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World - / Sep 1, 2026 - At 19, Baylee Laine gave up scholarship and worked two jobs to take in her four younger siblings - At just twenty-one, Baylee Laine made the extraordinary decision to give up her college sports scholarship, dedicating herself instead to raising her four younger siblings. Working two jobs and sometimes sleeping in her legal office, she fought hard for custody. Her inspiring story of love and sacrifice recently captured the hearts of many on social media, where she now shares her life with her adopted siblings and her own daughter.

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World - / Aug 31, 2026 - Quote of the day by Lionel Messi: "If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would..." Lionel Messi's words capture the genuine, deep connection he has always had with football, and the kind of passion that has quietly defined his entire extraordinary career. "Money is not a motivating factor," he said. "Money doesn't thrill me or make

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JD Vance says Donald Trump's dramatic Kharg Island post was meant as a signal to Iran

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Before becoming a major philanthropist, Laurene Powell Jobs spent three years trading fixed-income securities on Wall Street

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A New Jersey town agreed to spend $13.4 million to preserve about 50 acres once eyed for dense housing; the first 17 acres have now become public land

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Michigan's AQI hit 616 after Ontario wildfire smoke crossed into the US; scientists warn a warming climate could make such pollution more common

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In 2024, Martin County voters approved a half-cent sales tax for conservation; two years later more than 2,000 acres are protected and eight more properties are being pursued

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Pakistan hospital fire: 8 officials suspended over deaths of 14 newborns

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15 newborns killed in fire at Islamabad hospital's gynaecology ward in Pakistan

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Five labourers gunned down at construction site in Pakistan's Balochistan

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Pakistan army officer pulls gun, fires in air amid student protest at Peshawar university- video

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

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Nepal floods: Avalanche from 5,200 metres raced down Himalayas at 167 kmph, triggering deadly deluge

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Nepal tragedy: Owners missing, dog refuses to leave flood-hit Trishuli home

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Watch: Drone accidentally captures catastrophic avalanche on Mount Langtang in Nepal

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Nepal flash floods: Death toll rises to 903, over 4,200 still missing as rescue operations intensify

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Nepal survivors return to ruins to salvage memories

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Bangladesh says no risk in joining Mecca defence pact with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkiye

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'Justice and hope': Campaigners hail UK PM Andy Burnham's vow to end indefinite jail terms

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Ten Gordonstoun students, from school attended by King Charles, uncover possible 1,000-year-old Viking church and altar buried on remote Scottish island during six-day archaeology trip

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Tiny Scottish village of 200 homes in Auchtertool, Fife, fights plans for world's second-largest data centre covering more than 100 football pitches; 1,600 objections pile up, residents fear it could dwarf their community

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Wild beavers vanished from Norfolk 500 years ago; now a mystery pair has appeared and had two kits, raising hopes of a permanent wild population

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Scotland quarry expansion uncovered a 2,000-year-old woman's grave; archaeologists were stunned by its carefully built stone walls

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3,000 years ago, 12 Bronze Age houses stood where a Scottish suburb is rising; archaeologists found graves, pottery kilns and food stores

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A man spent his life's earnings buying a 130-acre abandoned gravel pit, he planted 50,000 trees, and years later, the barren land had become a thriving wildlife oasis

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals with a chance of rain today, August 31, 2026

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and moderate temperatures expected August 31, 2026

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 70% chance of rain on August 31

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Manchester weather: light showers and mild temperatures expected today

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals, mild temperatures, and a chance of rain on August 31

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A UK collector paid £62,000 for a mounted 'fox' head; X-rays revealed the skull of an extinct thylacine hidden inside

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Workers restoring a medieval English house found 800 years of hidden history, including rare wall paintings, sealed doorways and mysterious protective marks

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British woman fatally stabbed at railway station in southern Germany; one arrested

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Italy population to shrink by nearly 4 million by 2050 as ageing accelerates: Report

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In 1342, Europe suffered its worst flood year in 700 years; scientists now say 16 major floods struck the continent within just three years

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Iceland rejects EU membership talks, puts fishing rights and sovereignty first

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Ukrainian drone attacks kill 4, injure 12 in Russia's Belgorod region and Crimea

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Construction workers in Belgium dig up mysterious gold worth $10 million while building sewer under former brewery: 'Our first reaction was actually disbelief and surprise'

