Two nine-year-old twins who went missing in Greece’s wildfires died “hugging” their grandparents, it was confirmed late on Friday. A family friend announced on Facebook that the bodies of sisters Sophia and Vassiliki Philippopoulou were identified along with their grandparents. Angelos Kontos wrote: “The epilogue has been written. All 4 found hugging each other. Not…
Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that the magazine deal with Conde Nast to produce her Goop quarterly ended after only two issues, because the publishing powerhouse objected to some of her unorthodox remedies and she wanted more control. Paltrow, 45, launched the magazine to accompany her wellness and retail site in the autumn of 2017, with…
Fresh concerns that US voters are turning against Donald Trump and could punish the Republican Party at the mid-term elections have emerged after a congressional race remained too close to call. Troy Balderson, the Republican candidate in the traditionally conservative twelfth district of Ohio, was less than one percentage point ahead of his Democrat…
Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton and one person was taken into custody, police said on Friday. Police in Fredericton, a city of about 56,000 that is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, said in a post on Twitter that the…
Donald Trump’s administration is considering a tax cut worth $100 billion that would mainly benefit the well off and be delivered without legislation, it emerged on Tuesday. The US Treasury is looking at whether to allow people to take account of inflation when they work out what capital gains tax they owe. Steven Mnuchin, the…
New national stamps featuring a family with three piglets have given rise to speculation that China may soon relax its two-child family planning laws. The stamps for 2019, the Year of the Pig, which feature mother and father pigs and three piglets, were unveiled on Tuesday. Commentators noted that the scrapping of the decades-old one…
Blizzard’s Battle.net app now has a gifting function, so you can send in-game items such as Hearthstone card packs to friends. In fact, most in-game items can now be purchased as a gift rather than for yourself. Overwatch loot boxes? Check. World of Warcraft pets and mounts? Check. You can even gift BlizzCon virtual tickets….
Footage posted on social media shows the moment an Indonesian supermarket collapsed in dramatic fashion as Lombok was rattled by a powerful aftershock following Sunday’s deadly earthquake. Video block text
Argos has upped the ante in the video game delivery arms race with an ambitious new service that promises to get an Xbox One X in Londoners’ arms at one minute past midnight. The trial is called Minute-Past-Midnight delivery, and its pilot launches across London for the release of Xbox One X next month. Argos…
Gran Turismo Sport is the UK’s number one game, with almost three times as many physical launch week sales as racing game rival Forza 7 managed. Data from Chart-Track reveals Gran Turismo Sport, the first in Sony’s long-running racing sim series to launch on PlayStation 4, had better week one unit sales than both the…