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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 […]

The volatile state of Jammu and Kashmir was plunged into chaos as its legislative assembly was dissolved amid claims of backroom deals, treason and a supposedly wonky fax machine. Two coalition groups claimed they had faxed the governor of Kashmir with their arguments for taking power, but that the machine at his office was malfunctioning. […]

Humble is back once again, this time with a new entry into the series that built the site – the Humble Indie Bundle. Continuing the traditional ‘pay what you want’ structure, the latest bundle – the Humble Indie Bundle 19 – lets you get a bunch of recent indie classics for a price of your […]