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7 Indian flowers that bloom throughout the year: Beautiful flowering plants to keep your garden colourful in every season

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World - / Nov 15, 2026 - Tens of thousands protest across Portugal over soaring housing costs - Protests occurred in over 30 cities across Portugal, reflecting increasing frustration over rising housing costs and insufficient incomes. Many protesters, including students and professionals, expressed concern about the affordability of housing. Demonstrators called for stronger tenant protections and limits on rent increases amidst growing inequality. The government promised to implement measures for affordable housing but acknowledged that changes will take time.

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World - / Nov 15, 2026 - Swiss men take to streets, call for stronger fight against violence against women - Men gathered in the Swiss capital to protest against misogyny and violence directed at women. The demonstration called for men to take an active role in opposing misogynistic views, especially online. Organizers stressed the need for men to acknowledge their responsibility in challenging these attitudes. The event followed increased awareness of violence committed by men, highlighting the importance of addressing harmful masculinity.

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Iran Points 2,500 Missiles Towards Israel & US Targets; Pentagon Intel Exposes Trump's 'Lies'

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Massive Explosion Fear In US; Bomb Found Near Chemical Facility; Urgent Evacuation Warning Issued

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Iran Turns Hormuz Into A Minefield! Two Tankers Defy IRGC, Explode In Flames

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'Will Fight': Cuba Goes On War Footing; Diaz-Canel Rallies Forces To Thwart Trump's Invasion Attempt

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SHOCK VIDEO: France Sees 106,000 Protesters, Burning Barricades And Tear Gas; Macron 'Panics'

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Trump's NVIDIA Money Bombshell! China Chip Deals, Stock Purchases Spark Explosive Corruption Row

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Inside Leonardo DiCaprio's real estate portfolio: From a Hollywood Hills compound to a private island, 8 fascinating properties linked to the actor

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DIY kitchen cutlery holders: Creative and budget-friendly ways to organise spoons, forks and knives while adding a decorative touch to your kitchen

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DIY wall hanging ideas: Creative ways to make beautiful handmade wall decor and add a personal touch to your home interiors

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10 BABY NAMES THAT MEAN STRENGTH AND COURAGE

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Princess Diana's nieces Amelia and Eliza Spencer give royal family style a fresh twist at Prince William's event

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A homeless California man gave an influencer his last dollar after thinking he needed baby food; the stranger gave him $500 reward and followers donated nearly $95,000 in four days

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US judge halts Trump's plan to close historic DC golf course for redevelopment

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How a glitch on ground triggered chaos in sky: Inside the US ground stop

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US flight disruption to persist 'well into Sunday' as officials blame faulty router, ageing systems

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Watch: SpaceX's Starship completes first-ever midair catch on return from orbit

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US transport secy blames expired tech for flight chaos

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A 13-year-old Seattle baseball fan picked up a free trading card at a Mariners game without knowing she had the only gold version in existence; weeks later, collectors paid $20,100 for the raccoon-themed card

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A Pennsylvania father threatened not to take his daughters to school if their mother came for a first-day photo, and barred her from tennis matches; appeals judges upheld her control of activities on November 12

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A 10-year-old Tennessee boy noticed his father's speech slurring as their car swerved on a trip to Georgia; after a crash, Taylor Fritts called 911, helping his dad survive a stroke and earning a hospital certificate

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Hospital charity executive accused of approving $3.6 million in fake invoices and pocketing $1 million in kickbacks; alleged purchases included Louis Vuitton bags and a rose-gold golf cart

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A Texas woman fought the court-ordered sale of her marital home after a receiver received a $685,000 offer; despite a divorce decree awarding her 60% of net proceeds, an appeals court upheld the sale and related orders

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A Florida daughter lost control of her late mother's estate and three family trusts after representing them in court without a lawyer; a November 12 appeals court upheld all four removals despite her objections

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A seven-year-old wrote Santa a letter after receiving no presents one Christmas; 50 years later, the charity inspired by it has delivered more than 400,000 gifts to children

