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A Queensland farmer says his family's 140-year-old well turned cloudy after neighbouring water tests; the council has rejected a bottling plant linked to a 96-million-litre annual groundwater licence

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Virginia couple spent $900 transforming their overgrown one-acre backyard into a miniature state park: Their budget-friendly garden makeover is attracting butterflies, hummingbirds and other wildlife, proving that a beautiful backyard need not cost a fortune

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World - / Oct 21, 2026 - Dev Rai founded a nonprofit at 15; it has helped 400 artisans, sold 900 products and mobilised 300 volunteers - At just 15 years old, Dev Rai launched Serving Society Global Foundation, aiming to uplift India's traditional artisans. This growing nonprofit has generated over $15,000 and engaged more than 300 volunteers. By creating essential connections between artisans and American consumers through community initiatives, Rai envisions a future where these artisans can thrive through digital platforms, enhancing cultural heritage while empowering youth in entrepreneurship and leadership roles.

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World - / Oct 20, 2026 - NC State researchers create laser antenna that boosts reception 2.5 times - Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a laser-powered plasma antenna that transmits radio signals without a conventional metal radiating element. Resembling a lightsaber, the device uses a laser to ionise air and create a

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'Disgrace to country': Trump says Ilhan Omar could get deported or go to jail

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Jonathan Spano's eyesight ended his Navy pilot dream; he built a traffic control business with his brother before flying camera jets for 'Top Gun: Maverick'

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A San Francisco power station closed in 2011 is being transformed into a waterfront district with 2,300 homes, parks and new public spaces

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UC Santa Barbara professor Edwina Barvosa sues University of California Regents over alleged gender discrimination, blocked promotions and $2.95 million pay gap with male colleague

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Meet Raji Doshi, the 13-year-old from Farmington, Connecticut, who was named America's Top Young Scientist and won $25,000 for a system that pairs seaweed with natural aragonite to reduce ocean acidification

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Jessica Alba turned a pregnancy concern into The Honest Company; its valuation reached nearly $2.1 billion after its first trading day

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In 1858, a Texas family began holding ranchland that developers later wanted for 3,500 houses; in 2016, the family backed a plan to preserve 204 acres for a San Antonio park worth nearly $10 million

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Australian billionaire James Packer listed his Los Angeles mansion for about $85 million in 2023; after roughly a year on the market, it sold in 2025 for $60 million

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's initiative marks 10 years with grants of up to $200,000 for 34 California nonprofits; check the full list of 2026 San Mateo County grant recipients

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Steve Buscemi returned to firefighting after 9/11 and backed a charity for his former colleagues; by 2024, it was delivering over 4,200 counselling sessions a year to firefighters and families

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US allows mining firm Sherritt to deliver fuel to Cuba

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Pakistan army officer killed in IED blast during Balochistan operation

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US-designated LeT terrorist dies after mysteriously falling from building in Lahore

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Pakistani forces kill 8 militants in Balochistan, raid hideouts as abductions rise

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Pakistan's decades of backing terror comes full circle as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa falls under emergency rule

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Pakistan plans Moon landing by 2035, expands space cooperation with China

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Balochistan unrest: Teacher's killing sparks outrage, kin say Pak officials shielding 'death squads'

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Strong 6.0-magnitude quake strikes Balochistan in Pakistan

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Imran Khan facing Nawaz, Benazir-style exile deal? Pakistan opposition leader's big claim

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Pakistan to chair IMF, World Bank boards in 2027; first time in over 70 years

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Pakistan ranks lowest in South Asia on hunger index amid rising food prices

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33 children, teacher killed as school roof collapses in Pakistan's Peshawar

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Pakistan regulator warns TV channels against live coverage of blasts and terror attacks

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Why Asim Munir's plan to 'split' up Pakistan may spell the end of civilian govt

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Pak police fire tear gas, live rounds at protesters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 50 detained

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6 killed, several injured as passenger train derails in Pakistan's Punjab

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2 Pakistan army pilots killed as training aircraft crashes near Balochistan's Quetta

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Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman warns of unrest bid by '2 united parties'

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Names on Saudi prison list, death sentences missing: Bangladesh furious over executions of two citizens

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Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman visits 3 cities to extend Durga Puja greetings to Hindus

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Bangladesh Hindu group condemns sealing of historic Ram Leela Temple in Pakistan

