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- Philippines election: voters go to polls as frontrunner pledges to kill criminals
- Tax havens have no economic justification, say top economists
- 'I have to be taller': the unregulated world of India's limb-lengthening industry
- City planners tap into wealth of cycling data from Strava tracking app
- Donald Trump: I don't need Republican unity to win
- Afghanistan executes six Taliban prisoners
- Lenin Lab: the team keeping the first Soviet leader embalmed
- Giulio Regeni murder investigators from Italy and Egypt meet in Cairo
- 'There will not be any escape': El Chapo's prisoner's welcome in Ciudad Juárez
- Spanish journalists held captive in Syria since July arrive home
- Balearic Islands consider banning tourist cars to avoid summer gridlock
- Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills more than 70 people
- Canadian officials hope to put 'death grip' on raging Fort McMurray fire
- Man arrested over hit-and-run death of MMA fighter Jordan Parsons
- Prince Harry criticises 'incessant' intrusions into his private life
- Professor: flight was delayed because my equations raised terror fears
- 'We're making our voices heard': Filipinos on the presidential election
- North Korea expels 'disrespectful' BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
- Before solitary: a young man's journey in the US prison system – video
- Ben Needham: police return to Kos 25 years after boy went missing
- EU referendum: Cameron warns that leaving EU could put peace at risk - Politics live
- Israel brings fresh charges against nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu
- MH370 search: flight recorder found in Somalia not from missing plane
- Would-be senator Angry Anderson says he feels Australia's 'pain'
- Greek MPs approve toughest austerity measures yet amid rioting
- British execute insurgents involved in Dublin rising – archive, 1916
- Turkish president urges every company to hire one unemployed person
- Dozens buried by landslide in south–east China after heavy rains
- Injured man describes being in Afghanistan bus crash – video
- 'Crude, but rarely nasty': The jokes Europeans tell about their neighbours
- Eyewitness: Manila, Philippines
- Chief rabbi: 'Zionist-bashing on campus has gone unchallenged'
- Stonewall Inn regulars applaud Obama amid monument plans: 'It's about time'
- If settling refugees beyond camps is best for them, why are they still struggling? | Emily Troutman
- Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump is a loose cannon – video
| Philippines election: voters go to polls as frontrunner pledges to kill criminals Posted: 08 May 2016 06:54 PM PDT Rodrigo Duterte issues threat to 'drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings', after outgoing president Benigno Aquino compares him to Hitler Voting has begun in the Philippines in a general election that opinion surveys suggest will see a tough-taking mayor, dubbed "the Punisher" for his lax attitude to extrajudicial killings, clinch the presidency. Rodrigo Duterte, a 71-year-old ex-prosecutor, has run an obscenity-filled campaign in which he has boasted about Viagra-fuelled affairs and joked about raping a missionary. Continue reading... |
| Tax havens have no economic justification, say top economists Posted: 09 May 2016 12:36 AM PDT Thomas Piketty and Jeffrey Sachs among signatories of letter urging world leaders at UK anti-corruption summit to lift secrecy More than 300 economists, including Thomas Piketty, are urging world leaders at a London summit this week to recognise that there is no economic benefit to tax havens, demanding that the veil of secrecy that surrounds them be lifted. David Cameron agreed to host the summit nearly a year ago, but the event is in danger of simply turning a spotlight on how the British government has failed to persuade its overseas territories to stop harbouring secretly stored cash. Continue reading... |
| 'I have to be taller': the unregulated world of India's limb-lengthening industry Posted: 08 May 2016 05:55 PM PDT Young Indians are paying for complex, painful procedures despite the absence of medical oversight in the race to improve career and marriage prospects Komal never told her friends where she really went for six months last year. The 24-year-old, from the town of Kota, in western India, went to see Dr Amar Sarin, an orthopaedic surgeon in Delhi, who made her eight centimetres (3in) taller, a procedure which involved breaking the bones in her legs and wearing a brace until she could walk again. Continue reading... |
