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Calls for faster rehousing of evicted Hong Kong subdivided flat tenants

Calls for faster rehousing of evicted Hong Kong subdivided flat tenants Housing Bureau plans 180 emergency flats for short-notice evictions, but lawmakers demand faster, more flexible processing for urgent cases Hong Kong authorities should offer more timely and flexible urgent accommodation for residents uprooted by a new regulation aimed at eliminating the city’s notorious subdivided flats, lawmakers have urged. Their comments were made on Tuesday after the Housing Bureau briefed lawmakers...

Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Taylor Morrison for $6.8 Billion

Workers pave a driveway outside a new home at the Rosemary Grove community by Taylor Morrison in Vacaville, California, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. The US Census Bureau is expected to release housing starts figures on October 17.

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

Hiker discovers body of missing New Mexico nuclear lab worker, police say

One of the bodies of the 11 mysteriously missing persons that had potential ties to U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology has been discovered by a hiker in a New Mexico national forest. Police have identified the remains of Melissa Casias, 54, a missing Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) worker. Her disappearance became part of a wider swirl of speculation over scientists and lab-linked employees who vanished or died under unclear circumstances that spurred President Donald Trump's...

Artists confront the indignities of renting and intergenerational warfare

Zoe Pepper and Fiona Wright take on the housing crisis in Birthright and Kill Your Boomers Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 4:30am Like so many Australians, author Fiona Wright can't resist snooping in an open home. "You get these glimpses into people's lives that are strangely intimate," she says. "There's always these little clues that are left about the people who were there and what their lives were like and what they did with their time and what they valued."

Serial rapist ex-NFL player transferred from prison to halfway house

Darren Sharper, who pleaded guilty or no contest to raping women in four states, is projected to be released in 2028Admitted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house program with his projected 2028 release date nearing. In a statement to the Guardian on Monday, a US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) spokesperson said Sharper, 50, was transferred on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton,...

'Worried about my seat': NSW premier thinks One Nation is a 'threat'

analysis NSW Premier Chris Minns thinks One Nation is 'genuine threat' to Labor and to his seat Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 7:28am Chris Minns knows voters don't want a complacent premier, but in the face of One Nation's surge, one statement strains credulity. "I'm worried about my own seat," he said. Those worries might have been well-founded before the 2023 state election, when he held the seat of Kogarah by a razor-thin margin of 0.1 per cent.

Julie's life was in disarray. Then she found a safe haven in Sydney

Vacant properties across Sydney used as 'meanwhile use' transitional housing for women in need Tue 2 Jun 2026 at 6:27am Five years ago, Julie's life was in what she describes as "disarray". Her son had recently died, a serious injury had left her unable to work and her partner of 10 years had gone back to the UK.

This tiny Texas ranching town is now growing faster than anywhere in America

This tiny Texas ranching town is now growing faster than anywhere in America The South continues to dominate national growth patterns, claiming 10 of the country’s 15 fastest-growing cities and nearly all of the largest numeric population gains - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments A former ranching community an hour north of Dallas has been named the fastest-growing city in the United States, leading a broader trend of families moving to outer suburbs as population growth slows in major...

France to edge out Spain for World Cup glory, economists say: Reuters poll

France to edge out Spain for World Cup glory, economists say: Reuters poll BENGALURU, June 6 : France will beat Spain to lift the World Cup trophy on July 19 and five-time winners Brazil are expected to be the biggest flops, according to a Reuters survey of economists who said football was still harder to call than inflation. For 160 respondents from nearly every continent, this poll conducted once every four years is a welcome break from their macroeconomic forecasting in an era of wars,...