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'I am not afraid': Sheikh Hasina vows to return to Bangladesh in December

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Graft charges at home, arrest in Qatar: Former Bangladesh Air Force chief held

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'You are ruining entire town': With pistol in hand, Bangladesh minister raids drug den; watch

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Nepal PM, president stress unity and social harmony in Dashain messages

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Afghanistan's lost five years under Taliban: Girls out of school, women out of work, millions hungry

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Sri Lanka hit by nationwide power blackout as grid failure disrupts electricity

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2 British Indians assaulted during Dussehra, Bathukamma celebrations

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A couple bought a Chelsea property for £9.75 million, demolished and rebuilt it, then sold it for £27.15 million; a tax tribunal rejected HMRC's argument that the project was a trading venture

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A former soldier pulled a 1.5-tonne Land Rover for 100 km in 100 hours; he was trying to raise £100,000 for families with a rare brain disease

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A London bachelor died with a £2.7 million estate and no will in 2018; a High Court DNA battle over his father's relationships decided who inherited the fortune

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Two UK siblings inherited a £2 million estate from their mother; years of disputes led to £142,000 in tax interest and their removal as executors

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Meet Gregor Corse, 5-year-old with neurological condition raises $100,000 for charity by walking 30 laps daily for 30 days, wins Pride of Britain award, now wants to plan another fundraiser to help others

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A Gloucestershire gardener won £1.09 million on a Paddy Power game but received just £20,265; the High Court ordered the bookmaker to pay the remaining £1.07 million

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In 1996, an Oxfordshire man packed away his father's old cameras in a loft; nearly 30 years later, he uncovered a rare Victorian model that sold for £18,000, with proceeds pledged to wildlife conservation

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'Enough drama in the ‌world': Prince Harry says he wants to reconcile with family after years of rift

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Indian-origin couple sentenced in UK for Covid PPE fraud; millions spent on luxuries

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London lawyer built a legal AI startup while training at Allen & Overy; Thomson Reuters bought it before it earned revenue

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In 2018, a UK football club boss built a 24ft garden room with a bar, TV and electric doorbell; his upstairs neighbour now wants it demolished in a court fight lawyers say could cost more than £100,000

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In 1980, a signed Hockney print went inside Paper Pools; 46 years later, Norwich volunteer Jemma Banks found it, and the Salvation Army raised £41,160

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After 11 road accidents in four years, villagers in England spent four months knitting life-sized police officers and fake speed cameras; their handmade decoys are now making some drivers hit the brakes

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Meet Tim Armoo, the British entrepreneur who sold his first business at 17 for £110,000, lost the money within 15 months, then built another company that sold for eight figures

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Avengers Assemble: From Captain America to Spider-Man, superheroes run wild as France protests turn violent

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Musk ordered slowdown of Ukraine's Starlink network, leaving Kyiv in the dark: Report

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'Russia is a big machine': Trump says Ukraine 'has to want' to settle war with Putin

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Russia says 5 cargo vessels, 2 logistics hubs struck as Ukraine struggles under thinner air defence

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Italian banker was 'dropped to his death by mistake' when thugs dangled him out of his office window 'only to threaten'

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Russia urges early resumption of nuclear stability talks with US in possible Putin-Trump-Xi summit

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France in flames: How student protests spiralled into nationwide unrest

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Watch: Burning e-bikes turned into bonfires as France reels from violent protests

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Missile defence, Starlink support: Zelenskyy holds 'substantive' talks with Rubio amid Trump's Russia shift

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A forgotten red chalk drawing of a crouching child surfaced in an Italian collection; experts believe it could be an undiscovered work by Édouard Manet

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Albanian PM warns of 'red line' after police station set ablaze

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Partial curfews in France as govt battles unrest; PM Lecornu doesn't rule out 'imposing emergency'

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In 2010, a British anthropologist launched a small Copenhagen beekeeping project to help people facing exclusion from work; today it spans 80 to 100 urban colonies producing up to six tonnes of honey a year

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2 years of protests, one crucial election: Serbia's students challenge Vucic's 14-year rule

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Watch: Calm couple, unfazed jogger defy chaos on streets of France

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'Disregards consensus between Xi and Trump': China hits back after DeepSeek ban from US govt IT systems

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China says US ship jeopardised maritime security near disputed Sabina Shoal

