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The emergence of fossils at a construction site in Florida has sparked a wave of trespassing by fossil hunters keen to get close to the ancient discoveries. Workers using heavy machinery at a major development called Wellen Park in Sarasota Count, have discovered shark teeth and fossils.

French tax authorities have benefitted from new artificial intelligence (AI) technology bringing in an extra €10 million (£8.5m) in tax revenue. The AI technology, developed by Google and Capgemini, was used to detect undeclared swimming pools in France. It was being trialled in the regio

A Melbourne resident received a windfall of $10.5 million (£6.2m) when she was accidentally transferred the sum by cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com. The error happened as a routine $100 (£59) refund was being processed to her account by the crypto platform, but the company only

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: West Of Scotland Housing Association

A Rangers fan who claimed he lost out on business from a contractor due to his support for the club has failed in a legal discrimination bid. Edward McClung attempted to sue Doosan Babcock and NRL for £80,000 under the Equality Act after his company McClung Strategy and Projects Ltd was n

Two successive earthquakes have rocked Liechtenstein's national parliament – just as lawmakers were debating a new law on earthquake insurance. Footage from the parliament shows a slight tremor as MP Bettina Petzold-Mähr makes the case for making earthquake insurance a legal requirement,

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Whirlwind Energy Storage Limited

A parking spot in San Francisco has been put up for sale for $90,000 (£77,000). The spot at a condo complex at 88 Townsend in San Francisco's South Beach neighbourhood is located near Oracle Park, NBC Bay Area reports.

Angus Council has approved plans for five new houses to be built on the site of the former Carmyllie quarry. At their peak, Carmyllie’s quarries employed around 500 individuals. The site near Arbroath moved from roofing slates to quarrying pavement stone for towns and cities. However, operatio

A local authority has apologised for demanding that a local landowner remove an unauthorised fence before it was pointed out that it was erected by the council itself. The demand was made by the enforcement division of Longford County Council in Ireland in a letter to Louis Herterich, a local butche

Muir Homes' plan to build 136 new homes on the edge of Forfar has been delayed after planning officials urged Angus Council's area development standards committee to reject it. The developers hope that the Westfield Loan development would eventually comprise of 300 houses.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: William Grant & Sons Distillers Ltd

Ambitious moves to transfer ownerless properties which have fallen to the Crown into public control to benefit communities across Scotland have been unveiled today. The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) has launched a consultation on his proposals for a new Ownerless Proper

Three prominent retail and office buildings on Edinburgh’s George Street have been sold in a deal that defies the gloom recently associated with the retail sector. Broadlands Properties Ltd has acquired 86, 88, and 90-92 George Street from a client of CBRE Investment Management, with the multi

A team of archaeologists working on the Çatalhöyük site in southern Turkey has discovered an unusually large building over 8,000 years old. Çatalhöyük is a tell, a mound made of several subsequent settlements, belonging to a Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city in