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…
Japanese organisers of the World Cup sailing competition are facing an angry backlash for featuring an acrobatic dolphin show in an aquarium during the opening ceremony. Competitors and officials from the sport’s own governing body said the decision sent the wrong message about a sport keen to highlight its green credentials. The event, a major…
A young British climber who completed a mountaineering feat described as possibly the climb of this generation has told how he continued after an attempt ahead of him ended in tragedy. Tom Livingstone, 27, and Slovenians Luka Stražar and Aleš Česen, last week became the first climbers to conquer the legendary north face of Latok I….
Let’s get straight to the burning issue, shall we? Towards the tail-end of Star Wars Battlefront’s release, EA made noises that it was thinking about doing away with the traditional season pass that accompanied its big ticket console games, a model its multiplayer shooters had been stuck with for some time – with numerous associated…
British efforts to secure fresh European Union sanctions on Russia after the dramatic unmasking of the prime suspects for the Skripal poisoning could be thwarted by EU countries soft on Vladimir Putin, diplomats have warned. Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt, her foreign secretary, have signalled they want tougher, new EU sanctions on Russia after the…
Counter-strike: Global Offensive has a new matchmaking system which takes into account your behaviour across Steam – not just in CS:GO. Valve’s new system assigns every player a hidden value, known as their Trust Factor. This score is derived from how you have played CS:GO – whether you have had reports lodged against you for…
Neolithic tribes in Europe were producing cheese more than 7,000 years ago, archaeologists have discovered, after cheese residue was found in pottery discovered at digs on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. Analysis of the fatty residue revealed evidence of soft cheeses and yoghurts dating back 7,200 years, 4,000 years before the previously known date for…