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World - / Oct 2, 2026 - Japan buried coal ash under the sea; decades later, it still supports a bridge - When engineers in Japan began work on the Hakucho Ohashi Bridge in Hokkaido in the 1980s, they faced an unusual problem beneath the water. The foundations for the bridge's two main towers had to be built on a soft seabed about 14 to 17 metres

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World - / Oct 2, 2026 - 'Political engagement with Houthis': Pak reveals agenda of emergency Mecca pact meet - Pakistan on Friday said an emergency meeting of the strategic political defence committee under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement will be held in Riyadh next week, with the agenda set to include Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia and political engagement

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Illinois farmer John Dollinger's family hosted 10 wind turbines across 800 acres; payments began at $10,000 per turbine a year and, by 2025, had risen to about $120,000 annually across the farm

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An Ohio man persuaded investors to put more than $3 million into supposed "rolling code ticket packages" tied to sports and theme-park experiences; prosecutors say the investment never existed and money went to casinos

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Silicon Valley investor AJ Scaramucci quietly built a collection of comics, trading cards and dinosaur fossils; now he sees them as alternative assets

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At 8, Vivienne Harr of Fairfax, California, opened a lemonade stand after seeing a photo of enslaved children; she kept it running for 365 days and raised over $100,000 in the first six months

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Fake US ambassador went on luxury spending spree before FBI arrest, bought a Bentley, leased a Maserati

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US govt official arrested on charges of supporting Iran-backed Houthis, buying bomb-making materials

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Michigan's $3.219 billion Soo Locks project has reached 50% of its final phase, on track for completion by 2030; crews will use 400,000 cubic yards of concrete, enough for a sidewalk from Sault Ste. Marie to Orlando

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Renee Good shooting: Family sues ICE agent, top Trump officials over her death

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In 2009, families in Long Branch, New Jersey, forced the city to withdraw takeover cases that would have cleared their modest homes for luxury condominiums

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In 1992, California finished removing feral goats from San Clemente Island; a rare native plant later rebounded to more than 3,500 individuals

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In 2006, a floating-home resident challenged Riviera Beach's $2.4 billion waterfront redevelopment plan; the city later abandoned it

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Kevin O'Leary backed a proposed 40,000-acre Utah AI data-center district with up to 9 gigawatts of power; months later, the project has been downsized and remains stalled after local backlash

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In 2015, Utah man Cory Mohl began building a backyard railroad; after 40,000 pounds of gravel and hundreds of hours, neighbours were riding it and he expected a final cost near $18,000

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In 2007, Ohio volunteers saved a 1913 railcar once used as storage and reopened it as a railroad education centre for school and group visits

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In 2014, a Phoenix architect turned a discarded 1955 grain silo into a 340-square-foot home, using its curved shell and a skylight to add a second floor

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In 2005 Ohio put ground tire rubber into 1 mile of King Road in Sylvania; 10 years later, the recycled section still matched the control at an 87% rating

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

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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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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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Pakistan govt puts Islamabad on lockdown as Imran Khan's party pushes ahead with march

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'No Muslim can even dare': Pakistan PM at UN condemns Houthi attacks, draws red line over Mecca

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Pakistan goes bananas over giant gorillas dancing to Bollywood songs

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Pakistan govt crackdown forces PTI retreat? Imran's party likely to postpone Sept 27 Islamabad march

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'Could endanger his life': Imran Khan's son warns against Adiala jail protest

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Watch: Pakistan PM runs away from questions on Hafeez Saeed at UN

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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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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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Watch: Government building collapses into river as heavy rains trigger fresh landslide in Nepal

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Two bodies recovered after deadly Himlung Himal avalanche; 10 remain missing in Nepal

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In 2021, a former RAF site in Oxfordshire became 187 homes, with 160 made from old barracks, mess halls and stores once built for military life

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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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A soldier gave these bean seeds to a family after serving in WWII; 80 years later, the same variety is entering Britain's heritage seed collection

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A Milton Keynes family spent years limiting heating; 17 solar panels, a battery and heat pump now give them five years of zero energy bills

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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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Italy's underwater marble sculptures were built as art; a study finds they are becoming small artificial reef habitats

