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BRITAIN'S most isolated home is on the market in the UK's only desert - but buying it could prove challenging. A converted train carriage dating back to the 1880s is up for sale on the coast of Kent.     (A converted train carriage dating back to the 1880s is up for sale on the coast of Kent.Credit: Jam Press/The Modern House)     (The house has three bedrooms and is one of around 30 railway carriages in the region.Credit: Jam Press/The Modern House) (It's fitted with chic furniture and decadent decor.Credit: Jam Press/The Modern House) (The house provides picturesque views of an iconic lighthouse. Credit: Jam Press/The Modern House)   The spectacular...

Scientists were shocked to learn that Dituri had turned '10 years younger' when he stepped out of his compact pod, after having stayed over three months in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Retired naval officer Joseph Dituri was asked to stay underwater for over three months as a requirement for a path-breaking study. Scientists wanted to know the effects of living underwater in a pressurised environment on the human body. And guess what scientists were shocked to learn that Dituri had turned '10 years younger' when he stepped out of his compact pod, after having stayed over three months in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.     After medical assessments, it was revealed...

  Beijing has announced 300 billion-yuan (US$41.5 billion) in funding to help clear excess housing inventory, as well as measures to ensure developers have access to financing and to encourage the repurchase of “idle” land, as China embarks on its most ambitious effort yet to rescue the property sector and shore up the broader economy. The “relending” ခွင့်ပြုပေး funds will enable local state-owned enterprises to buy unsold homes they can then offer as affordable housing, top officials told a media briefing on Friday afternoon. They will be offered to 21 national lenders, from policy banks to state-owned commercial banks and joint-stock...

A VAN driver claims he has been left living in his car for two years due to landlords turning him away - for refusing to abandon his pets. Paul Growns, from Maidstone, Kent, became homeless in January 2022 and is still is still living in his vehicle - with his two dogs - two years later.   (Paul Growns, who works full-time as a van driver, became homeless in January 2022. Credit: KentOnline)     (Paul says he was advised that his only option is to look for private accommodation.Credit: KentOnline)   Father-of-two Paul, who is 45 and works full-time as a van driver, says that the cost of child maintenance, car insurance and storage has left him with little money...

The number of vacant houses in Japan has surged to a record high of nine million – more than enough for each person in New York City – as the east Asian country continues to struggle with its ever-declining population. Abandoned houses are known in Japan as “akiya” – a term that usually refers to derelict residential homes tucked away in rural areas. But more akiya are being seen in major cities, such as Tokyo and Kyoto, and that’s a problem for a government that’s already grappling with an aging population and an alarming fall in the number of children born each year. “This is a symptom of Japan’s population decline,” said...

[Unicode]   မန္တလေးအိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးကွက်  အတွင်း တစ်နိုင်တစ်ပိုင် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံလိုသူများက ခိုင်မာမှုရှိသော အိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးကွက်ကို ဦးတည်လာကြောင်း အိမ်ခြံမြေအကျိုးဆောင် များထံမှ သိရသည်။ လက်ရှိတွင် အိမ်ခြံမြေဈေးနှုန်းများ မြင့်တတ်လာပြီး...

It’s time to think big! If you have ever dreamed of owning your own town, here’s a unique opportunity! Almost the entire town of Campo, CA, has just hit the market for $6.6 million. The listing in San Diego County includes 28 buildings that offer a mixture of residential and commercial opportunities. The 16-acre property offers a total of 95,000 square feet of interior space, which comes to $69 per square foot. Many of the residential units are said to have been updated, and modern amenities include new roofs and vinyl plank flooring. Campo is an hour east of San Diego, and the property offers “the potential for high cash flow and significant upside through strategic...

A 149-mile-long stretch of highway connecting two towns in Saudi Arabia holds the title of the world’s longest straight road.Saudi Arabia’s Highway 10 stretches 916 miles (1,474 km), connecting the town of Al Darb, in the southwest, to Al Batha, in the east. It’s quite a busy road, most traversed by trucks shipping goods from one side of the country to the other, but it is most famous for a 149-mile stretch through the Rub-al-Khali desert. This particular piece of infrastructure was originally built as a private road for King Fahd (SAU), but ever since it became part of the public road system, it claimed the Guinness Record for the world’s longest straight road,...

A two-story Soho building bought by the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971 has hit the market for the first time in a half century. The brick, bluestone and terra cotta structure at 496 Broome St. was the first residence the pair purchased together in New York City, two years before they famously moved to the Upper West Side’s Dakota, where Lennon was gunned down. Now, more 50 years later, Ono — who has retained control of the property since buying it — and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, have listed it for sale with company JLL, for an asking price of $5.5 million, the New York Times first reported.     (The facade.Courtesy of JLL) “The building on...

When the town of Seaside, California ordered homeowner Etienne Constable to build a fence to conceal the boat in his driveway, he erected the fence all right. And then he hired his neighbor, artist Hanif Panni, to paint a mural on the fence—realistically depicting the boat itself. The city had threatened a $100 fine if Constable didn’t comply, but, ironically, he ended up paying for more than that for the artist’s fee alone. “It was his idea,” Hanif said in a phone interview. Etienne Constable, a Seaside, California, resident, owns a boat that he had kept parked on a dirt patch on his property. In July 2023, officials asked him to build a proper driveway and...