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In this article ZNOG Tourists crowd in to the Midway Geyser Basin on July 14, 2021 at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Yellowstone is one of many national parks seeing record numbers of visitors this summer. Natalie Behring | Getty Images News | Getty Images Cadillac Mountain in Maine's Acadia National Park is among the country's premier spots to view a sunrise. For half the year, visitors to the 1,530-foot peak — the tallest within 25 miles of the entire U.S. East Coast — are the first in the country to see daylight, watching as the sun's rays gradually illuminate Frenchman Bay and its many islands in brilliant blues and purples. That is, if they can find parking. Until recently, it wasn't unusual to see 500 cars vie for 150 parking spaces, according to park superintendent Kevin Schn...

It's no secret that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, loves bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value. In fact, the bitcoin maximalist has touted it as the most important project in his lifetime to work on, and Square, his digital payments company, bought over $170 million worth of bitcoin earlier this year. Now, the billionaire CEO is mining it, too. "I'm trying mining with @compass_mining," Dorsey tweeted on Tuesday. Compass Mining is a service that hosts, supplies and operates cryptocurrency mining rigs for individual miners who do not want to worry about purchasing and maintaining mining equipment themselves. Bitcoin operates on a proof of work (PoW) model, where miners must compete to solve complex puzzles in order to validate transactions. The process isn't easy:...

LONDON : A prolonged period of high aluminium prices created partly by output cuts in China is expected to encourage new capacity in other parts of the world, which will eventually weigh on prices trading at 10-year highs. Benchmark aluminium on the London Metal Exchange hit US$2,734.5 a tonne on Wednesday, a gain of 37per cent this year and the highest since May 2011. Aluminium is widely used in the transport, packaging and construction industries. Graphic: LME aluminium prices https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/ce/zdpxooewbvx/LMEper cent20aluminiumper cent20prices.PNG Robust demand growth, surging freight costs and shortages in Europe and the United States started the rally earlier this year with China picking up the baton in recent months by imposing output cuts to reduce power us...

To reach NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal's level of success, both on and off the court, you need to adopt the right mindset. That's according to the Hall of Famer himself. "Of course, you have to have a little bit of talent — but if you have a certain mindset, nothing can stop you," O'Neal tells CNBC Make It. The 15-time All-Star says he found his competitive edge during his early NBA playing days, when he learned to turn criticism into motivation. "I like when people criticize me and say I [can't] do something," O'Neal, 49, says. "That would upset me and when you get a guy like me upset, I'm coming in like The Hulk." And "there's no way you can stop it," he adds. Before games, O'Neal says, he'd often read articles that criticized him to fire himself up. "All it takes is one word to tick me...

LEEDS, England :England shot out India for a paltry 78 and cruised to 120 for no loss in their robust reply to take early control of the third test at Headingley on Wednesday. Complementing the bowlers' effort, Haseeb Hamid and Rory Burns batted through rest of the opening day forging England's best opening partnership in the series so far. Hamid celebrated his promotion to the opener's role with an unbeaten 60, while Burns was on 52 at stumps with England 42 runs ahead and on course for a big first-innings lead. "It's been a great day for us and topped off by being none down overnight," seamer Craig Overton, who claimed 3-14, told Sky Sports. "It's good for us bowlers to get some rest and be ready to go when we're back out there. "We know they're a good bowling attack, we know it wil...

SAN SALVOR : In the main handicraft market of El Salvador's capital, traders complain that with a week to go before bitcoin becomes legal tender, no officials have come to explain how it will work or what benefits it may bring. The sense of unease extends beyond San Salvador's "Excuartel" market well into the Central American country of 6.4 million people that on Tuesday will become the first nation in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. "We don't know the currency. We don't know where it comes from. We don't know if it's going to bring us profit or loss," said Claudia Molina, a 42-year-old seller of T-shirts and souvenirs. "We don't know anything." "They haven't given us training. They haven't told us what we're going to use or how to make the change." At "Excuartel," a popula...

Major Japanese airline All Nippon Airways said Tuesday that it would reduce the number of flights on 12 domestic routes due to declining travel demand amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic. Some of the ANA flights to be axed, mainly those to major tourist destinations, will be transferred to low-cost carrier Peach Aviation as part of the efforts to meet a possible rise in travel demand after the COVID-19 crisis is contained. The two airlines are under the wing of ANA Holdings Inc. The changes are included in ANA’s revised flight plans for the second half of fiscal 2021, which runs through March next year. Daily round-trip flights will be reduced to three from the initially planned four for the route between Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and Toyama Kitokito Airport and to eight from nine for...

Restoring relationships with friends and allies damaged by Donald Trump has been a foreign policy priority for U.S. President Joe Biden. He has been largely successful in doing so through the “Quad” and the Group of Seven frameworks aimed at meeting the challenges posed by China. However there was one important group of countries that the White House seemed to overlook in the early months of his presidency — the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In the first six months of his administration, Biden spoke with over 40 leaders of the world by phone, but he had not done so with a single ASEAN leader. Fortunately, things have changed for the better recently, with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman visiting Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand in June, followed by Defense Secret...

Several airlines are rerouting their flights to avoid Afghanistan airspace after Taliban fighters sealed their takeover of the country, and U.S. and Western officials scrambled to evacuate their personnel. Afghanistan aviation officials said air traffic control was handed over to the military, and that planes will be "flying in un-controlled airspace at their own risk," according to a notice to pilots. United Airlines on Sunday started rerouting its U.S.-India flights around Afghanistan. "Due to the dynamic nature of the situation we have begun routing affected flights around Afghanistan airspace," the airline said in a statement. The carrier serves Delhi from its Newark Liberty International Airport hub daily and five times a week from Chicago O'Hare International Airport. It also flie...

The U.S. Navy sailed a warship near a Chinese-controlled island in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday for the first time since Beijing began implementing a law requiring foreign vessels to give notice before entering waters it claims. The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold “engaged in ‘normal operations’ within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef” in the Spratly chain of the strategic waterway, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement. The “freedom of navigation operation” (FONOP) near the islet, which is also claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines, was the fourth known operation conducted by the U.S. under the administration of President Joe Biden. China’s military lambasted the latest operation as the latest proof of the United States’ “militarization of the South...