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Rory McIlroy loves to win. The Northern Irish golfer has four major titles, and he has never pretended otherwise. But his idea of winning goes beyond the golf course. For McIlroy, success also means making a difference in the lives of others. That’s exactly why he donated £1 million to help establish Daisy Lodge, a…

More than a century after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, an unusual piece of paperwork connected to the doomed liner’s final voyage has resurfaced. An original insurance document linked to the ship’s $5 million total-loss cover, arranged just weeks before the disaster, is set to go under the hammer in Britain, with an…

Hagopian went to court after the trees were not removed and his money was not returned. (AI image) A disagreement between two neighbours in Michigan over trees that threatened a barn has ended with an appeals court ruling against the homeowner who wanted them removed. Seth Merle and Richard Hagopian had agreed to pay $2,000…

An Iowa landlord who said he lost roughly $700,000 in what he described as a Ponzi scheme has failed to overturn a $351,446 divorce payment to his former wife. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld the award, rejecting his argument that much of the property at issue had been his before the marriage and should…

How Chinese siblings struck gold in the stock market A stock market debut has delivered a billion-dollar glow-up for a former elementary school teacher and his sister in China, turning them into billionaires after shares of their adhesive products company skyrocketed nearly eightfold on their first day of trading.Michael Mai, 62, who once taught at…

File photo: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US ambassador to India Sergio Gor stand for the national anthem, as they attend a Freedom 250 reception at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. As Washington prepares to recover from the less than ideal performance of the Republican party during the midterms, reports suggest…

PC: University of Toronto Scarborough A Canadian woman who began preparing meals in shared community and church kitchens in 2013 has built a community food initiative into an organisation that supports people in need through meal distribution, food rescue and urban farming. Seema David started the project with limited financial resources and help from volunteers…

File photo: Bomb threats ground, divert flights across Europe for second time this week Bomb threats have forced several passenger aircraft to divert or make precautionary landings across Europe on Thursday, triggering security checks at airports in multiple countries for the second time in a week.An Aer Lingus flight, EI402, travelling from Dublin to Rome…

Rescued from a cattle trough in April, Harriet was nursed back to health by ecologist Graeme Wilson. A chance encounter with a helpless animal has turned into a complicated battle over wildlife protection, rehabilitation and the limits of human intervention. When Scottish ecologist Graeme Wilson rescued a starving badger cub from a cattle trough, he…