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World - / Aug 24, 2026 - American teacher gave $5,000 to a Chinese woman; 27 years later, they reunited in tears - In 1999, American teacher Ronald Sakolsky was teaching English in Luoyang, China, when a television report about Yin Yuzhen, a woman battling desertification in Inner Mongolia's Mu Us Sandy Land, moved him deeply. He decided to help and spent about

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World - / Aug 24, 2026 - 1,600-year-old Roman bridge emerges as Danube water levels plunge - For centuries the waters of the Danube, Europe's second-longest river, have concealed the remains of a remarkable Roman engineering feat. The river is currently at extremely low levels, and parts of a 1,600-year-old bridge are emerging from the

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In 1995, a retired British bus driver began covering his modest home with empty beer containers; around 75,000 cans later, it was known as the Can House

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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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Massachusetts fishermen thought they had spotted a shark before landing a 1,260-pound blue marlin after a three-hour battle, coming just 142 pounds short of the world record

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She lost a grandson and dozens of guinea pigs in a house fire; today, she runs a Massachusetts sanctuary caring for nearly 400 abandoned guinea pigs

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In 1959, a 7.3 quake hurled a landslide across Montana's Madison River: 67 years later Earthquake Lake still floods the valley west of Yellowstone

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Pakistan power crisis: Karachi residents riot amid outages lasting hours, block major roads

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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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Gas runs dry: Bangladesh factories shut, homes go dark

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

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UK woman whose life was 'saved' by a cancer trial cycles 186 miles to thank the hospital that gave her hope

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A 20-year-old archaeology student found gold just 90 minutes into her first dig, the 1,200-year-old discovery is raising new questions about medieval Britain

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and light showers expected August 24

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, showers expected later in the week

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 24, 2026

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, chance of showers later in the week

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny skies and 24°C on August 24

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A British artist collected more than 100,000 plastic bottles and built an artificial island with a house, ponds and a waterfall

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UK PM Burnham to visit Kyiv as Ukraine turns 35, Britain to boost long-range strike capability

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A businessman bought a 23,000-acre Scottish sporting estate and spent two decades rewilding it; one million native trees later, red squirrels have been reintroduced

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A British couple bought a derelict 85-foot, seven-storey Victorian water tower at auction; after years of painstaking work, the former asylum water supply became their family home

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Wash rice twice, not 7 times: Drought-hit England targets faith, cultural habits

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Iran hackers shut UK power facility for 4 days

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Meghan Markle's estranged father Thomas Markle 'hurt and upset' as she and Harry return to UK without meeting Archie and Lilibet: 'She doesn't give a damn about me'

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Meet the world's highest-ranking penguin Sir Nils Olav III, set to become a father after partner lays egg; Edinburgh Zoo welcomes first king penguin egg in 17 years

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Hungarian Gripen fighter jet crashes: Pilot ejects safely, probe launched

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Ukraine drone attack kills 2 children in Russia's Krasnodar, sets logistics hub ablaze

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'Misguided actions', Trump episode: Zelenskyy breaks silence on rift with sacked defence minister

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Despite contactless payments, euro banknotes in circulation have risen from about €1 trillion in 2016 to €1.6 trillion as Europeans keep emergency cash ready for crises and cyber outages

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'Could destroy Ukraine': Zelenskyy's big warning as calls grow for fresh elections amid ongoing war

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A tiny owl flew 70 miles out to sea and collapsed on a yacht, exhausted and too weak to fly, she found an unlikely group of rescuers who refused to leave her behind

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'Wrong-side' driving trend: 12 deaths in Britain, Ireland linked to social media buzz

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Sweden probes cyber networks after girl dies in school sword attack

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Slow boat to Amsterdam ships cargo using sail power

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'Opened Pandora's box': Putin's big warning after Ukraine hits Russian economic infrastructure

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10 dead as Russia, Ukraine trade fresh strikes after Moscow's deadly shopping centre attack

