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Move over, modern builders — 7,000 years ago, the team at Provadia–Solnitsata in Bulgaria were already raising multi-storey homes, managing a booming salt trade, and performing some very unusual “construction rituals”.

Pedestrians are to be fined for speeding if they walk or run faster than six kilometres per hour in Slovakia. The new speed limit was agreed in the Slovak parliament yesterday through an amendment to new road traffic legislation, according to Swiss website Bluewin.

Two painting conservators from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) visited St Mary’s Church in Grandtully, Perthshire, to conserve the unique ceiling. 

JPMorgan Chase has opened its new 60-storey, $3 billion (c. £2.25bn) global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, a building designed to be a powerful recruitment tool and a model for the company's future offices. The all-electric tower, located at 270 Park Avenue, will accommodate 10,000 employe

A sixteen year old boy has created a robotic hand from Lego. 

Elon Musk's SpaceX is to pay an undisclosed sum to the makers of party game Cards Against Humanity after trespassing on land which was purchased to frustrate the construction of Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.

A hoard of 321 "mint condition" silver coins, uncovered during excavations for the Sizewell C power plant, has been donated to Suffolk County Council's Archaeological Service for safekeeping.

The world’s first industrial-grade, fully automated system that recognises and sorts pre-owned LEGO bricks has been unveiled.

Fife Council’s Transportation Services has invested £46,000 in a new state-of-the-art electric road lining vehicle, marking a major step forward in sustainable infrastructure maintenance.

A Dalkeith homeowner may be forced to dismantle a six-foot fence after enclosing a strip of public land beside their property.

A replica electric chair, vintage bar signs and toy shop fittings are among the pieces of eclectic Elgin memorabilia being auctioned in aid of the children’s ward at Dr Gray’s Hospital. As part of the regeneration of Elgin’s South Street, the former Jailhouse Nightclub, Junners Toy

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded Birse Community Trust grant funding to conserve and reopen The Souter’s Shop in Birse, a purpose-built shoemaker’s shop left largely untouched for over half a century and the only surviving example of its kind.

A tourist who stole a large chunk of an ancient Greek column in the 1960s has returned it more than half a century later. Greece's Ministry of Culture yesterday announced the repatriation of the fragment of a limestone Ionic capital from the Leonidaion, which accommodated athletes during the ancient

Tradespeople across the UK are losing valuable time and money battling parking problems, according to new research.

Furniture made from recycled materials including old denim, shoes and wine corks has been hailed as "the future of furniture design". Recycled furniture was a widespread theme at this year's Milan Design Week, CNN Style reports.