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Baltics downplay threat after CIA chief's 'warning to Russia' on Nato

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Ancient Greek elites wore jewellery made from metal that fell from space; scientists identified meteorite iron in 3,000-year-old rings

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Norway's King Harald dies after more than three decades on throne; Prince Haakon takes over

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Invasive blue crabs cost Italy's shellfish industry tens of millions of euros; scientists release 130,000 octopuses into Adriatic Sea to keep them in check

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Galwan, Doklam general axed by Xi: Zhao Zongqi removed from China's top advisory body

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Chinese rescuers manage to reach core disaster zone 50 hrs after flood

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Dam burst, lake overflow, earthquake: Nepal faces fresh crisis as rescue operations halted

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5.1 magnitude earthquake strikes China' s Sichuan province

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'Accusation helps nothing': China rejects Nepal's 'dam collapse' claim over floods

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China warns US of retaliation if Trump's 'Economic D-Day' sanctions hit their Iran oil trade

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JD Vance says Donald Trump's dramatic Kharg Island post was meant as a signal to Iran

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Pakistan to lead 'Islamic Nato' for 3 years; Mecca pact members hold first meet

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After weeks of calm, US strikes Iran's Larak Island; Tehran retaliates by hitting American bases in Jordan

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Iranian woman sentenced to death for filming burning store during January protests

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Donald Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear deal to Congress, keeps Israel normalisation as condition

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Israeli military sent US universities millions for weapons research: Report

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Iran used mosques to surveil, shoot at January protesters: Report

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Pacific island's coconut plantations became an "avian desert"; scientists say native vegetation must return after rats are removed

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After a decade-long restoration, 1,800 volunteers took turns pulling a 400-ton Japanese castle with ropes; 8,000 people had applied for the chance to help move it

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'Uncertainties' rising: Xi Jinping calls for stronger China-Russia cooperation in meeting with Putin at SCO summit

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China discovers a rare four-horse chariot carved into a buried rock; fewer than 20 chariot scenes were known in the Helan Mountains

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Scientists reconstructed the face of 'Conquest Man', a 1,000-year-old skeleton buried just 13 years after the Norman Conquest

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Meet Olivia Shone, the 19-year-old who built a $600,000 investment house after she began saving at 16, while serving in Australia's military and studying law

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In 1864, an Indian Maharaja built a 368-foot well in a drought-hit English village; the story behind Stoke Row's 'Maharaja's Well'

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In 2022, Melbourne's M80 became Victoria's first major road project with recycled content in every pavement layer, reusing 35.5 million plastic bags and 22 million bottles

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In 1973, Christopher Cadbury funded the £40,000 purchase of a Seychelles island stripped for coconuts and seabird eggs; today over 1 million seabirds breed there each year

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In 2015, Queensland began turning end-of-life tyres into road material; over the next decade 2.4 million tyres were kept out of landfill as crumb rubber was blended into asphalt and road seals

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New Zealand opens five marine reserves with groundbreaking Maori co-management model to protect Otago's coastal ecosystems

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He worked as the green ranger in 'Power Rangers', then used the experience to rob 43 homes as the 'Spider-Man thief'

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Maine buried 20,000 discarded tyres beneath a road to fight frost and spring mud, while turning a growing waste problem into an engineering solution

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In 2024, a developer paid $4 million for 83 acres outside Yosemite; two years later the US is considering a land swap for a private access road through the park

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Alaska used rotenone to eliminate invasive pike from an entire lake; the pike vanished, and 6,836 Arctic char were later stocked to rebuild the native fishery

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In 1934, Black cave guide Matt Bransford sold his 14-room Mammoth Cave hotel and land for just $3,000, far below market value; the family then moved 20 miles away as the national park took shape

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In 1985, CNN founder Ted Turner bought thousands of acres in Florida; the former plantation became a major private wildlife landscape

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US mayor Joe Anderson dies mysteriously at 45 after sudden collapse on Colorado hike

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Afghan general who led last-ditch effort to stop Taliban takeover now drives Uber in Washington

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New rules for visa, Green Card coming into effect in September 2026: Is the 75-country ban lifted?

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Indian-origin taxi driver Gurmeet Singh stripped of US citizenship 15 years after rape conviction

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