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Now, imagine actually having your hands on a winning ticket — one worth $2.5 million — only to lose it. Mildred Simoneriluto, of Monroeville, Pa., has been trying to find the ticket she accidentally left in the pocket of a jacket she donated, to no avail. Simoneriluto purchased the lottery ticket in May 2024 at a grocery store in nearby Murrysville and realized two weeks later that she had the winning numbers to a $2.5 million jackpot — but couldn’t find it. The 76-year-old retraced her steps and realized it was in the pocket of a jacket she had donated — along with other clothing — to Vietnam Veterans of America which, according WTAE, hands out its...

Sean Connery’s former French Riviera villa is back on the market for €23.5 million (US$26.4 million). The late “James Bond” actor owned the Nice, France, home in the 1970s and ’80s, according to Savills, which began marketing the property this week. Though it’s formally named “Villa Roc Fleuri,” meaning “Flowery Rock,” the property is locally known as the “Bond Villa,” said Chuck McKee of Savills. (Connery owned the villa in the 1970s and ’80s. Getty Images) The Art Deco villa sits above the seafront at the foot of the Mont Boron and neighbors Château de l’Anglais, a historic castle noted for its...

A Malaysian woman recently went viral after suggesting that people with higher education levels tend to have better manners — and that she’d much rather date educated men for their “more relevant conversations and arguments.” In a now widely shared Threads post, she questioned: “Why is it that, generally, the higher someone’s education level, the better their manners seem to be? “My friend said maybe it’s because SPM leavers don’t do things like final year projects or assignments—but that sounds kind of illogical to me. “Also, I prefer educated men because arguments and conversations tend to be more relevant and...

A sprawling Martha’s Vineyard estate that served as a summer haven for former President Barack Obama and his family from 2009 to 2011 is now listed for $39 million. Known as Blue Heron Farm, the 30-acre property in Chilmark belongs to the family of celebrated British architect Norman Foster, whose firm, Foster + Partners, is behind iconic structures like London’s Gherkin and the reimagined Wembley Stadium, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Fosters acquired the estate in 2011 for $22.4 million and have since transformed it with significant upgrades. (Blue Heron Farm, a 30-acre Martha’s Vineyard estate once rented by Barack and Michelle Obama for three summers...

Obsessed James Brown sparked two blazes at his home fuelled by his fascination with the fire brigade. Firefighters were sent to Brown's home twice in one night after he rang them reporting fire in his fuse box. Newcastle Crown Court heard it was the culmination of 80 calls to the service he had made in a year. He was described as having a "fascination" and "obsession" with the fire service, rather than fires, and said in an ideal world he would like to be firefighter. Now he has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting two counts of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered. It was around 8.15pm on September 9 2023 that the fire brigade were called by Brown...

You'd think Bill Gates is a household name, given that he was the world's richest person for a record of 18 years. After all, who hasn't used Microsoft before, right? But that's apparently not the case for TikTok content creator Rebecca. She doesn't know the man who was the world's richest person for 18 years? Yesterday (May 6), Rebecca bumped into the Microsoft co-founder at a hawker centre in Singapore and posted about it. In her video, the 69-year-old billionaire was surrounded by a film crew and a throng of bystanders while he tasted one of our local specialties, durian. Photo via Eileen Lee The American businessman and philanthropist, who's said to be in town recently to set up...

Kristina Ulmer says people have the wrong idea about teenagers. For seven years now, the Pennsylvania Grade 9 English teacher has been running a "$20 Kindness Challenge" with her class, giving each student $20 US from a pool of donations, and asking them to do something kind with it. And every year, she says, the teens in her class bring her to tears with their creativity, empathy and generosity. "A lot of people stereotype that age, and they say they're self-centred or, you know, they don't see outside of themselves. And I just don't see that," Ulmer, a teacher at Hatboro-Horsham High School in Horsham, Penn., told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "Part of the reason why I love doing...

Thai authorities are searching for a Ukrainian national, identified as Miss Anastasia, after she allegedly caused over 350,000 baht in damages to a condominium unit in Phuket’s Wichit sub-district before vacating the premises. The damage, discovered on April 29, 2025, includes defaced walls, slashed furniture, and broken appliances. The property’s owner, Praphaphan Meesomboon, shared images of the ransacked apartment online, drawing widespread attention. One image shows the word “SWINDLE” and the number “32,000” painted on a wall—an apparent reference to a dispute over the security deposit. Anastasia began renting the unit on April 15, 2024,...

An 80-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, Russia, can call herself lucky to be alive after falling from the window of her sixth-floor apartment and landing on top of a parked car. The accident occurred last Thursday, as the unnamed octogenarian was cleaning the windows of her apartment. A single moment of carelessness was enough to send her tumbling down from the sixth floor onto a neighbor’s car. The shocking fall was captured by CCTV cameras and has been making the rounds on Russian social media ever since. Amazingly, mere moments after landing on the roof of the parked car, the 80-year-old woman manages to climb down and walk away, seemingly unscathed.   (This is the...

There's a sweet love story that continues to bloom every Valentine's Day. It's the story of Northern California couple John and Diana. They were married for almost 50 years, and even after John passed away, the flowers keep coming. "We were married 47 years, but we actually met in high school when we were 16 years old," said 77-year-old Diana Maver. They married and had three children and were living their 'happily ever after,' until John Maver passed away in October 2017. But their love story continued four months later, on Valentine's Day 2018. Daughter Marilee Heard shares: "Through whatever magic works in his world, it's set up so that every year a bouquet of flowers shows up...