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Photo credit: Brandon The Plant Guy/ Instagram Brandon Hurst never planned to become a plant seller. In 2020, he was working as an administrative assistant at a Los Angeles real estate office and living paycheck to paycheck when he lost his job during the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking for a way to make extra money, he…

UK PM Burnham indicates Britain may apologise for role in slave trade (File photo/ AP) British prime minister Andy Burnham has indicated that he is willing to consider calls for a formal apology for Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, but has ruled out paying financial reparations for historical injustices.In an article published in…

In the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an unexpected rescue has grown into a remarkable bond between a man and a bear. Petar Tubic, an electrician living on Mount Ozren, took in an abandoned bear cub in 2019 and raised her after finding her alone in the forest. Six years later, the bear, named Masa,…

A century-old architectural landmark in Asheville, North Carolina, has reached a major milestone after years of deterioration threatened its distinctive dome and historic masonry. The Basilica of Saint Lawrence completed the first phase of a $7.7 million restoration and marked its reopening with a ceremony on October 10, 2026. According to Catholic News Herald, local…

Georgia woman’s $975,000 Walmart fall award was overturned by appeals court A Georgia woman who won $975,000 in compensation after a fall at a Walmart store in 2020 will have to go through another trial after a US appeals court overturned the verdict on Thursday. The court found that her lawyer had used unrelated figures,…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A mine in south-western Spain is offering new clues about how copper travelled across Bronze Age Europe, potentially linking miners in the Iberian Peninsula with communities in Scandinavia thousands of kilometres away. Around 1300 BC, people were extracting copper ore at Las Minillas, using stone tools to work deposits deep underground. Centuries…

UK PM Burnham indicates Britain may apologise for role in slave trade (File photo) The UK could issue its first apology for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham stressing the need for Britain to acknowledge its “complicated history” to safeguard the Commonwealth, a grouping of 56 independent nations that…

People attend an evacuation from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. (Photo: Reuters). Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky following a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump, with three planes carrying evacuees landing at an airport in Belarus on Saturday, according to media reports.The residents, who…

Eelgrass Meadows (Representative image) In the shallow waters of Long Island Sound, Connecticut volunteers are using an unlikely pair of helpers to bring back an underwater forest: live clams and eelgrass seeds. Researchers and community members are gluing seeds to clam shells, then releasing the clams at carefully chosen sites where they burrow into the…

PC: Royal Households of the United Kingdom Sandringham is best known as the Norfolk country estate closely associated with the British royal family, but its land has also been managed with wildlife and long-term conservation in mind. As reported by the Royal Households of the United Kingdom, more than 5,000 trees are planted there each…