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World - / Oct 31, 2026 - Prince William and Kate Middleton may have been aware of serious allegations against Thomas Markle - Prince William and Kate Middleton may have been made aware of serious allegations against Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle Sr., after a letter was reportedly sent to their shared Kensington Palace office in 2019. The development comes as police investigate separate claims involving suspected child sexual abuse images found at his former home in the Philippines.

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New York tenants pursuing a mould lawsuit later sought to add a property-damage claim listed at $321,728.79; an appeals court has blocked the amendment over delay, missing records and prejudice to the landlord

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A $20 million gift will transform part of Philadelphia's art museum into a new learning centre; the project marks its first major capital expansion since the Frank Gehry renovation

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In 1933, New York's High Line carried freight trains above Manhattan; after its conversion into a park visited by six million people a year, the final garden with 2,000 perennials is set to open in November

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An Idaho couple who have farmed beside a barbed-wire fence since 1979 fought the state over 5.95 acres, and an October 27 Supreme Court ruling reversed the state's title victory and reopened their ownership claim

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World - / Oct 30, 2026 - Kate Winslet joins Storyline Online, reads Room On The Broom - In a delightful initiative by Storyline Online, Kate Winslet recently narrated 'Room on the Broom,' a whimsical story that encourages literacy among children. Featuring a witch and her feline companion, the tale emphasizes themes of generosity and camaraderie, perfect for the Halloween spirit. Winslet's animated narration captivates young audiences, making reading a joy. With various celebrities contributing, Storyline Online provides a treasure trove of literature for families and schools alike.

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A silver airship-shaped cabin became one of Scotland's most unusual holiday rentals; now AirShip 002 and two neighbouring retreats, a business grossing around £100,000 a year, are listed for over £750,000

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James Talarico's dosa flip during campaign impresses Indian-Americans: 'This is how Democrats will get their first senator in Texas in 38 years'

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Indian national jailed for 8 years in US over laundering case targeting elderly people; ordered to pay $2.4m to victims

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A Pennsylvania family has owned Penn's Cave since 1908 and expanded its land to protect its water; 118 years later, the 1,400-acre attraction with a cavern, wildlife park and airport is seeking a new owner

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A letter Martha Washington wrote in 1760 about her four-year-old daughter's illness sold for $47,500; the Library of Congress has acquired the rare document, its first original letter in Martha's own handwriting

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An 18-year-old Mississippi woman who relied on family for rides to work was blindfolded by a family friend and surprised with a free car after a local repair business stepped in to help

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Elon Musk clarifies how often he meets his 13 children and how many staffs are involved in the entire process

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Dolly Parton's father could not read or write; his struggle inspired her free book programme, which began in one Tennessee county and has now gifted over 330 million books worldwide

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In 2002, two friends began selling $15 tickets to a strip-mall haunted house in Denver; by 2026, their business had expanded to 18 Halloween attractions and around 4,500 seasonal jobs

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India should arm Afghan Taliban against Pakistan: Sushant Sareen

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Pakistan's gas mess: LPG prices soar, imported LNG piles up and the debt bill keeps growing

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Afghan returnees face police raids, arbitrary detention in Pakistan's KP after emergency: Report

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Pakistan reopens Iran border after week-long halt to commercial traffic

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'Islamabad arming Afghans to fight anti-Pakistani insurgents': Ex-US envoy sounds alarm

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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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'Against Islamic teachings': Taliban bans sight-saving eye operations

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Former Bangladesh air force officer linked to Hasina escape video found dead

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Bangladesh regime change: Hasina's ouster was planned days before Aug 5, says Yusuf's aide

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Ex-Bangladesh air force officer linked to Hasina's fleeing clip found dead in Dhaka

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Bangladesh: Hindu salon owner stabbed to death over unpaid haircut bills; one arrested

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JeI functionary met Indian intel official in secret: Bangladesh PM aide

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5 months after fastest Everest climb, US cancer survivor sets mountain run record

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Hindu teacher killed while mediating dispute in Bangladesh

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Afghanistan hit by 5.5 magnitude earthquake

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A UK woman claimed she could not walk, drive or work because of hip pain, but investigators found she was running a body-piercing business and working for other clients

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Indian-origin Shruti Chopra becomes first South Asian woman to ring LSE bell in 40 years

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King Charles's Sandringham estate helped release captive-bred turtle doves as conservationists work to restore a bird with fewer than 1,000 wild breeding pairs in the UK

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In 1884, two Renaissance plaques disappeared from public view after an auction; 142 years later, they were identified in an English family's hallway and sold for more than £100,000 in October 2026

