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The recent merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf ended a long battle between the two, typically framed as a struggle between pure, upright American values and brute economic, political and even murderous force.Many associated LIV backers with 9/11 and the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Government has said that 10 projects in Northern Ireland will share 71 million of levelling-up funding.The funding will include almost 10 million to create new waterfront gardens in the city of Bangor, transforming the former Maghera High School into a new industrial park at a cost of 9 million and 20 million to create a new leisure and wellbeing centre in Enniskillen.

The Central Freeway over Duboce Street looking toward Valencia Street.Photo: Aaron Bialick
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Local The renovation includes public art, communal space, plenty of trees, and one very long slide.Boston's City Hall Plaza reopens Friday following a major renovation, ushering in a new era of communal spaces, public art, and accessible features for the city's "civic front yard."There will be a family-friendly celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., as well as an evening event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., to mark the occasion, Mayor Michelle Wu announced earlier this month.

Two cantilevered stacked volumes of contrasting materials form Laxus, a new home designed by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates.Located on a corner plot in the Ota Ward of Tokyo, the house was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a client with a love of walnut wood and contemporary Italian furniture.

An exhibition has opened at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen filled with models that explore the history and future of the city's buildings and landscapes.Copenhagen in Common tells the story of the Danish capital's successful architecture and urban design, but also identifies the challenges facing designers working in the city today.

Studio Symbiosis has completed a villa in Delhi, India, that rises up from its landscaped grounds, forming a terraced roof that is covered with plants to maximise the site's green area.The clients for Villa KD45 asked Studio Symbiosis to design a house on an angular plot surrounded on three sides by other villas, with the shortest fourth side facing the adjacent neighbourhood park.

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its plan to overhaul London's Liverpool Street station, which includes the addition of two towers above the railway terminus.Herzog & de Meuron's proposal also includes improvements to the station and railway infrastructure, such as the addition of 60 per cent more ticket barriers, 1.5 acres of public and green space, and increased circulation, platform and concourse areas.

Fresh off the heels of opening a highly anticipated location in downtown Portland in April, global burger chain Shake Shack already has a new location in the works for a Portland area suburb.It will open a third Oregon restaurant in Tualitin's Bridgeport Village this year, and will be joined by a second location of Japanese bakery and cafe Tanaka.

The Atlanta food hall boom that began nearly a decade ago with Krog Street Market and Ponce City Market shows no signs of slowing down.And Citizens Market becomes the latest addition to a growing list of food halls with its opening today at Phipps Plaza in Buckhead.Citizens market features eight restaurant stalls offering everything from sushi and burgers to fried chicken sandwiches and kaarage combo meals backed by big name chefs like Dani Garcia, Masaharu Morimoto of Iron Chef fame, and Italian chef and master butcher Dario Cecchini.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Staff at Fairmont Windsor Park, where the new deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland was agreed, said they are delighted that the hotel was part of the historic occasion.

Here are some of the best free things to see and do in south east London if you're looking for something to do this year.You don't need to travel far if you're looking for some activities to do in south east London that won't break the bank.From museums, street art, art exhibitions or a walk at a park there's plenty to see and do to keep you busy if you're trying to watch the pennies.

Fairplex's Walter Marquez and Fairplex at 1101 West McKinley Avenue (Fairplex) Faced with redevelopment plans for the nearly 500-acre home of the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, some residents say, Not so fast.Plans to reshape the Fairplex at 1101 West McKinley Avenue got a mixed response from residents who attended a recent open house, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported.

Wonderkid, the Memorial Drive restaurant owned by Darren Carr and Eric Simpkins ( Bon Ton, The Lawrence), closed over the weekend after nearly three years at Atlanta Dairies in Reynoldstown.Rumors of its impending closure began circulating earlier in November, with one reader telling Eater that their server stated the restaurant's last day was set for December 1.

The Illinois House has approved legislation that would sell the shuttered Tinley Park Mental Health Center property to the Tinley Park-Park District for $1, according to the district and state Sen. Mike Hastings, D-Frankfort.The 280-acre property, northwest of the intersection of Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street, has been eyed for redevelopment by the Park District and the village.

California launched a legal battle with U.S. railroads Thursday that, if successful, could improve the health of people who live near train yards in Chicago.The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously to require railroads to cut diesel soot emissions from passenger, freight and industrial locomotives by 91% by 2050 and to slash smog-forming nitrogen oxides, or NOx, by 86%.

