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World - / Oct 7, 2026 - 'Islam wanting to take over': Donald Trump reacts to France school protests - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday reacted to growing student protests in France, claiming the demonstrations reflected "mass migration" and saying they were about "Islam wanting to take over" the country. "What's happening in France is nothing

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World - / Oct 7, 2026 - 'Against all odds': Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike awake after failed execution - Christa Pike, a death row inmate in Tennessee, is recovering at a hospital following a failed execution attempt. Her lawyers reported that she is awake and speaking after being unconscious for several days. Doctors say the extent of her recovery remains uncertain, and she might face a long rehabilitation process. Legal questions arise about whether Tennessee can execute her again after the failed lethal injection.

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Delhi cabbie was caught speeding 206 times in 15 months, had challans worth Rs 4 lakh, but kept driving; luck finally ran out as cops traced him, now seek licence suspension

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Delhi airport capacity to rise 18% in 3 years; air train linking terminals, Aerocity by Dec 2030

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'Inappropriate': 86% Americans reject taxpayer-funded Trump election ads

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In 2021, Georgia police aircraft destroyed $37,000 worth of legal hemp; six years later, Supreme Court revives grower's claim, overturning 60-year-old precedent

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Robert Redford bought 2 acres in Utah for his family in 1961; he later bought a canyon and turned it into Sundance, an arts and conservation retreat

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A storm cut off an Outer Banks couple from most of their wedding guests; they posted an open invitation online, and more than 400 strangers showed up with food, music and cameras to celebrate

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Paul Allen turned a 250-foot research vessel into a deep-sea wreck hunter; it found USS Indianapolis 5,500 metres below the Pacific

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Wisconsin homeowner vows to fight proposed data-center power line after utility offered $81,000 plus $50,000 to clear a 1,000-by-75-foot corridor and remove six outbuildings

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A manure-lagoon overflow at a Maryland dairy farm killed nearly 11,000 fish across 25 species, state officials say; the farm already faces a pollution lawsuit and a civil-contempt request over alleged violations

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In 1976, Kirk and Anne Douglas paid $400,000 for a Beverly Hills home and turned its garden path into a private walk of fame with more than 40 celebrity autographs; 45 years later, the estate sold for $9.015 million

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Fort Cronkhite, the abandoned WWII fort near San Francisco where giant 16-inch guns once shook the city, is now a historic site surrounded by beaches, trails and Pacific Ocean views

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California schoolgirl Khloe Thompson began sewing care bags for women experiencing homelessness; the small family project grew into Khloe Kares, which has distributed more than 5,000 handmade bags filled with everyday essentials

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In 2021, Spain mixed ash from waste paper and sludge into a one-kilometre peri-urban road; its roadbed met the country's highest required E3 class

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Pakistan successfully test-fires extended version of Fatah-4 cruise missile

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Pakistan braces for showdown as talks collapse, Imran Khan's party pushes ahead with march

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India slams Pakistan at UN, says 'so-called' civilian governments serve at army's mercy

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Pakistan kills 5 TTP militants as violence escalates on Afghanistan border

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Pakistan forces kill 7 TTP militants in North Waziristan amid rising violence along Afghan border

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Jail, isolation, crackdown: Why Pakistan's establishment has failed to break Imran Khan

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BLF's newly-formed female unit 'KAAD' attacks military convoy in Balochistan; claims nine killed

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

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'Took mobile phones, cash': Karachi football team robbed at gunpoint on Balochistan highway

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Child, forced marriages of minority girls in Pakistan flagged at UN event

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Motorcycle-borne gunmen kill 3 cops in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Nepal ends flood search with over 5,000 still missing, including 189 Indians

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Accepted her as she was still PM: Indian envoy on Hasina's flight

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Bangladesh extends official Durga Puja holidays to 3 days, steps up security

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Grimmest climbing year since '15 as bad weather, risky calls kill 40

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Nepal avalanche kills 15 workers at Himlung Himal camp, one still missing

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5.44 magnitude earthquake jolts Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region

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British Indian peer Lord Ranger wins right to judicial review of CBE annulment

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Jeffrey Archer, British author and former conservative politician, dies at 86

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England's lost medieval 'Atlantis' Shipden discovered beneath North Sea off Cromer; divers map 25 mysterious structures as new evidence challenges 700-year-old legend of St Peter's Church

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A man went to a furniture auction in England in 1915 and bought Stonehenge for £6,600 on a whim; three years later, he gave the monument to Britain

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Linton-on-Ouse residents fear village could become 'ghost town' over plans for 1,200 asylum seekers; homeowners consider selling properties at losses of up to 20% as homes remain empty in 700-strong North Yorkshire community

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British Airways flight declares emergency after steep descent; lands safely in London

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A 250-pound WWII bomb was found underwater near Falmouth Docks; more than 300 homes were evacuated before it could be removed

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In 2019, a Thornbury couple won £1 million on EuroMillions while Natalie was eight months pregnant; days later, daughter Poppy arrived about a month early: 'She wanted to join us for it all'

