22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (663+ words) By OLIVIA DAY, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, AUSTRALIA Rival chimney sweep firms have become embroiled in a war of words after one company founder was branded the 'backstabber of the year' by his competitor. Mr Soot founder David Sudworth said his…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1384+ words) President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York has sold for nearly $2 million after a million-dollar makeover transformed the once-neglected, cat-ridden property. The five-bedroom house in the affluent Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens was purchased by an unknown buyer in…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (599+ words) A leading housebuilder has warned of a further deterioration in the housing market and urged the Government to reform stamp duty, which has become a 'binding constraint'. Berkeley Group said war in the Middle East and ongoing political uncertainty have…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1381+ words) It is a plot that could have come straight from Albert Square. But just yards from the set of EastEnders, scaffolding blights a Hertfordshire high street in a saga all too real for residents and businesses, who say they are…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (952+ words) Millionaire residents in one of the UK's most expensive postcodes are fighting plans to bulldoze a historic hotel down in what they have called a 'disgusting act of vandalism'. The Haven Hotel has stood at the entrance to Poole Harbour…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1011+ words) By SARAH BROOKES - SENIOR REPORTER, AUSTRALIA A decade after Millennials were told to skip the smashed avocado if they ever hoped to own a home, celebrity auctioneer Damien Cooley has reignited the controversial debate. The phrase 'smashed avocado' became shorthand…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1146+ words) A quiet California condominium community has been rocked by an extraordinary $49,000 special assessment, leaving residents scrambling to understand why they are suddenly facing such a huge bill. Stephen Wang, who owns a condominium in the 499-unit Torrance complex, said he…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (710+ words) Kai kicked off her studies at the Florida school, where she plays on the women's golf team, late last month, and the teen has been documenting it all on her YouTube channel. Instead of staying in a dorm, like many…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (452+ words) By OLIVIA DAY, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, AUSTRALIA A green-fingered pensioner has been banned from gardening outside his home and even had his lawnmower confiscated after a row over a foot-high picket fence. The association ordered the miniature picket fence to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1328+ words) In Ulysses, Leopold Bloom set out on his famous summer stroll from Eccles Street in Dublin’s north inner city – an area well known to James Joyce as he lived a few streets down in Fontenoy Street. In 1909 he had returned…...