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Ms Pac-Man clears path to World Video Game Hall of Fame

More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted on May 5 into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meier's Civilization.

The Hall of Fame considers electronic games of all types each year: Arcade, console, computer, handheld and mobile.

Key lawmakers signal allowing Turkey’s purchase of F-16s: US media

If Turkey "plays its cards right," it can convince the U.S. Congress to allow a roughly $6 billion purchase of 40 Block 70 F-16 fighter jets and approximately 80 modernization kits from Lockheed Martin to upgrade its existing fleet, the Defense News reported referring to comments by Congress members.

Chaos on Brooklyn streets: A man with a gas mask wounded several people VIDEO / PHOTO

New York police said that they were looking for that man after "the massacre in train R at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park around 8.30 a.m." local time, the Daily Mail reported.
Witnesses say that he is an African-American, but this information has not been confirmed yet.

Multiple shot, unexploded devices found at NYC train station

At least 13 people have been injured in a shooting incident at a subway station in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where "several undetonated devices" were recovered, authorities said on April 12. 

A New York police spokeswoman told AFP officers responded to 911 call of a person shot in the Brooklyn subway at 8:27 am (1227 GMT).

New York Fashion Week kicks off amid COVID

Experimentation, play, and glitter: A coronavirus-impacted New York Fashion Week got under way on Feb. 11 with Fall/Winter 2022 shows by Proenza Schouler and Christian Cowan.

In its collection, presented in an art gallery in Manhattan's trendy East Village, New York brand Proenza Schouler played with shape, contrasting fitted waists with loose or slightly rounded skirts.

Union says Starbucks fired organizing committee at US store

A union representing Starbucks employees on Tuesday accused the coffee chain of firing workers attempting to organize in the US state of Tennessee.

Starbucks Workers United said employees comprising "almost the entire union organizing committee" at a store in Memphis were fired weeks after two Starbucks stores in New York became the first to formally organize.

Iconic tapestry of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is back at the UN

The iconic tapestry of Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," which is considered by numerous art critics as perhaps the most powerful anti-war painting in history, returned to its place of honor at the United Nations on Feb. 5 after a year-long absence that angered and dismayed many U.N. diplomats and staff.

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