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Indian-origin truck driver jailed for 6 years in Canada after fatal crash that killed mom, 11-year-old son

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World - / Oct 1, 2026 - Meet Hudson Lightfoot, 16, who turned a bucket and squeegee into a 125-client business - At just thirteen, Hudson Lightfoot founded Marchmont Window Cleaning, starting with minimal tools but quickly growing his client base to 125. He took a significant step forward by hiring staff and securing a $3,000 grant from Ontario's Summer Company program to scale his venture. Equipped with a water-fed pole system, he emphasizes eco-friendly cleaning and has acquired valuable business know-how while managing both school and his passion for competitive skiing.

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World - / Oct 1, 2026 - Pete Hegseth to cut generals & admirals in US military by 20%; Pentagon to create new drone command - US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced plans to cut the number of generals and admirals in the US military by 20 per cent, while unveiling a new four-star command focused on autonomous and robotic warfare. According to news agency AP

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Iran Behind Flydubai Incident? Netanyahu Does Not Rule Out Tehran Involvement, But Awaits Probe

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The fertility advice most Indian women hear too late: Why the 90 days before conception matter

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Archana Puran Singh breaks down in tears as son Ayushmaan Sethi opens up about their bond, calls her his 'amazing role model'; says, 'You have no idea what you mean to me'

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At 7, Arizona girl Sloan started collecting diapers after seeing a Phoenix food bank run out; five years later, the 12-year-old aimed for 22,500 and delivered 30,000 diapers in her fifth annual drive

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In 2022, a Connecticut couple bought a cottage on 50 acres and built forest trails; after charging visitors to walk there, they faced a zoning dispute and are fighting to reopen their land to hikers

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'Message of hope': California becomes 18th US state to ban child marriage

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In 2014, a woman left Oregon alone to walk the world; after six and a half years, she returned with 20,000 miles and one terrifying attack behind her

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After Utah removed invasive brown trout from a mountain stream for 4 years, native Bonneville cutthroat trout recovered to near-carrying capacity within 6 years

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Nashville replaced 6.5 acres of parking with Cumberland Park; a hidden tank beneath it now captures about 1 million gallons of stormwater from nearby streets each year

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In 2021, a California couple bought a home and faced more than $1 million in fines linked to the previous owner's cannabis operation; five years later, a settlement cleared the disputed penalties

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In 2019, Los Angeles tested a road mix made from old asphalt and recycled plastic bottles, aiming to repave streets without adding new asphalt

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In 2020, researchers compressed sand with only about 10% polyethylene; their structural material achieved flexural strength comparable to typical steel-reinforced concrete in tests

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A Connecticut man paid $35 for a bowl at a yard sale in 2020; experts revealed it was a rare 15th-century Chinese treasure and it sold for $721,800

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In 2026, Phoenix added 19 shade roofs at busy crossings; the desert-inspired structures now give pedestrians a cooler place to wait for traffic lights

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St. Anthony Village buried a 500,000-gallon tank beside a Minnesota road; it now catches runoff and reuses the water to irrigate City Park and City Hall

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In 1964, a Virginia widow fought to save her Frank Lloyd Wright home from Interstate 66; it was dismantled piece by piece, moved 13 miles and rebuilt at Woodlawn, where it still stands

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Ball State buried about 3,600 geothermal wells beneath its Indiana campus; the system now heats and cools 47 buildings and saves roughly $2 million a year

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BLF's newly-formed female unit 'KAAD' attacks military convoy in Balochistan; claims nine killed

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'Technical issue': Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying uranium for Bangladesh nuclear plant

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'Took mobile phones, cash': Karachi football team robbed at gunpoint on Balochistan highway

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Child, forced marriages of minority girls in Pakistan flagged at UN event

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Motorcycle-borne gunmen kill 3 cops in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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20-year-old Azerbaijani woman allegedly drugged, gang-raped in Pakistan's Lahore

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'Don't go back like this': Pakistan minister's throat-cut gesture to Afghan journalist backfires - video

