Category: World

Clair Birch says her £170,000 annexe was designed around her disabled daughter’s needs, but planning officials have rejected her appeal. (Photo: SWNS) A mother who spent £170,000 building a two-storey annexe for her disabled daughter could now be forced to demolish it after losing a planning appeal. Clair Birch, 59, built the one-bedroom annexe in…

A woman was seen littering a lake in Canada in a viral video that sparked major outrage. The woman who was seen nonchalantly emptying her Dollar store bag into Mill Lake in Abbotford has been fined for $1000 as she was issued two violation tickets. The police said they won’t release the identity of the…

Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “man in the arena” passage remains one of his most enduring reflections on courage, effort and failure. In his 1910 speech “Citizenship in a Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, Roosevelt said: “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and…

Priscilla Chan’s journey from the daughter of Vietnamese refugees to a Harvard graduate, paediatrician and major science philanthropist is rooted in a family story shaped by war and migration. Her grandparents put her parents, who were teenagers at the time, on boats to flee Vietnam during the war. Chan grew up in Massachusetts, where her…

A bizarre incident at a hospital in North Wales left staff and visitors stunned after a 26-year-old man climbed onto the roof dressed in a black costume resembling the Grim Reaper and carried a long blade-like object. Leon Gillespie climbed above the entrance of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph on June 6, where…

Nitro_Camden’s Twitch stream took an unexpected turn after popular streamer StableRonaldo raided his channel and sent around 15,000 viewers his way. The 18-year-old streamer was celebrating the huge jump in viewers when the situation suddenly became serious. His mother entered the room after reportedly getting upset about the noise. What started as a big moment…

The exotic mute swan has increased its population size in Chesapeake Bay to approximately 4,500 since 1962. In 1962, five mute swans escaped from an estate in Talbot County, Maryland. More than four decades later, their descendants had grown to nearly 4,000 in the Chesapeake Bay region. As their numbers rose across the Chesapeake Bay…

Image: The Des Moines Register When Sha’rel Moore and her husband, Brandon, bought three acres of abandoned land in northwest Iowa in 2024, they dreamed of creating a home where they could raise their growing family. The property already contained an old farmhouse, but the couple soon realised that restoring it would cost more than…

Two Belgian mountaineers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have finally been identified after their remains emerged from a retreating glacier 34 years later. The men, who were 39 and 41 when they vanished, had set out in the Weissmies region but never reached their planned destination. Despite searches at the time, only…

A plane carrying deportees from the United States arrives at Roberts International Airport, Harbel, near Monrovia, Liberia (Picture credit: Reuters) The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement allowing Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not Liberian nationals, marking one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet…