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World - / Oct 11, 2026 - Hurricane Isaias kills 4 in US, leaves hundreds of thousands without power - video - Four people have died and hundreds of thousands have been left without electricity after Hurricane Isaias battered parts of the southern United States with powerful winds and heavy rain. The storm damaged buildings, uprooted trees and raised fears of

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World - / Oct 11, 2026 - Australia planted rubber vine in the 1860s; it now covers vast Queensland areas - Rubber vine began its Australian story as a garden ornamental brought from Madagascar, and it has since become one of the country's most troublesome weeds. Left unchecked, this glossy, trumpet-flowered climber can scramble up to 30 metres into tree

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Baltimore turned waste glass into road surfaces on at least 17 streets; the crushed glass made the pavement sparkle under sunlight and streetlights

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In 1929, Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie gave his rights to a London children's hospital; 97 years later, the gift still supports seriously ill children, with UK royalty payments protected by a special law

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Florida cybersecurity owner accused of misleading ransomware victims; prosecutors allege his firm charged them over $19 million while secretly paying hackers more than $8 million

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Nepal cuts 12 year wait, to declare those missing in flood 'dead' after 45 days

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Nepal cuts 12-year wait to declare flood missing dead to 45 days

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Nepal cuts 12-yr wait to declare flood missing dead to 45 days

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Antonio Guterres sidesteps Kashmir question, flags UN Security Council's 'crisis of legitimacy'

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In 2008, Jamie Oliver launched a programme to teach everyday cooking skills; by March 2024, it had delivered food education to more than 115,000 people in schools and communities across the UK

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Mine water treatment by-product ochre is being used to stabilise contaminated soil at a former lead works in Chester; the site could make way for 126 new apartments

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Two 14-year-old UK conservationists are recruiting 20 children, aged 8 to 13, to raise harvest mice at home and help rebuild their declining population

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King Charles inherited a royal connection to London Zoo dating back nearly 200 years; as a baby, he was taken there to see a polar bear

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Nearly 39,500 tonnes of illegally dumped household and construction waste cleared from Hoad's Wood, Kent; £15.5 million clean-up required 2,500 lorry-loads to remove rubbish piled up to 15 feet high

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London's 1952 smog killed thousands; four years later Britain passed a law that began ending its famous coal-filled 'pea soupers'

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A WWII airfield once used by Britain's famous Dambusters was later quarried for sand; today its runway is a nature reserve filled with skylarks and birds of prey

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Queen Elizabeth helped save rare horse breeds from extinction; she bought a Cleveland Bay colt destined for export when only six purebred stallions remained

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In 2010, George Michael anonymously paid for Jo Maidment's IVF after seeing her on TV; two years later, she gave birth to Betsy and a bouquet of flowers finally revealed who had helped her

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A UK founder and his mother burned through £15,000 developing a vegan supplement, then fitted kitchens to fund their first stock; Free Soul now turns over £55 million a year and employs 50

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A 12-year-old Surrey girl handed her father £500 of savings and asked for a mushroom-shaped house; he built a two-storey backyard hideaway with a glass floor and trapdoor that went on to win Shed of the Year in 2017

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Britain rebuilt 3.5 miles of the A46 using 17,432 tonnes of material from the old road; the project cut its carbon footprint by 23%

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UK engineers started with previously unwanted steel instead of a bridge design; they built the Tan House Footbridge around the available material to cut embodied carbon

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Richard Branson was 29 when he bought an island to impress a girl, offered $100,000 for a $6 million property; in 2007, he bought 125-acre Moskito Island for $15 million, now divided among nine families

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Russian strikes kill 12 in Ukraine after Trump announces diesel deal with Putin

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South African jurist of Indian origin Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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France turned 127 hectares of abandoned gravel pits into Europe's largest floating solar farm; 135,000 panels now generate power for 37,000 people

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Milan US consulate labour 'exploitation' case: Indian workers among hundreds agree to share of $35m payout

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France's student stir intensifies in Paris; schools shut, police fire tear gas

