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Relationship quote of the day by Jon Krakauer: 'Happiness is only real when shared'

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Russian drones kill 2 in Ukraine's Moldova; Zelenskyy urges stronger global response

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A huge underwater break sent millions of tonnes of ice from beneath New Zealand's Tasman Glacier; what surfaced turned its turquoise lake into an iceberg field

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World - / Sep 9, 2026 - California garbage collector turns trash into a hillside home - Once, along California's rugged Central Coast, there was still room for people who wanted to live differently. Away from polished streets and grand estates, the landscape attracted eccentrics, dreamers and determined outsiders who built their own

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World - / Sep 9, 2026 - In 2023, Australia paved two suburban roads with 135,000 recycled coffee cups and glass bottles, cutting the asphalt's carbon footprint by 24% Australia is embracing sustainability by turning discarded coffee cups into road materials. In Penrith, New South Wales, a groundbreaking project resurfaced local roads with a recycled asphalt mixture, incorporating approximately 135,000 coffee cups and countless glass bottles. This innovative use of recycled content has led to a significant twenty-four percent decrease in carbon emissions from the road surface, exemplifying a circular economy that creatively repurposes waste into valuable resources.

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China Interrupts Philippines Defence Chief Mid-Speech With Note; His Fiery Reply Shocks Beijing

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CIA Headquarters In Saudi Arabia 'Effectively Destroyed'? Iran Attack Forces US Rethink In Gulf

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Missiles Streak Over Jordan As Air Defences Respond To Reported Iranian Attack On Base

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Miami Jet Crash Audio Bombshell; NTSB Turns Up Heat On Amazon Pilots

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Small pooja room ideas for Indian apartments: More than 5 smart and stylish space-saving designs for a peaceful prayer corner

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In 1851, ranchers placed sheep on California's Santa Cruz Island; about 150 years later, survivors were smaller, hardier and had lost wool from their bellies

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In 2013, scientists released 11 kg of red dye into Lake Michigan to measure offshore mixing; the study recorded dispersion rising from 1.5 to 4.2 m²/s over about 21 hours

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In 1982, Chile imported European bumblebees to pollinate crops; the invaders crossed into Argentina, spread through Patagonia, and pushed its only native bumblebee toward regional extinction

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In 1996, an Arizona hunter photographed a wild jaguar and chose not to shoot; the encounter helped inspire a project protecting a Mexican refuge

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Mike Niziolek spent thirty years transforming his 150-acre property into a wetland, now the former AP biology teacher is creating 'bio supermarkets' for wildlife

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Carl Sandburg bought a 245-acre North Carolina estate for his wife's goat farm; it became the first National Park Service site dedicated to an American poet

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In 2026, a Florida wildlife centre brought in critically endangered red-ruffed lemurs; the project is now helping restore their disappearing Madagascar rainforest

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Nearly 4,000 New York City students planted more than 100,000 beachgrass stalks across 2.25 acres at Coney Island Creek Park to rebuild protective dunes and help protect 50,000+ people from flooding

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Amazon cargo jet pilots tried to abort unstable landing before plane overran Miami runway

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Gene Autry bought a 110-acre California movie ranch in 1952; a massive fire destroyed 54 buildings before he finally sold the last 10 acres

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Hurricane Lowell leaves at least one dead, knocks out power in Kauai County

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Georgia O'Keeffe bought a small Ghost Ranch home in 1940 and spent decades painting the surrounding desert; a conservation plan is now protecting 6,000 acres from development

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Toxic air after 9/11: Mamdani releases documents showing how New Yorkers were misled

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Watch: Trump shares edited clip of King Charles walking away from fainting worker

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A Napa art center is giving up development rights on 162 of its 217 acres; the deal protects 75% of the estate while directing up to $1.85 million back to the arts

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'Attack on one is attack on all': Pakistan warns Houthis, invokes Mecca defence pact

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'Break pattern of impunity': UN experts flag persecution of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya community

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'Growing differences between military, Asif Zardari': Self-exiled Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain makes big claim

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25 Pakistani military personnel killed in Balochistan attacks, BLA claims

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Pakistan: Imran Khan's sister files fresh contempt plea over denied jail visits

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Pak pleads for dialogue after India stands firm on suspending Indus Water Treaty

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Leadership gaps cloud Pakistan's human rights oversight system

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Imran Khan, wife Bushra Bibi get slight relief as Pak HC bars solitary confinement

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Pakistan power crisis deepens as Karachi reels from 24-hour blackouts

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Pakistan court allows Hindu woman to return home after alleged forced conversion, marriage

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Watch: 'Driverless' car crashes into police van after internet outage in Islamabad

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Pak PM scrambles for damage control after his office edits leaders out of SCO summit photo

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100-year-old Hindu temple demolished in Pakistan's Punjab

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Lahore inflation squeezes household budgets as food, rent and utility costs rise

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Bangladesh and India plan to resume train ops by October

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People stealing valuables from dead bodies in Nepal floods; police issue warning