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Trump, Putin, Xi could hold a meeting in China; discuss end to Ukraine conflict: Moscow

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China's economy gains pace on exports as domestic demand falters

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China's ageing crisis: Beijing to become 'super-aged' city by 2035

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Watch: China-North Korea bridge opens after 12-years delay

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China, Pakistan hold high-altitude army drills with Beijing-supplied arms

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How Chinese parts are fuelling Houthi ambitions to strike Israel and Saudi Arabia

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Research ships & seabed surveys: Inside China's grey-zone tactics against Taiwan

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China sanctions Paraguay, Belize ministers over diplomatic ties with Taiwan

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'Nuclear issue is an excuse': Araghchi says US opposes Iran's ideology

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Iran faces rising threat as Baloch rebels step up attacks amid regional war pressure

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Britain sends Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthis, rules out offensive strikes

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The backstory: When West 'tricked' Russia to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya

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What if the next US president turns hostile? Netanyahu's answer lies partly in India

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Hegseth meets Netanyahu during unannounced Israel visit: Report

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Saudi Arabia puts off 'Davos in the Desert' summit to 2027 amid Houthi attacks

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Houthis claim attacks on Saudi airports, oil and military infra; take responsibility for camp attack that killed over 50

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Over 45% of Saudi flights cancelled since October 8, residents scramble for alternatives

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6 ops in 48 hours: Houthis claim to strike Saudi airports, Aramco site & oil field, military facilities

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Over 50 Yemeni fighters killed as Houthis target military camp with ballistic missiles

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Israel arrests 10 suspects over attacks on journalist, European diplomats in West Bank

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UN agency World Food Programme to cut food aid to Gaza as funding crisis threatens millions

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After losing their home in Gaza, a Palestinian potter turned clay into dome-shaped shelter for his parents as shortages of cement and steel stall reconstruction

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'Want to try your luck again?': Iran's Araghchi warning to Trump against renewed war

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US officials visit Palestinian Christian town after settler attacks on foreign diplomats

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Australian businessman left his $29.5 million estate to his daughter, excluding his son and granddaughters; one granddaughter later won a $2.55 million court award

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A newly built Nando's drive-through in Australia sold for $5.845 million; its 15-year lease generates $319,035 a year, with rent rising 3% annually

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'Now is the time to act': UN launches initiative to tackle military AI risks

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An Australian entrepreneur was told nobody would buy reusable cups; he built a bottle business reportedly generating more than $100 million in annual sales

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About 65 million years ago, after dinosaurs died, a giant fungus may have risen as forests filled with dead plants left behind by the mass extinction

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In 2026, a deep-sea robot filmed a black swallower off Trinidad and Tobago with a distended belly after it gulped prey up to 10 times its weight

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A 30-room home where Australian painter Frederick McCubbin lived is at the centre of an ownership fight after a caretaker spent 22 years there

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An Irish lottery winner took home £3.3 million in 2001; years later, a court heard how investments and a failed construction business left him struggling to repay a bank loan

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5 Indian-origin suspects among 10 arrested in Canada carjacking, luxury car theft probe; $1.4M in vehicles seized

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65-year old swimmer killed in shark attack off South African coast; 2 beaches shut

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In 1933, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton ordered a Rolls-Royce for a Georgian prince; he died crashing that car, but it survived, crossed the Atlantic aboard the QE2 and sold for £166,750 in 2026

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Australian lawmaker Helen Haines loses leg after being hit twice by car: Report

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Between 1723 and 1735, Qing artisans made a porcelain bowl painted with bats and peaches; after passing through a Paris dealer and spending 87 years at a Chicago museum, it sold for $2.048 million in New York

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'They chose Canada': Alberta rejects separation bid in win for Carney

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Meet Cliver Huamán: At 15, turned away from South America's biggest club soccer final, he climbed a hill, called the match and drew thousands of live viewers

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A Florida couple missed 66 mortgage payments on their Naples property; the husband later agreed to deposit $5,000 monthly during an appeal, but an October 19 federal ruling rejected his lawsuit against the bank

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Daniel Rotman spotted a gap in the cat-litter market and built PrettyLitter; Mars later bought out his stake at a reported $1.4 billion valuation

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London woman bought a £600,000 semi-detached home in 2021; a year later she challenged her neighbours' kitchen for crossing the boundary by 48cm, but a tribunal has now ruled the tiny strip belongs to them

