On Monday afternoon, James Hamilton, a sixth-generation farmer in south-east Australia, looked out at the dry bristly stubble covering his 4,000 acre property and then went inside his homestead to have the conversation that he and his wife Amanda had both been dreading. Since the beginning of the year, this typically lush stretch of farmland near…
President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to trading partners thinking of doing business with Iran after the reimposition of sanctions, saying they would risk their relationship with the US. "Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States," Mr Trump said in an early morning tweet. "I am asking…
The next big thing in the Star Citizen pipeline are cities the size of planets. Chris Roberts and his Cloud Imperium team demonstrated them on Friday night during the CitizenCon 2947 livestream broadcast from Frankfurt, Germany. What we see in the footage is the transformed ArcCorp planet and Area 18 hub Star Citizen players have…
Where is Angela Merkel? The world’s most powerful woman appears to have pulled off something of a disappearing act, and Germans have been wondering where their chancellor is over the past week. It’s not that Mrs Merkel has missed any official engagements; she is on holiday, as she always is at this time of year,…
Her calf is dead but an orca mother has been spotted in a heartbreaking exhibition of maternal care – or grief – gently trying to keep her offspring afloat. As the carcass sinks in the water she has been gently using her forehead to prop it out of the water and nudge it onwards in choppy seas…
Sweden has lost its highest peak while a Finnish supermarket is allowing customers to sleep in its air conditioned aisles. Even Rudolf’s friends near the home of Father Christmas are taking to the beach to cool off. As Europe braces itself for what could be its hottest day, there are growing signs that the escalating…
Jose Mujica, the former President of Uruguay once known as the poorest world leader on account of his modest lifestyle on his rural farm, declined to take his state pension as he resigned as a senator. Mr Mujica, who was elegible to hold his seat until 2020, said in a letter read in the Senate…
BMW drivers in South Korea are reportedly being ostracised by parking bans imposed over mounting public fears about engine fires. The country’s transport ministry estimates 27 engines went up in flames between January and July this year, prompting BMW’s South Korea unit on Tuesday to apologise and announce a recall of 106,000 diesel vehicles, including…
As the games industry mulls the future of big-budget single-player-only games, Microsoft has suggested one way companies such as itself could fund these types of projects in the future: subscriptions to services such as Xbox Games Pass. Speaking to Gamespot, Xbox first-party game publishing boss Shannon Loftis suggested subscription fees could help fund new single-player…
A highly-skilled Call of Duty: WW2 player has confirmed the game does indeed have a nuke scorestreak. Fans had wondered whether the latest game in the series had a nuke scorestreak, as other Call of Duty games have. Data-miners had uncovered mention of a nuke in the game’s files, but only now, a few days…