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Kim Jong-Un Makes Surprise Appearance In China After Death Rumours Took Internet By Storm | WATCH

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Kim Jong-Un Makes Surprise Appearance In China After Death Rumours Took Internet By Storm | WATCH

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Kate Middleton opens up about missing Prince George during his first term at boarding school

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Trumpiana: Go away, scary blue wave, go away. Go away!

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World - / Oct 24, 2026 - Indiana couple's fire insurance lawsuit revived after insurer denied claim over suspected arson - In November 2020, a couple in Richmond, Indiana, faced devastating property damage due to a fire that investigators deemed intentionally ignited. Despite an absence of a suspect, the insurance company rejected their claims, citing potential arson and insufficient cooperation. Now, an appeals court has enabled the couple's lawsuit to proceed, revealing unresolved issues concerning compliance with insurance policies and the expectation of good faith actions.

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World - / Oct 24, 2026 - France on edge: Thousands on streets as weekend of protests begin; 70k cops deployed - France is taking significant measures to manage mounting tensions, deploying around 70,000 police officers to supervise protests over education funding and escalating living costs. In response to previous violent outbreaks, authorities have restricted protest routes. Major Parisian museums and shops have temporarily closed to prevent potential chaos as demands for enhanced educational opportunities, better salaries, and improved public services grow.

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Italy Rioters ATTACK Cops On Cam As Fresh Violence Rocks Naples Amid 'MELONI RESIGN' Chants

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Iran Attacks Kurdish Sites In Iraq's Erbil As U.S. Mulls Fresh Strikes On Iranian Targets

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Meloni FLIES OUT As New Clashes, Protests Rock Italian Cities Amid Calls For PM Resignation

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Saudi Intercepts Three Houthi Ballistic Missiles As Emergency Warnings Spread Across Kingdom

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Received an unknown QR code? 5 things you should never do

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5 easy homemade chocolate recipes for kids this Diwali: From crunchy chocolate bites to creamy festive treats, these simple, healthy and nutrient filled treats can add a delicious homemade touch to the celebrations

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Your eyes and ears may reveal early signs of brain decline, diabetes and blood vessel damage long before other symptoms appear; here's why ignoring changes in your vision or hearing could mean missing crucial health warnings

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Bengaluru's Rs 725-crore Mehkri Circle flyover project combines an elevated corridor and tunnel to ease congestion, improve north Bengaluru and airport connectivity, and reduce traffic bottlenecks; here's how the 18-month project aims to transform traffic flow

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Inside Archana Puran Singh's new luxurious bungalow: Lush garden, spacious living room, wooden kitchen and more

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Boston man convicted after repeatedly touching a minor victim through seat gap on JetBlue flight. He was traveling with wife and 4 children

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After 12 years of marriage and a 13-day divorce trial, a Florida judge ordered a husband to pay his former wife $50,000 in legal fees over withheld rental-property records; an appeals court upheld the sanction but questioned the amount

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Louisiana volunteers used 200 tons of discarded oyster shells to build a 400-foot barrier near an Indigenous village; two years later, live oyster density jumped from 52 to 130 per square metre

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US contractor accused of leaking classified defence info to journalist girlfriend who runs Substack newsletter

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Alabama farmer Hody Childress secretly paid strangers' prescription bills for 10 years; after his death, donations poured in to continue his act of kindness

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AI tools may flag H-1B visa filings discrepancies as US immigration checks get more stringent

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A Wisconsin mother and her 9-year-old son spotted a century-old tugboat beneath Lake Superior after visiting the same beach for years; unusually clear water revealed the A.H. Pitz, abandoned near the Amnicon River in 1951

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At a historic Virginia plantation linked to the Lee family, 480 acres along the Potomac River have been permanently protected; the new easement connects with around 7,000 acres of conserved landscapes

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US on alert as Iran's plan to target Americans abroad in 'advanced stages': Report

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In 2006, a New York couple lost their nine-day-old daughter in an emergency room; 20 years later, their foundation says it has trained 6,500 physicians, and a joint charity gala has raised nearly $2 million

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A rare Nanotyrannus skeleton discovered by a Montana rancher in 2019 heads to auction for up to $9 million as scientists debate private fossil sales

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In 2024, a Maine grandfather's home was listed for $225,000 but sold to his stepgrandson for $105,000; after his death, his granddaughter claimed relatives diverted her inheritance, and the state's highest court revived her lawsuit

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In the 1950s, a Kentucky family bought 37 acres and later added a smaller access parcel; decades after the two were sold separately, new owners lost their court fight to use the neighbour's driveway

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Megan Thee Stallion's foundation helped Mila launch a mental health project with a $550 grant; after starting in 2024, her nonprofit reports delivering more than 2,200 care packages to Black girls

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'Pak defeated, cannot fight us': Baloch rebels launch fresh strike; several killed

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Pakistan's elite want out? Khawaja Asif flags bureaucrats' alleged exit plans to foreign shores

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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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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes Myanmar, no injuries reported

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16 killed, 32 injured in magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet; rescue operations under way

