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49 Home Renovations That Left People Asking, “Why Would You Do That?”

When a home changes hands, it often needs a little work. And if the new owners are already spending the money on repairs, it might be the perfect time to update the exterior as well. Unfortunately, you can't buy good taste. The TikTok account 'Crime Designs' is dedicated to calling…

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“I Will Be Immortalized On Google Street View Forever”: 81 Bizarre And Funny Google Street View Photos

Google Street View was designed to help people navigate the world, but over the years it has become an accidental treasure trove of hilarious moments. Thanks to perfectly timed photos and people being wonderfully weird, the camera cars have captured everything from bizarre encounters to scenes that look straight out…

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Fifth-Grade Teacher Charged With 25 Horrific Crimes In Disturbing Case

“Why does this keep happening almost every day now? This is sick,” one user wrote.

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Fact check: Image of house in Gorton and Denton constituency appears edited

A social media poster accused Reform UK’s candidate of misrepresenting himself.

Evening Standard

Fact check: Video posted by police was from Unite the Kingdom protest in 2025

A video appears to have been correctly labelled by the Metropolitan Police, despite claims to the contrary.

Evening Standard

Amusing And Ridiculous Screenshots People Just Had To Take While Looking Up Google Maps (New Pics)

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen on Google Maps?

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Haunting before-and-after images of LA buildings razed to the ground show extent of devastating fires

Places of worship, businesses and a senior community center are some of the hundreds of buildings that have been destroyed

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Disturbing Murder Case Solved After Google Street View Catches Suspected Killer Putting Body in Trunk

An image from Google Maps Street View showcasing a man bent over the trunk of a car, loading a bag into it, has helped Spanish National Police Officers solve a murder case they had been investigating for over a year.

Latin Times

Google Street View may have solved murder mystery as man pictured ‘loading body’ into car boot

The images also led police to the remains of a missing man

The Independent UK

Controversial artist Jon Rafman's 16-year Google Street View project is still going strong

"I almost see the Google camera as the modern concept of God. It takes no positions, but it’s there, watching."

Digital Camera World

New AI pinpoints your exact location from one photo with 92% Street View accuracy — beating a pro GeoGuessr player

Graduate students from Stanford University have developed an AI-powered app that can determine your exact location based on Google Street View data.

Windows Central

If you were given a Google Street View image of anywhere on Earth, could you identify the location?

The competitors at the GeoGuessr World Cup can do just that. The clues are in brick houses, distinctive trousers and unusual telegraph poles

The Guardian - UK

London's busiest Tube stations soon to be explorable on Google Street View

Google's Street View feature currently covers almost every road in London, along with a section of the Thames stretching from Richmond to Woolwich

Evening Standard

No, this video doesn’t show Russian ballistic missiles in Niger

A video reported to show trucks transporting Russian ballistic missiles in Niger has been widely circulating amongst West African Facebook and TikTok users since August 11. It turns out, however, that the video was filmed in the Republic of the Congo, not Niger, and shows trucks transporting storage tanks.

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Eerie Google Street View appears to capture Gilgo Beach suspect Rex Heuermann chatting to woman near office

Image was first unearthed by online sleuths who spotted a man matching the description of the 59-year-old father-of-two on East 36th Street in New York City

The Guardian - UK

‘I too was an orangutan in a zoo’: Russia’s bizarre propaganda in Ukraine

Radio scripts found in liberated Kherson mix Soviet nostalgia with supposed humour and veiled threats

Manchester Evening News

Manchester's oldest restaurants that locals and celebrities have dined at for decades

It's hard to imagine our city without these six restaurants that have stood the test of time

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Manchester's oldest and most historic pubs that our city wouldn't be the same without

These 11 historic pubs have been welcoming guests for centuries

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'Time traveller' caught on Google Street View in exactly the same spot nine years apart

Mum Leanne Cartwright says she was 'flabbergasted' when she learned she was photographed by the web mapper standing at a street crossing in 2009 and then again in 2018

France 24

Is Gazprom threatening to keep Europe cold this winter? Why this video is likely fake

Global media outlets widely shared a video they attributed to Russian state energy company Gazprom in articles published on September 6, 2022. The video, which was circulated online by pro-Russian users, depicted the company halting its flow of natural gas to Europe. However, our journalists investigated the origins of the…

France 24

Your guide to geolocating photos and videos posted online

Determining whether a scene actually took place where a social media user said it did – also known as geolocation – has become a major part of verifying social media posts. In this article, we take a look at some essential geolocation tools and walk you through a few case…

Irish Mirror

Google reveals Ireland's most visited places of interest on street view - with some a big surprise

The iconic feature has allowed us to view our own homes from the comfort of our homes and if you’re feeling curious, maybe even further afield

France 24

Amateur images show Russian military convoys heading to Donbass

Large convoys of military equipment have been filmed in Russia and Belarus in recent days. Amateur videos analysed and verified by the FRANCE 24 Observers team show that some of these military reinforcements are heading for the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, towards the pro-Russian self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and…

The Guardian - AU

Sydney floods: before and after photos show how city roads and parks became rivers and lakes

Comparing Tuesday’s unforgettable images with how these locations usually look via Google Street View shows the scale of the flooding

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