While EA continues to fight Star Wars: Battlefront 2 fires ahead of launch this Friday, there are others who sniff an opportunity. In this case it’s rival mega-publisher Activision Blizzard, whose StarCraft 2 Twitter account had a pop at Battlefront 2 overnight. Pop number one: “Number of hours it takes to earn the full StarCraft…
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, has been forced to defend her decision to take a £40,000 flight to a Pacific meeting to reduce her time away from her eleven-week-old baby. Ms Ardern, who is still breastfeeding her daughter Neve, decided to fly on the New Zealand air force’s Boeing 757 to attend the three-day Pacific…
Bob Woodward, a US Navy veteran, was 29 years old and just months into a reporting job at the Washington Post when he got the tip that would change his life, and America, forever. The tip was to do with a burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in…
Impeachment proceedings will be launched against Donald Trump in January unless he can hold onto the House of Representatives, his former campaign chairman Steve Bannon has warned. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Bannon said the Democrats are on course to win a majority of House seats in the midterm elections and would soon…
Destiny 2, Bungie’s beleagured shared world space shooter and fan anger magnet, will get some much-needed changes this year. The developer has kicked off 2018 with a big list of improvements: some expected additions, some returning Destiny 1 features, and a couple of genuine surprises. Destiny 2 game director Chris Barrett – now in control…
A US strike over the weekend killed a senior Islamic State commander in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan and US officials said Monday. The strike in Nangarhar province killed Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a senior leader in the extremist group, according to Shah Hussain Martazawi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan presidency. He said the operation showed the government’s…
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The daughter of a British couple who died on a Thomas Cook holiday in Egypt is convinced their deaths are suspicious. Kelly Ormerod said her parents had been “in perfect health” before going to bed but that she found them dying in their hotel room the next morning. Egyptian authorities had initially claimed that John…
Rio Ferdinand’s old club Leeds United unveiled its new badge today – and football fans are having a good old laugh about it. The new badge, which is a cartoon of a footballer in a chest-thumping pose, has been roundly ridiculed by football fans this afternoon on social media. But that’s not all – there’s…
A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the opening of the first grizzly bear hunts in the Rocky Mountains in more than 40 years, as he considers whether the government was wrong to lift federal protections on the animals. US District Judge Dana Christensen’s order came just two days before Idaho and Wyoming prepared to open the…