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Nepal marks the 13th day of mourning after deadly flash floods

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Climate justice tops agenda as Nepal PM Balen flies to UN office

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Need good working ties with India: Bangladesh

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10 days after Nepal flash floods, woman, Chinese man rescued

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Volunteers from multiple countries join Nepal animal rescue effort

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Nepal's mint-green house survivor recounts a life that's washed away

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Nepal floods: Chinese national rescued alive from hydropower tunnel on Day 10

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True Samaritans: Indian volunteers take up grim task of cleaning decomposed bodies in Kathmandu

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In 1970, George Harrison bought Friar Park and revived its forgotten gardens; after his death, wife Olivia continued restoring its Victorian beauty

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and light rain expected September 9

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London weather September 9: Sunny intervals, 20°C high, mild temperatures expected

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Manchester weather today: Sunny intervals and overcast skies expected

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Birmingham weather today: Sunny intervals, moderate temperatures, and a chance of clouds

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals and moderate temperatures expected Tuesday

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More delays expected across UK after air traffic glitch cancels over 1,000 flights

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Just 1% of asylum seekers in UK genuine, insider says, as UN blasts Britain for allowing bogus claims

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Mother of twin girls given less than 10% chance of survival after TTTS at 16 weeks; after surgery, premature birth and 300 days in hospital, twins now prepare for first day of school

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Glowworms return to a North Yorkshire reserve after more than 100 years; larvae raised in a Bristol garden shed have produced the first glowing females

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British-Indian councillor Rishi Madlani in race to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour MP

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'Settler terrorists': UK bans trade with Israeli settlements as 12 nations back sanctions

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Why Harry and Meghan were caught off guard by King Charles' latest letter

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In 2024, Wales used fibres recovered from about 80,000 used nappies to resurface a road, diverting four tonnes of waste from landfill at no extra material cost

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Shakespeare's Globe needs a new roof after nearly 30 years, but workers will not use modern roofing; 14,000 bundles of reed are being prepared for the £10 million project

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Liverpool weather: Heavy rain and cooler temperatures expected Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Swiss entrepreneur is drilling the Alps to make 20 mega-bunkers for the super-rich, offering a 99-year lease agreement with prices starting at 1M Swiss francs

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Denmark planted trees for carbon storage, but 21 years later natural forests proved more diverse while plantations captured carbon faster

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Belgium sank 23 concrete blocks weighing 22,000 tons each in the North Sea to build the world's first artificial energy island in a €7B project

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Thousands protest in Germany as far-right AfD eyes first state government since the Nazi Party

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Not just Nepal: How climate change puts European Alps under threat of glacial retreat and rock fall

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Copenhagen's £200m underground Natural History Museum, under construction since 2019, to open in 2027 with eight galleries, 14m specimens, dinosaur skeletons, 3D exhibits and Ocean Hall

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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: What AfD's big win in German state election says about 'far right' uprising in Europe

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Moscow threatens 'harsh and painful' retaliation after Hungary expels 10 Russian diplomats

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'The moment US left, attacks resumed': Russia launches fresh assault on Ukraine, 3 killed

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Another French heist: Thieves steal 4 paintings worth Rs 98 cr from Renoir museum; drop one while fleeing

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EU debate takes shape as Macron backs under-15 social media ban

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'Defend workplaces': Protesting robots take to Warsaw streets to demand AI regulation

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AfD's victory tests Germany's 'firewall' against the far right

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'Russia ready to negotiate': Zelenskyy after meeting US envoys Witkoff and Kushner

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5.3-magnitude quake hits Tibet as region reels from deadly flash floods

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PLA report warns Chinese cities of potential nuclear attacks, flags Japan as 'threat'

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China's 'chemical trap' targets hidden nuclear fuel in seawater, beats US benchmark 8 times over

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China mudslide: One missing person found dead as death toll rises to two; 10 remain missing

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Nearly 'eight vessels per day': Taiwan faces alarming Chinese presence around its territory

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China silences flood victims to spotlight Xi Jinping's rescue efforts

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One dead, 11 missing after deadly landslide hits China's Jiangxi; Typhoon Saudel batters region

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From grasslands to GPUs: Why China is building its AI engine in Inner Mongolia - explained in 5 charts

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Watch: Flash floods in China destroys 3-storey building in an instant; 2500 stranded inside school

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Magnitude 5 quake hits Tibet amid ongoing search for hundreds missing after deadly floods

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'Lies made in Haaretz': Netanyahu sues Israeli newspaper over 'fabricated' UAE warning report

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Caught on cam: Strike hits close to reporter live on air in Lebanon

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'Information sharing is through intelligence channels': Israel denies report UAE leader warned Netanyahu days before Oct 7 attack

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Iran claims 'punitive strike' damaged US air base in Jordan as Middle East tensions escalate - top developments

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Watch: US strikes 5 Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island after IRGC targeted American navy ship

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US strikes Iranian tankers near Kharg Island; Tehran threatens Gulf oil vessels

