28 h. ago DWP's most 'underclaimed' benefit as 700,000 pensioners 'missing out' on £4,200 a year

Pension Credit is a "historically underclaimed" benefit that 700,000 pensioners could be missing out on, experts say

Economics

4 d. ago Venezuela's dictator threatens retaliation against Trump as U.S. deploys warships to the Caribbean and 'aims 1,200 missiles'

Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro threatened to 'declare a republic in arms' if attacked by forces that the United States government has deployed to the Caribbean.

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1 week ago ‘It has a heroic, Roman quality’: how Arkansas’s timber university building could revolutionise architecture

First conceived as a ‘spider’s web of sticks’, this vast wooden wonder may end up being a template for the environmentally sound buildings of the futureFringed by a fragmented strip of big box stores, auto repair shops and brick buildings marooned in oceans of asphalt, the state highway of Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is not a place of architectural beauty. And yet, as unlikely as it may seem, this rumbling stretch of road on the edge of this small city is now home to one of the most significant buildings for the future of architecture in North America.Even at speed, it’s hard to miss. Standing opposite a 200-space Walmart parking lot, the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation looks like a group of great big barns caught in a highway pile-up. It begins as a low wooden shed at the back, before suddenly buckling up in jagged folds, its roofline jerking in staccato slopes until it greets the highway with a six-storey shop window. P...

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2 w. ago Mississippi becomes fourth state to send National Guard troops to DC in expanding federal crackdown

The Mississippi National Guard will deploy 200 troops to Washington as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing federal policing and immigration efforts in the nation’s capital

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2 w. ago Newlyweds miss £1,200 honeymoon after groom's passport mistake

Joe Barnes was due to fly to Cyprus with his new wife Beccy only to be turned away from the flight bought with their wedding present money

Economics

3 w. ago At least 33 feared dead after flash flood devastates remote Himalayan village

Nearly 200 people missing as flood sweeps away dozens of vehicles and motorbikes

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3 w. ago NASCAR star Connor Zilisch gives hilarious verdict after barely

The incident occurred at the end of the NASCAR Xfinity Series Mission 200 race, after Zilisch had survived 82 laps of the track against 37 other cars without so much as a scratch.

Politics

3 w. ago Nascar driver falls from roof of car while celebrating race win and breaks collarbone

Rookie Connor Zilisch cleared of serious head injury in New York‘Grateful it wasn’t any worse,’ says 19-year-old after freak accidentNascar rookie Connor Zilisch has been ruled out of the Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International in New York after breaking his collarbone when he fell off the roof of his car on Saturday.The 19-year-old won the Mission 200 at the Glen Xfinity Series race and climbed out of his No 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet to celebrate. He had one foot on the roof and one on the ledge of the window and was posing for photographs when he lost his balance and tumbled to the ground head-first. Continue reading...

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