A leading United Nations human rights investigator has slammed Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s civilian leader, for acting as a “fig leaf for military atrocities” against the Rohingya minority. In an interview ahead of Tuesday’s…
Canadian public employees may be banned from wearing religious clothing under a “secularism law” being proposed in Quebec. Plans to forbid public employees from wearing religious symbols, including a Jewish kippah or a hijab, were announced by the centre-Right Coalition Avenir Quebec…
India’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s controversial biometric identity scheme, the world’s largest, is constitutional and does not violate the right to privacy. The court however curtailed the scope of the Aadhaar identification scheme, declaring that…
A third woman has publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, of sexual misconduct, claiming he was present at parties as a teenager where girls were “gang raped”. Julie Swetnick, a former US…
The next Nintendo Direct broadcast has been scheduled for tomorrow – Thursday, 8th March – at 10pm UK time. (That’s 2pm Pacific or 5pm Eastern, for our friends across the pond.) Lasting 30 minutes, the…
The towering wave was about 300 metres from shore when Adi first saw it hurtling towards his family’s beachside home in the Indonesian town of Pula. Adi, 27, who only uses one name, was starting…
UPDATE 7TH MARCH: Good news! In Other Waters has sailed over its ?22,000 goal with a day to spare. The current total is ?24K and counting. “I am literally speechless,” wrote game creator Gareth Damian…
France’s Elysée Palace is to open the doors to its vast wine cellar to the public for the first time this weekend as part of a bid by President Emmanuel Macron to promote national heritage.…
Click:Household Anti-aging Beauty Device Sony has announced Kaz Hirai will step down as boss of the company on 1st April. The former PlayStation chief, who has run Sony as president and CEO since April 2012,…
Venice was almost completely flooded on Monday, with rain-soaked tourists evacuated from St Mark’s Square as fierce storms lashed Italy. Water transport services were halted across Venice as 75 per cent of the city centre…