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In Ronda, Spain, Jason Luban and Celina Medlen have less stress and cheaper rent, healthcare, and groceries. They're even able to save for retirement.
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Earth received a message sent from a deep space laser — it took just 50 seconds to travel 10 million miles
This was NASA's first test of its Deep Space Optical Communications system, which could one day bring streaming to Mars.
Street vendors in Paris are selling food stored in sewers to tourists, report says
"To mask the smell and rancid taste, they sprinkle it with vanilla sugar," one vendor told Le Parisien.
Money might actually be able to buy happiness — and each generation has a different idea of what that price tag would be.
On Monday, Empower — a financial services company — released the results of a survey conducted by The Harris Poll in August that asked 2,034 Americans aged 18 and over what they think the key to financial happiness really is.
Turns out, 59% of respondents think happiness can be bought, and the average person believes it would take having $1.2 million in the bank to be truly happy financially. Read more
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Sam Altman is returning as the CEO of OpenAI.
He was fired from the job on Friday, kicking off a weekend of chaos in Silicon Valley. OpenAI said its new initial board would consist of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Read more
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Flight attendant Malick Mercier knew that there'd be more creative people in Los Angeles, and was finding himself really happy there on layovers. He started thinking maybe this is where he should be, and then it really worked out seamlessly.
Mercier's commute to work can be up to eight hours depending on the day. The airline doesn't know where he is, they just expect him to show up. He makes the commute about four times a month. Read more
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Millennial and Gen Z parents are finding themselves isolated.
Maybe they've moved away from their family in search of a well-paying job or cheaper rent. When parents are close by, they're often still working and don't have time to pitch in with childcare.
The cost of childcare has tripled since 1991, and research by economists at Bank of America found that the average family was spending over $700 a month on care as of September, a figure 32% higher than in 2019. Read more
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China's economy may be spluttering, with growth faltering and big property developers collapsing, but one industry has continued to rev harder.
China is the world's electric vehicle leader, with 64% of total production and 59% of global EV sales in 2022, according to the World Economic Forum. One of its biggest EV producers, BYD, looks set to topple Tesla's position as the world's top seller of electric cars.
BYD sold just 3,000 fewer EVs than Elon Musk's company in the three months to September 30. Analysts say it's highly likely to overtake Tesla by the end of the year, in what will be a milestone moment for EVs.
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There are exactly 2,640 billionaires in the world, according to Forbes. That's about 0.00003% of the global population.
Despite their scarcity, these billionaires are surprisingly easy to find. After all, birds of a feather — especially those of a small brood — flock their private jets together. At the start of the year, they descend en masse on Davos. In July, they fly to Sun Valley. In December, their yachts stop by St. Barts.
Here's where billionaires mingle, wheel and deal, and relax, and how you can join them — for a small price, of course. Read more
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Facebook cofounder and Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz said Elon Musk should resign after Musk called an antisemitic post on X the "actual truth."
"I call on Elon Musk to resign," Moskovitz said Wednesday in a post on Threads. He later posted that Musk should resign "(from everything)." The Tesla CEO has a hand in six companies, including SpaceX and X, formerly known as Twitter.
Musk had earlier replied to a post that accused Jewish groups of "hatred against whites," calling it the "actual truth." He has also threatened to sue the ADL after it reported a rise in hate speech on X. Read more
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"The myth of a successful journey is that it starts with an idea, followed by a ton of hardship, and then a gradual and linear rise to the finish line," Scott Belsky writes in "The Messy Middle."
For startup reporter Melia Russell, it's taken living with a startup founder — her husband — to fully dispel that myth.
Lately, Russell has been fixated on a nagging question: Would her marriage be happier if her husband's startup failed? Read more
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The Israeli military raided Gaza's largest hospital early Wednesday, conducting what it called a "precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area" of the facility, which has been the site of a standoff with the ruling militant group.
Israeli authorities claim the militants conceal military operations in the Al Shifa Hospital. But with hundreds of patients and medical personnel inside, the military has refrained from entering.
In recent weeks, Israeli defense forces have publicly warned that such use of the hospital "jeopardizes its protected status under international law," the military said. On Tuesday, military officials conveyed again to Gaza authorities that all military activity in the hospital must cease within 12 hours.
"Unfortunately, it did not," the military said. Read more
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Author Bethany McLean’s first job after college was as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. The three years she spent there were very long and very unhappy — but also very formative.
Even when criticism of the bank mounted after the global financial crisis of 2008, Goldman maintained a mystique of coolness and swagger, McLean writes.
But now, after years of bad press about Goldman CEO David Solomon and failed ventures, it seems America's last great investment bank is no longer invincible. Read more
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Bryan Roque found a new job, a position at IBM that was fully remote.
