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Featured article The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a 2020 adventure video game developed by One-O-One Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It focuses on Nicole Wilson returning to her family's hotel ten years after she and her mother left, once her father's affair with the teenaged Rachel Foster was discovered, who then killed herself while pregnant. Trapped in the hotel due to a snowstorm, Nicole seeks to uncover the mystery of Rachel's suicide. Borne out of the studio's desire to create a horror game relying on suspense over monsters, it was set in a hotel to elicit fear and claustrophobia in players. The developers sought professional advice to portray topics like child sexual abuse and suicide compassionately. Released on Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, the game received mixed reviews. The handling of child sexual abuse and suicide was heavily criticized, particularly over an interactive suicide attempt. A sequel, The Fading of Nicole Wilson, is set to be released in 2025. (Full article...) Recently featured: Giant anteater 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident Big Butte Creek	In the news Yoon Suk Yeol South Korea's Constitutional Court removes Yoon Suk Yeol (pictured) as the president of South Korea, following his earlier declaration of martial law. US president Donald Trump announces trade tariffs on most countries. Marine Le Pen, the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 French presidential elections, is convicted of embezzlement and banned from standing in elections for five years. A magnitude-7.7 earthquake leaves more than 4,900 people dead in Myanmar and Thailand. Ongoing: Gaza war M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Bill Cottrell Mark Laforest Barbara Frischmuth Enrique Bátiz Temmy Shmull Khamtai Siphandone
Selected anniversaries April 6: Tartan Day ABBA 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy unsuccessfully attempted to capture HMS Glasgow near Block Island. 1808 – John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States. 1974 – ABBA (pictured) won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo". 1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide. 2009 – Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election. James Mill (b. 1773) Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (b. 1892) Rose O'Neill (d. 1944) Mingyu (b. 1997) More anniversaries: April 5 April 6 April 7	Did you know... Chtonobdella limbata ... that the leech Chtonobdella limbata (example pictured) can survive months without any water by entering an inanimate state? ... that two books of photos and drawings by Margot Dias were called "among the best-illustrated anthropological volumes ever produced"? ... that some legal documents in Old Frisian refer to the womb as a "fortress of the bones"? ... that the Mexican-American band Grupo Frontera has been affected by a massive backlash because of an alleged endorsement of Donald Trump after a viral video of the vocalist's grandmother? ... that Varsen Aghabekian is the first Armenian to serve as a minister in the government of the State of Palestine? ... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area? ... that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program? ... that a survivor of the 1967 Belvidere tornado recalled being inside a school bus when "the tornado picked up the bus and the bus ended up in someone's living room"? ... that a buttock painted with "FUFN" was used to promote a recent song by Jade Thirlwall?
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