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Heather Nauert’s promotion to America’s UN ambassador will solidify one of the more notable trends in Donald Trump’s presidency – the remarkable influence of Fox News.  Ms Nauert, who takes up the role from after being top spinner at the US State Department, spent more than a decade at the Right-leaning cable news channel before […]

Despite it being a particularly bad time to be building a gaming PC or upgrading an existing one (thanks, cryptocurrency), there’s a slight glimmer of hope over at Currys PC World right now. There, you can save ?20 on a 500GB SSD along with a copy of the recently released Far Cry 5. The specific […]

Moscow has named a square in honour of Kim Philby, one of Britain’s worst traitors, in a seemingly provocative response to condemnation of the Kremlin over the nerve agent attack in Salisbury. Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow mayor and one of Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, personally ordered that an obscure intersection in the south west of […]

Drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman ordered hits on his own family and his weapons of choice were a diamond-encrusted pistol and a gold-plated AK-47, a US court has heard. Guzman, considered the world’s largest drug trafficker since the death of Colombia’s Pablo Escobar, is on trial in New York under draconian security arrangements after […]

Florida is once again at the centre of election controversy, but this year there are no hanging chads or butterfly ballots, like in 2000. And no angry mobs in suits – at least not yet. The deeply purple state will learn on Saturday whether recounts will be held in the bitter, tight U.S. Senate race between Republican […]

Warzone was for me the best thing about Halo 5. This player versus environment versus player mode saw first-person shooter carnage across enormous maps – the biggest the Halo series had ever seen – with computer-controlled enemies and player-controlled spartans going at it. So, I’m intrigued by the idea of Scavengers, a game whose developers […]

Hellblade was the big winner at last night’s British Academy Games Awards. pic.twitter.com/49v9TSvLjj — NinjaTheory (@NinjaTheory) April 12, 2018 Ninja Theory’s dark fantasy adventure took home five Baftas: Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, British Game, Game Beyond Entertainment and Melina Juergens won in the Performer category for her role as Senua. So many amazing people on […]

A convicted murderer has confessed to 90 murders spanning four decades, making him one of America’s most prolific serial killers. Samuel Little, 78, is already serving a life sentence after being convicted of killing three women in 2014 but is now being investigated in connection to dozens more unsolved cases. In a report released this […]

 An Australian court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a former archbishop who had been the world’s most senior Catholic cleric held guilty of concealing child sex abuse, saying prosecutors failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt. Judge Roy Ellis ruled in favour of an appeal by Philip Wilson, the former archbishop of Adelaide and a former […]

A British radio host on one of Lebanon’s most popular morning shows has been found murdered in his home, police say. Gavin Ford, who was a long-time host on Radio One, was discovered in the bedroom of his flat in the town of Beit Mery, several miles east of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday. Local […]