The late-day sun coaxes a rainbow of colors out of the eroding cliff at Aquinnah, a town on the western tip of Martha's Vineyard. The soil, thrust upward millennia ago by a glacier, is spotted with glowing red clay, chalk white crevices and touches of gray, brown and black.
Whatever you think of the monarchy, of the late Queen Elizabeth II or of the new king, Charles III, there is no question that Monday's royal funeral will live on in the annals of history. Billions of people will likely watch. For those who attend in person, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. That's why an invitation to the ceremonies has become the hottest ticket on Earth.
The plane carrying 193 passengers circled down over London Stansted Airport, where a cluster of journalists were waiting to document its arrival. Stepping onto the tarmac under typically gray English skies, the families clutched their scant possessions in briefcases and boxes, saris flowing in the wind.
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The arrival of a clutch of migrants to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City -- sent from a southern state that did not want them as residents -- triggered outrage from city leaders and civil rights activists. A US senator from New York denounced it as a "heartless display of theatricalism."