“Making portable devices would mean having to compete directly with mobile phones. We couldn’t offer devices with the same capabilities and price,” said Kenichi Fukunaga, a senior director for Sony Computer Entertainment, in March.Nintendo, however, is unswaying in its desire to push out its new product to older teenagers ­ the people who probably originally [...]

If the fortune was to be recovered and their claim accepted, he said it would go to his son. He also disclosed that the Crawfords, who have been looking for the treasure for two years, had a long association with the Kapurthala clan, as Mr Crawford’s grandfather was “our family surgeon”.. India’s first great novelist [...]

But the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has recently criticized China for not taking care of its world heritage sites.Beijing has also been pressuring local governments to reduce staff and turn some functions over to enterprises in an effort to reduce costs and rid the economy of the last vestiges of central [...]

It is a measure of the scale of the deterioration that today, while Israel votes, the 3.5 million Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza will be locked tightly inside their cities by the Israeli army.In particular, this support for peace was eaten away by several horrific headline-grabbing moments: the lynching of two Israeli soldiers [...]

I went straight there in my kit, nothing on my feet, and got his autograph. He thought I was joking.”McAteer did not go straight into football, which he said had made him appreciate things more. He studied graphic design on leaving school, while playing for Marine reserves. He nearly went on a football scholarship to [...]

After a brief consultation with his lawyer, Amery pleaded guilty – despite being warned by the judge that a guilty plea meant death. Under the Treason Act of 1351 there was no alternative, and he was duly sentenced to be hanged.With all hope lost, Amery’s “madness” fell away. According to Leo Amery, his son confronted [...]

Events put on by the school are usually during working hours, so I miss out and my son again feels disappointed I can’t be there.It is unfair to force single mothers out to work by reducing their benefits and do not see how providing more after school clubs is going to improve things. They will [...]

Yesterday morning the entertainment department at the BBC sent me and my fellow TV critics a news release giving notice of a new comedy game show, entitled If I Ruled the World These are the first 16 words: “Lying, cheating, fighting Bribery, adultery, hypocrisy. It’s all in a day’s work for our seasoned politicians.” There [...]

Still the deal was important because, before an intern in a black beret sidetracked the presidency, Bill Clinton had showed all the signs of being deadly serious in tackling America’s grotesquely bloated output of global-warming gases. Only 20 years ago environment correspondents were writing about the threat of a new ice age. The emergence of [...]

“I am a busy man,” I told them, “and an historian of intellectual bottom. What, pray, is the subject upon which you wish me to expound?” They informed me that the subject was the sex life of Queen Victoria: they would pay me the then princely sum of pounds 125.”Quite out of the question,” I [...]