It wasn’t until after I began recording this Thrones of Britannia let’s play that I realised how difficult the save file I’d just selected was going to be. This late-game campaign features the kingdom of Northymbre, a faction that needs to carefully balance the needs of both the British population it’s subjugating and the Viking…
Horst Seehofer, the German interior minister and one of Angela Merkel’s most prominent political rivals, announced his resignation as leader of her Bavarian sister party on Monday. Mr Seehofer said he would stand down as leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) early next year but insisted he wanted to stay on as German interior minister….
Pirate simulator Sea of Thieves will be offline for five hours tomorrow, Saturday 24th March. Thinking of getting up early to get your grog on? Don’t bother. Sea of Thieves will be unavailable for five hours tomorrow morning and early afternoon – between 9am and 2pm UK time. Developer Rare announced the downtime in a…
China on Thursday demanded Canada release a Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks. Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, faces possible extradition to the United States, according to Canadian authorities. The Globe and Mail newspaper, citing law enforcement sources, said she…
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…
Click:flange machining 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…
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…