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A massive Nazi air raid bunker might not sound like a great place to live, but with the right modifications — and the right location — a bunker can be a dream home. Karen and Christian Boros, art collectors and managers of a German advertising agency, live in such a place. Their early ’40s bunker, erected by Nazi Germany in the center of Berlin, has been wonderfully reconfigured as a airy penthouse apartment with an art gallery and storage space below to display and store their impressive collection of art. German site Freunde von Freunden has an interview with the owners as well as a wonderful video and fantastic photos of this incredible apartment.

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A commercial tour bus carrying 21 people crashed south of Neils Harbour in Cape Breton on Sunday afternoon, seriously hurting one person and injuring nine others when it rolled into a ditch on its side.

We all know that “epic” Michael Bay look and feel with lots of hugely impressive imagery. But how does the director achieve this? Perceptive film blogger Tony Zhou has put together another wonderfully intelligent and comprehensible breakdown, this time focusing on Bay’s style — often called “Bayhem” for obvious reasons. Zhou shows how complex camera movements and the coordination of multiple different elements produces incredibly busy frames that brim with action. Ultimately, Zhou believes it’s Bay’s choices of when to deploy his signature moves that makes so many of his films devoid of substance.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leading Republican lawmakers balked on Sunday at supporting a White House spending request aimed at bolstering the U.S. border with Mexico, where thousands of children have crossed recently, while calling for changes in the law to allow faster deportations.

After multiple searches of the home where three Calgary family members were last seen, police say they have ended the investigation into the Parkhill property and are returning it to the family.

KABUL (Reuters) – It was late on Saturday evening in a fourth-floor room of the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Kabul that the election crisis in Afghanistan that had threatened to divide the nation was staved off.