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A 1907 masterpiece by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, looted from a Dutch-Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, sold at a London auction earlier this week for £31.56 million (about $42 million, including fees), The New York Times reported. The painting, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life), was returned to the family’s heirs…

For generations, a Queensland farming family relied on a well that had supplied water for around 140 years. But in 2019, farmer Keogh says the water turned muddy and cloudy after a neighbouring property began test-pumping groundwater. Now, plans for a commercial bottling and processing facility near Warwick have intensified concerns among local farmers, as…

Dev Rai founded a nonprofit at 15; it has helped 400 artisans, sold 900 products and mobilised 300 volunteers (Image Credit: Serving Society) At 15, while many teenagers are focused on school and extracurricular activities, Dev Rai established a nonprofit to help traditional artisans in India reach more customers. Two years later, his initiative, Serving…

Image: Left/Wikipedia/Right/Realtor Olivia Wilde has sold her Studio City home in Los Angeles for $5.23 million, almost $700,000 below the $5.9 million she paid in March 2023. The four-bedroom house closed on 2 December, less than three months after it was listed at $6.2 million. The sale comes as the actress and director’s relationship with…

Pete Davidson has sold his Staten Island condominium for $800,000, taking a $400,000 loss on the property he purchased for $1.2 million in December 2020. The sale was completed on 13 May 2026, excluding the additional money he spent on renovations. According to the New York Post, the comedian transformed the apartment from its original…

A newly built Nando’s drive-through in Cranbourne North, Victoria, has sold for $5.845 million to a New South Wales-based private investor. The 2025-built property features a purpose-built dual-lane drive-through and has a long-term lease with Nando’s Australia.According to Real Commercial, Stonebridge’s marketing material estimates the property’s annual net income at $319,035 as at October 2026….

A forgotten box of photography equipment stored in an Oxfordshire loft for nearly 30 years has revealed a very rare Victorian camera that sold at auction for £18,000. The collection was first put away in 1996 by a homeowner who had inherited his father’s belongings. Nearly 30 years later, during a routine house clearance, he…

Peter Hvid’s castle hosts an annual Halloween event, now featuring 16 actors and treats sponsored by local businesses On a quiet residential street near Aalborg, Denmark, one house looks as though it has wandered out of another century. There are towers where neighbours have garages, battlements where most homes have rooflines and a moat surrounding…

Surprise ad springs up ahead of the Ohio governor election in which Amy Acton’s estranged mother says her daughter is a liar. The Ohio gubernatorial election became more heated with Amy Acton’s mother appearing in a Republican advertisement urging voters not to vote for her daughter because she’s a liar. The video looked like a…

A former Berkeley swimmer and US national team member, Breed embraced open-water swimming after joining San Francisco’s Dolphin Club. For 111 days, Catherine Breed’s world was measured in stretches of open water. One day brought towering waves, another brought punishing currents, and sometimes the ocean offered little more than exhaustion and uncertainty. Swimming roughly 10…