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World - / Sep 2, 2026 - Glacier collapse at 8.37am, alert at 9.15: Why Nepal sent disaster warning 38 mins late - Nepal's warning system came under scrutiny after a glacier collapse triggered devastating flash floods in Rasuwa on August 26, with authorities issuing a disaster alert 38 minutes after the ice-rock avalanche. The deadly floods have killed thousands

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World - / Sep 2, 2026 - US couple kept 4 kids captive in truck for over 6 years, sexually abused them: Authorities - Four children were allegedly kept captive inside the sleeper cab of a semi-truck for more than six years, denied schooling, adequate food and medical care, and sexually abused while the vehicle travelled between Atlanta and Miami, authorities said.

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161-acre California racetrack closes after nearly 90 years of horse racing, now a $175 million plan could turn the site into a major waterfront park with $125 million in state funding

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In 2010, Texas researchers injected dyes into 6 caves to map the Edwards Aquifer; groundwater crossed faults at up to 5,300 metres per day, revealing rapid flow paths

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During 2019-20, scientists dried Arizona's Biosphere 2 rainforest; below 19% soil moisture, its soil switched from absorbing VOCs to releasing them into the air

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Clint Eastwood bought a 134-acre California artichoke ranch in 1995; he and Margaret Eastwood later donated land that now forms a 128-acre floodplain restoration site

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In 1991, Harvard Forest buried heating cables 10 cm deep to warm Massachusetts soil by 5°C; after 26 years, warmed plots had lost 17% of carbon stored in the top 60 cm 2. redundancy

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Duke University began exposing North Carolina forest plots to elevated CO2; after 10 years, loblolly pines produced about 20% more biomass

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100-year-old Hindu temple demolished in Pakistan's Punjab

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2015 quake drove Haku families to flood-hit Trishuli banks

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London weather forecast: Cloudy skies and mild temperatures expected September 2

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Liverpool weather: Light rain and humidity expected Wednesday, sunny intervals return by week's end

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Birmingham weather: Heavy rain expected today, September 2nd, with temperatures around 20°C

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Manchester weather: Heavy rain and cool temperatures forecast for Tuesday, September 2

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Leeds weather forecast: Heavy rain and cooler temperatures expected Tuesday, September 2, 2026

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A man buys Chinese jade dog for £1 at UK car boot sale, finds it in a box, later discovers 600-year-old Ming dynasty treasure that could fetch £10,000 at auction

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Meera Syal reveals 'older Asian actor' in London tried to rape her in her 20s

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Former UK PM Keir Starmer to step down as MP: Report

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London weather today: Sunny intervals and pleasant 23°C forecast

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, rain expected later in the week

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Liverpool weather forecast: sunny intervals and light rain expected September 1

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals expected today with mild temperatures

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals to start September, with a chance of rain later

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'Justice and hope': Campaigners hail UK PM Andy Burnham's vow to end indefinite jail terms

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Nearly 2,000-year-old vessel with two snake heads found at a Roman villa in Spain; archaeologists link it to the secretive cult of Sabazios

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Germany blames Russia for drone attack attempt at Leipzig/Halle airport

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Two injured in explosion at railway station in Germany's Augsburg

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$4 million diamond necklace stolen in daylight heist at Vienna museum

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12,000-year-old skeletons buried in an embrace in Italy were women, with ancient DNA revealing a mother-daughter link and rare genetic disease

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Indian among 12 killed after Russia launches massive strike on Ukraine

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ChatGPT is first AI chatbot to face tougher EU rules

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Italy population to shrink by nearly 4 million by 2050 as ageing accelerates: Report

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Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv strike on Belgorod kills two, injures 16

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In 1342, Europe suffered its worst flood year in 700 years; scientists now say 16 major floods struck the continent within just three years

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Manhunt underway in Switzerland after rave shooting; police say terrorism possible motive

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Iceland rejects EU membership talks, puts fishing rights and sovereignty first

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Russia prepares for 'massive strikes' against Ukraine's energy facilities

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Hong Kong's pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to association with foreign entities

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China warns of "consequences" as Taiwan attends Pacific Islands Forum

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China punishes 10 for spreading 'fake' flood toll

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Galwan, Doklam general axed by Xi: Zhao Zongqi removed from China's top advisory body

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Chinese rescuers manage to reach core disaster zone 50 hrs after flood

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Dam burst, lake overflow, earthquake: Nepal faces fresh crisis as rescue operations halted

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5.1 magnitude earthquake strikes China' s Sichuan province

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Barrier lake near Nepal border could breach in 3 days, China warns as hundreds dead in flash floods

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'Accusation helps nothing': China rejects Nepal's 'dam collapse' claim over floods

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Four dead, over ten injured after car crashes into crowd of government supporters in Iran

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Watch: US strike hits wedding in Iran, leaving child among four dead

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'We can resist US unilateralism': Iran president tells Putin on sidelines of SCO summit

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JD Vance says Donald Trump's dramatic Kharg Island post was meant as a signal to Iran

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Pakistan to lead 'Islamic Nato' for 3 years; Mecca pact members hold first meet

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After weeks of calm, US strikes Iran's Larak Island; Tehran retaliates by hitting American bases in Jordan

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Iranian woman sentenced to death for filming burning store during January protests

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No surrender, no dissent: How six months of war hardened Iran's leadership

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'Will send Netanyahu to hell': Iran warns of 'confrontation' if US blockade continues

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China planted a huge forest belt to fight desertification; scientists say the trees are creating a carbon-versus-water trade-off

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Meet Yanin 'Proud', a 17-year-old Thai student who built artificial hornbill nests from recycled plastic and won two global conservation awards

