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Housing Safety And Affordability Are At Stake, Experts Share Ideas

In the midst of a wildfire roaring across southern California that is not only destroying homes but also taking lives, home insurance costs are taking on a whole new dimension. Those fears are propagating into the way homebuyers look at new properties, into the shopping and selection process and therefore the sales process, into land

Hamad Airport’s Qatar Duty Free Sets A High Bar With 18% Sales Hike

Qatar Duty Free (QDF) today revealed another set of strong annual results for 2024 following an already stellar 2023 in a global duty-free market that is seeing spending pressure , particularly in China . The retailer, a 100% subsidiary of state-owned Qatar Airways, posted 18% growth, just over half of the increase in 2023. However

In Photos: Mars Devoured By ‘Wolf Moon’ In Stunning Sight For U.S. Sky-Watchers

Did you see the full “Wolf Moon” eat Mars ? The first full moon of 2025 rose on Monday, Jan. 13 and, for observers in North America, blocked the planet Mars for around an hour between 8:44 p.m. EST and 00:52 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Remarkably, the rare event—called an occultation by astronomers—occurred