Donald Trump has blamed Democrats for the US government shutdown, saying in a tweet they had “played politics” instead of prioritising the military and border safety. He tweeted early on Saturday morning: “Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They…

Despite having ascended to the presidency on a carefully-crafted image as a dealmaker, Trump was unable to convince recalcitrant Democrats, and even a few restive GOP members, to drop their opposition. Democrats pressed hard for measures to resolve sticky wedge issues like immigration and children’s health, which have also managed to divide Republicans. The White…

Image copyright AFP Image caption Turkish war planes hit Kurdish positions on the Syrian side of the border on Saturday Turkey’s military says its war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish positions in northern Syria, in a move likely to cause tensions with the US. It is seeking to oust Kurdish fighters from Afrin…

I was looking for a tutorial/book that would teach me how to start to use FFmpeg as a library (a.k.a. libav) and then I found the « How to write a video player in less than 1k lines » tutorial.Unfortunately it was deprecated, so I decided to write this one. Most of the code in here will…

The grieving young fiancee of a footballer who died after collapsing during a game is struggling to pay their £60K mortgage after he was denied life insurance. Mitchell Joseph keeled over in the goal mouth during the first half of a match in Swansea last Saturday. He was treated at the scene, then rushed to…