| City planners tap into wealth of cycling data from Strava tracking app Posted: 09 May 2016 12:26 AM PDT Seventy-six cities and regions are using Strava Metro data to help assess and shape transport policy Sheila Lyons recalls the way Oregon used to collect data on how many people rode bikes. "It was very haphazard, two-hour counts done once a year," said the woman in charge of cycling policy for the state government. "Volunteers, sitting on the street corner because they wanted better bike facilities. Pathetic, really." But in 2013 a colleague had an idea. She recorded her own bike rides using an app called Strava, and thought: why not ask the company to share its data? And so was born Strava Metro, both an inadvertent tech business spinoff and a similarly accidental urban planning tool, one that is now quietly helping to reshape streets in more than 70 places around the world and counting. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump: I don't need Republican unity to win Posted: 09 May 2016 12:02 AM PDT
Facing rebellion from within his own party, Donald Trump has dismissed unity as a prerequisite for winning the White House in November. Related: Clinton-Trump election could 'scramble' traditional electoral map, experts say Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan executes six Taliban prisoners Posted: 08 May 2016 07:30 AM PDT Judicial killings come after president Ashraf Ghani's pledged that country's 'amnesty' for militants was over The Afghan government has executed six Taliban prisoners, solidifying a change in policy that further threatens the likelihood of peace talks. Sunday's executions followed a promise from the president, Ashraf Ghani, to take a harder line against the Taliban after a massive truck bomb on 19 April in Kabul killed at least 64 people. Continue reading... |
| Lenin Lab: the team keeping the first Soviet leader embalmed Posted: 09 May 2016 12:19 AM PDT As the Kremlin releases preservation costs for the first time, The Moscow Times looks back on this unlikely 90-year experiment He lies in a glass sarcophagus, his reddish moustache trimmed and his hands resting on his thighs. Dressed in an austere black suit, Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet leader, looks at first to be a waxwork. Yet this is in fact the preserved body of a man who died 92 years ago. If carefully monitored and re-embalmed regularly, scientists believe he can last in this state for centuries more. Continue reading... |
| Giulio Regeni murder investigators from Italy and Egypt meet in Cairo Posted: 08 May 2016 09:59 AM PDT Move aimed at breaking deadlock over inquiry into death of student comes amid diplomatic tensions between the countries Italian and Egyptian investigators have met in Cairo in an attempt to break the deadlock over the investigation into the torture and murder of the student Giulio Regeni, a day after a court hearing in which his family's legal aide was detained for a further 15 days. A delegation of Italian investigators landed in the Egyptian capital on Saturday night, a month after Rome recalled its ambassador from Cairo over its dissatisfaction at the progress of the investigation. Continue reading... |
| 'There will not be any escape': El Chapo's prisoner's welcome in Ciudad Juárez Posted: 08 May 2016 06:33 AM PDT Local and civic leaders see drug lord's move as a sign of growing confidence in border city's security system State and civic officials seldom speak happily about the prospect of a high-profile prisoner, or see a crime lord's arrival as a sign to the world that their city is recovering and attracting investment. Yet the governor of Chihuahua state appeared enthused about having cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán occupy a prison cell in Ciudad Juárez – the border city once considered the murder capital of the world. Local leaders there are anxious to shed old stereotypes and show that security institutions are improved enough to house Mexico's most notorious criminal and two-time escape artist. |
| Spanish journalists held captive in Syria since July arrive home Posted: 08 May 2016 08:44 AM PDT Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel López and Ángel Sastre are reunited with relatives in Madrid but Spanish PM silent on how releases secured Three Spanish freelance journalists held captive in Syria for nearly 10 months have returned home, tearfully hugging relatives as they got off a military jet sent to Turkey to bring them back. Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel López and Ángel Sastre shook hands with the deputy prime minister, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaria, on the tarmac of the Torrejón de Ardoz air force base on the outskirts of Madrid on Sunday. They then smiled and cried as relatives ran to hug them. Continue reading... |
