Tired of shelling out $1,300 bucks a month for your Mercedes-Benz S550?

Then it's time for you to step up to an Aston Martin Rapide S for just $2,600 a month.

In all seriousness, Aston Martin and Ally Financial  announced this week that they're teaming up to offer customers a variety of lease and financing options.

"We are delighted to finalise this exciting partnership with Ally Financial," Aston Martin Americas president Julian Jenkins said. 

“We undertook an extensive search for a financial services provider and believe Ally Financial with their extensive experience in the industry, are ideally placed to meet the high standards our customers expect."

Through its agreement with Ally, Aston Martin will be able to offer a variety of retail, lease, and wholesale financing through its dealership starting in late May. 

Among the financial packages offered by the new partnership are deals for Aston's V12 Vantage S for less than $1,900 per month or a Rapide S for less than $2,600.

In addition to new financing options, Aston Martin also announced this week that it will spend $307 million to develop a new luxury crossover GT coupe based on the DBX show car that debuted at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show.

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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s nickname is "Money" for a good reason. He's practically made of cash. And this weekend, the boxer's bout with long-time rival Manny Pacquiao is set to add another $200 million to his already hefty bank account. 

That is in addition to the more than $105 million the flamboyant boxing legend made in 2014. 

And boy, does he know how to spend it! 

Earlier this year, Money Mayweather tweeted out a photo of his jet, a collection of exotic cars, and the words "Welcome to my world."

 For those who are curious, here's a breakdown of everything in Money's photo — and their approximate values:

A. Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano — $350,000

B. Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet —  $170,000

C. Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 — $400,000

D. Ferrari 458 Italia Spider — $260,000

E. Floyd "Money" Mayweather — net worth est. $280 million.

F.  Ferrari 458 Italia Spider — $260,000

G. Gulfstream GIII — est. $2 million.

H. Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport — $1.9 million

I. Bugatti 16.4 Veyron — $1.3 million

J. Bugatti 16.4 Veyron —  $1.3 million

The total value of the exotic cars in Mayweather's photo is roughly $5.94 million. But that's not all. The boxer has reportedly owned more than 100 luxury cars over the years and is known to keep a collection of white-painted cars in Miami in addition to a fleet of black-painted cars in Las Vegas.

However, based on some of the prices the boxer quoted in a recent interview with ESPN, it is likely he grossly overpaid for many of the cars in his collection.

Then again, for a guy with an estimated net worth of more than $280 million, this is but a drop in the bucket. After all, we're talking about the same Mayweather who reportedly keeps $123 million in a single bank account. 

Money Mayweather doesn't claim to be an automotive collector in the same realm as a Jay Leno or a Jerry Seinfeld. Rather, he seems to be a guy who enjoys having nice things around — multiple copies of the same nice things. At the end of the day, driving the same Bugatti everyday of the week would be ... uncivilized. 

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Some of the best restaurants in the world serve skillfully plated courses so tiny that you need a magnifying glass just to see what you're eating.

Anonymous Instagram chef Jacques La Merde, French for "Jack S---," is a real-life restaurant chef whose account parodies this sort of haute cuisine. His photos show unusual ingredients prepared in absurd and innovative ways, such as the deli-honey-ham rosettes, minced Dunk-a-Roos, and Shamrock Shake "fluid gel."

Chef La Merde has garnered 60,000 followers in three months. We can see why.

A Lucky Charms Treats bar mellows out a colorful plate of Skittles, lime JELL-O powder, and edible flowers from the chef's landlord's window box.

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A hearty meal of canned corned beef, crinkle-cut fries, baby corn, and string-cheese packs on the protein.

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A Kraft Handi-Snacks is served with accoutrements of kale chips, meatless bologna slices, ranch corn nuts, and Thousand Island dressing.

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Walker Percy was a great, cosmopolitan southern novelist and essayist who died in 1990.

Born in Alabama, he lived much of his life in Louisiana, in Covington, a town near New Orleans.

That's pretty far from Kentucky and the annual Run for the Roses, which takes place on Saturday at the magnificent Churchill Downs horse racing track.

But the signature drink of the Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown, is the mint julep. And Walker Percy knew mint juleps.

A julep is actually a pretty simple variation on the basic whiskey cocktail. We're talking about Kentucky here, so the whiskey of choice is Bourbon. Typically, some sugar and mint is muddled at the bottom of a glass, then in goes the ice and the booze. Cool, sweetened Bourbon, a good bit of it. A couple of these on a warm day and you're feeling no pain.