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Archaeologists uncover a residential complex and possible ancient wine press near the Temple of Sekhmet at Egypt's Memphis

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Meet Arthur, the 7-year-old British boy who found ancient human teeth while exploring a Cornish coastline

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Egypt bus accident kills 16 in red sea tourist region

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Australia planted eucalyptus trees to fight rising soil salinity; decades later scientists found the plantations were changing groundwater but not the soil nature

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Two Turkish ships collide off Istanbul; one believed sunk, 10 crew missing

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In 1905, a Bohemian prince released five muskrats into his estate ponds as a fur venture. Within a decade, around 2 million were in Bohemia

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454-million-year-old supervolcano found beneath England may explain a vast ash layer across northern Europe

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80,000-year-old stone points in Uzbekistan resemble weapons used in France 25,000 years later, raising questions about how humans reached Europe

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Thailand steps up sex-worker raids as USS Abraham Lincoln set to dock with 5,000 sailors in Pattaya

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Indonesia wildfire crisis: 19 companies under scrutiny as 2 lakh hectares burnt

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In 2016, Frank and Monica Woll bought two tiny Florida Keys islands for semi-retirement; hurricanes soon washed away much of them

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In 1990, John and Karen Lewis bought 1,000 acres of Costa Rican rainforest to stop it being logged; the reserve now shelters monkeys, sloths and over 300 bird species

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In 1921, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia began hand-building Los Angeles's Watts Towers from steel, mortar and broken tile; 33 years later the construction had ended

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In 1940, actor James Cagney bought hundreds of acres of California grassland; decades later the remaining 417 acres became a protected wildlife corridor

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Maine buried 20,000 discarded tyres beneath a road to fight frost and spring mud, while turning a growing waste problem into an engineering solution

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Alaska used rotenone to eliminate invasive pike from an entire lake; the pike vanished, and 6,836 Arctic char were later stocked to rebuild the native fishery

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In 2014, a Colorado couple bought land to build a family ranch; by 2025 bird species had risen from 29 to 37 and grassland-bird detections doubled from 178 to 356

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In 1979, a Montana electrician promised to build a statue if his wife survived cancer: Six years later, a 90-foot figure stood above Butte

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In 1996, CNN founder Ted Turner bought a reported 558,000-acre New Mexico ranch; conservation work expanded its bison herd and restored about 30 miles of streams

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Meet Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra: The 22-year-old Norway's first adult heir as King Haakon takes oath, could become first reigning queen in over 600 years since Queen Margaret

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In 2024, a developer paid $4 million for 83 acres outside Yosemite; two years later the US is considering a land swap for a private access road through the park

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Meet Aditi Paudel, a 17-year-old high school student appointed as Japan's first literacy ambassador

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More than 40 Tennessee tiny-home owners are seeking $5 million in a 'zombie HOA' lawsuit, alleging nearly 80% of the HOA budget went to a lawn care company owned by the developer

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Texas volunteers started a cleanup 40 years ago with 2,800 people; the movement has now collected 1.3 million plastic bottles from coastlines and waterways worldwide and could change plastic policy

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Pak PM scrambles for damage control after his office edits leaders out of SCO summit photo

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In 1934, Black cave guide Matt Bransford sold his 14-room Mammoth Cave hotel and land for just $3,000, far below market value; the family then moved 20 miles away as the national park took shape

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About 20 years ago, Dawn Robinson paid $40,000 for 2.4 acres in New Jersey; Middle Township later offered her $47,000 and is now trying to take the land for a 340-home project

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A California man spent nearly 30 years hand-building Salvation Mountain from adobe, straw and thousands of gallons of paint; Leonard Knight's landmark rises near Niland

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In 2015, Florida scientists poured 5 gallons of red dye into Silver River to study how water moved as its clear waters were turning algae-green; they found it took roughly 11.5 hours to travel 5.1 miles.

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New Mexico man shoots cousin dead after argument over which enchiladas had hotter green chile

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In 2006, Beyoncé donated $2 million to build 42 apartments for people experiencing homelessness in Houston; the project became one of her earliest major housing initiatives

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In 1996, USGS released an 8-day Glen Canyon flood at 1,275 cubic metres per second to track sediment; 120 cross sections measured how the flood changed the Colorado River channel

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In 2022, North Carolina finished turning 80,000 tons of demolished Bonner Bridge concrete into eight reefs; the state's largest artificial reef project

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In 1940, Nazis seized a 3-inch painting from a Jewish collector in Vienna; 86 years later, Austria returned it to his heir in Minnesota

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In 1998, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek donated 74 Hollywood Hills acres worth $2 million, nearly doubling local parkland and protecting trails and a wildlife corridor for deer and coyotes

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In 2008, a Texas couple bought an overgrazed ranch and removed its cattle; 19,300 restored acres later, its turkey population had climbed from fewer than 50 to more than 500

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In 2015, Paul Allen launched a global shark survey across 58 countries; cameras later found sharks missing from nearly 20% of reefs

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Pennsylvania police shooting: Officer charged in death of college student

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US passport rules may change: Parents could need to prove citizenship status for children

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A Minnesota woman paid $500 to overnight a box she said held cookbooks; a shipping worker opened it with police and found $30,000 in cash meant for scammers

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A Florida family listed its 42.57-acre Clearwater Beach estate for $37.5 million; the state now wants about 28 undeveloped acres to expand Caladesi Island State Park

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In 1995, Clint Eastwood sold a large California property for $3.08 million; the land was placed under permanent conservation protection instead of being developed

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Four California seniors reported scams in just 24 hours; police say cryptocurrency, gift-card and timeshare schemes cost them more than $315,000

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