No-one articulated the tragedy of Africa’s AIDS epidemic as powerfully as Nkosi Johnson. He was just 11 when he spoke at the international AIDS conference in Durban in 2000, his gaunt, illness-ravaged faced transformed by a toothy grin. Yet, in one short speech he managed to humanise a disease many had been too terrified to…
Donald Trump has said the Queen kept him waiting for their meeting at Windsor Castle last month but added the pair “got along fantastically” and had “good chemistry”. The US president denied suggestions he had turned up late, saying he arrived early and waited to be called, but added: “That’s fine. Hey, it’s the Queen,…
A new FIFA Ultimate Team “exploit” has emerged that some players reckon can’t be fixed. FIFA 18 introduced a new FUT mode called Squad Battles. This lets you play computer-controlled teams for FIFA Coins and points that determine your ranking on the global leaderboard. At the end of the week, your ranking determines your rewards….
This is the terrifying moment a cement lorry runs over a scooter driver who was knocked down by a car door in China. Video block text
Amid increasing unrest within the Destiny 2 community over a variety of experience point gain issues, endgame problems and a lack of meaningful communication from developer Bungie, Activision has released a free trial for the online shooter. The trial begins today, 28th November on PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One. You can download it through…
A vaccination campaign will begin in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday in an effort to contain the country’s latest Ebola outbreak after DRC’s health ministry gave the go-ahead for inoculations to start. Forty-three people are believed to have been infected – of which 36 have died – in this latest outbreak, which is centred on…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged students to go home on Sunday as police fired tear gas at teenage protesters during an eighth day of unprecedented demonstrations over road safety which have paralysed parts of Dhaka. Students in their tens of thousands have brought parts of the capital to a standstill since two teenagers were…
More than 700 sub-Saharan migrants on Thursday stormed the border fence surrounding the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco, with dozens injured in an incursion of “unprecedented violence”. Sixteen migrants and ten officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil received hospital treatment following Thursday morning’s incident, during which the group bombarded agents with quicklime, sticks, stones and bags…
Four American and European cyclists have been run down and killed by a car in Tajikistan in what authorities said could be a terrorist attack. Two cyclists from the United States and one each from Switzerland and the Netherlands were killed in the incident on Sunday in the Danghara district near the border with Afghanistan….
Switch’s handheld mode is slightly more popular than the option of playing the console connected to the TV. Nintendo has published Switch usage data for Nintendo Account users playing while online, calculated by totting up which play style was used for more than 80 per cent of the time. The graph, left, shows the largest…