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Pelosi rejects Trump shutdown deal before president announces it
Fire at French ski resort of Courchevel kills two
Jeremy Corbyn expected to back move to block no-deal Brexit
DRC court confirms Felix Tshisekedi winner of presidential election
Outcry after Kentucky students in Maga hats mock Native American veteran
Spanish rescuers start drilling to reach boy trapped in well for six days
Police speak to Prince Philip after he is pictured driving again
Derry: suspected car bomb explosion investigated
Women around the world march against austerity and violence
Super blood wolf moon: rare total lunar eclipse to grace northern hemisphere skies
California town sets up 'goat fund me' page to finance four-legged firefighters
Bauhaus at 100: the revolutionary movement's enduring appeal
Tyneside baby at centre of Facebook appeal dies
Dinghies with 170 migrants on board missing in Med
Inside the weird, sinister world of apartheid’s secret mercenaries
America is retreating from world affairs and circling the wagons…
Hakeem al-Araibi: calls grow for inquiry into police role in refugee footballer's arrest
Music festivals will have to be licensed in NSW following drug deaths
President Pence? That vision should terrify women | Arwa Mahdawi
Elderly drivers: when is it time to hand over the car keys?
Amateur footage captures blaze at French ski resort – video
Women’s March 2019 – in pictures
Women's March 2019: Tens of thousands take to streets across the world – video
Scores killed in Mexico pipeline explosion - video
Aerial footage shows scale of Mexico fire after pipeline explosion - video

Pelosi rejects Trump shutdown deal before president announces it

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:00 PM PST

President offers temporary concessions and demands wall
Little chance of progress as House speaker says no

Donald Trump forged ahead on Saturday and proposed a deal to end the US government shutdown, despite Democrats having rejected it before he began to speak.

Fire at French ski resort of Courchevel kills two

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 01:44 AM PST

Blaze forces evacuation of 60 workers, including foreigners, from three-storey building

Two people have died and a dozen more were injured in a fire at the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps, officials said.

The pre-dawn blaze forced the evacuation of 60 resort workers, including foreigners, from a three-storey accommodation building.

Jeremy Corbyn expected to back move to block no-deal Brexit

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST

Labour is considering a proposal that would force Theresa May to extend Britain's membership of the EU

Jeremy Corbyn is poised to back a plan to block a no-deal Brexit as pressure builds within Labour and the trade unions for a delay to Britain's EU departure.

It is understood that the leader and his shadow cabinet team are preparing to support a proposal that would force Theresa May to request an extension to Britain's EU membership should no Brexit deal be agreed by early March.

DRC court confirms Felix Tshisekedi winner of presidential election

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 05:46 PM PST

Opponent Martin Fayulu rejects ruling, saying the court has enabled a 'constitutional coup d'etat'

The constitutional court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed Felix Tshisekedi's presidential election win, dismissing a challenge from another opposition leader who had accused him and the ruling party of stitching up the result.

Second-placed Martin Fayulu rejected the provisional tally for DRC's election released last week, saying it was the product of a secret deal between Tshisekedi and outgoing President Joseph Kabila to cheat him out of a clear win of more than 60%.

Outcry after Kentucky students in Maga hats mock Native American veteran

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 05:02 PM PST

Teenagers from Covington Catholic High School filmed jeering at Nathan Phillips and chanting 'build that wall'

A Catholic school in Kentucky has condemned a group of its students after they were recorded harassing a Native American Vietnam veteran in a video that went viral on Saturday.

The students, many of whom were wearing "Make America Great Again" caps, from private, all-male Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills were in Washington for an anti-abortion rally on Friday when they were filmed surrounding Nathan Phillips and mocking the Native American's singing and drumming.

Spanish rescuers start drilling to reach boy trapped in well for six days

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 05:10 PM PST

Julen Roselló, aged two, fell down the 100m borehole while out walking with his parents near Málaga

Rescuers in southern Spain have began drilling in the hope of rescuing a two-year-old boy trapped in a deep well for six days.

The mission to save the child has triggered an outpouring of public support as rescuers struggle with the challenge of bringing heavy equipment up steep access roads and reaching the toddler safely.

Police speak to Prince Philip after he is pictured driving again

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:51 PM PST

Duke reportedly back behind the wheel without a seatbelt as it is revealed councillors and police had clashed over speed cameras plans

Police have spoken to the Duke of Edinburgh after he was pictured driving a new Land Rover, seemingly without a seatbelt, just 48 hours after his crash with a Kia car carrying two women and a baby.

