I have known Mariane Pearl for fifteen years, as a friend, mother, journalist, champion of the voices of women and an unconquerable spirit. We came together over a shared concern for displaced people, and in 2007, I had the privilege of being involved in a film based on her book A Mighty Heart. Eighteen years after her beloved husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was murdered at the hands of terrorists in Pakistan, I spoke to her about overcoming trauma, raising a child in the wake of a tragedy, and her perspective on world events.

However, it's worth noting that WEF's data focuses on tourism-related aspects such as hotels, airports, attractions, airlines - and not on travelers' on-site experiences. Europe is strongly represented in the top 10, with six countries on the list, including Spain in second place. In the WEF report, this continent was defined as "a dynamic destination with strong intra-regional flows" ADVERTISEMENT The continent earned high marks for rail connections, strong economies, stability of the euro and pound and increased mobility of Europeans, which translates into spending money.

Here’s hoping you avoided the food coma: you’ll need your wits about you for Black Friday. The traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza has become a full-contact sport, with crazed shoppers determined to find the best deals, sometimes with tragic results. In last year’s frenzy, a worker at a New York Walmart was trampled to death when the store opened its doors; two shoppers were shot in a dispute at a Toys “R” Us in California.

Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for Blue Beetle. If there’s a universal truth about superhero movies, it’s that they will end with an epic fight scene. The final fight of DC’s latest movie, Blue Beetle—in which an ancient relic of alien biotechnology generates a suit of extraordinary armor and bestows protagonist Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) with superpowers—finds the titular hero facing off against Lieutenant Carapax (Raoul Max Trujillo), the bionically enhanced right-hand man of villain, Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon), who owns the tech and weapons giant Kord Industries.

Jared Newman for TIME Every night, it’s the same situation. My wife and I are on the couch, TV off, immersed in our respective computing devices, when she breaks the silence: “Let’s watch something.” From there, it’s a process. I look for the Xbox 360 controller and twiddle my thumbs while it boots, or if it’s out of reach, maybe I get up and turn on our media PC instead. I return to my comfy seat and fumble with one remote or another, none of them really ideal for shuffling through vast menus of video content.