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Jamal Khashoggi’s words could not be more powerful or more poignant. In a column published by the Washington Post on Wednesday night, the missing Saudi journalist says Arab governments have been given free rein by the international community to silence the media at an accelerating rate, in a piece that apparently foreshadowed his own fate. The […]

CNN correspondent Jim Acosta was denied entry to the White House on Wednesday evening following a heated row with President Donald Trump, who called him a "rude, terrible person" during a press conference.  Mr Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, said he was informed by Secret Service officers that he could not enter for his scheduled 8pm broadcast. […]

Villagers crushed a tigress to death with a tractor in a game reserve in north India in the second controversial killing of one of the endangered species since Friday. Officials at the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve warned against the "serious offence", which villagers said was carried out in defence after the tigress mauled a villager to […]

The US is moving ahead with reimposing severe sanctions on Iran next week but will grant waivers to eight countries to allow them to temporarily continue buying Iranian oil, officials said Friday.  Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, did not say which eight countries would be exempted from the waivers but they are believed […]

The retired King of the Belgians has been ordered to take a DNA paternity test by a Brussels court, raising the prospect of finally resolving whether he is the real father of Delphine Boël, a 50-year-old aristocrat artist. King Albert II, who has refused to recognise Ms Boël as his daughter for more than a […]

A Japanese journalist kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago is believed to have been released, the government said Tuesday. Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old freelancer, was seized in the war-torn country in June 2015, and appeared in a rare video released by a militant group over the summer warning that he was in a bad […]

Lumines, Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s brilliant music-infused puzzler, is coming to Nintendo’s Switch this spring – and it will include the ability to turn your JoyCons into Trance Vibrators. It looks set to be a remastered version of the PSP original, first released in 2004 by Q Entertainment, the studio Mizuguchi founded in 2003. The former Sega […]

Britain has called for the UN Security Council to take action over the war in Yemen, as international pressure grows on both sides.  “Now for the first time there appears to be a window in which both sides can be encouraged to come to the table, stop the killing and find a political solution that is […]

A pensioner has begun a legal battle to be recognised as being 20 years younger than his actual age so he can go back to work and achieve greater success with women on Tinder. Emile Ratelband, 69, argues that if transgender people are allowed to change sex, he should be allowed to change his date […]

Here’s a turn-up for the books: Diablo’s Deckard Cain is the next playable character in Blizzard’s MOBA Heroes of the Storm. The creaky old lore nerd is famous for being a recurring character in the Diablo series. Fans are used to seeing The Last Horadrim leaning heavily on his walking stick and casting the occasional […]