UPDATE 14/3/18 12.10pm: All 105 UK Toys R Us stores will be closed, Sky News has reported, with the loss of around 3000 jobs. Despite attempts to find a buyer, the news feels sadly inevitable following word last month the chain had fallen into administration. PA sources: Toys R Us is to shut all 100…
Photos of people lying face down on the ground surrounded by luxury goods have gone viral on Chinese social media. More than a million posts of people taking part in the "flaunt your wealth" challenge have appeared on the platform Weibo in the last two weeks. One video, which has been viewed more than 50,000…
An infamous Boston gangster whose wild life story was turned into films starring Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson has been found dead in his prison cell, at the age of 89. James "Whitey" Bulger was reported to have been murdered by an inmate with Mafia ties, according to The Boston Globe. Police sources told TMZ,…
The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia voted in an independence referendum on Sunday to remain part of France in what President Emmanuel Macron welcomed as a “historic step”. More than 80 per cent of the nearly 175,000 registered voters cast ballots despite a call to boycott the poll by some leaders of indigenous Kanak…
Still playing Super Mario Odyssey? If you’ve beaten the game’s main story you can now collect an extra couple of outfits. Nintendo has today added two new costumes – the Satellaview Suit and the Baseball Uniform – to Odyssey’s post-game shop. The Baseball Uniform and Batting Helmet are obviously references to Nintendo’s string of Mario…
UPDATE 9/3/18: Smash Bros. series boss Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed his involvement in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch. Writing on Twitter following last night’s announcement, Sakurai said he had been working on the Switch version in secret for some time: “Right now we’re just at the stage where we revealed this game, but I’ve…
Saudi Arabia yesterday hinted at economic retaliation over mounting international criticism of the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as its stock exchange suffered its worst losses in years. Shares plunged as much as 7 per cent as US President Donald Trump promised "severe punishment", and the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany issued a joint statement calling for a "credible…
Former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday night, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of the ballots counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing…
Brilliant! There’s a pub in Huddersfield which offers a £30 bar tab to anyone who can get a Victory Royale in Fortnite, there and then. Reckon you could do it on a projected screen with everybody watching? The place is a student pub called Warehouse, and the person who dreamt up the idea is manager…
A pair of same-sex penguins in Sydney has developed a “super cute” relationship and been given a foster egg to raise after aquarium staff observed the couple building a nest and concluded they would make “amazing parents”. The two males, named Magic and Sphen, formed a bond before this year’s breeding season at the Sea Life Sydney…