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Canadian-born singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has officially become a United States citizen, marking a significant milestone in a life and career closely intertwined with American music. As reported by Billboard and the Los Angeles Times, the 82-year-old musician shared news of her naturalisation on October 13, 2026, more than six decades after first arriving in the…

Before Daymond John became a familiar face on Shark Tank, he was a young entrepreneur trying to turn a small idea into a clothing business, working from his mother’s home in Queens, New York. According to ABC News and a 2018 account of his career at RECon, the FUBU co-founder began with just $40 for…

Clifford Stanley Perrin died in Maryborough Hospital on Christmas Eve 2025, aged 84 and divorced. He had been the victim of a scam that depleted his finances, leaving his estate with one asset: a small property in Hervey Bay, which was subject to a reverse mortgage. According to the Supreme Court of Queensland judgment in…

Jack Dorsey, San Francisco Sea Cliff neighbourhood (Canva) For most homebuyers, buying a house means years of saving and planning a future. For Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, buying a multimillion-dollar home overlooking the Pacific Ocean was apparently only the beginning of a project.Back in February 2012, Dorsey paid a whopping $9.99 million for a modern…

Meryl Streep’s former Greenwich Village home is a reminder of how much history can sit behind the red-brick façades of New York’s residential streets. Built in 1845, the five-storey townhouse at 19 West 12th Street once belonged to the three-time Academy Award winner, who owned it for a decade before selling it in 2005. The…

New Yalu River Bridge connects Dandong in northeastern China with Sinuiju in North Korea China and North Korea on Thursday officially opened a long-delayed bridge linking their border cities, reviving a major trade route after more than a decade of stalled construction and signalling renewed efforts to strengthen economic ties.The four-lane, 3-km New Yalu River…

Scientists have reprogrammed blood-cell precursors from an 80-year-old donor into neural stem cells that showed an epigenetic age below 20 in a laboratory study. Scientists at the University of Bonn in Germany have found a way to make human cells display biological characteristics associated with much younger cells, with those derived from an 80-year-old donor…

Hillingdon Council is sharing CCTV images of suspected fly-tippers on Facebook, asking residents to help identify those responsible for illegal rubbish dumping. (Photo: Hillingdon Council) Hillingdon Council in west London is urging residents to help identify people caught dumping rubbish illegally, posting CCTV images of suspected offenders on Facebook and Instagram as part of a…

PC: Mercury Press/The Metro UK A father from Milton Keynes has spent more than £80,000 transforming his back garden into an 80-square-metre tropical hideout complete with an 8,000-litre fish tank, 14 Koi fish, 15 Madagascan day geckos, palm trees and a beer tap. Andy Corrie, 41, built the space himself as a personal retreat where…

A UK collector who paid just £20 for a box of comics at a car boot sale discovered years later that it contained dozens of exceptionally rare Superman editions. After remaining forgotten in his loft, 47 copies of the 1988 comic ‘This Island Bradman’ sold for a combined £63,440, including buyer’s fees, at an auction…