Figures from the Japanese Famitsu letter are now July 20-26, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons it is back at number one once again. The game sold just under 100,000 physical copies last week, extending its leadership as the best-selling Switch game in the region by another huge leap. Paper …

US consumer spending increased for the second consecutive month in June, setting consumption for a rebound in the third quarter, although the recovery could be limited by a resurgence in the Covid-19 cases and the end of expanded unemployment benefits. The Commerce Department said on Friday that consumer spending, which …

Tsitsi Dangarembga, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist who was nominated for the long list of Booker Awards earlier this week, was arrested during anti-corruption protests in Harare. Dangarembga, whose novel This Mournable Body was long-listed for the UK’s first fiction prize alongside Hilary Mantel and Anne Tyler, documented her arrest in …

Stephan Halloy was conducting plant and wildlife surveys on the high plateaus around San Miguel de Tucumán in northwestern Argentina in the 1970s, when he first encountered lizard paddles. The mountains around the Argentine city quickly climb to elevations of 13,000 to 16,400 feet, filling a multitude of ecological niches …

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – When his Zoom interview ended after the game, before he triumphed out on the team bus, Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert acknowledged that the historic play he was savoring did not go exactly as planned. “You weren’t supposed to get a publication,” Gobert said. “I was …