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After Aretha Franklin’s 2018 death, her Detroit estate sold for $300,000 before new owners began a $2 million restoration. Behind the boarded windows of a once-grand Detroit mansion lay more than years of neglect. The house had witnessed the private life of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, and belonged to a chapter of the…

Stacia questioned whether her father had signed the will freely and knowingly. (AI image) An Indiana woman who challenged her father’s decision to leave his entire estate to his fiancee has lost her case and now faces a growing legal bill. According to the court document, Stacia Davis was ordered to pay $22,208.18 in attorney…

Photo credit: Champion News A London homeowner has lost a four-year legal battle over a strip of land measuring just 48 centimetres after a tribunal ruled that her neighbours’ kitchen extension had acquired “squatters’ rights.” Susannah James bought the £600,000 semi-detached house in Surbiton in 2021, but a year later claimed that part of the…

A teenager from Manitoulin Island, Ontario, is working to make science and technology more accessible to children who might otherwise miss out because of where they live or what their families can afford. Amara Wilson-Zegil, a Grade 11 student at Manitoulin Secondary School, has been named one of Canada’s Top 10 Youngest Changemakers of 2026…

Eva Longoria’s foundation and Accessity launched a $55,000 loan fund in 2013 to help six Latina entrepreneurs start or grow their businesses. (Photo: Instagram) A small loan fund launched in 2013 by the Eva Longoria Foundation and California-based nonprofit lender Accessity has grown into a significant source of financial support for Latina entrepreneurs in Southern…

In 2017, Nate Taylor found a three-word offer on Craigslist for free Halloween decorations. It took three truck trips to bring everything home. Nearly a decade later, that secondhand collection has become a local attraction that drew an estimated 18,000 visitors last October and led to a legal dispute with city officials in Michigan. Taylor,…

Pic credit: Joushua Lowry/ GoFundMe A North Carolina family is preparing to take their 12-year-old son to Boston for a heart procedure despite an insurance denial that arrived just days before their scheduled trip to the hospital on October 19, ABC 13 reported. The insurer reportedly called the procedure “medically unnecessary and experimental”. The boy,…

Photo credit (L-R): Bonhams; New York’s Plaza Hotel The original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise has one of the strangest histories in American illustration. Painted by Hilary Knight in 1956 as a birthday gift for Eloise co-creator Kay Thompson, the tempera-on-board artwork hung in the Plaza’s lobby before disappearing during a Junior League Ball in…

Sisi has asked for an urgent parliamentary session to authorise the military to help defend Saudi Arabia should the kingdom request its assistance. Egypt on Sunday announced that it was ready to militarily assist Saudi Arabia for safeguarding its security and stability, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis step up their assaults on the world’s largest oil…

Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday, announcing that the country’s first astronaut would embark on a space mission from China on November 25.Addressing the concluding…