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“The death toll from Wednesday’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes has climbed to at least 1,420, while more than 51,000 people remain unaccounted for, according to Venezuelan authorities.”
“Before the financial crisis, there were 27 pensioners for every 100 working-age people. That figure has since risen to 35 pensioners for every 100 working-age people and is projected to increase to 49 per 100 by 2060”
“the 50-year-old reality star shared”
“Helen spent 30 minutes queuing to reach the summit with her family before running out of time”
“Head in the Clouds at the Rose Bowl on August 8 will have to proceed as four members.”
“On Wednesday, June 24, a woman who was out walking her dog in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country had an encounter with an aggressive grizzly bear.”
“A horse, for those unfamiliar with the animal, is a half-tonne of muscled beast”
“won the Restoration Showcase Award at last year’s Hampton Court concours”
“Venezuelan authorities said Friday that 861 volunteers from Mexico, the U.S., El Salvador, Switzerland, Colombia and beyond were in the country, and more were coming from elsewhere.”
“each young person who is not in employment, education or training costs the state an average of £244,000 over their lifetime”
“she and husband Shane Simpson, with whom she also shares Luke's twin, Keller, as well as daughter Annabelle, 12”
“We managed to do it in 23 hours and 13 minutes”
“"Animal," written by Ed Sheeran, released July 24, debuted at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 5 on Spotify’s Daily Global Chart with 3.346 million streams on its opening day.”
“a family of four grizzly bears have been frequenting a campground”
“The first Man vs Horse race, held in 1980 in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales”
“Cahill, 23, has impressed for Bolton since joining from Aston Villa in January 2008”
“Aid organizations generally consider the first 48 to 72 hours after a disaster critical for finding survivors beneath collapsed buildings, according to Red Cross VP of international cooperation, Kelsey Lemon.”
“Teenagers aged 16 and 17 receiving the highest rate of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can get around £100 more each week than someone earning the under-18 minimum wage in a 12-hour part-time job, according to analysis by The Times. A …”
“it will be 18 years soon”
“He said there were between 100 and 150 people queuing to get to the top”
“KATSEYE won New Artist of the Year, Breakthrough Pop Artist, and Best Music Video at the 2026 American Music Awards and scored a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist less than two years into their career.”
“banned the use of tents in two campgrounds”
“Two per cent of British men think they could beat a grizzly bear or a lion in a fight, unarmed.”
“The centre‑back, who has four Under‑21 caps, has moved up the pecking order”
“Wednesday’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes”
“More than 87,000 teenagers in this age group currently receive PIP across England and Wales.”
“See it all go down when The Real Housewives of Orange County returns July 9 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo”
“he and his friends climbed the mountain in 2023 and had to wait in a queue for more than 30 minutes to reach the summit”
“Wild arrives August 14.”
“after a black bear “damaged and accessed an unoccupied tent” in a backcountry campsite on June 6.”
“the 22-mile course”
“Only four years ago businesses and communities were recovering from Covid”
“The Canada Border Services Agency has opened more than 400 investigations and expelled 55 suspects in response to the extortion crisis, according to a spokesperson.”
“Official figures published earlier this year showed that the number of PIP claimants in England and Wales had exceeded four million for the first time, roughly twice the level recorded in 2019.”
“There are three quarters of a million people summitting annually”
“KATSEYE’s first ever headlining world tour kicks off in September, and will include two nights at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on November 21 and 22.”
“On June 13, two other tents were damaged by a bear at another nearby campsite.”
“24 years later, the fastest human arrived slightly ahead of the fastest horse (and rider).”
“15,000 Scots attended a baseball game”
“The RCMP has alleged the Indian government hired Bishnoi to kill Nijjar, a leader of the Khalistan movement that advocates for independence for India’s Punjab.”
“A Government spokesperson said the autumn report would "lay the foundation for reform", adding that a record £16.1 billion is being invested in NHS mental health services this year, alongside the early delivery of 8,500 additional mental h…”
“Only about 350 remain, still vulnerable to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements.”
“A day later, on June 14, two more tents were damaged at another campground.”
“The race is now in its 46th year”
“were like 100 Scots in kilts”
“This story was originally published by Global News on June 15, 2026.”
“The Timms Review’s interim report declared that PIP, as originally designed in 2013, is no longer fit for purpose.”
“For added perspective, the statistics on violence against Indigenous women in the U.S. are alarming — according to the Indian Law Resource Center.”
