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WASHINGTON -- A man carrying a firearm near the White House was shot and injured by Secret Service personnel early on Sunday, the service said in statement. The Secret Service had been contacted ...

a subsidized apartment complex near Nagoya, Japan; an oceanfront mansion on New York's Long Island; and a redesign of New York City's Lincoln Center performing arts-complex. But Scofidio is ...

Nestled in the city of Suzuka, about a two-hour train ride from Nagoya, Suzuka Forest Garden is a serene escape from Japan’s bustling urban centers. The garden is home to around 200 plum trees, many ...

Welcome back to daylight saving time. According to the Energy Policy Act, we won’t return to standard time until the first weekend of November. Interestingly, our friends and neighbors in ...

You can also see the older suburbs built in the ’70s and ’80s concentrated down in the valley near Sunbury’s town centre, while up on the sprawling grasslands the frames of new houses are ...

Meteorologists can distinguish between birds and weather patterns on radar due to advances in technology. A study using weather radar data found that billions of birds migrate over the United ...

Other projects either built or underway include a park in Moscow, a film and movie museum in Rio de Janeiro; a health-sciences building at the University of Sydney; a subsidized apartment complex near ...

Allan and Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny identified the remaining hubs on Thursday, including inner suburbs South Yarra and Prahran, inner-northern communities such as Brunswick and Thornbury ...

“Terminating this rule restores trust in local communities and property owners, while protecting America’s suburbs and neighborhood integrity.” A HUD official told reporters on a conference ...

The map below shows the location of Nagoya and Osaka. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

ORANGE COUNTY, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in the Hudson Valley region of New York state. The iconic statuettes have been a symbol of the best in film since 1929.