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The cause of his death has baffled experts for more than 400 years but a study now suggests Caravaggio may have died from an infected wound he received from one of his notorious sword fights. The tempestuous Italian painter, who was born Michelangelo Merisi, revolutionized the art world with his ‘chiaroscuro’ style of painting, contrasting […]

Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra Silva announced Sunday they were expecting their first child together, but that they kept the news secret before first telling the Dalai Lama, who gave the unborn child a blessing. The Hollywood actor famous for his starring roles in Pretty Woman, An Officer and a Gentleman and Chicago, will […]

PlayStation 4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human launches on 25th May, Sony has announced. Detroit is the latest narrative adventure from Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. This time, the story concerns the evolution of AI robots and their integration into society (so, like the TV series Humans, and the film […]

Members of a Saudi team sent to Turkey to help investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi instead worked to cover up evidence of the Washington Post columnist’s death, Turkish officials said Monday. The officials alleged that senior Saudi leaders sent a chemist and a toxicologist to Istanbul with the task of cleaning the scene of […]

Surviving Mars, the promising-looking survival-builder from Haemimont (Tropico, Victor Vran) comes out on 15th March for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, publisher Paradox has announced. In the game you have to design and maintain a colony on Mars. You start with rovers and supply drops and have to build habitats for settlers from Earth. […]

Metal Gear spin-off Metal Gear Survive has flopped upon release in the UK. It placed sixth in Chart-Track’s official rundown, which tracks physical copies sold only. Survive obviously shifted a fraction of the boxed copies that Metal Gear Solid 5 did – although as very different animals, the comparison is somewhat unfair. However, compare Survive’s […]

As primary school students returned from their autumn break on Monday, some in a town east of Paris were wearing the same polo shirts and sky-blue sweaters – the first uniforms ever seen in a French public school. The highly symbolic move by officials in Provins comes as France wrestles with how to close a growing […]

In most countries, a 79 percent leap in share prices over just 11 days would normally suggest a surfeit of investor confidence. In Zimbabwe, home last month to the world’s best performing stock market, it has been a sign of panic and inflation, just another terrifying financial statistic in a country that has been a world-beater […]

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. Sea of Thieves may still be a month away, but for […]

  Donald Trump has suggested up to 15,000 troops could ultimately be sent to the US-Mexico border to counter approaching caravans of migrants, a major increase on initial deployments.  The US president denied he was “fearmongering” over the threat of illegal immigration ahead of the county’s midterm elections next Tuesday, insisting it was an important […]