Ebola vaccinations to begin in DR Congo as tests confirm Zaire strain is behind both outbreaks

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 PM urges student protesters to go home after clashes with police

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…

Dozens injured as hundreds of migrants storm Spain’s Ceuta border with Morocco

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…

Western cyclists killed in suspected terrorist attack in Tajikistan

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….

Nintendo Switch’s handheld mode more popular than playing on TV

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…

House Republicans move to impeach deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein

A group of Republicans infuriated at the investigation into Russian meddling in the election have launched a bid to impeach Rod Rosenstein, the man overseeing Robert Mueller’s work. Mark Meadows, a congressman from North Carolina, said Mr Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, had behaved in a “reprehensible” way. He and his 10 colleagues argue that Mr…

South Korean president Moon Jae-in  to meet Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang for latest summit

North and South Korea have agreed to hold a third summit between leaders Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un in September, amid ongoing tensions between Pyongyang and Washington over the North’s lack of progress in giving up its nuclear weapons.  The agreement was struck between high level officials meeting in the border village of Panmunjom on…

Inside FIFA 18’s Weekend League, the gruelling mode that’s consuming players’ lives

What were you up to last weekend? Played a video game? Perhaps. Went out for a bit? Maybe. Spent some time with friends and family? Sure, why not? For an army of FIFA players, the weekend was spent hammering game after game after game for hours on end. And this is no relaxing weekend game…

New US sanctions will make it harder to keep a lid on a growing uprising threatening Iran’s rulers

Click:应用程序接口 The most serious challenge to the Iranian establishment in a decade came this year – but it wasn’t from the US or Donald Trump. Instead it was the people who confronted the powers that be. And it could be the people who bring the regime crashing down, albeit with a helpful nudge from Mr Trump’s…

Super Bomberman R on Nintendo Switch gets another generous free update

Nintendo Switch exclusive Super Bomberman R gets a chunky free update full of new stuff to download today. The generous selection of new features includes a Grand Prix mode which publisher Konami said is designed for “future esports initiatives”. It’s a 3v3 versus mode with a couple of match types. Crystal matches task the two…