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France rocked by protests as nearly 400 schools close amid student-police clashes

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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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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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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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Trump-Xi bonhomie set to continue, leaders announce two more meetings

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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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'Very heavy price': Netanyahu warns of retaliation if flydubai co-pilot was acting on orders

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'Terrorist act': UAE official on flydubai attack, praises India pilot Smit Machchhar

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Can Jared Kushner broker Gaza peace while investing in Israel? His billion-dollar ties face scrutiny

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Thousands stranded in UAE as Israeli rescue flights cancelled over landing clearance

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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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Flydubai flight incident: Indian pilot stable, co-pilot in custody; Saudi, UAE launch probes - top developments

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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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In 2004, Little Barrier Island removed invasive Pacific rats; one year later, Cook's petrel breeding success at its hardest-hit sites jumped from 5% to 53%

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A Melbourne homeowner bought a house years after construction; water damage he noticed months later became a $176,297 insurance battle

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In 1993, Matera's once-shunned cave districts became a UNESCO World Heritage site; restored stone homes now host hotels, shops and a living city

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In 2009 Australia began removing rats and rabbits from Broughton Island; by 2018, an estimated 64,500 pairs of wedge-tailed shearwaters were breeding there

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Hawaii fenced feral pigs out of a damaged native forest; 16 years later woody plants had multiplied sixfold and young tree ferns were up 51.2%

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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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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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Saudi hands Omani flydubai pilot to UAE as Trump vows to 'hit hard' if Iran involved in plane incident

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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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Iran's 'village' is cracking. How Tehran is keeping its Axis of Resistance alive

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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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In the 1970s, Newark Airport buried coal fly ash beneath runways built for jumbo jets; more than 20 years later, FHWA said the pavement was still performing well

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California removed invasive rabbits from Santa Barbara Island; its endangered native dudleya stopped declining, with 534 plants later counted

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A Hanford landfill has taken 20 million tons of radioactive and hazardous waste since 1996; its latest expansion will add 2.8 million cubic yards

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In the 1870s, a San Francisco undertaker refused to sell his small house to a railroad millionaire; instead of taking it, the tycoon built a towering spite fence around it

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In 1916, a New York widow raising five children refused to sell her Manhattan row house; developers put 14- and 15-storey apartment buildings on both sides, leaving her home standing

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Can Jared Kushner broker Gaza peace while investing in Israel? His billion-dollar ties face scrutiny

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In 2008, an Oregon lawyer kept his 1894 house from a planned takeover for student towers; the transit agency cancelled its acquisition plan

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In 2005, an Iowa carpenter who never went to college left nearly $3 million in savings; 14 years later, 33 strangers whose education he funded gathered to remember the man they had never met

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US lawmaker urges Starbucks to close Xinjiang outlet in China over Uyghur oppression

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An Indianapolis man quietly built a fortune exceeding $13 million; after his death, a surprise call from his estate brought a $1.6 million gift to a charity supplying classrooms with essential materials

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In 2003, Lakewood homeowners defeated a city plan to use eminent domain to clear their neighborhood for private retail development

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San Francisco man who quietly walked his dog in a local park left $3.6 million after his death for park improvements, with his will calling for more benches

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Illinois volunteers removed invasive plants from 43 acres; they then planted nearly 9,000 native plugs and more than 1,100 pounds of seed

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US weighs diesel export ban, urges Europe to release reserves: Why diesel is more sensitive

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Michael Jordan sold this Ferrari in 2002; it vanished for 24 years until a partial chassis number in an old forum helped in tracing it

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Iowa woman left a $3 million estate for 485 libraries and 128 senior community centres; her quiet final act is now transforming education and elder care in small towns across the state

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In 2019, Jack Johnson's foundation bought neglected farmland in Hawaii; six years later, it reported over 40,000 pounds of produce harvested and more than 2,200 students welcomed on field trips

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'H-1B programme is completely broken': JD Vance backs scrapping visa system

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He never married or had children; after his death, his estate began funding engineering students at NC State, where he once studied

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'Real battle is spiritual': Pete Hegseth announces Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs - what will it serve

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