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Vanity License Plate Sold at Auction for World Record $15 Million in Dubai
A wealthy anonymous bidder paid 55 million Emirati dirhams, roughly $21 million, for a licence plate at an auction in Dubai. The world record amount was spent for Dubai’s “P 7” licence plate, breaking the previous record by over $US750,000 (a little over $1 million in Aussie terms). Absurdly low licence plate numbers have long…
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Mapping Tech Deployed After Devastating Earthquakes Kills More Than 2,300 in Turkey and Syria
More than 2,300 people have been killed and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria after a series of earthquakes hammered the region already beset by civil war and a refugee crisis on Monday, according to the Associated Press. Rescue workers and officials said that, as evening fell, hundreds more people remain trapped under the…
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Satellite Image Shows Saudi Arabia’s Sci-Fi Megacity ‘The Line’ Is Actually Being Built
Saudi Arabia’s bizarre new megacity, “The Line,” is going full steam ahead. While construction began on the project in October, new satellite images have revealed how much ground the project has covered, the scale of the city’s length, and the layout of its construction site.
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Saudi Arabia Breaks Ground on Massive Sci-Fi Megacity
The future starts now? Drone footage shows construction beginning on Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity called The Line — a city planned to be 170 kilometres long that people can live and work in without ever leaving.