There is a more refined and meditative way to consume a mint julep, consuming a bit more time than it takes a pack of 3-year-old Thoroughbreds to traverse a mile-and-a-quarter.

As it turns out, the recipe for the more elegant and literary julep comes from Percy, who won the National Book Award for his very first novel, "The Moviegoer," and who for a generation of readers defined a post-William Faulkner variety of thoughtful southern writing. I first encountered Percy's recipe back in the 1980s, when I picked up a collection of his essays, "Signposts in a Strange Land."

It's simplicity itself, although you have to be patient for the alchemy of bourbon, ice, sugar, and mint to occur. And mind you, this is a Bourbon drinker's mint julep – there isn't enough sugar in it to take the edge off the liquor. In fact, it comes from Percy's short 1975 essay "Bourbon."

You need excellent Bourbon whiskey; rye or Scotch will not do. Put half an inch of sugar in the bottom of glass and merely dampen it with water. Next, very quickly – and here is the trick in the procedure – crush your ice, actually powder it, preferably in a towel with a wooden mallet, so quickly that it remains dry, and, slipping two sprigs of fresh mint against the inside of the glass, cram the ice right to the brim, packing it with your hand. Finally, fill the glass, which apparently has no room left for anything else, with Bourbon, the older the better, and grate a bit of nutmeg on the top. The glass will frost immediately. Then settle back in your chair for half an hour of cumulative bliss.

I love that last line! Cumulative bliss! Sounds pretty good to me. I think I'll be making Percy's mint julep this weekend. As I have quite a few times before.

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With the slogan "do your research," the controversialapp Lulu lets millions of women anonymously rate men on their looks, personality, and sense of humor. 

Men are rated overall on a scale of 1 to 10, but women can also pick hashtags to describe them, like #DoesHisOwnLaundry or #JustFriends (free form answers could put Lulu's users in libelous territory).

The app recently started letting women send anonymous messages to guys — the men can't initiate conversation themselves. The company says it has generated billions of profile views, and registrations have grown 3X in the last month. 

Business Insider worked with Lulu to find the funniest guy in every state based on the"humor score" they had been given by women who know them. 

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Alabama: John Lex Kenerly

Humor score: 9.8

College/Occupation: University of Alabama

Women say: #MakesMeLaugh #CaptainFun #WillActSilly

Alaska: Josh Smith

Humor score: 9.4

College/Occupation: University of Alaska

Top humor-related hashtags: #CaptainFun #LifeOfTheParty #AlwaysHappy

Arizona: JT Boulanger

Humor score: 9.8

College/Occupation: Arizona State University 

Top humor-related hashtags: #AlwaysHappy #MakesMeLaugh #LocalCeleb

Meet the "dad bod," a new way to describe that guy who has let his college-athlete body fall to the wayside.

Behind the layer of soft pudge, you can tell this dude once played lacrosse or football. It's a term that's forced itself into the mainstream in the past 36 hours. And everyone's loving it.

The dad bod was brought to light initially by Mackenzie Pearson, a 19-year-old Clemson University sophomore who wrote the premiere "dad bod" 101 about a month ago for The Odyssey — think Elite Daily meets your college paper.

Pearson's post, called "Why Girls Love the Dad Bod," describes the physique as "a nice balance between a beer gut and working out."

She writes: "The dad bod says, 'I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time.' It's not an overweight guy, but it isn't one with washboard abs, either."

This isn't the first time a crazy trend buzzword sparked immediate popularity.

Remember normcore?

The term, introduced to mainstream pop culture by New York Magazine in February 2014, put a name to a certain unassuming style wreaking havoc on the streets of New York City.

Also referred to as "blank clothes" or "mall clothes," normcore looks include light denim jeans, a polo shirt, and a sweatshirt, white athletic sneakers, and a visor.

Normcore describes anyone who dresses like a dad ... or the cast of "Seinfeld."

While the term is now pretty well known — The New York Times even wrote about it!— its successor, the dad bod, has just arrived on the scene, and it looks like, once again, fathers just can't catch a break.

Neither can Jason Segel, who has unknowingly become the face of the dad bod — publications keep using his photo as art for their dad-bod stories.

Since Pearson's post started to make its way around Twitter and Facebook, the idea behind the dad bod was picked up by GQ and NYMag.

