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This vibrant selection of photographs from the 2024 Budapest International Foto Awards is a celebration of light, color, and the joyful spirit of summer. From golden hour portraits to sun-soaked landscapes, each image captures the energy and emotion of the season in its own unique way. Inspired? There’s still time to join the 2025 edition! The final submission deadline is August 15, giving you the chance to showcase your own photographic voice....

If you ask adoptive parents “Why adopt?”, they might tell the story of the summer they taught their son to swim, or describe the sound of their daughter’s laughter when she’s playing in the backyard. Everyone has their own personal reasons for making this decision, but at its core, you should find one similarity: building a family. Raising another human being and preparing them for the world sounds as challenging as it does rewarding....

Statistics show that you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than of winning the lottery. And yet, it would still be near impossible to find someone who hasn’t ever dreamed of hitting that jackpot . Of course, with those dreams come the ideas of what you would do with all that money. Therefore, when someone online asked people what subtle signs or life changes would give away that they won the lottery if they didn’t tell anyone about it, netizens flooded in to deliver their answers....

Everyone has their limits, but why do we always try to conceal our anger? Gracefully telling folks to get lost can be healing and pretty satisfying, of course, but only if the setting is suitable for doing so. Hiding our emotions for the sake of avoiding heated reactions will eventually backfire, where a minor inconvenience might set us over the edge. Perhaps it would be in our best interest to start challenging ourselves and learning that swallowing our feelings and putting on an act of politeness will only harm us and our mental state....

Probably most of us have plenty of memories from our school years, whether we enjoyed them or not. Funny pranks together with our classmates, first crushes and fights with our friends, long hours doing homework or maybe even skipping lessons - good or bad, these memories may be slightly nostalgic. However, it’s also important to mention that school, for some reason, is often associated with scandals that shake up the whole community ....

Whatever happened to simple compliments ? Like, your “you look lovely today” and “you’ve done a great job” or “you look like a dude who can lift two oxen.” No, everyone has to ruin it by not thinking what they say and being too elaborate for their own good. Incidentally, women of Reddit have been recently sharing all the dumb stuff men complimented without realizing it’s not a compliment, but rather an offensive statement....

What an incredible twist of fate - one of the greatest minds that humanity has ever known in its entire history remains in our memory not so much because of his ingenious theories, but because of an accidental, completely ridiculous photograph with his tongue out when he just wanted to tease the photographer. More info: Reddit I was on a long train trip, gazing out the window, when I said to my friend: “I feel like every railroad crossing gate we’ve passed since I’ve been looking has been down… what are the odds…” I have a PhD (not in trains)....

“The book did it better!” How many times have you heard or even said this phrase after watching a TV adaptation of your favorite novel? Shows based on books can be a treat in that now you can see your favorite characters and their adventures not only in your mind’s eye but also on screen. They can however be a curse if you think they got the source material all wrong....

Ready to Challenge Your Brain? Dive Into These Hard Riddles! Are you the kind of person who loves a hard riddle? So are we! There’s something irresistibly intriguing about brain teasers that gets our neurons firing and ignites our competitive spirit, so what better way to keep the whole family entertained? If you think you’re a pro at solving the hardest riddles and tricky questions , you might change your mind after today....

Christmas is, definitely, a hectic time. Especially for those who forget or postpone buying gifts until the very last second. Then they ought to rush to the closest store and try to whip up a good gift as fast as possible. That, unfortunately, can lead to quite a big mess. It’s all right if the person cleans up after themselves, however that is an extremely rare case. Cassie Wade from Nashville, Tennessee posted an eye-opening series of pictures that showed how awful some stores look during the holiday season....

The term “community cats” is used to refer to outdoor, stray, or unowned cats. Friendly, feral, mature, young, healthy, ill, altered, and/or unaltered cats are all possible. They might or might not be looked after. One such cat is named Buddy who unfortunately didn’t find its forever home until it got attacked by two vicious dogs. Buddy’s story was shared worldwide as people, horrified by what had happened to the cat, started donating in hopes of saving the black stray....

A tenacious Swedish professional ice hockey player, Joel Eriksson Ek anchors the Minnesota Wild with his strong two-way game and physicality. He was the 20th overall pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Eriksson Ek also earned a gold medal at the 2017 IIHF World Championship. Little-known fact: Joel Eriksson Ek modeled his playing style after legendary Swedish hockey player Peter Forsberg, admiring his skills and dedication to the sport....

The body of Melina Galanis Frattolin , 9, was found in upstate New York, just a day after her father claimed she was abducted. Investigators now say her father’s timeline doesn’t add up, thus raising disturbing questions online about the child’s tragic end. “It takes pure evil to look at that beautiful little girl and harm her,” one comment reads. The body of 9-year-old Melina Galanis Frattolin was found on Sunday, July 20, in upstate New York....

If you thought Godzilla was a scary creature, wait till you see this bridezilla. She didn’t simply cross the line, she went so far past the line that she can’t even see the line! The line is a dot to her (kudos to you if you got the reference). Recently, Reddit user joyeuxanniversaire1 uploaded a screenshot of a Facebook post, and it got over 87K upvotes on the platform. But not because people like it, on the contrary, it’s a perfect example of just how toxic choosing beggars are....

Newly unsealed autopsy reports mark the latest development in the case of Bryan Kohberger , the man responsible for the 2022 homicide of four University of Idaho students. The documents detailed the final moments of Kaylee Goncalves , Madison Mogen , Xana Kernodle , and Ethan Chapin , as well as the extent of their injuries. At least one victim fought for her life before succumbing to her wounds. Autopsy reports state Kohberger’s four victims were stabbed a combined total of 150 times....

Organizers for an egg-citing Easter event received sharp criticism instead of joyful anticipation, leading to controversy and a canceled event. Friends of Wrexham Cemetery organized an Easter egg hunt on April 3 at a historic graveyard, where nearly 40,000 people have been buried since its 1876 opening, in Wrexham, UK. “Hop on over for our Easter egg hunt” for some “egg-citing fun,” read the event announcement made by the Friends of Wrexham Cemetery....

Felix Baumgartner , the Austrian daredevil who made history by leaping from the edge of space, lost his life after crashing his glider into a hotel pool in Italy. He was 56. Just moments before his passing, Baumgartner posted a cryptic Instagram Story while flying over fields along Italy’s Adriatic coast. The text overlay read simply: “Too much wind.” Unbeknownst to him and his followers, it would be his last post ....

What can you buy for £7 these days? A couple of cheese holes? Maybe a single sock on sale? Child support is supposed to help cover the basics like food, clothes, and maybe a birthday balloon. But somehow, when someone contributes the cost of a happy meal a week, they still feel entitled to weigh in. One Redditor finally had enough of the guilt and finger-pointing, and she shut down her ex-mother-in-law, with cold, hard receipts, after being accused of spending her son’s £7 a week on trips for their child....

A newly released legal letter has revived disturbing allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew , centering on claims by an exotic dancer who said she was pressured into performing acts with the two at the financier’s Palm Beach mansion. The dancer said she later sought $250,000 in hush money to keep the encounter from becoming public. A resurfaced 2011 letter accuses Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of coercing a dancer into intimacy....

Ukraine-based Anna Mo knits super chunky blankets with giant, three-inch stitches. This is the ultimate security blanket you can get lost in. She uses custom-made, two-inch-thick needles for her knits, which also include sweaters and scarves. Mo began knitting to have a hand-based escape from her head-based design job. No surprise then, that her work emphasizes its hand-made nature. The yarn wriggles with every huge loop, imperfections are magnified, and each piece has a unique flair....