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Hungry bears are entering homes, shops and neighbourhoods across the US; here’s what is driving the alarming trend

A hungry pair of young black bears recently wandered into a home in Granby, Colorado, startling a resident who found them standing in his hallway. The animals eventually bolted through the front door, but the unusual intrusion is part of a much larger pattern unfolding across the American West. Reuters reported that bear sightings and…

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In 1985, CNN founder Ted Turner bought thousands of acres in Florida; the former plantation became a major private wildlife landscape | World News

Ted Turner. Image Credit: Architectural Digest Ted Turner’s homes were never simply places to live. The CNN founder built a remarkable property portfolio that stretched across vast ranches, wildlife landscapes and historic plantations covering roughly 2 million acres. Among the most interesting was ‘Avalon,’ a former cotton plantation near Tallahassee, Florida, that Turner bought in…

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‘No compelling circumstance’: SC declines to intervene in CJP’s September 5 protest march | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene against Cockroach Janata Party’s protest march on September 5, saying that maintenance of law and order was primarily the responsibility of the government and police.A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymala Bagchi and V Mohana said that there is no…

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UAE, Egypt coordinate over Banque Misr bank after US Treasury notice on Iran links, dollar curbs

Egypt’s Banque Misr is reviewing US sanctions targeting its UAE branches for alleged Iran dealings The United Arab Emirates and Egyptian central banks are coordinating over Banque Misr after the US Treasury proposed cutting off the Egyptian bank’s UAE branches from dollar transactions over alleged financial links to Iran.In a joint statement on Sunday, the…

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In 2025, Texas engineers mixed 4.5 tons of recycled plastic into a highway, replacing part of the bitumen to test how it handles extreme heat | World News

Representative Image of plastic waste being transformed into road-building material for sustainable infrastructure (AI-generated image) On State Highway 205 in Rockwall, a suburb east of Dallas, engineers paved a 3,500-foot stretch of road using about 4.5 tons of recycled plastic mixed directly into the asphalt. The project, led by Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor…

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In the 1600s, people in Osaka ate dozens of species of fish, mammals and plants; 400 years later scientists found the evidence trapped in their teeth | World News

Four centuries ago, the people living in Osaka left behind an unlikely record of what they ate. It was not written in a cookbook or preserved in a market ledger, but in the hardened deposits that accumulated on their teeth. Scientists have now analysed ancient dental calculus from eight people buried at the Ofuka-cho site,…

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Muslim cleric’s ‘women should remain confined within their homes’ draws Kerala minister’s ire | India News

Kerala minister Bindu Krishna hits out at Sunni cleric over remarks on women’s public life. Kerala labour minister Bindu Krishna on Monday criticised prominent Sunni cleric and Grand Mufti of India Kanthapuram Aboobacker Musliyar over his remarks advocating restrictions on women’s participation in public life, saying such statements push women “centuries back”.Krishna said the Constitution…

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A San Antonio storm knocked out power and damaged homes; one barber simply moved his chair outside and kept cutting customers’ hair

Martinez moved a barber’s chair outside the shop and continued cutting customers’ hair. (Photo: TPR) A powerful storm knocked out power and damaged homes across San Antonio on Friday night, but a barber refused to close his shop. Texas Publilc Radio reported that with no electricity, he moved his barber chair outside and continued cutting…

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