July 2019

Detective Pikachu breaks record and other video games news

BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at the latest news in video games including: Nintendo has announced a new smaller handheld version of its Switch console Detective Pikachu becomes the highest grossing video game related movie of all time Developers The Coalition have removed tobacco products from their upcoming Gears of War 5 See more at […]

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Trump: Farage and Johnson ‘are going to do tremendous things’

US President Donald Trump says Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and new UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will do “tremendous things” together, during a speech to a right-wing youth organisation in Washington DC. Boris Johnson will take office on Wednesday afternoon after winning a decisive victory over Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in a ballot of

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Asian stocks rise on report of revived US-China trade talks

Asian stock markets rose Wednesday following a report that U.S. and Chinese trade envoys will meet for talks next week. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney all advanced. Investors were encouraged by a Bloomberg News report Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will lead a U.S. delegation to Shanghai for talks. That would be the

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Bella Thorne Says She Identifies As Pansexual: ‘You Like Beings’

Bella Thorne, who previously identified as bisexual, has come out as pansexual in a new interview.  The “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Big Love” star told “Good Morning America” on Monday that she hadn’t defined herself as pansexual until recently, after “somebody explained to me really thoroughly what that is.” “I’m actually pansexual and I didn’t know that,” Thorne, who is

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Did Facebook data help Trump? ‘Great Hack’ explores scandal

The new documentary “The Great Hack” captures how Facebook’s cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy. But it doesn’t prove the filmmakers’ claims that the ill-gotten data helped elect Donald Trump. The movie, out on Netflix and some theaters Wednesday, follows former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser

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Fireworks, Maybe, but Will Mueller Hearing Be a Turning Point?

Asked how much attention voters would pay, Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, predicted “little to none,” adding: “I think the American people have moved on. I think the issue’s dead as four o’clock. I think people have already drawn their own conclusions.” While playing down expectations, Democrats were still hoping for a splash. Judiciary

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