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Trump admin revoked more than 300,000 visas since 2025, including 4,000 linked to birth tourism: Report

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World - / Oct 20, 2026 - Indian-origin couple sentenced in UK for Covid PPE fraud; millions spent on luxuries - Jogesh Bhandari was handed a sentence for deceiving companies with false promises of supplying personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. His conning tactics included misappropriating payments meant for PPE to fund a luxurious lifestyle. In a related verdict, his wife, Meenakshi Bhandari, received a suspended sentence alongside community service due to her participation.

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World - / Oct 20, 2026 - 1867 gold coin found in Texas closet sells for $97,600 after 159 years in a family's possession - A remarkable 1867-S Liberty Half Eagle gold coin was unearthed from an obscure closet in Texas, boasting a staggering value of $97,600. This highly sought-after coin, a valuable heirloom of a Union soldier, shattered previous auction records. Experts praised its rarity and condition, sparking intense competition among collectors. After a thrilling auction, the coin found its new home in a private collection, bringing its extraordinary journey to a close.

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'TRUMP, MUSK OR...?': Mike Rogers' $100K Hotel & Travel Bills LEAKED; El-Sayed Asks - 'Who Is Paying?'

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'I Saw Americans Fighting': Hegseth Mocks NATO Allies' Afghanistan War Role, Sparks Row

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'PATHETIC, MAD, LOW IQ': Trump Unleashes Vicious Attack On Ilhan Omar Amid Immigration Probe

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'I Care About American Candidates': Vance Refuses To Endorse Netanyahu After Trump's Israel Appeal

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'We're Dying, Have No Missiles': Zelensky Admits Russia Is Decimating Ukraine As Trump 'Blocks' Help

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Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh announce second daughter's name on Vijayadashami; Masaba Gupta dresses the family in peach and ivory

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10 BABY NAMES INSPIRED BY DRAGONFLIES, FIREFLIES AND MAGICAL CREATURES

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From treatment beds to therapy equipment: 5 germiest things at a physiotherapy clinic

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From the 'Love Track' with Noby to the Dramatic Nomination: Here's Everything About Nilina's Bigg Boss Malayalam 8 Journey

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Trump 'frustrated and angry' says Rubio; rejects reports of shift in Ukraine policy

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Memo from New Delhi: Make America India Again?

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A Florida couple missed 66 mortgage payments on their Naples property; the husband later agreed to deposit $5,000 monthly during an appeal, but an October 19 federal ruling rejected his lawsuit against the bank

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Daniel Rotman spotted a gap in the cat-litter market and built PrettyLitter; Mars later bought out his stake at a reported $1.4 billion valuation

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'Nobody told me..that's very confusing': Indian man Kamlesh Shah charged with election fraud in US says he didn't know he was not supposed to vote

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In 2020, a Georgia woman transferred her interest in a home to her stepson despite concerns about her memory; a jury later rescinded the deed and awarded $57,600 in damages, and an October 19 appeals court upheld the verdict

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Toledo's 1897 railroad swing bridge was bought for $1 in 2004; a new $65 million overhaul will replace nine fixed spans and reinforce the movable section to carry heavier 286,000-pound railcars

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Convicted IS-inspired NYC terror plotter gets 50 more years in prison for stabbing US prison guards

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A small backyard railway started by Oregon hobbyist Ed St John inspired a neighbour to buy surrounding land; after the tracks were joined in 1992, it grew into a 32-mile miniature railroad across 2,200 acres

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Kylie Jenner launched a lip kit in 2015 and built a global cosmetics brand; Coty agreed to pay $600 million for a 51% stake in 2019

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After a Louisiana priest admitted abusing his teenage son in 2018, deacon Scott Peyton left Catholic ministry and joined another church; the Vatican has now upheld his excommunication despite his appeal

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An energy company is giving Yellowstone National Park a record $105 million gift; the money will fund conservation, student trips and a new visitor centre

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Former OpenAI engineer, accused of planting office bug, had ties with Saudi royal family: US prosecutors

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He was 9 when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon; 57 years later, retired pilot Ken Schreiber has spent $400,000 to help preserve the astronaut's boyhood home and open it to visitors

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Pakistan army officer killed in IED blast during Balochistan operation

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US-designated LeT terrorist dies after mysteriously falling from building in Lahore

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Pakistani forces kill 8 militants in Balochistan, raid hideouts as abductions rise

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Pakistan's decades of backing terror comes full circle as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa falls under emergency rule

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Pakistan plans Moon landing by 2035, expands space cooperation with China

