Donald Trump has strongly defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but for the first time indicated he could withdraw his support amid allegations of sexual misconduct. With the Senate preparing to hold a key hearing on Thursday that could determine whether Republicans can salvage his nomination, the US president said he would watch
The US military is to be deployed to the border with Mexico, it was reported on Thursday, with James Mattis, the defence secretary, poised to sign deployment orders sending 800 troops to the region. The move is being seen as a response to a "caravan" of 7,000 Central American migrants, which is edging its way north
Bayonetta 2 sold fewer physical copies at launch for Nintendo Switch this week than it did when it arrived on Wii U. The Platinum-developed Bayonetta 2 (which includes a copy of Bayo 1) landed fifth in the UK chart – the game’s highest chart placing to date, albeit one achieved with fewer physical sales. Perhaps
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for an EU-wide ban on single-use plastics such as straws, cutlery, cotton buds and balloon sticks. The European Commission, the 28-nation EU’s executive arm, proposed banning such items that it said account for 70 percent of the waste in the oceans and beaches. "Today we are one step closer
The WarGames video game reboot launches later this month. It’s the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, who has penned a six-episode interactive video series that kicks off on iOS and Steam on 14th March, with an Xbox One version due out afterwards. Barlow’s WarGames is a reboot of the 1983 film about
An arts centre in Hong Kong hosting the city’s annual international literary festival has cancelled appearances by Ma Jian, the exiled Chinese writer said on Thursday, in the latest example of China tightening its control on freedom of expression. Ma, who now lives in London and whose books are banned in China, was due to promote
A CV outlining the achievements of a five-year-old child has gone viral in China highlighting the highly competitive nature of the country’s private school system. The 15-page document, which describes the child as “confident” and holding “rich and varied experience”, gained tens of thousands of shares and comments after being posted on Chinese social media
I’ve been playing a lot of Blades in the Dark recently – it might just be the best pen and paper role playing game I’ve ever encountered. Blades is an RPG in which the players form a fledgling criminal gang in the grimy industrial city of Duskvol, pulling off daring heists and trying to stay
Indonesian search and rescue workers believe they have found the fuselage of a Lion Air passenger jet that crashed with 189 people on board, and are also trying to confirm the origin of an underwater "ping" signal, officials said on Wednesday. Ground staff lost touch with flight JT610 of Indonesian budget airline Lion Air 13 minutes after the Boeing 737 MAX 8
Nasa has released a striking photograph of an iceberg with perfectly straight edges and pointed right-angle corners The mile-wide ‘tabular iceberg’ was seen floating among sea ice off the Larsen C ice shelf by one of the US space agency’s research planes. An expert said the sharp edges of the iceberg likely indicate that it