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It looked like an odd old Nintendo cartridge sitting among boxes of gaming memorabilia. But when video-game collector Rob Walters came across it at a New York garage sale in 2006, he had stumbled upon something that Nintendo had never intended to become a collector’s treasure.The cartridge was made specifically for Nintendo’s 1991 Campus Challenge,…

File photo: Captain Smit Machchhar and Dr Shota Musaev An Israel-based dentist who was among the passengers on flydubai Flight FZ1073 has recalled the frantic 45-minute effort to save Captain Smit Machchhar after he was attacked in the cockpit during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight.Dr Shota Musaev to ABC News that he rushed towards the cockpit…

Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker Photo credit (L-R): Getty Images and Sotheby’s In 2013, tennis star Andy Roddick and his wife, model and actress Brooklyn Decker, paid about $3.7 million for a 15-acre estate in Austin, Texas. The couple spent years renovating the farmhouse-style home, adding their own design touches to create a sprawling, family-friendly…

A nearly century-old English Cotswold-style manor in Los Angeles, once owned by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz and actor Gene Hackman, is on the market. The cobblestone driveway stretching more than 200 feet leads to a manor straight out of the English countryside. Located at 4934 Queen Florence Lane in Woodland Hills, in the San Fernando…

Irv starts the day when his first customer arrives and closes when patrons leave or he gets tired. (Photo: Washington Post) At 103, Irvin E Koch has spent more than six decades serving drinks from the basement of his own home in Pasadena, Maryland. The World War II veteran has been behind the bar since…

Kenya on Tuesday confirmed its first case linked to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa, the fastest-spreading in history, with a Kenyan citizen who arrived from Congo via Uganda testing positive for the infection.According to Kenyan health minister Aden Duale, the patient arrived in the country on October 3 and had been isolated and treated…

Just Keep Livin Foundation was founded by Camila and Matthew McConaughey to support high school students through after-school programmes. According to its 2022 Impact Report, the non-profit served over 3,000 students through 43 programmes across 15 cities in 2022. The programmes operate in Title 1 schools and cover nutrition, fitness, wellness and community service. The…

Cuffem is planning a new creator group called the “Sinister Six,” and Reggie could be one of its members after leaving Kai Cenat’s Clover Boys. The Kick streamer talked about his plans during an appearance on One Night with Steiny on October 5. He named Reggie, JShock, BruceDropEmOff and Trey Livin as possible members. Adin…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A Delaware homeowner who represented herself in court has secured part of the relief she sought from her community’s developer, but not everything she asked for. The court ordered the developer to address maintenance problems involving ponds and ditches and provide information and documents concerning an alleged $44,329.59 loan involving the homeowners…