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Villa Guardamangia, Queen Elizabeth II's former Malta home, is being restored seven years after the government bought it, but the royal museum is still closed

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In 2017, a British food rescue organisation started with one person and a van collecting surplus food; nine years later, UKHarvest has rescued 10 million meals and now collects 10 tonnes of surplus food every week

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In 2022, conservators X-raying a Van Gogh painting in Edinburgh found a hidden self-portrait of the artist on the back of the canvas, concealed for more than a century under layers of glue and cardboard

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In 1905, a mine manager in South Africa pulled a 3,106-carat rough diamond from a mine wall; it became the Cullinan, cut into the 530-carat Great Star of Africa that now sits in the British royal sceptre

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Royal regret! British king Charles III 'recognises' slavery horrors amid his Caribbean tour

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Mystery celebrity in London says he will 'kill himself' if sexual misconduct allegations against him are made public

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Why this British woman spent years collecting 4,550 My Little Pony items after her parents refused to buy her a horse

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In 2024, Jason Statham bought a 20-acre English coastal estate for about £20 million; in 2026, a planning rule from 1973 put its two-storey summerhouse under scrutiny over use as guest accommodation

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Part of Brighton's 160-year-old West Pier collapses into the sea during Storm Austen as Victorian landmark continues to deteriorate after decades of storm and fire damage

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A man who committed murder at 17 was sentenced after turning 18 to a minimum of 15 years in prison; the UK Supreme Court ruled he could not seek a special review of that term

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After decades collecting artworks from colonial-era India, British historian Charles Greig has donated 50 paintings and watercolours to Tate, including rare 18th-century portraits; a public display is planned for 2028

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Italy's students take to streets over cost of living, dockworkers block arms trade

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US tells European countries to not 'poke' Russia as Putin says 'ready for war'

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Spain's latest deadly train crash puts human error and systemic failure under scrutiny

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Pentagon asks Baltic Nato allies to tone down rhetoric on Russia threat: Report

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Ukraine puts Russian refinery strikes 'on pause' amid Trump pressure

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Halloween protests: France warns of 'very high' risk of urban violence, to deploy over 70,000 police

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Lagarde quits ECB to shed neutrality, enter political fray

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Spain train tragedy: Glitch, 3 operator errors behind crash that killed 68

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'Canada cannot be an EU member because of geography': Von der Leyen proposes associate membership for Ottawa

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A century later, World War bombs still haunt Europe as Italy finds 250 munitions in melting glaciers

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Chaos on camera: Armenia MPs trade blows as parliament erupts into mass brawl

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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, a round loaf of bread in Herculaneum was buried under volcanic debris; it was found carbonised nearly 2,000 years later, still showing its eight segments and a baker's stamp

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'Nvidia chief seen as target of China spy plot'

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China elevates military general to Politburo

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China begins key meet, setting stage for Xi's fourth term

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

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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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Tanker with 27 Indian seafarers targeted in first-ever limpet mine attack in Strait of Hormuz

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Syria dreamed of a new dawn after Assad, but economic misery clouds its future

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'Arrest heads of Arab parties for stealing elections': Israel national security minister Ben Gvir

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Israel election results: Neither Netanyahu nor opposition wins majority; what happens next?

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Israel elections: Arab parties may hold key to next government after Netanyahu falls short of majority

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Israel tightens airline security after flydubai hijacking

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A university in Cyprus launched a free blockchain course in 2014; its online programme has attracted more than 150,000 learners from over 120 countries

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Israel election results: Netanyahu's bloc wins 53 seats, falls short of majority as coalition talks loom

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Netanyahu's unity government gambit: Can he lure Eisenkot from opposition?

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'This is not a drama': Israeli agency had intel on illegal funds before election, failed to share it

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'Scapegoat for political failures': Qatar rejects Israeli election interference claims

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Beyond US blockade: How Iran's secret 5,000+ agencies network keeps missiles flowing

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Israel polls: Poll chief orders probe into 'foreign interference'; Netanyahu levels big charge - top developments

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As Trump mulls fresh strikes after midterms, Vance writes to Iran, Tehran says 'won't surrender'

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Oil-covered debris travelled more than 5,000 miles from Brazil to Florida, revealing how plastic can carry pollution across oceans

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Toronto real estate CEO and two daughters shot during home invasion, wife attacked with hammer

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Watch: Mount Mayon volcano erupts for nearly 6 minutes in Philippines, spews ash 3 km high

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She collected salary for 16 years without teaching: German teacher who allegedly went scuba diving while on sick leave now faces fraud charges over €248,000

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1929: Roland Callingham opened his family's miniature world; Bekonscot remains the world's oldest surviving model village

