Emma Kent Reporter @GoneEFK Wesley Yin-Poole Deputy Editor @wyp100 After recording a podcast about how it’s such an exciting time for Pokémon fans with Let’s Go, you can’t quite say the same for those looking forward to Fallout 76, the online spin-off in Bethesda’s role-playing series. Unfortunately, after playing both the beta and the full…
Emmanuel Macron last night delivered a combative New Year’s address, vowing to push forward with economic reforms despite two-month long protests from what he termed a "hateful mob". The French President, whose televised address was broadcast form the Elysee Palace, acknowledged that "anger over injustices" lay behind the yellow vest movement that has scarred his…
Hussein’s BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) — The king size bed in Saddam Hussein’s superyacht is made, the silk curtains around it have been drawn back and, in the gold-rimmed bathroom next door, a barber’s chair awaits its occupant. But the Iraqi dictator never boarded the 82-meter (270-foot) “Basrah Breeze” built for him in 1981 — and…
Indonesia on Thursday raised the alert level for the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano to the second-highest, and ordered all flights to steer clear, days after it triggered a tsunami that killed at least 430 people. A crater collapse on the volcanic island at high tide on Saturday sent waves up to 16 feet high smashing…
More than 2,000 people in Japan have been diagnosed with rubella, or German measles, the worst outbreak in five years, prompting warnings to visitors – particularly pregnant women – to make sure their vaccinations are up to date. The 2,454 cases that have been confirmed as of early December is 21 times the total number reported last year,…
It’s a level of pastoral care few universities can boast of providing. A chemistry professor at Lund University dispatched a team of elite mercenaries into an Islamic State warzone to free one of her doctoral students and his family. Charlotta Turner, Professor in Analytical Chemistry, received a text message from her student Firas Jumaah in…
OTTAWA — There should be some legal consequences for youths who share a joint with a minor once recreational marijuana is legalized in Canada, the Senate decided Tuesday. Senators voted 42-31 to approve an amendment to Bill C-45 that would make it a summary or ticketing offence for a young adult to share five grams…
Masked for centuries by the soot of candles and lately by scaffolding, the mosaics of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity have been restored to their Crusader-era splendour in time for Christmas. Over the past 15 months, experts have cleaned and repaired surviving fragments of the 12th century masterworks, preserving 1,345 square feet (125 square metres)…
TORONTO — The Toronto home that Meghan Markle rented while dating Prince Harry sold for $1.6 million in January 2018. The Seaton Village property was snatched up by an unidentified buyer for more than its $1.39 million asking price, according to sales data from property website geowarehouse and seen by The Canadian Press. Watch: Meghan…
Two nuns have admitted to embezzling $500,000 (£400,000) from a Catholic school to fund their gambling trips to Las Vegas, their order revealed. Sisters Mary Margaret Kreuper and Lana Chang, who are said to be best friends, stole the money from tuition, fees and donations at St James Catholic School in Torrance, south of Los…