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World - / Aug 26, 2026 - 47-year-old California pastor makes college football roster 30 years after an injury ended his career - A 47-year-old California pastor has returned to college football nearly three decades after an injury ended his playing career, after his son showed him a video of a 60-year-old man playing the sport. Justin Buzzard, a pastor, husband and father of

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Manchester weather forecast: light rain and mild temperatures today, August 26

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals with 70% chance of rain on August 26

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and showers expected August 26, 2026

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A small Scottish town raised £6 million to buy 10,500 acres from a major landowner; its new nature reserve is now restoring 190 hectares of degraded peatland

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London weather forecast August 25 2026: sunny skies, mild temperatures, low rain chance

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 20.5°C average on August 25, 2026

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, showers expected later in the week

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, rain expected later in the week

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Scientists found a 4-million-year-old baby tapir in Spain, the most complete juvenile skeleton of its kind ever found in Europe

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In 2008, Czechia began flooding the lignite mine created after the old city of Most was demolished for coal; by 2014 the pit held 70.5 billion litres of water, forming a 309-hectare lake up to 75 metres deep

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Overnight raid near Haiti capital kills around 50 - here is what happened

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In 1997, a horse jumped a fence and joined one of France's prestigious cycling races; it ran through the peloton and reached the front before leaving 20 kilometres from the finish

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In 2012, a 67-year-old Chinese duck farmer refused to leave his five-storey home; officials built a highway around it before paying him 260,000 yuan to move

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In 1952, a retired Canadian undertaker began saving empty embalming-fluid bottles: Around 500,000 bottles and 250 tons of glass later, he had built a castle-like home

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A Kansas cowboy put 50 wind turbines on his 7,000-acre ranch and turned the wind into his most reliable cash crop, selling electricity to thousands of homes

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In 1903, rabbits were released on Hawaii's Laysan Island as a food source; within a decade they had nearly stripped it bare, and three of its five landbird species eventually went extinct

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In 1959, Vermont bought Snake Mountain land but the seller kept timber rights; 67 years later the state plans to secure 949 acres of those rights and add 256 acres

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Cavers heard wind roaring from beneath a rubble-choked pit in New Mexico; after years of digging they broke through in 1986, and more than 145 miles of Lechuguilla Cave have since been mapped

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New Mexico has protected nearly 11,000 acres along the Mimbres River as a new wildlife area, safeguarding historic water rights, rare river habitat and a 2-mile stretch of the desert stream

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