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Before and after scan results of a Brazilian cancer patient after doctors at the University of São Paulo gave him experimental CAR-T therapy in 2023. Thirty days later, his PET scan was clear. Every spot was gone.
Paulo Peregrino had fought cancer for 13 years 45 rounds of chemo, a bone-marrow transplant, and still the lymphoma kept coming back.
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is now interim CEO, and the board has started a search for a permanent CEO.
There's a 25-foot Statue of Liberty standing in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania and it got there in the dead of night.
Gene Stilp and friends built the first one from plywood and venetian blinds and installed it in secret on July 1, 1986, for the original's centennial. A storm destroyed it in 1992; the 25-foot metal replacement was airlifted in by helicopter in 1997.
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🚨 REPORT: 🇺🇸 Nvidia's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang and could meet as soon as tonight, per WSJ. It follows a NYT report of a second affair, with an Nvidia VP. Shares fell about 9.6% after hours. No official decision yet.
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Sage, 7, visited a shelter dog Wendy at the shelter for weeks and they became best friends then her family secretly adopted her and brought her home.
The moment she walked in, Sage said, "This is the best time in my life." Wendy, 4 and a half, had been waiting at the Williamson County Animal Center in Franklin, Tennessee.
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Extremely rare bright yellow fish discovered in Lake Ontario
USFWS biologists caught it on October 14 during an invasive species survey in Oswego Harbor on Lake Ontario. The yellow is from xanthochromism, which the agency says is considerably less common in wild fish than albinism.
[📸: Colleen Keefer / USFWS, Brian Weidel / USGS]
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Millionaire Asher Watkins paid almost $10,000 to hunt a Cape buffalo in South Africa.
The Texas ranch trader flew to Limpopo in August 2025 for the trip, run by Coenraad Vermaak Safaris.
On Sunday, August 3, on the second day, he was tracking a 1.3-tonne bull with a professional hunter and a tracker.
The buffalo turned first.
It charged at 35 mph and gored him. He was killed almost instantly.
The safari company called it a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo.
Cape buffalo are nicknamed Black Death. They kill more big-game hunters than lions, elephants, rhinos or crocodiles.
He went looking for a trophy.
He became the story instead.
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Prince George shows off his hand-drawn kingfisher from when he was 12, now in print.
The coloured-pencil drawing appears in a special 300-page Country Life, guest-edited by his father Prince William and out today. William spent six months on the issue, and George drew the bird at home in Windsor this spring.
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Today is Veterans Day. It began as Armistice Day, marking the end of major World War I fighting at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918.
On this day in 1921, an unidentified American soldier from that war was buried at Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Guards have watched over it around the clock since 1937.
[📸: Elizabeth Fraser, U.S. Army (via Wikimedia Commons)]
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JUST IN: 🇨🇩 Congo's government says its Ebola outbreak has topped 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, the country's deadliest on record. The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine and has spread to other African countries.
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Hachikō The dog who waited for his human at Shibuya Station for almost ten years was born 103 years ago this month.
Not in Tokyo. On a farm in Ōdate, in November 1923.
A year later, Professor Hidesaburō Ueno brought the Akita puppy home to Shibuya.
Every evening, Hachikō met him at Shibuya Station.
Then, on May 21, 1925, Ueno never came home.
He had died at work that day, of a cerebral haemorrhage.
Hachikō didn't know.
So he went back to the station the next day. And the next.
For nine years, nine months and 15 days.
He died on March 8, 1935, still waiting.
Today, a bronze statue stands where he waited and people still meet there, under his name.
What would you wait nine years for?
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There's a guy on Instagram who decided to crash an entire economy.
Not a country's. An anthill's.
For the second year in a row, he's giving one forest colony a kilo of sugar at a time, for a whole month.
His plan?
Sudden wealth. Inflation. A whole colony with no reason to work.
But the ants had other ideas.
They eat the whole kilo overnight and sleep like babies.
And every year, the anthill just gets bigger and bigger.
He didn't stop at sugar, either. His followers now vote on what the ants get next protein, soda, energy drinks.
He's still waiting for them to build him a monument.
So if everyone suddenly had everything they needed, would they stop working or just get bigger?
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A Tennessee mom went into labor on Halloween and her doctor delivered the baby dressed as Heath Ledger's Joker.
Dr. Paul Locus stayed in full costume at Henry County Medical Center in 2017, and even signed the congratulations card "Dr. Joker." Oaklyn was due November 5. She had other plans.
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Scientists tested shrimp from five rivers in Suffolk, England and found cocaine in every single sample.
The 2019 King's College London study checked 15 sites. Cocaine turned up in all of them, alongside ketamine, Valium, Xanax, tramadol and a banned pesticide all at trace levels.
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37 years ago today, East Germany opened the Berlin Wall's checkpoints and Berliners climbed on top of the Wall to celebrate.
It started with a mistake: at a press conference, Günter Schabowski was asked when the new travel rules took effect and answered "immediately, without delay." By midnight, the guards had given up and the border was open.
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A squirrel in Stirling found a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer on the wet pavement and sat down to eat it like it was his.
He looks like he'll survive the winter nicely,
[📸: Jared Bowe (via IG)]
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Joe Biden's memoir Promise Me, America comes out November 17 and he wrote it while fighting cancer.
Diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in May 2025, he says his doctors are encouraged by his response, but some days it slows him down. His father's lesson: 'Champ, when you get knocked down, get up.'
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Someone photoshopped Mario onto the Moon and the photo underneath is even better than the joke.
It's a real mineral Moon shot by Ukrainian astrophotographer Ildar Ibatullin: 500 images stacked, colours boosted to show the chemistry. Blue means titanium-rich rock, red means iron-rich. Your eyes can't see it, but it's really there.
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Samantha the white Afghan Hound is having a Carrie Bradshaw moment with her silk scarves, high necks, and sunglasses indoors.
[📸 @afghanhoundinthecity]
During the October 17 protest in France Looters tried to smash their way into Louis Vuitton in Paris with a metal barrier. The window cracked everywhere and didn't give an inch.
Six masked men rammed the Place Vendôme boutique's glass on October 17 and never got inside. A Louis Vuitton employee put it simply: 'We have specialist windows that held, but mostly we were lucky.'
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