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Times of India - World

Optical illusion personality test: What you see first reveals whether you are happy with your life right now

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Indian nationals among 14 killed in deadly multi-vehicle crash in UAE's Fujairah

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New Mexico lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare an appeal for a man serving life in prison, but fake witnesses and misquoted court rulings led the Supreme Court to impose a $5,000 penalty

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India-born Praneet Menon wins Vermont state House seat in US election

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From fastest passenger ship to world's largest artificial reef: Historic US ocean liner sinks off Florida

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World - / Nov 12, 2026 - Marco Rubio spent over $1.2m in taxpayer-funded flights to attend son's college games - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing scrutiny over his frequent trips to Florida to watch his son play college football, with a Washington Post investigation estimating that 23 military aircraft journeys cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million. While Rubio is required to use government aircraft for security reasons, the frequency of his personal trips has raised questions about taxpayer spending and official accountability.

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World - / Nov 12, 2026 - Three school colleagues receive awards for saving cyclist in cardiac arrest - Kip Knowles collapsed in cardiac arrest while cycling alone, and three school staff members intervened promptly. PE teacher Stacey Charman, cookery teacher Chellie Messenger, and school nurse Claire Agnew performed CPR for 25 minutes. Their actions, which included using a defibrillator, revived Kip before medical help arrived. Kip's wife nominated the trio for awards from St John Ambulance for their lifesaving efforts.

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'Stupid Republicans!': GOP Senator Kennedy Erupts After Midterm Rout; Dig At Trump?

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Washington DC Shooting NIGHTMARE: Gym Witness Reveals How One Victim Died In Front Of Him

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Pete Hegseth Will STRIKE BACK? Arlington Soldier's Veterans Day Rebuke Sparks Fears Of 'RETALIATION'

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'Moving Closer To Europe': Mark Carney Promises More Jobs, Lower Costs & Security Amid Trump Rift

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Iran Diplomacy Dead, War Begins? Trump 'TERMINATES' Talks; Orders JD Vance To Open Domestic Front

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Nvidia KICKS OUT Jensen Huang After 2nd Affair, China Spy Trap; Nvidia Picks Colette Kress As CEO

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Vijay Deverakonda's Rs 6.7 lakh Rolex is a square deal dipped in luxury with a century-old story

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5 THINGS FLIGHT ATTENDANTS NOTICE ABOUT PASSENGERS

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Black-tie royalty: Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan's coordinated Dubai looks are a lesson in couple dressing

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10 ELEGANT BABY GIRL NAMES THAT NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE

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Forget the Christmas tree, Kiara Advani is the ultimate star in this scarlet statement gown for 'Koffee With Karan'

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A Florida chimpanzee sanctuary caring for about 200 apes was cut off by flooding that submerged its roads; workers used a drone to deliver food and blankets to a stranded 38-year-old chimp named Kaleb

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Stephen Miller makes his first big decision, internal memo reveals something Susie Wiles would have never approved: Report

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Did RFK Jr 'lie' to Congress about Samoa trip? Trump's health secretary faces probe over 'emboldening' anti-vaccine activists

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In 2001, Mark Wahlberg and his brother founded a charity for disadvantaged children; 25 years later, it has raised and distributed nearly $20 million, building community spaces and sending thousands to summer camp

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In 2022, a Tennessee deputy hunting a 34-year-old suspect stopped a 64-year-old disabled veteran with long purple hair and tased him, fracturing his skull; four years on, the county has agreed to pay him $1 million

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'Not a single caravan has reached north': Mexican President Sheinbaum pushes back on Trump's tariff threat

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In 1992, Kurt Cobain gave Mark Lanegan a smashed, band-signed Fender; 31 years later, it sold for nearly $600,000

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In 1996, Eddie Van Halen gave Jason Becker a guitar with a promise that they would play together; 27 years later, Becker auctioned it for $110,000 to finance his ongoing treatment

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A Mississippi woman's home caught fire in 2023 and her insurer estimated $440,092 in structural damage; after she sought full coverage and filed 1,385 pages of evidence, a federal appeals court rejected her claims

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A Texas businessman said he bought a home in 2015 with a partner's help while abroad, but she died and her children inherited it; an appeals court rejected his ownership challenge despite a $287,000 bank transfer

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Senator Tom Cotton urges Trump admin to ban Chinese chipmaker CXMT from US market over security concerns

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In 1968, a buried steamboat emerged from an Iowa mudfield, 30 feet down; its cargo of tools, clothes and food preserved a snapshot of life bound for Montana's gold fields

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'Don't need deal, got their money, got their strait': Trump's latest on Iran

