It is not the absence of her rifle or waking up without her faded military fatigues that makes a new life away from the Farc an uneasy adjustment for Sandra Talaga. “One of the strangest things I’ve had to get used to is just sleeping inside,” the 25-year-old ex-militant said, sitting in her bare room…
In death, as in life, Aretha Franklin was the greatest of all divas. For her final appearance the Queen of Soul – known simply as "The Queen" in her home city of Detroit – was dressed in a sparkling, full-length gold gown with sequined heels. She lay regally in a $40,000 casket plated with 24-karat gold, and…
Well, isn’t this quite the problem to be having. It really doesn’t seem that long ago there were righteous complaints about the dearth of decent Nintendo titles, understandable given a fairly miserable 2016 which saw the Wii U shuffle off this mortal coil with little in the way of love or support. The assumption was,…
Arizonans paid their respects to John McCain on Wednesday as the body of the late senator lay in state in the capitol for a final farewell. "He dedicated his life to serve his country," former Arizona senator Jon Kyl said during a ceremony in the capitol rotunda in Phoenix attended by McCain’s wife, Cindy, and children. "When he…
As the sun drifted down over the rolling hills in the heartland of South Africa, rancher Manie Van Niekerk sat with his fingers clasped in his lap. At 52, he wore his hair cropped, which, along with a stolid physique, gave the impression of a man who could not be easily shaken. But now he…
After years of predictable roadmaps and often iterative bumps in existing technology, the last 12 months has seen some radical jumps in the capabilities of PC hardware – but few could have predicted yesterday’s announcement that Intel and AMD would join forces to take on Nvidia in the laptop space. A new range of Kaby…
When an album of previously-unreleased songs from their hero Michael Jackson was released a year after his death it seemed, some astute fans feared, too good to be true. Today, it appeared those suspicions may not necessarily have been unfounded, as a record label was caught up in an extraordinary dispute over whether three songs…
Remember last month when Argos promised to deliver Xbox One X at 12.01am? Well, the retailer kept its promise. There were caveats to the offer – as a trial scheme it was only available for London Zones 1-5, and pre-order slots were limited. Still, in light of today’s Amazon UK Xbox One X delivery debacle,…
Frederic had never planned to journey to France. His gruelling three-year odyssey from the Ivory Coast had always had Spain as its final destination, a country in which, he had dreamed, he could build a better life. Yet, two months after he landed in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras, plucked from the sea by…
EA has laid out the roadmap for December’s The Last Jedi season of Star Wars Battlefront 2 content. The main date to remember is 13th December. This is when new Hero and Villain characters Finn and Captain Phasma will arrive; when new planetary map Crait, and new Starfighter Assault map D’Qar, will arrive; and when…