5 h. ago Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that an entire generation of fools like me was about to enter the world. Which is true. That was the time to strike. We were about to be drained of every dollar we received for birthdays, Christmases and all those times our dad didn’t want us to tell our mom about something. (Maybe that last one’s just me.)Despite being slightly older than the NES, a horror I’m only now forced to face as I write this, it felt like that console had always existed in my life. I don’t have many memories from my baby years because I was to...

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51 h. ago Proud dad Vernon Kay wishes glam daughter Phoebe a happy 21st birthday with a series of sweet family snaps

The presenter, 51, took to social media as he wished his 21-year-old daughter a Happy Birthday - as she looked just like Tess' double.

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3 d. ago Queen meets Peter Rabbit as she wishes reading charity ‘happy 100th birthday’

Camilla met authors and supporters of BookTrust including the charity’s president Sir Michael Morpurgo, Richard Osman and Dame Floella Benjamin.

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1 week ago Starmer declines to say if he plans to press Modi on close links with Putin

As the Prime Minister travelled to Mumbai on Tuesday, his Indian counterpart wished his ‘friend’ Vladimir Putin a happy birthday.

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1 week ago Hilarious moment schoolboy left gutted after asking for mashed potato birthday cake

Mylo Watt, from Dollar, Scotland, had just turned six years old when his brother Lachlan handed him a huge candlelit bowl of the mushy savoury side whilst singing 'Happy Birthday'.

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2 w. ago Outrage as white teacher sings 'you look like a monkey' song to black boy celebrating his sixth birthday

A Florida teacher sparked furious backlash after sharing a video of her singing 'Happy Birthday' to a black child that included the lyrics 'You look like a monkey.'

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2 w. ago Shakib Al Hasan barred from Bangladesh team for wishing Sheikh Hasina happy birthday

South Asian country’s greatest cricketer ‘will not be permitted’ to carry national flag

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a Los Angeles bus driver got everyone onboard to sing me happy birthday

The jolly driver had already done me a favour when I’d left my camera on board. Then he got on the microphone and said ‘Hey folks, it’s this guy’s birthday today’Read more in the Kindness of strangers seriesBack in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the US, I was warned about the country’s high crime rate and made to fear this big, scary place.I had my 21st birthday while I was in Los Angeles, and I’d been out having a few beers. Tired and ready to go home, I jumped on a public bus. The moment I stepped off I realised I’d left my camera on the seat – a disaster, as it was very precious to me. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Conor Maynard is ENGAGED! Singer reveals he is set to marry girlfriend Kitty Bertrand after paternity test drama with Charlotte Chilton

The singer, 32, took to social media to share the happy news as he wished his now fiancée a Happy Birthday.

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