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Kadena airbase has barred every vehicle made by BYD, from private cars to delivery vans. American officials have not identified a specific threat.
Western Sydney International took its first passenger flights on Sunday, with seven carriers signed up and the metro rail link still unfinished. The $5.6bn terminal is west of the city, and west of a good deal else.
Every guest at the record attempt tried at least three lionfish recipes. The species has 17 venomous spines and few predators in Greek waters.
Hosts may no longer require guests to strip beds, wash dishes or take out the bins. Used tableware may still be carried as far as the sink.
A general store in Harrow, Victoria, has turned up an original Magnum Ego from the late 1990s. The age was established from the logo.
A South Korean team reports that the painting's crescent moon, Venus and star cluster fit one real pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Art historians have long dated the work to June.
Amar Kale's turmeric-and-chilli painting of the Hampi Chariot was recorded by Guinness World Records in Dharwad. It took him about ten hours.
The eleventh Baptist World Aid ethical fashion report assessed 138 companies and 543 brands. The industry average was 31.5.
A 17-strong expedition reached the atoll of Nikumaroro to inspect an anomaly first seen by satellite in 2020. Purdue University says the reflective surface was a natural process.
A 231-kilogram fish landed off Lakes Entrance set a club record. Scientists have not yet established what species the fish are.
Nusantara, carved into the rainforest of East Kalimantan, was designed to hold 1.2 million people by 2029. About 10,000 have moved in. The roads are wide and open.
Isabel Allende won the one million euro Premio Planeta under the name Luz Ventura. A Hispanist says he would be very surprised if the judges had not known.
Guinness World Records has ratified Diego Poncelet Sanchez-Cuenca at 94.34mph on an approved board at Les Éboulements. The mark he beat was set on the same stretch of hill.
The 119-year-old New York landmark will shut in January while its facade is repaired. Everything inside is staying where it is.
Eleven South Australian restaurants were recognised on Wednesday, with two stars for Magill Estate in Adelaide. Michelin had approached the national tourism board more than once without success.
The North Carolina Education Lottery paid out more than $1.7m on Monday night's evening drawing. Nothing about the game had changed.
Several hundred stores across five retail groups lost refrigeration after attackers triggered a forced defrost. The equipment carried out the instruction exactly as designed.
The rebuilt Huanggang Port opened at 6.30am on Monday with round-the-clock clearance between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Officials expect waits to fall from thirty minutes to about five.
The German sportswear company says White Fox's four parallel stripes are 'deceptively similar' to a mark it has held in Australia since 1957. A three to four-day trial is expected early next year.
Guinness World Records has ratified Mario Neurauter's drop at Sölden as the highest vertical drop on a bicycle onto a target. The target did not survive the attempt.
Geoscience Australia has recorded a magnitude-4.9 quake near Leongatha and eight aftershocks since. Seismologists say there is nothing unusual about the number.
The Bank of England has chosen the Atlantic puffin, barn owl, buff-tailed bumblebee and European hedgehog for its next series of notes after 478,531 people replied to a consultation. The chief cashier says the animals will enhance the notes' security.
Chile’s Atacama is having its most extensive bloom since 1997 after record winter rains. Its standing as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth is unaffected, because the title is an average.
A volunteer survey off Cromer has produced the first known images of the medieval settlement of Shipden. The 1086 inventory remains, for the moment, unreconciled.
Eucalyptus recurva survives as six plants in southern New South Wales, the largest of them perhaps 6,000 years old. Grafted copies now grow in Canberra, and every one of them is a copy.
The Economy Ministry has set out two routes to an Argentine passport, a $350,000 contribution or an $800,000 bond, with reduced rates for spouses and children. It describes both mechanisms as simple and transparent.
The 90ft Holei arch stood for more than half a millennium and fell between 23 and 27 September. The National Park Service had been saying since 2021 that it would.
Sixty companies from Magallanes met a 42-strong delegation from the islands at a hotel in Punta Arenas. Organisers say contracts were signed, without saying how many.
From Thursday, merchants may no longer add a card fee at the till. The A$1.6 billion involved has not been abolished, only relocated.
Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week ended with 89 Backpack beating 910 by just over 5,000 votes. The contest is settled by people watching a livestream.
A record 157,957 new electric vehicles were sold in the first half of the year, more than double the same period in 2025. The rate is an average.
ASML says it currently has no chipmaking machine sales anywhere in Europe, because nobody on the continent is building the factories to put them in. The EU's own Chips Act set out to double Europe's share of the market by 2030.
Swift's 31st Video Music Award was the inaugural Artist Director Honors, which recognises work behind the camera. She had been level with Beyonce on 30.
The flight attendants' agreement sends crew travelling as passengers to premium economy when business class is full. The cabin most passengers would call premium economy arrived after the sentence was written.
Casper, a white lobster donated by the Maine State Aquarium, joins an orange one, a blue one and a purple one at the University of New England, where researchers read more than 15,000 genes to find out why.
The wide grass medians on Canning, Rathdowne and Drummond streets in Carlton reverted to a former classification, so they are no longer treated as park space. Nothing on the ground moved.
More than 200 Aardman puppets went under the hammer in London on Thursday to mark the studio's 50th anniversary, with every lot starting at £100. The proceeds train animators; the results ranked the cast.
A 20-metre Gallo-Roman rampart under the Île de la Cité carries traces of burning. Carbon dating places the charring somewhere between 200BC and 10BC.
The airline's second Project Sunrise route will carry 238 passengers non-stop from mid-2028. One part of the cabin has no seats in it at all.
Photography of the Bayeux Tapestry has been restricted to keep the queue moving. The exhibition is sold out until the end of the year.
Forty-four colonies were taken from three beekeepers in what apiarists call the biggest theft of its kind in memory. The honey was left behind.
Leopardus tilcayo is the first living feline to be formally named and described in more than a century. Nothing in the cloud forest has changed.
The 41-year-old former ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived in Jakarta on Friday as a gift from Italy, which also avoids the cost of scrapping it. An Indonesian MP has put the retrofit alone at about $900m.
The Codex Azcatitlan goes on show in Mexico City for the first time since it left the country. The Codex Boturini travels the other way, leaving the total number of codices in each country unchanged.
The Fitzroy River at Rockhampton has passed an independent technical review and been endorsed by both world governing bodies. The review examined weather patterns, water levels and flood risk.
A two-Michelin-starred restaurant used ants as a dessert garnish for nearly four years. South Korea's approved insect list runs to ten species, and ants are not on it.
The number of people aged 100 or older has crossed a new threshold in Japan. Birthday-cake infrastructure may require urgent expansion if tradition is interpreted literally.
Furniture analysts say the relationship has persisted despite years of public awareness.