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US sanctions all remaining Iranian airlines, with 27 carriers hit in fresh action

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Iran launched another attack on US navy ships Monday, with fears of China, Russia aid: Report

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Meet Anvith Yalamanchili, the 17-year-old Dubai student who watched his brother's school commute triple to 45 minutes and built a free carpool service that drew 1,000 sign-ups

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UK-Israel spat gets ugly: Tel Aviv to close British consulate in Jerusalem over sanctions on settlers

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'Settler terrorists': UK bans trade with Israeli settlements as 12 nations back sanctions

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UAE leader warned Netanyahu of Hamas attack days before Oct 7, PM dismissed warning: Report

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At 10, she lost her grandmother to breast cancer; at 17, Dubai teen Saiyette Aima built an AI platform and took cancer awareness to India

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Iran to announce new restricted zone in Gulf in the coming days

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Watch: Houthis strike oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, target airport & base; Yemen conflict widens

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Watch: Floods rock Japan's Nagoya as streets turn into sea, manhole explodes

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In 1807, sailors left pigs on a remote island as emergency food; 192 years later, rescuers found small, athletic animals valuable to medical research

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In 1971, scientists moved 10 insect-eating lizards to Croatia's Pod Mrcaru islet; when they returned in 2004, more than 5,000 descendants showed larger heads and altered digestive systems for a plant-rich diet

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In the 1980s, Israel installed barn owl boxes to control crop-eating rodents without poison; researchers later found that threatened native gerbils formed over half the prey in some nests

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In 1419, a Portuguese settler reportedly released a mother rabbit and her litter on Porto Santo; centuries later, Darwin found rabbits about half the weight of mainland ones

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In 1874, sailors released rabbits on the Kerguelen Islands as emergency food; the invasion reshaped coastal vegetation and later altered plant communities on the central plateau

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A reported 1984 experiment beneath Sweden's frozen Lake Erken used red dye to study winter currents; the account said 95% remained in the upper seven metres after 26 hours

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In 1990, scientists released uranin 15 metres deep in Switzerland's Lake Alpnach to track mixing; the dye cloud stretched into an elongated streak as currents moved it

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World's highest-paid Prime Minister gets salary hike of 9%; pledges to donate difference to charity

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A woman fleeing the Palisades Fire got her car stuck on a boulder as flames closed in; the same boulder may have stopped her from driving into the fire

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A critically endangered green sawfish swimming beside sea turtles wins Australia's top nature-photo prize; photographer captured it with only 3% drone battery left

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In 1989, a Canadian couple bought 187 acres on Ontario's Wilson Island as a family sanctuary; 36 years later, they donated it so its forests, wetlands and wildlife would stay protected

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A ship that sank in the Baltic Sea in the 1850s may have been carrying luxury gifts for a Russian king, including champagne bottles and mineral water

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 hits flood-ravaged Nepal

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Robin Williams built a 640-acre Napa estate with a 20,000-sq-ft mansion; after years on the market, it sold for $18.1 million after being listed for $35 million

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Anne LaBastille built a 12-by-12-foot cabin deep in New York's Adirondacks with no electricity, plumbing or road; she spent decades living in the wilderness and her 32-acre home is now protected forever

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She bought a Maine island to stop clear-cutting; 90 years after Audubon opened its first camp there, the 330-acre sanctuary still trains conservationists

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In 2017, a 14-year-old Virginia girl dug a backyard pond for a school project; 9 years later, it has become a thriving wildlife ecosystem

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Watch: Multiple explosions seen over US airbase in Jordan after Iran's ballistic missile strike

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In 1993, Barbra Streisand gave her $15 million Malibu estate to conservation; the 24-acre property was planned as an environmental research centre

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A North Florida family permanently protected 816.46 acres with a $2.665 million easement; farming can continue while the land stays undeveloped inside a 1.6-million-acre wildlife corridor

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In 2019, two Bolivian sisters began floating native totora reeds on rafts made from discarded bottles; the Uru Uru Team later planted about 3,000 to restore the polluted lake

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Parents came to US for 5 months, officer allowed only 2 months as father has a job in India: NRI shares parents' entry experience, seeks advice

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An Australian woman bought cleared sugarcane land and planted trees; 10 years later, 119,000 trees transformed it into a rainforest home to flying-foxes

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Over 1,000 flights cancelled as air traffic control glitch disrupts UK airports

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In 2010, Thailand sank 25 retired army tanks off Narathiwat to create artificial reefs; later research found 53 fish species thriving there

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Meet Rachel Chen, the 18-year-old Los Angeles student who expanded a 1997 quantum-math idea to describe entire particle systems with simple diagrams; she won $100,000

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Million-dollar question: OpenAI claims to have an answer to 90-year old maths problem

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La Piquiña's Colombia livestream takes a terrifying turn as motorcyclist suddenly approaches his street setup

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N3on vs. Sneako explained as AI streamer controversy leads to accusations of betrayal, clout chasing and fake friendship

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