JERUSALEM — The 163-year-old Austrian Pilgrim Hospice in Jerusalem’s Old City urges prospective guests to “please plan well in advance” — 16 months’ notice for groups. On Ash Wednesday, four days before Easter, a call to check if the 124-bed guesthouse had space for a day-of reservation met with a different note of caution. Source link
Cesar Cadenas/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Most desktop users have at least one M.2 slot in their PC. These slots aren’t just for storage. Options include upgraded internet bandwidth and additional USB ports. I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but if you have a desktop PC in 2026, you’re probably not using its M.2 slots to their fullest potential. If it’s from the last five to ten years, chances are you have unused M.2 slots that could be put to use with additional accessories. M.2 slots aren’t just for NVMe SSDs; they can enable devices for several different purposes, including a faster Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection, a USB port expansion, or an extra GPU. With a little investment, one or more of these devices can significantly improve the value of your PC. Also: The best M.2 SSDs of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed M.2 slots connect directly to your motherboard’s PCIe lanes, which are several orders of magnitude faster than older interfaces like SATA. They’re also …
In the past two weeks we have discussed demand destruction as a result of soaring oil prices (here and here), and we are increasingly seeing anecdotal evidence of just that (here is a table from Goldman we showed previously, laying out where demand destruction is most acute). We start, as always, with Asia which has emerged as ground zero of the global energy crisis – as a reminder last week we first presented a map by JPMorgan’s resident commodity expert who how the shockwave from the Iran war spreads across the world, hitting Asia first, then Africa and Europe, before settling on the US, but mostly California. Source According to UBS, a shortage of jet fuel in Asia and very high prices for what is available are now leading to greater flight cancellations. European jet fuel trades around $1713/tonne, up 114% since the war began. Singapore fuel is up around 140%. Both Vietnam Airlines and Air New Zealand have had to cancel flights due to limited fuel supply. Let’s go down the list. 1. Panic buying …
It is a bitterly cold day at Cliveden House in Berkshire and the film director Sadie Frost, fresh from yoga training in India, is acclimatising with a cup of breakfast tea (Yorkshire, her favourite) as her miniature dachshund, Cherry, lies like a hot-water bottle on her lap. The historic hotel has hosted every reigning British monarch since George I and served as the backdrop to the Profumo affair in the 1960s – and it was here where Sadie celebrated her 60th birthday with 15 of her closest girlfriends last year. © Christopher FennerSadie Frost opened up to HELLO! during a shoot at Cliveden House “We had a beautiful dinner and then went on a private boat along the river,” she says, kicking her feet up on the velvet sofa. “I love this hotel. I remember the first time I came with Gary [Kemp, the lead guitarist of Spandau Ballet and the father of her eldest son, Finlay, a creative consultant] about 30 years ago; I thought it was the poshest place I’d ever been to. …
Published On 26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026 Manila, Philippines – For years, Metro Manila’s transport congestion has been notorious, ranking worst globally in 2024, according to the TomTom traffic index. In 2021, an AltMobility and Friedrich Naumann Foundation study found that commuters spent 188 hours sitting in traffic in a year, translating to half a billion dollars in losses to the economy. These days, however, a 26km (16.2 miles) drive from the Manila airport to the Quezon City Hall could be a 45-minute breeze, instead of the typical two hours, according to Google Maps. But it has nothing to do with the country’s transport experts magically solving the decades-old problem. Since the United States and Israel launched their joint military operation against Iran almost a month ago, fuel prices have surged at a dizzying pace, suddenly emptying the streets of the Philippine capital of many vehicles – harking back to the COVID lockdown five years ago. On a typical Wednesday, the Baclaran Church in Manila is bursting at the seams. Jasmine flower vendors jostle for …
When it comes to her four sons leaving home, property presenter Sarah Beeny is in denial. At the moment the grand Somerset mansion that viewers saw her build in her TV show New Life in The Country, is full of noise, as Billy, Charlie, Rafferty, and Laurie spend five hours a night in rehearsals with their dad Graham Swift for their band The Entitled Sons. Having already played at Glastonbury, the boys are tipped to hit the big time, so they may move out sooner than she thinks. But for now “I can’t imagine it really,” says Sarah in this week’s Second Act podcast. “My youngest is still in school for the next two years and they practice at the house every night for five hours. “I do look at other people and I recognise I’m in quite an unusual position. I know people who have children the same age as my eldest two and they are now home alone. “Our house is absolutely stuffed full of people all the time. There’s girlfriends and friends …
Pakistan Super League will be held on schedule from March 26, but without the crowds and only at two venues. Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 Pakistan’s premier domestic T20 league will take place in empty stadiums due to the recent spike in oil prices, says a top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The franchise-based Pakistan Super League, set to kick off on Thursday, also cancelled its opening ceremony in Lahore, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi said on Sunday, citing a fuel shortage caused by the conflict in the Middle East. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The league was set to be played in six cities, but now only Lahore and Karachi will be hosting the games, with the opening encounter set to be played at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Pakistan has faced soaring oil prices prompted by the United States-Israel war on Iran and the subsequent spread of the conflict across the region. Pakistan’s government has asked its citizens to restrict their movements due to rising fuel prices. “We …
WHAT CAN THE WHITE HOUSE DO? My working assumption is that the oil market will add US$3 to US$6 a barrel to the headline price for every day – every single day – that the war continues. Monday to Friday, that’s US$15 to US$30. It’s bearable for another week, perhaps two, but any longer and the world will start to incur serious economic damage through soaring energy costs. Short of a very risky – and possibly illegal – intervention in the oil futures market, the White House doesn’t have more meaningful tools to wield to bring energy prices down. Do I believe the Trump administration is seriously thinking about interfering with the futures market? You bet. Even the Biden administration considered it in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, before realising it was too hazardous and unlikely to succeed. The White House has already thrown everything it can at the problem. Sure, it can ask Congress to scrap federal fuel taxes, as Biden did in 2022. But that would take time – and may ultimately not …
A girl stands in front of a condolence message board during a Day of Remembrance for MH370 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 3, 2019. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption toggle caption Vincent Thian/AP KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Twelve years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people aboard, a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has so far failed to locate the missing aircraft, Malaysian authorities said Sunday, as families pressed for the effort to continue. The Air Accident Investigation Bureau said in a statement that a seabed search conducted by marine robotics company Ocean Infinity between March 2025 and January 2026 surveyed thousands of square kilometers of ocean floor but has not produced any confirmed findings of the aircraft wreckage. Malaysia gave the nod to the Texas-based company last year to renew the search for Flight 370 under a “no-find, no-fee” contract at a new 15,000-square-kilometer (5,800-square-mile) site in the southern Indian Ocean where it was believed to have crashed. Ocean Infinity will be paid $70 million only if wreckage …
For decades governments and private institutions have redlined Black citizens from financial services, severed their neighborhoods with hostile infrastructure, and enacted other policies designed to impoverish and disempower marginalized groups. Though some of those practices still exist in some form, emerging public consciousness and civil rights activists have put increasing pressure on policymakers to take steps to rectify this. One method, practiced in cities like Detroit, has been to demolish swathes of empty buildings abandoned by white flight, allowed to decay by a tax-starved municipal government, and withheld from Black residents by “blockbusting” agents selling them only after massive markups. The logic, according to its proponents, is to make space for majority-Black populations to flourish. But in “Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures,” author Nicholas Claverly records his observations and research from field work in Detroit, arguing that those demolitions have largely maintained rather than removed racial inequities. Claverly, a professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recently spoke to Salon about the problem of demolition in its current form, and the potential for a model …
