A 62-year-old former rival of Angela Merkel who retired from politics nine years ago has emerged as an unlikely early frontrunner to succeed her as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrat party (CDU). Friedrich Merz is the most popular candidate for the party leadership with ordinary voters, according to two rival polls published on Wednesday. The…
Austria said on Wednesday it will not sign a United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to "defend its national sovereignty." The United States and Hungary have already rejected the Global Compact for Migration, which aims to boost cooperation to address the world’s growing number of migrants. "The…
Overwatch has a new time-limited PVE mission, Retribution, which goes live next week on 10th April and runs until the 30th. It’s another four-player event, similar to last year’s Uprising, and tells a story from the Overwatch team’s past. Set in Venice, Retribution stars Reaper, McCree, Moira, Genji and 60 new items. As usual, there…
A British student has been charged by prosecutors in the UAE with posing as an academic researcher to spy for a foreign government. Matthew Hedges, 31, who is studying for a PhD at Durham University, was arrested at Dubai airport on May 5 and has been held in solitary confinement. Hamad al-Shamsi, UAE’s attorney general, said on…
Microsoft has announced its plans for E3 2018 – and it’s doing things a little differently this year. In previous years, Microsoft had a major presence on the Los Angeles Convention Center show floor, with a mammoth booth in which games were playable and executives and developers demoed their titles. This year, Microsoft will use…
Archeologists are piecing together the dramatic last moments of two women and three children whose skeletons have been discovered at Pompeii. Caught up in the terrifying eruption of Mt Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, they sought shelter in the inner room of a villa, wedging a piece of furniture – either a bed or a divan…
A Belgian mechanic destroyed a multi-million pound fighter jet after he accidentally fired a Vulcan cannon while carrying out repairs at an air force base. The £15m plane quickly caught fired and exploded, according to Belgian broadcaster RTL. The mechanic was working with a colleague on two F-16s in a hangar near the control tower. It…
It’s been over three months since Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds arrived on Xbox One and Xbox One X. Released as an early access ‘game preview’, what was immediately clear was that PUBG’s console implementation had profound issues in nearly all areas: presentation was lacking, textures possessed severe streaming problems and frame-rate was sub-optimal, to put it generously….
The hunky-looking Fallout 3 remade in Fallout 4 overhaul, the Capital Wasteland Project, has all of a sudden cased development. A conversation with Bethesda, owner of Fallout and maker of the games, revealed a legal minefield the Road to Liberty modding team had not foreseen – much of it revolving around reusing audio and voice…
Donald Trump on Saturday announced the US is to pull out of a landmark nuclear agreement with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of violating its terms. Mr Trump did not offer specific details on how Moscow had violated the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, but during the past four years America has repeatedly argued that Russia…