Investigators released a report on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday, saying the Boeing 777’s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible. The 495-page report draws no conclusion about what happened aboard the plane that vanished with 239 people on board en route…
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan tried to overrun a key provincial capital and stormed parts of the city before they were beaten back by air strikes and government reinforcements. Clashes continued in Ghazni throughout the day and fighting temporarily closed the main highway linking the north and south of the country. Afghan forces said they remained…
Egypt has adopted a law that threatens to jail anyone who browses censored websites, after having already blocked dozens of sites belonging to human rights groups and critical media. The law, ratified by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the president, on Saturday, gives courts the power to block websites deemed a threat to national security. The decision may…
Several gunshots were fired at the US embassy in Ankara from a vehicle on Monday, amid rising tensions between Turkey and Washington. An unidentified assailant or assailants fired six bullets at an embassy security gate from a passing white vehicle around 5.30am local time, three bullets hitting an iron door and a window, the Ankara governor’s office said…
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…