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

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World - / Oct 4, 2026 - Lionel Messi's foundation helped fund Barcelona's €37M cancer centre - For all the stadiums, trophies and record books associated with Lionel Messi, some of the most lasting chapters of his Barcelona story were written far from the football pitch. One of them took shape through a project aimed at children facing cancer.

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From a luxurious Mumbai home to his car collection, net worth and more-Rise and Fall 2's Karan Patel's lavish lifestyle

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Sharmila Mona Sinha: The third daughter who turned deficit into dividend and became a US Hall of Famer

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Indian-origin US lawmaker Raja Krishnamoorthi introduces bills to help immigrant doctors, nurses

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In 1939, a California family bought a Joseph Kleitsch painting from his widow for $100; 75 years later, their daughter brought it to Antiques Roadshow and heard a $500,000 valuation

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Iowa livestock farmer Dave Johnson hosts four wind turbines that bring in about $30,000 a year, calling the steady lease income the 401(k) he never had while he continues raising cattle and hogs

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A grandmother's 23-year-old letter was found inside a library book; a stranger tracked down the person it was written to

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Expelled, suspended or made to write 'reflection papers': How Cornell punished 7 men for sexual assault

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After Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Bullock helped rebuild a New Orleans school; in 2010, she helped fund its $700,000 medical and dental clinic, designed to provide free healthcare to students

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In 2013, a New Jersey teacher saw workers mowing a solar field near home and asked to bring in her sheep; by 2021, her flock had grown from 50 sheep on 15 solar acres to 450 sheep managing 85 acres

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A North Dakota farm kid turned ag-tech entrepreneur; his company puts real farm maps on children's play rugs

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An Atlanta mansion built in 1924 for Thomas Jefferson's great-great-grandson faced demolition; in 2013, its new owners cut the 8,000-sq-ft home in two and moved it about 2 miles to save it

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A UK collector paid £15 for a broken, lidless teapot at a 2016 auction; experts identified it as one of only seven known John Bartlam pieces, and it sold for £575,000 to The Met in New York

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California sanctuary is removing purple sea urchins to help restore kelp; 117,847 pounds have been added to compost

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

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Pakistan kills 5 TTP militants as violence escalates on Afghanistan border

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Pakistan 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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US carrier George HW Bush arrives in Thailand after Middle East deployment: Key points

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

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In 2021, Cambridge farmer Ben Webster spent £15,000 converting his sheep-grazing field that earned £300 a year into a private dog park; it now brings in up to £400 a week

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British Indian pair fight extradition to US over alleged cancer drug fraud

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UK-Iranian man arrested over suspected RAF Fairford terror plot released on bail

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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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'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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'New doctrine' of strikes: Zelenskyy vows to hit Russian refineries as infrastructure warfare escalates

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Russia cuts welfare, education and healthcare budget as war spending hits new high

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One casualty every 23 minutes: Civilian fatalities mount as Ukraine war intensifies

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Bridges under attack: Why Russia is targeting Kyiv's vital crossings

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'No peace for rentism': Mass protests sweep Spain over housing crisis

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Britain restored a catchment where water voles disappeared; 20 ponds, 26,000 trees and 15 hectares of wildflowers later, they are returning

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Russia vows massive hits on Kyiv, urges diplomats to leave

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Zelensky claims Ukraine 'de-occupied' around 140 kilometres of territory from Russia, hurled 42,000 casualties a month

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Mother's £1 million home went to the daughter who cared for her; three brothers challenged the will years later

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In 1583, stone from a ruined Welsh castle was used to build this mansion; 400 years later, a couple bought it for £750,000 and restored it

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'Mortal danger': Russia warns diplomats to leave Kyiv as fresh strikes kill 6 across Ukraine

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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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In 1945, a British submarine sank Nazi U-864 off Norway; 81 years later, authorities recovered 22 mercury containers from a wreck believed to have carried as much as 67 tons of mercury

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Did Israel ignore warnings? UAE shared info about flydubai crew & Omani co-pilot before flight

