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In 2017, Nate Taylor found a three-word offer on Craigslist for free Halloween decorations. It took three truck trips to bring everything home. Nearly a decade later, that secondhand collection has become a local attraction that drew an estimated 18,000 visitors last October and led to a legal dispute with city officials in Michigan. Taylor,…

US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Riley Barnes and US Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, visit the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, a day after Israeli militant settlers attacked a French mayor and European diplomats during olive harvest, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. US diplomats visited…

Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday, announcing that the country’s first astronaut would embark on a space mission from China on November 25.Addressing the concluding…

Brazilian man Edimar Martins travelled over 1,200 miles to meet his AI-generated girlfriend. (Photo: Instagram) A Brazilian man who sold all his belongings and travelled more than 1,200 miles to meet the woman he hoped to marry was left heartbroken after discovering that his online girlfriend was an artificial intelligence-generated character.Edimar Martins, 49, a bricklayer…

A long-running legal dispute over a one-third-acre lakefront property surrounded by a public park has reached a key stage. A state appeals court has ruled that local officials can take the land using their legal powers to acquire private property. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that allows Kalamazoo County to…

File photo: US Vice President JD Vance (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US Vice President JD Vance has conceded that his rhetoric on H-1B visas was “imperfect,” but his attempt to distinguish his criticism of corporate hiring practices from hostility towards immigrants has exposed a deeper contradiction in the Trump administration’s immigration politics,…

Pope Leo XIV appears at the window of his study in the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a day after he returned from the hospital, where he had lung cancer removed Pope Leo XIV made his first public appearance on Sunday since undergoing surgery for lung cancer five days ago, addressing…

File photo: US Vice President JD Vance (Picture credit: Reuters) US Vice President JD Vance has acknowledged that his rhetoric was “imperfect” after describing foreign professionals working on H-1B visas as “indentured servants”, clarifying that his criticism was directed at American companies and the visa system rather than the workers themselves.Speaking at a CBS News…

A Utah couple wanted a place where they could practise scuba diving without travelling to the ocean. Their solution was to build a $2 million backyard swimming pool with 360,000 gallons of water, a 90-foot man-made mountain, five waterfalls and an underwater tunnel that takes divers down to a depth of 26 feet. Called “The…

Demi Moore’s Idaho home brings her close to the natural landscape of Sun Valley, where a river, mountains, and open surroundings shape life beyond Los Angeles. She lives in Hailey, one of three connected towns in the Sun Valley area, which she says feels cosy and familiar, with little main streets, mountains, and clean air.A…