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From Athens to Washington: What is the 'Thucydides Trap' Chinese President Xi keeps invoking

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World - / Sep 25, 2026 - Massachusetts restores cranberry bog to protect rare trout that moves between river and ocean - Massachusetts is restoring Century Bog, a former cranberry farm in Plymouth and Wareham, to complete protection of Red Brook from White Island Pond to Buttermilk Bay. The restored wetland and stream channel could benefit about 60 conservation-priority species, including "salter" brook trout that move between freshwater and saltwater estuaries.

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World - / Sep 25, 2026 - CJP Jantar Mantar protest: Woman's 'morphed' photo displayed alongside PM Modi; FIR - Riddhima Sharma, a 25-year-old woman, filed an FIR alleging her image was manipulated and used during a protest. She claimed unauthorized use of her photograph happened at a Jantar Mantar demonstration. The protest was held by the Cockroach Janta Party, where derogatory slogans were reportedly directed at her. Sharma identified several individuals linked to the protest but the FIR lists them as unidentified.

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'ARREST BIBI, SANCTION ISRAEL': Protests Rock New York; Actor Susan Sarandon Detained | WATCH

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Xi Signals New US-China Era? 'Together, Let Us Write A New Chapter' | Watch

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'Trump, Don't Believe Xi'; Pro-Tibet Protests Erupt Near White House; Pelosi Blasts China | Watch

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'Speed Of Trump...': Natalie Harp BREAKS Silence On POTUS Relationship Rumours, BLASTS Critics

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Trump's Dinner For Xi Takes An Unexpected Turn; Cameras Catch Everything | Bald Eagle | Elon Musk

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Houthis Claim Missile Attack On Riyadh, Yanbu As Macron Vows Troops To Shield Saudi Oil Hub

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How to grow peppers indoors: A simple step-by-step guide to growing fresh and flavourful peppers all year round

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What your birth date says about how you handle relationships

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Flashback Fridays: When Kareena Kapoor Khan set the fashion agenda straight in a red-hot Anamika Khanna creation

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Dove Cameron and Damiano David are married: 7 signs that tell you've found 'the one'

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They were texting you every day, then suddenly stopped: 5 possible reasons

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Forget chia pudding: 7 delicious ways to add chia seeds to your everyday meals

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'Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies': Mamdani slams Israel PM over UN address

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'Never been the position to assassinate Trump': Iran President Pezeshkian

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'Want China out of Tibet': Protesters rally in Washington amid Trump-Xi meet

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In 1977, Los Angeles Zoo recorded the first mountain tapir birth in a zoo after successfully breeding three other tapir species

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'Let's race, not wrestle': 5 takeaways as Trump-Xi navigate trade, Taiwan and AI

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'Because they're fake news': Trump slams CNN, MSNBC for snubbing Xi's arrival at White House

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Sea bass, roasted eggplant, honey ice cream: What was on Trump-Xi dinner menu

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Long Island Sound water quality improves in 2026 report; Western Narrows earns its first passing grade since 2008

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Trump, Xi exchange warm words before White House state dinner: What they said

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White House state dinner: Trump welcomes Xi as tech bosses, top executives arrive

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At least 30 arrested, including actors, politicians during anti-Netanyahu protest outside UN

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Massachusetts car dealer bought a Nantucket cottage for $899,000, said 'if I get five years out of it, I'm good'; five years later, the 1951 home sits just feet from a 40-foot drop into the Atlantic

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He quit school at 12 to bag peanuts; 22 years later, he runs a Texas farm with organic crops and a 16-acre vineyard

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Who is Turhan Mildon? Turkish businessman set to marry Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba

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An Iowa rescue mission is closing its downtown thrift store and turning the retail floor into a 46-bed emergency shelter; the move will also free space for 25 beds for women and children

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

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Kabul-Islamabad tensions soar: Pakistan strikes 10 sites in Afghanistan after drone attacks

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Pakistan appoints former army general Nauman Mahmood as first head of Mecca alliance

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Pakistan wants to be the Muslim world's security guard. Can its economy pay the bill?

