3+ hour, 18+ min ago  (1068+ words) London's biggest housebuilder has claimed that developers "can no longer invest" in the capital after an application to build almost 900 homes in southeast London was rejected for a second time. The warning came after Southwark council's planning committee said Berkeley…...

8+ hour, 19+ min ago  (471+ words) Q: What was the world's largest office building by floor area until 2023? A few generations back, as Baker explains in his potted history of the institution, Stanford was an academic underdog. It was considered a perfectly respectable place for wealthy Californians…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (403+ words) California's largest wildfire of the year may have been started by a stranded sailor who launched distress flares after being shipwrecked on an island near Santa Barbara. The Santa Rosa Island fire has burnt through 14, 600 acres since being ignited on…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago  (724+ words) More than $1. 6 million has been raised for the father-of-eight security guard hailed as a hero after being killed confronting the teenage gunmen who targeted a San Diego mosque. Amin Abdullah was one of three people killed on Monday by attackers…...

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1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (423+ words) A fast-moving brush fire has prompted evacuation orders in an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, with hundreds of homes threatened. The Sandy fire broke out on Monday morning in Simi Valley, near Los Angeles, and quickly burnt through 184 acres with…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (338+ words) Three adult victims and two teenage suspects have died after a shooting at a mosque in San Diego, according to police. Officers were called to a suspected active shooter at the mosque on Monday, as police said a number of…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (535+ words) Elon Musk has lost a court battle with Open AI and Sam Altman, bringing to a close the long-running feud between two of the world's most powerful men in the artificial-intelligence race. Musk, the world's richest man, had accused Open…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (644+ words) Single men are "effectively buying babies" from women in poverty, campaigners have warned, as new figures reveal the majority are using foreign surrogates to have children. Data released by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) show…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (727+ words) I had, in many ways, a privileged life. I had a career I loved, a beautiful home and a life that seemed settled " until Covid changed everything [says Emma Oldfield, 41]. Born in Wimbledon, southwest London, I studied anthropology and started…...