If you’ve seen the excellent video game documentary The King of Kong then you’ll have heard of Billy Mitchell, the cocky long-time champion of Nintendo’s arcade classic Donkey Kong. The film chronicles the mid-2000s attempts of new challenger Steve Wiebe to finally best the Donkey Kong high score set years before by Mitchell. Wiebe is…
Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife in the third and most serious corruption case against the Israeli leader. Police said they had evidence to charge Mr Netanyahu and his wife Sara with accepting bribes, fraud…
The death toll in California’s wildfires climbed to 71 on Friday as the number of missing people surpassed 1000, while authorities continued the search for survivors and victims. However, Kory Honea, Butte sheriff, said the list of missing people was dynamic, and could contain the names of people who did not realise they had been…
Gwyneth Paltrow has taken credit for popularising yoga in America. The Oscar-winning actress, who founded the lifestyle website Goop, said she was taken aback recently when someone in Los Angeles asked her if she had ever practiced it. She said: "I remember when I started doing yoga and people were like, ‘What is yoga? She’s…
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as the leader of Germany’s governing Christian Democrat party yesterday, leaving the protege of Angela Merkel as the German Chancellor’s presumptive heir. After winning a nailing-biting vote at a party conference in Hamburg yesterday the 56-year-old career politician known as “AKK” saw off the challenge of the millionaire lawyer Friedrich Merz…
Italy’s highest court has ordered the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to return an ancient Greek bronze statue that was found off the Adriatic coast of Italy by fishermen in 1964. The ruling by the Court of Cassation in Rome is the latest round in a decade-long, acrimonious dispute between the museum and Italy over…
Pope Francis is "concerned" about what he described as the "serious issue" of homosexuality, saying in an interview published Saturday that being gay was a "fashion" to which the clergy is susceptible. "The issue of homosexuality is a very serious issue that must be adequately discerned from the beginning with the candidates," the pontiff said…
The Indonesian authorities have vowed to hunt down the killers of 31 construction workers who were building a major road in the restive Papua province. The men were murdered in the remote mountainous district of Nduga, allegedly by members of the Free Papua Movement, reported the Associated Press. Most of the victims were shot at…
Angela Merkel’s enthusiastic endorsement of France’s call for a European army last week has left Germany wondering if her decision to name a date for her departure has freed the notoriously cautious chancellor to speak her mind. Mrs Merkel has spent the past year remorselessly deadbatting all Emmanuel Macron’s proposals for European Union reform — to…
Franceshould change heritage law to facilitate the return of thousands of African artworks pillaged or bought during the colonial era, a government-appointed report is to advise President Emmanuel Macron. If approved, it would amount to a radical policy shift that could pile pressure on Britain and other ex-colonial powers to hand back long-held artifacts to…