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An autonomous excavator has been taught to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tonnes and demolition debris.

A notorious drug trafficker has handed his artificial island in Dubai to the Italian authorities in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence. Raffaele Imperiale, 49, told a court in Naples that he paid €12 million for 'Taiwan', which forms part of the artificial archipelago called "The World", con

Police in Michigan conducted an hour-long chase after a construction vehicle was stolen and driven through traffic by a 12-year-old boy.

A property magnate has lost a three-year legal battle against a local authority that refused to let him build thousands of homes next to a sewage treatment plant. Clive Palmer sued the Gold Coast City Council in Australia after it refused to let him build 3,000 homes on the 75-hectare plot he bought

Firefighters have hailed the skills of a crane operator who assisted in the rescue of construction workers trapped after a fire broke out at a tower block. A fire broke out yesterday at Sir Robert McAlpine’s £750 million One Station Hill construction site in Reading, which celebrated top

An inflatable Whopper the size of a car garage was spotted tumbling through the streets of a city in Oregon this month.

A former tiler who bought a pool table as one of his first purchases after winning the lottery has won a medal at the European championship.

A woman who delayed the construction of a 5G mast by parking her car over the spot where the foundations were due to be laid said she would "park my car there again" to stop the mast's installation.

The day after Thanksgiving is widely known as "Black Friday" for retailers and shoppers across the US, but plumbers said they refer to it as "Brown Friday" because they encounter an influx of sewage and dirty sink water.

A property lawyer who quit her job to become a full-time animal psychic has said she is now happier and earning more money. Nikki Vasconez charges $550 for an "animal communication session" in which she purports to speak with any animal, living or dead, for up to 90 minutes.

Archaeologists have unearthed the strange statue of a Maya warrior wearing a snake-shaped helmet at the basement of a pre-Columbian temple in Mexico.

A new roundabout has finally opened to motorists but a lone utility pole, a remnant from the previous road intersection, remains in place in the circle. Construction on the Lincoln Road roundabout in Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick in eastern Canada, began in late June of this year an

A construction worker is undertaking a 24-hour ballroom dancing marathon to raise money for Diabetes UK.

A team of architecture students from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment at Robert Gordon University (RGU) has created an innovative project to support the restoration of the Bon Accord Baths. The third-year students have created eight innovative ideas to reuse and br

The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore has been given a three-month deadline to demolish an unauthorised spa pool block at their home. Central Bedfordshire Council issued an enforcement notice in July requiring the demolition of the “unauthorised building” in the grounds of the propert