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From golf fairways to a 225-acre public park: Kentucky’s former Fox Run Golf Course is getting a new life, with 70% of the property preserved as greenspace. A former golf course in Kentucky is being transformed into a sprawling 225-acre public park featuring hiking and biking trails, climbing structures, a dog park, interactive water features…

When people in the small Scottish town of Langholm set out to raise £6 million, they were not simply trying to buy a piece of countryside. Their campaign secured 10,500 acres and helped create the community-owned Tarras Valley Nature Reserve, turning an ambitious local vision into one of the region’s largest community-led conservation efforts. Now,…

File photo: US President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Picture credit: Reuters) US President Donald Trump’s administration has submitted a proposed civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to Congress for review, while maintaining that the pact will only move forward if Riyadh agrees to normalise relations with Israel.The agreement was…

A Wiltshire couple face losing the home they built for their disabled daughter after a planning dispute over a basement and Green Belt rules. (Photo: Wiltshire council) A Wiltshire couple have been ordered to demolish the four-bedroom home they have lived in with their disabled daughter for more than four years after a planning dispute…

Singapore is sending up to 70 tonnes of unwanted clothing to Malaysia every week under a cross-border textile recycling partnership designed to give discarded garments a second life. The initiative involves social enterprise Cloop, which collects unwanted clothes through its textile recycling bins before sending them to Life Line Clothing in Port Klang, Malaysia. The…

CaseOh blows up on Twitch after ChatGPT suggestion, internet explodes over his ‘10 years back’ rant (Image Via Getty) Case Dylan Baker, known online as CaseOh, had a pretty normal working life before the internet changed everything for him. He was doing maintenance work with his father in rural Arkansas, handling things like plumbing and…

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, turned a teenage YouTube channel into the foundation of a massive business empire. (Image via Getty) At just 13, Jimmy Donaldson was already uploading videos under the name “MrBeast6000” from Eastern North Carolina. What started with low-view uploads while he was still dealing with school eventually became something much…

Nitro Camden meets IShowSpeed after viral clash with mother, gets emotional advice: ‘Follow your dreams, bro’ IShowSpeed met Nitro Camden in person and offered him a simple message after the young streamer reportedly lost his place at his mother’s home: keep going and follow his goals. Spilled reported that the meeting came days after Camden…

Port Houston has awarded $500,000 in Community Grants to 32 organisations serving communities across the Houston Ship Channel region. The funding will support programmes ranging from workforce training and STEM education to healthcare access, food assistance, environmental projects and neighbourhood improvements. According to Port Houston press release distributed via Business Wire, the latest grant cycle…

Visa appointment schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the training The US has paused visa appointments for applicants around the world as the Trump administration launches a global training programme for consular officers amid its broader immigration crackdown.A US State Department spokesperson said on Tuesday that the department had begun a training initiative at all…

Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Pannun Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual US-Canadian citizen, claimed on Tuesday (local time) that he had been warned by both the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of a “new credible threat” to his life.Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), said FBI agents visited him…

Laysan Island’s ecosystem was devastated after rabbits introduced in 1903 stripped away native vegetation When German immigrant Max Schlemmer brought a small number of domestic rabbits to the isolated Pacific atoll of Laysan in 1903, he hoped to create a profitable meat-canning business. He also saw the animals as a source of entertainment for his…

Texas Roadhouse said they investigated and found no such private Facebook group where white staff discuss about spitting in the food of Black guests. Texas Roadhouse clapped back at the viral social media claim that its white servers were discussing spitting in Black customers’ food in a private Facebook group as a hoax and confirmed…

Aristotle (Image: Wikipedia) The pursuit of pleasure is often treated as one of life’s simplest goals, but Aristotle offered a more measured view of what it means to live wisely. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote: “The man of practical wisdom aims at avoiding pain, not at attaining pleasure.” The statement appears in his discussion…

Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin In 1957, eccentric folk artist Eddie Owens Martin returned to his rural roots near Buena Vista, Georgia, and began turning a seven-acre family property into a colourful world of painted totems, geometric designs and tall masonry walls. Over the next 29 years, Martin, who called himself “St. EOM”, built six…

Target said sorry for its Halloween costume (left) after backlash that it looked like caricature. Target acknowledged and corrected its mistake after one of its children Hallowen costume triggered a massive outrage. The retain giant said it had pulled down the costume from sale after social media users pointed out that the circus clown evoked…

ICE explains why CPT is not meant for only international students. As US universities started pausing CPT (Curricular Practical Training), which is a temporary work authorization for F-1 students, triggering confusion over the future of international students in the US, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued another memo clarifying and doubling down on the new restrictions….

Mentmore Towers, the mansion that became Wayne Manor in Batman Begins, is now at risk of being seized. (Photo: SWNS) The real-life Wayne Manor from Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, is at the centre of a preservation battle after the Grade I-listed mansion was served with a formal repairs notice. The property…

An elevated, high-definition view of the newly protected landscape surrounding the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. Conservationists and state officials in New Mexico have completed a deal to buy nearly 11,000 acres of ecologically rich land along the Mimbres River, permanently protecting an important desert watershed and creating the state’s newest public conservation preserve….

Voters in the coastal Florida city of Bonita Springs have approved a $35 million general obligation bond Voters in the coastal Florida city of Bonita Springs have approved a $35 million general obligation bond, clearing the way for the local government to buy a key 5.8-mile stretch of unused railway. The ballot decision unlocks the…