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Sesame Street has introduced a homeless character named Lily to mitigate the impact of the trauma for young children without a permanent place to live. Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organisation behind the children’s TV show, announced a new initiative to tackle the growing number of homeless children in the …

The first big content update for World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion has arrived. Tides of Vengeance is now live in the Americas, bringing a new Warfront, quests, heritage armor, island expeditions, and much more to Blizzard’s long-running MMO. Headlining the content update is Battle for Darkshore, a brand-new …

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry says he was just joking when he said that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax, and will accept NASA’s invitation to inspect its moon rocks in Houston. [Image: Noah Salzman/Wikicommons]His comments on Monday set off an uproar, and revived the 40-year-old conspiracy theory …

Kenyan Claudiah Wanjiru always wanted to be a model, but when she was caught in a fire, her face was scarred. People called her names and accused her of bleaching her face. This led to her suffering depression and attempting to take her own life. But she never gave up …

Minus their top player and with their coach still mourning his mother’s death two days earlier, the Toronto Raptors put an emphatic stamp on a season sweep of Golden State. They did it with the two-time defending NBA champion Warriors nearly at full strength, too, a very different scenario from …

How can you get ahead when the city itself wants to slow you down? Journey though Ghana’s capital in part four of our new series, The Illustrated City Continue reading…

The new Super Smash Bros. game for Nintendo Switch is off to a fast start, at least in Japan. New sales numbers from Famitsu reveal that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold 1.24 million copies over its first weekend (December 7-9). According to the publication (via Gematsu), this represents the highest …

Privacy-focused browser Brave has finished the final phase of a two-stage process and has now migrated most of its userbase to a full Chromium codebase, the same one used by Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, and soon, Edge. The new codebase translates to a 22 percent speed boost, if we’re to believe …

Jennifer Lopez wore that Versace dress while presenting an award at the Grammy Awards in 2000. (Photo: ROBERT HANASHIRO/USA TODAY) Jennifer Lopez is thrilled that her immortal Versace dress, the one that shook the world with a neckline that plunged well below her navel, is having a second act. Lopez wore the showstopping, semi-sheer number to …

Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 12, 2018 / 11:40 PM GMT By Denise Chow NASA’s InSight spacecraft is now parked on Mars and gearing up to spend the next two years probing the interior of the Red Planet. But first, a selfie. On Dec. 6, the 800-pound lander stretched …