Danny McCubbin has been sharing his 1 euro house journey on Instagram

Own Italian home for €1: Living the Italian dream is more real now than ever, with strings attached

A decade back, the municipal authorities of the Sicily region in Italy came up with a unique plan to rehabilitate its abandoned villages and refurbish old homes. It launched the 'one euro house sale' scheme with 'strings' attached of course. What started from one village in Sicily, has now spread across Italy; the latest to join the list of towns being Maenza, near the capital of Rome. Aug 25, 2021
Afghan terror attack by Taliban

One Afghan VP flew to Dubai with $51mn in cash, reveals US diplomatic cable

A string of official reports, many deleted last week from US government sites due, apparently, to "ongoing security concerns", showed how a corrupt elite in Afghanistan ran the government for personal gain while committing crimes with impunity, alienating ordinary people and driving many into the arms of the insurgency, the Daily Mail reported. Aug 23, 2021
Arrest

Bank heist foiled in Assam, three dacoits gunned down [details]

Another police official said that acting on intelligence inputs that a gang of robbers would try to attempt to rob an Allahabad Bank branch at Bhotgaon near Kokrajhar town, police had laid an ambush before the gun fight occurred late on Saturday night. Aug 22, 2021