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- Hillary Clinton urges Britain to remain in the European Union
- Merkel accused of turning a blind eye to plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey
- Stop war drills and we'll stop nuclear tests, North Korea tells US after missile launch
- Prince cremated as death baffles those who witnessed a clean life
- Ohio police continue manhunt after eight people killed 'execution-style'
- Palestinians create seed bank to save their farming heritage in the Holy Land’s hills
- Ecuador earthquake death toll rises to nearly 650
- ‘Vindictive’ Polish leaders using new war museum to rewrite history, says academic
- Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru
- Anti-tax evasion measures approved by EU finance ministers
- Pit bull kills newborn baby in bed
- Huge coral reef discovered at Amazon river mouth
- If consumers knew how farmed chickens were raised, they might never eat their meat again
- Sicily: Culture and Conquest review – the original treasure island
- Arabian Nights Volume One: The Restless One review – fact meets folk tale
- Bastille Day review – tall terror tale minus the prejudice
- River on fire in Greens MP's video is natural, not fracking, says CSIRO
- Solar Impulse 2 reaches San Francisco after flight across Pacific
- The splinter is coming: the Republican race is a real life Game of Thrones plot
- Ministry of Defence should lose crown immunity, say MPs
- If the Eurocrats don’t take on Google, no one will be able to stop it | John Naughton
- Desperately overcrowded camps: Burundian refugees in Tanzania – in pictures
- Georgia man suspected of killing five was 'ticking time bomb', says daughter
- Immigrant who lied to join marines is naturalized: 'Now the law's on my side'
- Manus detainee climbs tree in rejection of PNG refugee status
- David Cameron faces knife-edge vote on child refugee policy
- Home Office ‘shamefully’ used new refugee law to deport 700 people secretly
- Angela Merkel in Turkey – in pictures
- The Kentucky gun owner who developed his own count of gun violence in the US
- Angela Merkel to launch EU aid programme for Syrians on Turkey visit
- Barack Obama tells young people they can change the world – video
- Barack Obama's visit to the UK, day two - in pictures
| Hillary Clinton urges Britain to remain in the European Union Posted: 23 Apr 2016 01:00 PM PDT US presidential hopeful weighs in on forthcoming vote as No 10 welcomes latest backing ahead of 23 June referendum Hillary Clinton has thrown her weight behind the campaign to keep Britain inside the European Union in a major new boost to David Cameron's hopes of winning a Remain vote on 23 June. After Barack Obama used his farewell trip to the UK as president to make the economic and security arguments for membership, Clinton, who is the favourite to win the Democratic nomination in July and become the first female US president, makes clear that if she enters the White House she will want the UK to be fully engaged, and leading the debate, within the EU. Continue reading... |
| Merkel accused of turning a blind eye to plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:42 AM PDT Germany's chancellor has come under fire for the €6bn deal that effectively passes the refugee buck back to the country's authorities German chancellor Angela Merkel flew into southern Turkey late on Saturday to inaugurate the EU's new aid programme for Syrians in the country, amid concerns that her visit both validates Turkey's creeping authoritarianism and overstates the EU's humanitarian contribution to the Syrian crisis. Merkel, EU council president Donald Tusk and European commission vice-president Frans Timmermans attended a photocall with Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at a new refugee camp near the Turkish-Syrian border before visiting a child protection centre. Continue reading... |
| Stop war drills and we'll stop nuclear tests, North Korea tells US after missile launch Posted: 23 Apr 2016 10:21 PM PDT Foreign minister makes remarks in western interview after regime tested submarine-launched missile off east coast in breach of UN sanctions North Korea will halt its nuclear tests if the US ceases its annual military exercises with South Korea, Kim Jong-un's foreign minister has said in a rare interview with western media. Related: North Korea's fifth nuclear test is imminent, says South Korea Continue reading... |
