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South Africa's Stiebeuel River was heavily polluted by sewage; researchers now use stones, sand and biochar to treat 50,000 litres of its water every day

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World - / Aug 22, 2026 - Laptop fire sparks mid-air scare on American Airlines flight; passengers injured - An American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare after a passenger's laptop caught fire during landing, with the pilot reporting that several passengers may have been burned. According to CBS

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World - / Aug 22, 2026 - 18-year-old builds AI model to predict tumors' response to chemotherapy - Mythreya Dharani's achievements in the high school science research arena are few and far between. The Society for Science, which organizes the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search, announced that 18-year-old Mythreya from New Jersey developed

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From a net worth of over Rs 2,000 crores to a lavish house in Delhi: Shalini Passi's luxurious lifestyle

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Texas constable unplugged 3 police surveillance cameras after county ended Flock contract; then told company to 'come get your garbage'

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TikTok to pay $400 million in US child privacy settlement over alleged violations

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In 2003, Wisconsin poisoned every fish in a degraded lake, then sealed its bottom with alum: Phosphorus fell 85% and algae dropped 90%

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'Patently unlawful': US judge strikes down Trump admin's immigrant visa freeze for 75 countries

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In 1922, a Massachusetts engineer began gluing old newspapers into the walls of his summer home: More than a century later, the paper house is still standing

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In 2000, Cornell began pulling 39°F water from 250 feet below Cayuga Lake to cool its campus; the system now cuts cooling energy use by about 85%

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In 1921, New York moved a New Jersey lighthouse to the Hudson; 30 years later a children's book helped save it from demolition

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'Not ready to make right deal': Trump declares Hormuz 'American territory', warns Iran over nuke weapons again

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'Repeatedly tortured': Imran Khan's sister alleges abuse in jail as ex-Pakistan PM returns to prison

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Imran Khan's kin say Pak govt violated court order for not taking ex-PM to private hospital

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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan returns to Adiala Jail after medical examination at Islamabad hospital

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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan moved to private hospital from prison after SC order

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Red-faced Pakistan summons top diplomat over US envoy Gor's J&K remark in Srinagar

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Pakistan govt to challenge SC order to move jailed ex-PM Imran Khan to hospital

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Imran Khan's sister meets him after 9 months as Pakistan SC orders hospital transfer for jailed ex-PM

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'Move Imran Khan to hospital': Pakistan Supreme Court directs govt amid ex-PM's health concerns

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'Needs to be moved to hospital now': Imran Khan's health in jail deteriorates

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'30 civilans killed': Baloch activist shares video of 'Pakistani war crime', seeks US intervention

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Pakistani minister in Balochistan province escapes armed attack on convoy

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'Water is our red line': Shehbaz Sharif threatens India with 'direct response' over Indus Treaty

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'False': In rare move, Pak army reacts after rumours swirl of Imran Khan's death

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Why US is questioning Pakistan's Rs 3 trillion defence spending

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PML-N set to form 'government' in PoK after two former 'premiers' lose strongholds in third phase

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Angry at fireworks in mountains, China shuts down its 8000-ders to foreign climbers

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Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir sworn in as Bangladesh's 23rd President

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BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir wins Bangladesh presidential election with 255 votes

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Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh in December. What awaits her back home

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Nepal Speaker orders PM Balen to face House on Aug 26; attended just 5 of 39 sittings

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Nepal: Break Agniveer hiring deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen government

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Break Agnipath deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen govt as Indian Army chief visits Pokhara

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Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns 'heinous' act

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Dhaka terms UN's report on al-Qaida presence in B'desh 'assumption-driven'

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Bangladesh sets tough riders for PM Tarique Rahman's visit to India

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A railway enthusiast spent 25 years restoring the Victorian station used by British royals near Sandringham; now the former royal stop and signal box are on sale for £1.25 million

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'Biggest El Niño' in over a century could make 2027 hottest year on record

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Multiple deaths after UK police vehicle, car crash near Middlesbrough

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Britain once had 200,000 invasive coypus rodents, but a six-year trapping campaign reduced the population to almost nothing by 1987

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Quote of the day by Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society. There are..."

