A man filmed punching a girl in central Paris after she told him to “shut up for harassing her in the street, sparking national outrage, has been sentenced to six months in prison. A Paris court found the 25-year old man, who is homeless, guilty of “violence with the use or threat of a weapon”…
At lunchtime the Thursday before last, Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was hanging by a thread. Christine Blasey Ford had just spent the best part of fours hours detailing how Mr Kavanaugh had allegedly sexually assaulted her at high school house party. The California professor, voice wavering, had begun by declaring she was…
Hundreds of migrants and refugees have lined up in front of a police station in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, waiting to be arrested so that they can lodge their asylum applications. The unusual sight came as the number of asylum-seekers crossing the land border from Turkey surged. Around 11,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the…
Beijing has warned the US must “bear responsibility for the consequences” if Washington doesn’t withdraw new sanctions on China for procuring military equipment from Russia. The US government imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying ten SU-25 fighter jets and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping US sanctions law…
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s nuclear disarmament cutscene was suddenly unlocked over the weekend on PC – and publisher Konami says it has no idea why. For more than two years, MGS5 players have known about the hidden cutscene, which was designed to be unlocked if all players worldwide choose to disarm their…
Residents of Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, turned to looting on Sunday as they struggled to survive in the aftermath of a deadly 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that has so far killed 832 people. Looters were spotted taking items from the badly damaged Ramayana shopping mall and plundering fuel stations. One earthquake survivor…
Exports of prosecco to Britain have fallen for the first time in a decade, as the market reaches saturation point and consumers develop a taste for homegrown English fizz. Exports of the Italian sparkling wine dropped by seven per cent in the first half of this year after nearly a decade of booming sales, according…
This weekend saw the world’s best Rainbow Six Siege players battle it out in the game’s 2018 Invitational tournament – and Ubisoft was on hand to detail what was next for the game. Rainbow Six Siege has, if you’ve not already heard, quietly become one of Ubisoft’s biggest games. This weekend, Ubi boasted that Siege…
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, wrestled with the demons of his country’s colonial past this week by acknowledging that the country carried out systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence. After six decades of secrecy and denials, it was a historic first for a country that long refused to even admit that the brutal…
Set in an enchanting, storybook world, Moss is an interactive fairytale of grand adventure, bravery and friendship. Now, that might sound like the blurb from every fantasy game you’ve ever played, but Moss is different. This is a game that oozes charm from its every pore, and from the very first moment that you’re introduced…