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World - / Oct 2, 2026 - San Francisco man leaves $3.6M for park improvements, more benches in will - William Benjamin "Ben" Bobo was a quiet San Francisco resident who spent years walking his golden retriever, Chad, around Alta Plaza Park near his home. Few people who saw the pair there could have known that Bobo would eventually leave millions of

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World - / Oct 2, 2026 - Iowa woman left a $3 million estate for 485 libraries and 128 senior community centres - Norma Jean Warner lived a quiet life in Des Moines, Iowa, working at an optical shop, saving carefully and volunteering through church organisations. She and her husband, Waldo, had no children and lived modestly, but Warner spent years planning what

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20-year-old Azerbaijani woman allegedly drugged, gang-raped in Pakistan's Lahore

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At least 13 dead in suicide bomb blast near police post in northwestern Pakistan

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Fresh clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Report

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5.44 magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region

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Hasina: Restore democratic rights, rule of law in Bangladesh

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Indonesia demolishes luxury prison for favoured inmates

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Nepal rains: 27 killed in rain-induced disasters, authorities say

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'Technical issue': Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying uranium for Bangladesh nuclear plant

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Malaysia sends 1,476 Myanmar nationals home despite UN warnings over safety

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A 2-km stretch of British coast was once a golf course; its fairways are now wetlands where birds are nesting

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Mum's £217,000 dream home became a four-year 'nightmare' after neighbour demolished half of her Leeds semi-detached house, leaving her £80,000-renovated property exposed to rain, damp, mould and vermin

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UK-Iranian man arrested with link to security incident at US-run RAF Fairford base in England

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Dubai-London Emirates flight diverted to Frankfurt after passenger's medical emergency

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US filmmaker Hopwood DePree loses High Court battle against council over ancestral 60-room mansion; after securing Hopwood Hall for £1, he spent £750,000 restoring it before being locked out in 2024

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Father owned a £1.25 million Yorkshire property; daughter claimed part after his death, but court ruled in favour of his widow

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In 2023, British engineers began using supercritical water to break mixed plastic into hydrocarbons; the plant was designed for 20,000 tonnes a year and was estimated to save 1.8 tonnes of CO₂ per tonne treated

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A 500-year-old football was found in a queen's bedroom; in 2026, scientists scanned it so the object could live digitally

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A wildlife charity bought 335 hectares in Dorset; two years later, it is one of England's newest National Nature Reserves

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In 2023, British rail researchers tested crushed old glass in place of scarce rail sand; it gave trains comparable grip and caused similar rail wear in wet and leaf-covered tests

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A Gutenberg Bible leaf bought for £25 in the early 20th century was rediscovered among a grandfather's belongings in an English attic; the roughly 570-year-old page fetched £39,000 at auction in 2025

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British Transport Police spent £320,786 testing live facial recognition at London stations and scanned more than 500,000 faces; the six-month trial produced one alert, and that person was wrongly identified

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UK property tycoon left £100m estate; daughter was named 80%, but his son challenged his will, and the High Court later upheld an earlier version

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Putin warns West of 'all weapons' use if Russia's exclave Kaliningrad is attacked

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'He has good ideas': Putin lauds PM Modi's peace push to end Russia-Ukraine war

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A Somerset family has grown the same broad bean since 1875; 150 years later, the heirloom has entered a national seed collection

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92-year-old UK father changed his will while living with his daughter; wife was left with access to only half the money through her stepdaughter

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'No explicit request': BAPS gets clean chit in Eiffel Tower women staff row

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Martin Margiela's first portfolio for his future fashion house was stolen on a train; 39 years later, it sold for €24,700

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Disapproving nuns painted over the risqué frescoes in Rome's long-neglected Villa Silvestri Rivaldi for 300 years; restorers are now exposing them

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Austria's Semmering Railway, completed in 1854 across 41 kilometres of mountains with tunnels and viaducts, still carries trains 172 years later

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NATO chief Rutte says alliance is defensive, urges Russia to end nuclear threats

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Kyiv as crumbling air defence pushes Ukraine towards a harsh winter

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Russia raises active troop numbers to 1.55 million as Zelensky accuses Kremlin of mass mobilisation

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Student protests rock France with over 400 detained: Why are schools protesting - explained

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In the 1960s, an Italian taxi driver covered his Rimini home with 12,000 seashells; his daughter still preserves it today

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How Russia's ballistic missiles, jet-powered drones have kept Ukraine under pressure

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Meet Ben O'Connor, the 16-year-old who sold 200,000 gift boxes before building an app to help farmers manage their work

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Eiffel Tower chief to step down after female staff excluded during Hindu group's visit

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Chinese hackers impersonate ex-White House official to target US AI experts, steal emails: Report

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Chinese AI agents display 'concerning' behaviour in safety tests, mirroring US systems

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Section of China's Great Wall damaged by two decades of illegal coal slag dumping

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In 1999, Pennsylvania teacher Ronald Sakolsky donated $5,000 to farmer Yin Yuzhen to fund her tree-planting efforts in Inner Mongolia; 27 years later, his contribution helped transform China's Maowusu Desert into a forest of 50,000 trees

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'Xi understands how I feel': Trump says Taiwan not a major point of friction

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'Stop using threats': China takes veiled shot at US over Cuba & Iran in sharply critical UN speech

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$30bn tariff cut, Iran and AI dialogue: Key points from Xi-Trump talks

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China's coal mines generate billions of cubic metres of water; researchers say it could help cool data centres

