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Thrown-Away Lottery Ticket Still Pays Out: British Woman to Receive €14 Million
A 46-year-old British lottery player will receive about €14 million after her winning ticket was mistakenly declared wor...
How to Watch the August 12 Total Solar Eclipse Live: Official Streams and Viewing Times
A total solar eclipse crossed the Arctic and Europe on August 12, with totality in Spain, Iceland, Greenland and Russia....
EU Allocates €2.1 Million in Emergency Aid to Earthquake-Hit Colombia
The €2.1 million package will fund medical supplies, water, shelter, food and cash assistance after Colombia’s strongest...
DNA Test Reveals Two Dutch Friends Are Biological Sisters
Adopted separately from India as infants, Minal Tijssen and Meena Geltink met as teenagers in the Netherlands, lost touc...
Inside Mouthe, the Jura 'Cold Hole' That Still Holds France's Record Low
The village of Mouthe keeps its minus 36.7°C national cold record thanks to a clear hollow where frigid air pools on sti...
Total Solar Eclipse Turns Day to Twilight Across Iceland and Spain
Millions gathered in Iceland and northern Spain for the first total solar eclipse in Western Europe in 27 years, as auth...
Total Solar Eclipse Crosses Europe Today: ESA Streams Live From Spain
A total solar eclipse sweeps over Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and Spain today, with partial phases visible across much ...
Ancient Vietnamese Remains Suggest Yaws, Not Syphilis, Can Pass From Mother to Child
Three children buried in Vietnam more than 3,500 years ago show congenital treponemal infection, weakening a key diagnos...
Source Feed Corruption Leaves Japan Stat Report Unreadable
A crawled Japanese-language item from Stat (JP) arrived as garbled mojibake with no verifiable facts; NewsFormal cannot ...
NASA Uses ISS Experiments to Prepare Astronauts for Moon and Mars Missions
From bone-loss countermeasures and IV-fluid generation to robotic automation and cryogenic fuel tests, NASA is using the...
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Retires After 30 Years and 549 Days in Space
The veteran of four missions, nine spacewalks and three crewed spacecraft generations leaves NASA after his Crew-11 flig...
NASA and ESA Crew Prepare for Aug. 18 Spacewalk to Replace ISS Antenna
Expedition 75 astronauts are completing suit checks and emergency drills ahead of a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to rep...
Mazda 767B Race Car Worth $2 Million Damaged in Paddock Fire at Laguna Seca
A privately owned Mazda 767B race car caught fire while stationary at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Quick extinguishi...
Car Hits Private Jet Taxiing at Milan Linate, Causing 30-Minute Flight Disruption
A Fiat Panda collided with a Hawker Beechcraft 400A on a taxiway, damaging both vehicles but causing no injuries. Two co...
CoreWeave (CRWV) Stock Trades in $87-$94 Range, Valuation Reflects AI Infrastructure Bets
CoreWeave's stock price ranged $87.46 to $93.60 on August 11, giving the AI cloud specialist a $49.3 billion market cap....
Hardik Pandya Trade Talks: Gujarat Titans Refuse Captaincy, Mumbai Open to Deal as IPL 2027 Looms
Hardik Pandya's IPL future is in flux as Gujarat Titans reject his demand for captaincy, while Mumbai Indians consider a...
EPA Completes Initial Cleanup of Hazardous Brine Site in Fairmont, West Virginia
A $3.1 million federal removal action eliminated immediate threats from radioactive waste after a 2023 industrial fire, ...
EPA Grants Community Request, Extends Wappinger Creek Superfund Comment Period to Sept. 21
The EPA extended the public comment window for its proposed mercury cleanup at the Wappinger Creek Superfund site in Dut...
Netflix’s Latest Manson Documentary Prompts Debate on True-Crime Overkill
As Netflix streams another Charles Manson documentary, a TV critic questions the endless recycling of notorious killers'...
Colombia Earthquake Death Toll Hits 182, Over 13,000 Homes Damaged
A magnitude 7.4 quake centred in Chocó has left 182 dead, 2,542 injured and 189 missing, with thousands of buildings des...
Peru Sends 12.5 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid to Colombia After Earthquake
President Keiko Fujimori announced the dispatch of food, tents, and rescue teams to Colombia following the August 10 ear...
Stolen Valor Convict Who Fabricated Purple Heart, Bronze Star Service Released from Prison
Sarah Cavanaugh, convicted for falsely claiming to be a decorated Marine who pulled comrades from a burning Humvee, is s...
French Business Briefing: Telemarketing Consent, Firefighting Tech, and AI Renovation
BFM Business’s Good Morning Business covered a new telemarketing consent rule, FireTracking’s safety tech for firefighte...
DOL Promotes Opinion Letters as Compliance Aid for Employers and Workers
The U.S. Department of Labor is spotlighting its opinion letter program—formal interpretations of federal workplace law....
Visiting the U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters: Directions, Security, and On-Site Access
A practical guide to reaching the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., covering Metro and driving routes, ID re...
How Workers and Employers Can Access Federal Disaster Assistance
An overview of the Department of Labor's key programs for unemployment benefits, workplace safety, and wage protections ...
How High Blood Sugar Can Damage Your Digestive System
Diabetes can cause a stomach-emptying disorder called gastroparesis. The CDC explains why it happens and what you can do...
Switzerland Tops Gold Reserves Per Capita; Portugal Ranks 12th With 12 Small Coins
A per-capita analysis of central bank gold holdings shows Switzerland leads with 115g per person, while the U.S. drops t...
The Donation of Constantine: How a Medieval Forgery Rewrote European History
The fabricated fourth-century document claiming Rome and the West were given to the Pope by Emperor Constantine shaped t...
UEFA, AFC and Concacaf Unite to Demand Independent Probe of FIFA Governance
Europe, Asia and North America's football confederations have jointly called for an independent investigation into FIFA'...