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At least 13 dead in suicide bomb blast near police post in northwestern Pakistan

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Pakistan govt puts Islamabad on lockdown as Imran Khan's party pushes ahead with march

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'No Muslim can even dare': Pakistan PM at UN condemns Houthi attacks, draws red line over Mecca

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Pakistan goes bananas over giant gorillas dancing to Bollywood songs

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Pakistan govt crackdown forces PTI retreat? Imran's party likely to postpone Sept 27 Islamabad march

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'Could endanger his life': Imran Khan's son warns against Adiala jail protest

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Watch: Pakistan PM runs away from questions on Hafeez Saeed at UN

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Fresh clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Report

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5.44 magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region

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Hasina: Restore democratic rights, rule of law in Bangladesh

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Indonesia demolishes luxury prison for favoured inmates

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Nepal rains: 27 killed in rain-induced disasters, authorities say

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'Technical issue': Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying uranium for Bangladesh nuclear plant

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Malaysia sends 1,476 Myanmar nationals home despite UN warnings over safety

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Watch: Government building collapses into river as heavy rains trigger fresh landslide in Nepal

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Two bodies recovered after deadly Himlung Himal avalanche; 10 remain missing in Nepal

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Nepal: 16 feared dead after avalanche buries Himlung Himal base camp under 15ft snow

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Nepal battered by severe rain: 21 dead, 5 missing as floods, landslides worsen

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In 2023, British engineers began using supercritical water to break mixed plastic into hydrocarbons; the plant was designed for 20,000 tonnes a year and was estimated to save 1.8 tonnes of CO₂ per tonne treated

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A 500-year-old football was found in a queen's bedroom; in 2026, scientists scanned it so the object could live digitally

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A wildlife charity bought 335 hectares in Dorset; two years later, it is one of England's newest National Nature Reserves

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In 2023, British rail researchers tested crushed old glass in place of scarce rail sand; it gave trains comparable grip and caused similar rail wear in wet and leaf-covered tests

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A Gutenberg Bible leaf bought for £25 in the early 20th century was rediscovered among a grandfather's belongings in an English attic; the roughly 570-year-old page fetched £39,000 at auction in 2025

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British Transport Police spent £320,786 testing live facial recognition at London stations and scanned more than 500,000 faces; the six-month trial produced one alert, and that person was wrongly identified

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Airbase terror: Burnham points to Iran; probe leads to fuel so far

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Northumberland's 'Lady of the North' captured in new drone images as the world's largest female-form land sculpture, rising 100 feet and built from 1.5 million tonnes of rock and soil from the former Shotton Surface Mine

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UK PM Burnham says may rejoin EU if 'pros outweigh cons'; France, Spain say 'welcome back'

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'Strong indications': UK PM says Iran may have played part in suspicious incident near RAF Fairford

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UK warns universities to cut ties with China-linked firm after MI5 flags AI, cyber research espionage

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South West Water fined £7.8 million over hundreds of sewage spills across Devon and Cornwall after 18 charges, including 231 discharges at Harlyn beach and more than 336 illegal spills near Bodmin

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Henry Nowak murder: Sikh man who killed UK student granted permission to appeal 21-year sentence

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'Reckless': Prince Harry, Meghan's children targeted by 'European paparazzi' at UK school

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'More harm than good': Burnham reopens Brexit question, puts EU rejoin back on the table

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Disapproving nuns painted over the risqué frescoes in Rome's long-neglected Villa Silvestri Rivaldi for 300 years; restorers are now exposing them

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Austria's Semmering Railway, completed in 1854 across 41 kilometres of mountains with tunnels and viaducts, still carries trains 172 years later

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NATO chief Rutte says alliance is defensive, urges Russia to end nuclear threats

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Kyiv as crumbling air defence pushes Ukraine towards a harsh winter

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Russia raises active troop numbers to 1.55 million as Zelensky accuses Kremlin of mass mobilisation

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Student protests rock France with over 400 detained: Why are schools protesting - explained