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Former Prince Andrew challenges police over arrest in Epstein files probe - report

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Queen Elizabeth received a tiny house for her sixth birthday; the miniature royal home had its own kitchen, bedroom and garden

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'Re-deployed to their home stations': US withdraws all bombers from UK's Fairford base after suspected terror plot

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​For 10 years, farmers across 13,500 hectares of southern England coordinated habitat work; one cluster recorded a 346% rise in corn buntings and a 183% rise in butterfly abundance over the decade

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UK: 2 teenagers jailed for 10 years for arson at Indian restaurant in London

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More than 300 objections filed as Maidstone residents oppose plans to convert former Grange Moor Hotel into 42 studio apartments for 65 people, warning of added pressure on parking and infrastructure

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England turned a golf course into a wetland; 52,000 cubic metres of earth were moved and avocets are already breeding there

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'Islam wanting to take over': Donald Trump reacts to France school protests

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Ukrainian drone attack sets fire to oil tanker carrying 23 Indians off Russia's Black Sea coast; crew rescued

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The Netherlands built two 210-metre gates to hold back the North Sea; they can close automatically when storm surges threaten Zuid-Holland

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Lithuania ready to cover cost if US establishes military base; parliament votes to host foreign arms

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Russia's Volgograd refinery halts operations following October 2 drone strike

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UK arrests seventh man over alleged RAF Fairford air base terror plot

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11:38 - Burning cars, clashes and mass arrests: France's student protests spread across the country - videos

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Germany arrests former spy chief over treason and espionage allegations

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Drones strike two vessels in Bulgaria's economic zone; one ship sinks

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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen for groundbreaking work on cosmic neutrinos

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Germany is turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes; the former mining landscape is becoming Europe's largest artificial wetland

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650 drones overnight: Ukraine unleashes massive strike on Moscow region

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Elderly woman used 7.7-pound amber nugget as doorstop for decades, unaware it was up to 70 million years old and worth €1 million; burglars stole gold but overlooked Romania's rare 'rumanite' treasure

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Divers found a 400-year-old shipwreck while clearing a German gas pipeline route; two anchors, woodworking tools and a mystery brick survived in the silt

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Turkish vessel with Indians onboard hit by Russian drones, captain killed: Zelenskyy

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'51% out of action': Ukraine claims major blow to Russia's oil refining

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K-8 attack jets, military vehicles spotted at new China-Laos air base: Report

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China's Fuman Oilfield, largest desert oilfield, extracts 26.86 million tons of oil and gas from below 6,000 metres; engineers recover 500-million-year-old rock core from record 8,080-metre depth in Xinjiang

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'Blatant lie': China slams US panel's 'genocide' claim after Starbucks opens first Xinjiang stores

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China's Zijinshan gold mine turned its own waste into haul-road material; test roads carried 100-ton trucks and resisted deformation

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Xi Jinping unwell? Chinese officials sought unusual long breaks during the US visit

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China's gold-copper mine built a road from mining waste; one section showed 97% lower deflection after 28 days

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China tests 800-passenger flying-wing aircraft model with 85-metre span, showing how new aerodynamics could improve range and efficiency

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

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Bombs without brakes? Why the US-China AI race may be harder to control than the nuclear one

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

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EU ready to send observers for first Palestinian parliamentary vote in nearly two decades

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Pak, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye agree to deploy forces in Gulf country amid Houthi attacks

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'Efforts underway to hide costs of Iran war': US senator alleges Pentagon denied him access to Al Udeid base in Qatar

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'Very deep cuts to his head': Dentist recalls crucial 45 minutes that helped save flydubai hero Captain Smit Machchhar

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Bab al-Mandab showdown: Saudi-backed Yemen forces claim key Red Sea strait secured

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Two Saudi airports in Jazan and Najran targeted as tensions with Yemen's Houthis escalates

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'Revenge for Gaza': What flydubai Omani co-pilot told interrogators after failed attack

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'9/11-style scare': How Israel nearly 'shot down' flydubai jet with 170 aboard

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Houthis target Aramco refinery, Saudi capital airport as Mecca defence pact activated: Report

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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye activate Mecca defence pact amid Houthi attacks

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Iranian President nominates new defence minister, seven months after Nasirzadeh's death in US strikes

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Saudi-led coalition targets Red Sea territory held by Houthis. What's Pakistan's role?

