Tourists planning a winter getaway on a romantic cruise along Europe’s rivers are facing stranded ships and long coach journeys after the dry summer left water levels at record lows. Holidaymakers expecting to travel between Budapest and Vienna on the serene waters of the Danube have been told they will be bussed between the cities instead because…
Minecraft now has the option for you to test “experimental features” within the game’s main client. We’re talking about “Minecraft” here, AKA the game’s Bedrock Edition – the newer cross-platform version currently available on Xbox One, PC and smartphones. Android, PC and Xbox One users can now toggle the option to enable new features which…
A Dutch church has been holding continuous sermons day and night for five weeks as it exploits an obscure old law to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation. On Sunday, the service in Bethel church in The Hague entered its 37th day with the help of 450 volunteer pastors – including Roman Catholics and lay…
President Emmanuel Macron of France is to totally scrap fuel tax rises that sparked three weeks of unrest and the worst riots seen in Paris for half a century, as the Elysée last night warned that “several thousand” hardened protesters were bent on descending on Paris on Saturday “to smash and kill”. However, in a…
Kim Jong-un has cleared his schedule for three days in late December and will use the time for a landmark visit to Seoul, according to a former South Korean government minister. Jeong Se-hyun, the South’s former unification minister, said in a radio interview that he expects the North Korean leader to travel to Seoul on…
Click:Purey Clothing Nintendo Switch exclusive Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes will be playable later this month at EGX Rezzed, the PC and indie games show run by Eurogamer’s parent company Gamer Network. The London-based show will host a selection of other Nintendo Switch-based indies, too, as well as Travis Touchdown’s return. Expect to see…
President Donald Trump has announced he will nominate State Department spokeswoman and former Fox News anchor Heather Nauert to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations. Mr Trump has previously said that Ms Nauert, a former Fox News Channel reporter who had little foreign policy experience before becoming State Department spokeswoman, was under serious consideration to…
To call Ready Player One – Steven Spielberg’s new film, adapted from the novel by Ernest Cline – self-referential would be quite an understatement. It’s a mind-warping cultural Möbius strip: a one-dimensional entity with no end and no beginning, permanently twisting in on itself. It’s a futuristic work of science-fiction that is obsessed with nostalgia….
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer has admitted he was pursuing a project to build a Trump tower in Russia deep into the 2016 presidential campaign and later misled Congress about the discussions. Michael Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, on Thursday pleaded guilty to misleading Congress and made a…
Top security officials working for Mexico’s past, present and future presidents received suitcases full of millions of dollars, according to remarkable testimony heard in the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman, whose drug trafficking trial began last week in New York, sat with his arms folded as convicted Sinaloa Cartel member Jesus Zambada –…