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The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has been plunged into renewed controversy after it emerged that one of its members posed for photographs on a “pilgrimage” of sites associated with Adolf Hitler. The politician in question, who has not been named under German privacy laws, posed holding a candle outside Hitler’s birthplace in the […]

Paris has finally found a place for a sculpture of a giant bunch of gaudy tulips offered by American artist Jeff Koons in the wake of the terror attacks but which purists complained would lower the tone of the City of Light. Mr Koons had described Bouquet of Tulips, a 10-metre (34-foot) work of bronze, […]

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. One of the stranger decisions the Pokémon Company has made as […]

Tourists landed by the boatload Friday on the Philippines’ Boracay island, which re-opened with a slew of new rules after a six-month shutdown aimed at undoing the impact of years of unrestrained mass tourism. Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, shuttered the tiny white-sand island in April, declaring it a "cesspool" where businesses flushed raw sewage into the […]

14.86m Nintendo Switch consoles have now been sold worldwide since the platform’s launch in March last year. The figures, announced this morning by Nintendo, are impressive – but especially notable as Switch has now eclipsed lifetime sales of its failed predecessor Wii U. To put this in perspective, Wii U sold 13.5m units in five […]

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has called the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi "heinous" and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice, in his first public address since the death. The prince spoke at the Future Investment Initiative conference in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to a packed auditorium, which had waited patiently […]

Just as the latest batch of monthly freebies for PlayStation Plus subscribers are announced, you can pick up a year’s worth of Sony’s online service at a nice discount. At Amazon as well as GAME, you can save £12.50 when you pick up a 12-month subscription to PS Plus, where it will cost you £37.49 […]

Donald Trump is expected to wield the axe in the wake of Tuesday’s midterm elections, with figures close to the president predicting that cabinet members will be forced out.  The US president did not push back on suggestions he would reshuffle his administration when talking to reporters earlier this week, saying pointedly: “For the most part, […]

Indian government minister MJ Akbar filed a defamation suit against one of at least 10 women accusing him of sexual harassment on Monday, calling her allegations false and malicious. The lawsuit, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, names journalist Priya Ramani as the sole accused and says that she "intentionally put forward malicious, fabricated […]

It is safe to say that the work of William Shakespeare is performed and celebrated somewhere in the English speaking world and beyond on a daily basis. Few, however, would expect to find his plays staged throughout the year in a former industrial mill town, in the southern US state of Virginia. All the more […]