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Click:how to shop on xianyu Sandwiched between the major publisher E3 conferences and Sony last night was the PC Gaming Show. We wrote a few stories – there was a Shark RPG, Overkill’s The Walking Dead got a release date, two Yakuza games and Valkyria Chronicles 4 are coming to Steam, Oculus and Insomniac showed […]

John Kelly will leave his job as chief of staff at the end of the year, Donald Trump announced on Saturday, describing him as "a great guy". Mr Kelly, 68, took over from Reince Priebus in July 2017, and was brought in to try and instill some discipline in the White House. However, his departure […]

The US and Canada have called for China to release two Canadians detained in what is thought to be a set of tit-for-tat reprisals for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.  It is the first time either country has directly demanded their release, with Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, having been criticized by the […]

Nearly one in 25 jobs in British Columbia is sitting unfilled, a striking sign of the growing labour shortage facing Canada as the economy heats up. New data from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shows that the country doesn’t have enough workers for all the jobs available. According to CFIB’s latest Help Wanted […]

When a Chinese spacecraft successfully signalled from the ‘dark’ side of the moon this week, the country’s triumphalist state mediia was quick to describe the achievement as “a huge stride” for the Chinese nation. The deliberate echo of Neil Armstrong – and the Cold War space race he won – also carried an implicit warning: […]

NEW YORK — Dick’s Sporting Goods, a major U.S. retailer, will immediately halt sales of assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines at all of its stores and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. The announcement Wednesday comes as students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, return to class for […]

A former sports teammate of the New Zealand man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane on Tuesday described him as being “creepy towards girls”. Jesse Kempson was a "weird guy", according to the softball teammate, who said he warned women off spending time with the suspect. “He was a different sort of character,” said the […]

Bad news, Canadian big spenders: You’re not going to be able to throw around those thousand-dollar bills like you used to. The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday, includes an item that will see a number of Canadian banknotes lose their status as “legal tender,” meaning they will no longer be accepted as payment in stores. […]

Conservationists in Indonesia are celebrating after the world’s only known albino orangutan was released into the jungle in Borneo, after being found starving and dehydrated in an Indonesian village. Alba, as her keepers named her – Spanish for dawn – was rescued in April 2017. The Borneo Orangutan Survival nurtured her back to health, feeding […]

This past week another International Women’s Day came and went, but the cause must endure. In fact the cause must accelerate. Once upon a time, posting supportive messages on websites and hosting employee luncheons and receptions might have passed for progress towards gender equality, but in 2018, it rings hollow. The last six months represent […]