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Pakistan's hidden health crisis: Children contract HIV after routine hospital care

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Highways blocked, paramilitary deployed, hospitals on alert: Islamabad turns into fortress ahead of PTI march

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Gunmen kill 2 cops during polio vaccination drive in Pakistan's Balochistan

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'Mass casualty' alert? Pakistan hospitals clear beds ahead of PTI protest

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Pakistan in crisis: PTI to hold Sept 27 stir 'at all costs'; Imran Khan's sisters challenge detention orders

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'PTI's drama will never achieve anything': Pak minister Naqvi warns Imran Khan's party ahead of Islamabad march

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'Broke into house, forced them into vehicles': Imran Khan's son alleges aunts, cousins 'abducted' in Pakistan

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Pakistan airstrikes on Afghanistan: 3 killed, several injured as conflict fears grow

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Pakistan braces for protests as govt warns of $400 million daily loss

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Jailed former Pak PM Imran Khan undergoes medical check-up amid concerns over health

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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan's sister Aleema arrested in Lahore ahead of Sept 27 PTI march

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Rear right wheel of Sita aircraft detaches during touchdown at Nepal's Juphal Airport- watch

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Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over 2019 Easter Sunday bombings

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Pakistan airstrikes on Afghanistan: 3 killed, several injured as conflict fears grow

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Indian-origin climber Dhrubajyoti Guha, Nepalese guide killed in Manaslu avalanche

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Sheikh Hasina holds talks with party leaders

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'Treated on floor, verandah': Dhaka hospitals struggle to find space for dengue patients

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From July Uprising leader to graft probe: Former Yunus govt advisor Asif Mahmud under scanner

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Human-caused warming helped prime slope for deadly Nepal-Tibet flood, first study finds

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Watch: T-shirt torn, fists fly as passengers clash mid-air on Bangladesh flight

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Human-caused warming helped prime slope for deadly Nepal flood, first study finds

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Tech executive Shannon Burns, who slept in sauna after forgetting room key on Austria trip, can pursue £76 million from Gitpod; tribunal rejects £1 million cap amid OpenAI acquisition

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An English artist paid £2,090 for a painting listed only as 'in the style of' Helen McNicoll; experts later proved it was her long-lost Bean Harvest, valued at £300,000 and sold for £174,000

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London residents are turning their food scraps into sauna fuel; the world's first community-powered sauna is being tested

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In 2013, a Maryland real estate developer and his wife paid $200,000 for a derelict firehouse and spent $800,000, then moved their family into a home that kept its siren

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In England, a retired man spent 30 years building a slate miniature Lake District village, then moved the handmade town to hotel grounds so the public could see it

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​At 90, former paratrooper Ian Winship runs 10K in about an hour with daughter and grandson, setting a world-best time for his age

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A 1934 British sports car spent 40 years hidden in a barn; in 2026 it sold for £62,000 after bids started at £500

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Watch: RAF Hawk T2 crashes and explodes near airbase in Wales

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In 2025, an British charity shop priced a Chinese plate at £2; expert identified it as Imperial porcelain, and it sold for £7,620

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UK judge refuses bail to Indian lawyer Vijay Aggarwal, accused of sexual assault and human trafficking

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Bollywood actor Sumeet Singh Sarao faces garden bulldozing at £900,000 home after six-year council row over 1.4m raised ground; lived there with parents for 14 years, spent £8,000-£9,000 on garden

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'No change in President Trump's position': UK to review Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius

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In 2024, a Welsh ecologist posted a moth on Instagram; museum experts found it was a Guyana species unknown to science, 4,300 miles from home

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In 2025, an Oxfam shop found a rare Chinese Bible in a donation pile; estimated at £800, it sold for £56,280

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Memoir alleges Charles was 'giddily elated' at Diana's death

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England released its first 6 white-tailed eagles in 2019 after a 240-year absence; by 2026, the project had produced 9 wild-born chicks, including 3 this summer

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'Long skirts, good mothers': Italian minister sparks outrage over sexist remarks

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Why is Finland asking Musk to help Ukraine prepare for winter war against Russia?

