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Six decades after singer and actor Pat Boone and his late wife Shirley bought a Beverly Hills estate for $159,000, the longtime family home has returned to the market with a $22.95 million asking price. The property at 904 North Beverly Drive sits on 1.12 acres in the Beverly Hills Flats and includes a 1939-built…

Can Pakistan afford to be the Muslim world’s ‘security guard’? Pakistan is betting that military muscle can buy it a bigger seat at the global table. Islamabad has deepened defence ties with Saudi Arabia and Turkey through the Mecca pact, sought a larger role in Gulf security, marketed its fighter jets and drones abroad and…

Expelled Chinese military generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli (File photo) The Chinese military’s mouthpiece on Wednesday hailed the recent expulsion of two top generals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), saying their removal would promote the “purity and honour” of the military and enable it to accomplish its…

An Oklahoma homeowner who bought five acres of land from his grandfather in 1994 has learned that local authorities claim ownership of a narrow strip of land right next to his house, which is now set to be sold at a public tax auction. Thirty-two years after buying the rural property, the homeowner was told…

Woman says she was forced to sit next to man who was masturbating, was later given $100 flight credit; United Airlines launches probe A 25-year-old woman, a pediatric crisis therapist, has complained that she was forced to sit next to a man who was masturbating on his seat while staring at her during an early…

Pic credit: Bonhams Skinner Every thrifter dreams of it: buying something for less than a pizza, discovering it’s actually valuable, and walking away with a fortune. For Tracy Donahue, a New Hampshire resident, the dream happened to be real.In 2017, she picked up a painting at a thrift store for $4. She hung it in…

In 2020, George Floyd’s memorial GoFundMe raised $14.7 million; six years later, three of his siblings are asking brother Philonise for a full accounting of the fundraiser and its distributions (Image Credit: ANGELA WEISS/ Getty Images) When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May 2020, donations quickly poured into a GoFundMe campaign created to…