Fulton Market is already one of the nation's hottest housing markets, and another massive apartment tower is likely to break ground before the end of the year.Developer Sterling Bay unveiled Wednesday night during a virtual community meeting its latest plan for phase one of 1300 W. Carroll Ave., a 515-foot structure that company officials say they hope to secure city approval for in the coming months.

Hounslow Council's Grow for the Future scheme has been awarded 165,000 from the government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund.It means unused and unloved council land that is currently being used for fly-tipping or is inaccessible to the public will be transformed into new allotments, community gardens and orchards.

Dezeen School Shows: a display case informed by the designs of Carlo Scarpa and a box that uses mirrors to help visitors explore architectural ruins are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at YACademy.Also featured is an integrated lighting and ceiling system to support plants in a retail space and the design of a wilderness lookout structure to shelter users during breaks from hiking.

Historic England is appealing for hidden histories to be shared and for overlooked places to be celebrated as part of its Missing Pieces Project.The heritage body is calling for people to upload to its website photos or stories about any of the more than 400,000 places on the National Heritage List for England.

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Brownsville residents are being asked to vote for the community project they would like to see funded through the first-ever citywide participatory budget initiative.

The 10 Carmelite nuns of Cypress Hills, cloistered in Brooklyn for almost 20 years, decided to leave New York City after much contemplation.As much as they tried, the sisters of the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Joseph, devotees of silence and prayer who rarely left the confines of the cloister, could no longer ignore what was going on outside.

The Labour party has pledged to introduce a Scottish-style right to roam law in England if it wins the next general election, with access to green space enshrined in law.The shadow environment minister, Alex Sobel, made the announcement during a debate secured by the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, who has been campaigning for wider access to the countryside.

A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured after he was bitten by an off-leash dog at a west-end elementary school on Friday, Toronto police and a school board trustee say.Police said they are investigating the attack, which happened outside Rawlinson Community School on May 12 at about 6 p.m. Neither the dog nor its owner have been located, police say.

A key city committee is set to finalize the bus routes that will serve Scarborough transit users who currently take the RT light rail line, which connects to the Bloor-Danforth subway.City staff are recommending a series of priority bus lanes on a number of roadways and the addition of some intersection changes.

Health Though they are only a few miles apart, two neighborhoods in Back Bay and Roxbury have a nearly 23-year difference in life expectancies.In Boston, your life expectancy can shrink by nearly a quarter-century, depending on the neighborhood you call home.In one Back Bay neighborhood, the life expectancy is nearly 92 years - among the highest in the city.

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From hidden coves tucked along the Orchard Beach marshes to wide promenades covered by regal arches of trees in Soundview, there is a lot more green to the Bronx than the zoo or the infield at Yankee Stadium.The pastoral vibe might make you think you're upstate, but as they said in the classic '80s hip-hop movie Beat Street, this is the Bronx.

The eyes of the world will be on the San Siro over the next week.The Champions League semi-final between AC Milan and Inter Milan brings the focus back on a city that was used to being the centre of attention in European football.However, despite sharing 10 European Cup triumphs - AC Milan's seven successes is second only to Real Madrid in the all-time list - neither have reached the semi-final of a European competition since 2010.

TOKYO Over a span of nearly 100 years, Meiji Jingu Stadium in central Tokyo has been the scene of numerous important events.Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played there on a barnstorming tour, the novelist Haruki Murakami was inspired by a trip to the stadium to write his first novel and just last year Munetaka Murakami of the Yakult Swallows hit a record-breaking home run into the stadium's stands.

"Even the air is unequal," she said."Wealthier communities have more resources, green space and built environment to protect them from the harmful impacts of dirty trucks.Others do not.And we see it in differences in emergency visits and hospitalizations due to respiratory issues for people who live closer to freeways and truck traffic.

A circus has been barred from performing at the last minute over extensive damage caused to a major south London common.Zippos Circus had been due to perform shows from Wednesday for six days at Streatham Common, but Lambeth Council revoked permission over what it called unacceptable damage caused during set-up.

Several syringes containing fentanyl and a Molotov cocktail were among several potentially dangerous items found during an operation to clear a public park in Atlanta Monday, local officials said.DeKalb County police headed a multi-jurisdictional operation to clear unauthorized people, vehicles and purported hidden traps at Intrenchment Creek Park and secure its entrances with concrete barriers.

As a UC Berkeley student, I am not surprised that the world's number one public university has decided to, once again, close libraries in order to pinch pennies.It is painfully clear where the university's priorities lie not with academics and researchers but with athletics, placating wealthy donors, and bulldozing over green space to build more student housing.

