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MH370: The story so far as Malaysia releases final report into mystery of flight’s disappearance

It is arguably the biggest mystery in aviation history: What happened to  Flight MH370? Malaysia is releasing a long-awaited report into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Relatives of people aboard the flight, who were given the official investigation team’s […]

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BlizzCon 2017 leak: HOTS damn it’s time to Hanzo main

UPDATE: It’s official – Hanzo and Alexstrasza are coming to Heroes of the Storm. Alexstrasza can transform into a dragon, and Hanzo can be a nimble scout assassin. Blizzard also announced a raft of changes coming to HOTS in the 2018 gameplay update: performanced-based matchmaking, voice chat, a new camera, laning improvements, a stealth rework […]

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How the devs behind Driveclub plan to bring the arcade racer back to life

Let’s take a second to salute Driveclub, the PlayStation 4 launch title that missed the launch, and then stalled upon its final release thanks to a number of technical gremlins and design oversights. Despite that drama, it flourished into something quite remarkable – a muscular racer with a touch of Project Gotham Racing’s flair to […]

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US, Japan and Australia sign infrastructure agreement to counter China’s belt and road

Australia and Japan have joined with the United States to create a scheme for investing in countries across Asia and the Pacific in an apparent attempt to counter the growing influence of China,  whose massive Belt and Road Initiative could involve as much as £760 billion of spending over the next decade. Describing the scheme, […]

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Noctis from Final Fantasy 15 coming to Tekken 7

Hot on the heels of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guest starring in Injustice 2 comes the news that Noctis, star of Final Fantasy 15, is coming to Tekken 7. Noctis is due out as a DLC character at some point in spring 2018, Bandai Namco said. You can see him in action in the […]

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Mutant mosquitoes: Can gene editing kill off malaria?

Deep in the basement of a bland-looking building on Imperial College’s South Kensington campus is a humid, windowless suite protected by two steel doors and an electronic security system. It is called the ‘Insectary’.  Inside, thousands of mosquitoes are kept in small cubes of white netting, which are themselves stored in eight large stainless-steel cubicles […]

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Chinese authorities filmed smashing coffins and exhuming bodies in ‘barbaric’ crackdown on burials

Officials in southeast China have smashed thousands of coffins, some of which were exhumed, as it intensified a campaign banning  people from burying their dead. The “zero burial” policy in Jianxi province, where people regularly splash life savings on expensive coffins for themselves, was introduced six months ago to cut down on land being used by burials. Over […]

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Melania Trump praises LeBron James hours after Donald Trump’s online swipe

Melania Trump, the first lady, distanced herself once again from her husband on Saturday, praising the basketball player LeBron James for his work with disadvantaged children hours after President Donald Trump directed a Twitter broadside at the star. In June, Mrs Trump said she hated seeing children separated from their families at the border – […]

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Scientists find ‘world’s oldest cheese’ in a 3,300-year-old Egyptian tomb, but you can’t eat it

Researchers may have discovered a jar of the world’s oldest cheese in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian mayor, but – frustratingly for turophiles – the taste of the bacteria-laced sample is likely to remain a mystery. The discovery, announced in the American Chemical Society’s Analytical Chemistry journal this week, came after researchers tested the whitish […]

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The story behind Concrete Genie, PlayStation’s next wistful wonder

One of the more pleasant surprises during an occasionally bleak Sony conference at last month’s Paris Games Week was the reveal of Concrete Genie – a wistful third person adventure game gently exploring themes of bullying and childhood through luscious hand drawn art that stands out in contrast to its moody urban environment. Concrete Genie […]

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