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Barbara Hutton’s Rolls-Royce survived a prince’s fatal crash and sold for £166,750 in 2026 (Image Credit: Bonhams) A luxury car built as a wedding gift became the centre of a remarkable story involving an American heiress, a Georgian prince, a fatal crash and a transatlantic journey. The 1933 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental Drophead Coupé, commissioned…

The attack occurred during a morning swim at Orient Beach in KuGompo City (Representative image) A 65-year-old open-water swimmer died after a shark attack off South Africa’s Eastern Cape province on Tuesday, prompting authorities to shut two beaches and warn people against entering the water.The victim was identified by South African media as Janine Lochrenberg,…

Image: Alexander Kardos-Nyheim/LinkedIn Most startup founders chase revenue charts, headline funding rounds and polished stage presentations. Alexander Kardos-Nyheim took a different route. While training as a solicitor at Allen & Overy, he built Safe Sign Technologies, a legal-specific large language model (LLM) startup designed to make artificial intelligence more reliable for legal work. Roughly two…

Daniel Rotman, PC: LinkedIn  Daniel Rotman saw an opportunity in a market he believed had been overlooked: cat care. In 2015, after an experience that left him questioning how early cat owners could spot signs of illness, he began exploring whether cat litter could do more than absorb waste. The result was PrettyLitter, a colour-changing…

Indian man Kamlesh Shah charged with voter fraud in California says nobody told him that he was not allowed to vote in US elections. 67-year-old Kamlesh Navnitlal Shah, a retired dentist from California, said he had no idea that he was not supposed to vote in the 2024 election, as he was a permanent resident…

Amy Winehouse, PC: WIkipedia Amy Winehouse’s first home in Camden has gone on sale for £650,000, more than 23 years after the singer bought the two-bedroom maisonette as her music career was beginning. The property, in Jeffrey’s Place, was reportedly purchased in 2003 using an advance for her debut album, Frank. According to The Sun,…

Representative Image of a vibrant underground river flowing through marble passages, with fluorescent dye tracing its path through the water (AI-generated image) At Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve in southwestern Oregon, a river flows beneath visitors’ feet through a network of marble passages, disappearing into parts of the cave that people cannot access. Known…

Representative Image (AI-generated) An ageing railroad swing bridge over Ohio’s Maumee River is set for a $65 million overhaul that could expand freight capacity through Toledo, nearly 130 years after the structure was built. The Toledo Swing Bridge, historically known as the Toledo Belt Bridge, was acquired by Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway from Norfolk…

At the centre of the dispute is a garden in Tollers Lane, Coulsdon (Google Earth photo) A 24ft garden room built by a football club official in the UK in 2018 has led to a lengthy dispute with his upstairs neighbour, who now wants the entire structure demolished. Justin Salmon, who installed a bar, television…

The dealer flew to London with a photograph, unknowingly carrying clues to a lost imperial Fabergé treasure. Sometimes history turns up in the least likely places. For one Midwest scrap-metal dealer, that moment came at an antiques market, where an ornate gold egg seemed to be little more than an opportunity to make a modest…