The latter even came up with a "dad-bod diet," encouraging those who wanted the perfect dad bod.

GQ published its take:

As did The Atlantic:

And there's no sign the dad-bod trend will be slowing anytime soon.

Business Insider chatted with Mackenzie Pearson (who also appeared on "Good Morning America" on Friday) about what it was like to see her observation of the male physique get picked up by some of the most famous names in media and fashion:

"The term kind of evolved on its own. I had heard it jokingly and passively over the past year but a good friend of mine is a big advocate of it. She would always whisper to me when we were walking around campus if there was a dad bod around and talk about how attractive he was," she told us.

It's true that the dad bod was mentioned on a handful of college-centric media sites, like TotalFratMove.com, but it wasn't until Pearson's post on The Odyssey that the term was picked up by the masses.

Pearson mentioned that a "LOT of guys asked me out" when the post started getting serious traction (everyone loves a blogger!) and that the feedback to her piece, which focused on self-image, was mostly positive.

Pearson is learning, however, that trolls lurk everywhere.

"My article was posted on a forum though and someone was talking about how I must look," she said. "And one of the commenters actually found me on Facebook and a picture of my father ... and [the commenter] uploaded it underneath. That was kind of weird to see a picture from my Facebook on some random forum I had never seen before."

But she's taking everything with a grain of salt as she watches the term blow up:

"The funniest thing by far is the guys who tweet pictures of themselves to me!" she said, clarifying that the content the dudes send along is G-rated material (nothing NSFW!).

To sum it up, we asked Pearson: Once and for all, what makes the dad bod the dad bod? Her response?

"Confidence, comfort, and Chinese take-out!!"

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After President Obama announced eased travel restrictions to Cuba late last year, Americans itching to check out the closed-off Caribbean country rejoiced.

Companies, too, have been eager to jump in on Cuban tourism: Airbnb has unveiled more than 1,000 listings on the island, Cheapair.com has started selling direct flights to Cuba, and big American chain hotels are already eyeing properties on the island. 

But the truth is that it's still very difficult for Americans to visit Cuba legally.

Danilo Bonilla, the program director for Cuba and North America for travel company Mountain Travel Sobek, emphasized that despite the eased restrictions, there are still major obstacles for Americans who want to travel to Cuba. 

"People think the announcement on December 17th changed things, but the reality is that communication is more open, but very few things have actually changed," Bonilla said.

Americans are not allowed to simply vacation in Cuba. The only way to legally visit is to fall under one of 12 tourist licenses, including family visits, religious activities, professional purposes, and educational reasons, to name a few. That means that you can't go to Cuba to just lay on the beach.   

Perhaps the biggest change for Americans who can legally visit the island is that they'll now be able to spend some money there. Newly announced measures would allow visitors to be able to purchase "$400 of general goods and up to $100 of alcohol and tobacco products that can include cigars" while in Cuba. Previously, Americans were prohibited from spending any money there. However, while Americans are now allowed to pay for their expenses with credit or debit cards, very few establishments actually accept credit cards.

There are other obstacles, too.

Internet access on the island is very limited, making it difficult to plan a trip there and book hotel, restaurant, or tour reservations. And while you can book a direct flight to Cuba from the US now, flights are limited (as they're all charter planes), and often expensive. Public transportation within Cuba is limited and unreliable. And the majority of the hotels are large, government-owned properties that are not well-maintained, yet are overbooked and overpriced.

"The reality for American travelers is that Cuba is not an easy place to visit," Bonilla said. "Cuba doesn't have the infrastructure to accommodate Americans, the way Americans like to travel."

However, all of this hasn't stopped the influx of Americans who are itching to visit the country.

Manny Kopstein, the founder and CEO of Cuba Travel Adventures Group, has been traveling to Cuba for over 10 years, but said that recent trips have been more difficult to coordinate as hotels, restaurants, and flights are all increasingly full.

"The infrastructure in Cuba, particularly in Havana, is incapable today of handling the tremendous demand," Kopstein said. "As demand increases, the infrastructure will be bursting at the seams and a lot of people will be disappointed."

Both Kopstein and Bonilla said that the best way for Americans to visit Cuba is with a legitimate tour company that has been operating in Cuba for a long time.

"It's not what you know, but who you know in Cuba," Kopstein said. "The larger tour companies will charge you a lot of money, but they have the connections to the big hotels and restaurants that will get you in the door."

