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Children and adults alike waited in line for their turn to experience the world’s first Super Nintendo World and its life-sized Mushroom Kingdom, which opened Thursday at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Many wore the iconic red Mario hat, while others were decked head-to-toe in Nintendo memorabilia. Minutes after the attendees were let in, lines

With people spending more time than ever indoors due to lockdown rectrictions, many have been reappraising their life choices and looking to move to more spacious accommodation. And city dwellers wanting to flee to the countryside might be in luck. An auction house is selling an entire rugged Scottish island at an opening bid of

‘Serial stowaway’ Marilyn Hartman is being held without bond following her arrest at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Tuesday after she left the residential facility where she was being electronically monitored. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office told CNN in a statement that it was notified that she had left the facility around noon Tuesday, and

Sushi is a favorite meal for many people around the world, but some residents in Taiwan are going to extraordinary lengths to get their hands on it for free — by officially renaming themselves “salmon” to take advantage of a restaurant promotion. Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior stepped in on Wednesday and urged people to

Ryan Reynolds had never seen “Green Lantern” until Wednesday, when he decided to view it for the first time and tweet all about it. “Lantern,” Reynolds’ superhero debut, is a movie the actor hates, so he watched “with the aid of a good amount of Aviation Gin,” a shameless plug the liquor company he owns.

Dozens of fragments of a Dead Sea Scroll bearing biblical text have been found by archaeologists working in the Judean Desert, the Israeli government said Tuesday. The fragments are the first pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in around 60 years and were recovered from a cave where Jewish rebels against the Roman Empire

Marvel has seemingly cracked the code for its streaming efforts, seizing on underdeveloped threads and relationships from its blockbuster movies and giving them room (OK, about six hours) to breathe on Disney+. After the risk-taking format of “WandaVision,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” feels more conventional based strictly on its muscular premiere, while offering

Nearly 16 years after the world’s largest passenger airliner first took to the skies, the last ever Airbus A380 superjumbo has completed its first flight. At lunchtime on March 17, the final A380 to be assembled took off from Airbus’ Jean-Luc Lagardere plant, a purpose-built facility at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in southern France. Student pilot Virgile

Sharon Osbourne has been speaking out about her confrontation with fellow “The Talk” co-host Sheryl Underwood, but Underwood has addressed it as well. Underwood talked about the incident last week on her podcast, “The World According to Sheryl.” Osbourne and Underwood got into a heated debate regarding Osbourne’s support of her longtime friend, Piers Morgan.

The newish medium of streaming is perhaps inevitably taking TV to its logical endpoint — namely, a weird return back to radio. At least, that’s the sense watching (or really, listening to) “Calls,” an Apple TV+ throwback to Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast mixed with “The Twilight Zone,” reminding us that

Mama June Shannon has gotten clean and is coming clean about her addiction. The reality star is back with a new show, “Mama June: Road to Redemption,” which centers around her family and the sobriety of her and her boyfriend, Geno Doak. Shannon told “Access Hollywood” that in the last year of the couple’s using

Billie Eilish is blonde and if her social media postings are any indication, it’s everything she wanted. The “Ocean Eyes” singer this week unveiled a new look, departing from the green hair that had become her signature in recent years. The shaggy hair cut that accompanied her new dye job was highlighted in another post

A lucky photographer captured an amazing shot of a giant manta ray that leaped out of the water as he was taking pictures of surfers from a Florida beach. Rusty Escandell told CNN that he took the photograph on Sunday, while spending the day with family and friends at a beach near Officers Club Beach

Sharon Osbourne says she’d like to turn her argument on “The Talk” into a teachable moment. “I very much want to listen to the youth,” Osbourne told “Entertainment Tonight” in an exclusive interview which aired Tuesday. “Do I have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on, with the Black situation in this country?