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easyJet has resumed twice-weekly flights to Liverpool from Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), operating on Mondays and Fridays. The airline, which first launched the route in 2004, aims to cater to both business and leisure travellers. For summer 2025, easyJet is expanding its flight schedule, adding more services to Greek islands (Crete, Corfu, and Rhodes), while

Direct bookings remain a vital revenue stream for hotels, yet growth in this area remains challenging. While online-direct booking channels have stabilized post-pandemic, their share has increased compared to pre-COVID levels—now accounting for 21% of total hotel chain bookings globally via hotel chains’ Internet Booking Engines (IBEs). Despite this progress, h2c’s latest Global Direct Booking

Standard Bank is launching the 2025 edition of its township entrepreneurship programme in Bloemfontein, Free State on Thursday, 20 February. The support programme focuses on equipping entrepreneurs in the townships with the tools they need to build sustainable businesses, from foundational knowledge to advanced growth strategies. In 2024, the bank launched support programmes for township

On the day I spoke by phone with André Corrêa do Lago, the newly appointed head of this year’s United Nations climate conference, countries worldwide faced a deadline to publish new plans to tackle climate change. By that evening, only 13 had done so. It’s a startling number. The deadline applied to all 195 nations

The best and brightest of the U.K. and Ireland were celebrated last night in a star-studded bash at the Newport Beach Film Festival UK & IE Honours event in London. Those receiving honors included Icon Award honoree Stephen Fry, “Nosferatu” and Artist of Distinction honorees Emma Corrin, Sharon Horgan and Felicity Jones. Before receiving her

Sheryl Crow had once been a proud Tesla owner, even interfacing with Elon Musk on social media about her car. But whatever support the environmentally minded singer formerly had for the EVs has been superseded by her alarm at the rightward political turn taken by the man she now calls “President Musk,” and so she

Mort Lewis was a veteran music manager whose client list included Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Brubeck and the the popular folk outfit the Brothers Four. At the time of this interview, in late 2015, Lewis was representing Art Garfunkel, capping off a career that had begun in the 1940s. Variety first noted Lewis in 1959