Scrabble News

News24 readers have hit back at a US travel advisory - which labels Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town as "critical" crime threat spots.

Two parts of my world collided in the best possible way last week. My sister Maria and I went to see one of my musical heroes, singer-songwriter Randy Newman, at a concert in New Jersey.

When you set up a personal hotspot on your iOS device, the first thing you should do is delete the password Apple generates for your and enter your own.

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Sport24 readers say coach Gordon Igesund shouldn't take the blame if Bafana Bafana fail to qualify for the 2014 Soccer World Cup.

Church and bingo may be inextricably linked, but at the North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Sunday afternoons are devoted to something perhaps a little more extreme: Scrabble .

Don't let your children be victims of "summer learning loss." Summer break can be a time for continued education.

I have never fallen for this idea of the rainbow nation that we came out of apartheid unscathed to find a pot of gold.

Seven immigrants drowned on Sunday during an attempted crossing to Italy by gripping on to a large tuna fishing cage towed by a trawler, according to witnesses from among the 95 people rescued by the coast guard.

Remember when summer was a delicious three-month break from reading, writing and math? Now it's more likely seen as that period between school years in which too many kids forget too much of what they just spent months learning.

There's the hip beachfront town that's packed year-round with tourists who cram its trendy bars and restaurants, stay at its pricey beachfront hotels and frequent the T-shirt shops and carnival rides along its funky, old wooden pier.

Dad talked me down Thursday night and said Friday's ride wouldn't be so bad. He said that the climbing would be like Thursday's gentle but long uphill .

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New submitter DeathToBill writes "EA is in the midst of another user backlash, the BBC reports.

Even after the second stroke robbed Betty Woodruff, 96, of her sharp mind and memory, she fought to stay mentally active in the ways she had always loved, like participating in her regular bridge game.

I love movies that let you peek inside a subculture that you might not be able to access otherwise: Word Wars , which follows competitive Scrabble players, and Spellbound , which featured the kids vying to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, are two that come to mind.

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The changes have been made by Electronic Arts , which took over the running of the app from Scrabble brand owner Mattel at the end of May. Players are angry that their player histories have been wiped, the dictionary has changed and the board no longer refreshes itself after a turn.

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Marchers protest against the DA as they demand better services, in Adderley Street, in the Cape Town CBD.