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Photo credit: Billie Eilish/ Instagram Billie Eilish’s $20,000 tour-linked donation has helped create a thriving new native woodland in Austin’s Zilker Park, with the project now reporting an 85% tree survival rate. The Billie Eilish Grove, detailed by Chron and Zilker 351, was planted in March 2026 and is already helping slow and filter stormwater…

Sydney Sweeney is looking to move to the UK countryside, splitting her time between the US and the UK. Hollywood actress Sydney Sweeney is reportedly considering a move to the English countryside after viewing a property in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Little Tew. The move could put the Euphoria and The White Lotus star…

Paris Jackson seeks $600 million from her father’s estate as a trust funding dispute raises questions about her brothers’ inheritance. Seventeen years after Michael Jackson’s death, his daughter Paris Jackson has returned to court with a blunt request: move $600 million from the late singer’s estate into the family trust created for his three children….

Image Courtesy: Smithsonian Magazine Strawberries are popularised as one of the most romantic fruits in the world. Not only do they look like little red hearts, their history dates back to Ancient Rome where it was considered the symbol of Venus, the goddess of love, because of its bright red colour and intoxicating taste.But, what…

Ann Giurdanella spent much of her life building a New York real estate business alongside her husband, Robert. Married for 64 years, the couple acquired, rehabilitated and operated 14 East Village buildings that became the core of a family property enterprise valued at more than $45 million, according to a 2026 decision by the New…

What some people leave behind on roadsides or throw away as unwanted furniture can end up becoming something far more valuable in the hands of the right person. For Ike Wynter, a Wisconsin-based wood artist, discarded wooden objects became the raw material for an unusual artistic journey that eventually took his work to one of…

Calvin Evans Jr. expected to inherit his father’s Washington ranch, a property that had also become central to his divorce from Deborah Evans, now Deborah Bunney. During the couple’s 2011 dissolution, a court awarded Bunney the full $174,000 the marital community had invested in improvements to the ranch, based on the expectation that Evans would…

The Centners combined two adjoining apartments, purchased for over $15 million, into a five-bedroom Manhattan duplex. Floyd Mayweather Jr. may have spent his boxing career making sure he never lost a fight, but a rental dispute in Manhattan has given the retired champion an entirely different kind of battle. A luxury apartment he once called…

The discovery was made at a house in the 1900 block of Fourth Street (CNN photo) A young couple in Pennsylvania, United States, discovered a live Civil War-era artillery shell while clearing out the basement of their recently purchased home on Sunday. The couple came across the suspicious object among belongings left behind by the…

James Patterson (Image Credit: ALA) James Patterson is best known as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers, but his most consequential work may be happening far from the bestseller lists. Through a long-running commitment to literacy and education, Patterson has given more than $220 million to support readers, teachers, writers, libraries and independent…