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Spectre opened with $73 million at the U.S. box office, besting every previous Bond film except Skyfall.

Finland is launching a set of national emojis, which will include people sweating in saunas, a Nokia phone and a heavy-metal headbanger.

Google updated its Maps app to include holiday shopping hours.

A 73-year-old Nevada man fulfilled his dream of running a marathon in all 50 states by finishing the Anthem Manchester City Marathon in New Hampshire.

Jennifer Lawrence revealed new details about the movie she and Amy Schumer are writing, in which they play sisters:

‘Amy, in this movie, she has it very together … and I’m a MESS.’

Kelly Clarkson and Josh Groban performed an impressive cover of The Phantom of the Opera’s “All I Ask of You” for a PBS special.

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Some Girl Scout chapters are raising their cookie prices for the first time since 2007 (from $4 a box to $5).

Seattle is going to scrub 20 years’ worth of gum wads (an estimated 1 million pieces) off the famous Gum Wall at Pike Place Market–though visitors can add more after the cleaning.

Starbucks’ new red holiday cups–which do not show any seasonal symbols, such as snowflakes or tree ornaments–prompted some critics to declare the chain is waging war on Christmas.

An artwork believed to be the world’s largest cat painting sold for $826,000. It weighs 227 lb. and measures just over 6 by 8 ft.

Police said a Houston man was arrested for fatally stabbing another man for taking the last piece of chicken at a dinner with friends.