A new law meant to end rental bidding wars in England has produced a strange workaround in London: some landlords are reportedly advertising homes for more than they expect to receive, then considering offers below that price. London Centric began investigating after renters said asking prices had jumped since the new rules took effect. The …
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A 72-year-old Tennessee woman walked into a Nashville hospital for a knee replacement. Her family says she came out of the procedure unable to move or feel anything from her chest down. Glenda Dorton was one of four patients affected by a medication mix-up at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown on Aug. 14. According to …
A homeowner accidentally cut a propane line while working on his HVAC system. This happened before a house near Annapolis, Maryland, exploded, killing one woman, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department determined. Propane leaked into the Cape St. Claire home and accumulated without the homeowner realizing it. He later used a metal grinder, which ignited …
Four New Jersey teenagers needed an overnight rescue after becoming stranded high on New Hampshire’s Franconia Ridge. Now state officials say the hikers may have to pay for the operation that brought them back down. Why? The four 18-year-olds—identified by NBC New York as Jainam Bhavsar, Purva Jayani, Tirth Shah and Advik Yadav—started hiking at …
On warm summer days in Bern, Switzerland, some residents trade the bus or car for a swimsuit and the fast-moving Aare River as a way home from work. A reel making the rounds on Facebook shows swimmers placing their clothes and other belongings inside waterproof bags before entering the river. The current then carries them …
Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas, has officially welcomed a very special new arrival. Amara and Armando are now parents to the first giant anteater ever born at the park. Tanganyika was “so excited” to reveal the birth in a Facebook announcement, after staff had been dropping hints about the new arrival just prior. The …
A family from England sold nearly everything they owned and moved to Thailand with three children, two dogs and just five suitcases, to see if they could find a happier life. Jasmine Scarr, 34, and her husband, Ross Scarr, 38, left Darlington in May. Their children, Jayden, 7, Johnson, 5, and Mali, 2, are now …
Two metal trees beside a suburban Perth road are generating electricity every time their leaf-shaped turbines begin to spin. The nine-meter structures are Australia’s first Wind Trees. They stand along Connolly Drive in Clarkson, Western Australia, at the future Catalina Green commercial center. Each tree carries 36 small wind turbines known as Aeroleaves. Unlike the …
A Washington driver allegedly sped away from a traffic stop and escaped the patrol cars behind him. However, he didn’t realize that an airplane was tracking him too. Pierce County Sheriff’s Deputy Carly Cappetto said the encounter began around 8:30 p.m. Aug. 13 during an auto-theft task force operation in Parkland. A deputy noticed a …
Multiple families in Tennessee returned to a cemetery where generations of their relatives have been buried and found something they never expected to see. The headstones were gone. The ground where the cemetery had stood was flattened and covered with tracks consistent with heavy machinery, while roughly two dozen grave markers had been pushed into …