| Balearic Islands consider banning tourist cars to avoid summer gridlock Posted: 08 May 2016 06:40 AM PDT Officials say they may stop people arriving in smaller islands by car as region prepares to receive record number of visitors Tourism chiefs in the Balearic Islands could ban cars from the smaller islands during the summer months as the region braces for a record number of visitors. The islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera, which have a population of 1.1 million, are expecting 13.5 million visitors this year. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills more than 70 people Posted: 08 May 2016 07:53 AM PDT Dozens badly injured after collision between tanker and two buses on Kabul-Kandahar highway in area prone to Taliban activity More than 70 people are believed to have been killed in easter n Afghanistan after two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision, health officials said. Dozens of others were badly injured in the accident on Sunday in Ghazni province, near the Afghan capital, one of the areas worst affected by the Taliban insurgency. Continue reading... |
| Canadian officials hope to put 'death grip' on raging Fort McMurray fire Posted: 08 May 2016 08:17 AM PDT
Cooler weather and light rains left Canadian officials hopeful that they could put a "death grip" on the blazing wildfire that has raged through northern Alberta, engulfing neighbourhoods and forcing the evacuation of an entire city. Related: Alberta wildfire explodes across forests: 'in no way is this under control' Continue reading... |
| Man arrested over hit-and-run death of MMA fighter Jordan Parsons Posted: 08 May 2016 06:52 AM PDT
A man has been arrested in Florida over the death of professional mixed martial artist Jordan Parsons, who died last week after a hit-and-run incident. Delray Beach Police say 28-year-old Dennis Wright was arrested after an anonymous tip from a member of the public, and faces multiple charges. Parsons was struck by a grey SUV while crossing the road near his apartment on 1 May and died three days later from his injuries. A witness said the vehicle was travelling "between 100 and 120mph" when Parsons was struck, and did not stop after the accident. Continue reading... |
| Prince Harry criticises 'incessant' intrusions into his private life Posted: 08 May 2016 03:54 AM PDT Line between public and private life almost non-existent, says prince during interview marking start of Invictus Games Prince Harry has criticised "incessant" intrusions into his private life, saying the line between his public and private life had become almost non-existent. "We will continue to do our best to ensure that there is the line," he told Andrew Marr in a BBC interview to mark the opening in Florida of the Invictus Games, of which he is patron, for injured military personnel and veterans. Continue reading... |
| Professor: flight was delayed because my equations raised terror fears Posted: 07 May 2016 10:19 AM PDT American Airlines says woman expressed suspicion about University of Pennsylvania economics professor, who was solving a differential equation An economics professor says his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist. American Airlines confirmed on Saturday that a woman expressed suspicions about a University of Pennsylvania economics professor, Guido Menzio. She said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight. Continue reading... |
| 'We're making our voices heard': Filipinos on the presidential election Posted: 09 May 2016 01:18 AM PDT Fifty-four million Filipinos are registered to vote across the country. We asked you what the mood is like and who you think will be the next president With Rodrigo Duterte still leading the polls to be the next president of the Philippines, Filipinos in the country and working overseas have been keeping a close eye on how people are voting. As Filipinos take to the polls on Monday we asked you what the current mood is like and what your hopes are for the future president. |
| North Korea expels 'disrespectful' BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes Posted: 09 May 2016 12:06 AM PDT Tokyo correspondent expelled after three days in detention following reports that he was 'disrespectful' towards Kim Jong-un The BBC's Tokyo correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, has been expelled from North Korea, three days after he was detained in the capital, Pyongyang, over reports that the authorities said "insulted the country's dignity" and were disrespectful towards its leader, Kim Jong-un. Wingfield-Hayes was detained on Friday along with producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard as they were about to leave North Korea, according to the BBC website. Continue reading... |
| Before solitary: a young man's journey in the US prison system – video Posted: 08 May 2016 11:43 PM PDT Tyreik Gilford, 26, was convicted of a drug charge and sentenced to six years in prison on 27 February 2015. In November, he was placed in solitary confinement, locked away in a 14ft by 9ft concrete cell for 22 hours a day, where he remains This is part of our 6x9 solitary confinement project. Find out more here Continue reading... |
