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Congo election: opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi declared surprise winner
Trump walks out on Democrats and calls shutdown talks 'a waste of time'
Brexit: May loses grip on deal after fresh Commons humiliation
Four men to go on trial for giant gold coin heist from Berlin museum
US prison sentences could vary by up to 63% depending on judge – study
West 'risks helping political hijack of Libya's peace talks'
Turkey says it will launch Syria offensive if US delays pullout
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits out at 'disgusting' media publishing fake nude image
Ashley Judd's sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein dismissed
Hubble loses best camera but discovers brightest ever quasar
Founder of South Korean pornography site jailed amid voyeurism epidemic
Street art: the mosaic maker who turns potholes into pictures
Concrete city: the beauty of Los Angeles' most popular material – in pictures
Struggling with New Year's resolutions? We can help
Police arrest 22 and charge 10 in 'county lines' drugs crackdown
Jeremy Corbyn delivers speech on Brexit - Politics live
Thursday US briefing: Trump throws 'temper tantrum' at shutdown talks
'I saw things I'd never imagined': Caracas street children – in pictures
Marise Payne lobbies Thailand to release refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi
Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be given Jewish funeral
India's sick left out in the cold as New Delhi's top hospital struggles to cope
Despair endangers Dadaab refugees as smugglers seize their moment
'Getting serious': Kim Jong-un's Beijing detour brings a second Trump summit closer
'He just walked out': Schumer on meeting with Trump over shutdown – video
What does a government shutdown mean for the US? - video
Trump v Democrats: two contrasting views on US border wall proposal – video

Congo election: opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi declared surprise winner

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 10:12 PM PST

Riot police deployed amid fears of violence over alleged vote-rigging

Felix Tshisekedi, the leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's main opposition party, has been declared the surprise winner of the 30 December presidential election in the vast central African country.

The result, announced early on Thursday, means the first electoral transfer of power in 59 years of independence in the DRC.

Trump walks out on Democrats and calls shutdown talks 'a waste of time'

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 01:12 PM PST

Chuck Schumer condemns president's 'temper-tantrum'
800,000 federal US workers continue to go without pay

Donald Trump abruptly ended a critical meeting with Democratic leaders on Wednesday, calling it a "total waste of time" as the partial shutdown of the US government dragged into its 19th day with no end in sight.

The further deterioration of negotiations over the funding lapse affecting nearly 800,000 federal employees came a day after the president used his first address from the Oval Office to reinforce his demands for a wall along the southern border with Mexico.

Brexit: May loses grip on deal after fresh Commons humiliation

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 01:40 AM PST

Amendments mean PM will have little room to move if Brexit deal rejected next week

Theresa May's room for manoeuvre should her Brexit deal be rejected next week was further constrained on Wednesday night, after the government lost a second dramatic parliamentary showdown in as many days.

An increasingly boxed-in prime minister must now set out her plan B within three working days of a defeat next Tuesday, after the rebel amendment passed.

Four men to go on trial for giant gold coin heist from Berlin museum

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 09:00 PM PST

Men accused of stealing 100kg 'Big Maple Leaf' in 2017 heist involving ladder, wheelbarrow and getaway car

Four men accused of carrying out the spectacular heist of a giant solid gold coin worth €3.6m from a Berlin museum are to go on trial on Thursday.

The men stand accused of stealing the 100kg "Big Maple Leaf" from the Bode Museum after using a ladder to enter a third-floor window, smashing the bulletproof cabinet in which the coin was on display, then transporting it in a wheelbarrow to a nearby park and abseiling with it to a getaway vehicle.

US prison sentences could vary by up to 63% depending on judge – study

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 03:00 AM PST

In the wake of US v Booker, which mandated sentence guidelines, 25 of the 30 cities studied saw jail time spreads increase

The length of jail time defendants in the United States receive increasingly depends on the judge hearing their case, a new report from the US Sentencing Commission revealed.

Comparing more than 140,000 cases over 13 years across 30 US cities, the study found that within the same city the length of a defendants' sentence could swing by as much as 63% depending on the federal judge.

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West 'risks helping political hijack of Libya's peace talks'

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 02:09 AM PST

Former Libyan ambassador to UN issues warning over western interests

Libya risks losing its last chance to find a peaceful solution to four years of deadlock because political parties backed by the west are plotting to hijack crucial talks, a former Libyan diplomat has told the UN.

The warning from the country's former ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Dabbashi, comes in an open letter to Ghassan Salame, the UN special envoy for Libya.