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'No obligations under Rome Statute for overflights': France defends not arresting Netanyahu

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1 killed, 4 injured in knife attack at Benedictine abbey in Poland

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Trump-Putin December summit? Kremlin says no decision yet

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Words long used in Caribbean, Bermuda are now part of Oxford dictionary

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Zelenskyy, at UN, urges leaders to keep choking Russia's revenues and impede its war efforts

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'People of Russia support our efforts': Putin says record turnout shows Russians back his military agenda in Ukraine

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Putin's party wins again as expected. So why does Russia still hold elections?

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What's Suwalki gap? Europe's 'achilles heel' that it fears could be Putin's target

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Zelenskyy, after meeting Trump, says Ukraine ready for 'energy ceasefire' with Russia

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Swedish woman digging for fishing bait near Stockholm uncovered 24,100 silver coins, making it the country's largest medieval coin hoard

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Danish-led team maps 186,000 miles of Roman roads, tests how straight they really were, and finds Rome wasn't even the best-connected city by road

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Military plane crashes near US air base in Germany's Spangdahlem, 1 injured

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How Russia, Ukraine traded strikes overnight on oil, energy sites as Zelenskyy visited US - videos

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Russia planning 'grey zone operations'? Why is Europe intuitively spooked

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Panda diplomacy: Xi announces 2 giant pandas for Atlanta zoo in US

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'US and China should coexist in peace': Xi meets Trump at White House on second state visit

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How China helped arm Iran before Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi

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Trump-Xi meeting: What's on agenda as Chinese president begins 3-day US visit

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Meet Lian Yunzhi, 6-year-old Chinese girl who broke women's Rubik's Cube world record twice in 3 days; solved in 4.27 seconds

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'Eliminated major political danger': PLA mouthpiece hails removal of two top generals from CCP and Chinese military

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Trump-Xi summit: $14 billion Taiwan arms deal hangs over Washington talks

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Xi-Trump summit: China puts Taiwan 'red line' at centre of US ties

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China expanded planted forests by about 35,000 sq km; 20 years of data show carbon uptake began declining within 15 years in 80% of areas

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Xi's 'anti-graft' crackdown continues: Two senior generals expelled from CCP, Chinese military

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'Never been the position to assassinate Trump': Iran President Pezeshkian

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Iran offers US 7-day plan to end war, reopen Strait of Hormuz

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'Lives may be sacrificed': Saudi Grand Mufti urges troops to fight against Houthis

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Iran gives US six days to meet conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz: Report

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'It is unholy, it is illegal': Iran President Pezeshkian denies nuclear bomb ambition

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'Remember the beepers?': Netanyahu flashes pagers at UN, recalls deadly Hezbollah operation - video

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'Any more moral cowards who haven't yet left the hall?' UN delegates walk out as Netanyahu begins speech

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Shehbaz-Pezeshkian meet in New York, Pakistan pushes de-escalation, Islamabad MoU

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Palestinian president delivers UN speech by video after US denies visa again

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Did AI-enabled 'kill chain', outdated intel lead to deadly Iran school strike? What report claims

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Mecca in crosshairs again: Saudi Arabia sounds alarm for holy city for 2nd time in a month

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Straitcraft: How geography gives Iran leverage and could do the same for India

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'Needs a miracle': Son of Israeli ambassador to US injured in West Bank ramming attack

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'Indian Ocean and beyond': Iran warns war can spread further if US launches fresh attacks

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How China helped arm Iran before Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi

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'Trump wants to colonise Brazil': President Lula claims US will gain natural resources if he loses polls

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How piles of elephant dung outside a Thai village became sun-cured bricks for the sculptural Goya Tower

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Uganda planted native trees across thousands of hectares of degraded forest; 20 years later, canopy cover and diversity reached primary forest levels

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Hurricane Polo drenches Mexico coast as Tropical Storm Nolo threatens Hawaii with heavy rain

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Meet Chico, the man who has lived alone in the Amazon for 38 years; planted 1,500 Brazil nut trees, hunts wild pigs and built a life far from the modern world

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Arnold Schwarzenegger helped raise €1.3 million for environmental projects in 2026; Wild Solutions Park is restoring habitats in Austria

