Ireland named Best Country for Business in 2014

Best Countries for Business: Forbes Magazine names Ireland as Best Country for Business. Ireland secured the number one spot in Forbes’ eighth annual Best Countries for Business list for the first time. Ireland’s pro-business environment and soaring stock market bumped up its ranking from last year’s sixth place. Forbes grades 145 nations in the following … Read more

Russia is now the world’s second-fastest outgoing travel market in spending

Russia has become a top performing growth travel market for many destinations and international outbound travel is forecast to grow by 7.5 per cent per year on average to 2017, according to a new survey released by online booking site Hotels.com, which published the Russian International Travel Monitor (RITM). Almost half (49 per cent) of … Read more

Instagram is Beauty’s hottest social platform

Instagram is Beauty’s hottest social platform, with 79 percent of brands in the L2’s Index now present, up from just 29 percent in 2012, according to the fifth-annual L2’s Digital IQ Index: Beauty Report, which analyzes and benchmarks the digital performance of 85 global Beauty brands across Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media, and Mobile over … Read more

Daniel Radcliffe: ‘There’s no master plan to distance myself from Harry Potter’

He was the boy who brought Harry Potter to life – and feared he’d killed his own career in the process. Daniel Radcliffe talks about hairy legs, growing up in the spotlight, and why he never watches the films that made him famous

How the other half fly (to New York)

No tiresome queues, soggy sandwiches … what is it like to part of the A-list? Eva Wiseman reports from a luxury flight to New York (via Shannon)