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Sony's newest game console, the Playstation 5, goes on sale today in countries including the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. The Japanese company is hoping for record sales, as gaming revenues have climbed during the coronavirus pandemic. Its rival Microsoft unveiled its latest Xbox on Tuesday. Also today, we look at how the rally in global stocks has cooled, following the rally earlier this week over optimism for a coronavirus vaccine. Technology shares, which had slumped in recent days, have seen gains.
Hershey's sales are up! Business Insider reports that Hershey's sold 15.7% more baking products in the last three months to September 30th. The company saw sales increase in chocolate chips and peanut butter. Because of that, and because of Halloween candy sales, Hershey's profits rose 13.9% year-on-year to $543.3 million, it said. Sales of chocolate and salty snacks rose around 10%. Demand for gum and mints plummeted thanks to social distancing.
This unorthodox South African church believes that drinking brings you closer to God. Gabola Church, which means drinking in the Tswana language, was founded three years ago by Tsietsi Makiti to capture the unchurched people that would ordinarily be rejected by conventional churches that frown on imbibers. The congregation rejoices as the legal sale of alcohol is allowed again in the country. from Gabola Church in South AfricaN°1WV71V
When a coronavirus lockdown confined Malaysians to their homes, street traders selling durians moved their pungent produce online -- and have been enjoying a spike in demand. Grown across tropical Southeast Asia, the durian is hailed by aficionados as the "king of fruits" due to its creamy, golden flesh and bittersweet flavour.
Since 1 January 2020, German law demands from retailers that they print a receipt for every purchase. A French pastry chef in Bavaria decided to protest in an original way against this new law, by adding an edible receipt made of sugar on some of his pastries.
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