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In the 1960s, an Italian taxi driver covered his Rimini home with 12,000 seashells; his daughter still preserves it today

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How Russia's ballistic missiles, jet-powered drones have kept Ukraine under pressure

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Meet Ben O'Connor, the 16-year-old who sold 200,000 gift boxes before building an app to help farmers manage their work

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Eiffel Tower chief to step down after female staff excluded during Hindu group's visit

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In 1949, a Danish fisherman began covering his house with seashells, and 25 years later it became a folk-art landmark

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A London artist spent decades covering his home with thousands of broken dolls, false teeth and other discarded objects, turning it into a museum of found art

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Russia warns Nato of 'direct confrontation' if Kaliningrad is cut off from Russia

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Archaeologists uncover rare Roman-era workshop in Germany with pottery kiln and furnaces used to recycle Roman metal

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EU welcomes PM's peace message to Putin, says not against oil import but India's ties with Moscow may hinder defence collaboration

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In 1901, Germany opened a "flying train" above the Wupper valley; 125 years later, it carries over 80,000 passengers daily

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Bombs without brakes? Why the US-China AI race may be harder to control than the nuclear one

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Chinese AI agents display 'concerning' behaviour in safety tests, mirroring US systems

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Section of China's Great Wall damaged by two decades of illegal coal slag dumping

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In 1999, Pennsylvania teacher Ronald Sakolsky donated $5,000 to farmer Yin Yuzhen to fund her tree-planting efforts in Inner Mongolia; 27 years later, his contribution helped transform China's Maowusu Desert into a forest of 50,000 trees

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'Xi understands how I feel': Trump says Taiwan not a major point of friction

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'Stop using threats': China takes veiled shot at US over Cuba & Iran in sharply critical UN speech

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$30bn tariff cut, Iran and AI dialogue: Key points from Xi-Trump talks

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Trump-Xi bonhomie set to continue, leaders announce two more meetings

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China's coal mines generate billions of cubic metres of water; researchers say it could help cool data centres

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China's panda diplomacy: How Beijing uses exclusive animal to reinforce soft power

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Was Flydubai cockpit attack planned? UAE probe to examine possible terror link

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'Fighter jets in air': How Israel prepared for worst-case scenario during Flydubai scare

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Flydubai cockpit horror: Terror plot, suicide bid or Iran link? 5 chilling questions facing investigators

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Was Iran behind the flydubai flight incident? Netanyahu answers

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Captain Machchhar, a dentist, plumber & the crew who helped save over 170 lives on flydubai flight

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'Used last moments of his energy': How Captain Smit Machchhar's quick thinking helped save 174 lives

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'I grabbed the terrorist': Flydubai passenger tells Netanyahu how he subdued pilot, helped stabilise plane

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Flydubai flight drama: Rescue flight carrying passengers lands in Israel

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UAE planning to develop shipping alternatives, port that bypasses Hormuz

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Flydubai flight scare: Was it a terror plot? What we know and don't know

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'Receiving necessary medical attention': Embassy updates on Indian pilot of Flydubai flight - top developments

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US response to Iran's seven-day peace proposal delivered to President Pezeshkian

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Japan raises permanent residency fee 20-fold as foreign population hits record

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In 1996, a German psychotherapist gave away her possessions and began living without money; what began as a one-year experiment lasted 17 years

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After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists planted sunflowers to pull radioactive material from contaminated water and soil; the flowers actually absorbed radioactive isotopes

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Afghanistan says civilians killed in Pakistan airstrikes; Islamabad says militant hideouts hit

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Singapore plays matchmaker to public officers

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FTC probing top AI firms over product safety concerns

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Indonesia is building a school from residual plastic waste; even its floors, ceilings, pipes and frames will use discarded plastic

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New Zealand returned 86 takahē to Rees Valley; the birds are now breeding and establishing a new wild population

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They married in 1940, raised 13 children and built a family of more than 120 descendants: The remarkable story of Brazil's couple who held the Guinness record for longest-married living pair