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'Did not meet launch conditions': China's unmanned moon mission delayed last minute

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In 1953, a Hong Kong imam brought eight date palms from Mecca; one survived and later officials changed a road route rather than cut it down

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NSA Doval to visit Beijing for 25th round of India-China border talks

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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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Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir spoke to Donald Trump ahead of Tehran visit: Report

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Israel accuses Gaza of launching drones, balloons and kites; responds with two airstrikes killing four-year old

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'Entering endgame': US turns to 'economic D-Day' against Iran; Tehran raises Gulf oil blockade threat

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Iran invited to join Mecca pact by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan: Report

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Cafes, shops shut over 'violation of norms': Iran's hijab crackdown returns as women defy veiling rules

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Iran discovers over 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves as US blockade squeezes energy sector

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Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to visit Iran amid push to revive stalled US talks

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Pezeshkian admits 'many problems', says Iran is in 'full-scale war' as US sanctions loom

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'Will target their interests': Iran warns neighbours against supporting US economic pressure tactics

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'Conveyed our concerns to US': Israel on Trump's proposed Hamas disarmament plan

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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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Ecuador's Indigenous women are planting trees for birds, growing cacao for their families and protecting the forest for their children to save the Amazon

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After Australia, New Zealand proposes social media ban for under 16

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In 2005, French crews eradicated rats from Tromelin Island; by 2013, booby populations had more than doubled, and five seabird species later returned to breed

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In 1993, a Bahamas artist began covering his home with shells, bottles, coins and tiles; decades later it became a giant dolphin-themed museum

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An Australian family noticed snakes disappearing into a backyard mulch pile; snake catchers found 102 venomous snakes underneath

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Taiwan braces for Typhoon Saudel as torrential rains lash southern regions

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New York's $95 million flood plan will turn parks, schoolyards and streets into hidden stormwater storage, an underground defence against extreme rainfall

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A German pigeon began life as a WWI messenger, was captured in France, crossed the Atlantic and became a US military hero

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In 2022, black rats reached a Great Barrier Reef island; four years later Australia declared it rat-free after an intensive eradication mission

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In 1908, HMS Tiger sank off the Isle of Wight after a collision; 118 years later, divers finally found its wreck

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Heavy rain triggers deadly landfill collapse in Guinea, over 20 killed

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Over 50 coordinated arson attacks rock Southern Thailand, 2 injured

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Indonesia arrests 72 over forest fires as choking haze spreads to Malaysia

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Vancouver captures heat that normally disappears down showers, sinks and toilets and sends it back into buildings; sewage now supplies most of one district's renewable heat

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In 2021, scientists reported that Sydney cockatoos had learned to pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the trick had spread across 44 suburbs

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In 1900, JP Morgan bought 117 acres including Maine's Sand Beach as a wedding gift; his granddaughter later donated about 100 acres to Acadia National Park

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In 2021, Alabama students began placing discarded Christmas trees along Gulf Coast dunes to trap sand; each year about 200 students now add roughly 3,000 native plants around them

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In 2020, Phoenix coated 36 miles of roads to fight extreme heat; surfaces became 12°F cooler at noon, but heat exposure for pedestrians rose 5.5°F

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A Detroit couple bought a vacant 1925 bank and neighboring bar for $66,000; 13 years later, one old bank vault is a den and another is a wine cellar

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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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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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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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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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Scottish athlete won her country a medal at the Commonwealth Games, but had to return to her McDonald's job days later

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Harvard urges international students to return to US before September 15 as F-1, J-1 visa rules change

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Florida sank a 324-foot former New York sludge tanker off Pompano Beach; the wreck became an underwater casino reef with card-dealing sharks, poker tables and marine life

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Four medaka fish flew aboard Columbia in 1994 to test whether vertebrates could reproduce without gravity; they laid 43 eggs and eight baby fish hatched in space

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Washington releases 20 lab-raised sunflower sea stars into the Salish Sea to restore the endangered species and damaged kelp forests

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