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World - / Jul 29, 2026 - Half of England declared in drought as July records near-zero rainfall - Drought has been declared in half of England after months of unusually dry conditions, as officials warn that sustained low rainfall is straining water supplies, rivers and the wider environment. The Environment Agency announced that seven areas are

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World - / Jul 29, 2026 - Inside China's fake Paris: The $1 billion replica with an Eiffel Tower and French streets that fooled the internet - China's Tianducheng is unlike any other residential development in the world. Built for more than US$1 billion on the outskirts of Hangzhou, the neighbourhood recreates the look and feel of Paris with its own Eiffel Tower, French-style boulevards and

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In 1959, Boston closed a harbour island dump where underground fires smouldered for years; Big Dig soil later sealed the waste before Spectacle Island reopened as a park in 2006

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US envoy Gor to visit Bangladesh as Dhaka deepens ties with Beijing

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Bangladesh president quits citing deteriorating health

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UK TikToker promised to show his dog the world, but after it died, he built a homemade spacecraft to send its ashes on one final journey above the Earth

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected July 29

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London weather forecast: Warm, sunny July 29th with 33°C high

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals and increasing clouds on July 29th, mild temperatures expected

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Birmingham weather forecast: sunny intervals today, July 29, 2026, with 25°C high

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Liverpool weather July 29 2026: Sunny skies and mild temperatures expected

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Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond fined £1,771 after being caught speeding twice in three weeks in Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo and Bentley Continental GT

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Kashmiri activists protest outside Pakistan consulate in UK over PoK killings

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In 2015, a British swimmer entered Antarctica's freezing sea wearing only swimming trunks. His campaign helped protect 1.55 million square kilometres

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Andy Burnham unveils technical subjects in UK schools to prepare students for AI-era jobs

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A couple gave up on a failing 3,500-acre Sussex farm. Nearly 25 years later, it became Britain's most famous rewilding success

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 24°C average temperature on July 28

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected July 28

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Manchester weather forecast: Overcast skies, 26°C high, and high humidity on July 28

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and moderate rain chance on July 28, 2026

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Inside Spain's 'cannibal cave': Scientists thought only children were victims. New fossils reveal adults were also eaten by Homo antecessor

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Italy's fertility rate falls to 80-year low: Report

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Sweden's spruce plantations are collapsing under bark beetles and drought; one forest owner tore up the industry playbook and planted broadleaves years before the crisis

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'Most severe since World War II': Macron as France's wildfires rage across thousands of hectares

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When he is not serving as the President, he works as a professional photographer: Why the Czech Republic President is making headlines

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French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires

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For nearly 250 years, a small notebook kept unnoticed in a French library until archivists realised it contained lost music written by Mozart

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This ancient rock shelter in Spain preserves the story of how people moved from hunting to farming around 8,000 years ago

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China built a futuristic city for 300,000 people. It soon became the world's most famous 'ghost city'

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Once known as the 'Sea of Death', China's Taklamakan Desert is turning greener with drone technology

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Houssein Hamze's rescued dog pulled him from bed moments before a bomb struck in 2006; when war returned, he refused to leave Lebanon's abandoned animals

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Iran's shadow oil billions vanish as trusties flee, Interpol red notices issued

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Saudi Arabia planted 159 million trees and restored one million hectares of degraded land in less than five years

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Zelenskyy says Russia supplied satellite intelligence that aided Iran's Gulf attacks

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Quote of the day by Theodore Roosevelt: 'The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing,' and why purpose gives meaning to effort

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In 1980, the Soviet Union dammed a Caspian Lagoon to save water; it nearly vanished within three years, and salt-laden dust storms followed

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Beneath the ocean lie 8,500 forgotten WWII shipwrecks. Many are still filled with oil

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Quote of the day by Robert Frost: 'Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length,' and how joy is remembered through its depth rather than its duration

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China has built a 582-ton giant magnet to help its 'Artificial Sun' confine plasma hotter than 100 million°C

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Quote of the day by Helen Keller: 'Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all,' and why growth begins where certainty ends

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In 2018, an undocumented migrant scaled a Paris apartment building to save a four-year-old boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony, earning the nickname 'Spider-Man of Paris'

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For more than 300 years, the Bermuda petrel was believed extinct. A remarkable discovery in 1951 gave the 'lost bird' a second chance

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After losing his savings in the Great Depression, Japanese immigrant George Masa kept hiking the Smokies with a homemade measuring wheel; his photographs helped build support for a national park

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In 1924, Mardy Murie spent her honeymoon travelling by boat and dogsled to study Alaska's caribou; she later helped protect 8.9 million Arctic acres

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Inside Coober Pedy: The Australian desert town where thousands escaped 50°C heat by building an entire underground world beneath the Earth

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A Japanese man stayed inside Fukushima's nuclear exclusion zone for a decade to save abandoned cats

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Often called Japan's Titanic, the 1954 sinking of Toya Maru claimed more than 1,500 lives and reshaped ferry safety

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The clothing mountain visible from space: How 60,000 tonnes of discarded clothes ended up in Chile's Atacama Desert

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Costa Rica covered a dead pasture with 12,000 tonnes of orange peel. Sixteen years later, scientists found a thriving forest

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A 17-year-old student proposed a hybrid nuclear energy system that could reduce an Antarctic base's carbon emissions by 3,254 tons annually

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For years, Mediterranean farmers defended prickly pear against removal; a study suggests the cactus can help native plants recover on degraded drylands

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In 1999, an Oregon engineer spent $100,000 on a retired Boeing 727 and turned it into a home deep in the forest

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In the 1930s, America planted 220 million trees across Dust Bowl farmland; decades later, thousands of km of shelterbelts still protected farms and wildlife

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