BROOKLYN (PIX11) - Brooklyn students took home an A+ and earned millions from the state, all for a homework assignment.Their story started in June of 2021 when they were given homework to spot a community problem and fight to fix it.The fifth graders at PS 676 chose to fix the Hamilton Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, just a few blocks away from their school.

Our writers have rounded up a half-dozen of the best places for picnicking in the San Francisco Bay Area.Click the links below for a full report on each, including how to get there and where to pick up a meal on the way.
1 / Marin French Cheese Co. "Set amid rolling hills on a 700-acre dairy farm, its cheese shop and expansive picnic grounds offer a vision of West Marin pastoral heaven."
2 / Angel Island.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Natural History Museum was the most visited indoor attraction in the UK for a second consecutive year, research shows.The London museum had 4,654,608 visitors last year, more than three million above the previous year's figure of 1,571,413, a report by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (Alva) found.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A teenager who died after an attack has been described by his family as a kind and loving young man.Essex Police said Andy Wood, 16, was found injured close to a green space off Waterson Vale, a residential street in Chelmsford, at about 11.30pm on Sunday.

A teenager has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 16-year-old boy.Elijah Clark, 18, had bruising around his left eye when he appeared before Colchester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.The defendant, of Gloucester Avenue, Chelmsford, is said to have killed Andy Wood with a knife, magistrates were told.

The dog that mauled a four-year-old girl to death in Milton Keynes was a family pet, which was put down by police at the house.Alice Stones was set upon while playing in the back garden of her home in Buckinghamshire on Tuesday afternoon.Thames Valley Police officers were called to the house in Broadlands, Netherfield just after 5pm, where Alice later died.

L ondon is still referred to as the Big Smoke by many outside of the M25, but evidence has shown that the capital could actually be a forest.Yes, really.By looking at definitions of a forest and examining green space figures, there is data to back you up.That's if you want to argue with the logic of friends smugly moving to the home counties in search of more green spaces.

S adiq Khan has been criticised for failing to deliver on a pledge to plant two million trees in London within his first term of office.Conservative London Assembly Member (AM) Emma Best claimed that at the current rate, it would take Mr Khan a total of 40 years to meet his target.Mr Khan's deputy said the pledge was not a manifesto commitment, and that the mayor had overseen the creation of a lot more trees and green space than his predecessor Boris Johnson.

Obesity in young adult Americans rose from 33% to 41% over the timeframe of the study.M. Spencer Green/AP Diabetes and obesity two risk factors for heart disease are on the rise among young adults in the U.S., according to a newly published study of about 13,000 people ages 20 to 44 years old.The prevalence of diabetes climbed from 3% to 4.1%; obesity shot up from 32.7% to 40.9%, based on the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Sunday, which uses data from 2009 to 2020.

Climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion ($956.8 billion) by the middle of the century, government research published Monday has shown.The study, presented by the Environment and Economy Ministries, was not to be understood as a prediction, but was meant to give an impression of what could happen under certain circumstances.

Countries, companies and cities need to establish environmental justice targets to counter the impact of the climate and other crises on global inequality, according to the authors of the most comprehensive study of the issue to date.From floods in Pakistan to air pollution in India, the Earth Commission researchers say the poorest parts of the world are being disproportionately harmed by environmental problems, which is adding to global injustice and threatening social stability.

An outdoor pop-up dinner series is headed to Piedmont Park this spring.Running March 2 through April 2, Dinner With a View takes over green space at the Promenade near the Atlanta Botanical Garden and Magnolia Hall at the park.People will dine in one of 33 decorated, climate-controlled geodesic domes (aka igloo dining) offering views of Piedmont Park in the evening.

A community was united in grief at a candlelit vigil for a four-year-old girl who was mauled to death by a family pet in a back garden.People gathered to mourn the loss of the youngster, who has not yet been formally identified but has been named in reports as Alice Stones, at a church near to the house on Wednesday evening.

Lambeth Council wants to turn 579 km of parking spaces into cycle lanes, seating areas and green space



South London is reclaiming its roadsides.In an exciting move, Lambeth Council has just launched a new 'kerbside strategy' to reclaim kerbsides as public spaces and 'de-clutter' its roadsides, Brixton Buzz has reported.

Real Estate The one-bedroom, one-bath unit is ready for a serious renovator to turn it into a fun residential property.You aren't obligated to warn passing ships if you make this reproduction lighthouse in South Yarmouth your new home.Locals will recognize the structure at 1376 Bridge St. as the Jolly Captain Motor Lodge, famous for its statue of a captain and the vertical "motor lodge" sign cascading along its edge.