| Prince cremated as death baffles those who witnessed a clean life Posted: 23 Apr 2016 06:08 PM PDT Private farewell ceremony held, says publicist, as friends, colleagues and Minnesota people say he was healthy in his habits contrary to drug speculation Healthy in his habits, tireless at work and an energetic creator who friends said avoided alcohol and drugs. Prince's death has left investigators piecing together his final hours and mourners grappling with how the musician's life could have come to such a sudden end. On Saturday Prince was cremated and a group of his "most beloved" family, friends and musicians celebrated him afterwards in a small, private service, his publicist said on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Ohio police continue manhunt after eight people killed 'execution-style' Posted: 23 Apr 2016 09:34 AM PDT Officials unsure how many people were behind killing of family members in rural Pike County and have cautioned surviving relatives to keep safe Police have begun a manhunt in rural Ohio following the grisly murder of eight family members, with police advising surviving relatives to take extra precautions as no arrests have been made since the victims were found on Friday morning. Seven adults and a 16-year-old boy were shot dead "execution-style", the attorney general's office said, in four nearby properties in remote Pike County. A motive has not been determined and police are not sure how many people were behind the killing. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians create seed bank to save their farming heritage in the Holy Land’s hills Posted: 23 Apr 2016 02:38 PM PDT In the birthplace of agriculture, traditional crops are dying out. But one woman has a plan to preserve them In the rocky hills of the Palestinian West Bank, farmers learned long ago how to adapt to extremes of climate that make spring the shortest season. In a part of the world where agriculture was first practised, they found crops that could survive even if watered only by the occasional rain storm. But a form of farming that informed both Palestinian culture and identity – seeping into the language, songs and sayings – has increasingly come under threat from a combination of factors, including manmade climate change, the incursion onto Palestinian land by Israeli settlement, and agricultural companies' marketing of hybrid varieties to farmers. Continue reading... |
| Ecuador earthquake death toll rises to nearly 650 Posted: 23 Apr 2016 10:08 AM PDT President Rafael Correa describes 'sad days for the homeland' in TV broadcast as 130 remain missing after 7.8 magnitude quake The death toll from last week's earthquake in Ecuador has risen to 646, the president, Rafael Correa, has said. The 7.8 magnitude quake, Ecuador's worst in nearly seven decades, injured about 12,500 people and left 130 missing along the country's ravaged Pacific coast. Continue reading... |
| ‘Vindictive’ Polish leaders using new war museum to rewrite history, says academic Posted: 23 Apr 2016 04:05 PM PDT A £72m prestige cultural project is caught in the crossfire between 'xenophobic' politicians and historians A spectacular new museum of the second world war is at the centre of an extraordinary row between international academics and Poland's political leadership, amid claims that the country's ruling Law and Justice party is putting history at the service of politics. Due to open in December in the northern city of Gdańsk, the museum is billed as one of Europe's prestige cultural projects for 2016. It comprises 13 storeys – six of them underground – and has been built at a cost of £72m. Dozens of countries across Europe and beyond have donated artefacts, including a Sherman tank and a Soviet T34 tank. Continue reading... |
| Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru Posted: 23 Apr 2016 06:00 AM PDT Archaeologists say the mummified remains, found near one of the oldest cities in the Americas, probably belong to a noblewoman aged 40 to 50 Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the 4,500-year-old mummy of a woman buried near one of the most ancient cities of the Americas. Dr Ruth Shady Solís said the mummy was probably a noblewoman who died aged 40 to 50 years old and was buried in the coastal ruins of Aspero, about 14 miles away from Caral, a city with some of the most ancient pyramids in the Americas. Both sites stand about three hours north of the modern capital of Lima. Continue reading... |
| Anti-tax evasion measures approved by EU finance ministers Posted: 23 Apr 2016 04:04 AM PDT Ministers agree to propose joint list of tax havens and approve plan to automatically exchange data on shell company owners EU finance ministers have approved a series of measures to tackle tax-evading methods that were exposed by the Panama Papers. Speaking on the second day of talks in Amsterdam, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the finance minister of the Netherlands, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said: "The sense of urgency is definitely much bigger. Continue reading... |
| Pit bull kills newborn baby in bed Posted: 22 Apr 2016 07:04 PM PDT Police in San Diego say American Staffordshire-cross fatally bit three-day-old boy when it was startled while lying down with family in San Diego A pit bull terrier crossbreed dog lying in bed with a San Diego couple bit and killed their three-day-old son when it was startled awake. Related: Hospital admissions for injuries caused by dogs up 76% in 10 years Continue reading... |
| Huge coral reef discovered at Amazon river mouth Posted: 22 Apr 2016 10:00 AM PDT Scientists astonished to find 600-mile long reef under the muddy water in a site already marked for oil exploration A huge 3,600 sq mile (9,300 sq km) coral reef system has been found below the muddy waters off the mouth of the river Amazon, astonishing scientists, governments and oil companies who have started to explore on top of it. The existence of the 600-mile long reef, which ranges from about 30-120m deep and stretches from French Guiana to Brazil's Maranhão state, was not suspected because many of the world's great rivers produce major gaps in reef systems where no corals grow. Continue reading... |