Images published on Saturday appear to show Prince Philip, wearing tinted glasses, back behind the wheel of a replacement Freelander on the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Derry: suspected car bomb explosion investigated

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 03:07 PM PST

Police Service of Northern Ireland warns public to stay away from city centre street

A suspected car bomb has exploded on a city centre street in Derry. The Police Service of Northern Ireland tweeted a photograph of an explosion in Bishop Street warning people to stay away.

Bishop Street Closed

STAY AWAY

Suspected Car Bomb pic.twitter.com/S3cFu3zy0i

Women around the world march against austerity and violence

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 12:07 PM PST

Tens of thousands take to city streets to protest against violence and the impact of austerity on their lives

Propelled by a mass public rendition of Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves and accompanied by a thudding police helicopter overhead, hundreds of protesters have rallied in central London in solidarity with an estimated 89 Women's Marches worldwide.

In Athens, Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles, to name just a few, tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out to protest against violence against women and the impact of policies of austerity. They also had some choice words for Donald Trump and Theresa May.

Super blood wolf moon: rare total lunar eclipse to grace northern hemisphere skies

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 07:27 PM PST

Last blood moon for two years will combine with a supermoon to create unusual celestial phenomenon

An unusual set of circumstances will combine in the early hours of Monday morning in the skies above the northern hemisphere, resulting in a phenomenon called a super blood wolf moon.

A total lunar eclipse will give an apparent reddish colour to the lunar surface – known as a blood moon. At the same time, the moon will be slighty closer to Earth than normal and appear slightly bigger and brighter than usual – a phenomenon called a supermoon.

California town sets up 'goat fund me' page to finance four-legged firefighters

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST

Nevada City is seeking to raise $30,000 to acquire goats to munch through acres of vegetation that could fuel wildfires

A California town threatened by the sort of wildfires that recently wiped out a neighbouring community is appealing for an unusual type of help: a crack team of goats.

Bauhaus at 100: the revolutionary movement's enduring appeal

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 01:00 AM PST

Sleek, pared-back, industrial elegance – that's how most of us think of Bauhaus, the modernist design group born in Germany in 1919. But that was only one side of this short-lived but longlasting movement…

• Norman Foster, Margaret Howell, Michael Craig-Martin and others on Bauhaus's rich legacy

The Bauhaus, simply put, was a German school of art and design that opened in 1919 and closed in 1933. It was also very much more than that. It was the most influential and famous design school that has ever existed. It defined an epoch. It became the pre-eminent emblem of modern architecture and design. The name has become an adjective as well as a noun – Bauhaus style, Bauhaus look. And now it is coming up for the centenary of its founding, which shows both that what was called the "modern movement" is now part of history and that its influence is very much still around us.

It is nowadays usually clear what the word "Bauhaus" means – design stripped down to its essentials, the rational and elegant use of modern materials and industrial techniques, clarity, simplicity, cool minimalism. The device on which I am writing this and the one on which you might be reading it follow these principles. So (with greater or lesser degrees of bastardisation) do buildings without number around the world, countless domestic objects, road signs, the lettering on a tube of toothpaste or the design of a car. The Bauhaus brand is consistent, coherent and universal. Its best-known creations, the tubular steel chairs of Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer or the steel-and-glass building built to house the school, reinforce its image.

Tyneside baby at centre of Facebook appeal dies

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 01:28 AM PST

Carter Cookson's parents launched social media campaign to find heart donor

A baby whose parents started a social media campaign in a desperate bid to find him a new heart has died.

Carter Cookson, who was born prematurely on Boxing Day, died at 5.44pm on Saturday, his mother, Sarah Cookson, said.

Dinghies with 170 migrants on board missing in Med

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 04:35 PM PST

Three survivors picked up by helicopter after 10 to 11 hours at sea, but charities fear worst after bodies seen in water

An estimated 170 migrants have gone missing in the Mediterranean in two incidents involving dinghies that left from Libya and Morocco, migrants organisations have said.

One dinghy was spotted sinking in rough waters on Friday by an Italian military plane on patrol. The plane dropped two safety rafts into the water but had to leave due to a lack of fuel, Rear Admiral Fabio Agostini told TV channel RaiNews24.

Inside the weird, sinister world of apartheid’s secret mercenaries

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST

A South African militia that claimed to be behind the murder of a UN chief was involved in deadly work across the continent, its members say

Keith Maxwell, the self-declared "commodore" of the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR), liked to dress up on special occasions in the garish costume of a 18th-century admiral, with a three-cornered hat, brass buttons and a cutlass. Ordinary members of his organisation were expected to show up in crisp naval whites.