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Liverpool weather today: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, August 22, with mild temperatures up to 18°C

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 22

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22, 2026

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 22

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School dropout ditched university for carpentry apprenticeship, now earns £50,000 at 21, targets £100,000 in five years and says AI won't replace his job

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A couple bought a £490,000 renovated 19th-century church near Bristol despite a 'haunted' crypt, hearing whistling and footsteps and finding tombstones, but still call it a dream home

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Woman born without uterus breaks down as she raises £20,000 for transplant after spending nearly £50,000 on IVF, surrogate and miscarriage: 'We don't want to stop fighting yet'

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Edinburgh family finds over 100 pieces of antique silver in attic; collection expected to fetch £23,000 sells for nearly £60,000

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A mother spent £170,000 building a two-storey annexe to give her disabled daughter a safe home in Worcester; it now faces demolition after neighbours complain

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RANDOM MUSING: Not just Indian techies, why the 'American Dream' died for Harry and Meghan Markle

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2 killed after small plane crashes in Croatia

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'Double-tap' attack: 14 killed as Russian drones ravage Zelenskyy's hometown

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France issues warning over 300,000 unsafe condoms, at risk of bursting or leaking

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Several injured in Sweden school sword attack, suspect held

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China among 'main actors' involved in transnational repression: Germany

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'Sava's Titanic,' the century-old sunken shipwreck emerges as Europe's rivers fall to record lows

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Car salesman becomes Belgian prince after DNA test confirms royal paternity

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In 2017, Germany's Freiburg opened a city hall with solar-powered walls designed to produce more energy than the building needs

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Russia unleashes ballistic, cruise, hypersonic missiles and drones on Ukraine; Kyiv main target

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Overnight Russian missile strikes leave 6 dead, 33 wounded across Kyiv

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Trouble brewing for Zelenskyy? Ex-defence minister calls for wartime polls

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European wild boars escaped a North Carolina hunting ranch in 1912; a century later the Smokies still removes hundreds each year to limit their damage

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Queen Camilla says she nearly revealed King Charles III's cancer diagnosis days before palace announcement

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A 2,500-year-old sacred well in Italy hid bronze offerings and two human skeletons from an ancient Etruscan ritual

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An unstable rock formation threatens the existence of an entire Swiss village of 1,300 residents as thawing glaciers destabilise the Alps

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British couple on honeymoon die in helicopter crash on Greek island; pilot also killed

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Before Xi-Trump talks, US Navy flies through Taiwan Strait, puts China on notice

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Residents in China found three king cobra nests; scientists saw two cobras guarding one with 72 eggs

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China's 16.18-km undersea high-speed rail tunnel completes 21-day cutter replacement under extreme pressure

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In China's Nizhuhe village, a 945-foot cliffside elevator has cut a dangerous 3-hour school journey to about 30 minutes

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China puts AI 'robocops' on traffic duty; one 'Superman' robot claims to be faster than Usain Bolt

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China sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison for financial crimes

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10 dead as torrential rain lashes southwest China; over 21,000 evacuated

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Cash, gold bars by drone: China's PLA stages 'wartime' Taiwan drill

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Archaeologists find earliest physical evidence of brass-making in East Asia in southern China

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Meet Ni Jingchen: The 12-year-old Beijing student who posted a strange fossil online and helped reveal Asia's first Jurassic amphibian footprint

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'From defence to offence': Iran warns of pre-emptive strikes as Trump ramps up threats

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'Antisemitic dictator': Netanyahu slams Turkey's Erdogan, vows not to tolerate aggression in Syria

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'We are in a position of power': Iran's Pezeshkian seeks end to US war, claims victory

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'Should end war now': Iran prez claims world 'acknowledges' Tehran's victory over US

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The invisible war: Iran's evolving cyberattacks bring battlefront to small-town America

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UAE is turning desert sand into eco-friendly bricks, and the method cuts cement needed for construction to nearly half

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55,000 years ago, Neanderthals may have trekked deep into Saudi Arabia when Nefud Desert was covered by lakes and grasslands

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Iran rejects Trump's Hormuz 'total control' claim, says strait will reopen only on Tehran's terms

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Separated by Hamas in Oct 7 attack, Israeli couple reunites to marry 10 months after engagement

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US's secret Hormuz corridor: How America kept ships and oil moving despite Iran's closure

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India ramps up aid to Palestine, signs MoU for 200-bed super-speciality hospital

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Indian caregiver fatally stabbed in Israel, elderly couple's grandson indicted

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'Message to Europe - it can receive missiles': Iran warns of wider war if Trump attacks, says report

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Trump-Bibi tensions deepen? US officials frustrated by Israel's Syria strikes: Report

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'We'll bomb the s*** out of them': Why Trump is again threatening Oman amid Iran talks

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'Don't let them win': Netanyahu's party puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Iran, Hezbollah leaders on billboard

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Canada lowered a retired Boeing 737 onto the seabed off Vancouver Island; the 100-foot jet now sits nearly 90 feet underwater as an artificial reef for marine life

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Helsinki turned abandoned 1970s oil caverns into a giant underground heat battery holding 260,000 cubic metres of hot water; it can heat 25,000 homes for a year

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In 2012, a man in Panama began collecting plastic discarded along streets and beaches: Years later, those bottles had become a village

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In 1944, TVA impounded Kentucky Lake to control floods and make power; decades later Land Between the Lakes drew roughly 2 million visitors a year