In a study released last week by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, researchers found that visiting nature three to four times a week was associated with 36% lower odds of needing blood pressure pills, 33% lower odds of needing mental health medications, and 26% lower odds of needing asthma medications.

The £14m sky garden has been given the green light



You may have heard whisperings about a mythical sounding new sky garden that has been said to be coming to London for years.Inspired by the famous New York High Line, people have been talking about bringing a similar skyward meadow to England's capital for a while.

Cast your mind back a couple of years, and you may remember us getting excited about a brand new garden in the sky that was announced to be arriving in Camden.That was 2021, and in January 2023 we have some breakthrough news about the project: it's got planning permission to go ahead.Well, the first section of it, anyway, which runs from Royal College Street to Camley Way.

Two landowners have won a High Court challenge against the right to wild camp without permission on the Dartmoor National Park.Farmers Alexander and Diana Darwall argued that some wild campers on their land caused problems to livestock and the environment and sought a court declaration that members of the public could only pitch tents there overnight with their consent.

O rlaith Quinn was an outgoing, vivacious mother of two until halfway through her third pregnancy, when she became uncharacteristically withdrawn.She raised her anxiety in checkups, but doctors told her this was normal.When she became manic after giving birth and told her family she had tried to kill herself three times, she was assessed by a psychiatrist who determined she was not a suicide risk.Quinn had developed postpartum psychosis, which has good recovery rates, but an inquest determined earlier this year that her death in late 2018 at Belfast's Royal Jubilee maternity hospital was both foreseeable and preventable.

The smell of fried egg sandwiches drifting across an allotment in a Leeds park on a sub-zero lunchtime in December was more than welcome to the group gathered there, breathing into gloved hands and stamping numb feet as they made jokes and reminisced.They had spent every Tuesday afternoon of the year working on this plot, planting vegetables and building a shed for a composting toilet with reclaimed materials though they hadn't quite got as far as putting a door on it.

Practising meditation could help improve a person's gut bacteria and in turn reap benefits for their physical and mental health, according to a new study.Regular and deep meditation, performed for several years, may help to enrich a person's gut microbiota, according to the new reserach.This could help lower the risks of physical and mental ill health, including anxiety, depression and heart disease, academics said.

Bromley named the best place to live in London.(Image: Google maps street view) A south London borough has been revealed as the best place to live in London and has been recognised for its transport links, green spaces and quality of schools.According to a recent survey by Homeviews, the top spot to live in London is Bromley.

Bradford-on-Avon is a commuter town that serves Bath and Bristol.This Grade II-listed house, a former wine merchants, was built in 1880.Now renovated, it has a large open-plan living space on the ground floor, with four bedrooms and three bathrooms on other levels.The large, full-height basement is ripe for renovation, and plans are approved for an outbuilding in the garden.

The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil field that sits atop the coastal bluffs of Newport Beach, guaranteeing the property will be cleaned up and preserved as open space.The 384-acre Banning Ranch property, whose future was at the center of an intense decades-long fight in Orange County, is considered the last piece of undeveloped coastal real estate left in Southern California.

Commanders safety Jeremy Reaves celebrates after the Giants' field goal attempt fell short on the last play of overtime Sunday.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Still giddy from his team's win over the Atlanta Falcons, Ron Rivera looked back at Washington's midseason turnaround and appeared at ease for the first time in years.

The new nature reserve will help provide habitat to animal species
South London has some epic parks and nature reserves.Greenwich, Crystal Palace and Brockwell Park are some of the city's most beautiful and rightly celebrated parks.But there's an incoming contender that might steal the crown for the best south London green space.

Next Sunday, the Museum of London, which as the official text puts it tells the ever-changing story of this great world city and its people, from 450,000BC to the present day, closes the doors of the building it has occupied for the past 46 years.This is on the edge of the Barbican, the brutalist estate of apartment blocks built in the 1960s and 70s in the City of London, with an adjoining arts centre completed in 1982.

A quiet roundabout revolution is sweeping America's suburbs.And it may have continued, unmeasured and unremarked, if not for Lee Rodegerdts.It turns out the fine folks at the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics don't track the nation's roundabouts, rotaries or traffic circles.Indeed, no federal agency does.

More than 20,000 people died across western Europe in this summer's heatwaves, in temperatures that would have been virtually impossible without climate breakdown, figures show.Analysis of excess deaths, the difference between the number of deaths that happened and those expected based on historical trends, reveals the threats posed by climate change-induced global heating, scientists said.