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In the 1940s, Babe Ruth gave his "Called Shot" jersey to a golfing friend; about 80 years later, it sold for $24.12 million

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'President maintains complete confidence in him': White House official on commerce secy Lutnick amid Nvidia 'spy' scandal

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Indian-origin Ohio mother sentenced to 90 days in jail three years after newborn daughter's body found in garbage truck. She says she did not know she was pregnant

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BLA claims 18 killed in suicide vehicle attack on Pakistan Army camp in Balochistan

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'Some good news': Two sisters of ex-Pak PM Imran Khan released from jail; elder sister, wife remain behind bars

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Pakistan announces schedule for Guru Nanak's 557th birth anniversary celebrations despite Attari-Wagah closure

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'Two eight-year-olds or four four-year-olds': Pakistani cleric's child bride 'joke' sparks outrage

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Pakistan militant attack kills 10 policemen in KPK's Kohat, gunbattle still under way

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Pakistan court frames charges against 8, including grandson of deputy PM Ishaq Dar, in gang rape case

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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan taken to hospital for eye check-up, treatment; shifted back to Adiala Jail

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More debt, less development? Pakistan spends just 10% of annual budget

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Imran Khan aide, ex-Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi collapses in jail; hospitalised

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Lashkar terrorist Hafiz Saeed's political outfit loses Pakistan's parliamentary bypoll

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Pakistani TV anchor Rabia Ahsan shot dead at home; police probe husband's claim of accidental firing

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Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans faceless anti-terror courts: Report

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Balochistan Parties call statewide shutdown in mid-November as crisis deepens in troubled province

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'If he wishes to come': Pakistan open to considering visa for Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann's Lahore visit

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Pak cracks down on protests in POK against rising cost of living, around 20 feared dead

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Pakistan's forex rises by record $ 110 million in just a week despite West Asia crisis

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'Anti-India' campaign: Chinese vloggers in Dhaka scale back activities amid increased surveillance

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10 killed as passenger vehicle plunges 500 metres down slope in Nepal

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Political activities must be open to all in Bangladesh: UN

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Three monks begin hunger strike in Sri Lanka over redevelopment of major Buddhist site

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Over 2,000 teachers, students face political persecution in Bangladesh: Report

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Bus driver burnt alive as arson attacks, crude bomb blasts rock Bangladesh

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'This is New Delhi': Chinese vloggers pass off Bangladesh slums as India in bizarre videos

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'Merely political posturing': Bangladesh says Hasina has no intention of returning from India

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Bangladesh appoints Salahuddin Noman as new foreign secretary; envoy Siam to join Delhi Mission

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'Threat to heritage': Buddhist monks protest in Sri Lanka against religious site redevelopment

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Two Iranian men convicted of spying for Tehran in UK

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Karl Bushby spent 28 years making his way home; his final miles ended with an emotional reunion with the mother he hadn't seen in a decade

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Around 1971, George Harrison offered an Apple engineer a Rickenbacker, calling it "a great rhythm player"; 43 years later, it sold for $657,000

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A woman called off her wedding weeks before the ceremony; a London family court later ordered her to return seven jewellery items worth £67,942 to her former fiancé

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Stewardess Violet Jessop was aboard the RMS Olympic when it collided with a warship in 1911, survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, and then survived the sinking of its sister ship Britannic in 1916

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A shoebox of love letters found in a 1960s archive reveals the secret romance between Witley Court heiress Dora Smith and Noel Pearson, who eventually married after her divorce in 1929

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Stewardess Violet Jessop was aboard the RMS Olympic when it collided with a warship in 1911, survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, and then survived the sinking of its sister ship Britannic in 1916

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A 4.3-hectare wetland in England uses 350,000 plants from 52 species to treat wastewater and storm overflows; the nature-based engineering system has cut embodied carbon by 60%

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Kate Middleton opens up about cancer recovery, says nature became her 'sanctuary' during difficult journey; Princess of Wales reflects on good and bad days, parenting and mental health

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More than 2,000 donors raise £330,000 in 60 days to protect 340 acres around Dorset's famous Cerne Abbas Giant, creating a new nature haven for rare butterflies

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UK PM Burnham vows to unveil 10-year plan for Britain before Christmas amid Badenoch's vision jibe

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A widow clearing out her late husband's shed found a biscuit tin packed with 62 gold coins, including pieces he bought for £70 to £80 each in 1975; after 50 years hidden away, the collection sold for £113,000

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A giant 18-metre warehouse built metres from homes in a quiet English village has left residents fighting noise and fearing lost property value; they have raised £78,000 to challenge round-the-clock truck plans

