Mexico will sue Google if it continues to label the entire Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America", the country's president has warned. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order purporting to rename the body of water.
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A construction worker has won a supercar worth £164,000 in a competition which cost him just 29p to enter. Ciprian Cocoveica, from Basildon, won a Lamborghini Huracan in BOTB’s Supercar Competition.
A great-grandfather from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who has been collecting bricks for the last 40 years of his life was surprised to learn he has the largest collection of bricks in the world.
A sprawling 'garden city' development totalling 15,000 homes in Kent has been brought to a halt due to a small colony of endangered spiders.
After a decade-long battle with local officials, a Welsh computer engineer is considering buying an entire landfill site to search for a hard drive containing an estimated £620 million in lost Bitcoin. James Howells, 39, says his ex-partner mistakenly discarded the drive, containing his Bitcoi
A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history unearthed in the city of London. Archaeologists have found a substantial piece of the ancient city's first basilica - a 2,000-year-old public building where major political,
A couple who bought a £32.5 million mansion can hand it back and have most of their money returned after they found out it had a "severe moth infestation", a High Court judge has ruled. Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak successfully sued William Woodward-Fisher, the vendor of their proper
The first winner of the prestigious Stirling Prize for Britain’s best new building now looks set to be demolished. When judges awarded Salford’s Centenary Building the inaugural award from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1996, they declared it “a dynamic, modern and so
A tour at the Science Museum in London has claimed Lego bricks can be anti-LGBTQ+ by promoting heteronormative relationships.
A famous leaning minaret in the Iraqi city of Mosul has been reconstructed brick by brick, reversing its destruction by Islamic State in 2017. For the first time in its history, UNESCO not only co-ordinated but directly led the reconstruction of heritage sites destroyed by war through its "Reviving
An advertisement for Scottish Power featuring the architect George Clarke has been banned for misleading viewers.
A colony of beavers jumped the gun on a seven-year-long dispute by constructing a series of dams exactly where local authorities wanted to build them. Environmentalists had called for years for the construction of new dams in Czechia's Brdy mountains to reverse damage caused by the communist-era Cze
A construction worker has claimed the first $100,000 top prize in a new scratch-off game from the Maryland Lottery. Roberto Fuentes Valdivia bought five $10 MONOPOLY X50 tickets while stopping for coffee in Mt. Rainier and won big on the final ticket he scratched.
Construction work has begun for a Virgin Mary statue in Poland that will be taller than the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro. Set for Konotopie, a small village located between Lipno and Toruń, in the municipality of Kikół, the structure will be 55.6 metres high.
A group of construction workers were left stunned after they found a message in a bottle from a team of builders who worked on the same site more than 50 years ago. Anthony Gibbons discovered the hidden message alongside his colleagues on Tuesday while they were turning a swimming baths in Hexham, N