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In Pakistan, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu calls for early Saarc summit

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Stranded Iranian tankers, American pressure: Why Sri Lanka faces a difficult choice

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Nepal slope shifted 40cm over 48 days before deadly flood

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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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Daniel Craig and Soho House founder Nick Jones bought an 18th-century London pub; the Horseshoe is reportedly preparing for a year-long refurbishment, with a ghost story attached to its cellar

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In 1984, George Michael released Last Christmas with Wham!; 40 years later, royalties helped his fund make over 20 grants supporting young people facing hardship, homelessness and mental health struggles

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A little-known painting from a family's old English manor collection went to auction with an £8,000 estimate; specialists attributed it to Dutch artist Hendrik Gerritsz Pot and bidders pushed its final price to £70,000

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In 2023, archaeologist Michael Fradley reported spotting three Roman camps while surveying satellite images for Oxford's EAMENA project; they may reveal a military campaign into Arabia missing from surviving histories

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'Distanced from my father to protect our children': Meghan Markle reacts to 'sickening' news of child sexual abuse

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London's Prince Charles Cinema faced 21 months of uncertainty over its lease; after a public campaign, the independent film venue secured a new 25-year agreement without a break clause

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A forgotten 1890 first edition of Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four arrived among ordinary charity-shop donations in England; staff spotted its significance and it sold for £11,520

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'Like being raped all over again': UK detective assaulted by coworker questions probe

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Meghan Markle 'deeply distressed' over claims her father had child abuse images

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UK govt urges households to keep 3 days of food and water for emergencies

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After spending more than 20 years rebuilding a Spitfire fuselage in his UK garage, an aviation enthusiast died in 2025; his final project, made from historic aircraft parts, sold for £18,000 in October

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'Time has come': Commonwealth chief urges King Charles to apologise for Britain's role in slave trade, calls for reparations talks

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A Winston Churchill painting made in 1948 sold at Christie's for £716,800 in London; the auction house says all of the hammer-price proceeds will support the Churchill Fellowship, turning artwork into charity funding

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A necklace nearly taken to a car boot sale with a £15 price tag was later identified as a rare South Pacific treasure; expected to fetch just £60 to £100, it sold for £99,000 at auction

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Meet Judah Peake, the 10-year-old from Macclesfield who completed 1,000 press-ups in a month; raised more than £2,500 for charity

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A British man spent 11 years building a World War II-style bunker under his garden, adding a 35-foot escape tunnel and a hidden beer lift, with the construction budget expected to reach £35,000

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Beyond Starlink: How Ukraine plans to cut its reliance on Musk's satellite network

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Ukraine says Starlink, Starshield connections return to normal speeds after weeklong disruption

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'Pengo was one of us': Martial arts fighter, 26, identified by club as victim of suspected racist attack near Paris

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Ukraine drone attacks cut power and water in Crimea, hit Russian petrochemical plant

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Seven Italian students built a paper aircraft with a 20-metre wingspan and successfully flew it inside a hangar

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Watch: Paris shops increase security, board up windows, as France braces for weekend protests

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Fire engulfs Hitler's teahouse 'Eagle's Nest' in Germany; man arrested on arson suspicion

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'A racist terror attack': French President Macron condemns deadly shooting near Paris

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Ukrainian soldier cuts off his own foot to survive, rescued by drone after 8 months

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'Impossible without my intervention': Melania Trump secures Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in Oleshky

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France students' unrest: 70,000 police deployed, Paris museums closed ahead of fresh weekend protests

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Romania blames Russia as drone strike sinks cargo ship in Black Sea; 1 dead, 3 missing

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'Terrorist crime': Paris suburb shooting kills one, injures four

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France storm: Power outages and train disruptions hit Northwest region

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Two business partners in Scotland accidentally started a pickle business with surplus produce; it now supplies 400 shops and expects £500,000 in sales in 2026

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Chinese woman breaks 5 ribs from hug, husband says he used normal force, wife does not get sunlight, does extreme dieting

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7.0-magnitude earthquake hits China's Tibet, atleast 16 killed, 46 injured- watch

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Typhoon Champi: Taiwan issues land warning, cancels 125 flights as powerful storm approaches

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China began restoring vegetation across the Loess Plateau in 1999; scientists later found groundwater drought intensified as vegetation expanded between 2003 and 2015

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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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Five Italian women activists released, repatriated after detention by Israel in West Bank

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UAE's Ras Al-Khaimah shuts all beaches; oil spill triggers closures across coastline

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Four feet a year: How the Dead Sea is running out of water

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After oil, internet? Iran plans to target Gulf's undersea cables

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'Trump will take his dream to his grave': Iran determined to not allow US warships in Hormuz

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How Jeffrey Epstein became Houthis' new weapon against Saudi Arabia

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Watch: Iran mocks Trump on busy Tehran street, shows US president taking nap behind bars

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Video: Gunmen storm Jordan church during funeral, killing 7 and wounding 40 mourners

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Israel launches 'limited counterterrorism' operation after 2 IDF troops killed in West Bank

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Netanyahu orders sweeping West Bank offensive after deadly Hebron attack days before Israel election

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Gunmen open fire inside church in Jordan, 6 killed

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Saudi Arabia eyes bigger missiles as Houthi threat meets Iran nuclear fears

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Iran under mounting oil pressure: Will Tehran hit back over US blockade?

