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A new hotel with private suites, temperature-controlled flooring and a state-of-the-art spa has opened - catering only for dogs. Bellslea Hills Pet Hotel and Spa in Ayr is based on facilities in Beverley Hills and Hollywood, and is unlike traditional kennels, staff said.

Hamburg's infamous red light district has found an unusual way of fighting back against drunken revellers who urinate on the walls. The streets of St Pauli are lined with trendy bars, clubs and music venues - as well as brothels - which attract more than 20 million visitors each year.

A minister from the American state of Virginia has built a 100-square-foot chapel on wheels to hold mobile weddings and church services. Bil Malbon built his 'Tiny Chapel’ the small pitched-roof building on top of a trailer that includes a few pews, lighting and heating.

Nominations are now open for the annual Shed of the Year contest in which Britons each year show their eccentric affection for their garden refuges. Early contenders this year include a mini-pub shed called The Ballroom at Keyworth in Nottinghamshire.

Britain is to trail the world's first electricity-generating tidal lagoons. Six of the pioneering powerstations are to be built in locations across Britain, with at least one already in the planning stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGJyA3hl1D8&t=238 A sketch for US television show Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson, sees construction workers make upgrades to Christian’s “red room of pain”.

A major Perthshire regeneration plan was unveiled this week using a computer game. Project leaders want to breathe new life into a redundant printing plant at the centre of Coupar Angus, understood to be the site of a long-lost monastery.

Employees at a council contracting arm have been suspended for taking part in a photo shoot with a topless model. Tayside Contracts took the action against four employees after the cheeky snap with glamour magazine Pg7 was anonymously brought to its attention.

Have you been joy-riding a 1,200 ft house through rural Oregon? Then Klamath County Sheriff's Office may have some questions for you. The log house was reported 'missing' last summer, and has since been found about half a mile across a field just outside Chiloquin.

A wooden skyscraper that Austrian architects say will be the tallest of its kind in the world is to be built in Vienna next year– but the city’s fire brigade has concerns. The 84-metre (276ft) HoHo project in the Seestadt Aspern area, one of Europe’s largest urban development sites, will house

Plans have been unveiled for a recycling facility in Copenhagen, encased within a manmade hill that could double as a running track, picnic area or even a snowboarding slope. Architecture firm BIG was commissioned by waste management company Amagerforbrænding to create the 1,200-square-metre recycl

Local authorities and animal rescue teams worked for hours this week to rescue 19 manatees who swam into a Florida storm drain and were trapped. The rescue effort captured national attention as crews removed drain covers and used construction equipment, fire engines and even a truck ladder to rescue

Local bus CCTV has caught the moment a sinkhole opened up in a pavement beneath two South Korean pedestrians. Emergency workers rescued the man and woman, who were then taken to a nearby hospital in Seoul with minor injuries.

The city of Paris has granted planning approval to overhaul a 1970s shopping complex in Montparnasse. Rotterdam-based MVRDV’s designs include adding a new facade of colourful stacked boxes to the existing centre.

Access to natural daylight has long been one of the biggest limiting factors in building design – some solutions involve reflecting real daylight from the outdoors, but until now no solution has been able to mimic natural refraction processes and fool our minds into thinking we are surrounded by a