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Chennai airport expansion begins: New Terminal 5, flyover and approach road planned; here's what we know about the project

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Los Angeles shooting: 2 killed, dozens detained near California college after party turns chaotic

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Father left his £600,000 house to one daughter and just £250 to each of two others; the inheritance fight ended in a huge court bill

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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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World - / Oct 3, 2026 - In the 1970s, an Italian priest sold 12,000 piranhas to Europe; 55 years later his proceeds have funded 350m bridges and an 800m airstrip - Giovanni Gallo, an Italian Jesuit priest, moved to Marajó Island in Brazil in the 1970s. He organized the preservation and export of 12,000 piranhas to fund community infrastructure projects. These projects included bridges, a cemetery, a dock, and an airstrip for local residents. Gallo also founded the Museu do Marajó, which showcased local history and archaeology.

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World - / Oct 3, 2026 - 81 years after British submarine sank Nazi U-boat, Norway faces mercury threat from its wreck - Norwegian authorities are grappling with a serious mercury contamination issue stemming from the sunken U-864 submarine, which met its fate during World War II. Recent investigations discovered leaking mercury containers, prompting worries about environmental repercussions. The government is now exploring strategies to mitigate this contamination, with sealing the wreck being one of the options under consideration by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries in Norway.

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Russia-NATO Tensions Flare; Putin Men Stops German Cargo Ship Near Finland Amid Wargames | Details

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'Totally Corrupt': Trump Blasts Letitia James In 'Cornell 7' Rape Probe

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Putin's Big Military Show; Drones Pour Fire, Rockets Strike, Robots Attack; Message For NATO?

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First Images Of Omani Co-pilot Hamam Al-Hamami Who Tried To Hijack Flydubai's Israel Bound Flight

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Iran Foils 'Israel's Mossad' Plot Against IRGC? Two Terrorists Killed, Starlink Terminal Seized'

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Eyewitnesses Dissect Flydubai Cockpit 'Mid-Air War' With Unheard Details

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7 signs toxic productivity culture is taking over your life: When 'working hard' becomes unhealthy

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How to grow tomatoes in pots at home: Easy step-by-step guide for beginners

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Longevity 101: This simple exercise three times a week could help lower your blood pressure (and it takes just minutes)

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7 KINDS OF BREAD THAT BARELY LOOK LIKE BREAD

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5 THINGS YOU SHOULD STOP EXPLAINING ON A FIRST DATE

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'Gays for Palestine? Send them there to negotiate': Trump mocks LGBTQ community

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

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US engineers turn dredged river sediment into 3D-printed oyster reefs; six structures are now being tested in Mobile Bay

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A Florida owner planned 52 ten-acre homesites across his 625-acre cattle ranch if the county would not buy it; after two years of talks, officials agreed to pay $7.8 million and stop the development

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A severely malnourished stray rescued in Mississippi in 2021 became a FEMA-certified search dog; years later, Canyon is 2026 Dog of the Year

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A Pennsylvania man started welding old car parts into sculptures in 1988; his Erie front yard now has a two-headed dinosaur and rocket ship

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Drew Barrymore's grandfather once owned this Los Angeles estate; after Tony Scott bought and updated it, the property spent six years on the market before selling to her Charlie's Angels director for $14.7 million

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Philip Rietveld assembled nearly 1,500 acres of Illinois and Indiana farmland over his lifetime; after his death in 2026, his family sold 23 tracts for $22.46 million, with one fetching $32,600 an acre

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In 1975, lawyer John Swenson ordered rocambole garlic out of curiosity; decades later, his collection helped spark America's Garlic Revolution

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono once rented a West Village apartment; the building is now a six-storey mansion that sold for $70 million

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Beth Feeback paid $9.99 for a North Carolina thrift-store painting she wanted to cover with cats; it proved to be an Ilya Bolotowsky work and sold at Sotheby's for $34,375, including fees

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Cornell rape victim 'failed' by people bound to protect her: New York governor

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Two Iowa farmers gave up pigs and started growing mushrooms; their abandoned livestock buildings became an artisan food business

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Pope vs Anthropic: Why 'AI consciousness' is dividing Silicon Valley and Vatican

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Camp David huddle: Trump team discusses Iran war, possible Yemen offensive - report

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Pakistan logs over 1.2k rebel attacks in 9 months of '26, security crisis deepens

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

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'Vague and broad': UN experts slam Pakistan's counter-terrorism laws, demand release of lawyer couple

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Policeman killed in gunmen attack in Pakistan's khyber pakhtunkhwa

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

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'Don't go back like this': Pakistan minister's throat-cut gesture to Afghan journalist backfires - video

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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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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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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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'No formal apology': Buckingham Palace says King Charles will only reflect on slave trade

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In 2002, British choirs began singing to raise money for clean water; this year, the project marks its 25th year and has raised nearly £1.4 million

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Two Iranians in UK charged over terror plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community

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Shannon Burns could claim £76 million from Gitpod after disability discrimination win; tribunal allows former VP to pursue one of UK's biggest employment compensation claims

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A grand London mansion hid a secret WWII listening post; more than 70 years later, its hidden basement is now a museum

