Some of America’s thorniest questions of race moved centre stage during the funeral of Aretha Franklin on Friday, when a fire-and-fury preacher held forth to declare that “black America had lost its soul” in a fiery eulogy that sparked anger and arguments on social media. For more than 50 minutes, the Rev Jasper Williams Jnr, who…
Tucked away in an alley, away from the streets lined with Serbian flags and shops plastered with old campaign posters for Serbian politicians and Vladimir Putin, the latest political debate rattling this pocket of Kosovo has taken over the Oasis cafe: partition. It is 10 years since Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia and almost…
Puzzle adventure Rime launches on Switch this week – today in North America, on Friday in the UK – but there are concerns surrounding its performance on Nintendo’s handheld. Previews have shown the game to sometimes display a choppy frame-rate, and include long loading times. When I played the game back in September at EGX,…
Ed King, a former lead guitarist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who co-wrote one of the group’s best known hits, "Sweet Home Alabama," has died at age 68, a founding member of the band said on Thursday. King joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1972 not long after the band formed, and with two other lead guitarists, Gary Rossington…
The vice president of the United States said on Sunday he was willing to take a lie detector test to prove he did not author the damning New York Times article that rocked the White House last week. Mike Pence is one of a handful of senior administration officials who have publicly denied they wrote the op-ed that…
The creative and commercial risk British studio Ninja Theory took by making and self-publishing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, an action game with a deeply researched focus on mental illness, has paid off. In three months the game has sold more than half-a-million copies and broken even and moved into profit, far quicker than Ninja Theory had…
The US has ended all funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, prompting outrage from Palestinians and warnings that the move could spark unrest in region. The Trump administration announced on Friday afternoon that it is ending all aid for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which supports Palestinian refugees in the…
Leonardo da Vinci’s "Salvator Mundi", a painting that courted controversy after Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was named as its alleged secret buyer, will not be unveiled on schedule, Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism said on Monday. The portrait of Christ, which became the most expensive painting ever after a sale by Christie’s auction…
UPDATE, 11.00pm: Well it turns out that those crystal balls were right: new Overwatch hero Moira will not only definitely arrive in time for the game’s imminent free weekend, she’s out now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. That’s a pretty speedy turnaround for Moira, described as “a mobile healer and damage dealer capable…
The owner of a business that sold fake, favourable TripAdvisor reviews to hotels and restaurants in Italy has been jailed for nine months, in what the travel website hailed as a landmark ruling. In one of the first cases of its kind, a court in Lecce in the southern region of Puglia ruled that writing…