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'Free the terrorist': Passengers claim flydubai crew told them to release co-pilot after attack - report

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'Not afraid of death': Co-pilot's chilling admission after trying to crash flydubai jet

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'War isn't over': Al Qaeda-linked magazine calls for 'copycat attacks' after flydubai incident

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'We don't do background checks on foreign pilots': Israeli minister on flydubai incident

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Yemeni government strikes Houthis as tensions escalate amid reports of planned Saudi offensive

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'He prayed before attack': Machchhar tells Netanyahu chilling flydubai cockpit ordeal

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Watch: Netanyahu invites pilot Smit Machchhar to Israel I-Day event, hails him as 'hero of entire world'

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'Highest degree of courage': UAE's deputy PM meets flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar

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

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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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In 2019, a UK company donated computers to a Ghana school; three years later it achieved the country's best academic results

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Moscow vows to step up strikes on Ukraine as Zelenskyy threatens to attack more Russian refineries

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In 2015, a Canadian aunt helped launch a hockey fundraiser inspired by her nephew's cancer diagnosis; an event that raised C$10,000 in its first year went on to collect over C$1 million across a decade

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Montreal did not build a stadium for the 2026 cycling championships; it turned the city itself into one

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Gay bar raid in Taiwan sparks protest; 51 detained under 'public morality' law

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New Zealand farmer lost more than half his asparagus crop to storms; he turned the damaged spears into an award-winning freeze-dried snack

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A Sydney shopper bought a carved cup for A$4 at a thrift shop; experts identified it as a centuries-old Chinese rhinoceros-horn cup, and was auctioned for A$75,640 in 2013

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From 1946, NSW planted South African bitou bush to stabilise coastal sand dunes; decades later it had spread along 46% of the state's coastline and threatened native ecosystems

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US Marine arrested in Japan over murder, robbery of local woman

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ShinyHunters hacker in FBI data theft held in Jordan

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'He made a mistake but can't admit it': Russia's ex-PM says Putin 'not ready' to end Ukraine war

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A 2,000-year-old water channel still flows beneath Smyrna after surviving earthquakes and now irrigates parks in Izmir

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Queensland dairy farmer Libby Rough opened just four campsites after drought forced her family to sell 40 cows; by January 2022, the riverside pitches had brought in more than A$50,000

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In 2017, Cape Town turned 42 abandoned grain-silo tubes into a major African art museum and added a 28-room hotel above the old concrete structure

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Launched in 2020, Minecraft's Uncensored Library held around 300 books; RSF continues adding censored journalism

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'You're coming in blind?' Chilling audio before medical jet carrying 6 vanished over Atlantic

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Green Card holder's mother denied B1/B2 visa to attend housewarming ceremony: They did not ask for any documents

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In 1996, Indiana turned foundry waste sand into a 275-metre highway embankment; Purdue later found the material worked successfully as full-scale road fill

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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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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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In 1916, the US began releasing Asian lady beetles to control aphids and scale insects; decades later Harmonia axyridis became invasive and was linked to declines of native ladybirds

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

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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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From Shiv-on to off: Musk's half-Indian partner goes into ex space

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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 1834, the O'Connor family's Texas ranching legacy began; 191 years later, an $8.863 million deal protected 6,409 acres of coastal prairie while keeping it a working cattle ranch

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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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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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Trump leaks senator's number after row over clock-change bill: What's the dispute

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Portland is covering ordinary traffic signal boxes with colourful artwork, but it is not just for decoration

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A family foundation began restoring 250 acres of overworked Ohio farmland in 1989; it is now a wildlife reserve with Walden Pond

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Beavers beat humans to restoring a closed Massachusetts golf course, building a 6-to-8-foot dam before crews arrived

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US 'kicks out' Iranian diplomats after defying earlier order amid stalled talks: Report

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A radioactive material facility polluted an Illinois creek for decades; the 6.7-mile Superfund site has now been removed from the cleanup list

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OpenAI's Sam Altman criticises Anthropic's push to explore AI consciousness and religion

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$90: Trump's dole to 20m recipients of Medicare

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