In the 1930s, an unemployed American architect desperately needed to invent something to make ends meet. What he came up with was a board game combining anagrams, crosswords and chance. It was Scrabble, and 200 million sets of it have been sold since then. But the inventor’s biggest problem was coming up with the catchy […]
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Online shopping giant Amazon revealed a carbon footprint Thursday that rivals that of a small country and vowed to reduce the damage to the planet by cutting its use of fossil fuels. The company, which ships more than 10 billion items a year on fuel-guzzling planes and trucks, said it has ordered 100,000 electric vans
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Tom Hoge felt relieved to make his way back to the PGA Tour. He is starting the new season with a clear head, no stress and great scores. One week after he was runner-up at the Greenbrier for the best finish of his PGA Tour career, Hoge opened with three straight birdies and closed with
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In this episode of Brexitcast, presenters Katya Adler and Adam Fleming share their thoughts on the Luxembourg PM’s art collection and the limitations of his news conference facilities that led to Boris Johnson not attending a planned press conference. You can watch Brexitcast on Thursdays at 23.35 BST on BBC One, catch up on the
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A year after my now-husband Chris and I started dating, we decided it would be a great idea to adopt a dog together. Never mind that we were in our early 20s, technically hadn’t been together all that long and that our parents thought it was a terrible idea — we really wanted a dog.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe star brought his mum on stage as he accepted the award. Rapper Dave has won the Mercury Prize for his debut album, Psychodrama. A thought-provoking reflection on his upbringing in London, it has been hailed as “the boldest and best British rap album in a generation“.
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Image copyright Booker Prize If you want to plough through the Booker Prize shortlist before the winner is announced on 14 October, the pile of books in hardback will cost you just under £90. But if you are blind or partially sighted and rely on audiobooks, you will pay around 50% more, in part due
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The nation’s top aviation regulator has tested new software for the Boeing 737 Max in a flight simulator and is tentatively giving a favorable review to the updates to a plane that remains grounded after two deadly crashes. The new chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, Stephen Dickson, also toured the Max assembly line near
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SAN FRANCISCO — Even though high-flying start-ups have met a cool reception on Wall Street in recent months, the willingness of investors to make big bets has not exactly slackened. Stripe, a start-up that helps businesses do the wonky work of taking payments, announced on Thursday that it had pulled in new investments that gave
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The echoes have been slumbering at Notre Dame for more than two decades. The Fighting Irish really need to make some new memories. Well, here’s their chance. Again. No. 7 Notre Dame can prove it’s no longer living in the past with a victory Saturday night at third-ranked Georgia, a game that could have ramifications
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