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A woman was rescued from an outhouse toilet after she climbed into it to retrieve her Apple Watch. The woman dropped the watch at a boat launch event in Bagley Township, Michigan, police said, and lowered herself inside the toilet.

A narrow house less than four metres wide but 32 metres long has been approved in South Ayrshire.

A 45-storey student accommodation development is set to be delivered in Leeds. Developer Olympian Homes and investor Cain International said the 191-metre Cirrus Point scheme will be “the tallest PBSA building in the world and the tallest building in Leeds”.

Drivers in a French village have complained after being disoriented by crisscrossed white lines on the road which the mayor has argued has purposefully made them slow down. The village of Bauné in western France introduced the series of crisscrossing white lines at interse

A faint meow during an inspection revealed a furry surprise for construction workers in the United States. Fire officials and construction workers in Kelso, Washington state found a litter of six kittens inside a newly drywalled wall during an inspection of a newly constructed apartment complex.

Alcohol flowed freely in the Portuguese town of Levira over the weekend after two vats holding about 2.2m litres of wine at a distillery burst and flooded the streets.

Architecture studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled designs for Sultan Haitham City, Oman’s first-ever smart city which aims to house 100,000 people. Located in Al-Seeb, a district of Muscat, the new city will comprise over 2.9 million square meters of public space,

A collection of nine traditional Hindu models believed to be at least 1,000 years old have been unearthed at a construction site in India.

A crane operator used his skills to rescue an unlucky dog after it fell into a hole on a construction site.

A cycling kit pioneer has created a new shoe made from gravel.

A homeowner who spent five years building a secret underground cavern in his garden despite not having planning permission may have to demolish the structure. Now an application for retrospective permission for the cavern has been made by the resident in Sefton, who is creating the garden structure

The LA home where Marilyn Monroe lived before her death could be demolished. The owners of the $8.35 million bungalow have filed to tear down the Hacienda-style home, where the body of the 'Some Like It Hot' star was discovered in August 1962.

Two construction workers have been detained by police in China for damaging a section of the Great Wall. Police in Youyo County in Shanxi province say a man and a woman used a digger to create a shortcut through the iconic landmark.

The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

A fascinating film on the Antonine Wall will be the focus of special canal boat trips.