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US energy department engineer held for alleged Houthi links, drone and explosives support

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'Working on it': Trump hints flydubai co-pilot may have Iran links

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Iran military kills 6 in Zahedan, accuses armed groups of ties with foreign powers

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Iran summons UK envoy after PM Burnham hints at Tehran link in Fairford base 'terror plot'

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Smit-ten: World in love with heroic Indian pilot who saved Israelis and beat social media hijacking

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'Kill me, kill me': Netanyahu reveals words of 'indoctrinated' flydubai co-pilot after being subdued

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Watch: Hurt flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar gets emergency treatment shortly after landing; airlifted to Abu Dhabi

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EU aviation agency issues Saudi airspace warning to airlines after Houthi attacks

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Was Flydubai cockpit attack planned? UAE probe to examine possible terror link

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'Fighter jets in air': How Israel prepared for worst-case scenario during flydubai scare

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Flydubai cockpit horror: Terror plot, suicide bid or Iran link? 5 chilling questions facing investigators

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'Will take additional measures': South Korea warns Ukraine as North Korean POW row escalates

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In 2010, just 66 Christmas Island blue-tailed skinks were saved; 15 years later, 545 were released on a new island

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Man applies for Ethiopian wife's PR, gets rejected as woman's divorce from first husband under Sharia law not considered legal in Canada

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Meet Heléna Muirhead-Hunt, the student who discovered a new fossil species 551 million years old, linked to ancient comb-jellies

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'Fatal point of no return': Putin warns against use of nukes amid global tensions

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Meet Comando: 7-kg Chihuahua joins Mexico's National Guard; trains for search-and-rescue work and appears at public events

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Indian-origin truck driver jailed for 6 years in Canada after fatal crash that killed mom, 11-year-old son

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Japan raises permanent residency fee 20-fold as foreign population hits record

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In 1996, a German psychotherapist gave away her possessions and began living without money; what began as a one-year experiment lasted 17 years

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After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists planted sunflowers to pull radioactive material from contaminated water and soil; the flowers actually absorbed radioactive isotopes

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Afghanistan says civilians killed in Pakistan airstrikes; Islamabad says militant hideouts hit

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Singapore plays matchmaker to public officers

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FTC probing top AI firms over product safety concerns

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Indonesia is building a school from residual plastic waste; even its floors, ceilings, pipes and frames will use discarded plastic

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New Zealand returned 86 takahē to Rees Valley; the birds are now breeding and establishing a new wild population

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They married in 1940, raised 13 children and built a family of more than 120 descendants: The remarkable story of Brazil's couple who held the Guinness record for longest-married living pair

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A Nashville man paid $2.48 for a rolled-up document at a thrift store in 2006; it proved to be a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence and sold at auction for $477,650 the following year

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World's richest woman Alice Walton nears $120 billion after a $33 billion rise; her $250 million tuition-free medical school marks a new philanthropic chapter

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Iowa teacher asked students to donate to her GoFundMe to fund her medical mission trip to Ecuador, promised extra credit

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An Ohio farmer facing $1 million in medical debt hoped a solar lease would pay $540,000 a year; after officials blocked the project, he had to sell land and equipment from his sixth-generation farm

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An Iowa farmer gave about 2 acres to two wind turbines and related infrastructure; by 2021, the $25,000 annual lease was what he called the most profitable part of his corn-and-soybean farm

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In 2018, a Vermont couple started with 30 sheep; seven years later, their solar-grazing business had 500 sheep managing vegetation across 1,500 acres of solar sites in the Northeast

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US billionaire sent wife to Pakistan, secretly divorced her under Sharia law, paying only $50. 13 years later, Texas Supreme Court cancels foreign talaq

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In 1964, a Virginia widow fought to save her Frank Lloyd Wright home from Interstate 66; it was dismantled piece by piece, moved 13 miles and rebuilt at Woodlawn, where it still stands

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In 2019, a Maryland family moved a 255-year-old mansion 50 miles by barge; the 4,000-square-foot house travelled across Chesapeake Bay so they could give the historic building a new waterfront home

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In 2020, Roger Daltrey and his family started Lakedown Brewing; three years later, the business opened its own brewery on his 600-acre Sussex farm, where he had created trout lakes decades earlier

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An American artist traded a painting and $10 for a 153-acre Connecticut farm in 1882; more than a century later, his home and studios became part of a nationally protected landscape devoted to art

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In 2021, a California couple bought a home and faced more than $1 million in fines linked to the previous owner's cannabis operation; five years later, a settlement cleared the disputed penalties

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US energy department engineer held for alleged Houthi links, drone and explosives support

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Ray Vetuskey, 64, marks '100th birthday' of kidney his mother donated at 52 when he was 16; transplant has lasted far beyond 15-20 years, with doctors expecting it to last for life

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In 2011, Stephen King and Tabitha's foundation gave $120,000 to help heat Maine homes, as their radio fundraiser brought in $241,820 for residents facing a winter with reduced federal aid

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Two rival CEOs of Silicon Valley AI companies fight over an employee. Vinod Khosla, an investor in both, steps in

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A Massachusetts farm stayed under one family's care for a century and was cultivated for more than 200 years; a 2025 conservation purchase protected over 120 acres of farmland and forest for the future

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In 2013, Rob Scheer began packing backpacks at his dining table after recalling carrying his belongings in trash bags as a foster child; his charity has distributed 300,000+ backpacks

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US agency sues Harvard over hiring records in probe into alleged discrimination against white men

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