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Yami Gautam gives pink a festive twist in embroidered Chanderi suit, keeps her makeup fuss-free

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World - / Oct 10, 2026 - Scotty's Castle reopens for limited tours 11 years after Death Valley flash flood forced its closure - More than a decade after a flash flood forced Scotty's Castle to close, Death Valley National Park is bringing visitors back for limited exterior tours from October 10 as a $71 million restoration effort continues.

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World - / Oct 10, 2026 - Texas-bound American Airlines flight diverted to New York's JFK after six out of eight lavatories stopped working: 'Only two potties?' An American Airlines transatlantic flight had to divert because six lavatories stopped working mid-air. American Airlines flight 37 was traveling from Madrid, Spain, to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on October 6 when it diverted to New

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In 2019, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour auctioned his treasured guitars in a $21.5 million sale; the proceeds went to environmental lawyers working to tackle climate change and protect nature

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'Settled 8 wars, still no Nobel': Trump fumes over Peace Prize snub

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Kamala Harris faces pushback over 2028 presidential bid as husband, Democratic donors express doubts: Report

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In 2017, Rihanna's foundation teamed up with a bicycle company to help girls in Malawi get to school; the first bikes arrived as part of a programme pairing transport support with scholarships

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During the pandemic, a US hospital worker paid $15.99 for a Goodwill painting and hung it above her bed; Antiques Roadshow later identified it as a Le Pho worth $60,000-$80,000 at auction

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In 2007, Martha Stewart helped launch a New York centre for older adults; a second opened in 2019, bringing more than 20 specialist medical care and wellness services under one roof

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Trump backs Nidal Hasan's execution for killing 13 US soldiers, but casts doubt on livestream plan

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In 2024, Michael Bloomberg's foundation gave Johns Hopkins $1 billion; the gift made medical school tuition-free for students from families earning under $300,000 and expanded help with living costs

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Viola Davis grew up in poverty in Rhode Island; now she and husband Julius Tennon are donating $1.2 million to help local families

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A 16-foot Burmese python weighing 147.9 pounds was released after radio-tagging in Florida; US scientists are now testing drones to track invasive snakes across the Everglades

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Pak army chief Munir bypasses PM Sharif, moves to deploy more military assets to Saudi Arabia

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Pakistan bets on electric vehicles as Middle East war sends petrol prices soaring 54%

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Pakistan forces accused of quadcopter blast that killed 2 children in Balochistan

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Nearly 3 in 4 Pakistan inmates await trial amid prison overcrowding in country: Report

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

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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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Shehbaz govt, Imran Khan's PTI hold talks as Pakistan braces for protests

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Durga Puja pandal count up in Bangladesh, Hindus say 'reduced fear'

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'Companies may face US sanctions': Sri Lanka to put 'national interest' first as 19 Iranian vessels seek help

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Makeup, colourful scarves, speaking in public: Bizarre reasons women get detained in Afghanistan

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Nepal flood surged at 163kmph, seismic waves detected 19k-km away: Study

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Who is Shiranthi Rajapaksa? Sri Lanka's former first lady arrested over alleged misuse of hospital funds

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Antonio Guterres sidesteps Kashmir question, flags UN Security Council's 'crisis of legitimacy'

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

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After 40 days, Nepal ends flood search with 5,285 still missing

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India's political will needed to extradite Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh

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In 2008, Jamie Oliver launched a programme to teach everyday cooking skills; by March 2024, it had delivered food education to more than 115,000 people in schools and communities across the UK

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Mine water treatment by-product ochre is being used to stabilise contaminated soil at a former lead works in Chester; the site could make way for 126 new apartments

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Two 14-year-old UK conservationists are recruiting 20 children, aged 8 to 13, to raise harvest mice at home and help rebuild their declining population

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King Charles inherited a royal connection to London Zoo dating back nearly 200 years; as a baby, he was taken there to see a polar bear

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Nearly 39,500 tonnes of illegally dumped household and construction waste cleared from Hoad's Wood, Kent; £15.5 million clean-up required 2,500 lorry-loads to remove rubbish piled up to 15 feet high

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London's 1952 smog killed thousands; four years later Britain passed a law that began ending its famous coal-filled 'pea soupers'

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A WWII airfield once used by Britain's famous Dambusters was later quarried for sand; today its runway is a nature reserve filled with skylarks and birds of prey

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Queen Elizabeth helped save rare horse breeds from extinction; she bought a Cleveland Bay colt destined for export when only six purebred stallions remained

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In 2010, George Michael anonymously paid for Jo Maidment's IVF after seeing her on TV; two years later, she gave birth to Betsy and a bouquet of flowers finally revealed who had helped her

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A UK founder and his mother burned through £15,000 developing a vegan supplement, then fitted kitchens to fund their first stock; Free Soul now turns over £55 million a year and employs 50

