Entertainment

• Friday, June 28th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

  3 fun activities you can do from your smartphone

  

  You will never find yourself bored with nothing to do if you have your trusted smartphone with you. There are an endless amount of exciting activities you can do from your smartphone. This article is going to give you just 3 of these fun activities that you can do from your smartphone that you can try out whenever you feel boredom coming your way.

• Thursday, June 20th 2024 - 09:50 UTC

  Understanding the daily fantasy sports market and Its future potential

  

  The daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry has experienced a meteoric rise in the last couple of decades, shaking off the dated traditions of the Dugout Derby and Pigskin Playoff to evolve into a serious, billion-dollar market.

• Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 00:13 UTC

  Getting Ready for the 2024 Día de Muertos Festivities

  

  Every year, Día de Muertos celebrations are held in countries up and down the Americas, bringing in vibrant colors, meals, and parades that joyously honor the deceased. In 2024, the Day of the Dead looks to be a particularly big one because the two days of the traditional holiday fall on a Friday and Saturday!

• Monday, June 3rd 2024 - 08:23 UTC

  The best AK-47 skins in CS:GO in 2024

  

  There are some weapons deemed classic when we are talking about CS. AK-47 is one such example. It is dependable, effective, and has the deadly one-shot headshot potential, which is why players really like it.

• Friday, May 31st 2024 - 20:05 UTC

  Jihadist attack against Paris 2024 Olympics prevented

  

  An 18-year-old Chechen suspect was detained by French authorities as he allegedly planned to attack the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Étienne, which will host Paris 2024 men's and women's football matches will be played shortly. This “Islamist-inspired” aggression was “the first attack dismantled against the Olympic Games” although French secret services have already prevented 50 such events since 2017.

• Saturday, May 25th 2024 - 10:25 UTC

  Beer and wine in UK pubs and bars short measured, official Standards Institute sample finding

  

  UK pubs and bars seem to have found a way to beat inflation. A report published on Friday by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) found that 70% of the beer and wine it sampled across the UK was being short measured. It calculated that this meant an average beer drinker was losing around £88.40 a year, while a wine drinker was losing around £114.40 per year.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Rockstar Milei launches his new book

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei took center stage Wednesday at Buenos Aires' iconic Luna Park stadium to booth launch his latest book and sing a song from the local band La Renga. The unusual move was supported by his die-hard teenage followers and criticized by the rest of society going through an economic crisis that reminds older people of 1989 and 2001.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Conmebol introduces extra substitution in case of head trauma

  

  South America's Football Confederation (Conmebol) announced this week that a new substitution will be allowed during next month's Copa America 2024 whenever a player is going through “suspected head trauma and concussion.”

• Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 19:45 UTC

  Milei gets ready for rock concert as “blue” dollar gets back on a surging path

  

  The “blue” version (a euphemism for “black market”) of the US dollar against the Argentine peso was still going up Wednesday as President Javier Milei was planning to make his first appearance as the leader of a rock band at Buenos Aires' iconic Luna Park stadium. According to local media, one US dollar was quoted at AR$ 1,235 / 1,255 (buy sell at Buenos Aires' “caves” (unofficial money exchange parlors), which represented an AR$ 25 increase from the previous day for a 41% gap with the official rate.

• Friday, May 17th 2024 - 19:35 UTC

  Brazil to host 2027 women's football World Cup

  

  Brazil was chosen Friday by 119 votes to 78 to host the 2027 edition of the Women's Football World Cup, it was announced in Bangkok, Thailand, where the sport's governing body, FIFA, held its General Assembly. The South American country was preferred to the consortium formed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. It will be the tenth version of the competition and the first in this part of the globe.