Chang Yung-fa. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Taiwanese billionaire Chang Yung-fa, the founder of the Evergreen shipping and aviation empire, left behind a fortune estimated at more than $3 billion when he died in 2016. Nearly a decade later, his estate remains at the centre of a legal dispute involving his family and a charitable foundation…

When Crystal Fritz and James Reed McGuire moved from a Chicago condominium to Highland Park, Illinois, in late 2020, they had little experience with outdoor gardening. Rather than maintain a conventional suburban lawn, the couple decided to create a native garden that could provide food and shelter for birds, bees and other wildlife. Over the…

Reality TV star turned fashion designer Lauren Conrad has sold her fully renovated Beverly Hills penthouse for $2.8 million (£1.9 million). This is more than double the $1.35 million she paid for the home four years earlier, according to property records reported by the Los Angeles Times. Conrad, best known for appearing on the MTV…

A rare early 19th-century Pennsylvania Dutch folk art drawing showing George Washington and an American eagle with 13 stars has sold at auction for $226,600 (£175,000). The artwork had remained hidden in a plain manila folder for more than six decades. The double-page ink and watercolour fraktur bookplate was made in Pennsylvania in the early…

DiCaprio-linked group buys 52,000 acres on Chilean island; protected status still under negotiation (Image Credit: WWF Chile/ Evelyn Pfeiffer via Rewild) More than a year after a conservation group linked to Leonardo DiCaprio helped acquire over 52,000 acres on Chile’s Guafo Island, efforts are continuing to secure its future as a protected area. The purchase,…