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Israel orders Hebron lockdown, prepares to shut entire West Bank after shooting from Friday

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IndiGo extends flight curbs on 3 Saudi routes amid security concerns

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Indian dies in Saudi airport strike; MEA slams infrastructure attacks

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Days after deadly quake, fresh 5.4 tremor jolts Tibet

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An Australian TV reporter was filming floods when he spotted a sinking four-wheel drive, swam out with a bystander and forced open a rear door to rescue the driver moments before the vehicle disappeared underwater

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A creator in the UAE fitted 150 words onto one sticky note, and her unusual writing feat went viral

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New Zealand study suggests pine planting reduced annual streamflow by nearly 30% in one Waikato catchment and 4.7% in another

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A 2019 flood raised an Antarctic lake by 2 metres after water escaped from a neighbouring glacier-fed lake; scientists traced its effects on carbon cycling and microbial life

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North Korea's Kim Jong-un makes surprise visit to China via newly opened bridge: Report

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An Australian builder spent years turning a home for his son into a medieval castle with a moat, a dungeon-style games room and water-spouting gargoyles

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Did Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' depict real sky from July 1889? These scientists believe so

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In 2014, researchers spread cocoa pod husks around near-dead cacao trees in Nigeria; two years later, pod production reportedly rose 64% and 68% at two sites

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In the late 2000s, while inspecting reefs on Google Earth, specialist Chris Simpson spotted rare reefs off Australia's remote Kimberley coast, revealing marine habitats that had been poorly mapped

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American artist Mark Cline recreated Stonehenge using foam in 2004; after more than a decade at Natural Bridge, Virginia, the life-sized replica found a new home at a farm

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With no approved vaccine for Ebola strain, WHO begins first clinical trial in DR Congo

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An Australian boy, 11, rescued a child swept out to sea at Stanwell Park Beach; his father saved another as both received lifesaving awards

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Watch: Giant waves crash into Taiwan as Typhoon Champi leaves over 500 injured; 1 dead

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In 1996, a New York couple bought their home believing a tree line marked the boundary; 30 years later, an appeals court revived a privacy claim over cameras filming their backyard and daughter

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An Ontario farmer says he turned down a C$16 million offer for his 164-acre fruit farm; instead, his family placed 29 acres under a 999-year easement, with plans to protect the rest from development

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Mike Tyson earned an estimated $400 million in boxing, filed for bankruptcy in 2003; at 60, his perfume collection is worth $50,000

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In 1994, Carol Buckley bought 112 Tennessee acres for Tarra, the elephant she'd worked with for years; the land grew into a 3,060-acre refuge for retired elephants

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Nebraska workers cut 150 trees from crowded lake banks and sank them at 16 underwater locations; the September 2026 project is building shelter for young fish in two lakes without using concrete reefs

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In 2018, Portia de Rossi surprised Ellen DeGeneres with a gorilla conservation project; by September 2023, its Rwanda campus had welcomed over 40,000 visitors, including more than 7,500 local schoolchildren

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Selena Gomez's October charity benefit raises $2.7 million for youth mental health, with Benny Blanco bidding $25,000 to win a session with his wife's glam team

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Watch: Two Philippine air force trainer aircraft collide mid-air; 4 pilots killed

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A British woman sought £135,000 for caring for her mother for 900 days; the High Court awarded her £127,500 plus interest after finding an informal care agreement existed

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An Illinois couple replaced their ordinary grass lawn with a native garden; five years later, more than 130 native plant species and a parade of animals have transformed their backyard

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In 2014, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes acquired a California retreat built using timber from three 200-year-old barns; the unusual property had first been created by Batman director Joel Schumacher

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Rhode Island collected more than 600 unwanted Christmas trees in 2026, but instead of sending them to landfills, volunteers are placing them along damaged streams to rebuild riverbanks and shelter young trout

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In a 2010 Italian field study, researchers mixed solar-dried orange peel into steep soil plots; after 20 rain events, soil erosion was about 50% lower under the tested conditions

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Jensen Ackles and his family bought a 15-acre Texas ranch and turned it into a destination brewery; six years after opening, the public taproom closed but its beers continued reaching stores across Texas

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'Largest ever': Elon Musk donates $443 million to Trump's campaign ahead of US midterms

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Colorado built a giant green bridge over a busy highway for animals; wildlife-vehicle collisions fell by 91% as they found a safer way across

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In 2017, after Cyclone Debbie damaged reefs, marine biologist Johnny Gaskell searched Google Maps for blue holes; divers found one 150 metres wide that may have sheltered coral from the storm

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In 2010, while tracing Trosley's history with Google Earth, Kent volunteers followed crop marks to a Roman villa; excavation revealed a bathhouse, painted walls and underfloor heating

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