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A 52-year-old Oregon farmer started building miniature castles from rocks cleared off his land in 1935, turning a winter hobby into a four-acre garden of stone bridges, churches and landmarks

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In 1933, California built Santiago Creek Dam to create Irvine Lake; 93 years later, the 750-acre reservoir is being lowered ahead of a five-year project that will drain it entirely before rebuilding key dam structures

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'Nobody told me..that's very confusing': Indian man Kamlesh Shah charged with election fraud in US says he didn't know he was not supposed to vote

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In 2020, a Georgia woman transferred her interest in a home to her stepson despite concerns about her memory; a jury later rescinded the deed and awarded $57,600 in damages, and an October 19 appeals court upheld the verdict

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Green Card jobs: Food delivery company Instacart agrees to pay $5 million penalty for discriminating against Americans

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In 2005, a Danish man moved into an ordinary suburban house and started building a garden wall the following year; two decades later it has castle towers, a four-metre moat and hundreds of visitors

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In 1968, Cassandra Henderson graduated from a North Carolina school; nearly 60 years later, she moved back into the same building after it was restored from 20 years of vacancy into 53 senior apartments

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Trump admin revoked more than 300,000 visas since 2025, including 4,000 linked to birth tourism: Report

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Kylie Jenner launched a lip kit in 2015 and built a global cosmetics brand; Coty agreed to pay $600 million for a 51% stake in 2019

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In 1867, San Francisco minted a $5 gold coin that passed down through a family; 159 years later, it was found inside a cigar box in a Texas closet and sold for $97,600 after experts identified its rarity

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In 2020, Entourage actor Adrian Grenier left Hollywood life behind and bought a 46-acre Texas ranch; he added solar power, farming and beekeeping while turning the property into a sustainable family retreat

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K3G lessons, cricket, no spice: How is Prince William preparing to come to India

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Kanel Joseph controversy explained after streamer punches Stello at Ice Poseidon's Safe Zone event

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Indian-origin Uber driver father in NYC seeks help on GoFundMe for daughter's funeral after mother kills five-year-old: 'I lost my whole world'

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In 1971, a hijacker vanished with $200,000; in 1980, an 8-year-old found part of the ransom on a Washington riverbank, and a damaged $20 note from the discovery sold for $134,200 at auction in 2026

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'As a second-generation Indian-American': 21-year-old Vasant Bhatt says he voted for Democrat Talarico in Texas election after being disgusted by MAGA racism

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A 33-year-old California swimmer spent 111 days covering 900 miles of coastline in stages, battling seven-foot waves and polluted water; Catherine Breed has now completed her journey from Oregon to Mexico

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In 2021, an 88-acre former limestone quarry in Indiana became a reservoir holding 3.2 billion gallons of water to protect supplies during droughts

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Vivek Ramaswamy called 'pathetic' after mother of his rival makes strange appeal: 'Don't vote for my daughter, she's a liar'

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In 2014, South Carolina put shipping containers, truck chassis, and radio towers on two barges; the reef became a habitat for grouper, blue marlin, and sailfish

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In 1979, a Florida woman spent a week in a 50-foot eagle's nest; her stunt helped fund a raptor centre that had released 620+ rehabilitated bald eagles by 2019

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In 2020, Atlanta began filling Bellwood Quarry with 9.1 billion litres of water, creating an emergency reserve that extended the city's backup supply from 3–5 days to a month or more

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Florida homeowners estimated Hurricane Ian repairs at $157,727 after receiving an initial $11,101 insurance payment; an October 16 appeals court rejected their bid for legal fees following an appraisal dispute

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In 2024, a New Jersey dissertation reported on asphalt that heats itself; conductive road strips maintained a snow-free surface at about 6 watts per square foot

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Cinna calls out women over 'misogynistic' Sapphire Award debate, delays Streamer Awards vote

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In 2008-09, a Wisconsin county tested leftover cheese brine on roads; the unusual mix reduced salt use by 30-40% and remained liquid after two days at −21°F

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TheBurntPeanut's best VTuber nomination sparks backlash as streamer mocks critics with bizarre joke

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In 1970, a Florida water district built a dike and control structure on a former phosphate mining site to create a 700-acre reservoir; the reclaimed park now draws about 500,000 visitors a year

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