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About 25,000 bottles and 1,000 pounds of mortar were used to build the attraction. In 1973, Ontario teacher Hank Deverell and his wife Myrtle built a house from glass bottles in Redditt, a small community in northwestern Ontario, Canada. Myrtle wanted a house to display her growing doll collection, and Hank turned the idea into…

For Matt Ellis and Kate Tucker, buying a home in Melbourne became a familiar cycle of hope, bidding and disappointment. The couple wanted to remain close to their community and friends, but they were repeatedly outbid in the inner city market. Eventually, they looked far beyond Victoria and found a more affordable path near Cygnet…

Drake is known to own the first Grand Vividus and has publicly spoken about his obsession with luxury beds. A mattress is one of the few things people use every day for years. But would you spend ₹7 crore on one? That is the approximate price attached to the Grand Vividus, a luxury mattress made…

Indian migrants are spread across the world, with several countries emerging as major destinations. (AI-generated image) For millions of Indians, moving abroad has meant building a career, starting a business, joining family or simply looking for a different life. But where do Indians who leave the country actually settle?The latest United Nations estimates offer a…

Australia could be sitting on a hidden stockpile of hundreds of tonnes of silver as millions of solar panels approach the end of their working lives. More than one million tonnes of waste solar panels are expected across the country by 2050, containing an estimated 300–500 tonnes of silver. Much of that valuable metal is…

The woman has been identified as Raj Tiwana. An Indian-origin woman in Canada was arrested after a dispute with her tenant over a barbecue escalated into a series of confrontations at a rental property. The tenant shared videos of the incidents on social media, alleging that his landlady entered his home without permission, removed food…

Robin Robin/Image: Jay Kogler/AAP PHOTOS A 30-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for 27 years in Australia for fatally stabbing a fellow international student and attempting to kill another after a drunken argument in Melbourne.Robin Robin was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday for murdering 22-year-old Navjeet Singh Sandhu and attempting to murder…

PC: Study: A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds Across northeastern Brazil, an extraordinary landscape hides a secret beneath its surface. Around 200 million earthen mounds stretch across roughly 230,000 square kilometres, an area about the size of Great Britain. Some of these structures are almost 4,000 years old, yet they are not termite…

Casa Bola. Image Credit: ABERTO A Brazilian architect turned an unusual housing experiment into his own long-term home when he built Casa Bola in São Paulo. Eduardo Longo began constructing the spherical residence in 1974, completing it in 1979 after building it largely by hand. Designed as a prototype for a different way of living,…

From cricket legends to Stanley Cup champions, these sports figures left remarkable legacies before 9/11Image credits: prosportmedia Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the names of the 2,977 people killed that day continue to be remembered by families, communities, workplaces, colleges and sporting institutions across the United States. For the sports world, that remembrance…