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Groundwater levels in Marlborough's largest aquifer have been dropping for more than 50 years, with new research linking the decline to falling riverbed levels.

At least 68 people were killed and 58 hospitalized after a high-speed train slammed into another train that had stopped on the tracks in Spain’s Toledo province. Rescue workers continue to search the wreckage, as authorities investigate the cause of the country’s second deadly rail collision this year. (AP video/Alicia Leon)

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Some loans are falling into arrears at a greater level than the rest of the country’s mortgage market.

My three-year-old said I’d ruined his life by not giving him a fourth scoop of ice cream. Now property investors are having a tantrum that their profits aren’t soaring endlessly upwards.

Richard Baines was the long-serving curator of Logan Botanic Garden near Stranraer.

Tributes have been paid to a man who died after being struck by a falling tree during Storm Boelo.

The Met Office has issued a new wind weather warning after Storm Boelo pummelled the UK with gusts of up to 84mph, flooded streets and caused power cuts to 800,000 homes.

Two companies were fined and paid reparations of more than $300,000, after Mykhailo Tremel died in June 2022.

An amber wind warning has now expired after severe weather sweeps across the UK.

A four-year-old girl has died after falling "from height" from an east London tower block, police said.

Sydney’s property slump could paradoxically make it harder to achieve the state’s home building targets.

LAM DONG (Vietnam), Oct 25 &mdash; A 40-year-old Malaysian woman was rescued after falling into a 10m-deep hole while hi...

Tenant Stephen Russell initially awarded €20,000, but deductions made over failure to pay rent and refusal of access

Over a single week, more than $US1 trillion ($1.43 trillion) was wiped from the stocks of 20 of the world’s biggest semiconductor and AI companies.

This week's PHP crisis is likely just the first of many.

The more we tolerate mé féinism the less likely we are to treat each other as human beings, and the more society tears itself apart

A man has died in Brazil after a gravestone reportedly gave way, causing him to fall into his father’s grave at a cemetery in Linhares. Read More: https://punchng.com/man-dies-after-falling-into-fathers-grave-in-brazil/

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Trump’s erratic White House, Putin’s aggression, China’s mercantilism, globe-affecting wars, rising debt levels and skyrocketing costs of living – it’s one toxic global cocktail.

“By now, measles is something I hoped I’d be having to know about from a historic point of view.”

Police say the infant was found with moderate injuries and taken to hospital.

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California’s $750 million bet on Hollywood has not reversed the overall decline in production, according to data released Wednesday by FilmLA. Instead, production levels fell 3.7% in the third quarter — even as the share of projects receiving state subsidies continued to rise. Location shoots remain well below the five-year average. State officials had hoped

As sea levels rise in the eastern Pacific, they are falling around Australia and the Coral Triangle, leaving some mangroves and corals high and dry

A political activist group has urged national police chief Samran Nualma to step up efforts to crack down on grey businesses, scam gangs and online gambling &mdash; and on the public officials who turn a blind eye to illegality.

Many Australian women with postpartum psychosis actively seek help despite not understanding what is wrong with them, research finds.

PARIS (FRANCE) - Global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions are falling far short of the Paris climate goals and put the world on course for 2.6C warming this century, the UN warned on Wednesday.

There are people of both political extremes who crave street politics just because it has potential for violence and confrontation

<p>Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors</p><p>“I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,” said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare.</p><p>It was Labour conference, with everyone from ministers to activists jubilan

Bord Bia report says most find it ‘impossible to get experience without a job, and impossible to get a job without experience’