Gathered together in upmarket restaurants, or the quiet of the Wemmer Pan naval base in south-central Johannesburg, they had the air of eccentric history buffs. Maxwell talked about the group's roots in a Napoleonic-era treasure-hunting syndicate, and told outsiders it was still focused on deep-sea exploration.

America is retreating from world affairs and circling the wagons…

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST

For all its rhetoric, the US under Donald Trump is on a clear path of disengagement in international matters

America's ambivalence about engagement with the world beyond its shores is nothing new. Isolationist instincts are deeply rooted in the national psyche. Large constituencies opposed US involvement in both world wars. Donald Trump's "America First" campaign was the most recent manifestation of a longstanding desire to avoid the "foreign entanglements" that the first US president, George Washington, warned against in his 1796 farewell address.

Yet, as US power expanded, this yearning for separateness grew increasingly at odds with another national urge – to demonstrate America's pre-eminence, and propagate its values and interests, through global leadership. This process climaxed in the early 1990s when America's main rival, the Soviet Union, imploded and the US claimed the mantle of sole superpower.

Hakeem al-Araibi: calls grow for inquiry into police role in refugee footballer's arrest

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 01:30 PM PST

Exclusive: Greens and the ACTU say parliament should investigate AFP's role in the detention of Bahraini refugee in Thailand

A parliamentary inquiry should examine the actions of the Australian federal police which led to the arrest of Hakeem al-Araibi in Thailand, Australia's peak union body and the Greens have said.

Al-Araibi, a 25-year-old Bahraini refugee who has permanent residency in Australia, was arrested on arrival in Bangkok for a holiday, on the basis of an Interpol red notice, which was later lifted.

Music festivals will have to be licensed in NSW following drug deaths

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 09:42 PM PST

Organisers will have to apply for a specific liquor licence, similar to those for pubs and clubs, in bid to keep young people safe

Music festivals will have to be licensed in New South Wales under new regulations following a string of tragedies.

Five people have now died after attending music festivals, including 23-year-old Joseph Pham and 21-year-old Diana Nguyen, who both died of suspected drug overdoses after attending the Defqon.1 festival in September.

President Pence? That vision should terrify women | Arwa Mahdawi

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 06:00 AM PST

The news that Karen Pence is returning to work at an anti-gay Christian school should remind us of the vice-president's dangerous bigotry

Karen Pence is not just the wife of the US vice-president, she's an empowered career woman in her own right. While her husband works tirelessly alongside Trump to make America white again, Karen Pence, it was announced this week, is returning to her old job teaching kids art.

Elderly drivers: when is it time to hand over the car keys?

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 04:00 AM PST

Loss of autonomy is a painful reality of old age – but it's hard to let go when, like Prince Philip, you are used to being in charge

In the wake of his car crash on Thursday afternoon, in which the Duke of Edinburgh rather miraculously walked away unhurt, there has been much speculation over the man's great age, and whether, at 97, he is now simply too old to operate so independently. Loss of autonomy becomes inevitable when you reach such a ripe vintage, but it is never easy to hand over – in both a metaphorical and literal sense – the keys you have held for so long in your grip.

My grandfather lived until he was 94. Neither he nor his wife, my grandmother (still alive at 99), looked, or acted, their age. The necessity to give up certain activities only ever came at them rudely, and they could never be told they were too old for anything; they had to learn it for themselves, the hard way.

Amateur footage captures blaze at French ski resort – video

Posted: 20 Jan 2019 02:12 AM PST

Two people have died and a dozen more injured in a fire at the French ski resort of Courchevel, according to officials. A witness who was staying at a hotel opposite the burning building captured this footage of the pre-dawn fire

Fire at French ski resort of Courchevel kills two

Women’s March 2019 – in pictures

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 12:51 PM PST

Thousands gathered across the globe to call for equality and the protection of women's rights

Women's March 2019: Tens of thousands take to streets across the world – video

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 11:27 AM PST

Demonstrators march on the streets of Washington, Berlin and London on Saturday as part of the global Women's March to protest against violence against women and the impact of policies of austerity

Scores killed in Mexico pipeline explosion - video

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 08:04 AM PST

A massive fireball that engulfed people collecting fuel gushing from a pipeline allegedly ruptured by thieves in central Mexico killed at least 66 people and badly burned more than 76

Mexico explosion: Scores killed after burst pipeline ignites

Aerial footage shows scale of Mexico fire after pipeline explosion - video

Posted: 19 Jan 2019 02:20 AM PST

A massive fireball that engulfed people scooping up fuel that was spilling from a pipeline ruptured by thieves in central Mexico has killed at least 66 people and injured 76