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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…

Pic credit: Plus real estate The old Hollywood home at 6823 Iris Circle in Los Angeles has sold for $2.5 million, fetching $205,000 above its asking price, according to Mansion Global. The price is a strong result for a 1923 Spanish Revival house that its owners restored after buying it for $1.05 million in 2016….

Actress Tamera Mowry-Housley and her husband, former journalist Adam Housley, are preparing for a new chapter in Napa Valley as they put their longtime Fairfield, California, home on the market for $2.69 million. The June 2026 listing follows their $3.8 million purchase of a neglected wine-country property in October 2024, a move detailed by Realtor…

A worn fragment of a $20 banknote linked to the famous 1971 D.B. Cooper hijacking has sold for $134,200 (£102,800) at an auction in Dallas, Texas. The damaged banknote is one of the few pieces of physical evidence ever recovered from the ransom money given to the unidentified hijacker before he parachuted into the wilderness…

A century-and-a-half-old family ranch in northern San Antonio became the focus of a major conservation effort in June 2016, when the Classen-Steubing family agreed to sell 204 acres of largely undeveloped land to the city for a future park and protection of the Edwards Aquifer. The proposal, reported by Texas Public Radio and the San…

Five-year-old Fabiana was killed by her mother and now her father Kuldeep Singh seeks help on GoFundMe to raise money for her funeral. A New York father is struggling to arrange his five-year-old daughter’s funeral after the child was found dead at their Queens home, with the girl’s mother charged with murder after allegedly telling…

Steve Buscemi worked as a full-time New York City firefighter before starting his acting career. Hollywood actor Steve Buscemi had left the New York City Fire Department to pursue acting, but the September 11, 2001, attacks brought him back to the fire service. The next morning, he returned to Ground Zero, where he joined firefighters…

21-year-old Indian-American Vasant Bhatt goes viral after he announces that he voted for Democrat James Talarico in Texas, rejecting MAGA’s India hatred. Indian-origin US voter Vasant Bhatt went viral after he announced on social media that he voted for Democrat James Talarico in Texas after being disgusted by the xenophobia and racism of the Republicans….