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Italy passes Meloni's electoral reform, sets 42% threshold for parliamentary majority

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From France to Italy, Belgium to Greece, student protests spread across Europe

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Over 33 killed as Russia's glide bomb attack targets two civilian buses in Ukraine

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Canadian author Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Stun grenades, shattered jaw, severed hand: France's student protests put police under scrutiny

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Three rare snake species bred at Prague Zoo for the first time; two groups of young descend from animals seized from smugglers

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'Maricarmen lives, the fight goes on': 87-year-old dies after becoming symbol of Spain housing crisis

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China opens military base at former CIA airfield in Laos

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From fishing nets to grey-zone tactics: Chinese militia boat enter Taiwan's sensitive east coast - report

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K-8 attack jets, military vehicles spotted at new China-Laos air base: Report

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China's Fuman Oilfield, largest desert oilfield, extracts 26.86 million tons of oil and gas from below 6,000 metres; engineers recover 500-million-year-old rock core from record 8,080-metre depth in Xinjiang

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'Blatant lie': China slams US panel's 'genocide' claim after Starbucks opens first Xinjiang stores

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China's Zijinshan gold mine turned its own waste into haul-road material; test roads carried 100-ton trucks and resisted deformation

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Xi Jinping unwell? Chinese officials sought unusual long breaks during the US visit

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China's gold-copper mine built a road from mining waste; one section showed 97% lower deflection after 28 days

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China tests 800-passenger flying-wing aircraft model with 85-metre span, showing how new aerodynamics could improve range and efficiency

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Chinese hackers impersonate ex-White House official to target US AI experts, steal emails: Report

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US fighter jet strikes cargo ship in Gulf of Oman as Iran blockade tightens

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Saudi Arabia says attack on Riyadh airport killed 12 and wounded more than 300

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Israeli leader admits that assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei was a 'mistake'

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Flydubai cockpit attack: Israel to honour Indian pilot Smit Machchhar with top civilian bravery award

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Syria considers sending troops to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthis

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Iran sends Hezbollah $200 million to aid displaced Lebanese: Report

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Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz highest in a week since Iran war began: Report

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New Zealand replaced this 1904 bridge with a modern crossing after 112 years; locals saved the historic structure, now the country's only surviving steel cantilever road bridge

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In 2006, Jackie Chan asked fans to help build schools one dollar at a time and promised to match their gifts; six years later, their combined contributions had passed $192,000 for children in rural China

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In 2015, volunteers removing litter from an Irish beach spotted an unknown prehistoric shell midden, adding a newly recorded archaeological site to Sligo's coastline

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In 2024, Bangladesh tested a road made with shredded plastic bags and bottles; during a heat wave, it showed no visible cracking, while other roads showed visible distress

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In 2022, road base tests mixed recycled tire pieces with crushed concrete, and both small and medium tire blends showed significant rutting after 1,000 loading cycles

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Panama rattled by fresh 5.5 magnitude quake after powerful twin earthquakes

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In 2024, 23-year-old woman died during wisdom tooth removal in Canada. Two years later, her father sues dentist, seeks funeral expenses

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A marble bust sat in an English garden for 70 years; it was actually a rare work by America's first professional female sculptor

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Canada removed 7,300 cubic metres of toxic sediment from this harbour; fish species returned after disappearing for more than 30 years

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Beneath one Sussex wind turbine, 75,000 recycled cubes replace rock armour in the ocean; could create more than twice the potential marine habitat

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In 1990, Switzerland crushed an old A13 road and reused its concrete in new pavement; after 20 years, mixes with up to 100% recycled aggregate remained durable

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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes off Panama's southern coast, tsunami warning issued

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In 2013, 80-year-old Miura climbed Everest despite four heart surgeries, taking the record after first reaching the mountain's summit at 70 and again at 75

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In 2022, South Africa put recycled waste plastic into two high-truck-traffic asphalt sections; checks a year apart found both experimental roads performing well

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A wind-tunnel experiment paired two vertical-axis turbines; closely spaced counter-rotating models produced 13% to 16% more power than two isolated turbines