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UK parliamentarians seek safeguards against Sheikh Hasina's execution on her return to Bangladesh

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'Foreign troops in Ukraine unacceptable': Putin's blunt message during meeting with Trump's envoys

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'Not random': Zelenskyy flags 'disruptions' in Musk's Starshield despite Trump's claim

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'No light, no water, no heat: Kyiv faces 20-hour blackouts as Russian strikes cripple Ukraine's power grid

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Protesters clash with police, set fires during Spain's general strike: Watch

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Trump's envoys to meet Putin in Moscow before talks with Zelenskyy in Ireland

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Russian ambassador to US Alexander Darchiev dies 'suddenly' at 66

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'Unacceptable': Germany vows action after report finds widespread sexual misconduct in military

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France fears German long-range missiles could trigger nuclear escalation with Russia

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Biggest prisoner swap in sight as Russia, Ukraine hold US-mediated talks to end war

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'Genocide against Italians': Over 6,000 Italy schools get bomb threats, similar warnings in UK & Ireland

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Germany bans Chinese drones from military training, opts for European alternatives

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6 power substations hit in Russian strikes across Ukraine's 4 regions

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Switzerland builds a 37-metre wildlife bridge over a motorway using one of the world's first post-tensioned timber structures, helping animals cross safely and reconnecting fragmented habitats

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Coded calls from Brooklyn jail: How Iran-backed operative coordinated terror plots in Europe, US

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US army officer arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for Russia

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Denmark's Aarhus is building a 110 MW geothermal heating system, with three facilities expected to meet 20% of the city's district heating demand

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'US fabricating spy narratives to impose tech blockade': China on Nvidia CEO row

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'No room for Taiwan independence': China's Xi Jinping doubles down on reunification push

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Nvidia-linked suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang now living in Beijing: Report

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Blacklisted Chinese military-linked university bought Nvidia H200 chips - Report

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'A baseless smearing': China denies spying charge targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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China high-rise building fire kills 14 in Shanxi province

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China's using clean tech to shape global climate fight, growth

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China to release Japanese pharma employee jailed for espionage after 3.5 years

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Ahead of summit, Beijing tells Quad: Don't rake up South China sea row

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Chinese automaker's electric hypercar sets new speed record, whizzes past 500 kmph

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4 personnel killed as military helicopter crashes in southern Turkey

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'Shouting match from hell': Trump, Netanyahu clash in explosive phone call over Iran war

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Netanyahu's Iran gamble: Can caretaker Israeli PM launch a war?

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UAE midnight crash: Several dead in Fujairah after truck hits multiple vehicles, police issues warning

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Israel strikes another hospital in Gaza; 6 killed, over a dozen injured

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Netanyahu asks military to prepare for Iran 2.0 as opposition demands no strikes before next govt

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'America did not start this': Trump defends war with Iran

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'Any new attack will be met with strikes on bases': Iran warns US, rules out nuclear material transfer

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09:59 - Watch: Netanyahu's wife, former Israel PM in heated exchange as Bibi delivers Parliament speech

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Iranian football team's plane returns after permission denied in Iraq; travels by road due to US sanctions

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'Unfit to remain in office': Eisenkot attacks Netanyahu after 'hateful' Knesset speech

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'Unable to manage fridges': Iran mocks France after Paris blames Tehran for supermarket cyberattack

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'Almost all of Iran's oil revenue will dry up': Rubio warns as US tightens sanctions

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Israel govt formation: Netanyahu in 'panic' as Eisenkot-led bloc agree on key Knesset positions

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The unseen casualties of Iran war: How deadly attacks at sea are putting sailors' lives at risk

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Activists entered an Australian goat abattoir seven times and filmed a 14-minute video; the High Court said they retained copyright but must destroy the footage, after an earlier $130,000 damages award

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An Australian court awarded $1.346 million against the estate of a man convicted of abusing a foster child decades earlier; on November 11, the High Court set aside that outcome and ordered a new trial

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A 197.80-carat sapphire once worn by Russia's last imperial family's dowager empress at a 1903 royal ball has sold for $4.9 million in Geneva, far above its presale estimate of up to $2 million

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Around 2004, Alberta's Jerry Leussink began building a 317,000-gallon swimming pond; cleaning and maintaining it takes 15–20 hours a month, and refilling it after a full drain took over a month

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US, UK see sharp fall in international student enrolments amid visa curbs: Survey

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A rare 24-carat Bulgari Pink diamond that had remained with the same family since the 1950s has sold for more than $14.6 million at Christie's in Geneva, decades after its original purchase

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Punjab-origin newlywed couple and brother-in-law killed in NZ crash; families seek repatriation