Less than a year into the job, a recruiter from Meta came calling, and Roque had a thought. What if he kept his old job, and secretly took on the new one, too?
He discovered that he wasn't alone. There's a whole community of professionals online who trade tips about juggling jobs on the sly. They describe themselves as "overemployed." Read more
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Ryan doesn't have the same relationship with side hustles as most gig workers. While side hustle work can be a way to make ends meet alongside other jobs and busy schedules, his motivation for testing them out is to share his experience on his TikTok, which has over 140,000 followers.
Ryan wants to cut through the noise to help people understand which side hustles actually work, are relatively easy to start, and can make money.
To see if a side hustle is worth it, Ryan said people should find ones that fit their lifestyle and take the "least amount of time with the most amount of impact and revenue." Here are a few of the side hustles he told Insider about in an interview. Read more
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Russia's military is about to experience a 'renaissance of infantry combat,' milblogger says
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How a Ukrainian salt town was laid to waste in Russia's desperate push for Bakhmut
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Ukraine has begun 'in the air' training on F-16s, a key development in its fight against Russia
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Elon Musk started a price war that Tesla can't win
Under increasing pressure from new competition, Tesla spent the past year slashing the average price of its models by roughly 25%.
Tesla is hoping that lower prices will drive up sales, but the number of cars Tesla delivered to customers in the third quarter actually declined. Read more
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TikToks about online businesses that are perfect for introverts are getting a lot of attention.
The creators often suggest similar money-making methods that require little interaction with clients, such as copywriting, UX designing, and renting or selling products online via sites like Etsy or Poshmark. Taking online surveys and blogging are also avenues for introverts to make money.
A UX designer, Etsy seller, blogger, and online-survey taker shared how they got started. Read more
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LongeviQuest researchers chat to the world's oldest people to verify their ages. They've been given advice and picked up tips from over 1,000 centenarians. Here are the changes they've made in their own lives as a result.
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A Swiftie in Brazil seems to have scored the single most exclusive Eras Tour souvenir
Forget concert T-shirts and friendship bracelets — it seems as if one lucky Swiftie managed to snag the single most exclusive Eras Tour souvenir possible, and it's none other than Taylor Swift's very own broken Louboutin heel.
The Russian economy is in bad shape, no matter what the Kremlin says: Russian economist
The Russian economist Igor Lipsits says the "real situation" in Russia's economy is bad. He told Reuters that Russian authorities' rosy announcements were aimed at making the Kremlin happy.
Kevin O'Leary, or Mr. Wonderful, is a "Shark Tank" investor, entrepreneur, multimillionaire, and father of two.
He says he's established a rule after many years of extended family coming to him for money. He gives his family members only gifts — not loans — and they never speak of it again, he says.
O'Leary says he does this because expecting a family member to pay him back is a real issue. "If they're already in a bad place, why would loaning them money help them if next week you expect back payments?" Read more
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In July, Avi Loeb, the director of a computational-astrophysics center at Harvard, said spherules dredged from the Pacific Ocean were left behind by a meteor that exploded near Earth in 2014. Their bizarre chemical makeup, he said, suggested they could be a form of alien technology.
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I live next to an Icelandic volcano that's about to blow. I wanted to be closer to nature, but not that close.
A dike of magma is rising under the Icelandic town of Grindavik. A resident describes what it's like to feel like "there was a monster under your feet."
Russian police are overwhelmed by the number of people snitching on neighbors and colleagues: report
Russians are informing on fellow citizens under draconian laws designed to repress Ukraine war critics. Police officials told the BBC that officers are fielding "endless charges on the discrediting of the army".
During the competition in El Salvador on Saturday night, contestants from around the world walked the runway in see-through gowns, cutout swimsuits, and sparkling minidresses.
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My family moved from the US to Canada. Education at my son's school in Calgary was focused more on fun and adventure.
When author Jeff Manuel's family moved to Canada, his 7-year-old son started playing in the snow at school. Manuel writes that his son's school in Canada was more fun and laid-back than his elementary school in the US.
An eco-activist trying to prove loggers had forced a brown bear out of its den was attacked by the animal.
A German eco-activist traveled to Poland to prove that loggers had forced a bear out of its den. Instead, the brown bear mauled the activist. A Polish official said that the incident was an "irony of fate."
Ruzwana Bashir is the founder of Peek, a relatively unknown name for laypeople, providing tour companies and operators with software. As per writer Melia Russell, it is basically the Salesforce of tourism now.
Each year, about $1 billion worth of ticket sales goes through the company's platform. This past spring, the venture-capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz declared Peek the 14th-largest virtual marketplace for goods and services in the United States.
