The head of China’s government-run Buddhist association quit his post on Wednesday amid an investigation into allegations that he coerced several nuns into having sex with him. Xuecheng, a Communist Party member and abbot of the Beijing Longquan Monastery, is one of the most prominent figures to face accusations in China’s growing #MeToo movement. In…
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday after being hit with new charges linked to a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat in May Looking tired as he appeared in court, Mr Najib was charged with three counts of money-laundering over claims he pocketed 42 million ringgit (£8 million)….
A Russian woman worked as a spy inside the United States embassy in Moscow for over a decade before she was discovered, it has been reported. The woman, who had her security clearance revoked in the summer of 2017, had access to the secret service’s intranet and email systems, according to The Guardian. Those files…
Kenya’s wildlife minister is under pressure to resign following the death of ten rhinos last month in a calamitous relocation project, after it emerged that he had been warned of the dangers of the project on three separate occasions. Najib Balala, the Cabinet Secretary for Wildlife and Tourism, had sought to deflect blame for one…
If you plan on downloading games onto your fancy new Xbox One X, be ready for some truly gargantuan file sizes. I’ve been downloading games on our office Xbox One X for a couple of weeks now, and some of the sizes for games I’ve seen are truly eye-watering. Fuelled by 4K Xbox One X…
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had 15 undisclosed foreign accounts and spent years hiding millions of dollars to evade tax, his former deputy has claimed. In a tense day in court, the campaign strategist’s longtime deputy, Rick Gates, told jurors how the pair were paid by Ukrainian oligarchs for their work as political…
A man with Down’s Syndrome has been shot dead by Swedish police after running away from home in the middle of the night carrying a toy gun. Eric Torell, 20, who was autistic and was described by his family as being severely disabled, was fatally shot by police who erroneously believed he was carrying a…
How can you not be desperate to play this: a game which blends the casual satisfaction of clicking cards away in a game of solitaire with a tactical turn-based RPG and a story about an 18th-century highwaywoman. Oh, and it’s by the developers of the wonderful Jane Austen-themed puzzle game, Regency Solitaire. The game is…
An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison in the latest punishments handed down for belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group. Frenchman Lahcen Gueboudj, 58, and a German woman whose name was given only as Nadia were sentenced separately at the Baghdad central criminal court. Nadia’s mother, a…
Two Germans have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal campsite in southern France after it was hit by flash floods, leaving one man missing. Two senior officials of a German youth organisation that ran summer camps for children and young people were being questioned by police on Friday after it was alleged that…