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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 […]

Back in the 1990s, the first-person shooter genre was still very much a work-in-progress, beginning with incredible, pioneering work from id software in the form of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, accompanied by a flood of so-called ‘Doom clones’. Bolstered by the arrival of hardware-accelerated 3D for PC gamers, players could explore ancient castles and […]

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he plans to sign an order next week that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and bar anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum – two legally dubious proposals that mark his latest election-season barrage against illegal immigration. Mr Trump also said he had told the […]

Hidden within Pokémon Go’s latest update is a fresh quest system involving the game’s human characters. The system looks like it will support multiple quest steps and give a more prominent role to characters such as the game’s hunky Professor Willow – who at present doesn’t have a lot to do. Human characters will be […]

An associate of Vladimir Putin who was sanctioned for running the troll factory targeting the 2016 US elections has been accused of attacks on anti-Kremlin bloggers. Valery Amelchenko, 61, told independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta that he was paid by catering mogul Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as “Putin’s chef” after he prepared many state dinners […]

There are plans afoot to launch GAME concessions inside Sports Direct shops. Today GAME entered into a “collaboration agreement” with Sports Direct as part of a ?3.2m esports deal. But of note in the announcement is a line about “plans to enter into concession agreements with Sports Direct, pursuant to which Belong arenas and/or GAME […]

Voting for parliamentary elections in Afghanistan’s second city has been postponed after a key security official was assassinated and the country braced for widespread insurgent violence on polling day. Taliban commanders on Friday tried to further disrupt the election by issuing a nationwide demand for people to remain at home rather than head to the […]

Jolly pirating game Sea of Thieves will get a Day One Patch – an, wait for it, eyepatch! It was an opportunity for a joke British developer Rare could not miss, said a Reddit member named Jefabell in a post nearly three weeks ago – and it appears to have caught Rare’s eye. Spotted in […]