In an industry where success is often measured by how much noise a startup makes, Peek has proved it doesn't need the limelight to commandeer an industry. Read more
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Anna-Carina Tetzner and Sean Peel moved to Bali, Indonesia, from Australia right before the pandemic. They paid $17,000 to lease a plot of land in Ubud for 20 years and built a modular home on their own.
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A town that became 'one giant Airbnb' is now facing a reckoning
The number of Airbnbs in Hochatown, Oklahoma has increased from about 400 to 2,400 in recent years.
Video shows the moment Antony Blinken winces after Biden calls China's Xi a dictator, upending months of careful diplomacy
The US president appeared to veer off script after a meeting designed to smooth US-China relations.
Duncan Forgan never craved fatherhood, but he finds being a dad less stressful than his wild, crazy bachelorhood.
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Putin's war with Ukraine has basically killed off one of Russia's most successful tech companies
Yandex NV is reportedly planning to sell off most of its Russian business, per Bloomberg. The company owns Russia's most popular search engine and dominates the ride-hailing market.
I went to 3 Burger Kings in New York City and saw firsthand why the fast-food giant is closing hundreds of restaurants
Business Insider's Erin McDowell noticed how inconsistent the design styles of all three Burger King establishments were. She thinks the company could unify its restaurants into cohesive, inspiring spaces.
Piper Hansen graduated this spring and has been working full time for less than a year. She says it's really depressing to work a 9-to-5 schedule.
Hansen has only been working full time for a few months since graduating from college in the spring and she is already so downtrodden by it all.
“How can I make sure I'm eating well and seeing my friends and taking time for my hobbies? How am I supposed to fit my whole life into a 9-to-5 work schedule?” Read more
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The US Air Force is working on improving its ability to sink well-defended warships, a reflection of the US military's concern about the growing size and increasing capability of China's navy. That's not a new task for US pilots, but they now face a "wicked" threat from China's air defenses.
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Tech execs are reportedly 'scrambling' to score a ticket to a dinner with China's president in San Francisco
Xi Jinping is set to host an exclusive dinner for tech execs at APEC. Summit attendees include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Citigroup's Jane Fraser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
A centenarian who played golf until she was 86 gives her tips for living to 100, including walking lots and having younger friends
Janet Gibbs played golf for 50 years, moved across the world, worked as a nurse, and raised three sons. Here are her tips for a long, happy life.
The typical HENRY — or high earner, not rich yet — is an urban 32-year-old without kids, makes a six-figure income, and has lots of student debt. This is according to data on 1,500 clients shared with Insider from Stash Wealth, a financial advisor for HENRYs.
Though most HENRYs make above $100,000 a year, many are cautious about spending and saving. While some live more extravagant lives, many save upwards of 50% of their income each year for retirement and to create a stable safety cushion. Read more
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The owner, a woman in her nineties, was unaware she'd been looking at an art treasure every day, believing it to be a worthless icon from Russia.
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We moved from the US to Sweden. After-school care was basically free, but my kid barely learned any math.
Author Andy Kryza moved from Los Angeles to Sweden with his family. There school is very affordable, but his child complained about not being challenged in class.
Ukraine's security service raided a factory in Ukraine making uniforms for the Russian national ski team, report says
The SBU said the factory's owner was "directly involved in concluding relevant contracts with Russian customers and organized the shipment of finished products to the Russian Federation," The Kyiv Post reported.
Disney will soon own all of Hulu. Here's how the company got here and what's next.
Disney has offered to pay Comcast $8.6 billion to take full control of Hulu. The offer is part of CEO Bob Iger's strategy to reshape Disney around streaming. Read more
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Pope Francis relieved an outspoken, controversial Texas bishop of his duties, signaling he may finally be done with ultraconservative US Catholics.
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A volcano in Iceland could erupt in hours devastating a nearby town, say experts
Iceland has declared a state of emergency as up to 2,000 earthquakes — 1,000 overnight Saturday alone, according to the Icelandic Met Office — struck the southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, signaling an increased risk of a volcanic eruption.
A lion prowled the streets of an Italian village for more than five hours after escaping from a circus
Residents of Ladispoli, a seaside town near Rome, were warned by the local mayor, Alessandro Grando, to stay at home as police and circus workers attempted to catch the lion.
With the October 7 attack, Hamas revealed that it was less interested in merely governing the Gaza Strip and its more than 2 million inhabitants than it was in fighting a war in the name of Palestinians everywhere.
"Hamas's goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such," Khailil al-Hayya, a member of the group's governing politburo, told The New York Times in an interview.
He credited the October 7 attack with having "woke the world up from its deep sleep" and forcing it to confront the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where — in recent weeks — Israelis in illegal settlements have stepped up deadly attacks on their Palestinian neighbors.
"This battle was not because we wanted fuel or laborers," al-Hayya said. "It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation." Read more
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