Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government appears to have survived a major political crisis after one of his coalition partners backed down from threats to bring down the government and trigger early elections. The Israeli government looked to be on the brink of collapse Monday morning after Mr Netanyahu refused demands from the Jewish Home party to…
George H W Bush dies aged 94 His son, George W Bush, leads tributes Trump cancels G20 press conference Obama and Clinton praise legacy of service Theresa May hails "true friend" of Britain Obituary: A former US president who triumphed in Iraq before election defeat George H W Bush no longer feared death before his passing and hoped…
Update: Stock of the games seem to be going in and out, which can make it harder to claim this deal with everything in the basket. As an alternative, you can add an Xbox One X to your basket along with The Evil Within 2, Wolfenstein 2 and an extra controller and your total will…
Warplanes attacked opposition-controlled areas near Aleppo on Sunday after the Syrian government blamed rebels for a suspected gas attack that sent scores of people to hospital. The airstrikes were the most serious violation of the Russia and Turkey-led ceasefire since it began on 17 September, which halted a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib,…
President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether he can bar transgender people from serving in the military – escalating a row which was expected to play out in a series of courts, over many months. Mr Trump announced in a series of tweets in July 2017 that he wanted to…
Yakuza Kiwami 2, a full remake of the original Yakuza 2, will launch for PlayStation 4 on 28th August outside Japan. (That date is confirmed for North America – we’ll likely see it the following Friday, 31st August.) This re-creation of the original comes courtesy of Yakuza 6’s Dragon engine – with the shinier graphics…
The woman widely seen as Angela Merkel’s chosen heir launched her campaign to succeed her as party leader Wednesday by pledging a new era in German politics. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told a press conference in Berlin she will work to restore confidence and trust in the Christian Democrat party (CDU) if chosen as leader. “This is…
Angelita Santos cried when she heard the doctors were leaving. Health director in a town in the south-eastern state of São Paulo, she was aghast to hear that Cuba was pulling out the fleet of medical staff that kept facilities in Brazil’s neediest regions afloat. "We were rocked by the news. The doctors called us…
One of the many enduring myths in modern games is that Sega’s a spent force, its days producing brash and brazen blockbusters well and truly behind it. Which is bunk, of course – it’s just that for far too long we didn’t get to see much of them over in the west. Yakuza is a…
Taliban envoys have taken part for the first time in a high-level international talks, meeting Afghan officials in Moscow as part of a Russian-sponsored peace effort. Representatives from the militants’ Doha office said they were taking part alongside senior diplomats from the region to find “a peaceful solution to the issue of Afghanistan”. Both the…