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(1) GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Branded variety retailer MINISO (NYSE: MNSO) has opened the doors to its first physical store in Portugal, as well as an online store in Portuguese, on January 7. The simultaneous opening of both stores reflects the companys strategy to develop both online and offline channels to serve its customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We are proud to open our inaugural store in Portugal, one of the most dynamic economies in Europe and a country tha...

There used to be a schoolyard card game called Top Trumps, with cards swapped over challenges in various categories, the highest number winning.

There used to be a schoolyard card game called Top Trumps, with cards swapped over challenges in various categories, the highest number winning.

Lubomir Kavalek, 1943-2021 The Czech-American grandmaster, former number-10 in the world, coach, organizer, trainer, commentator, author, columnist, and member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek died at the age of 77 after a brief but severe illness. The news was confirmed by his wife Irina. Kavalek was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), on August 9, 1943, exactly five months after GM Bobby Fischer. He won his first national championship in 1962 at t...

18/01/2021 - The selector for the Les Arcs Film Festival Frédéric Boyer talks us through the Work in Progress sessions unfolding online between 20 - 22 January as part of the Industry Village event

Sunday, Jan. 17: This day in history The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2021. There are 348 days left in the year.  Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine followers were handed long prison sentences for plotting to blow up New York-area landmarks.  Thomas Jeffersons daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.  In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces launched the first of four battles for Monte Cassino in Italy; th...

Iceland has genetically sequenced all its positive COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, an increasingly vital practice as worrying new strains emerge from Britain and South Africa.

Iceland has genetically sequenced all its positive Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, an increasingly vital practice as worrying new strains emerge from Britain and South Africa. All of the around 6,000 Covid-19 cases reported in Iceland have been sequenced, making it the world leader in Covid sequencing.

Jonathan Levitts book Contemplating Comedy analyses various aspects of humour - Credit: Jonathan Levitt Have you heard the one about a chess grandmaster writing a book about how to be funny?  Well, it’s no joke – because Ipswich’s Jonathan Levitt has made a checkmate move into writing about humour.  The 57-year-old says his new book, Contemplating Comedy, is “on the surface a compilation of funny lines and little jokes”.  There are plenty of laughs in the 330-page Conrad Press bo...

Jonathan Levitts book Contemplating Comedy analyses various aspects of humour - Credit: Jonathan Levitt Have you heard the one about a chess grandmaster writing a book about how to be funny?  Well, it’s no joke – because Ipswich’s Jonathan Levitt has made a checkmate move into writing about humour.  The 57-year-old says his new book, Contemplating Comedy, is “on the surface a compilation of funny lines and little jokes”.  There are plenty of laughs in the 330-page Conrad Press bo...