When an endangered female North Atlantic right whale spends months, even years, disentangling itself from cast-off fishing nets, there’s not much energy left over for mating and nursing calves. Coping with such debris, along with ship collisions…
French game producers are suing cross-Channel ferry companies for refusing to transport baby pheasants and partridges to Britain, alleging pressure from anti-hunting activists. Two major producers, Gibovendee and Envol de Retz, are suing French giant…
Donald Trump, the US president, threatened on Tuesday to cut off aid to Honduras unless the country took steps to halt a migrant caravan, which has doubled in size since it set off from a…
Casualties among Afghan forces are at their highest level ever and the Kabul government is losing control of a growing part of the country, according to the latest stark assessment by a US congressional watchdog.…
April’s Xbox Live Games with Gold line-up feels like a particularly good one. Next month’s freebies include beautiful first-person puzzle game The Witness on Xbox One and the brilliantly creepy Dead Space 2 for Xbox…
Inside the Georgian mansion in Mayfair that houses Saudi Arabia’s embassy in London, two offices of Saudi intelligence operatives are busy at work. The first office belongs to the General Intelligence Presidency, Saudi Arabia’s foreign…
Indonesia has filed an official protest to Saudi Arabia after it executed an Indonesian maid without notifying its consular staff or her family. Tuti Tursilawati, a mother of one, had been convicted of murdering her…
“PUBG Xbox One performance still isn’t good enough”, Digital Foundry recently declared, but the first of the ‘we will fix it I promise’ patches is here. PUBG Xbox Patch 11 ought to have just finished…
Japanese fishermen are reporting clashes with North Korean fishing boats operating illegally within Japan’s exclusive economic zone during the peak squid fishing season. The number of North Korean fishing vessels identified operating within Japanese waters has increased…
Football Manager launches today for Nintendo Switch, Sega has announced. Football Manager Touch 2018 is available to download from the Nintendo sShop with a bespoke user interface and a customised control system. There’s support for…