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Crofters on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides are finally set to own their island after being granted £100,000 by the Scottish Land Fund to complete the deal. The deal means that the community buy-out by the Great Bernera Community Development Trust, which was overwhelmingly approved by locals in

A man who stole two bags of cement in Nigeria was given seven strokes of the cane in open court as his punishment. The sentence was handed down to Naziti Ibrahim by a Gudu Upper Area Court in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday, June 11, 2015.

Jaguar Land Rover is developing technology to enable its cars to identify potholes they encounter and share that data in real-time with road authorities and other vehicles. The upcoming feature will help government agencies prioritise road repairs and enable drivers to avoid major potholes and broke

An American man has decided that he was done with the city life and instead wanted to build a giant treehouse. Called the Cinder Cone, it's an incredible high-rise wooden cabin that has taken a year to build. Recruiting the help of friends, Foster Huntingdon, who quit his job in New York for the pro

The ceremonial "first stone" has been laid at a Ferrari theme park in Spain. Billed as the "single most important project in the history of PortAventura Resort," the €100 million Ferrari Land theme park will cover 75,000 square meters (807,293 square feet) and boast "world-class attractions specia

A new monument has been built at a temple in Japan in memory of insects which have met an untimely end at the hands of human beings. The monument features an oversized beetle-like creature clambering over a rock, encircled by wire mesh cages. Anatomist Takeshi Yoro is the man behind the idea, driven

A New York plumber has won a $136 million Powerball jackpot after nearly forgetting about the winning ticket in his basement. The Independent reports that Anthony Perosi, 56, bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven convenience store on Staten Island back on March 14. Mr Perosi left his ticket posted on his

Ten of the world’s top architecture firms have created Lego buildings for an installation in Manhattan, which viewers are then free to pick apart. The interactive installation, called The Collectivity Project, contains a fictional cityscape made with more than two tons (1,800 kilograms) of white L

American architects have unveiled concept design for electricity pylons shaped like human figures. Each pylon would be assembled from modular parts, which could be adapted into various positions to given the impression the statues are walking, climbing or crouching.

New digital bus shelters designed by one of Britain's most famous architects are being brought in across Edinburgh. Nine of the new-generation shelters fitted with interactive screens that as act as advertising billboards have been installed along Princes Street, in the first phase of the developmen

Hearts were breaking across the world Monday after officials began removing locks loved-up couples had attached to a Paris bridge as a symbol of their eternal amour. For close to a decade, couples, mainly tourists, but Parisians too, had attached locks, often engraved with their initials, names, or

A series of ecology and environmental surveys are to set to get underway this week along the A96 between Inverness and Nairn as part of plans to dual the road. Teams of ecologists will start to gather vital information about the local environment in the coming months which will help inform the desig

A naked man in Florida was taken to hospital for sunburns to his buttocks after he ended up on top of a 100-foot drawbridge. WPLG Local 10 News reports that the man did not plan to go up the drawbridge but was simply strolling across the bridge naked at an unfortunate time.

A typical strawbale home Two brothers have taken house building into their own hands after high summer tourist rent prices forced them out of their home in Cornwall.

The future of Google's new California headquarters is in doubt because social network LinkedIn has been given most of the land required to build it. Both companies are seeking to expand their real-estate capacity in the North Bayshore neighbourhood of Mountain View, just outside San Francisco but, a