Brussels will look on the results of the Swedish election and breathe a sigh of relief. It could have been much, much worse. By the time the smoke clears, the fonctionnaires of the EU will have realised that they don’t have the political disaster on their hands that some may have feared. The far right…
Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, is coming under withering attack for nominations to some of the senior positions in his administration after it was revealed that five of the names put forward have skeletons in their closets. Confirmation hearings are taking place before the National Assembly after Mr Moon decided to shuffle his cabinet…
China’s transport ministry on Sunday slammed Didi Chuxing’s safety lapses as the ride-hailing giant said it would suspend its Hitch service after the rape and murder of a passenger, the second such killing this year. A 20-year-old female passenger was raped and killed by her driver on Friday in the eastern city of Wenzhou, barely three months…
A 95-year-old British veteran of the Second World War broke his own record on Saturday as the world’s oldest scuba diver after taking the plunge to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus. Ray Woolley, who turned 95 on August 28, already holds the record as the oldest active male scuba diver. On Saturday he dived for 44 minutes at a depth of…
Skyrim’s dirty little secret is that it isn’t that large. Oh, it remains fairly gigantic by the standards of other virtual landscapes, even next to its youthful imitator and usurper, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But set against what it pretends to be – a kingdom stretching from arctic wastes to the…
China is to build its first military base in Afghanistan for hundreds of troops carrying out counter-terrorism training missions across the border from its western Xinjiang region, according to reports. The base will be only the second overseas site for the increasingly active Chinese military, coming a year after a base was opened in Djibouti…
An Egyptian court handed a five-year jail sentence to award-winning photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid on Saturday and confirmed death sentences against 75 people in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising. Abu Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, who earlier this year received UNESCO’s World Freedom Prize, is however expected to walk free…
Dreadnought, the free-to-play multiplayer game about big spaceships which don’t get along, has moved out of open beta and launched on PlayStation 4. Arriving in the launch build are voice chat, Trophies and aim assist, and there’s still a lot to do. “It’s been a fun, crazy beta experience,” read an announcement on the Dreadnought…
Over four years after it came out on PC, superb dystopian document thriller Papers, Please launches on, wait for it… the Vita. Hot on the heels of Vita announcements for Romancing SaGa 2 and Stardew Valley, Papers, Please fuels the feeling there’s life in Sony’s discarded handheld. Well, a spark of life, anyway. 12/12 pic.twitter.com/BSPWG8r595…
The bishop who officiated at Aretha Franklin’s funeral has apologised to Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage and a joke he made about her name. Bishop Charles Ellis III led Franklin’s funeral and awkwardly greeted Grande on stage after she performed (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman. Images of the moment showed Mr Ellis’…