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Argentina’s senators have voted against legalising abortion, bucking the global trend and dashing the hopes of womens’ rights activists in the homeland of Pope Francis. After a 15-hour session in the senate, watched on giant screens by campaigners on both sides camped outside, the motion was defeated 38 to 31. Women in the senate were […]

Russian hackers have attacked a Swiss lab that analysed Novichok nerve agent samples from the Salisbury, according to local media.  The state-run Spiez laboratory near Bern was targeted by hackers believed to be linked to the Russian government ahead of a conference of chemical and biological warfare experts in September, the mass-market Swiss newspaper Blick […]

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. As retailers continue to attempt to outdo each other when it […]

A British-Bangladeshi businessman who was accused of being involved in the 2016 terror attack on a bakery in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has been freed, but his wife has told of her fears for his health after two years in detention.  Hasnat Karim had eagerly planned an evening of celebration for his daughter’s 13th birthday at […]

A British actor edited out of the BBC adaptation of an Agatha Christie drama following accusations of rape has had charges against him dropped for insufficient evidence. Ed Westwick, 31, vehemently denied the accusations against him when they were made in November. The BBC, however, decided to remove the Christie drama, Ordeal by Innocence, from […]

Click:virtual try on The first of the Total War Sagas, Thrones of Britannia, will be released next year. It focuses on the years following the Viking Invasion of Britain in 866 AD. The campaign itself begins in 878 AD, as Norse invaders construct settlements in the lands they once pillaged, while various Anglo-Saxon kings either […]

The south Indian state of Kerala has been hit with the highest rainfall in a century leaving more than 300 dead, after widespread flooding submerged roads, power lines went down and dams reached bursting point. Pinarayi Vijayan, the state’s chief minister, said on Twitter: “Kerala is facing its worst flood in 100 years. 80 dams […]

A tanker truck exploded on a motorway just outside the northern Italian city of Bologna on Monday, engulfing the area with flames and black smoke, the fire service said, with local media reporting one person killed. The explosion occurred near Borgo Paginale to west of the city, very close to Bologna airport, at around 2.00 […]

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. Update 20/11/2017: Amazon has launched some PS4 Pro Black Friday offers […]

Norwegian authorities said a polar bear on Saturday attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago. The polar bear was shot dead by another employee, the cruise company said. The Joint Rescue Coordination for Northern Norway tweeted that the attack occurred when the tourists from the MS Bremen cruise ship landed on the […]