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There’s a special place near where I live. To get there, you head down the road with all the fly-tipping, go through the motorway underpass, then turn left by the second-hand car garage and the greasy spoon cafe with a spelling mistake in its name. When you reach the factory …

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 7.5 magnitude. Read our coverage here. As seismologists review available data, …

Democrats got a huge early Christmas present in Wisconsin as the state supreme court ruled that the legislative map drawn by Republicans was unconstitutional and a new map must be drawn before the 2024 election. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported: The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Republican-controlled state …

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:37 p.m. Philippine time, data from the agency shows. Read our coverage here. As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected …

Under orders from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state’s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to come up with an acceptable replacement by the end of this week. A little over a month …

His near-celestial ability to elevate the music beyond the mark and still score a great and memorable show is a unique selling proposition only he and a handful of others have in their repertoire. Being one of Africa’s biggest stars who has pulled incredulous crowds on the continent and now …

The nation’s 10 favourite walks this year were calculated by OS through data collected from its OS maps app between April 2022 and April 2023. The app is downloaded over 3.5 million times a month to find routes and navigate the outdoors, and the latest figures reveal that people were …

The Supreme Court, in a surprise decision, ruled on Thursday that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. …

Beloved by armchair explorers and outdoors enthusiasts alike, Ordnance Survey’s Landranger maps have inspired countless adventures. But for one keen cyclist they sparked a challenge that is almost certainly a first: riding across every map in Great Britain in a journey of more than 7,000 miles (11,250km). Mark Wedgwood’s pedal-powered …

The Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that the president is the reason Nigeria is existing today, amid the level of insecurity the country has been plagued with. According to Adesina, the people of the North East have good stories to tell today owing …