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Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word “complicit” as the Dictionary.com word of the year for 2017.

“I would like to offer my very warmest congratulations to HRH Prince Harry and Meghan Markle upon their engagement.”

The recent lifting of import restrictions has allowed top-of-the-range ham to find its “rightful place in the market, alongside caviar and truffles”, René Lemée, the head of exports for the famous Cinco Jotas brand, told El País newspaper.

The Beijing-based app was founded in late 2016, and describes itself as the world’s first “time-trading platform” that helps “unearth people’s potential” and “helps people see who they want to see.”

Truth be told, there is only one good way to propose, and that’s with something personal - whether it be where you first or at a place special to the two of you.

“He was the first children’s book author to license his characters for use on other products, so the characters had individual lives,” says Vega, “The characters become familiar to a group of people wider than the readership of the book.”

It may have taken more than half a century, but the world-famous New York jewellery store has finally made good on the promise of being able to have "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Uber Technologies Inc. paid hackers $100,000 to keep secret a massive breach last year that exposed the personal information of about 57 million accounts of the ride-service provider, the company said on Tuesday.

A set of dentures that George Washington wore are kept at the Mount Vernon plantation house museum. The dentures are fashioned out of ivory and human teeth.