Bonilla also said that tour companies "have the contacts and can make it easier to visit."

All of that said, Bonilla emphasized that Americans who really want to visit Cuba shouldn't wait.

"Don't wait too long because once it really opens up, Cuba could be very different," Bonilla said.

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In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we've put together a collection of authentic Mexican dishes that look as good as they taste. 

From chili-dipped popsicles to poblano peppers stuffed with oozing cheese, these dishes will leave you with a serious craving for Mexican food.

Luckily, we've included recipes so you can make these tasty treats at home. 

Typically made in Puebla, Chiles en Nogada is a dish that's comprised of poblano peppers stuffed with shredded meat and spices that are then dipped in egg batter, fried, and topped with a walnut-cream sauce and pomegranate seeds.

Learn more about Chiles en Nogada.

Croquetas De Atún are a common household dish in Mexico. Canned tuna is mixed with chopped chili peppers and egg, stuffed into mashed potatoes, covered in bread crumbs, and fried to perfection.

 Learn more about Croquetas De Atún. 

Elote (corn on the cob) is a common street food served both on a stick and in cups. The corn is boiled before being smothered in a delicious blend of salt, lime, chili powder, butter, cheese, and sour cream.

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Anyone staring out the office window on an endless Friday afternoon might dream of giving it all up for the good life on a sunny, sandy, Caribbean island.

Noelle Hancock actually did it.

On Cosmopolitan.com, Hancock explains why she walked away from her $95,000 salary as a journalist in New York City, her East Village apartment, and most of her belongings to move to St. John, the smallest of the US Virgin Islands.

Four years ago, inspired by a tropical screensaver and hungry for a vacation, she broke her lease, sold her possessions, and bought a one-way ticket to the USVI, where she took a job scooping ice cream.

Hancock was 31 years old, a graduate of Yale University, and came from a conservative Southern family that was aghast at her decision.

She writes:

Perhaps there was something indulgent and Peter Pan-ish about this new lifestyle. But the truth is, I was happier scooping mint chocolate chip for $10 an hour than I was making almost six figures at my previous corporate job. It was calming to work with my hands. I met new people constantly, talking face-to-face instead of communicating via email and instant messaging. When I closed the shop at the end of the shift, my work was done and my time my own.

Besides, I found that not everyone shared my parents' concern. "When I moved here 25 years ago, my dad insisted I was ruining my life," said one of my regular customers when we got to chatting about our lives one day. "Recently he visited and told me, 'You had it right all along. I'm toward the end of my life and looking to retire to someplace like this, and now I'm too old to enjoy it.'"

Hancock muses that pursuing a nontraditional path has opened her up to a whole world of opportunities and lifestyles — none of which provide the familiar financial stability and predictable career path of her life in New York.

She added:

These days, I work as a bartender, a job I pursued simply because it's something I always wanted to try. Sometimes I think back to the question I used to be asked in job interviews: "Where do you see yourself in five years?" That always seemed a depressing notion, to already know what you'd be doing five years in the future.

Here it's not unusual for someone to work as a cook on St. John, then move to Thailand for six months to work as a dive instructor, then they will head off to Alaska and work on a fishing boat. Living abroad has exposed me to a different approach to life, one in which you're not expected to settle in one place and do one kind of job. Perhaps some of us are meant to move around every few years, change jobs and live many different micro lives.

Hancock isn't the only one who's been inspired to create the lifestyle she dreams of. Jonathan Banks spent four years sailing the world instead of showing up for his MBA; Danika and Chris Garlotta have turned to freelance jobs to support them as they tour the globe; Scott Leonard moved his wife and three sons onto a 50-foot catamaran to manage his company from distant shores; Jonathan Look sold everything he owned to spend his retirement abroad.

If you ask people like them, there's more outside that office window than traffic.

Read Hancock's full story on Cosmopolitan.com.

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California is known for many things —sunshine, surfing, startups, and food.

We recently released our annual list of the best restaurants in America, an aggregation of five of the most prestigious food awards and rankings in the country (you can read more about our methodology here).

We pulled the California-based restaurants from our list and re-ranked them here.

8. The Bazaar – Beverly Hills

Chef: José Andrés
The Bazaar

7. Bouchon Bistro – Yountville

Chef: Thomas Keller
Bouchon Bistro

6. Spago – Beverly Hills

Chef: Wolfgang Puck
Spago

Since Marlon Brando and James Dean roared onto the silver screen in "The Wild One" and "Rebel Without a Cause," motorcycles have been associated with male outlaws living on the fringes of society.