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In letter to US judge, Nikhil Gupta says he planned Pannun op alone

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An Indiana father challenged child-support payments after his two daughters moved in with him and stopped visiting their mother; on November 12, appeals judges awarded him $15,275 and reinstated her support duty

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Lebanese woman who is now living in Mexico accuses ICE officer of promising a Green Card in exchange for sex in Texas detention centre

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24 terrorists, four soldiers killed in separate clashes in Pakistan's Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Pakistan's climate minister Musadik Masood Malik to attend SCO civilisational dialogue in New Delhi

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Suicide car bombing at security checkpoint in Pakistan kills 5, injures 13

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Pakistani teen mauled to death by tigress released from cage for TikTok video shoot

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Imran Khan-Asim Munir deal? Sisters' release from jail, hospital visit spark buzz in Pakistan

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74 militants killed in Pakistan security operations along Afghan border in 10 days

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11 killed as vehicle plunges into river in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

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BLA claims 18 killed in suicide vehicle attack on Pakistan Army camp in Balochistan

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'Some good news': Two sisters of ex-Pak PM Imran Khan released from jail; elder sister, wife remain behind bars

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Pakistan announces schedule for Guru Nanak's 557th birth anniversary celebrations despite Attari-Wagah closure

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'Two eight-year-olds or four four-year-olds': Pakistani cleric's child bride 'joke' sparks outrage

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Pakistan militant attack kills 10 policemen in KPK's Kohat, gunbattle still under way

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Pakistan court frames charges against 8, including grandson of deputy PM Ishaq Dar, in gang rape case

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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan taken to hospital for eye check-up, treatment; shifted back to Adiala Jail

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More debt, less development? Pakistan spends just 10% of annual budget

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Imran Khan aide, ex-Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi collapses in jail; hospitalised

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Bangladesh garment owners threaten to quit wage talks, shut factories indefinitely

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Bangladesh completes legal process for Hasina's return, leaves decision to India: Report

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Sheikh Hasina's return to Bangladesh: India wants Dhaka to fulfil two conditions, says report

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'I may be jailed, they may try to kill me': Sheikh Hasina's defiant message on returning to Bangladesh

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Ties strained, India-Bangladesh consular talks postponed

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'Anti-India' campaign: Chinese vloggers in Dhaka scale back activities amid increased surveillance

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10 killed as passenger vehicle plunges 500 metres down slope in Nepal

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Political activities must be open to all in Bangladesh: UN

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Three monks begin hunger strike in Sri Lanka over redevelopment of major Buddhist site

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Over 2,000 teachers, students face political persecution in Bangladesh: Report

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'My home for many years': Lalit Modi gets British citizenship 16 years after leaving India

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UK PM Burnham's speechwriter caught using ChatGPT to draft speech

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Prince William, Kate Middleton to attend Earthshot Prize in Mumbai in first joint overseas tour since 2022

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A Cambridge dealer bought a forgotten painting for £150 at auction after spotting Dalí's signature, only to discover it was worth £45,700

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Indian student in UK jailed for 30 years for grooming 70 girls online

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UK to extradite PIO bizman to US for cancer drugs fraud

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A couple bought a derelict Victorian water tower in England for £138,000 in 1997; after a seven-year restoration

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'Not going to enrich anybody's lives': Thousands protest in Scotland against large-scale AI data centres

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Conservatives agree to pay £1,000 to settle copyright row over Andy Burnham illustration

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UK barrister Forz Khan suspended over LinkedIn posts calling for 'global cleansing' of Zionism

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26 years in Britain, then a letter sending Nigerian woman to India: UK Home office's bizarre mix-up

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At 13, Prince George is following in King Charles's artistic footsteps; his colourful kingfisher drawing, created at home in Windsor, has now been unveiled in Prince William's magazine

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Meet Nefeli Vitoraki, the United Kingdom-based designer who turned discarded salak and lychee skins into a biodegradable leather alternative with estimated carbon emissions up to 95% lower

