A Turkish court has rejected a new appeal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson, as Ankara doubled down on its row with the US by increasing tariffs on US products. The court in the western city of Izmir ruled that Mr Brunson, who faces 35 years in jail on terror and espionage charges, will remain…
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Donald Trump of waging “economic war against the entire world” and called the US decision to impose tariffs on Turkey a “stab in the back”, as the country’s currency crisis deepened. Ankara has been hit by financial turmoil, with the lira plunging to record lows over concerns about the government’s…
Click:Custom rapid tooling solutions Steve Jobs told his daughter she “smelled like a toilet” on his deathbed, a new revelatory memoir detailing their troubled relationship has revealed. Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who the Apple founder had denied was his daughter, also recalls him telling her “you’re getting nothing” in a disagreement over inheriting his prized Porsche,…
After a successful Global Catch Challenge to unlock Farfetch’d worldwide, Pokémon Go has another surprise up its sleeve – legendary raids for Ho-oh. The brightly-coloured turkey is available to hunt down right now, until 12th December. Thanks to all your hard work last week, Ho-Oh will appear in Raid Battles until 12/12! #PokemonGOtravel #GlobalCatchChallenge https://t.co/YfyBGwfTux…
The furniture Melania Trump chose for the White House was replaced with glitzier items preferred by her husband, Donald Trump, it has been claimed in a new profile of the first lady. The profile, published by the New York Times, tells that Mr Trump overruled his wife on the elegant and modern furniture she selected…
Xbox Game Pass gets Gears of War 4 in December, Microsoft has confirmed. It’s a high-profile addition to Microsoft’s Netflix-style game subscription service, which lets you download and play games for a monthly fee. The Coalition’s third-person shooter was one of Microsoft’s big Xbox One and Windows 10 PC games in the run-up to Christmas…
Ubisoft released Monopoly for Nintendo Switch this week, and players have discovered it has pretty horrendous loading times. Players have reported loading times of between five and 10 minutes for everything as simple as loading the main menu to loading a game. Monopoly, which costs £29.99 from the eShop, is developed by Asobo Studio, a…
Every time Abdullah Shirzad passes a checkpoint of Islamic State group fighters, he fears he is about to die. The teacher begins reciting the Quran and praying the fanatics pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will let him pass unmolested. In the three years since jihadists loyal to Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil)…
The sons of a US veteran who was killed in the Korean War have spoken emotionally about receiving his military identification tag that North Korea returned last month. The lone tag that North Korea provided with 55 boxes of human remains belonged to Master Sgt. Charles H. McDaniel, an Army medic from Indiana who died in the opening months of…
It has long been one of Spain’s most beloved dishes: simple, succulent slices of spiced octopus enjoyed in tavernas and on seafront terraces from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. But the growing worldwide popularity of Japanese, Spanish and Hawaiian cuisines is squeezing the octopus market, with soaring demand forcing up prices to double that of…