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Kingswood man forgot to cancel lottery ticket and won £125,000
Kirstie McCrum Network Content Editor 15:50, 10 Oct 2025 Eight sets of Kingswood neighbours win share of £1mA relieved man from Kingswood has revealed how he forgot to cancel a direct debit paying for his lottery ticket - and has now won £125,000....
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Manchester United 2025/26 quiz: Mason Mount, Bruno Fernandes and more
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The National News
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Manchester United eased the mounting pressure on manager Ruben Amorim last weekend as they completed a surprisingly comfortable 2-0 home win over Sunderland. Goals from Mason Mount and Benjamin Sesko handed United a third home league win of the...
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This Airline Will Axe Its Boeing 787 Flights To Seattle
Few airlines are as strange as Air Tahiti Nui, the somewhat obscure flag carrier of French Polynesia. The airline itself operates a relatively small fleet of widebody models, and the carrier’s route network is limited to just a handful of services...
Owner: Sam Youseff
Interview + Podcast: Ocean warrior Captain Paul Watson
Captain Paul Watson doesn’t wear a cape, but he’s been called a hero. He’s also been labelled a pirate, a terrorist, a troublemaker. Sitting across from him in Monaco, however, you meet a man who is remarkably calm, reflective, and poetic. The...
Owner: Eric Brundage
Princeton alumni Nabarun Dasgupta '00 and Sébastien Philippe *18 win MacArthur 'genius' grants
Princeton alumni Nabarun Dasgupta and Sébastien Philippe have been awarded 2025 MacArthur Fellowships, both for work that honors Princeton's informal motto, “In the nation's service and the service of humanity.” Dasgupta is a member of the Class...
Owner: Princeton University
Ranching wild fish to rebuild marine ecosystems
Neutral
The Fish Site
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Sometimes a seemingly innocuous decision can have a life-changing impact. For Gilles Lecaillon, founder and CEO of Ecocean, that moment came 30 years ago. Then, as a marine science student at the University of Perpignan, he was searching for an...
Owner: Carsten Krome, Georg Baunach & Wayne Murphy
The best places to travel between Christmas and New Year’s Eve
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Lonely Planet
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The week between Christmas and New Year’s can feel a bit like the twilight zone. The kids are out of school, your inbox is quiet, your fridge is full of leftovers, and you’re never quite sure what day it is. This delightfully disorienting period –...
Owner: Ric Elias
European Space Agency stunned as asteroid passes dangerously close to Earth, closer than many satellites
An asteroid made a remarkably close approach to Earth last week, flying nearer than many satellites in low Earth orbit. Named 2025 TF, the space object passed over Antarctica at just 266 miles above Earth’s surface on the evening of Tuesday, Oct....
Owner: Sahu Jain Family
Google backs NZ subsea cable project to drive $36b of AI benefit for kiwis
Artificial intelligence could contribute an estimated NZD $36 billion to New Zealand's economy, according to new research, as Google announces developments in digital infrastructure and partnerships set to enhance the country's connectivity and...
Owner: Sean Mitchell
Expenses-scandal Paris mayor tries to drag down everyone else with her
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Yahoo News - United Kingdom
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It’s been a torrid time to be a French politician. If you’re not one in a line of ousted prime ministers or being locked up for criminal conspiracy, you could now even be publicly exposed by your own mayor. In what has been dubbed “the war of the...
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Three adventures across the seas: Exploring the voyages of James Cook
History is an encyclopedia filled with the names of famous explorers. Those whose adventures sometimes make us wish we lived in their time, back when what we know today as historical wonders were new discoveries. One of these explorers was Captain...
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Building climate ambition through regional partnerships in the French Pacific
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Pacific Community (SPC)
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New Caledonia and French Polynesia step up climate ambition with new NDCs committing to deep emissions cuts and stronger adaptation by 2035. New Caledonia and French Polynesia are stepping up their climate commitments with updated Nationally...
Owner: Pacific Community
Newly discovered asteroid soars past Earth in one of the ‘closest approaches ever recorded’
An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s...
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Nuclear Testing Threats are Returning & Saber Rattling is Getting Louder, warns UN Chief
Armed Conflicts, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations A nuclear test is carried out on an island in French Polynesia in 1971....
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Accor celebrates NRL Grand Final 2025 as tourism success
Accor reports record 98% hotel occupancy in Sydney during the 2025 NRL Grand Final, highlighting live sport’s tourism impact. SYDNEY – Accor, has described the 2025 NRL Grand Final as a major tourism success, citing exceptional hotel occupancies...
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An asteroid just made 'one of the closest approaches ever' to Earth
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Yahoo News
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A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about 266 miles (428 kilometers) above Earth’s surface,...
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Asteroid whizzed past Earth in 'one of the closest approaches ever'
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USA Today
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A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, according to astronomers. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about 266 miles (428 kilometers) above Earth’s...
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NRL Grand Final Sends Sydney Hotel Bookings Soaring
SYDNEY - Australia’s largest hotel operator, Accor, has declared the 2025 NRL Grand Final a tourism triumph, with tens of thousands of interstate fans driving exceptional hotel occupancies and boosting the local economy. With two non-NSW teams...
Owner: Henri Roelings
Living with the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing
"For 30 years, we were France's guinea pigs," says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago, a French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and is famed for its white beaches,...
Owner: German Government
Nuclear weapons testing: The victims are still suffering
"For 30 years, we were France's guinea pigs," says Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, a young member of parliament from French Polynesia. This South Pacific archipelago — a French overseas territory that includes Tahiti and is famed for its white beaches,...
Owner: German Government