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A UK woman died of breast cancer at 46, leaving her £500,000 estate to her teenage daughter; her boyfriend later claimed a secret Cyprus marriage and produced a will that the High Court found to be forged

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A 13-inch sculpture model that Barbara Hepworth gave her doctor has resurfaced for auction in Cornwall, where the aluminium-and-string study for her famous Winged Figure could fetch as much as £80,000

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A mother left her £1.1 million estate entirely to her son after accusing her daughter of failing to show 'love and respect'; the daughter took the dispute to court and lost

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Russia lifts unofficial ban on targeting Zelenskyy after Ukraine's repeated strikes on key oil export hub: Report

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Cede Donbas to Russia to join Nato, US tells Ukraine

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'Society's in bad shape': More than 100,000 protest across France for fifth consecutive weekend

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Estonia opens the Baltics' largest heat storage tower in Tallinn, a 42-metre structure holding 20,000 cubic metres of hot water and storing 1,100 megawatt-hours of heat

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Putin's grandson registered with mother's surname as father's name resembles Ukraine President Zelenskyy's: Report

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Ukraine's Nato bid back on table, but at what cost? Zelenskyy reveals US question on Donbas

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Russia forces capture settlement in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, strike energy sites: Report

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'Licence to kill' row: Child rights and inflation may fuel fresh protests across France

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Over 2,000 involved: Russia-Ukraine set for biggest-ever prisoner swap amid Trump-led diplomacy

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Ukraine launches nearly 1,200 drones at Russia as peace talks widen to include European security

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A routine pipeline excavation near a German swimming pool led to the discovery of 1,600 medieval silver coins that could have bought 150 sheep

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French President Macron gets a frosty reception as Iceland PM appears to dodge his hug in awkward greeting

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Poland gets Pentagon green light for permanent US base near Russia; 5,000 troops planned

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'Must not fall into Russia's trap': EU's Kallas warns Europe over Ukraine peace talks

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Amid Nvidia scandal, Trump, Xi, Putin to share APEC stage in China: 5 key issues to watch

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'US fabricating spy narratives to impose tech blockade': China on Nvidia CEO row

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'No room for Taiwan independence': China's Xi Jinping doubles down on reunification push

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Nvidia-linked suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang now living in Beijing: Report

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Blacklisted Chinese military-linked university bought Nvidia H200 chips - Report

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'A baseless smearing': China denies spying charge targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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China high-rise building fire kills 14 in Shanxi province

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China's using clean tech to shape global climate fight, growth

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China to release Japanese pharma employee jailed for espionage after 3.5 years

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Ahead of summit, Beijing tells Quad: Don't rake up South China sea row

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Hamas confirms death of senior commander Samir Abu Younis in Israeli airstrike

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18 Arab, Islamic nations condemn Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital, warn of ceasefire threat

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Iran's navy says oil tanker on fire after hitting naval mine in Strait of Hormuz

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Fujairah accident: Indian consulate visits injured, meets families of victims in Dubai

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Mossad chief holds Iran war talks in Washington as Trump resists Netanyahu - Report

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No regime change, no victory? Trump's Iran endgame & Netanyahu's mission

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No nuclear monitoring while threat of attacks persists: Iran tells UN agency

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Uranium stockpile remains unverified: Iran refuses nuclear inspections under US military threat, tells UN watchdog

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Iran claims destruction of US radar in Bahrain, tanker hits mine in Strait of Hormuz

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Indian nationals among 14 killed in deadly multi-vehicle crash in UAE's Fujairah

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4 personnel killed as military helicopter crashes in southern Turkey

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'Shouting match from hell': Trump, Netanyahu clash in explosive phone call over Iran war

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Netanyahu's Iran gamble: Can caretaker Israeli PM launch a war?