Turkey says it will launch Syria offensive if US delays pullout

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 02:12 AM PST

Turkish officials had tense meeting this week with Trump's national security adviser

Turkey will launch an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces if the US delays the withdrawal of its troops from the war-torn country, the foreign minister has said.

"If the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, we will implement this decision," Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told NTV television.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits out at 'disgusting' media publishing fake nude image

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 07:53 PM PST

Congresswoman says attacks were 'just a matter of time', adding that women in leadership face more scrutiny

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the rapidly rising star of the Democratic party, has lashed out at conservative media for its treatment of women in leadership positions after the Daily Caller published a fake photo of the politician nude in a bath-tub.

The rightwing website published the image showing a woman's bare feet in the bath, under the headline: "Here's the photo some people described as a nude selfie of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez". In fact, the photograph had been circulating on the internet already for a month and has been shown to have been falsely ascribed to the politician by a user on a Reddit forum.

Ashley Judd's sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein dismissed

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 09:52 PM PST

Los Angeles judge rules actor can proceed with defamation claim against movie mogul

A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed Ashley Judd's sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein but said she could proceed with a defamation claim against him.

Judd had accused Weinstein of defaming her in 1998 after she refused what she said were his sexual advances a year earlier.

Hubble loses best camera but discovers brightest ever quasar

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 05:49 PM PST

Nasa working on fix after space telescope's wide-field camera broke down

The Hubble space telescope is operating without its best camera after a hardware problem forced it to shut down.

Nasa said the camera stopped working on Tuesday but three other science instruments were still operating and able to continue celestial observations.

Founder of South Korean pornography site jailed amid voyeurism epidemic

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 10:35 PM PST

Distributing pornography is illegal in the country, where secretly recorded sexual videos are common

The co-founder of South Korea's biggest pornography website has been jailed for four years over the distribution of obscene material, as the country attempts to tackle a voyeurism epidemic.

The woman, referred to only by her surname Song in South Korean media reports, was sentenced this week after a court found her guilty of "aiding and abetting" the spread of obscene images on Soranet, which she allegedly set up with her husband and another couple in 1999.

Street art: the mosaic maker who turns potholes into pictures

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 03:00 AM PST

Jim Bachor beautifies the world's streets with colourful designs ranging from chickens to Aretha Franklin

Jim Bachor makes street art – quite literally.

For the last few years the 52-year-old has been making art out of the blight on our roads.

Concrete city: the beauty of Los Angeles' most popular material – in pictures

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 03:00 AM PST

LA is a city of concrete. From Frank Lloyd Wright's modernist mansions to Rudolph Schindler's tilted houses, architects working there have embraced the material. A new map by Blue Crow Media shows some lesser-known structures are just as striking

Struggling with New Year's resolutions? We can help

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST

Nine ways to boost your willpower, from dodging doughnuts to making the most of mornings

It is tempting, when your shiny New Year's resolutions start to crumble, to tell yourself that self-control simply isn't your strong point. "Oh well," you might say, surrendering to the desire for a large glass of red. "No willpower, that's my problem."

But, according to a body of scientific research, willpower is not a talent that a lucky few are born with. It is a skill to be practised. "Willpower is a dynamic, fluctuating resource," explains Frank Ryan, consultant clinical psychologist and author of Willpower for Dummies. "Our level of willpower fluctuates according to our motivation in any given situation. Everybody can learn to use their willpower more effectively."

Police arrest 22 and charge 10 in 'county lines' drugs crackdown

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 01:48 AM PST

Arrests in Cumbria, West Midlands and London follow spate of drug-related deaths in Barrow-in-Furness

Twenty-two people have been arrested and 10 charged in a "county lines" drugs crackdown following a spate of deaths in a Cumbrian town.

Police launched the investigation, named Operation Horizon, after 14 drugs-related deaths in Barrow-in-Furness since December 2017.

Jeremy Corbyn delivers speech on Brexit - Politics live

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 03:19 AM PST

Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit speech, Theresa May's press conference, and day two of the resumed Brexit debate

11.19am GMT

Jeremy Corbyn is speaking now.

He thanks Laura Pidcock for her introduction. And he welcomes Richard Burgon, the shadow justice secretary, who is also here. And he said Burgon did well in his media interviews this morning - so well that the Tories have gone into overdrive attacking him, he says.

11.16am GMT

The Labour MP Laura Pidcock is introducing Jeremy Corbyn.