| If consumers knew how farmed chickens were raised, they might never eat their meat again Posted: 24 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT The debate about animal welfare has intensified The year 2012 marked a leap forward for animal welfare in the European Union. Farmers were no longer allowed to keep egg-laying hens in barren battery cages smaller than an A4 sheet of paper. Instead, the minimum requirement now is that hens are kept in a cage the size of an A4 sheet of paper, with an extra postcard-sized bit of shared space that allows them to scratch and nest. These are known as enriched cages. Animal welfare campaigners would like to see them abolished too, saying they barely make a difference to the birds' ability to express their natural behaviour and live free from stress. Around half of the eggs we eat are still produced in caged systems. Continue reading... |
| Sicily: Culture and Conquest review – the original treasure island Posted: 24 Apr 2016 12:00 AM PDT British Museum, London Archimedes had his eureka moment in a bath in Syracuse in Sicily. Antipholus, protagonist of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, comes from the very same place. Cicero described Syracuse as the greatest and most beautiful of all Greek cities, when it was not so much an outpost as a grand imperial metropolis. Consider this when you're passing through this dusty city on the glittering Sicilian shores: it was once as large and powerful as ancient Athens. The truth of this becomes apparent in an enthralling new show at the British Museum. Sicily: Culture and Conquest sweeps aside all the tourist cliches of beaches, lemons, the Mafia and Montalbano to reveal an island occupied by so many different cultures – Greeks and Romans, Muslim Arabs and Africans, the Normans, the Spanish and eventually the mainland Italians – that it is well described as a kind of Mediterranean America. Continue reading... |
| Arabian Nights Volume One: The Restless One review – fact meets folk tale Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:59 PM PDT The Thousand and One Nights proves a rich source of inspiration for this heady mix of documentary, magic realism and satire Portuguese director Miguel Gomes's triptych (the three parts open on consecutive weeks in the UK) includes an on-screen declaration that what we are about to see is not an adaptation of the book Arabian Nights. Instead, it's a collection of "stories, characters and places" inspired by "facts that occurred in Portugal between August 2013 and July 2014" and which draw upon the structure of the tales of Scheherazade. Faced with the imminent closure of the Viana do Castelo shipyard (an event he cannot quite connect to the extermination of wasps that are endangering native bees) and unable to reconcile the miserable plight of his country with the desire to make a "fine film, filled with wonderful, seductive stories", Gomes runs away from the set of his own movie. Pursued by his crew, the director attempts to stave off execution for abandoning his post by embarking upon a string of dazzling stories. In Volume One we have a tale of men with magical hard-ons wrestling with issues of financial flaccidity; the story of The Cockerel and the Fire, in which a bird accused of crowing too early becomes a political football and a broken heart causes text message-inspired conflagrations; and The Swim of the Magnificents, in which a washed-up whale rots explosively upon a beach while we listen to what appear to be authentic stories of lost jobs, savings, homes and worse. Continue reading... |
| Bastille Day review – tall terror tale minus the prejudice Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:59 PM PDT The latest terrorist thriller sees Idris Elba and Richard Madden racing through a ridiculous plot without the film resorting to crass stereotypes British director James Watkins follows Eden Lake and The Woman in Black with this Parisian thriller about a "reckless, insubordinate and irresponsible" CIA agent (Idris Elba), first tracking and then teaming up with a light-fingered pickpocket (Richard Madden) as terror-fuelled unrest mounts in the run-up to France's 14 July celebrations. The plot is absurd, but at least Bastille Day sidesteps the xenophobic caricatures of London Has Fallen, preferring to subvert rather than celebrate broiling prejudices. Crunchy fights and a vertiginous rooftop chase crank up the action, while viral videos and hashtagged calls to arms lend an illusion of modernity to the old-fashioned proceedings. Continue reading... |
