Pope Francis has likened abortion to “hiring a contract killer” in some of his strongest remarks yet on the subject. It was not fair to “take out a human life to solve a problem”, he said. “Is it fair to hire a contract killer to solve a problem? It is not fair. We cannot take…
Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday The warning came as volunteers began to dig mass graves for the bodies of more than 1,000 victims in an attempt to prevent an outbreak…
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The night before four Russian spies were caught trying to hack into the world’s chemical weapons testing headquarters, they had drunk three cans of Heineken, a bottle of Lowenbrau lager, two bottles of Aldi’s pure fruit orange juice and a packet of cold, cooked chicken slices. The agents had gathered up the remnants of their…
The strongman president of the Maldives on Monday conceded defeat in elections, easing fears of a fresh political crisis in the archipelago at the centre of a battle for influence between India and China. "The Maldivian people have decided what they want. I have accepted the results from yesterday," Abdulla Yameen said in a televised…
The Papers, Please short film is out now on YouTube (and Steam shortly). Have a gander at the 10-minute flick below. The film absolutely nails the look, sound and feel of the superb dystopian document thriller, with a cool nod to the quick-fire puzzle element of the game. The wonderful metronome music from the game…
Theresa May called out Russia for its "desperate fabrication" of Moscow’s interpretation of the Salisbury nerve agent attack at the UN General Assembly. Speaking at the security council chaired by Donald Trump, she addressed Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, who sat two seats down from her, furiously scribbling notes as she spoke. Saying that Britain…
Brussels has demanded that Britain pay billions of pounds in duties over an alleged customs fraud that further discredits Theresa May’s beleaguered Chequers plan for Brexit. The European Commission announced on Monday that the UK had two months to pay £2.4 billion, plus interest, in unpaid VAT on cheap Chinese clothes and shoes or face huge daily fines…
A ferry stranded in the Baltic Sea for about six hours with an estimated 300 people on board safely reached its destination Tuesday night, the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, port authorities said. The vessel sent out a distress call after a reported explosion in the engine room at 11.45am (UK time). Danish ferry operator DFDS said the malfunction on board the…
A prominent Saudi Arabian journalist who is critical of the royal family has gone missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey. Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist with the Washington Post, had visited the consulate in Istanbul to request paperwork relating to his marital status. His Turkish fiancee, Hatice, who declined to give her surname for…