Los Angeles – October 29, 2026 -- Residents of Modesto, California, can now book laser hair removal, Botox® and dermal fillers at a new LaserAway clinic at 3401 Dale Road, Suite 655. It is the company's 238th location.

LaserAway reaches its 20th year without closing a clinic

The opening coincides with the company's 20th anniversary. LaserAway says it has grown continuously for two decades without a single clinic closure. Dr. Roy Winston and brothers Scott, Brock and Todd Heckmann founded it in 2006, starting with one clinic on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Today the company operates in 36 states, and all locations are privately owned and operated, with no franchises.

Licensed medical professionals perform every treatment

Nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered nurses carry out all treatments. Dr. Will Kirby serves as Chief Medical Officer and leads a Medical Board of more than 25 board-certified dermatologists.

NEWBURGH – October 29, 2026 -- The 100 Food Journey, a Tale of Indian Cuisine, has launched "The Third Voyage: An Autumn-to-Winter Culinary Journey," its third menu at 34 Plank Road in Newburgh, N.Y. The restaurant replaces its menu every 100 days, so returning guests find a new set of dishes rather than the same favorites.

Partner Glaxon Geevarghese describes the idea this way: "The address stays the same, but the destination changes."

The Third Voyage leans on slow-cooked dishes, warming spices and ghee

The new menu is built for the colder months, with aromatic spices, slow-cooked recipes and ghee, which the restaurant calls India's culinary "liquid gold." Dishes include Mumbai Vada Pao, Tellicherry Pepper Mussels, Kolhapuri Chicken Rassa, Rajasthani Laal Maas, Meen Pollichathu, Plantain Kofta Pumpkin Curry and a 12-Hour Dal Makhani.

Desserts are Pumpkin & Cinnamon Obsession and Cardamom Kiss.

Hauppauge – October 29, 2026 -- Manhattan voters have named SightMD a winner in the 2026 The City's Best competition, with awards covering LASIK surgery, optometry and ophthalmology.

Public votes decide The City's Best winners

The competition invites the public to nominate and vote for favorite Manhattan businesses and professionals. The top nominees advance to the official ballot, and the organization with the most votes wins first place in its category. Schneps Media promotes the program across its local print and digital publications.

SightMD runs 38 locations across New York

SightMD describes itself as an integrated ophthalmic group with over 100 doctors and more than 50 years of clinical track record. It serves communities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has released the final batch of voyages in its 2028–29 deployment. It includes eight Galápagos itineraries, a new 15-day Costa Rica and Panama expedition, and journeys through the Amazon, Baja California, Egypt and Peru.

The collection follows a first set of 2028–29 voyages announced in August. Chief Expedition Officer Trey Byus said the aim is to give guests "more depth, more access and more opportunities to explore actively."

Galápagos itineraries run from 7 to 17 days on four ships

Eight itineraries sail aboard National Geographic Endeavour II, National Geographic Islander II, National Geographic Gemini and National Geographic Delfina. Back-to-back packaged sailings allow longer stays in the archipelago.

Limassol – October 29, 2026 -- TIOmarkets has added Depth of Market (DOM), enhanced order controls, bulk position management and a redesigned Economic Calendar to its free mobile trading app for iOS and Android.

DOM shows the order book from the trade ticket

DOM gives an order-book view for supported symbols. Standard DOM displays bid and ask prices and volume across multiple price levels, while Price DOM focuses on price. Tapping a displayed price helps set a Limit or Stop order.

The updated trade ticket also shows trade size, required margin, free margin and order value next to Take Profit, Stop Loss and scheduled-order controls.

Bulk actions let users close all positions at once

Users can close all open positions or select groups by performance, direction, symbol or individual position.

St. Petersburg – October 29, 2026 -- Travelers are booking pricier trips: policies covering trips insured for $30,000 or more rose 27.2% in Q3 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to travel insurance marketplace Squaremouth.

That is more than twice the 12.9% growth in insured trips overall. Trips insured for under $10,000 fell 2.3%, per Squaremouth's Q3 2026 Travel Insurance Trends Report.

The shift was foreseeable. In April, Squaremouth surveyed more than 3,000 travelers, and 23% said they planned to spend more on premium or bucket-list trips in 2026.

Safari bookings in Rwanda grew 33.3% in the peak Q3 window

Q3 is the peak booking window for luxury safaris. The most popular destinations all grew:

Ludwigshafen -- Safer Internet Day falls on February 9, 2027, and Germany's klicksafe initiative is calling on schools, companies, authorities and clubs to register their own events now. This year's motto is "Mein Bild – Deine Grenze" ("My Image – Your Boundary"), with a focus on stopping sexualized violence online.

Sextortion and grooming are hitting more children

Sexualized deepfakes, cybergrooming and sextortion are increasingly affecting children and teenagers, according to klicksafe. Sextortion means blackmailing victims with intimate images. One example from the organizers: a girl refuses to send more photos, and the other person threatens to forward her pictures to all her contacts.

Hamburg – October 29, 2026 -- The TITAN UPGRADE S20 carry-on trolley, priced at €259.95, shares the top spot in a Stiftung Warentest comparison of 17 carry-on suitcases. In issue 6/2026, it earned an overall grade of "Good" (1.8).

The S20 is the only suitcase rated "very good" for packing

Testers gave the trolley "very good" marks for packing comfort, effortless pushing and pulling, and for usage instructions and declaration. No other suitcase in the test reached "very good" for packing.

It also scored "very good" in the durability categories of workmanship, the caster and telescopic handle endurance test, and zippers and seams.

Memphis – October 29, 2026 -- Wearing a polyester T-shirt increased microplastic exposure in the personal breathing zone by up to 42% compared with a cotton one, according to preliminary results from a University of Memphis pilot study.

Polyester wearers breathed in nearly 2,000 particles per cubic meter

Researchers measured airborne microplastic concentrations near participants' breathing zones while they wore either cotton or polyester-containing T-shirts. With polyester, readings reached nearly 2,000 microplastic particles per cubic meter.

Up to 77% of the detected particles were microscopic. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polymer commonly used in polyester clothing, turned up in 99% of the airborne microplastics the team identified.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Four runners with personal ties to autism will line up among more than 55,000 participants at the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon on November 1 to raise funds for services for autistic adults. The race marks the 50th anniversary of the five-borough course.

Team NEXT makes its marathon debut

NEXT for AUTISM, a nonprofit focused on transforming services for autistic adults, is an Official Charity Partner of the marathon for the first time. Its inaugural Team NEXT consists of Eric Caldwell, Holly Fowler, Elizabeth Fox and Michael Mutino. Together they will cover 104.8 miles.

Their goal is to draw attention to a gap: an estimated 5.4 million autistic adults live in the United States, yet inclusive opportunities, services and resources for adults remain significantly limited.