57 h. ago ‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battlesGame designer and ex-Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki died last week aged 58. He was famous for his sunglasses, long black hair, leather jackets – and his penchant for using colourful second world war metaphors to describe game development, marketing strategies and just about anything else. A pugnacious talent, he rocked the boat and made waves in almost every aspect of his life.Itagaki joined Japanese game developer Tecmo in 1992, as a young programmer, where he led the creation of the fighting game series Dead or Alive, the first instalment of which was released in 1996. He famously picked a long-running fight with Namco’s Tekken series, after that company’s marketing team ran an ad that he found disparaging. The resulting one-sided beef put his fighting franchise on the world stage in the early 2000s. After Dead or Alive 3, he turned his attentions to beach volleyball as a palette ...

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58 h. ago Two dead at Melbourne beach as wild wind batters state, while parts of Sydney hit by record

Sydney’s Observatory Hill peaks at 37C on Wednesday – below the 39C forecast – as the mercury in other parts of the city neared 40CFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo men have died after being pulled from the water at a Victorian beach amid wild weather in the state.On Wednesday evening, Victoria police confirmed two men were found unresponsive in the water at Frankston Beach, on the Mornington Peninsula, just after 5pm. The men, who are yet to be identified, could not be revived. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Tragedy as critically endangered sea creature washes up again dead after Scots beach rescue

The native Scottish fish, which resembles a stingray, can grow up to 2.8m long and they usually stay at around 100m deep in the ocean.

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8 d. ago Mystery as 26 killer whales wash up dead on beach and scientists don’t know why

It is believed to be the third known stranding of type D orcas worldwide

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1 week ago California State University Long Beach student, 22, is found dead and now his roommate is charged with murder

A second roommate was also stabbed but was transported to a hospital in stable condition

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2 w. ago 'Woman with the German keys' identified 21 years after being found dead on beach

The body of German national Eva Maria Pommer was known only as 'the woman with the German keys' for nearly 21 years after she was found on a Dutch beach in 2004

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2 w. ago Gerry McCann lists three reasons they refused to do 'fake' Maddie's DNA test

Gerry McCann told a trial he felt no temptation to do a DNA test for the "fake" Madeleine, who is accused of stalking the missing Brit's family and broke down in tears

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2 w. ago Ex cop begs for truth to be told over Brit girl who went missing from Australia beach

Cheryl Grimmer vanished 55 years ago after leaving Fairy Meadow Beach, Wollongong and has never been seen again

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2 w. ago Major update in search for Brit tourist who ‘may have been eaten by a crocodile’ after ‘vanishing’ in South Africa

A MAJOR update in the hunt for a missing British hiker has come just a week after the search kicked off. British tourist Elaine McSorley vanished after embarking on a self-guided hike from her South African hotel last week. But the search for the missing 71-year-old has been called off with no trace of her,...

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2 w. ago 'Fake' Maddie McCann cries as stalking trial hears 'unequivocal proof' she isn't missing Brit

Prosecutors said Wandelt "pursued the myth” that she was Madeleine and stalked the missing girl’s parents by sending emails, making phone calls and turning up at their home.

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3 w. ago Desperate hunt for missing Brit, 71, who vanished on hike to croc

Tourist Elaine McSorley, 71, was staying at a hotel in Mkhuze in South Africa’s KwaZulu Province with her husband Leon, 81, when the pair decided to go for a walk to search for wildlife

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3 w. ago Police hunting Brit finance manager, 33, who vanished from plush Rio suburb four months ago find body in dense forest

London-based finance manager Denis Kopanev, 33, mysteriously vanished on Monday, June 9 in Gavea, Rio de Janerio and a body has now been found.

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3 w. ago Woman missing in storm as Brit holiday hotspot swamped by flash floods

Torrential rain and flash flooding is causing chaos in parts of Sicily, Italy.

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3 w. ago Brit holiday hotspot swamped by flash floods with woman missing in latest storm

Latest weather news as popular British holiday hotspots hit by wet weather with roads turning into rivers and hundreds of people trapped across Europe amid heavy rainfall

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3 w. ago Man, 80, found dead on rocks along popular UK beach after huge rescue operation

The body of an 80-year-old man has been recovered from Sidmouth beach in Devon after he was seen having got into difficulty on rocks leading to an emergency service operation

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3 w. ago Chilling moment Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner refuses to answer if he killed missing Brit girl

CONVICTED paedo and Madeleine McCann prime suspect has refused to reveal whether he killed the missing girl. The creep, 48, said he had been advised not to respond to questions about Maddie - and that he would stick to that. Speaking to Sky News, Brueckner also pleaded for the "witch hunt" against him to stop....

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3 w. ago Kebab shop theft led to last sighting of missing Brit sailor James Nunan

James Nunan, 34, has been missing for over a month but investigators in Spain revealed how a theft at the kebab shop led them to his last sighting, before he vanished on a round-the-world sailing trip

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3 w. ago Missing Brit sailor ‘likely fell in sea from yacht mast’ after last sighting at kebab shop as cops reveal new theory

COPS suggest the Brit who went missing on a solo sailing trip may have fallen in the sea from the yacht mast as the hunt for him continues. James Nunan, 34, was five months into his round-the-world trip when he mysteriously vanished on August 18. James from Reading, better-known to family and friends as Jemsie, had been at the pub,...

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4 w. ago Missing Brit, 23, who vanished from Bali beach found dead as pals slam rescuers

The body of Harrison Edward Nada-Kantounas, 23, was found today following a search that was launched with pals and Indonesian officials after he vanished on September 17

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4 w. ago Missing Brit tourist found dead after being swept out to sea ‘while lifeguard looked at phone’ as family pays tribute

A BRITISH tourist who went missing while swimming in Bali has been found dead two miles offshore as his grieving family and friends pay tributes. Harrison Edward Nada-Kantounas, 23, from East London, vanished while swimming with friends at Legian Beach, Kuta, last Wednesday. He was caught in a powerful rip current and disappeared beneath the...

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