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Meet Serge Boghossian, the 16-year-old Canadian student who taught himself to code and built a job platform; hundreds of teens have already joined

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In 2020, five workers remained at a South Australian wildlife park as bushfires approached, choosing to defend the 700 animals in their care

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In 2019, staff ignored an evacuation order at Australia's Mogo Wildlife Park, moving vulnerable animals into homes and safe areas; not one animal was lost

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In 2022, Schiphol put 2,571 kilos of recycled plastic beneath an airport road, creating room for 43,200 litres of rainwater and an expected 30-year life

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In 2005, two Vancouver writers ate only food produced within 100 miles to reconnect with local farms; they held the rule for a full year, with salt as the one exception

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In the 1980s, a Swedish flea-market buyer paid just over SEK 20 for a small Buddha statue; four decades later, experts traced it to the Ming dynasty, and it sold for SEK 2.44 million at auction

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'Religious extremist, refused handshakes with women': What we know about Flydubai attacker

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A Nashville man paid $2.48 for a rolled-up document at a thrift store in 2006; it proved to be a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence and sold at auction for $477,650 the following year

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'Overstayed their welcome': Rubio ordered Iranian delegation to leave US amid stalled talks; Iran denies

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An Ohio farmer facing $1 million in medical debt hoped a solar lease would pay $540,000 a year; after officials blocked the project, he had to sell land and equipment from his sixth-generation farm

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World's richest woman Alice Walton nears $120 billion after a $33 billion rise; her $250 million tuition-free medical school marks a new philanthropic chapter

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'I watch Air Crash Investigation': How Israeli passenger controlled flydubai jet after co-pilot stabbed captain

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CNN founder Ted Turner bought 113,000 acres in Montana in 1989; decades later, wolves, bears and bison roam the former cattle ranch

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Legal setback for Trump: Second judge halts $100,000 H-1B visa fee

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'A hero': Trump hails Indian captain after Flydubai attack, calls co-pilot 'perhaps a terrorist'

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A Phoenix man owned a historic house for 51 years before Arizona State University tried to take it for a medical campus; after public opposition, the university dropped its case and let the home stay

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US billionaire sent wife to Pakistan, secretly divorced her under Sharia law, paying only $50. 13 years later, Texas Supreme Court cancels foreign talaq

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Meet Aditya Herekar and Karan Verma, the US students who built a biodegradable coffee pod and won $25,000

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UK property tycoon left £100m estate; daughter was named 80%, but his son challenged his will, and the High Court later upheld an earlier version

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Jail, isolation, crackdown: Why Pakistan's establishment has failed to break Imran Khan

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Reggie leaks Kai Cenat conversation, claims streamer left his 'cry for help' message unanswered

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Kentucky woman started a $300 eBay side hustle in 2011, left her $35,000 insurance job in 2014; 10 years later, Pink Lily reached $141 million

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In 1899, nine-year-old Thomas Gilcrease received 160 acres; 18 years later, it had 32 producing oil wells, and his wealth later helped build Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum

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In 2005, as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, an Audubon Zoo curator and 11 staff members stayed with the animals; careful planning meant the zoo's animals survived the storm

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A New Jersey woman paid $25 for a mouldy table at a garage sale; 30 years later, it was identified as a rare 18th-century card table made by John Seymour & Son and sold for $541,500

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Christina Pike, first Tennessee woman set for execution in 200 years, survives 2 lethal injections

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"I'm calling the cops": Kai Cenat threatens to sue Reggie after serious allegations involving RaKai

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A South Carolina family raised cattle and horses on its farm for generations; in 2025, it permanently protected 2,000 acres from development in the largest such deal in Laurens County's history

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Rape case rocks Cornell: New transcript reveals victim informed police; fresh spotlight on DA's decision not to charge

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In 2024, Texas biologists turned more than 160 donated Christmas trees into an underwater reef at Granger Lake, where fish can use them as habitat within 15 minutes

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