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Thousands displaced as homes are bulldozed in India’s Assam state
Hundreds of homes have been bulldozed in the Dhubri district of Assam state in northeastern India.
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Nine dead in small plane crash near Trump’s Florida home
A Learjet plummeted into a neighbourhood in southern Florida miles from United States President Donald Trump’s resort home on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, officials said. Several unverified clips posted to social media depicting the deadly crash showed an aircraft nearly vertical slamming at high speed into the ground, creating a large fireball
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Plane crashes near Trump’s Florida home, 9 dead
A Learjet plummeted into a neighborhood in southern Florida miles from US President Donald Trump’s resort home on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, officials said. Duffy said the plane, a Learjet 60, had departed from Austin, Texas and was headed for the Bahamas.
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Nine Dead In Small Plane Crash Near Trump’s Florida Home
A Learjet plummeted into a neighborhood in southern Florida miles from US President Donald Trump’s resort home on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, officials said. Duffy said the plane, a Learjet 60, had departed from Austin, Texas and was headed for the Bahamas.
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British Airways lost my father’s vital life-saving machine
He needs a dialysis machine to survive, but on a flight it was first damaged, then it was lost My father suffers from terminal renal failure and relies on a highly specific dialysis machine every night to survive. When his outbound flight arrived at Heathrow, it was returned broken resulting in a frantic search for a loan unit and hours spent in A&E so my father’s blood could be monitored.
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The Gilded Age review – what did we do to deserve such a terrible stinker?
Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor Meryl Streep must feel so awkward watching her daughter Louisa Jacobson in such a uniformly awful show A doctor with a fully qualified moustache races up a carriageway towards an immaculate stately home.
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British Gas resume force-fitting prepayment meters months after £112m settlement
Regulators have lifted a block on the supplier, enabling it to install meters in the homes of people who cannot afford their energy bills British Gas has resumed force-fitting prepayment meters in the homes of people who cannot afford their energy bills just months after paying the largest settlement on record for sending debt collectors into the homes of vulnerable customers. The industry regulator has lifted an almost four-year block that prevented British Gas from clawing back unpaid bills by fitting prepay meters in customers’ homes after extracting a settlement worth more than £100m from
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Bringing blue corn from Mexico to Australia for traditional tortillas
Melbourne-based Mexican food company La Tortilleria has harvested a crop of blue corn to make traditional tortillas, after six years of research and development.
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Chloroform threat leaves NSW mayor afraid to leave her home
A NSW mayor says she has had to make a plan for her safety after police gave her a "reality check".
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Could you cut it as a CWA judge? It's no piece of cake
Could you cut it as a CWA judge? The Country Women's Association is known for its high standards when it comes to baking, but just how hard is it to take out the top trophy in one of its competitions?
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Star author-illustrator couple collaborate on first graphic novel
Married couple Sofie Laguna and Marc McBride started working together on their first graphic novel, Blunderbore, during COVID lockdowns.
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An essential bear for older readers
Phil Dawson recalls falling in love with a saxophone-playing bear in Rafi Zabor’s The Bear Comes Home Phil Dawson Beeston, Nottinghamshire Continue reading...
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British adventurer Karl Bushby returns home after 28-year walk around world
The 57-year-old crossed jungles and frozen seas before an emotional homecoming in Hull, northern England.
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Ibiza on ice: why is Greenland suddenly throwing open its doors to tourists?
It’s 80% frozen and there are no roads outside towns, but that’s not stopping the territory welcoming more visitors than ever before with three new airports Name: Greenland (or Kalaallit Nunaat, the land of the people in the Greenlandic language). The landmass is believed to have been settled about 2500BC.
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GPHA Fire and Safety, LCB Worldwide Ghana crowned champions of 2026 LCB corporate games
The Accra zone participants included the Ghana Union of Traders (GUTA), Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF), LCB Worldwide Ghana, Ghana Immigration Service, Aviance, Mariners, Manna and Conquerors. The Tema zone was represented by Port Hub, GPHA Fire and Safety, Ghana National Fire Service, GPHA Mechanical, Ezeylinks, Wilmar Africa, Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) and Ghana Dock Labour Company Limited (GDLC).
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‘An extravagantly illuminated beast’: the best artificial Christmas trees in the UK – tested
Pick wisely, and your fake fir could be reused for decades of Decembers. From pre-lit to frosted to space-saving, here are our festive favourites • The best beauty Advent calendars In the 70s and 80s Essex of my youth, no one had a real Christmas tree unless they lived in the country, or perhaps Loughton.
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Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’
‘Giving Lara Croft pistols meant we could show off her acrobatics. I joined Core Design in the summer of 1994 and met Toby Gard, who showed me his concept sketches for Tomb Raider.
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British adventurer reunites with mum after 28-year round-the-world walk
Karl Bushby arrives back at his childhood home in England after walking around the world.
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British adventurer completes 28-year, 50,000km walk home
A 57-year-old British adventurer, Karl Bushby, has returned home after completing a remarkable 28-year, 50,000-kilometre journey on foot across four continents without using any form of transport to advance his trek. Bushby arrived in his home city of Hull, northeast England, on Monday, where he was welcomed by a cheering crowd of up to 1,000 people after completing the extraordinary journey that began in Chile in 1998.
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Georgina Hayden’s quick and easy recipe for sun-dried assassin’s spaghetti
A spicy, tomatoey pasta that’s cooked like a risotto, but much, much quicker Popular in Puglia, assassin’s spaghetti is a rich and punchy dish that I just can’t get enough of. Unlike more familiar pasta recipes, the dried spaghetti is cooked in the sauce itself, and slowly “fed” hot broth, a bit like a risotto.
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Global pedestrian Karl Bushby returns home to UK after 28-year trek
Karl Bushby, a British man who traveled 50,000 km without transport over the past 28 years, has come home. Starting in Chile, he crossed the Americas, Russia and parts of Central Asia and Europe — almost all on foot.
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Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon
The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at Tate At the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retrospective of the British modernist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, her monumental altar-piece Glacier (Blue Cave) pulls viewers into its frozen tendons of turquoise and white. “Barns-Graham was so distinct in her approach,” Norris says.
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Vlisco launches Vlisco VIBE — A new expression for everyday life
Global textile brand Vlisco introduces Vlisco VIBE — a fresh take on its iconic prints, made for the contemporary wardrobe. — Marlou van Engelen, Creative Director, Vlisco With Vlisco VIBE, the brand enters a new era of everyday luxury, connecting generations through the power of print while honouring its heritage of craftsmanship, creativity, and cultural expression.