| Ben Needham: police return to Kos 25 years after boy went missing Posted: 09 May 2016 01:16 AM PDT Team of officers from South Yorkshire police return to Greek island to look for new witnesses A team of British police officers is heading for the Greek island of Kos to look for new witnesses in the search for Ben Needham, who went missing as a toddler almost 25 years ago. Ben, from Sheffield, was 21 months old when he vanished on 24 July 1991 after travelling to the island with his mother and grandparents. Continue reading... |
| EU referendum: Cameron warns that leaving EU could put peace at risk - Politics live Posted: 09 May 2016 01:09 AM PDT Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson's EU referendum speeches
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Q: Aren't you scaremongering? Won't people disbelieve you? Cameron says things like conflict in the Ukraine are facts. Continue reading... |
| Israel brings fresh charges against nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Posted: 08 May 2016 07:09 PM PDT Former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear programme is accused of breaching restraining orders Israeli prosecutors charged nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu on Sunday with violating the terms of his release, more than a decade after he completed an 18-year jail term. Upon his release in 2004, Vanunu was slapped with a series of restraining orders, some of which he has violated in recent years, the justice ministry said. Continue reading... |
| MH370 search: flight recorder found in Somalia not from missing plane Posted: 08 May 2016 10:17 PM PDT Australian officials say the 'black box' found washed up on a beach is an older type than that used in MH370 A flight recorder found washed up on a Somali beach is not from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The orange, spherical object was found on a beach near the coastal town of Gara'ad by a local businessman identified only as Gaashaanle Ciiraale, Somalia's Jariiban News Network reported on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Would-be senator Angry Anderson says he feels Australia's 'pain' Posted: 09 May 2016 01:00 AM PDT Self-described 'baddest boy' in the country stands under banner of anti-Islam Australian Liberty Alliance Time has mellowed Angry Anderson. "I feel pain in this country," the former Rose Tattoo frontman told the dozen or so people gathered at a north Sydney golf club on Monday. "I feel anxiety, frustration, anger." The self-described "baddest boy in Australia" was launching his latest Senate foray, this one with the Australian Liberty Alliance, the political wing of a cluster of groups opposed to halal certification and the "Islamisation" of the west. Continue reading... |
| Greek MPs approve toughest austerity measures yet amid rioting Posted: 08 May 2016 11:17 PM PDT Crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers will be held on Monday amid backdrop of violence in Athens over cuts worth €5.4bn Greece's leftist-led coalition will turn to the lightning rod issue of debt relief on Monday at a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers following the late-night approval in Athens of laws overhauling the country's tax and pension system. Amid violence on the streets and a three-day general strike that had brought much of the country to a halt, the embattled government pushed the legislation through parliament with the backing of its 153 MPS. Addressing the 300-seat House, prime minister Alexis Tsipras said: "We are determined to make Greece stand on its two feet at any cost." Continue reading... |
| British execute insurgents involved in Dublin rising – archive, 1916 Posted: 08 May 2016 09:00 PM PDT 9 May 1916: The work of rounding up the rebels proceeds vigorously. In county Wexford already 300 are in custody 1916 Easter Rising: how the Guardian reported events Twenty-three more death sentences after trials by court-martial were announced in last night's official report issued from Headquarters in Ireland. Of these four have been carried out – the men who have been shot (says the announcement) were very prominent in the rising – and nineteen commuted to various terms of penal servitude. Edmund Kent, a member of the "Provisional Government," is one of the four rebels who suffered the death penalty. Altogether twelve men have been executed and sixty-six persons sentenced to various terms of penal servitude. The work of "rounding up" the rebels proceeds vigorously. In county Wexford already 300 rebels are in custody, including six women, and in Galway exhausted and dejected prisoners are being brought in. Continue reading... |