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University of Georgia secures $8 million NOAA grant to plan restoration of 326 acres of salt marsh across four states using dredged sediment

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After years of building her art business and a highway tyre blowout that made her rethink life, Australian mortgage lender Ka Po Ng quit her bank job in 2024 to pursue art full time

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Former media CEO Nic Jones left a decades-long career for bus driving; eight months later, he called himself a fulfilled and happy bus driver

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1886: Cornelius Vanderbilt built his children an oceanfront playhouse; it remains the only surviving structure from the original Breakers estate

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An Austrian electrical engineer left IT after visiting US national parks, became a ranger, and now oversees trails and infrastructure at Gesäuse National Park

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A Scottish family travelled from Florida to Britain for a holiday in 2025 but did not return; the UK Supreme Court considered whether one child should be sent back to the US

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Canada seeks EU 'associate member' status as Carney counters Trump's trade pressure

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Germany, South Korea enhance strategic, security ties against backdrop of China-Russia-North Korea collusive threat

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Royal regret! British king Charles III 'recognises' slavery horrors amid his Caribbean tour

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A woman used her grandmother's inheritance to buy into a Canadian island property in 1981; 45 years later, she and her partner have protected 140 acres of forest while keeping their 20-acre homestead

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A Georgia couple won a $37 million jury verdict after their three-year-old son died during hospital treatment, but a judge cut it to $2 million; an October 28 appeals ruling now raises the judgment to $3 million

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Prince William inherited the $1.3 billion Duchy of Cornwall, spanning 128,000 acres, after Queen Elizabeth II's death; earning $31 million annually from it, he now plans to sell 20% to fund housing and green projects

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'A win is a win': Israel opposition leader Lapid reacts to Netanyahu's poll setback

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A Mississippi father willed 0.86 acres and the family home equally to his three children, then signed a deed giving the land to his wife; an October 27 court rejected his daughter's bid to undo the transfer

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Meet Landon Hoberman, 17, from New Jersey, whose campaign to stop unwanted plastic cutlery is credited with preventing 8.1 million single-use utensils and saving restaurants more than $200,000

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An Ohio man bought a house in a neighbourhood of about 140 homes and advertised it on Airbnb, arguing it was also his residence; on October 26, an appeals court upheld a zoning ban after neighbours objected

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Hasina video, RAW allegations: What ex-Bangladesh officer revealed in podcast before mysterious death

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A California couple bought a home with a 20-by-20-foot garden, then a neighbour claimed the land; a 1955 deal involving $250 and babysitting helped secure their exclusive gardening rights in an October 26 ruling

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Trump gives reporter fitness lecture as MAGA loses shape

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US Midterms 2026: Trump reschedules Iowa, Kansas campaign rallies for Sunday after cancellations

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Pope Leo XIV casts ballot in US midterms, becomes first pontiff to vote in a US general election

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Indian-origin woman who went missing in August found dead in a canal in California. Detectives had looked into the canal before but could not locate her

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'My suffering goes beyond physical': US convict Christa Pike recounts ordeal after botched execution attempt

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Meet Sophia Parekh, 12, from Westfield, New Jersey, who started giving away books at age 7 and has now distributed more than 8,000 free books to children and classrooms across the US

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Dolly Parton started giving free books to children 31 years ago; a new October 29 report says her Knox County programme attracted nearly 950 sign-ups in August and raised over $150,000 following her death

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Red Baron Pizza makes viral dad Walt Z employee of the month after he stands up to influencer who was making a prank video; fundraiser nears $500k

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US midterms 2026: Polling guru Allan Lichtman, who accurately predicted 9 of last 11 presidential races, sees headwinds for Democrats

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Boston Celtics owners donate over $200 million to children's hospital after one billionaire couple's $100 million pledge inspired others to match their gift; the money will fund mental health care, medical research and nursing training

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A Tennessee husband claimed the marital home was worth up to $300,000 during the divorce, but the court valued it at $160,400 and awarded 75% of its equity to his wife; an October 27 appeal upheld the division

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In 2025, Indiana University opened a free AI course to its alumni network of 805,000 people; more than 114,000 learners had already enrolled

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Arkansas officials took just 1.62 acres from a family trust's land and initially valued the loss at $417,825; after an 11-year fight over road access, an appeals court upheld a $3 million jury award

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An anonymous Connecticut family donated $50 million to a global health charity; the record gift will expand access to lifesaving medicines, support healthcare centres and secure the organisation's financial future

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In 2022, AMP built its streaming base in Georgia; four years later, Kai Cenat's creator collective reportedly purchased six nearby homes and named the area 'The Hill'

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