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In WWII, one Scottish island became a secret British bioweapon site and stayed toxic for nearly 50 years; now it's safe to visit

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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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Spain bar collapses: 11 injured after building traps 25-30 people inside

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Russia escalates Ukraine infrastructure attacks, strikes second Kyiv bridge in days

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Lithuania airport shut, Nato jets scramble as 'drone spotted' along Belarus border

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AI sings Russia's war story: Inside the rise of generative songs about Ukraine conflict

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Paris Pont Neuf cave: How French street artist JR turned the oldest bridge in Paris into a giant walk-through art installation

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Fires, clashes and mass arrests as student protests turn violent in France: Video

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Mexico to propose bill to restrict violent social media content after school attack

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France paid people to kill Mediterranean dolphins in 1865 to protect fisheries; a study calls it the first recorded dolphin bounty

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Why Kaliningrad matters to Putin: The Suwałki Gap vulnerability, Kremlin's nuclear threat and India link

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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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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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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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Co-pilot attacked Indian captain with crash axe: UAE on flydubai 'terrorist attack'

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Israel elections, West Asia wars & Bibi's last gambit

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Why 2 flydubai pilots were sitting among passengers when captain was stabbed

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The vetting gap: How an Omani flagged for extremism ended up piloting a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai jet

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Security lapse Israel overlooked? Over 12 Omani pilots flew to Tel Aviv despite ban

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Saudi Arabia readies 100,000 Yemeni troops for Houthi assault: Can fragmented Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb?

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Gaza war could have ended a year earlier, says ex Israeli hostage negotiator

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Flydubai attack: Co-pilot identified as Hamam Alhamami was barred from flying in Oman over 'extremist views'

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5 Indian seafarers safely rescued after Kuwait-flagged tanker struck by projectile in Strait of Hormuz

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Israeli investigators to question Omani co-pilot in UAE-led flydubai probe: Report

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

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'Will discuss political engagement with Houthis': Pakistan reveals agenda of emergency Mecca pact meet

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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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An Australian council hired specialists to search two remote cemeteries for lost graves; the project has now located 658 unmarked burials, with 338 at White Cliffs and 320 at Menindee

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Brazil: An election of choice?

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In 1902, Hanoi paid people for rat tails to fight plague; more than 55 million tails were collected, but the rats were still alive

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African Parks spent 20 years testing conservation in Malawi; its new model now covers 1.37 million hectares across three African parks

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10 injured after car drives into crowd near Sydney

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New visa rules in Australia from October 2: No more visa hopping for international students, agents selling 'false hope' under scrutiny

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Carney to meet Erdogan in Turkey amid US trade tensions, seeks new markets beyond Washington: Report

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Australia began turning waste plastic into railway sleepers in 2015, saving timber; the recycled material could last up to 50 years

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In the 1980s, Japan buried coal fly ash beneath the sea to create solid ground for a giant bridge; after decades, the unusual foundation still supports its towers

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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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Posted about niqab, 'ruined women': Omani co-pilot's social media trail reveals radical ideology

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In 2022, loggers working for neighbours crossed onto a Mississippi couple's land and cut 1,299 trees; their handwritten tally helped secure a $41,920 award later upheld on appeal

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A Maryland homeowner received an unsolicited $234,368.25 check tied to an offer for her property; a state law that took effect on October 1 now bans sending such checks with unsolicited purchase offers

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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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Watch: Hindu temple attacked with bricks in US, windows shattered

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An Oregon wheat-farming couple had 13 wind turbines placed on their land; while crops continued around them, they said the operating turbines were bringing in about $100,000 a year

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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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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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Texas is putting hundreds of tons of concrete and railroad ties into the Gulf; the material is being turned into new fish habitat

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Munich Oktoberfest ride gives women free shorts amid thousands of upskirting videos

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

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Life in US is fake luxurious: Mumbai man with $360k savings says he plans to return to India to take over father's business

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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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A Mississippi homeowner spent more than a decade building a waterfront house styled after the Taj Mahal; the unfinished 4,402-sq-ft home, listed for $2 million in 2016, is back for $2.5 million

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'Accountability demands it': FBI to issue 'Patel Report' examining past failures

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Texas woman kills 4-yr-old daughter, then shoots self dead after losing custody battle to ex-husband

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In 1938, a Texas family bought a ranch near Austin; 87 years later, a 202-acre conservation deal added protection to a 6,600-acre landscape that holds 10% of the Barton Creek watershed

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She started farming at 3 and launched her business at 6; at 10, America's youngest certified farmer has been gifted 40 acres

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'God made Trump': Inside White House's $20 million ad campaign ahead of midterms

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Copper mining left 200 million tons of waste in Michigan's Torch Lake, and crews are now removing contaminated sediment from its Lake Linden shoreline

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In 2000, a broken water main flooded an abandoned Dallas rail tunnel; the disaster damaged two federal buildings and led to a $2.33 million settlement

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'She's under siege on social media': Cornell sexual assault victim's identity under threat

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Botched execution leaves Tennessee murderer Christa Pike unconscious on ventilator

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