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A 12-year-old Surrey girl handed her father £500 of savings and asked for a mushroom-shaped house; he built a two-storey backyard hideaway with a glass floor and trapdoor that went on to win Shed of the Year in 2017

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Britain rebuilt 3.5 miles of the A46 using 17,432 tonnes of material from the old road; the project cut its carbon footprint by 23%

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UK engineers started with previously unwanted steel instead of a bridge design; they built the Tan House Footbridge around the available material to cut embodied carbon

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Richard Branson was 29 when he bought an island to impress a girl, offered $100,000 for a $6 million property; in 2007, he bought 125-acre Moskito Island for $15 million, now divided among nine families

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A woman paid about £80 for a Dior bag in a Cotswolds charity shop without knowing if it was genuine; experts identified it as a rare 2003 Koi Saddle Bag, and it later sold for £7,870

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19-year-old student left with no sperm after chemotherapy undergoes UK's first testicular tissue transplant: Doctors will assess sperm production in eight months; 3,100 worldwide have tissue stored

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Russian strikes kill 12 in Ukraine after Trump announces diesel deal with Putin

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A 3D-printed bridge inspired by Leonardo da Vinci uses waste stone and marble powder; 13 printed blocks form a self-supporting structure

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Drone attacks by Ukraine disrupted immediate resumption of peace talks: Putin tells Trump

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South African jurist of Indian origin Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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France turned 127 hectares of abandoned gravel pits into Europe's largest floating solar farm; 135,000 panels now generate power for 37,000 people

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Milan US consulate labour 'exploitation' case: Indian workers among hundreds agree to share of $35m payout

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France's student stir intensifies in Paris; schools shut, police fire tear gas

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Italy passes Meloni's electoral reform, sets 42% threshold for parliamentary majority

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From France to Italy, Belgium to Greece, student protests spread across Europe

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Over 33 killed as Russia's glide bomb attack targets two civilian buses in Ukraine

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Canadian author Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Stun grenades, shattered jaw, severed hand: France's student protests put police under scrutiny

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Three rare snake species bred at Prague Zoo for the first time; two groups of young descend from animals seized from smugglers

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'Maricarmen lives, the fight goes on': 87-year-old dies after becoming symbol of Spain housing crisis

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Trump as 'orange plague': Gold-covered naked statue of US president unveiled at European Parliament

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China opens military base at former CIA airfield in Laos

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From fishing nets to grey-zone tactics: Chinese militia boat enter Taiwan's sensitive east coast - report

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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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Israeli leader admits that assassinating Ayatollah Khamenei was a 'mistake'

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'Inspired by 9/11': Omani flydubai co-pilot planned to crash jet into Israeli airport, claims UAE

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'Ready to do everything in our power': Putin offers to help end Iran war

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Flydubai cockpit attack: Israel to honour Indian pilot Smit Machchhar with top civilian bravery award

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Israel-Britain ties hit new low as Jerusalem consulate loses its diplomatic status

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Syria considers sending troops to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthis

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'Last warning to global airlines': Houthis attack Riyadh airport, warn over Saudi airspace

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Iran sends Hezbollah $200 million to aid displaced Lebanese: Report

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Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz highest in a week since Iran war began: Report

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The backstory: From the 'Promised Land' to October 7 - the origin story of Israel-Palestine conflict

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Turkish opposition stronghold falls in Erdogan's hands as Izmir mayor defects

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F-35s, F-15s, Reapers: US loses 81 aircraft as Iran war bill hits $3.3 billion

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3 years after October 7 Hamas attack: A scarred Israel, a devastated Gaza and a Middle East no longer the same

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Houthis hit Yemen's Aden airport, claim attacks on Saudi Arabia

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Omani pilot had failed airline stints, flydubai hired him in post-pandemic spree: Report

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A marble bust sat in an English garden for 70 years; it was actually a rare work by America's first professional female sculptor

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Canada removed 7,300 cubic metres of toxic sediment from this harbour; fish species returned after disappearing for more than 30 years

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Beneath one Sussex wind turbine, 75,000 recycled cubes replace rock armour in the ocean; could create more than twice the potential marine habitat

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In 1990, Switzerland crushed an old A13 road and reused its concrete in new pavement; after 20 years, mixes with up to 100% recycled aggregate remained durable

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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes off Panama's southern coast, tsunami warning issued

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In 2013, 80-year-old Miura climbed Everest despite four heart surgeries, taking the record after first reaching the mountain's summit at 70 and again at 75

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In 2022, South Africa put recycled waste plastic into two high-truck-traffic asphalt sections; checks a year apart found both experimental roads performing well

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A wind-tunnel experiment paired two vertical-axis turbines; closely spaced counter-rotating models produced 13% to 16% more power than two isolated turbines

