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Photo credit (L-R): Getty Images; Realtor.com Dr. Phil McGraw and Robin McGraw are ready to part ways with their lavish Beverly Hills estate, more than a decade after transforming the property into a grand Mediterranean Revival-style mansion. The couple purchased the property for $29.8 million in 2010 and completed the residence a year later after…

Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin. Some of the bitumen holding the asphalt together had been replaced with pellets made from waste plastic.Cumbria, an area in England, wanted to make roads the better way. Roads that are environmentally friendly….

A shopper paid C$5 for a Bowie painting at an Ontario donation centre; it later sold for C$108,120 (Image Credit: Cowley Abbott) Sometimes a bargain buy can turn out to be something far more valuable than it first appears. That happened when a shopper picked up a small painting for just C$5 at a donation…

East Hampton Town is moving toward a multimillion-dollar purchase that could dramatically change the future of a large former sand mine in Wainscott, New York. The East Hampton Star first reported the proposed $36.3 million acquisition on October 1, while Long Island Life & Politics reported this week that the town sees the purchase as…

File photo: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a vigil marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement marking the third anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel has drawn criticism from…

Clavicular (Image Credit: Instagram) Controversial influencer Clavicular has triggered fresh discussion online after making a striking claim about doxyPEP, an antibiotic-based prevention strategy used to reduce the risk of certain sexually transmitted infections. The looksmaxxing figure, whose real name is Braden Peters, said he uses doxycycline as part of his routine before making an unsupported…

Isaias set to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the US Gulf Coast Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday (local time) off eastern Mexico and was forecast to rapidly strengthen into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane before reaching the US Gulf Coast later this week, with landfall possible as early as Friday evening.The storm was packing…

File photo: Texas man executed for killing convenience store clerk in 2000 Texas executed Jamaal Howard, 46, on Wednesday, making him the first person put to death in the US since the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week.Howard was pronounced dead at 8.03 pm after receiving a lethal dose of pentobarbital, a…

Wild blacktip sharks may have a more sophisticated sense of hearing than scientists previously realised. A study by researchers at Florida Atlantic University found that free-swimming sharks can detect low-frequency sounds from as far as 74 metres, or roughly 243 feet, away and respond by turning sharply away from the source. The findings were reported…

File photo: Maricarmen Abascal, after she was evicted from the Madrid home where she had lived for more than seven decades María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her longtime Madrid home triggered nationwide protests and intensified Spain’s housing crisis, died on Wednesday while in hospital.Widely known as “Maricarmen”, Abascal had lived…