The United Nations has called an emergency meeting of animal disease experts amid fears African swine fever (ASF) is set to sweep through Asia and devastate pig farming. China on Wednesday confirmed its ninth case of the highly infectious disease since it was first spotted in the country a month ago and neighbouring nations are
An armada of British boats is planning to return to contentious waters off northern France on Monday in a show of defiance after "scallop wars" erupted this week. Up to 40 scallop trawlers from the UK will re-enter the waters of Baie-de-Seine en masse in the hope that, with safety in numbers, they can continue to
Destiny 2’s PC version has been available less than 24 hours and already it has been datamined. Currently-unused dialogue lines discovered in the game files and posted on reddit point to Destiny 2’s upcoming DLCs, plus returning and new locations, in-game events and characters. Destiny 2’s upcoming Mercury-themed DLC, due in December, is repeatedly referenced
Donald Trump claimed his former personal lawyer was "making up stories" and that the campaign violations he pleaded guilty to were not crimes. Cohen, his longtime personal attorney, claimed the US president ordered him to break the law by paying hush money to a porn star, and a former Playboy model, before the 2016 US election. Mr
Hurricane Lane weakened Friday as it headed toward the Hawaiian islands, but it still brought torrential rains that immersed a city in waist-deep water and forced people to flee flooding homes, while others jumped off seawalls with boogie boards into the turbulent ocean. As many dealt with flooding and even brush fires, swimmers and surfers
It’s an exciting day to be a PlayStation fan. As well as a range of amiibo-like figurines, Sony has also announced an official PlayStation shoe. Nike is making the colourful boot, in collaboration with NBA All-Star Paul George. The shoes boast light-up PlayStation symbols with not one but three settings – “off”, “on” and “pulsing”.
A village in Switzerland plans to pay residents almost £2,000 a month for doing nothing as an experiment into an unconditional basic income. Rheinau, on the Rhine river at the border with Germany, hopes to pay participants up to 2,500 Swiss francs (£1,970) a month to ensure they have a guaranteed income whether they work or not. The village council decided
Pokémon Go artwork advertising the arrival of Gen 3 has leaked onto Apple’s own App Store. We say ‘leaked’ – it’s likely someone behind the scenes simply uploaded the image a little bit too early. The promotion’s subheading still references Go’s Halloween event which featured the game’s first handful of Gen 3 Pokémon and which
A fourteen-year-old and two men were shot at while surfing at a secluded spot in New Zealand in an apparent attack by locals who did not want outsiders “using their waters”. Police believe three shots were fired from the coast at the three surfers, who were in waters that are considered by some locals to
Stubbly Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has given a rough overview of what’s coming to the game in 2018. (He also sat in a chair next to a fireplace for 10 hours for a Christmas livestream on Twitch, which is brilliant.) We won’t have long to wait. Closest at hand are the launch of new