Image copyright EA Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family’s Nintendo Switch console. In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed after payment is completed. The children’s father, Thomas Carter, had bought them […]
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From the Muppets to Punch and Judy, puppets have captured the imaginations of adults and children around the world for centuries. In Taiwan, 88-year-old Chen Hsi-huang, is on a campaign to keep the art of traditional puppetry alive. It’s known as Budaixi and was once one of the country’s most popular forms of entertainment, even
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Civil rights activists complained Monday of the potential for widespread abuse following confirmation that at least three states have scanned millions of driver’s license photos on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement without the drivers’ knowledge or consent. Public records obtained by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology provided the first proof that
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Ahead of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup win at Stade de Lyon in France on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron took a stand against hate speech. The president told French television that racism and homophobia wouldn’t be tolerated at soccer games, and called for matches to be stopped if hateful incidents occur. “We
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“The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new prime minister,” Mr. Trump said. “While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!” Mr. Trump praised the queen as a “spectacular woman” and claimed that during their
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe body bag saving lives in DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak There can be few greater challenges than tackling a lethal epidemic. But imagine trying to do so in a conflict zone ravaged by extreme poverty, insecurity and poor communications amid a population where health workers are feared
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Image caption Ibrahim Mahama and the seats at the Whitworth art gallery in Manchester Dozens of worn plastic train seats and dilapidated wooden lockers that were destined for the dump in Ghana have ended up in a Manchester art gallery, in a work by one of Africa’s most exciting young artists. When hundreds of hard,
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Before you open that restaurant, are you biting off more than you can chew? Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in the UK go self-employed by setting themselves up as sole traders. But one in five of them will go bust in the first year. Why? Well, according
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Safa Tamish teaches Palestinians to talk about sex, a topic often seen as taboo in the Arab world. She encourages workshop participants to speak frankly, for example not shying away from using proper names for body parts in Arabic. A survey for BBC Arabic across the Middle East and North Africa has looked at attitudes
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It says volumes about the challenges facing brick-and-mortar stores that the “single biggest initiative” out of Kohl’s this year, according to the national retailer’s chief executive, is that it will now accept and process unwanted orders from Amazon. Kohl’s said on Monday that it was now accepting Amazon returns at its more than 1,100 stores
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