Azmanjaka | E+ | Getty Images Private chefs are making up to $300,000 a year, and butlers can earn as much as $180,000 as the wealthy hire more household staff to manage their increasingly complex lives, according to a new study. Demand for chefs, personal assistants, butlers, nannies, housekeepers, chauffeurs and estate managers have reached…
Russia’s ballistic-missile attacks against Ukraine have grown in ferocity and magnitude in recent weeks because Russian military planners are exploiting one of Ukraine’s greatest weaknesses: The Ukrainian military does not have enough Patriot missile interceptors to keep up with the barrages. Air-defense units around the country are stuck making impossible calculations. Salvos can now include…
This was an interesting and varied test, with a range of burgers from classic, 1960s-style bean patties to ultra-processed meat analogues. Even though the latter have become far more convincing of late, I find it hard to trust the more processed examples, because they’re made with a blend of dozens of ingredients and synthetic additives…
Fashion has always sat uncomfortably in the great art institutions of the West, the question of whether it belonged under the same roof as masterworks and heroic marbles a subject of perennial debate. After all, these creations weren’t hung on a wall or put on a pedestal; they were (cue dismissive sniff) worn. They may…
If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t look like this before because people naturally can’t look like this. Models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the luxury brand Matières Fécales last month caricatured the 1 percent by wearing prosthetics that resembled post-op faces, including grotesque under-eye…
Another week, another attack on British Jews; and rather than synagogues being petrol-bombed in the middle of the night, now it is ordinary Jews being stabbed in broad daylight. It’s been described as this country’s biggest national security emergency for almost a decade by the UK’s terrorism watchdog. Finding a solution will mean some hard…
Xi, it seems, is less concerned with personal immortality than Putin. Watching that hot-mic clip, it’s easy to imagine that he was really just indulging the eccentric preoccupations of his Russian counterpart, if for no other reason than it was something to talk about while they walked to the podium. But in 2018, Xi rescinded…
I forgot four lemons and on several occasions I was like, I’m just going to go back, grab those four lemons and get the hell out. You should go to prison. I know you think they’re going to ban me. They should. They should throw you in jail. But I didn’t feel. I didn’t feel…
Shorouk Express Donald Trump claimed America is “taking in billions and billions of dollars” as a result of global trade tariffs. The US president said nothing he heard during a White House meeting with Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday (17 April), changed his mind about his controversial tariffs. Trump said: “The tariffs are…
President-elect Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson have agreed to a deal that might fund the federal government now however increase the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion and reduce $2.5 trillion in spending, which appears like cuts to healthcare. Jake Sherman of Punchbowl Information posted: IN THE GOP MEETING — GOP management has a slide up…
