File photo: Taliban detain 53 over dress code Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities detained 52 women and one girl between July and September for alleged dress code violations and appearing in public without a male guardian, including for wearing makeup, colourful scarves or leaving their hair visible, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on…
The Mushroom Shed was designed to resemble a mushroom. A 12-year-old girl from Surrey, England, gave her father £500 from her savings and asked him to build a house shaped like a mushroom in their back garden. Her father, Ben Swanborough, took up the challenge and built a two-storey wooden hideaway with a trapdoor, stained-glass…
A Miami International Airport passenger returning from Cuba was arrested after US Customs and Border Protection officers found 10 live birds concealed in plastic tubes sewn into his underwear. Alberto Hernandez Castillo, 40, a Cuban national and permanent resident of the US, arrived from Havana on October 4 aboard World Atlantic Flight 503 and was…
A vine-covered mansion in Bel-Air might seem like an obvious candidate for a complete renovation, particularly when its new owner is a Hollywood actor with the means to start afresh. Sydney Sweeney had a different approach when she bought a property dating back to the 1930s in 2023. Rather than stripping away its aged features…
Brooklyn Green spotted an elderly worker emptying rubbish at an AMC theatre in Tennessee and recorded a video of her. A 21-year-old woman in Tennessee, United States raised more than $146,000 in less than 24 hours for an 80-year-old cinema worker after noticing her cleaning up rubbish at an AMC theatre. What began as a…
Arielle Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister, has revealed that she has been secretly DJing since 2018. Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister Arielle Zuckerberg, 37, has revealed a lesser-known side of her life: she has been secretly working as a DJ since 2018.The revelation came after a video of Arielle performing a DJ set during San Francisco…
File photo: Visitors looks at a scupture titled “The Orange Plague” by Danish artist Jens Galschiot A 2.6-metre-tall statue of US president Donald Trump, naked and coated in 23-karat gold leaf, has been installed inside the European parliament in Strasbourg, France.Titled ‘The Orange Plague’, the sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt depicts Trump sitting on…
A woman paid about £80 for a Dior bag in a Cotswolds charity shop without knowing if it was genuine; experts identified it as a rare 2003 Koi Saddle Bag, and it later sold for £7,870/Image: Kinghams Auctioneers A Dior handbag bought for about £80 in a Cotswolds charity shop has sold for £7,870 at…
Richard Branson was 29 when he pursued Necker Island, initially offering $100,000 despite its $6 million asking price. (Photo: Owen Buggy) Long before Sir Richard Branson became a billionaire entrepreneur with a global business empire, he was a young businessman looking for a way to impress the woman he had fallen in love with.His idea…
According to reporting by Realtor.com and News 5 Cleveland, along with Ohio court records, an unusually long foreclosure battle involving a sprawling mansion in Aurora, Ohio, has reached another turning point. A magistrate has approved the eviction of Louis Telerico, who has continued living at the property despite the home changing ownership. The 17,000-square-foot estate,…
