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Photo credit: WVMA’s Cupertino campaign page After nearly two decades of gathering in borrowed spaces, the West Valley Muslim Association has secured a permanent home in Cupertino. The organisation completed its $16.5 million purchase of the former LDS Church at 20125 Bollinger Road on October 22, 2026, closing a chapter that began when its founding…

File photo: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, right, gives remarks alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney at a roundtable with business leaders during the Canada-EU Summit in Montreal, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026 Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and European commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday pressed for a closer alliance…

Justin and Hailey Bieber have added a $12 million Manhattan residence to their property portfolio, choosing a waterfront condominium in New York’s West Village that combines distinctive architecture, expansive river views and amenities designed around privacy. The purchase was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, with further details on the residence and its design…

Red Baron employee goes viral after an influencer harasses him for a prank video. A supermarket worker in Michigan who confronted a social media prankster for disrupting him during work has received an outpouring of support online, with a fundraiser for him crossing $100,000.The employee, identified publicly as Walt Z, was restocking frozen pizzas at…

Businesses employing H-1B workers won’t get certain agricultural grants in Texas. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has announced that businesses employing H-1B visa holders will no longer be eligible for certain grants administered by the Texas Department of Agriculture, in a move aimed at prioritising local workers in the use of taxpayer money. Miller announced…

If you have ever been to a supermarket, you will know that food often remains unsold even when it is perfectly good to eat. A bag of carrots rejected because one is too crooked. A crate of apples set aside because of a small bruise. A loaf of bread left on the shelf because it…

File photo: The site of the crash of a ICH-47 Chinook helicopter belonging to the Italian contingent of the European Union Force (EUFOR) Althea mission, near the village of Gorice, in Brcko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 29, 2026. A helicopter with the European Union peacekeeping force in Bosnia crashed Thursday in the country’s north…

Texas’s historic Imperial Sugar Char HousePhoto: Google Maps Street View After more than two decades of vacancy, failed redevelopment plans and gradual deterioration, Sugar Land’s historic Imperial Sugar Char House is finally set to receive the rescue many residents have waited years to see. The Sugar Land City Council approved a $15 million preservation project…

When conservation teams confirmed in 2018 that invasive house mice had been removed from Antipodes Island, it marked the end of one of New Zealand’s most ambitious island restoration efforts. The remote subantarctic island had carried mice for more than a century, and their appetite for insects, seeds, plants and occasionally bird eggs had quietly…