“About 115 ships were able to move out of the strait in recent days, leaving about 500 still in the area”
“with the horses ahead by 40 victories to five, and about 700 runners competing against 70 horses”
“couldn’t walk more than 5m without seeing a Scot”
“That’s why Inaba—who also co-hosted the CBS show The Talk from 2019 to 2021—recently talked to me about the challenges...”
“43 transits recorded after the incident”
“the 4,224 feet of ascent the race involved”
“over the last 28 years”
“prewar averages of 130 or more per day”
“After 22.6 miles of running”
“£18bn investment deal with Japan”
“At least two tankers reversed course”
“The Lockerbie crash killed 270 people, 41 of them British citizens.”
“£48m”
“More than two dozen ships were still transiting the strait’s southern route after the attack”
“At least one lucky man lost only his suitcase on Flight 103 because he lingered too long in a Heathrow bar.”
“Japanese investors setting out a five-year investment pipeline worth more than £9bn”
“Vadym Lermolaiev is a business tycoon and real estate developer who in 2023 was sanctioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for reportedly trading alcohol in Russian-occupied Crimea and paying millions in taxes to the Russian tre…”
“killing one person and injuring 22 others in a bomb attack on a Copenhagen synagogue.”
“add £9bn to the UK economy each year”
“More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.”
“For the past ten years at least, Jiacha has been living somewhere in the United States under the witness protection programme that the FBI lays on for golden stool-pigeons.”
“42.5 per cent renewables in total energy consumption by 2030 when the current UK share went as low as 16.4 per cent”
“In the dawn’s early light of Sunday 3 July 1988, for most Americans the middle of a long weekend with Monday’s Independence Day holiday looming, the USS Vincennes was at war.”
“peak audience of 1.9m tuning in on BBC1 and a further 434,000 watching online”
“All 290 people on board, 66 of them children, died.”
“Work has begun on the Lower Thames Crossing, a new tunnel several miles east of Dartford designed to ease pressure on the existing route. But the timeline tells its own story: it will not open until the 2030s.”
“Total fatalities, including the locals, were 270 – just 20 fewer than the Iranian Airbus.”
“But the timeline tells its own story: it will not open until the 2030s. By then, it will have taken around 25 years from initial proposal to completion.”
“At the beginning, the link between these 560 victims of aerial terror seemed cut and dried.”
“Two tunnels announced in the mid-2010s, Eysturoy and Sandoy, were delivered in four to five years at a combined cost of around £300m.”
“In 1970, Jibril had destroyed a Tel Aviv-bound Swissair jet with a bomb fused by barometric pressure.”
“Eysturoy alone, featuring the world’s first subsea roundabout in a tunnel, cut journey times between key towns from over an hour to around 15 minutes.”
“Talb had made two trips to Malta in 1988, one in November when the clothes were purchased.”
“The UK, meanwhile, is still nearly a decade away from delivering a much-needed crossing first proposed in 2009.”
“On 9 April 1990, the Swedes allowed British detectives to question Talb about his movements around this time.”
“The Faroe Islands, a self-governing nation in between Scotland and Iceland of about 50,000”
“This is about as much money as the country of Nigeria, and all 242 million of its citizens, makes in a year.”
“Beneath the arch lie 400,000 cubic meters of radioactive waste.”
“(The entire 13-year Apollo programme, the first and so far the only initiative to put humans on another world, cost about $200bn in today’s money).”
“Known for infiltration missions in eastern Ukraine, their Omega unit has also been protecting Chernobyl’s skies since 2024.”
“roughly 250 billion barrels of oil commanded by the Saudi ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.”
“We get alerts at least twice a week.”
“With other damage caused by storms, the total bill for reopening train services through the West Country is reckoned to be more than £500m.”
“A white patch 15 meters in diameter now marks the repaired section where the fire burned through the dome.”
“Not only did it cost us £6bn, but we get blamed every time the 8.02 from Surbiton is late.”
“The chief executive of Railtrack, a former bean counter called Steven Marshall, receives the same news from his Great Western zonal director, who says it’s going to cost £500m.”
“We could tell them that, without their help, Cornwall will be cut off for six months. That will bring us a few millions.”
“It receives an annual £1bn in government subsidy.”
“The company would have to be bought from its shareholders for £5bn-6bn (the current valuation suggested by the share price), three times the amount obtained for its sale.”
“All the train operating companies’ existing franchises run out between 2003 and 2012.”
“Sir Alastair Morton, chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, is trying to relet the franchises early: he is offering 20- year terms in exchange for promises of investment from the operators.”
“British Rail was split into around a hundred parts, which were flogged off individually: they include Railtrack, the 25 train operators, the 14 renewal and maintenance companies, the three rolling-stock companies, the two freight operators…”
