Germany is bracing for the sort of protests that marked Donald Trump’s visit to the UK as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey flew into Berlin on Thursday. Up to 20,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Berlin on Friday to send a message to the Turkish leader under the banner “Erdogan Not Welcome”….
A British woman jailed in Egypt for taking hundreds of painkillers into the country has lost an appeal against her conviction, it has been reported. Laura Plummer, 34, was sentenced to three years in prison on Boxing Day last year after she was found to be carrying 290 Tramadol tablets in her suitcase. The shop…
A star collegiate golfer from Spain was attacked and killed by a homeless stranger while she was playing a round alone near her campus in Iowa, police said Tuesday. Celia Barquin Arozamena, who was working toward joining the pro tour while finishing her degree at Iowa State University, was stabbed by the assailant Monday morning and…
Somalis are used to hardship. Hunger, pestilence and violent death have brooded over their desiccated land ever since the first clans reached the Horn of Africa more than a millennium ago. It is not in the Somali national character, enamelled by suffering, to complain. Setbacks are shrugged off and mortality contemplated with disdain. “I never…
Cult Japanese indie game Yume Nikki has been given a release on Steam. Available as a free download, the freeform adventure where you play a character named Madotsuki who explores surreal dream worlds whenever she falls asleep in her apartment. Though created using RPG Maker, there is no dialogue, battle systems or action to speak…
After months of anticipation, Yooka-Laylee has finally arrived on Switch and it feels right at home. Playtonic’s debut is a sprawling platformer with a focus on exploration and the jump to modern hardware has enabled its designers to create worlds much larger and more complex than the games which inspired it. And that’s precisely why…
US police have charged a man with the alleged murder of Celia Barquín, the Spanish golfer and reigning European women’s champion, a day after her body was discovered on an Iowa golf course. Barquín, 22, was found dead on Monday on the Coldwater course in Ames after other golfers spotted her abandoned bag and alerted…
An American and Russian astronaut have survived an emergency landing in Kazakhstan after the Soyuz rocket carrying them to the International Space Station failed in mid-flight. The latest in a long string of Russian rocket crashes, Thursday’s star-crossed flight is yet another black eye for the Roscosmos space agency, which remains the only reliable way…
Bungie has posted a frank blog post admitting it “made some mistakes” regarding Destiny 2 content access – in short, the fact it last week locked various base-game activities behind a Curse of Osiris DLC paywall. Destiny 2 players could no longer access the Prestige raid or Nightfall activities, and therefore no longer complete the…
Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered more rescuers to be sent in to find victims of a devastating earthquake and tsunami on Tuesday as the official death toll rose above 1,200 and looting raised fears of growing lawlessness. Most of the dead have been from the small city of Palu, 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of…