| Turkish president urges every company to hire one unemployed person Posted: 08 May 2016 06:56 PM PDT Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveils plan to tackle joblessness, telling business leaders they cannot take their money to the grave Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday came up with a novel scheme to rein in the country's high unemployment levels, saying every company should take on one unemployed person. Turkey's main private sector organisation, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), has about 1.5 million members, Erdoğan said in a speech to business leaders. Continue reading... |
| Dozens buried by landslide in south–east China after heavy rains Posted: 08 May 2016 06:48 PM PDT At least 41 construction workers missing after torrent of mud and rocks tore through hydroelectric dam building site Chinese president Xi Jinping has ordered "maximum efforts" to find survivors after dozens of people were buried by a landslide caused by heavy rains in south–east China. On Monday domestic media said at least 41 people were missing after a torrent of boulders and mud tore through the construction site of a hydroelectric dam in Fujian province the previous morning. Continue reading... |
| Injured man describes being in Afghanistan bus crash – video Posted: 08 May 2016 07:57 AM PDT WARNING: some viewers may find the following footage distressing. An injured man describes his experience after two buses collided with a fuel tanker on a highway in the central province of Ghazni on Sunday. Over 70 people have died and dozens more injured as the accident set all three vehicles ablaze in one of the wort road accidents in the war-battered nation Continue reading... |
| 'Crude, but rarely nasty': The jokes Europeans tell about their neighbours Posted: 08 May 2016 06:58 AM PDT The Portuguese mock the supercilious Spanish, the Macedonians pity Greek men's sexual prowess, and everyone has a go at the Belgians Europe is the migrant crisis, the Greek crisis, the euro crisis. It is the CAP, Ecofin and Eurostat. It is Schengen suspended, anti-Europeans on the march, and the imminent threat of Brexit. Related: Wanted: more jokes about an Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman Continue reading... |
| Eyewitness: Manila, Philippines Posted: 08 May 2016 05:01 AM PDT Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading... |
| Chief rabbi: 'Zionist-bashing on campus has gone unchallenged' Posted: 08 May 2016 04:57 AM PDT Ephraim Mirvis says university vice-chancellors should be aware of vilification of Jewish students The reputation of British universities is in danger of being tarnished by the "vilification" of Jewish students on campuses, the chief rabbi has said. "Zionist-bashing on campus has gone unchallenged," said Ephraim Mirvis. His comments came after the Labour party was hit by an antisemitism row, and a string of student unions threatened to break with their national body over the election of a president whose statements about Zionism have caused deep concern. Continue reading... |
| Stonewall Inn regulars applaud Obama amid monument plans: 'It's about time' Posted: 08 May 2016 04:00 AM PDT With the president reportedly poised to make 'LGBT ground zero' a national monument, witnesses and visitors reflect on 'the night the freaks fought back' In an upstairs room at the Stonewall Inn in New York, drag legend Lady Bunny paused her stream of filthy jokes and Adele parodies just long enough to tell her audience: "This is ground zero for LGBT rights in this country – and the world." Most did not need telling. They may have been too young to have taken part in the 1969 uprising that began when lesbian and gay patrons fought back during a police raid, but they were acutely aware of the place in history that the bar enjoys. Continue reading... |
| If settling refugees beyond camps is best for them, why are they still struggling? | Emily Troutman Posted: 08 May 2016 11:00 PM PDT Many refugees prefer not to live in camps, but work restrictions and a lack of monitoring often leave them isolated and struggling to make ends meet When the UN high commissioner for refugees finally implemented a comprehensive policy directive on urban refugees in 2014 (pdf), it marked the end of a long battle. For decades, aid and development experts argued about the pros and cons of camps. Refugees often don't want to live in camps, and the UNHCR recognised that camps can turn into de facto prisons. "Camps should be the exception, phased out at the earliest possible stage," it wrote in a 2014 policy paper (pdf). Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump is a loose cannon – video Posted: 08 May 2016 08:58 AM PDT Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton explains what she means when she says her likely Republican rival Donald Trump is a 'loose cannon' in an interview with CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. Clinton questions comments previously made by Trump about nuclear weapons, NATO and torture Continue reading... |
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