From Moscow to Sydney to New York City, here are seven facts about New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world, so you can start off 2016 with some awesome party knowledge
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The winter holidays are always a great time to take a few days off, gather with the family, engage in the activity of gift-giving, and then, finally, hunt down all those that you skipped on throughout the year and check if they have a juicy discount on them. Well, there are quite a lot of festive price cuts going on in the App Store, so we scoured through to look for the truly must-have games, that can currently be bought for peanuts.
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The mother of fugitive Texas teen Ethan Couch, known for using an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident, has been returned to the U.S. from Mexico minus her son, whose own deportation was delayed by a Mexican judge.
Tonya Couch arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on a flight from Mexico in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and was taken in handcuffs through the terminal to an unmarked Dodge Charger early Thursday morning. She was wearing blue street clothes and looked away from cameras as she walked, flanked by two marshals.
Tonya Couch arrived in the U.S. on a flight from Mexico early Thursday
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Since it was launched in 2010, the car service start up Uber has reached the one billionth ride.
BRISTOL, England — Actor Idris Elba, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and campaigners against Ebola are among the 1,196 people receiving New Year’s Honours in the UK for making life better for other people or being great at what they do.
The list this year sees a rise in the proportion of women awarded at senior levels — 38% at the knighthood/damehood/C-level, up from 31% at the birthday awards. The list is 48% female overall
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Among those receiving knighthoods are choreographer Matthew Bourne, who was behind the all-male production of Swan Lake, former TV journalist Martyn Lewis and former horse racing jockey AP McCoy. Actress Imelda Staunton received a CBE. Actors James Nesbitt and David Oyelowo received OBEs (Order of the British Empire), as did cyclist Chris Froome and snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan …
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Just in time for the New Year. Quick-thinking firecracker makers have released a new product for Filipinos still smarting from the recent Miss Universe fiasco
A new firecracker called “Hello Colombia” has popped up in stores in the Philippines, and it’s been promptly outlawed by the police because of how much more gunpowder it packs compared with smaller, legal versions.
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Seems like #MsUniverse2015 fever reached Bocaue. An illegal firecracker was named #HelloColumbia@cnnphilippines pic.twitter.com/nDJwo4U7dw
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Google had pioneered the practice in 2012 and says it now alerts tens of thousands of users every few months.
Jared Weissman may have just won Christmas — oh, and he might also be a wizard
You see, Weissman’s girlfriend, Shelby Stein, is a huge Harry Potter fan.
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So, this holiday, Weissman chose to give Shelby the ultimate gift to indulge her Harry Potter fandom: a hand-crafted Nimbus 2000 broom
“Shelby has been obsessed with Harry Potter for a long time now and about a year ago decided she wanted to start collecting prop replicas,” Weissman told Mashable in an email. “We went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter this past summer where she bought the Sorcerer’s Stone, Tom Riddle’s diary, and a plaster scroll that says Dumbledoor’s Army with 6 wands mounted on it (Harry, Ron, Hermoine, Luna, Neville, and Ginny) [sic].” …
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We were all there at the tail end of 2015 when Mike Tyson busted his tail in an epic backwards fall off a hoverboard. But where most of us saw comedy, one brave soul — Vine user Ry Ry saw an opportunity.
We haven’t seen a new Punch-Out!! game since 2009. And Tyson himself has been absent from the series since the game’s 1990 re-release, which replaced the by-then-former champ with the fictional Mr. Dream. But thanks to Ry Ry, the dream of a new Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! is now a reality (make sure you unmute the audio).
Thank you, Ry Ry. You are a hero to us all.
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Starting January 4, the San Francisco-based startup will begin charging more to deliver groceries to your door.
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Examining a national database of health insurance claims, researchers found that 91 percent of patients who suffered a nonfatal overdose of prescription opioid painkillers continued getting prescriptions for opioids following the overdose. And, the researchers found, overdose survivors who kept taking high dosages of an opioid—including morphine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone—were twice as likely to have another overdose within two years.
The findings, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, follow news earlier this month from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that drug overdoses, opioid overdoses in particular, have reached epidemic levels. The fact that patients surviving opioid overdoses are still being prescribed opioids is “highly concerning,” the authors of the new study wrote.
In a press release, lead author Marc LaRochelle of Boston Medical Center said that “[t]he intent of this study is not to point fingers but rather use the results to motivate physicians, policy makers and researchers to improve how we identify and treat patients at risk of opioid-related harms before they occur.”
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Phones are increasingly shipping without microSD card expansion slots, but you can still stick it to the man by getting cheap expandable memory for plenty of devices. Today you can save a few bucks on Transcend microSD cards on Amazon. The 64GB and 128GB varieties are on sale for up to 72% off full retail.
The 32GB card usually sells for around $20 and the 128GB is commonly about $60-70. If you’re looking for the better deal, that’s the one.
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Syrian refugees on Tuesday shoveled sand into sandbags to help Rochdale, one of the towns hit hard by floods in northern Britain, to repay the kindness the country has shown in accepting them, The Guardian reported.
“We saw the pictures on TV and wanted to help,” Yasser al-Jassem, 35, a teacher who came to Britain in the back of a truck from Calais in May, told Helen Pidd, one of the newspaper’s senior editors. “The people of Greater Manchester have been very good to us and so we wanted to offer our help to them.”
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