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Balochistan unrest: Teacher's killing sparks outrage, kin say Pak officials shielding 'death squads'

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Strong 6.0-magnitude quake strikes Balochistan in Pakistan

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Imran Khan facing Nawaz, Benazir-style exile deal? Pakistan opposition leader's big claim

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Pakistan to chair IMF, World Bank boards in 2027; first time in over 70 years

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Pakistan ranks lowest in South Asia on hunger index amid rising food prices

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33 children, teacher killed as school roof collapses in Pakistan's Peshawar

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Pakistan regulator warns TV channels against live coverage of blasts and terror attacks

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Why Asim Munir's plan to 'split' up Pakistan may spell the end of civilian govt

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Pak police fire tear gas, live rounds at protesters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 50 detained

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6 killed, several injured as passenger train derails in Pakistan's Punjab

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2 Pakistan army pilots killed as training aircraft crashes near Balochistan's Quetta

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Names on Saudi prison list, death sentences missing: Bangladesh furious over executions of two citizens

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Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman visits 3 cities to extend Durga Puja greetings to Hindus

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Bangladesh Hindu group condemns sealing of historic Ram Leela Temple in Pakistan

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'I am not afraid': Sheikh Hasina vows to return to Bangladesh in December

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Graft charges at home, arrest in Qatar: Former Bangladesh Air Force chief held

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'You are ruining entire town': With pistol in hand, Bangladesh minister raids drug den; watch

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Nepal PM, president stress unity and social harmony in Dashain messages

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Afghanistan's lost five years under Taliban: Girls out of school, women out of work, millions hungry

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Sri Lanka hit by nationwide power blackout as grid failure disrupts electricity

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10 charred to death in fire at seaside resort in Bangladesh

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London lawyer built a legal AI startup while training at Allen & Overy; Thomson Reuters bought it before it earned revenue

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In 2018, a UK football club boss built a 24ft garden room with a bar, TV and electric doorbell; his upstairs neighbour now wants it demolished in a court fight lawyers say could cost more than £100,000

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In 1980, a signed Hockney print went inside Paper Pools; 46 years later, Norwich volunteer Jemma Banks found it, and the Salvation Army raised £41,160

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After 11 road accidents in four years, villagers in England spent four months knitting life-sized police officers and fake speed cameras; their handmade decoys are now making some drivers hit the brakes

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Meet Tim Armoo, the British entrepreneur who sold his first business at 17 for £110,000, lost the money within 15 months, then built another company that sold for eight figures

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"Maze is glass, somehow I'm lost": Bermondsey schoolgirl wins national writing contest with six words, beating nearly 950 young writers

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UK nurse Rebecca Louise Burwood, deputy manager at Welsh care home, struck off after taking nearly £400,000 from 99-year-old resident; money allegedly spent on cosmetic surgery, car and motorhome

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After surviving two life-threatening brain haemorrhages, Emilia Clarke founded SameYou in 2019; seven years later, it has raised over £3.8 million and helped more than 1,200 survivors access online rehabilitation

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London Museum is preparing to open inside historic Smithfield Market after an £437 million redevelopment that took 11 years to reach its launch date

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A Salvation Army volunteer found a signed David Hockney print hidden inside a donated book; 46 years later, it sold for £41,160

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A rare 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was found during a Bristol house clearance; the book sold for £43,000 at auction

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Anonymous donor leaves rare banknotes at Edinburgh British Heart Foundation charity shop; collection sells for nearly $115,000 at auction

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A man who came to Britain from Barbados at age 12 has lived in the UK for 50 years, but at 62 he still faces deportation because of a past criminal conviction and a legal dispute over his immigration status

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In 2021, a car with two flat tires blocked a County Durham farmer's gate; he flipped it with a telehandler, then a jury cleared him in 2022

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Italian banker was 'dropped to his death by mistake' when thugs dangled him out of his office window 'only to threaten'

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Russia urges early resumption of nuclear stability talks with US in possible Putin-Trump-Xi summit

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France in flames: How student protests spiralled into nationwide unrest

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Watch: Burning e-bikes turned into bonfires as France reels from violent protests

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Missile defence, Starlink support: Zelenskyy holds 'substantive' talks with Rubio amid Trump's Russia shift

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A forgotten red chalk drawing of a crouching child surfaced in an Italian collection; experts believe it could be an undiscovered work by Édouard Manet

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Albanian PM warns of 'red line' after police station set ablaze

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Partial curfews in France as govt battles unrest; PM Lecornu doesn't rule out 'imposing emergency'

