Emmanuel Macron has drawn fierce criticism over plans to celebrate Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain’s role as a “great soldier” in the First World War. Petain led France’s Vichy regime during the Second World War and was sentenced to death for collaboration before then-president Charles de Gaulle, a longtime admirer, reduced the punishment to life in prison….
You can kick off a spectacular set piece pretty much anywhere in Far Cry 5. All you need do is stand in the road. Give it 60 seconds, and – yes, there it is, a van full of hostages, cruising around unescorted, the lowest of low-hanging fruit. You pour hot lead into the windshield until…
Migrants making their way towards the United States as part of a caravan of 3,000 people charged at the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Friday, cutting the wires and confronting rows of border police. Mexico had warned the migrants that they would need a visa to enter the country and sent riot police to…
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…