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In 2025, researchers explored the USS Yorktown wreck three miles below the Pacific; inside its hangar sat what may be a 1941 Ford station wagon

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Why OpenAI shut down ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia and Iran

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A French family found an 18th-century Chinese vase forgotten in an attic and carried it to Sotheby's in a shoebox; after experts linked it to the Qianlong court, it sold for €16.18 million

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Japan protests Russia's bid to extradite ICC top judge Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, over Putin arrest warrant

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Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize puts focus back on 2 landmark Rwanda genocide cases

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Who is Navanethem Navi Pillay? South African jurist of Indian-origin awarded Nobel Peace Prize

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A rare Canadian computer was forgotten in an Edmonton barn for decades; its first known unboxing came nearly 45 years after it was built

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At 21, an Australian waitress quit with $100 and cooked meals for 10 gym friends from a Bondi apartment; the side hustle later reached $5 million in revenue and built a 100-acre farm

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Trump turns to Putin for diesel after lecturing India on Russian energy

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In 1967, Georgia man Donnie Peek bought 150 acres and grew his property to 1,600 acres; decades later, a $3.2 billion pipeline route shifted to run 2.5 miles only through his land alone

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Val Kilmer turned a 5,328-acre New Mexico ranch into a retreat with rental cabins and a B he asked $33 million in 2009, then sold most of the property two years later when the asking price fell to $18.5 million

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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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In 2016, Dakota Johnson paid $3.55 million for a 1947 Los Angeles midcentury home; after renovating the 'tree house' with Pierce & Ward, she sold it a decade later for $5.92 million after asking $6 million

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Idaho family has farmed 1,000 acres since 1950; after the state largely shut off its irrigation water in 2025, the owners say crops failed and are now suing to protect the family farm

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In 2003, two brothers bought a Queens home for $850,000; after racketeering convictions and years of forfeiture litigation, the property is heading to a federal auction with bidding starting at $900,000

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Rock legend Rick Wakeman played piano for 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam; he now wants the last 125 bears still caged on bile farms moved to sanctuaries

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9/11 attacks inspired flydubai hijacker to become a pilot, UAE probe finds

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In 2016, Washington installed 26 human-made beaver dams in a damaged creek; after one flood, sediment rose nearly 5 feet, and water depth increased 11%

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A $132,000 GoFundMe was raised for radio host Ronn Owens; federal review found thousands spent on mortgages, businesses and family transfers

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Global warming could make Russia richer. It could also bring NATO closer to its doorstep

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Another earthquake in Panama after 7.6 magnitude quake that collapsed buildings, sent crowds running for safety

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Florida commissioners unanimously rejected development across nearly 230 acres in 2025; 16 months later, they reversed course 4-3 and approved more than 4,800 apartments and about 1,000 hotel rooms

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Hours after Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace prize, Trump hits ICC with major sanctions

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An 8-year-old Indiana boy spotted a smoking camper trailer and alerted people nearby before it caught fire; he was honoured with Department Patch and Certificate of Recognition for preventing a larger emergency

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A Massachusetts dairy farmer nearly sold an unfarmable slice of his land to Walmart, but put an 11-acre solar field there instead; the lease paid $1,000 a week while rooftop panels erased a $1,400 monthly power bill

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Billionaire John Paul DeJoria turned his 96-acre Texas estate into an exotic-animal haven; more than 120 gazelles, wildebeest and antelopes once roamed the property

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In 1951, a Texas town of 400 residents avoided condemnation for a federal dam; 75 years later, a 90-year-old landowner and his neighbors have temporarily halted a 30-foot border wall on the same riverfront

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Florida put radioactive fertiliser waste beneath a private road; 4 test sections are being monitored for safety

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Indianapolis rebuilt a 10,000-foot airport runway using concrete that captures CO2 and stores it inside the pavement

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Trump says he deserves 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, calls award 'forever discredited'

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Alaska spent $46 million to lower power bills for 81,000 people in 188 rural communities, many reliant on diesel

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Texas businessman spent years turning King Ludwig II's unrealised castle plans into a 110-acre estate; his Falkenstein Castle is now listed for $9 million

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'Things going to get treacherous': Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida as Category 2 storm

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California buried about 270,000 waste tyres beneath a highway near Confusion Hill; the rubber became lightweight fill for two new bridges

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More than 150 wrestlers join Memphis battle royal for animal shelters; WWE star Jordynne Grace gives all meet-and-greet money to sanctuary

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"It's gross. It's barbaric": HasanAbi and Asmongold clash over Nidal Malik Hasan's planned firing squad execution

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A Louisiana artist filled a former gas station with 50,000 discarded objects; it became a bizarre museum with animated displays

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A New York house built in 1728 was hidden inside later storefronts and saved from demolition in 2013; after a 13-year, $3 million restoration, Albany's oldest building has reopened to the public

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