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In 1970, Fullerton paved a 600-foot California street with crushed waste glass; 2 years later, the EPA found the unusual recycled road was still in good condition

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In 2025, researchers explored the USS Yorktown wreck three miles below the Pacific; inside its hangar sat what may be a 1941 Ford station wagon

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In 2024, Michael Bloomberg's foundation gave Johns Hopkins $1 billion; the gift made medical school tuition-free for students from families earning under $300,000 and expanded help with living costs

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In 2016, another Iowa corn-and-soy farmer collected about $20,000 a year from turbines, giving his farm a cash floor when crop prices were below costs

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In 1969, a Nevada man began turning roadside junk, bottles, hubcaps and car parts into a desert home; decades later, the five-acre Thunder Mountain Monument is a free roadside attraction

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Idaho family has farmed 1,000 acres since 1950; after the state largely shut off its irrigation water in 2025, the owners say crops failed and are now suing to protect the family farm

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A 16-foot Burmese python weighing 147.9 pounds was released after radio-tagging in Florida; US scientists are now testing drones to track invasive snakes across the Everglades

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Rock legend Rick Wakeman played piano for 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam; he now wants the last 125 bears still caged on bile farms moved to sanctuaries

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Indian-origin US Army veteran made cousin do household chores, confiscated immigration papers, punished through physical abuse, sleep deprivation

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Green Card process suspended for 8 companies: Immigration experts on what happens to approved I-140, existing H-1Bs; whether employees should leave these companies

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In 2016, Washington installed 26 human-made beaver dams in a damaged creek; after one flood, sediment rose nearly 5 feet, and water depth increased 11%

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Val Kilmer turned a 5,328-acre New Mexico ranch into a retreat with rental cabins and a B he asked $33 million in 2009, then sold most of the property two years later when the asking price fell to $18.5 million

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In 1967, Georgia man Donnie Peek bought 150 acres and grew his property to 1,600 acres; decades later, a $3.2 billion pipeline route shifted to run 2.5 miles only through his land alone

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During the pandemic, a US hospital worker paid $15.99 for a Goodwill painting and hung it above her bed; Antiques Roadshow later identified it as a Le Pho worth $60,000-$80,000 at auction

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From about 1950 to 1964, a Washington janitor spent nights in a rented garage assembling a 180-piece throne from foil, cardboard, old furniture and light bulbs; it now fills a Smithsonian gallery

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In Brazil, a 69-year-old farmer spent 20 years building his own Italian-style stone house, one rock at a time, finally completing the project he began mostly alone

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In 2024, England protected a forgotten World War I practice battlefield; Browndown's trench systems span an area equivalent to nearly 17 football pitches

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In 1916, Florida's USDA plant station tested Burma reed for erosion control and gardens; it escaped cultivation and is now listed as a Florida noxious weed

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In 1935, Pennsylvania saw crown vetch survive on 10 acres of poor soil, so officials pushed it for erosion control and mine reclamation; it later spread to 46 states

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In the 1800s, US gardeners wanted beautiful purple wetland flowers, so they planted purple loosestrife; it later covered 500,000 acres and formed stands of up to 80,000 stalks an acre

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In 1971, two 23-year-olds began constructing a Hudson Valley castle with salvaged barn wood and scrap; 43 years later, it opened as a working bed-and-breakfast

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In 2025, California ran six 100%-recycled-asphalt road sections under a heavy-vehicle simulator; rain-triggered base shear failures and poor moisture control caused sections to fail

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Luke Bryan turned 150 acres of Tennessee cow pasture into Red Bird Farm with a bass lake, 10,000-square-foot home and 7,000-square-foot barn; the barn is now a haven for rescued animals

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In 2019, The Miz and Maryse bought a 10,400-square-foot California manor for $6.4 million, renovated it during their ownership, and then sold it for $7.4 million

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New York City has reopened Queens' historic Lost Battalion Hall after a $25.9 million reconstruction, bringing back the recreation center with upgraded fitness spaces and accessibility

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Trump throws another tantrum about not getting Nobel, declares war on Norway

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