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After Buck Island spent 20 years removing rats and mongooses, 57 native ground lizards were brought back in 2008; later studies estimated the population had grown to more than 2,000

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After Rábida Island removed invasive rats in 2011, scientists later confirmed a native gecko alive there that had previously been known only from ancient remains

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Australia offers $1 million reward for missing 4-year-old boy Gus Lamont nearly a year after disappearance

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19-year-old lost his lamp in an Australian cave in 1953, survived three days, became a NASA scientist; 68 years later, students found the lamp still hanging

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More than 800,000 bees stolen from hives across northern Australia; thieves left the honey behind and took bee colonies worth tens of thousands

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Ontario mother of 10 says she received only C$6,300 from a C$19,000 GoFundMe set up by her sister; police later charged the family member with fraud over C$5,000

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In 1956, a German doctor paddled and sailed a folding kayak across the Atlantic to test his mind under isolation; he reached St. Martin after 72 days alone at sea

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For 20 years, a Western Australia teacher has paddled a kayak to school; his daily route across Albany Harbour ends at the classroom door

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In 2016, a California contractor and his wife spent three years rebuilding an abandoned Oakland church; then they moved their family into its 3,845-square-foot home

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In 1888, George Vanderbilt began building a vast North Carolina estate; 26 years later, his widow sold 86,700 acres for $433,500, helping create the core of Pisgah National Forest in 1916

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In 2000, California packed 662,700 shredded waste tires beneath an I-880 on-ramp; they cut foundation stress 40%, saved $477,000, and CalRecycle later reported 22 years without repairs or issues

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In 1843, Mexico granted 22,000 acres in California's Cuyama Valley; 183 years later, the largest surviving 5,650-acre piece was permanently protected after a $1 million conservation campaign

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A weathered Wyoming cabin used as a storage shed turned out to be a 140-year-old Chinese laundry; after an eight-year rescue effort, the building has been moved to a museum for restoration

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Fresh clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Report

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An Oklahoma man says he bought five acres from his grandfather in 1994; 32 years later, the county says it owns a 40-foot strip inches from his house and plans to auction it with a $29,000 starting bid

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19-year-old cybersecurity researcher Nisarga Adhikary, who flagged flaws in CBSE portal, named in US DOJ Hall of Fame

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'Extreme tail risk': Mark Carney says Canada considered risk of military attack by US

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A 67-year-old Idaho teacher retired and drove across the US to Delaware after her daughter's daycare bill matched the mortgage; she now provides about 30 hours of childcare every week for her granddaughter

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UAE suspends Iranian airline flights, joins countries enforcing US sanctions

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In 2013, Pink paid nearly $9 million for a 200-acre California ranch with a 10,000-sq-ft home; 13 years later, the estate has become a working organic vineyard producing her Two Wolves wine

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D4vd murder case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez's family breaks silence as legal battle begins

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In 2015, a Phoenix man paid $5.99 for a LeCoultre Deep Sea Alarm at Goodwill; after experts confirmed it was authentic, he sold the rare watch days later for more than $35,000

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Texas homeowner Elizabeth Luna wins $33,243 after nearly 3-year HOA battle over rental ban, tenant interference and blocked property sale; HOA ordered to pay $20,743, president Terri Thomure $12,500

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JD Vance's H-1B warning to corporate America: We are not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor

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After 59 years at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, Ripley's Believe It or Not! is closing its 400-artifact museum and 2,000-sq-ft mirror maze by year-end and plans to sell several unusual city-linked exhibits

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CNN, MS NOW and Politico return to White House after judge blocks Trump ban

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Indian YouTuber faces racist attack in Vegas, offered 7-11 job; he says to harassers 'you look too poor'

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'Let Gaza live': Netanyahu faces protests in New York as demonstrators block roads ahead of UN speech

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Trump's war on press runs into judicial hurdle; court order White House to let journos back in

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Trump admin to ask Supreme Court to revive 3rd-country deportations after court blocks policy

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​In 1997, John Oates built a five-bedroom log home on his 4.3-acre Colorado ranch after starting with largely undeveloped land; 28 years later, the longtime retreat sold for $6.9 million

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