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In 1859, Thomas Austin received 24 rabbits in Australia for hunting; their descendants exploded into roughly 200 million and still ravage crops and ecosystems

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Quote of the day by Socrates: "The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness"

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In 1868, a 125-foot ship sank in Lake Erie with only one survivor; after searching 250 miles for a decade, divers finally found the wreck

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Myanmar military strike on Buddhist monastery kills 14, including three women

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Canada gurdwara stabbing: Two injured in Edmonton, PM Carney calls attack 'appalling'

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In 2019, Australia restored oyster habitat that had nearly disappeared; years later, 34 million oysters filtered 9 million litres of seawater hourly

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In 1979, about 30 mongooses were released on Japan's Amami Oshima to control habu snakes; their population later grew to roughly 10,000 and threatened rare wildlife, but after decades of trapping Japan declared them eradicated in 2024

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Woman seen dumping garbage in a lake in Canada's Abbotsford fined for $1000, police sergeant says 'don't make it a race thing'

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Swiss tourist gets 1-year jail in Bali for mocking Hindu festival, calling tradition 'crazy'

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Quote of the day by Theodore Roosevelt: "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by..."

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Singapore rebuilt a vanished 1920s lake inside a new housing estate; engineers turned it into a flood-control system and wildlife habitat

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In 1931, a bankrupt farmer abandoned 4,000 sheep on a sub-Antarctic island: Decades of isolation produced a flock with rare inherited traits

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In 1922, an American engineer built a house from more than 100,000 newspapers; 100 years later the paper walls still survive

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The US offered a California family $4 million for its 6,300-acre island ranch; after they refused, the government seized it and a jury awarded them $12.7 million

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Priscilla Chan's parents fled Vietnam by boat; their daughter became the first in her family to attend college and later pledged millions to scientific research

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Meet Caden Pohlkamp, the Texas seventh-grader who built an underwater robot to test 12 neighbourhood ponds; fountains were linked to healthier water

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In 2016, the Burt's Bees co-founder gave the US 87,500 acres and backed it with $40 million; 10 years later the Maine wilderness is a national monument

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In 2019, Bahrain sank a 70-metre Boeing 747 in 20–22 metres of water; the jumbo jet became the centrepiece of a 100,000-square-metre underwater park

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In 1994, Steve and Terri Irwin bought 3,500 acres to restore dwindling koala habitat, then planted 44,000 eucalyptus trees and added 1,630 more acres

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MacKenzie Scott got $1,000 from her roommate to stay in college. Years later, she donated $26 billion to charity

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In 2020, a Brazilian mother and daughter began collecting discarded bottles; years later, more than 8,000 glass bottles had become the walls of their seven-bedroom home that glows during sunrise

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In 2003, Chicago's mayor sent bulldozers to carve six giant Xs into an airport runway overnight, stranding 16 planes; 12 years later, the former airfield reopened with 40 acres of prairie, wetlands and wildlife habitat

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Indian man and woman plead guilty to 'PayPal refund scam' in US: 'Traveled recently, family in India was in danger, was asked to pull off fraud'

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In 1986, a ranching family sold California's 53,000-acre Santa Rosa Island to the US for nearly $30 million; they retained about 7 acres and the right to stay for another 25 years

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In 2022, MacKenzie Scott donated two Beverly Hills homes valued at $55 million; their sale supported affordable housing in Los Angeles

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In 1987, Fort Peck tribes returned over 100 bison to 5,800 acres; decades later they stopped hunting their own herd to restore the original cultural purpose

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In 1980, a Canadian fisherman began building with discarded bottles; four years later, he had completed a house, tavern and chapel

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In the 1920s, over 100 World War I wooden steamships were moved to Maryland's Mallows Bay for salvage; a century later, the wrecks shelter fish, beavers and birds

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In 1953, Congress approved the Detroit Dam, and 200 residents left Old Detroit; 62 years later, record-low water exposed the Oregon town's wagon and ruins

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In the 1930s, Parker Dam created Lake Havasu for power and water; by 1994, Robert McCulloch's once-empty valley had filled with city blocks

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The terrible thing about movies

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Cash, gold and elderly victims: How 21-year-old Indian-origin man became 'money mule' in $7.5 million US scam

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A Texas man used a 160-year-old Civil War artillery shell as a paperweight for years; bomb experts later discovered it was still a live explosive

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Did Vitaly get arrested? Streamer detained during heated predator-sting livestream as Nick White denies swatting claim

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"Was the footage edited?": Candace Owens demands answers from Blake Neff over bizarre SD card footage after Charlie Kirk shooting

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Nato's eastern allies plan to cut US base costs to placate Trump

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How a 'firm' shared, retracted fake poll numbers in US

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