Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo sold their Montecito mansion for $60 million in October 2025, after purchasing the property for $52 million in 2022. The 11,500-square-foot estate in California was originally built in 2009 for actor Rob Lowe. The couple listed the nine-bedroom residence for $65 million in July 2025 before agreeing to the reported…
A US federal judge has approved a $47.75 million settlement in a securities lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric Industries, while significantly reducing the legal fees requested by the investors’ lawyers. The October 23 ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of California, reported by Bloomberg Law and Law360, brings the investor class action…
Image Credit: Jeremy Norwood/Smithsonian The Smithsonian Institution has raised $2.5 billion through its Campaign for Our Shared Future, reaching its fundraising target a full year ahead of schedule. Announced on 5 February 2026, the achievement marks the largest fundraising campaign in the history of a cultural organisation. Launched in 2018, the initiative brought together donors…
NHAI caps toll plazas on future national highway projects at eight lanes, with MLFF tolling aimed at reducing land acquisition and public spending New Delhi: All future national highway projects, including those where construction is yet to begin, will have toll plazas with not more than eight lanes, as NHAI has made Multi-Lane Free Flow…
PC: National Park Service Greenwater, California, grew into a settlement of 2,000 people following a copper discovery in 1905, but its mining boom had collapsed by 1909 without ever making a profit. Located south of Dante’s View in the Death Valley region, the town attracted people hoping to benefit from copper mining. According to the…
By 2026, Robin Rinearson’s two Fairfax County businesses have become more than neighbourhood food shops, they have become workplaces where people with disabilities can build skills, confidence and independence. When retired optometrist Robin Rinearson opened Jake’s Ice Cream in Virginia in 2021, her goal was not simply to sell scoops of ice cream. She wanted…
When American naturalist and conservationist Paul Rosolie first travelled to the Peruvian Amazon at 18, he was drawn to one of the world’s most extraordinary wildernesses. Two decades later, his work has evolved from exploring remote forests and studying wildlife into a long-term effort to protect the rainforest from illegal logging, road expansion and other…
Patrick Stewart with his wife Sunny Ozell, whom he married in 2013. (Photo: Facebook) Patrick Stewart, best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise, has died at the age of 86. While his illustrious career made him a celebrated name across generations,…
Air Force One made an extremely low-altitude flyover sending some residents into panic. Residents in Washington, DC, were left frightened after a large aircraft flew unusually low over their neighbourhoods on Thursday evening, prompting several people to call 911 fearing that a plane was about to crash. The aircraft, however, turned out to be Air…
Representative Image of hydrilla overtaking a Florida waterway, displacing native plants and disrupting wildlife and recreational activities (AI-generated image) An aquatic plant imported for home aquariums became a major management problem in Florida after it entered the state’s freshwater systems in the 1950s. Hydrilla, a submerged plant native to parts of Asia, can grow rapidly,…