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In 2010, a British anthropologist launched a small Copenhagen beekeeping project to help people facing exclusion from work; today it spans 80 to 100 urban colonies producing up to six tonnes of honey a year

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2 years of protests, one crucial election: Serbia's students challenge Vucic's 14-year rule

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Watch: Calm couple, unfazed jogger defy chaos on streets of France

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Buildings ablaze, petrol bombs hurled at parliament: 10 visuals show chaos of Albania protests

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France unrest: PM orders curfews, hints at declaring emergency; over 2,400 arrested - top developments

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A 1862 diamond tiara gifted for a French royal wedding disappeared after 1957; nearly 69 years later, the jewel that doubles as a necklace heads to Sotheby's Geneva to be auctioned for up to $1.3 million

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France unrest: Paris' Louvre Museum shut after student protesters block access

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Russia's finance minister Anton Siluanov named deputy PM in Putin's reshuffle

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'Disregards consensus between Xi and Trump': China hits back after DeepSeek ban from US govt IT systems

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China says US ship jeopardised maritime security near disputed Sabina Shoal

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Trump, Putin, Xi could hold a meeting in China; discuss end to Ukraine conflict: Moscow

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China's economy gains pace on exports as domestic demand falters

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China's ageing crisis: Beijing to become 'super-aged' city by 2035

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Watch: China-North Korea bridge opens after 12-years delay

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China, Pakistan hold high-altitude army drills with Beijing-supplied arms

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How Chinese parts are fuelling Houthi ambitions to strike Israel and Saudi Arabia

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Research ships & seabed surveys: Inside China's grey-zone tactics against Taiwan

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China sanctions Paraguay, Belize ministers over diplomatic ties with Taiwan

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Iran faces rising threat as Baloch rebels step up attacks amid regional war pressure

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Britain sends Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthis, rules out offensive strikes

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The backstory: When West 'tricked' Russia to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya

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What if the next US president turns hostile? Netanyahu's answer lies partly in India

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Hegseth meets Netanyahu during unannounced Israel visit: Report

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Saudi Arabia puts off 'Davos in the Desert' summit to 2027 amid Houthi attacks

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Houthis claim attacks on Saudi airports, oil and military infra; take responsibility for camp attack that killed over 50

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Over 45% of Saudi flights cancelled since October 8, residents scramble for alternatives

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6 ops in 48 hours: Houthis claim to strike Saudi airports, Aramco site & oil field, military facilities

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Over 50 Yemeni fighters killed as Houthis target military camp with ballistic missiles

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Israel arrests 10 suspects over attacks on journalist, European diplomats in West Bank

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UN agency World Food Programme to cut food aid to Gaza as funding crisis threatens millions

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After losing their home in Gaza, a Palestinian potter turned clay into dome-shaped shelter for his parents as shortages of cement and steel stall reconstruction

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'Want to try your luck again?': Iran's Araghchi warning to Trump against renewed war

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US officials visit Palestinian Christian town after settler attacks on foreign diplomats

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Trump endorses Bibi for re-election, warns Israel against choosing 'wrong leader'

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A 30-room home where Australian painter Frederick McCubbin lived is at the centre of an ownership fight after a caretaker spent 22 years there

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An Irish lottery winner took home £3.3 million in 2001; years later, a court heard how investments and a failed construction business left him struggling to repay a bank loan

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5 Indian-origin suspects among 10 arrested in Canada carjacking, luxury car theft probe; $1.4M in vehicles seized

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65-year old swimmer killed in shark attack off South African coast; 2 beaches shut

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In 1933, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton ordered a Rolls-Royce for a Georgian prince; he died crashing that car, but it survived, crossed the Atlantic aboard the QE2 and sold for £166,750 in 2026

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Australian lawmaker Helen Haines loses leg after being hit twice by car: Report

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Between 1723 and 1735, Qing artisans made a porcelain bowl painted with bats and peaches; after passing through a Paris dealer and spending 87 years at a Chicago museum, it sold for $2.048 million in New York

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'They chose Canada': Alberta rejects separation bid in win for Carney

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Meet Cliver Huamán: At 15, turned away from South America's biggest club soccer final, he climbed a hill, called the match and drew thousands of live viewers

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In the early 2000s, California man Elmer Long turned his father's bottles into a public two-acre ranch; today, more than 200 welded trees display over 1,000 bottles

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In 2022, Pennsylvania salvager Paul Brown paid $6,000 for church windows; one year later, experts identified Tiffany glass, and the pair sold for $200,000

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Two Canadian entrepreneurs built a sleep-products brand in four years; Hush hit a C$48 million valuation before Sleep Country bought 52%

