BREAKING 🚨 Silver price hits highest in decades at over $50 an ounce

Unfortunately, there is no British Town Centres Episode today on YouTube...have a family issue to take care of. However, I did upload the latest UK 🇬🇧 Daily Challenge earlier today on GeoGuessr youtu.be/hXKxBPKcRcc?si…

JUST IN - Trump says U.S. will defend Finland if Russia will attack the NATO member

DAILY RANDOM MUSINGS 9 October 2025 ▪︎ Love the squeaking sound of walking on cold snow ❄️ ▪︎ Yes or no… maybes are not good ▪︎ The best conversations happen on long drives 🚗💭 ▪︎ Need an end to admin charges and fees💸

The Pakistan Air Force just bombed Kabul and 3 other cities in Afghanistan. The Taliban are in trouble. Unprecedented…

Mapped News Brief 10 Oct 2025 (02:20 UTC) 🇦🇫 Kabul: Pakistan Air Force launches strikes amid cross-border tensions 🇧🇪 Brussels: Drone plot targeting Belgian PM foiled; 3 arrested 🇹🇹 Port of Spain: U.S. military plane lands in Trinidad, boosting regional presence

The Most and Least Expensive Land in America Average market value of private land across the contiguous US. Estimated from over 6m land sales (2000–2019) Source: Nolte, C. (2020). High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States.

BREAKING: 19 people unaccounted for after blast at explosives manufacturer near Bucksnort, Tennessee - WKRN

It is approximately 1,900 years old. The Pantheon in Rome still has the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world.

JUST IN - Hamas confirms the first of 38 buses carrying Palestinian prisoners from Israel, has arrived in Gaza — Sky

BREAKING 🔴 Very strange explosion near Cairo, Egypt. Trump will be landing in Egypt soon.

🗺️ Mapped News Brief 13 Oct 2025 - 1749 UTC 🇪🇬 Egypt: Leaders meet in Sharm el-Sheikh for Gaza peace plan 🇲🇬 Madagascar: Coup underway as president flees capital 🇲🇽 Mexico: 64 dead, dozens missing after devastating floods

it’s a 2 minute radio program, never repeated, broadcast 18 times a week. Bigger audience than Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon … combined. Millions listen, with no need for the information it gives. Just to listen. The BBC Shipping Forecast is 100 years old.

Mapped News Brief 14 Oct 2025 (18:39 UTC) 🇲🇬 Madagascar: Military seizes power, declares state of emergency after unrest 🇮🇷 Iran: Court sentences 2 French nationals to long prison terms for spying 🇧🇪 Belgium: General strike grounds flights, cripples Brussels transit network

BREAKING: Car bomb explodes near mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador; multiple casualties reported

US Air Force B-52 strategic bombers close to Venezuela, currently circling in holding patterns.

Mapped News Brief 15 Oct 2025 (18:56 UTC) 🇻🇪 : US Navy hits Venezuelan vessel in targeted strike off coast 🇬🇧 UK: US SecWar Hegseth’s plane makes emergency landing in Britain after windshield crack 🇨🇳 China: Authorities confiscate sensitive maps, citing national security

Mapped News Brief 16 Oct 2025 (19:40 UTC) 🇺🇸 Washington / Budapest: Trump says he will meet Putin in Hungary, targeting Ukraine peace efforts 🇳🇴 Norway: Former US Embassy guard convicted of spying for Russia 🇬🇧 UK: Aston Villa FC bans visiting Israeli club fans citing safety

From the Soviet JFK docs released: Kennedy–Khrushchev World Peace Bridge “could and should be built between Alaska and Russia at once.”

A shot of London's Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, by Chalmers Butterfield on Kodachrome colour film in 1949.