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A Toledo woman’s neighbour has a tree of heaven covered in spotted lanternflies, leaving her driveway, car and patio covered in bugs and sticky sap

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A Toledo woman's neighbour has a tree of heaven covered in spotted lanternflies, leaving her driveway, car and patio covered in bugs and sticky sap

Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is a planthopper native to several Asian countries that has spread throughout states (Image: University of Georgia) A Toledo woman says a spotted lanternfly infestation coming from a tree next door has gotten so bad that she can no longer park in her own driveway or use her backyard without dealing … Read more

Australia ageing population crisis report sparks migration debate

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Australia ageing population crisis report sparks migration debate

People take photos of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. (Photo: Reuters) For the first time in the 2060s, deaths are projected to outnumber births in Australia, while annual population growth is expected to average 0.9% over the next four decades. Lower fertility and declining net overseas migration are expected to contribute to the … Read more

Ohio flash-flood threat persists as tornado warning ends

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Ohio flash-flood threat persists as tornado warning ends

Vehicle in Ohio drives through floodwater at intersection. (Photo: Muskingam County Engineer’s Office via Anadolu Agency via Reuters) A flash-flood warning remained in force across parts of southeastern Ohio into Monday morning after a tornado warning was cancelled late Sunday as severe weather continued across the region. Storm warning carries 97kmph gusts At 11.13pm local … Read more

In 1959, Sebastian Scirpo started a Connecticut livestock auction in a rented chicken coop and made $7 on his first commission; 67 years later, his daughters run the state’s last remaining sale barn

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In 1959, Sebastian Scirpo started a Connecticut livestock auction in a rented chicken coop and made $7 on his first commission; 67 years later, his daughters run the state's last remaining sale barn

Since her father died in 2002, Lisa Scirpo has been working to persuade farmers and dealers that the Middlesex Livestock Auction will continue as the only sale barn in Connecticut. Without it, Scirpo said farmers who want to bring animals to auction would have to travel to Massachusetts or Pennsylvania. But now, farmers in those … Read more

A Florida music hall that hosted Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles closed in 1968; after a four-year, $4.8 million renovation, St Petersburg has reopened it

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A Florida music hall that hosted Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles closed in 1968; after a four-year, $4.8 million renovation, St Petersburg has reopened it

A new mural by artist Egypt Hagan has been added to the property. St Petersburg’s historic Manhattan Casino reopened on Saturday, 58 years after it closed, following a four-year renovation of the 101-year-old building. According to St Pete Catalyst, the city has spent $4.8 million on the two-storey property, which will now operate as a … Read more

Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

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Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

Jiaen Jiang – Student Researcher in Aerospace, PC: LinkedIn Jiaen Jiang, a 16-year-old student from Rosenberg, Texas, has won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for an engineering project designed to capture fine lunar dust before it enters future Moon habitats. Jiang’s project, called the Moondust Magnet, uses a bipolar interdigitated electrode array to create controlled … Read more

Cats may have their own chemical ‘ID cards’: Scientists found 13 unusual fatty acids in urine that remain stable for at least 24 hours which can easily help identify individual cats

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Cats may have their own chemical ‘ID cards’: Scientists found 13 unusual fatty acids in urine that remain stable for at least 24 hours which can easily help identify individual cats

It seems there exists an established yet hidden cat calling system. According to scientists, cats identify one another through a shockingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their urine. Thus, feline friendships might have to do more with their identification than consistent meetings.Cats rely heavily on scent to learn about … Read more

Meloni plans burqa, niqab ban in Italian schools; how it compares to rest of Europe

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Meloni plans burqa, niqab ban in Italian schools; how it compares to rest of Europe

Italy moves to ban burqa, niqab in schools, says Meloni (AI-generated image) Italy is preparing to ban the burqa and niqab in schools, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday, putting the country back in the spotlight of Europe’s long-running debate over face-covering veils, religious expression and integration.Meloni said her government would soon take a … Read more

An Ontario couple paid C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale; six years later the work was identified as E J Hughes’s Lake Okanagan and sold at auction for C$402,500

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An Ontario couple paid C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale; six years later the work was identified as E J Hughes’s Lake Okanagan and sold at auction for C$402,500

Hughes spent much of his career focusing on the landscapes of British Columbia An Ontario couple who paid just C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale in 2001 later discovered that they had bought a work by renowned Canadian artist E J Hughes, literary weboste BC Booklook reported. Six years after the … Read more

18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti’s president being extradited from Haiti to US

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18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti's president being extradited from Haiti to US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday, marking the end of a drawn-out judicial process in Haiti for a killing that shocked the troubled Caribbean country. 18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti’s … Read more