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A 15-year-old Canadian hockey player facing treatment for a rare cancer has received community support, with a $50,000 fundraising target reached as his family seeks specialist care in the US

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Indian-origin trucker Ranjit Singh found guilty of smuggling 40kg cocaine worth $4.8m into Canada

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Yella Beezy found guilty of hiring gunman to kill rapper MO3

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Meet Jhon Jairo 'Popeye' Velásquez, Pablo Escobar's hitman who helped coordinate 3,000 killings before becoming a famous Colombian YouTuber recounting his days in the Medellín cartel

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Billionaire Nicky Oppenheimer's family transformed 43 former cattle and sheep farms into a 118,000-hectare wildlife reserve in South Africa's Kalahari

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Rejected by his mother, bullied by older monkeys and raised with a stuffed toy, Punch is now showing a softer side of care towards a younger macaque

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Canadian homebuyer loses her entire $70,000 deposit after backing out of a $1.388 million Vaughan property deal over mortgage trouble; court also orders her to pay sellers $35,000

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A Colorado delivery driver who cares for her 82-year-old mother apologised at a door for a mixed-up pizza order, the family came out and prayed with her, and strangers have since donated over $76,000 to help her

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After moving his hedge fund from Chicago to Miami in 2022, billionaire Ken Griffin bought every one of 138 apartments in a downtown condominium; now he is reshaping the city through massive investments and donations

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A Mississippi landlord claimed a couple running a youth sports nonprofit owed $99,468 after occupying property without a signed lease; a November 10 appeals court revived the suit without deciding whether they owed rent

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On Christmas Eve 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke fell about 3,000 metres, still strapped to her seat, from LANSA Flight 508, which was struck by lightning over Peru; the only survivor of the 92 people on board, she walked through the Amazon rainforest for 11 days

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An English couple paved a 1.4-metre wedge of their neighbour's garden to widen access to a horse paddock in 2017; a tribunal has rejected their claim to the land, leaving the disputed driveway at risk

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US closes a 4-kilometre road twice a year as thousands of snakes, including venomous rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, migrate between a swamp and limestone cliffs with changing temperatures

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A Washington nephew lived rent-free for 14 years in a house owned by his aunt and uncle, then claimed ownership after his aunt died; a November 9 appeals court upheld the uncle's right to remove him

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Former cricket captain Colin Cowdrey's son wins £500,000 from neighbour after legal battle over £3.85 million country home; dispute began over a strip of land that included part of his private tennis court

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Alice Huang barred from entering country, misled probe into Megaspeed: Singapore

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A Missouri father argued a $20,000 bankruptcy deal erased $243,780 he owed his ex-wife after their divorce; a November 10 appeals court found $12,969.85 still due and revived a separate child-support dispute

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In 1975, Elvis Presley handed his customized guitar to a stunned fan during a concert; nearly 41 years later, it sold for $334,000

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Scott Bessent relocates to military base amid Iranian threats, becomes third cabinet member to do so after Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth

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A 17-year-old Australian boy vanished in dense bushland without his phone, food or water on November 6; six days later, police spotted his tackle box from a helicopter and found him alive beside a creek

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In 1972, flight attendant Vesna Vulovic fell 10,160 metres when a bomb tore her plane apart over Czechoslovakia; she was the only survivor of 28 people and still holds the record for the highest fall survived

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US shooting: At least 1 dead, 4 hurt in firing near White House; gunman shoots self

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Indian-origin Texas man charged for killing parents, grandmother: State won't seek death penalty

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A Texas boy has lived with foster parents since he was weeks old after his mother gave birth while imprisoned; a November 10 appeals ruling upheld the termination of her parental rights as the couple seeks adoption

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'I would've not gone forward': Biden says he would have dropped out of 2024 race if he knew about cancer

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'Stop them or tariffs will be doubled': Trump warns Mexico as 1,500 migrants head towards US

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A Tennessee UPS driver kept working after a 2022 rear-end crash but said his shoulder injury threatened his future earnings; a November 9 appeals court upheld a $575,000 jury award against the other driver and employer

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​Jimmy Carter's family has sold nearly 2,500 acres of Georgia farmland for $8.5 million to a conservation group, with plans to protect the former president's cherished land and expand a public wildlife area

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Mississippi's Masala moment: A historic Black victory in America's Deep South

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Joe Torre grew up in a home marked by violence; the charity he founded with wife Ali now runs 30 school support sites, offering counselling and safe spaces for children affected by abuse and trauma

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Leave Texas, come to Florida: Congressman invites Elon Musk to shift base, says 'Sunshine State' does not investigate or punish success

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