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Rockstar’s greatest ever character? There’s no contest, really. He’s everything I love in a video game hero; cool, composed and with a sharply- defined cocky edge. And the best thing is, he never utters a single word. Good god I love Liu Ping, and going back to Rockstar’s Table Tennis after some 12 years (12 […]

It is 8am and the rain is coming down in sheets. The streets are empty except for a dozen women and their pimps – women from some of the world’s poorest regions including Moldova, Romania, West Africa and Southeast Asia. Some are still in their teens. Not far away are numerous massage parlors and saunas offering women […]

Rohingya refugees are fleeing India and going into hiding amid fears that a government campaign to collect their personal information is a prelude to mass deportation. The data-gathering, which includes biometric information, follows the government’s first transfer of seven Rohingya back to Burma last month. Critics say the ruling, Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is […]

A UN plane will evacuate 50 wounded Houthi militants from Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sana’a on Monday as a "confidence building measure" ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden, a Saudi-led military coalition said. "A UN chartered plane will arrive at Sana’a international airport Monday to evacuate 50 wounded combatants… three Yemeni doctors and a UN […]

Chinese paleontologist Xu Xing is on a roll. This year alone he has discovered seven new species of dinosaur, including one that is 200 million years old – the most ancient specimen he has unearthed so far. In all, Mr Xu has named over 70 dinosaurs, more than any other living paleontologist. But his discoveries […]

Apple has given the go-ahead for a new comedy set in a video game studio. The half-hour scripted comedy is from Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, the writers of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Variety reports. McElhenney will also star in the show. The show doesn’t have a name yet, nor has it been officially […]

British intelligence provided the tip-off that led to the arrest of a retired Austrian army officer on suspicion of spying for Russia, an Austrian newspaper has claimed. The tip-off was politically motivated and came amid British displeasure at the Austrian government’s refusal to distance itself from Russia in the wake of the Skripal poisoning, Kleine […]

Click:balloon twisting Russian prosecutors on Monday accused Bill Browder, a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, of ordering the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and several other business associates – the latest in a string of efforts to discredit one of the most vocal advocates of sanctions against the regime. Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Mr Browder, was […]

China has flaunted its advanced stealth fighter jets with full missile loads for the first time as Beijing flexed its military might at its biennial air show. Two Chinese J-20s – China’s answer to the US F-22s and F-35s – roared over the crowds in Zhuhai, a southern Chinese city, with its bomb bay doors open […]

Donald Trump has threatened to strip more reporters of their White House passes and said Ronald Reagan would have handled CNN’s Jim Acosta in the same way as he doubled down over the row.  The US president denied that a video showing the heated exchange with Mr Acosta circulated by the White House press secretary […]