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A New York entrepreneur pitched his high-protein lupini bean pizzas to stores from a Citi Bike; after launching in 2025, his brand Loopini surpassed $700,000 in revenue by April 2026

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Kenyan doomsday cult leader convicted of killing 190 children, ordered followers to starve 'for heaven'

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Kim Jong Un photos released to dismiss rumours of coma, takeover by sister

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'I don't think I'm a hero': Australian barber's brave act hailed after MP hit by car

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London woman bought a £600,000 semi-detached home in 2021; a year later she challenged her neighbours' kitchen for crossing the boundary by 48cm, but a tribunal has now ruled the tiny strip belongs to them

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A 52-year-old Oregon farmer started building miniature castles from rocks cleared off his land in 1935, turning a winter hobby into a four-acre garden of stone bridges, churches and landmarks

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'Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon': Trump slams Macron as riots spiral

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In 1968, Cassandra Henderson graduated from a North Carolina school; nearly 60 years later, she moved back into the same building after it was restored from 20 years of vacancy into 53 senior apartments

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In 2020, an Ohio couple moved into a friend's home and spent $30,000 on its kitchen; six years later, an appeals court rejected their $215,000 purchase claim and revived the owners' eviction bid

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In 2020, scientists poured dye into an Arkansas creek that ran into a dry stretch; they found the missing water resurfacing 2.9 miles farther downstream

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In 2020, Entourage actor Adrian Grenier left Hollywood life behind and bought a 46-acre Texas ranch; he added solar power, farming and beekeeping while turning the property into a sustainable family retreat

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In 2018, Indian-origin siblings Rohan and Anya Satija sold cookies and lemonade in Texas to buy books; their nonprofit has now donated 100,000 books and 125,000 supplies and classroom items, helping 15,000 students

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First 'Survivor' winner Richard Hatch won $1 million in 2000; now, 26 years later, court orders him to pay $3.29 million in unpaid taxes

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In 1993, a rancher donated 300 American bison that were released on an Oklahoma prairie; today, more than 2,000 roam the preserve, helping restore one of Earth's most threatened ecosystems

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In 2011, a British couple bought a crumbling 10-storey Victorian water tower for £380,000 and spent about £2 million converting it into a home; after a £2.5 million sale, it is now listed for £2.75 million

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In 2022, a fourth-generation Colorado farming family sold 90 acres to Xcel Energy for $585,000; four years later, the utility sought a 550-foot easement for $19,000, but a judge rejected its condemnation bid

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US midterms 2026: Trump invokes France unrest at Kansas rally, warns America will 'burn' if Democrats win

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'Don't know if it means anything': Trump's quip about Melania's sign sparks awkward White House moment

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In 2014, auctioneers uncovered a long-hidden French farm collection that, along with a dirt-covered Ferrari once owned by Alain Delon, sold for €16.288 million in 2015

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A Michigan couple bought a 116-year-old, 1,000-pound refrigerator for $4,995 on Facebook Marketplace; after seven weeks, a $1,200 move and reinforced floors, the 7-foot-wide appliance became the center of their kitchen

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A US scrap-metal dealer paid about $14,000 for a gold egg at an antiques market, hoping to melt it for profit; years later it was identified as a lost imperial Fabergé treasure reportedly worth up to $33 million

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In 1974, Phoenix built Deer Valley Airport's parallel runways with a tire-rubber membrane beside a full-depth asphalt control; 11 years later, upkeep fell by 90%

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In 1972, Phoenix sealed Sky Harbor's main runway with tire-rubber beside an untreated taxiway; 13 years later, untreated asphalt hardened 20 times more and cracked

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In the 1970s, California's Niles Cone groundwater basin needed protection from saltwater intrusion, so a water district began routing creek water into former gravel pits; 13 pits spanning roughly 300 acres now help recharge the aquifer

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In 2018, former WWE star Ronda Rousey bought a 4.55-acre California horse property for $765,000; six years later, it sold for $912,500

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In 2001, a former Illinois quarry where solvents and paint were dumped opened as a forest preserve with a 115-acre lake, an education centre, and an amphitheatre

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'Release Epstein files': Protester heckles Vance at rally, vice-prez calls him an 'illegal immigrant'

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In 2022, a Nashville developer bought a vacant lot, but the city held its building permit for four years while weighing a future road; a federal appeals court has now revived its lawsuit over the freeze

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In a solar-simulator test, aluminum cooling fins raised a panel's output 11.5%; adding folded plastic bags lifted the increase only slightly, to 11.6%

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