But a new crop of social-media savvy bikers is creating a stylish, powerful and feminist new aesthetic for America's most rebellious form of transportation.

The biker women of Instagram are similar to the medium's communities of knitters, vinyl collectors and people who live in '60s-inspired chrome Airstream trailers — retro Americana aficionados who love to share their kitschy-cool analog lifestyles on a digital platform.

So forget the stereotypical bandana-loving, cigarette-chomping old dude on a hog. On Instagram, young women are grabbing the throttle.

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The "Babes Ride Out" meetup account posts photos of women riders from all over the world and has more than 19,000 followers on Instagram.

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They highlight women riders who are doing big things, like @heidenreichlaura, who is biking through Vietnam.

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Michelle Clabby Lewis, or @imaclabby, is a stylist by trade. Here, she looks straight out of a Free People catalog. No wonder her personal account has 5,000+ followers.

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If you think Las Vegas hotels are pricey this weekend, the most expensive penthouse listing in Nevada is being rented out Friday night for $75,000 ahead of the highly anticipated Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

The penthouse occupies the entire 59th floor of Palms Place tower. It comprises 27,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor living space, and it can hold up to 500 people.

The penthouse is on the market for $29 million. It was originally offered at $38 million.

The property is co-listed by Sotheby's International Realty's Lisa Song Sutton and Deven Chase.

The penthouse on top of Palms Place took four years to complete.

The property offers 360-degree views of the Las Vegas valley.

There's plenty of parking. By the way, the penthouse comes with a 2-year pre-paid lease of a 2015 Lamborghini Huracan thanks to Sutton & Chase's partnership with Lamborghini Las Vegas.

The 141st Kentucky Derby will be run on May 2, 2015. Currently, American Pharoah is the favorite at 5-2.

The fun of the derby is that it brings out all the rank amateur bettors in the nation. I have a friend who places her bets at the last minute, after she's seen which horses have pooped before getting into the gate, for instance. Another acquaintance never bets on gray horses. "Gray don't pay!" is her motto.

This is no way to bet on horses.

I, however, have a horse-betting system that takes the guesswork out of it. Or at least, adds to the fun for those of who can't be bothered to read The Daily Racing Form.

• Download my Kentucky Derby spreadsheet here.

The caveat here is that I know nothing about horses. But I do know that horse racing is really boring unless you have money riding on it. So I decided to approach the Kentucky Derby as if it were a probability problem that could be solved with Excel.

Here's how it works.

There are 20 horses in the running Saturday. So at the outset, you have a 1 in 20 chance of picking the winner.

Those are NOT good odds.

Some horses have better chances than others at winning — some might not like longer races, for instance — and the odds adjust on each horse as more bettors place their bets.

But the bottom line is that the derby is a crowded race, random things happen, and in theory any horse can win.

So a sensible investor approaching the derby as if it were a portfolio with different risk levels in it might want to ask, how many horses can I bet on and still come out ahead if any one horse wins? Put another way, can I spread my bets among as many horses as possible and still come out ahead?

The good thing about the derby is that there are a lot of horses running at very long odds. The formulas in my spreadsheet ask, for a $10 bet on each horse, how many horses can I bet on and still be able to win more than the total amount of money I've wagered?

This year, you can bet on 11 of the 20 horses at the current odds, and if any of them win you'll come out ahead. That reduces your overall odds to something slightly akin to a 50/50 coin flip. Much better than 20-1.

Of course, your portfolio will contain NONE of the favorites. In other words, you're betting on all the horses the other bettors think will most likely lose. But you're covering as much of the field as possible. Remember, you only need ONE horse to come in good and Business Insider just paid your mint julep bill for the weekend!

The horses you must bet on are these: Ocho Ocho Ocho, Tencendur, Danzig Moon, El Kabeir, Bolo, Itsaknockout, Keen Ice, War Story, Mr. Z, Far Right, and Frammento:

A $10 bet on each one to win will cost you $110. If any of them come first you will win at least $300 and as much as $500. (I've built-in a margin to give the betting a purpose — there's no fun in betting $100 to win $110, for instance.)

The other disclosure here is that I've used the current odds as of 4 p.m. eastern time on the day before the race. Odds change up to post time, so this is for fun only.

