April 2019

A nine-year-old schoolgirl sparked intense debate in Australia on Wednesday after refusing to stand for the national anthem to protest alleged institutional racism. Student Harper Nielsen was given detention last week for not joining classmates in a rendition of  Advance Australia Fair, a song she says ignores the nation’s indigenous people. "When it was originally written, Advance Australia Fair meant advance the white…

Chinese authorities have drafted sweeping new regulations that would severely restrict religious content online, including images or even descriptions of religious activities from praying and chanting to burning incense. The move comes as Beijing tightens the screws on religion, especially for followers of Islam and Christianity. The new rules would only allow members of officially licensed…

More than 80 people were arrested during protests in St. Petersburg against planned pension reforms on Sunday. Opponents of a Russian government move to increase the age for collecting state retirement pensions have held protests throughout the country on Sunday and scores of arrests were reported. The protests were called by Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption…

Jeremy Hunt, the British Foreign Secretary, on Monday vowed to champion the cause of two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, in a case that has been denounced as a new low for press freedom in Burma.   A Burmese court sentenced Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, to seven…

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. Given that it’s already a Wednesday on the week after Black…

Nvidia has revealed a new range of ultra high-end, 65-inch gaming monitors designed for the living room, dubbed BFGDs – or Big Format Game Displays. Working initially in combination with Asus, Acer and HP, Nvidia’s technology features a 4K panel operating at 120Hz with G-Sync technology, paired with HDR functionality with 1000 nits peak brightness…

A lost Mick Jagger duet with Carly Simon has been found more than 45 years after it was first recorded. The song, apparently never heard in public, appears to have been recorded in 1972 and was found recently on a tape owned by Rolling Stones collector Matt Lee. Believed to be named "Fragile," at least…

Creative Assembly has issued a refreshingly frank update on the progress – or lack of – of Total War Warhammer’s development. The blog post revolves around Mortal Empires, the ambitious mode that combines the maps of Total War Warhammer and Total War Warhammer 2 into one mega campaign (for more on how it works, check…

A 10-year-old American boy was making a remarkable recovery on Wednesday after a meat skewer impaled his skull but missed his brain, in what medics called a "one in a million" accident. Had Xavier Cunningham landed fractions of an inch to either side after falling from a treehouse ladder on to the sharp metal spit…