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31-year-old mother revealed how an ambitious personal challenge turned into a social media movement involving thousands of strangers. For 45 days, Erika Dison carried a secret that could change her family’s financial future. While her husband, Cody, continued their everyday life in central Arkansas, she was quietly working to erase every dollar of their $67,676.60…

Keith Boyd completed a 6,706-mile journey from Cape Town to Cairo in 301 days in 2024, setting a new record for the fastest journey between the two cities on foot. Image Credit: GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Keith Boyd completed a 6,706-mile journey from Cape Town to Cairo in 301 days in 2024, setting a new record…

Representative Image of a 1915 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Tourer with classic Barker coachwork, showcasing its timeless elegance (AI Generated Image) A 1915 Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP Silver Ghost Tourer spent about a century with one Australian family before emerging from long-term storage and appearing at auction in 2026. Chassis 17CB, fitted with its original Barker tourer…

Image: Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta began in 2017 with a small group of volunteers at a single local elementary school, packing nonperishable food for children who faced food insecurity over the weekend. The first distribution served just 10 students. Nine years later, the organisation provides weekend meals to thousands…

Phyl Terry. Image Credit: Phyl.org Phyl Terry’s Never Search Alone movement has grown from a free job-search effort into a large volunteer network supporting people through unemployment and career changes. Started in 2022, the programme was built around a simple idea that job seekers should not have to handle the process by themselves. By 2026,…

Artificial reefs created from retired oil and gas structures can provide stable marine habitat for more than 50 years. Far below Alabama’s Gulf Coast, a structure that once belonged to the energy industry is beginning a second life beneath the waves. The decommissioned Spirit VK 780A natural gas rig, located offshore, has been transformed into…

Every day, food that has reached the end of its useful life leaves kitchens, shops, factories and distribution centres across Sydney. Much of it could end up as waste with little further use. At EarthPower in Camellia, that material takes a different route. The facility uses anaerobic digestion to break down organic food waste and…

Image: Colleen Williams/Ken Bramer More than 30 years ago, a South Dakota collector who goes only by Rick paid $750 for a 30-gallon Red Wing stoneware crock at an auction, storing it in an old granary on his farm, where it sat largely forgotten for decades. It wasn’t until he saw photos of a nearly…

Indian-origin man in Canada, a permanent resident, jailed for sexually assaulting 15-year-old loses bid to avoid deportation A Canadian permanent resident originally from Punjab has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after a judge rejected his request for a shorter sentence that could have helped him preserve his right to appeal a possible deportation…

Daniel Levy spent almost 25 years at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur before stepping down as executive chairman in September 2025 (Image Credit: Getty Images) Daniel Levy spent almost 25 years at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur before stepping down as executive chairman in September 2025. Now, fresh details about the financial terms of his…