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World - / Oct 12, 2026 - Kansas couple sought $550,000 over wedding venue sprinkler rules; appeals court revives one claim - A Kansas couple who planned to build a wedding venue sought more than $550,000 in damages after a two-year construction delay and changes to local building rules led to a dispute over sprinkler requirements. The Kansas Court of Appeals has now revived their equal protection claim against Leavenworth County while upholding the dismissal of their other claims.

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World - / Oct 12, 2026 - UK universities withdraw admission offers to Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian students as visa refusals rise - Universities in the United Kingdom are withdrawing admission offers to international students, including those from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh, fearing that the UK government's visa crackdown will result in a blanket ban on recruiting

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Woman who bought a £10 ring at a London flea market and wore it for decades saw its 26.27-carat diamond sell for £656,750

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UK PM says Russia interfered in 2016 Brexit vote, warns Europe faces same threat

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In 1946, a collector bought a Ming-era cloisonné pomegranate box for £19; 77 years later, it was found in an attic, auctioneers expected £6,000 to £10,000 before bidding pushed it to £288,000

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A family thought this Rodin sculpture on their piano was a copy for years; experts rediscovered the missing 1892 original and sold it for about $1 million

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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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Cillian Murphy bought a century-old Irish cinema he visited as a child; his plan could turn it into a community film venue

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China sanctions Paraguay, Belize ministers over diplomatic ties with Taiwan

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

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Saudi Arabia to increase crude exports to 10m barrels per day, examine transport alternatives

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Iran calls US response to seven-day Hormuz proposal 'insufficient'

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In 2022, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively gave $500,000 to Water First; four years later, the Canadian charity's latest graduating class included eight newly certified Indigenous water operators

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Gold rush turns deadly: Airstrike kills 13 miners in Sudan-Egypt border zone

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A Real Housewives of Toronto star bought a £5.5 million English castle and spent £15 million restoring it; now her plan for a 200-space car park has been rejected

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Egypt's ancient Fayoum portraits to be exhibited abroad for first time

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An Australian developer says a rail project halted its 218-apartment build after the state moved to acquire underground land; with more than 100 buyers waiting, it is suing for at least A$100 million

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In 1967, an Australian man built a house from thousands of discarded glass bottles; nearly 60 years later, the unusual Lightning Ridge building survives as a mining museum and tourist attraction

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WA Bravery Awards honour Perth father who rescued his three-year-old daughter from a swimming pool and performed CPR to help save her life

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In 2012, Taylor Swift pledged $4 million for a Nashville education centre; 14 years later, the space is showcasing artwork by local schoolchildren and artists with developmental disabilities

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A Texas family spent nearly eight years fighting over the 65,000-acre Brite Ranch, worth at least $60 million; days before trial, the heirs agreed to divide the historic property into four pieces

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Victoria sold 2.6 hectares of a heritage former psychiatric hospital site to Channel Nine for A$1 million, about A$38 per sq metre; MPs and neighbours are now demanding answers over The Block deal

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A Michigan couple bought land at a 2015 tax sale and claimed a 50-foot strip lost through a 1965 deed error; after two surveys put it with their neighbour, an appeals court ruled against them

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