Day: November 23, 2025

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‘Beautiful to look at and wonderful to live in’: new pattern designs could be next art deco or red brick classics

Competition-winning apartment building plans should be approved twice as quickly by NSW councils, and will be three to six storeys high

Airy Scandinavian interiors, shaded balconies, light-filled courtyards – could these be Sydney’s next art deco apartment blocks or red brick walk-ups?

The New South Wales government has launched nine new architect-designed mid-rise apartment building pattern book designs, which it hopes will support the delivery of 112,000 homes in the “missing middle” over the next five years, through its controversial low and mid-rise (Lmr) reforms.

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‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Reveals Madeline Stowe is Playing the Younger Version of ‘IT: Chapter Two’s Freaky Mrs. Kersh

“We’re humanizing that old lady that turns out to be the crone,” IT: Chapter Two executive producer and director Andy Muschietti told DECIDER.
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Jets rally around Breece Hall after agonizing déjà vu moment that changed everything

There are no medals for 10 consecutive years of trying to avoid a losing season for the Jets.
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‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations

Opposition claims key diplomatic role at next year’s conference in Turkey would make Bowen a ‘part-time minister’ while Australians face inflated energy prices

Experts have dismissed claims Chris Bowen cannot remain a senior minister while playing a leading role in international climate negotiations, with one describing the argument as evidence of an Australian “culture cringe”.

Australia failed in its long-running bid to co-host the Cop31 climate summit with Pacific nations next year after Turkey refused to withdraw from the consensus process despite limited support.

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Mets Finalizing Blockbuster Trade For Rangers’ Marcus Semien

The New York Mets and Texas Rangers have made a blockbuster trade, sending three-time All-Star Marcus Semien to the Mets.
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Shooting at Tree Lighting Leaves One Injured, Suspect at Large

A shooting at a Michigan mall during a tree lighting ceremony left one person stable, suspect remains at large.
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Analysis: US trumpets Ukraine progress, but will the Kremlin agree?

America’s top diplomat struck a relentlessly upbeat tone in Geneva, after a rollercoaster day of intensive negotiations aimed at convincing a skeptical Ukraine to accept the latest US proposals to end Russia’s brutal war.
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Stand up for Ukraine and deliver a peace deal that doesn’t reward warmonger Putin

Negotiators from the Trump administration gave Ukraine an ultimatum last week: Accept this deal, or the next one will be worse.
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Virginia high school football coach missing amid undefeated season with massive search underway

Travis Turner, head football coach at Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Va., has been reported missing.
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Long Island home health aide accused of stabbing sleeping 84-year-old patient with chef’s knife

“For an excruciating 16 minutes as the woman moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the woman’s home health aide – held the knife firm in her body and repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb.”