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UAE midnight crash: Several dead in Fujairah after truck hits multiple vehicles, police issues warning

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Israel strikes another hospital in Gaza; 6 killed, over a dozen injured

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Netanyahu asks military to prepare for Iran 2.0 as opposition demands no strikes before next govt

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Born in England in 1945, Rod Anderson spent 81 years not knowing his father was a Canadian soldier; after an 18-year family search, a DNA match connected him with a 77-year-old half-sister in Ontario

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'The Last of Us' series brought more than $141 million in production spending to Alberta; a study found its filming supported 1,490 full-time jobs

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As a teenager, Dave Hunter rigged a homemade radar to find buried bulls on his grandfather's farm; now he uses ground-penetrating radar to find lost graves, and has helped an outback council uncover more than 600

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A Canadian company donated 1,800 hectares of forest, wetlands and shoreline; the land could reconnect wildlife habitats around Gander Lake

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In Spain, engineers built a test road with recycled construction waste in its base and subbase layers; after seven years open to traffic, its performance and roughness remained acceptable

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'More important than heart': Australian PM caught making genital joke with climate minister at COP31 - watch

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On China's G312 highway, engineers stabilised the subgrade with calcium-carbide residue; after three days, field CBR reached 50.19%, versus 29.51% with lime

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A Toronto performer who discovered through a 2022 DNA test that he had at least 15 half-siblings and later found 20 more turned his family secret into a musical; seven siblings from the US have now surprised him at a show in Canada

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A five-inch pot sat on an elderly couple's dining-room sideboard, estimated at £500–£800; experts identified it as rare Song dynasty Ru ware, and it sold for £320,000

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A power station built beside Niagara Falls in 1906 stopped generating electricity in 1974; after more than 50 years, construction has begun on a C$350 million plan to turn it into a five-star hotel

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Former Australian MP Rory Amon found guilty of raping 13-year-old boy he met on dating app

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Australian entrepreneur Briony Kennedy claims Adobe's $15,000-a-month upgrade cost Adorn Cosmetics millions, triggered a 30% sales drop and forced her to sell her family home; she is now suing Adobe

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Meet Ramla Hammoud and her Canadian university team, who developed a business idea to turn discarded Lake Erie fish into nutritious dog biscuits

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Germany produces 6 million tonnes of waste-incineration ash annually; scientists are testing whether the hazardous residue can absorb CO2 and become a material for road construction and concrete

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Canada, US make progress on trade deal as Mark Carney pursues new Asian markets

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Former Canadian premier Danny Williams donated 185 acres of family land to protect rare lichens; the gift expands a Newfoundland nature reserve to 1,198 acres

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In 1997, Ted Turner heard how a Mississippi washerwoman gave $150,000 of her savings for scholarships and pledged $1 billion to support UN causes; his daughter now says another $3 billion followed

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London homeowner ordered to pay £10,000 in damages after removing new neighbours' entrance on their moving-in day, with court ruling they had the right to drive across his land and install gates

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A Houston great-grandfather born on a Louisiana plantation in 1931 spent decades without a birth certificate; at 95, he finally received the document after his family and a volunteer lawyer traced the records

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A Tennessee couple moved their household belongings into two storage units after selling their home, then found both nearly emptied; judges upheld $33,500 in damages and $23,700 in fees over fake security claims

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Nashville woman adopts a piglet immediately after her divorce is finalized as ex-husband told her 'you can't have a pet pig'. Now she says, 'Traded one for another'

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After 13 years of marriage, a Washington couple divorced and the wife was awarded $328,715, but from her husband's 401(k) rather than cash; an appeals court upheld the split despite her concerns about future taxes

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Trump, Xi, Putin meet on Nov 19: Why the 1945 Yalta Conference is back in focus

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A Wisconsin daughter accused her brother of mishandling their mother's two family trusts and sought his removal as trustee; a November 10 appeals court upheld a contempt finding for his failure to provide documents

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A 101-year-old US veteran who earned two Purple Hearts during World War II says his wife helped him rebuild his life; Joseph Allegretti has now recalled their nearly 72-year marriage in a new Veterans Day interview