Personally, I use the spreadsheet as an advisor, not a decider. Remember the Edwards Quant Fallacy: There's a difference between good data and applying judgment to good data. So consider picking only three or four horses, some at good odds and some at long odds. That limits your losses but makes your gains interesting. The worst thing that can happen is that you'll add some genuine excitement to a race that is, otherwise, two minutes of chaos.

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IMAX offers an enhanced viewing experience for movie-goers, who pay a premium on top of the existing ticket price to enjoy it. 

The company's reputation grew based on massive screens and state-of-the-art sound systems. IMAX currently retrofits existing movie theaters with technology that enhances the picture resolution and the sound quality.

However, many of the retrofitted screens pale in comparison to the size of other IMAX screens. Yet movie-goers still pay the same premium, regardless of the screen size.

IMAX doesn't deny the discrepancy. When we talked to IMAX Entertainment CEO Greg Foster, he said: "If there are people out there who have a problem with it, they're not telling us."

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Leading consumer aviation website Skytrax has published its latest annual World Airport Awards, and for the third consecutive year, Singapore's Changi International Airport took the crown as the world's best airport. However, Changi isn't the only world class facility of its kind in Asia — which is why Skytrax has released its list of the 10 best airports in Asia.

The Skytrax annual rankings are based on the impressions of over 13 million flyers from 112 countries. More than 550 airports were included in the survey, which covers 39 service and performance parameters, including facility comfort, location of bathrooms, and the language skills of the airport staff. 

10. Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)

Yearly passengers: 47.5 million

Previous rank: N/A

Why it's awesome: Kuala Lumpur International is one of southeast Asia's busiest airports and serves as home base to both AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines. 

The airport is located just 35 miles south of the Malaysian capital and is easily accessible by road and rail. KL International is home to one of the most unique features in all of aviation, an in-airport jungle, complete with waterfall. Called the KLIA Jungle Boardwalk, the nature area is located in the airport's Satellite Terminal.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2013, provided by Airports Council International.

9. Taiwan Taoyuan international Airport (TPE)

Yearly passengers: 34 million

Previous rank: 10

Why it's awesome: Located just outside of the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, Taoyuan International is the largest airport in Taiwan. The airport is the home base for both China Airlines and EVA Air.

Skytrax reviewers praised the airport for its polite service, clean environment, and speedy immigration lines. Taoyuan was also once home to Taiwan's aviation museum, but it was shut down earlier this year to make way for further airport expansion.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2014, provided by Taoyuan International Airport.

8. Tokyo Narita International Airport (NRT)

Yearly passengers: 35.6 million

Previous rank: 9

Why it's awesome: Narita is the first of the two Tokyo airports to appear on the list. Located 35 miles outside of Japanese capital, Narita handles the majority of the international traffic going in and out of the city. The airport serves as a major hub for ANA, Japan Airlines, Delta, and United.

Skytrax reviewers lauded the airport for its efficient and friendly staff, clean facilities, and abundant dining options.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2014, provided by Narita International Airport.

There's no better time to book a vacation to Milan, Italy. The city is gearing up for Expo2015, a global showcase that kicks off May 1 and is expected to draw more than 20 million visitors.

Flights to Milan from the US are regularly cheaper than they are to other European cities.

And with the euro near an all-time low, US visitors can take advantage of the shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer.

Bottom line — if you see a great deal on a flight to Milan, book it. There's a reason Kayak called it the top-trending destination of 2015.

Milan's reputation as the fashion capital of the world is no joke. It's home to several annual fashion weeks, and thousands of fashion companies are headquartered there, from Dolce & Gabbana to Versace. But it's not just a high-fashion town — the city's got a sophisticated street style all of its own.

That fashion sensibility extends beyond clothing. Some of the city's best hotels carry designer names, like the Armani Hotel and the Bulgari Hotel. And the city's uber-trendy Nobu restaurant in an Emporio Armani store.

Of course, Milan has unparalleled shopping. The Quadrilatero d'Oro is a tiny square jam-packed with designer boutiques. It's heaven for window shoppers, or visitors with fat wallets.

Kate Middleton gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday morning at St. Mary's hospital in London.

The official birth announcement has now been posted on an easel outside of Buckingham Palace, but there's still no word on what the new princess will be named.

British betting firm Ladbrokes is still taking bets on a name, following the announcement of a baby girl. 

Alice remains the favourite, followed by Charlotte, Victoria, and Elizabeth.

You can see the full odds here, or check out the chart below:

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