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Operation 'Yemen Dawn': Saudi-led coalition joins fight to wrest Red Sea from Houthis

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Egypt's earliest kings were buried with hundreds of servants; 100 years later, skull fractures are reviving the theory that some were sacrificed

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Flydubai co-pilot 'planned attack before being hired', targeted Israel airport: Reports

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How flydubai security failure, across 3 countries, almost led to 'Israel's 9/11'

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This Canadian couple bought a retired school bus for $7,200; after a year and $30,000 in renovations, it became a full-sized home with a king bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and solar power

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In 2018, Dutch engineers replaced a bike path with hollow panels made from recycled plastic; after 1 million crossings, the trial reported 50–70% lower carbon emissions, and rain storage reached 48% capacity

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Namibia gave rural communities wildlife rights; elephant numbers rose from about 7,500 in 1995 to 22,800 in 2016 as communal conservancies expanded

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In 2019, Oregon rebuilt 7.5 miles of Juntura Cutoff Road with recycled pavement and foamed asphalt, saving more than $2.5 million

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In 2021, Sheba planted coral onto huge steel letters underwater; the reef campaign lifted in-store sales 10.4% and delivered 308% ROI

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In Nigeria's oil-hit Niger Delta, women planted more than 3 million mangroves; 190 hectares of bare swamp forest came back green

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Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak: Kenya confirms first case as citizen who arrived from Congo dies

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South African mining tycoon Neal Froneman to spend $402 million turning a 600-hectare farmland into a Formula 1 circuit to bring racing back to the country by 2031

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How US ally South Korea is becoming a key fuel lifeline for Russia

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Nigerian Air Force plane crashes, killing all 25 passengers and 7 crew

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In 1984, Patrick Swayze bought a 4.5-acre ranch outside Los Angeles and built it into an Arabian-horse retreat with a 16-stall barn, two arenas and a dance studio; after his death, it sold for $2.9 million and later listed for $4.5 million

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In 2021, Arnold Schwarzenegger donated $250,000 to help homeless veterans in Los Angeles; before Christmas, 25 tiny shelters were installed with beds, climate control and doors residents could lock

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A 103-year-old World War II veteran has been tending the same basement bar in Maryland since 1963; after 63 years behind the counter, Irv Koch still opens when the first customer arrives

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California screamin': Trump says Iran taking out LA and San Diego would be 'small price to pay'

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About 5 billion lbs of carpet are removed from US buildings each year; a cement kiln test found it worked as fuel, but transport costs were too high

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One fraternity house, 7 accused men, no criminal charges: Cornell rape case explained in 5 questions

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In 1970, Fullerton paved a 600-foot California street with crushed waste glass; 2 years later, the EPA found the unusual recycled road was still in good condition

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A Colorado ranch homesteaded before statehood stayed with the same family for six generations; more than 150 years later, 650 of its roughly 700 acres were permanently protected from subdivision

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A New Hampshire groundskeeper lived in an empty trailer and mowed lawns; after his death, town discovered he had donated $3.8 million to support education, health and recreation

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In 1914, a California family bought what became the 6,625-acre Kinsey Ranch; 112 years later, after one brother pushed to protect it before his death, the entire working cattle ranch is now permanently protected from development

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A Florida woman rode 7,000 miles through 48 states in six days, then donated $17,560 to the house that supported her when her 2-pound newborn spent nearly three months in intensive care

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Two young Minnesota farmers started grazing sheep under solar panels in 2017; their flock has now grazed more than 6,500 acres of solar farms

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AI models are misbehaving, but America still won't slow down. China is a big reason why

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US House introduces resolution honouring Indian flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar, condemns 'act of terrorism'

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In 1961, Elvis Presley raised $65,000 toward the USS Arizona Memorial; a year later, the 184-foot structure opened above the Pearl Harbor wreck, where more than 900 crewmen remain entombed and oil still leaks

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A Texas city will pay at least $175,000 after the SpaceX site it owns pumped 128 million gallons of groundwater above permitted limits over three years; the settlement includes monitoring payments for 25 years

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"It's paid promo": Ludwig reveals MrBeast sent him his latest video with one simple question

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"She's a Halloween costume of a woman": Candace Owens reignites Erika Kirk feud with pointed remark during podcast chat

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Miami Beach's Savoy Hotel dates to the 1930s and survived decades on Ocean Drive; Florida laws could now allow most of it and the neighboring Arlington to be demolished for a 38-story, 480-foot tower

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In 2011, an Australian janitor found A$100,000 stuffed into a TV station toilet; after nobody claimed it, he was awarded A$81,597

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In 2022, Michigan treated one mile of Colony Road with a soybean oil-based asphalt treatment; its developer claimed it could extend pavement life by up to 40%

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In 2024, researchers turned discarded plastic bottles and stone into pothole-repair surfacing; strength, stiffness and durability exceeded typical road-infrastructure requirements

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In 2026, a homeless former clothing reseller pulled discarded office chairs from a Nashville dumpster, made a $17,000 profit and later built a six-figure resale business

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In 2008, Maryland used pre-cast bridge pieces joined with concrete on two highway bridges; replacement took three months, not 15, with estimated savings of $1.49m on one

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In 2020, Texas boy Orion Jean used a $500 speech-contest prize to launch a kindness drive; it grew from more than 600 toys to 100,000 meals and 500,000 books, and he is now pursuing one million acts of kindness

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In 2015, Washington bonded ultra-hard bauxite chips to a Snohomish County ramp with polymer resin; wet-weather crashes dropped from nearly 14 to one

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Florida couple's colorful Sarasota cottage village houses 17 small businesses; a 324-apartment plan threatened demolition, but owners canceled the sale and took the property off market

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