She says in Wakefield people voted overwhelmingly for Brexit.

Thursday US briefing: Trump throws 'temper tantrum' at shutdown talks

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 03:09 AM PST

Ocasio-Cortez condemns 'disgusting' media publishing fake nude ... Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer will not run for President ... First Dreamer Rhodes scholar fears being barred from US

Good morning, I'm Tim Walker with today's essential stories.

'I saw things I'd never imagined': Caracas street children – in pictures

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 02:29 AM PST

Drugs, violence and harassment are part of daily life for the growing population of homeless children in Venezuela

All photographs: Miguel Gutiérrez/EPA

Marise Payne lobbies Thailand to release refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 01:14 AM PST

Human rights groups urge Australia's foreign affair minister to put 'maximum pressure' on Thai government

Australia's foreign affair minister has "reiterated" concerns about refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi at a meeting with Thai counterparts on Thursday, as pressure mounts to have him freed.

Marise Payne, who has been calling for al-Araibi's release since he was detained in late November, was in Bangkok for bilateral meetings and raised the cases of two refugees held by Thailand.

Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be given Jewish funeral

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 03:09 AM PST

Remains of five adults and a child to be laid to rest in UK after being stored at the Imperial War Museum for 20 years

More than seven decades after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, the remains of six unidentified victims of the Holocaust are to be given a Jewish funeral in the presence of members of the UK Jewish community and others.

It will be the first burial of Holocaust victims in the UK, and will take place on 20 January, a week before Holocaust Memorial Day. It is expected to be attended by Holocaust survivors.

India's sick left out in the cold as New Delhi's top hospital struggles to cope

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 09:00 PM PST

Patients awaiting treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Science are living in tents and on pavements for months at a time as the centre reels under the weight of demand

The night-time cold in New Delhi is biting. As the temperature plunges, Alam Ansari's twin daughters, born prematurely, have only their parents' body heat to keep them warm while they huddle in a crowded tent on the road outside the capital's top hospital.

They are not alone. Each day, about 8,000 people from across the country queue outside the outpatients department for treatment. Mainly from poorer backgrounds, they sleep in tents or on the ground.

Despair endangers Dadaab refugees as smugglers seize their moment

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 04:42 AM PST

Unsafe in Somalia and unwanted in Kenya, refugees increasingly risk abduction in search of a better life

Two months after he went missing from the Dadaab refugee complex, Abdullahi Mohamed called his mother, Ubah, from a detention centre in Libya where he was being been held by armed gangs. The men asked his mother to pay a ransom of up to $10,000 (£7,850) for the 19-year-old.

Relieved but distraught, Ubah started fundraising for his release, talking to family members in the diaspora and in Somalia.

'Getting serious': Kim Jong-un's Beijing detour brings a second Trump summit closer

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 09:22 PM PST

China's endorsement has strengthened Kim's hand, while a second US summit could show his independence

Kim Jong-un has told Xi Jinping he wants a second meeting with Donald Trump and is committed to "achieving results" amid an impasse over denuclearisation, according to state media reports of their meeting in Beijing this week.

Kim told Xi that North Korea would "continue sticking to the stance of denuclearisation" and "make efforts for the second summit between the [North Korean] and US leaders to achieve results", Chinese state media reported.

'He just walked out': Schumer on meeting with Trump over shutdown – video

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 02:19 AM PST

The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, condemns Donald Trump's 'temper tantrum' following a meeting he and House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, had with the president about the partial shutdown of the US government. Schumer said the president 'walked out of the meeting' after Pelosi refused to fund his US-Mexico border wall

Trump walks out on Democrats and calls shutdown talks 'a waste of time'

What does a government shutdown mean for the US? - video

Posted: 10 Jan 2019 01:27 AM PST

In the second-longest shutdown in US government history, Donald Trump continues to demand more than $5bn for a border wall. Congress is in deadlock, and some 800,000 federal employees have been sent home or are working without pay. The president has threatened that the shutdown could last 'months or even years'. Here's what that might mean

Trump v Democrats: two contrasting views on US border wall proposal – video

Posted: 09 Jan 2019 04:16 AM PST

For the first time in his presidency, Donald Trump delivered a televised address from the Oval Office, urging Congress to pay for his border wall to stop the 'security crisis at our southern border'. Shortly afterwards, the Democratic House and Senate leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, accused Trump of 'manufacturing a crisis'

Donald Trump fuels immigration fears in TV address on 'border crisis'

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