When Bill Clinton was running for president his strategist James Carville had a sign put on the wall at campaign headquarters reminding everyone the election was about "the economy stupid". In 2018, despite presiding over a booming stock market, low unemployment, and major tax cuts, Donald Trump has decided next month’s US midterm elections are not…
A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the rape and kidnapping of a British backpacker in Australia after holding her captive during a brutal 900-mile road trip across the outback. Appearing via video in a court in Cairns in north Queensland, Marcus Allyn Keith Martin pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count…
A new Avoid as Teammate option is coming to Overwatch “as soon as possible”, finally giving us some immediate power to prevent other people ruining our fun. Maybe you’re grouped with a tyrant, maybe you’re grouped with someone deliberately working against the team and throwing the match, or maybe you’re simply partnered with a pratt….
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has overtaken the centrist party of Emmanuel Macron, the French president, for the first time, according to an opinion poll released Sunday, in a further sign of the rise of the far-Right in Europe. The Ifop poll measured voting intentions for European Parliament elections next May, seen as a decisive battle between pro-EU…
Two Years Of Trump is a week-long series of special video reports by The Telegraph’s US team. Each day, as the midterm elections approach on November 6, we’ll examine the key issues which voters will be weighing up when they go to the polls. Scroll down to watch our video special report. Donald Trump came…
In Honduras she had run a stall selling pupusas, a local tortilla, but been forced to shut down after being extorted by street gangs. "If you don’t pay them they kill you," said the woman, drawing a finger slowly across her throat. "It’s like a tax of war, money to bandits, and you can’t not…
A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior Ministry called a "terrorist explosion". Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the capital’s…
The US has called for a ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days followed by UN-brokered peace talks, sparking guarded hopes for a breakthrough in the international effort to end the country’s disastrous three-year war. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, and Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary, both said on they wanted to…
Battlezone comes out on Nintendo Switch this summer, developer Rebellion has announced. The tank shooter came out as a PlayStation VR launch title before launching on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Battlezone Gold Edition launches 1st May on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and it’s fully playable with or without a VR headset. The…
Call of Duty: WW2 got a big new Saint Patrick’s Day-themed update last night – and it adds an undead leprechaun who spawns on the map. The Leprechaun Hunt mosh pit is a featured competitive multiplayer playlist that sees the little leprechaun appear every now and then with a cackle of laughter. If you manage…