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A 1904 bridge in New Zealand has outlived the road traffic it was built to carry. The Mangaweka Cantilever Bridge spans the Rangitīkei River in the central North Island, where its steel trusses have stood for more than a century. Heritage New Zealand reported that when a routine inspection in 2016 found serious structural deterioration,…

Spectral imaging expert Bill Christens-Barry and Debora Mayor of the Weissman Preservation Centre Prepare HLS MS172 for imaging. Image Credit: Harvard Law Today Harvard Law School bought a stained and faded parchment in 1946 for just $27.50, believing it was an ordinary later copy of the Magna Carta. The document was catalogued as dating from…

A New York teenager who lost her father and four sisters in a devastating house fire was at the centre of a legal dispute months later, after relatives who raised more than $100,000 to support her allegedly failed to hand over most of the money. According to a 2019 report by WWNY-TV and court documents…

US downgrades Hong Kong to tier 3 in the human trafficking ranking. Hong Kong has rejected the United States’ decision to place it in the lowest category of its annual human trafficking report, calling the assessment “entirely unfounded” and accusing Washington of applying double standards in evaluating the city’s efforts to combat trafficking. The US…

A house resembling a flying saucer has been listed for $1.495 million in California’s San Jacinto Mountains, offering a rare opportunity to own a piece of experimental architectural history. According to SFGATE and The Wall Street Journal, the property, known as the Donaldson Futuro, is located near Idyllwild and is among a small number of…

Several people were wounded when King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, was struck by a missile on Saturday. The incident came two days after three Saudi citizens, including a pilot, were killed in what has become a new front in the expanding Iran war.According to an airport official, air traffic at Riyadh…

An X-ray photograph of the Megacauda fossil Scientists have examined a 165-million-year-old fossil found in China and identified a mammal predecessor that had a broad tail for swimming and throat bones similar to those found in modern mammals. The discovery suggests that some early relatives of mammals had already developed ways of chewing and swallowing…

23-year-old Canada woman died during wisdom tooth extraction in 2024. A 23-year-old woman died after undergoing a wisdom tooth extraction at a dental clinic in Canada, and her family has now filed a lawsuit alleging negligence by the dentist and the clinic.Virginia Blatz died on November 27, 2024, after visiting Boundary Trails Dental Centre in…

Death Valley’s Scotty’s Castle – Image: NPS / Bob Greenburg [Enhanced using AI] More than a decade after a devastating flash flood forced one of Death Valley National Park’s best-known historic sites to close, visitors are getting another chance to see Scotty’s Castle. The National Park Service is offering limited guided exterior tours of the…

Police responded to emergency calls reporting a shooting at a residence in Erie. At least nine people, including two children and a pregnant woman, were killed after a gunman opened fire at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday evening. The suspect later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.Police responded to emergency calls…