| River on fire in Greens MP's video is natural, not fracking, says CSIRO Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:40 PM PDT Jeremy Buckingham says scientists 'making excuses' for CSG industry after footage shows him touching off sheet of flame on the Condamine river The CSIRO has defended its independence after a Greens MP, whose footage of burning methane on a Queensland river went viral, accused the government-funded research body of "making excuses" for the coal seam gas industry. Jeremy Buckingham, a member of the New South Wales parliament's upper house, posted the video, which showed him lighting the surface of the Condamine river with a barbecue lighter and sending flames licking around the boat, on his Facebook page on Friday. By Sunday it had been shared 13,000 times and had 2.2m views. Continue reading... |
| Solar Impulse 2 reaches San Francisco after flight across Pacific Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:24 PM PDT Plane powered only by sun flies over Golden Gate Bridge after spending 56 hours coming from Hawaii on riskiest leg of its journey around the world The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 performed a flyby over San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday after a 56-hour flight over the Pacific Ocean. Related: Solar Impulse: round-the-world flight to continue after raising €20m Continue reading... |
| The splinter is coming: the Republican race is a real life Game of Thrones plot Posted: 23 Apr 2016 05:48 AM PDT Donald Trump, the man who would be king, is pivoting from the 'chaos candidate' to a walking, talking politician as Ted Cruz schemes in the wings, plotting his convention takeover. What fresh plot twists await Republican voters? Warning: this story contains a minor handful of Game of Thrones spoilers The political battlefield is strewn with corpses. One man "goes into this thing, he's competing against senators and governors at the highest level of our nation", Donald Trump declared of himself in the third person on Friday: "And one by one they get knocked off." "Bom, bom, bom, bom. Now I'm left with two guys. Hardly two guys. Maybe you could say one. A half and a half." |
| Ministry of Defence should lose crown immunity, say MPs Posted: 23 Apr 2016 04:01 PM PDT Committee says MoD should be stripped of historic immunity from prosecution when personnel are killed during training The Ministry of Defence should lose its historic immunity from prosecution when armed forces personnel are killed during training, the Commons defence committee has said. A detailed report by MPs, published on Sunday, concludes that the MoD should be liable for corporate manslaughter charges when there is a serious failing in its duty of care. "The lives of serving personnel are worth no less than those of civilians and those responsible for their deaths must be equally liable under the law," the committee said. Continue reading... |
| If the Eurocrats don’t take on Google, no one will be able to stop it | John Naughton Posted: 24 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT The European commission's challenge to US tech giants might seem futile, but it's a war that must be fought Last week, the European commission, that bete noire of Messrs Gove, Johnson & co, resumed its attack on Google. On Wednesday, Eurocrats filed formal charges against the company, accusing it of abusing its dominance of the Android operating system, which is currently the world's most-used mobile operating system software. This new charge comes on top of an earlier case in which the commission accused Google of abusing its overwhelming dominance of the web-search market in Europe in order to favour its own enterprises over those of competitors. This could be a big deal. If the commission decides that Google has indeed broken European competition law, then it can levy fines of up to 10% of the company's annual global revenue for each of the charges. Given that Google's global sales last year came to nearly $75bn, we're talking about a possible fine of $15bn (£10.5bn). Even by Google standards, that's serious money. And it's not exactly an idle threat: in the past, the Eurocrats have taken more than a billion dollars off both Microsoft and Intel for such violations. Continue reading... |
| Desperately overcrowded camps: Burundian refugees in Tanzania – in pictures Posted: 23 Apr 2016 03:00 AM PDT More than 250,000 people have fled Burundi since it descended into violence one year ago. At least a quarter of those now live in Nyarugusu, on the Tanzanian border. The world's third largest refugee settlement, it hosts more than 140,000 people – three times the number it was built to house All photographs by Phil Moore/Oxfam Continue reading... |
| Georgia man suspected of killing five was 'ticking time bomb', says daughter Posted: 23 Apr 2016 09:39 PM PDT Daughter says Wayne Anthony Hawes, whose body was recovered in his home, 'made threats before but we never thought it would be at this capacity' The daughter of a north-east Georgia man suspected of shooting five people dead before killing himself has said her father was a "ticking time bomb." Lauren Hawes said on Saturday that she, her mother Angela Dent and her one-year-old daughter hid in a neighbour's house — barely escaping with their lives — while her father, Wayne Anthony Hawes, 50, went on a bloody rampage and killed five people, including her grandmother and cousin. Continue reading... |
