name on her ticket. In a thread titled, Delta, the lovebirds begged people on the web for advice as he claimed…
Monster John Sweeney who murdered a US model and a second woman and is the inspiration for the new ITV drama ‘Until I Kill You’ should be probed over eight unsolved deaths in Belgium, a cold case expert has said. Sweeney, 66, was on the run in Europe at the same time the headless remains of five women were found in and around the Belgian city of Mons in the 90s. The killer, dubbed ‘The Butcher of Mons’, has never been found. But Kurt Wertelaers, who is the founder of a group investigating cold cases in Belgium called the Bureau van Meerbeeck, has now called…
Genius investor Warren Buffett’s continued hoarding of cash and selling of stocks continues to stoke fears of a potential market crash that could hammer 401(k)s. The cash and Treasury bills being held at the Oracle of Omaha’s famed company Berkshire Hathaway has risen above $300 billion in the third quarter. The Wall Street Journal report that these holdings are a record for the Nebraska-based firm. For Berkshire Hathaway, to be holding lots of cash is typical but the recent scale in buildup has caused a stir among observers of the conglomerate. The company is preparing to hand over Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders this…
By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE Published: 05:59 EST, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 07:28 EST, 18 November 2024 At first glance at this creature, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a sparkly pair of fake eyelashes.But the creature is very much real and was discovered at the junction of three tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean.Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed.The animal is a polychaete – a class of marine worms, more widely known as bristle worms.’To describe this polychaete, one simply must use jazz hands —…
At least four pilots witnessed UFOs, some ‘moving at extreme speeds’ over Oregon this past weekend.A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson told DailyMail.com that at least one of the aviators ‘reported seeing unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control (ATC) airspace’ during an alarming December 7th episode. While the administration would not confirm the presence of any FAA radar data that could corroborate the sighting, FAA ATC audio reveals the pilots in a state of shock.An ambulance pilot stated he saw a bright light, ‘red in color,’ barreling towards his plane at ‘extreme’ speeds, before suddenly reversing course back toward the Pacific.’I…
By ESTHER MARSHALL Published: 08:48 EST, 27 November 2024 | Updated: 08:54 EST, 27 November 2024 Singapore Airlines has been named by Britons as the best carrier in the world.The accolade comes from a YouGov poll in which it places first out of 28 major airlines for net customer satisfaction.In total, 74 per cent said they were satisfied with Singapore Airlines, putting it ahead of Emirates, which comes second with a score of 71.9 per cent.In third place is Air New Zealand (70 per cent), followed by Virgin Atlantic in fourth (63.9 per cent) and Jet2 rounding off the top…
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:08 EST, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 18:02 EST, 10 December 2024 Microsoft was experiencing an outage plaguing its 365 services like Outlook and Teams.’We’ve disabled proactive caching to provide some relief. In parallel, we’ve tested and deployed a fix, which we believe will remediate the impact, the company’s Service Health Status pages stated at 7:45am ET.’We anticipate that the fix will take approximately two hours to complete.’ Microsoft 365 includes a trove of applications, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Purview, Copilot, and Outlook Web and Desktop. The company noted ‘Service Degradation’ for web services,…
As an investigative reporter and legal editor, Lee Strobel has spent his career covering high-profile criminal and civil cases across the country.But one of the most controversial cases he’s explored yet is the one for and against the afterlife.Once a confirmed atheist, Strobel turned his investigative talents to the supernatural and the evidence, he now believes, proves not only that heaven is real – but so is hell. And it’s even more terrifying than you might think.In his new book, Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World, he discusses dozens of…
On to 9,000? Or even 10,000? It has been a good January for investors in the UK stock market. The FTSE 100 index went through another all-time high on Friday, touching 8,692 in intra-day trading, and was up more than 420 points this year at the close. That’s a 5 per cent rise so far this year, ahead of America’s S&P500, which is up 4 per cent, though behind the German DAX, up nearly 9 per cent.It is a relief for people like myself, who had expected the Footsie to reach 8,500 by the end of last year and were a bit…
Laith Khalaf is head of investment analysis at AJ Bell.Make no mistake, passive funds are eating the lunch of active managers, and the continued strong performance of index trackers will do nothing to staunch this trend.Our latest Manager versus Machine report shows just a third of active equity managers have outperformed a passive alternative over the last 10 years.In 2024 to date, it’s just 31 per cent who have managed this seemingly middling achievement.Whether you look at the short term or zoom out and take a wider perspective, the picture remains dismal for active managers, and it’s the influential Global…