Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – review
Nintendo has created something of a stealth franchise with the Mario vs Donkey Kong series – this is, almost unbelievably, the fifth entry. Minis on the Move shifts attention away from puzzle-platforming to the path-building brainteaser.
Essentially an inverted tower-defence game, clearing each stage means guiding toy versions of Mario and friends past such perils as spike pits and wandering enemies. Early levels are deceptively simple until a steady trickle of new gameplay mechanics, including rotating squares and sliding panels, [...]
Hofstra student shot in home robbery was killed by police, officials say
The New York college student who was shot during a home robbery early Friday was killed by police gunfire, officials said at a news conference Saturday.
Nassau Co. Police
Nassau County police on Saturday named 30-year-old Dalton Smith of Hempstead as the man who attempted to rob the off-campus home where Hofstra University junior Andrea Rebello was shot and killed.
According to NBC New York affiliate WNBC, Nassau County Police said Andrea Rebello, 21, was killed by police fire, not by the armed gunman attempting to rob the off-campus h [...]
The Somali pirates jailed in paradise
18 May 2013
Last updated at 19:46 ET
By Anthony Denselow
Seychelles
There are more than 1,000 convicted Somali pirates in prisons around the world. Some of them end up in a UN-funded jail on the tiny island nation of Seychelles.
The Indian shopkeepers along the beach have never heard of the prison at Montagne Posee, but a villager tells me to drive above a deep ravine full of banana trees.
As the sea becomes a distant horizon and the road winds steeply, I stop to ask f [...]
Fast and Furious 6 – review
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In the sixth film in this profitable sex, speed and demolition franchise, Dwayne Johnson (formerly known as “the Rock”) as an Interpol officer uses moral blackmail and promises of amnesties to lure a crowd of freewheeling, fast-driving international criminals from their romantic lairs in sunny climes to defeat a renegade SAS man who has accumulated top-secret military equipment to hold the world to ransom. This is an excuse for mayhem on a spectacular scale mostly in Britain and [...]
El Salvador gangs warn over truce
18 May 2013
Last updated at 20:16 ET
The gangs were formed by Salvadorean immigrants in the United States
The leaders of El Salvador’s main street gangs have said a decision taken by the Supreme Court threatens a truce that has saved thousands of lives.
The Constitutional Chamber of the Salvadorean Supreme Court declared illegal the appointment of Security Minister David Mungia Payes.
He is one of the main architects of the truce, which was agreed in March 2012.
Gang leaders gave a news conference in jail criticisin [...]
Said & Done: Fifa on tour plus Poyet’s pledge
Line of the week
Fifa.com – on what makes a five-star Mauritius resort the right choice for this month’s annual Fifa congress: “The Indian Ocean island location could hardly be more apt, as the representatives of Fifa’s 209 associations meet to discuss President Joseph S. Blatter’s 2011 congress pledge to ‘steer the Fifa boat back into clear, transparent waters’.”
• Also making news in Mauritius: FA president and Fifa delegate Dinnanathlall Persunnoo denying wrongdoing after he was secretly recor [...]
Metro: Last Light – review
The original Metro 2033 was a sleeper hit, earning praise for its sharp blend of tense, post-apocalyptic terror and superb action long after its release. No surprise though, as the Metro games are far deeper than even hardened players might expect from a first-person shooter.
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Based on the novels of Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro: Last Light follows Artyom, a young man trying to survive in the ruins of Moscow’s subway system, a [...]
Plains states on edge under tornado watches
Tornado watches are already in effect until late Saturday for parts of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. And forecasters say this violent storm system could stretch into the Midwest Sunday. The Weather Channel’s Kim Cunningham reports.
Large sections of the Plains states came under tornado watches Saturday as a wave of storms swept through.
The danger in the region would be present into Monday, weather.com reported, and the greatest threat late Saturday was in southwest Kansas, with central Oklahoma seeing a spike on [...]
Aristocrats make bid for equality? That’s a new one | Catherine Bennett
Better late than never: elements within the British aristocracy have begun disseminating ideas of fairness and equality. In a historic letter to the Telegraph, more than 200 signatories last week called on Parliament to end the system of male primogeniture and “grant equality to both sexes”. Either of two forthcoming bills, these agitators say, would apply the adjustment to the royal family’s succession laws to all hereditary titles and should be supported: “It is only logical and just that it be granted to all fam [...]
One tax law for us and another for Amazon | Nick Cohen
On the edge of Rugeley stands Amazon’s largest distribution centre in Britain. Life for the workers who trudge around the 800,000 sq ft warehouse is not as bad as it was for the men who once worked in the pits of the Staffordshire coalfield, but that is not saying much. They must carry satnavs, which direct their movements round the stacks and flash warnings from managers to stop dawdling or chatting with colleagues. Britain being the way it is, they have no job security.
Trade unionists call the Amazon shed a “slave camp̶ [...]
Dozens injured as car plows through parade in Virginia
By Gary Robertson
RICHMOND, Virginia |
Sat May 18, 2013 7:15pm EDT
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals, authorities said.
The incident occurred in the Appalachian town of Damascus at the start of the annual Trail Days festival, as the main street was filled with hikers making their [...]
The world’s largest camel herd
18 May 2013
Last updated at 19:38 ET
By Sarah Bell
BBC News
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Farmer Ian Conway shows Simon Reeve how to catch a camel
Australia is famous for its wildlife – kangaroos, koalas and numerous species of snakes and spiders – but it is also home to the world’s largest herd of camels. There are about 750,000 roaming wild in the [...]