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Below-par death bowling coupled with ordinary fielding and batting, except for Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, hurt a second-string Indian team as it slumped…

The Addams Family also came packed with a Byzantine-yet-accessible set of rules and storyline objectives that appealed to both average and skilled players. That’s huge in arcades, where people often make choices about which game to play…

Today is Thursday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2022. There are 86 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Oct. 6, 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel…

The Vespa 150 TAP, as it was called, was essentially a normal 150cc Vespa scooter with a M20 recoilless rifle grafted onto the reinforced frame and painted olive drab. At a total unit cost of $500, It was built from 1956 to…

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2022. There are 87 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States, succeeding Fred M.…

The Natural History Museum has enlisted the help of public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its scientific research capabilities. The museum said the partnership will pave the way for it to bring together and store…

Today is Saturday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2022. There are 91 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of…

The Great Cobar Museum at Cobar, a small mining community, was always the most prominent building in this township, an eight-hour drive north-west of Sydney.Complete with a grand arched portico, the two-storey red-brick building, completed…

Sonia Shirsat is on the verge of completing 20 years of her “accidental” entry into Fado, the Portuguese semi-classical music form, which has been around in Goa for over 100 years Sonia Shirsat is on the verge of completing 20 years of…

As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total freeze on psychedelics research. In this episode of “The…