Month: April 2019

Separatist militants killed four people during an unsuccessful attempt to storm a Chinese consulate, in an attack on Beijing’s heavy investment in the country. Two “Karachi attack: Four dead as separatist gunmen attack Chinese consulate”

A friend of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is suing an Israeli software company he believes helped the kingdom intercept messages sent to him from “Israeli software company ‘shared hacked messages’ from Khashoggi with Saudi, lawsuit claims”

One of America’s most senior national security officials has been forced out of the White House after Melania Trump, the US president’s wife, publicly called “Top US security official pushed out after extraordinary Melania Trump intervention”

The developer of battle royale game The Culling has re-released the first build of the original game following the disastrous launch of its sequel. The “The Culling dev returns to original game after The Culling 2 disaster”

Ireland declared victory in the Brexit negotiations on Thursday while other EU leaders cautiously welcomed Theresa May’s deal, even as Eurosceptics in Westminster threatened to bring “‘Victory in Dublin, chaos in London’ – How Europe reacted to Theresa May’s Brexit deal”

Every evening at sunset, the Last Post has sounded under the Menin Gate, in Ypres, the epicentre of conflict in the First World War, today, on Armistice “British relatives gather in Ypres on Armistice Day to mark passing of their fallen families”

Two divers encountered a 26ft long deep-sea worm off the coast of Whakaari in New Zealand.  The creature is thought to be a Pyrosome, a “Divers encounter 26-foot deep-sea worm in New Zealand”

An Italian hermit who has lived a Robinson Crusoe-style existence on an island off the coast of Sardinia for nearly 30 years has vowed to “Italy’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ vows to fight eviction from idyllic island where he has lived for nearly 30 years”

A Kremlin-backed candidate has been elected head of the Donetsk breakaway republic as Moscow cements its control over eastern Ukraine. Denis Pushilin, acting head of “Kremlin-backed candidate elected leader of breakaway Donetsk republic”

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival also known as the Festival of Lights, see Jews around the world light one candle on a nine-branched menorah – or “The history of Hanukkah: How the ‘miracle of the oil’ sparked the Jewish Festival of Lights”