| Immigrant who lied to join marines is naturalized: 'Now the law's on my side' Posted: 23 Apr 2016 12:24 PM PDT Daniel Torres, once an undocumented immigrant who 'wanted to earn my place in the United States', used a fake birth certificate to serve in Iraq Daniel Torres was an undocumented immigrant when he used a false US birth certificate to join the marine corps. After serving in Iraq, he was found out and discharged. Eventually he returned to Tijuana, where he was born, though he said he was always homesick for the country he had fought for. But on Thursday, in San Diego, the 30-year-old veteran was sworn in as a US citizen. Continue reading... |
| Manus detainee climbs tree in rejection of PNG refugee status Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:55 PM PDT 'I have never wanted to resettle in [Papua New Guinea],' says Behrouz Bouchani, a Kurdish journalist who fled Iran to seek asylum in Australia in 2013 A Manus Island asylum seeker who has been slated for release in Papua New Guinea as a processed refugee climbed a tree on Sunday to prevent guards from moving him to a crowded pre-release centre. Behrouz Bouchani, a Kurdish journalist and writer who fled Iran to seek asylum in Australia in 2013, told Guardian Australia that he was to be moved from one of the regional processing centre's three main compounds, Foxtrot, to another compound, Oscar, because the PNG government had determined he was a genuine refugee. Continue reading... |
| David Cameron faces knife-edge vote on child refugee policy Posted: 23 Apr 2016 02:00 PM PDT Tory MPs join chorus of calls for UK to admit more unaccompanied young people fleeing war-torn homelands David Cameron faces the possibility of a humiliating Commons defeat on Monday over policy on child refugees, as Tory MPs demand that the UK admits more unaccompanied young people who have fled to Europe from their war-torn homelands. At least a dozen Tory MPs were said to be considering whether to back an amendment to the immigration bill, tabled by Labour peer Lord Dubs and backed by the House of Lords last month, which commits the UK to take in 3,000 lone child refugees who are already in Europe. Continue reading... |
| Home Office ‘shamefully’ used new refugee law to deport 700 people secretly Posted: 23 Apr 2016 11:53 AM PDT The government deported 700 people under Dublin rules and allowed 20 unaccompanied children trapped in Calais to enter UK by Mark Townsend The Home Office has been accused of "shameful" behaviour for using the agreement that allows vulnerable children to seek asylum in the United Kingdom to secretly deport more than 700 people. Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel in Turkey – in pictures Posted: 23 Apr 2016 09:34 AM PDT German chancellor visits refugee camp in Nizip, near Gaziantep and Syrian border, as she prepares to inaugurate EU-Turkey migration deal Continue reading... |
| The Kentucky gun owner who developed his own count of gun violence in the US Posted: 23 Apr 2016 08:39 AM PDT After finding holes in national gun statistics in the wake of Sandy Hook, Mark Bryant, who has been shooting guns since he was five, decided to keep track himself. Since 2014, he's recorded more than 100,000 incidents The "good guy with a gun". He's armed with a concealed-carry permit at home and a loaded pistol at his side. To hear fervent gun rights advocates tell it, he uses his gun to defuse tense, violent situations and keep those around him safe all the time. It's a storyline reinforced by groups such as the National Rifle Association, whose vocal leader Wayne LaPierre has perpetuated the mantra: "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel to launch EU aid programme for Syrians on Turkey visit Posted: 23 Apr 2016 07:39 AM PDT German chancellor to visit camp and child protection centre with Ahmet Davutoğlu amid concerns over refugee deal The German chancellor, Angel Merkel, has arrived in southern Turkey to inaugurate the EU aid programme for Syrians in the country, amid concerns that her visit validates Turkey's creeping authoritarianism and overstates the EU's humanitarian contribution to the Syrian crisis. Merkel, along with the European council president, Donald Tusk, and Frans Timmermans, the first vice-president of the European commission, were met on Saturday by the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu. The delegation will visit a new refugee camp near the border with Syria before visiting a child protection centre. Continue reading... |
| Barack Obama tells young people they can change the world – video Posted: 23 Apr 2016 06:09 AM PDT Barack Obama addresses an audience of young people at a town hall-style event in London on Saturday on the final day of his visit to the UK. Obama urges young people to ignore cynics telling them they cannot change the world. He says: 'young people's capacity to shape this world is unmatched, what an incredible privilege that is' Continue reading... |
| Barack Obama's visit to the UK, day two - in pictures Posted: 23 Apr 2016 03:50 AM PDT The US president addressed an audience of young people in London, toured Shakespeare's Globe theatre, and met a tired Prince George Continue reading... |
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