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The destination features on a list named among the best alongside exotic beaches on the other side of the world

It is a royal mystery perplexing the residents of a quiet London street - just why did privacy-obsessed Prince Harry knock on a succession of front doors?

Prior to her life altering diagnosis, the preschool teacher, from Newcastle, New South Wales, described herself as 'healthy' and 'fit' with an active lifestyle.

It's a relatively small town but it had five stations

"The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized," reports Kotaku: That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn't have someone else reporting to them. It's the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since the World of Warcraft team unionized last July... Like unions at Bethesda Game Studios and Raven Software, the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild now has to bargain for its first contract, a process that Microsoft has been accused of slow-walking as negotiations with other internal game unions drag on for years. "The biggest issue was the layoffs at the beginning of 2024," Simon Hedrick, a test analyst at Blizzard, told Kotaku... "People were gone out of nowhere and there was nothing we could do about it," he said. "What I want to protect most here is the people...." Organizing Blizzard employees stress that improving their working conditions can also lead to better games, while the opposite — layoffs, forced resignations, and uncompetitive pay can make them worse.... "We're not just a number on an Excel sheet," [said UI artist Sadie Boyd]. "We want to make games but we can't do it without a sense of security." Unionizing doesn't make a studio immune to layoffs or being shuttered, but it's the first step toward making companies have a discussion about those things with employees rather than just shadow-dropping them in an email full of platitudes. Boyd sees the Overwatch union as a tool for negotiating a range of issues, like if and how generative AI is used at Blizzard, as well as a possible source of inspiration to teams at other studios. "Our industry is at such a turning point," she said. "I really think with the announcement of our union on Overwatch...I know that will light some fires." The article notes that other issues included work-from-home restrictions, pay disparities and changes to Blizzard's profit-sharing program, and wanting codified protections for things like crunch policies, time off, and layoff-related severance.

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Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos are expected to walk down the aisle next month and the unusual venue for the ceremony is raising some eyebrows.

Not many know the meaning behind the busy road

It also provided an opportunity for the children to practise their public speaking and persuasion skills.

She's been Sasha Fierce and Mrs Carter but it's her latest guise as Momager that has seen Beyoncé veer uncharacteristically off key.

Ashley Edelman shared how he ditched his drug-fueled partying lifestyle to live one dedicated to peace and meditation.

The drama exploded in December when Lively filed a complaint accusing Baldoni of sexual harassing her and waging a PR campaign to tar her reputation.

Flo Rida just dropped his biggest hometown project yet - buying and revamping a run-down Miami plaza into the city's first Black-owned shopping center.

Hailey Bieber seemed to send out a message of comfort to her husband in a cryptic post on social media.

Kylie Jenner's fans are flipping out over a short video posted by French designer Haider Ackermann.

Belichick was welcomed by organizers keen to get a glimpse of the NFL legend, who was sat away from Hudson's family - close by a side exit for a quick getaway.

You couldn't escape their massive hit in the early 2000s that won them a Grammy award and went triple platinum. And 25 years later, we bet you still know it.

Fans are only just discovering that Vin Diesel isn't actually the Hollywood star's real name.

"The romantic partner of Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a start-up that sounds eerily similar to the venture that landed his girlfriend behind bars," writes The Daily Beast. He's incorporated "Haemanthus" in Delaware a year and a half ago (though the company operates out of his neighborhood in Austin), according to the New York Times. Haemanthus appears to have around 10 employees. From The Daily Beast: California hotel heir Billy Evans' new company is a blood-testing firm that markets itself as "the future of diagnostics," offering "a radically new approach to health testing," according to The New York Times. In other words, exactly what Theranos said it would do. Holmes is even advising the start-up from the Texas prison where she is serving out an 11-year prison sentence for fraud, sources told NPR... Evans has managed to raise nearly $20 million in funds from both friends and established investors in Austin and San Francisco, according to the investor materials. The Times reports that Evan's company "plans to begin with testing pets for diseases before progressing to humans, according to two investors pitched on the company." And TechCrunch reminds readers that Elizabeth Holmes said in a recent interview "that she remains 'completely committed to my dream of making affordable healthcare solutions available to everyone.'"

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Blake Lively is seething over the fact that Justin Baldoni's legal team has subpoenaed Taylor Swift in their ongoing legal drama.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman's mom Susan set the record straight on her son's alleged eye-raising behavior and if he's really taking his medication after his 2022 stroke.