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What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...
Money blog: Netflix quietly increases its subscription prices
In Money today: the best mortgage rates and where they're expected to go this year following the base rate cut; Netflix has ...
‘Days of Mass Burials Ahead’ as Congo Mourns Its Dead in Goma
Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...
Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran dry got water use under control
Cities in the Northeast experienced record-breaking drought conditions in the second half of 2024 after a hot, dry summer in many areas. Wildfires broke out in several states that rarely see them.
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How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt ...
LA wildfires live: Residents face new threats of mudslides and ‘toxic ash’ as rain hits Southern California
“Despite being smack in the middle of the rainy season, brush conditions over Southern California are currently as dry as they ever get in the summer (the dry season),” AccuWeather California Expert ...
A Storm, a Spill and a Disaster for the Black Sea’s Beaches
Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.
Henderson has Triumph target after winning start for Palladium
Palladium was an easy-to-back 8-15 favourite under Nico de Boinville for division two of the Pertemps Network Maiden Hurdle, jumping well throughout behind the pacesetting pair of Taxus Baccata and ...
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China: A Cat with Its Leg Raised for No Apparent Reason
and Putin to start peace talks The World’s BEST Pies You Need To Try Stunning images reveal the most detailed map of the brain EVER seen Report reveals the fastest growing and declining jobs in ...
CBS News18d
Maps show snow totals in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and more states across the southern U.S.
"I was born and raised in New Orleans," Ian Spooner told CBS News. "I can count on one hand how many times it snowed, and it never snowed like this." As of Wednesday morning, the city had 10 ...
Hindustan Times18d
Donald Trump inauguration: Kathy Hochul bucks convention as she orders all flags in New York to be raised to full-staff
Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered all flags in the State of New York to be raised to full-staff for the inauguration of Donald Trump. At present, flags are flying at half-staff across the nation to ...
Newsweek18d
Baltic Sea Map Shows NATO Flotilla Deployed to Guard Undersea Cables
NATO has deployed a flotilla off the coast of Estonia to guard critical undersea communication cables amid fears of potential sabotage by foreign actors, a Baltic Sea map shows. The mission ...