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Trump considers holding back on Iran strikes even as military keeps options open

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In 2015, Arizona engineers buried geogrid beneath a forest road; five years later, reinforced sections had no ruts or potholes, while untreated soil deteriorated

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China built a highway embankment with 100% recycled demolition waste; field tests found it had greater structural capacity than the clay-soil control

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Illinois engineers tested 12 full-scale road sections; a 60/40 blend of recycled concrete and reclaimed asphalt performed best as an improved subgrade

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In a Wisconsin roadbed experiment, engineers placed geosynthetic reinforcement beneath crushed rock on soft ground; after 1,000 load cycles, deflection was about half that of unreinforced test sections

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In 1945, Navy seaman William Austin recorded a goodbye for his family before leaving for Japan; decades later, a collector found the records and played his voice for them again

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In 1965, John Lennon gifted his guitar to Gordon Waller; after it disappeared into a road manager's attic for decades, it sold for $2.857 million in 2024

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A fake GoFundMe appeared less than 24 hours after a pregnant mother of four died in an Amtrak crash; her family said scammers used her photographs to collect donations

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Mamdani, Trump agree to 90-day delay in SNAP food stocking rules for US retailers

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US flight chaos: Trump official seeks $50 billion for air traffic control overhaul after nationwide disruptions

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Russian couple behind Empire State Building climb could face deportation after plea deal falls through

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'1980s copper lines, old routers': How US's ageing tech caused longest ground stop since 9/11

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In 2006, a Baltimore developer promised to transform Poppleton into a new urban district; 20 years later, residents face a failed redevelopment and a Supreme Court refusal to hear their case

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A Queens shopper bought a thrift-store drawing for under $80; an expert authenticated it as an Egon Schiele and estimated it could fetch $100,000–$200,000

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In 1944, 19-year-old Marine Henry Keen recorded a July 4 message for his family at a Hollywood USO; killed at Iwo Jima eight months later, it remains his only known recording

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After losing his eldest son in a 2008 accident, Australian mechanic Gavin Hynam began restoring old cars for young people in need; he had donated at least 19 cars by 2025 and has now received a state honour

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In an Iowa gravel-road trial, engineers buried a layer made with recycled plastic; it raised bearing capacity by up to 30%, boosted stiffness 25% and cut moisture in the road base by 10-20%

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At 80, Helen Thayer undertook another demanding trek: after becoming the first woman to trek solo to the Magnetic North Pole at 50, she walked the full length of Death Valley alone in 2017

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In 1943, US Sgt. Cody Wolf recorded a Christmas message in England that mentioned his baby daughter; he was killed weeks later, and she heard his voice for the first time 70 years later

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Watch: Passengers jump into water as luxury ship collides with tanker on Mississippi River

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In 1945, Sgt. Seymour Silverman mailed a coconut from Guam to his one-year-old daughter in Virginia; he drew on it, coated it in shellac and wrote her address on the shell

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In 1944, a US paratrooper left his fiancée's letters in Belgium; 66 years later, the box returned to the couple, who had married in 1946

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Meet Mary Engle Pennington, denied a university degree because she was a woman, who went on to transform America's food safety standards and revolutionise the refrigeration of milk, eggs and meat.

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JD Vance weighs skipping 2028 presidential race after Republican midterm losses: Report

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A Michigan dad who delivers frozen pizzas was mocked by a prankster, strangers donated $784,000 to help his family, and then he asked them to stop and give to other families and charities instead

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The Trump administration has proposed selling parts of America's federal land holdings to states, tribes and local governments under a new five-year plan, but has not identified which parcels could be sold

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A California beach town facing disappearing sand and repeated disruption to a coastal railway voted down a proposed tax that could have raised $15 million a year, leaving officials to find another way to fund repairs

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Meet Anthony Woo, the teenage co-founder of Torus, a free curbside composting service in New Jersey that has diverted more than 300,000 pounds of food waste from landfills

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