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- World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
- May wants parliament to rule out no-deal Brexit, Cooper says
- Israeli military strikes Iranian targets inside Syria
- China's economic growth slowest since 1990 amid trade war with US
- Carlos Ghosn offers to wear ankle tag if he is granted bail in Japan
- Founders of plastic waste alliance ‘investing billions in new plants’
- Philippines: Muslims vote in referendum on autonomous region
- Mount Everest climber numbers face major cut as China starts cleanup
- Hungary: pithy insults fly as anti-Orbán protesters resort to ridicule
- Lady Gaga says Mike and Karen Pence are 'worst representation' of Christianity
- ‘Redefine the skyline’: how Ho Chi Minh City is erasing its heritage
- Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’
- Former soldier who contracted Q fever in Afghanistan sues MoD
- Vintage ski posters – in pictures
- Turkey offers to take over security in Syrian city of Manbij
- 'People will end up dying': Trump's cuts devastate clinics in Zambia | Rebecca Ratcliffe
- The 'exhausting' work of factcheckers who track Trump's barrage of lies
- Online fund for unpaid Fyre festival staff raises tens of thousands
- Chinese growth lowest in 28 years as Davos gets under way - business live
- Man arrested at Sydney airport over baby formula crime syndicate allegations
- EU support for Libya contributes to 'extreme abuse' of refugees, says study
- 'Inhuman conditions': life in factory making Spice Girls T-shirts
- Forget the 'border crisis' – it is Trump's shutdown that's made us less safe
- Lunar eclipse 2019: super blood wolf moon – in pictures
- Violent protests in Athens as thousands rally against Macedonia deal – gallery
- Native American mocked by students in Maga hats – video report
| World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam Posted: 20 Jan 2019 04:01 PM PST Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school The growing concentration of the world's wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet's population. In an annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the development charity Oxfam said 2018 had been a year in which the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer. Continue reading... |
| May wants parliament to rule out no-deal Brexit, Cooper says Posted: 21 Jan 2019 01:46 AM PST Labour MP claims Tories want article 50 extension but party politics prevents open support A senior Labour MP leading a backbench effort to rule out a no-deal Brexit has argued that much of the government, including Theresa May, privately want this to happen, and are relying on parliament to take action. Continue reading... |
| Israeli military strikes Iranian targets inside Syria Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:46 AM PST Damascus rocked by hour of loud explosions on second consecutive night of attacks Israel has struck several targets in Syria as part of its increasingly open assault on Iran's presence there, launching an hour of air attacks over Damascus on a second consecutive night of military action. The threat of open confrontation between Israel and Iran has long simmered in Syria, where the Iranian military established a presence in support of President Bashar al-Assad early in the civil war. Continue reading... |
| China's economic growth slowest since 1990 amid trade war with US Posted: 20 Jan 2019 06:23 PM PST Fears China may not be able to help shore up weakening global growth as GDP figures are slowest nation has reported in 28 years China's economy grew 6.6% in 2018, its slowest pace in almost 30 years, confirming a slowdown in the world's second largest economy that could threaten global growth. After years of breakneck expansion, the world's second largest economy is losing steam, official data on Monday confirmed. China's growth in 2018 was the country's slowest reported rate since 1990 and down from 6.8% growth in 2017. Continue reading... |
| Carlos Ghosn offers to wear ankle tag if he is granted bail in Japan Posted: 21 Jan 2019 02:16 AM PST Court has already rejected one bail request from ex-Nissan boss, saying he is a flight risk Carlos Ghosn has vowed to remain in Japan in the unlikely event he is granted bail, even offering to wear an electronic ankle tag and hire security guards to track his every move as he awaits trial on financial misconduct charges. The former Nissan chairman has been in detention since he was first arrested on 19 November in a case that has rocked Japan's car industry and cast doubt over the future of the carmaker's alliance with Renault. Continue reading... |
| Founders of plastic waste alliance ‘investing billions in new plants’ Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST European NGO says firms are likely to be at centre of global boom in plastic production The founding companies behind a self-styled alliance to end plastic waste are among the world's biggest investors in new plastic productions plants, according to a European NGO. A majority of the firms which announced this week they were collaborating to try to help tackle plastic pollution are likely to be at the heart of a global boom in plastic production over the next 10 years. Continue reading... |
| Philippines: Muslims vote in referendum on autonomous region Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:09 AM PST Vote seeks to solve half a century of unrest and counter new wave of extremist attacks Muslims in the southern Philippines are voting in a referendum on the proposed creation of an autonomous region that the government hopes will end nearly half a century of unrest and prevent a new wave of attacks by Islamic State-inspired militants. The vote caps a tumultuous peace effort by the government in Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the main rebel group, to seal a deal signed in 2014 but which had languished in the Philippine congress until it was finally approved last year. Continue reading... |
| Mount Everest climber numbers face major cut as China starts cleanup Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:23 AM PST Number of people scaling north side to be reduced by a third and season shortened China is to cut the number of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest from the north by one-third as part of plans for a major cleanup of the world's highest peak, state media have reported. The total number of climbers seeking to reach the 8,850-metre (29,035ft) peak from the north will be limited to fewer than 300 and the climbing season restricted to spring, the reports said. Continue reading... |
| Hungary: pithy insults fly as anti-Orbán protesters resort to ridicule Posted: 20 Jan 2019 09:00 PM PST Use of 'O1G' expletive illustrates rising anger at PM's 'slave law' and anti-migrant rhetoric Visitors to Budapest in recent weeks may have noticed the proliferation of a strange three-character code all across the city: "O1G". Graffitied on to walls and fences: O1G. Traced into the snow on car windscreens every time a wintry flurry falls: O1G. The abbreviation is short for Orbán egy geci, a pithy phrase deriding the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, using a Hungarian expletive that literally means sperm but is used as a catch-all insult. Continue reading... |
| Lady Gaga says Mike and Karen Pence are 'worst representation' of Christianity Posted: 21 Jan 2019 01:28 AM PST Pop star criticises US vice-president's wife who teaches at a school that discriminates against LGBT students and parents Lady Gaga has criticised the US vice-president, Mike Pence, and his wife, Karen, over her role teaching art at a school that excludes LGBT students and parents. On stage at her Las Vegas concert residency, Gaga said: "You say we should not discriminate against Christianity; you are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian. I am a Christian woman and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome. So you can take all that disgrace Mr Pence and you can look yourself in the mirror and you'll find it right there." Continue reading... |
| ‘Redefine the skyline’: how Ho Chi Minh City is erasing its heritage Posted: 20 Jan 2019 11:30 PM PST The next 15 megacities #7: More than a third of the Vietnamese city's historic buildings have been destroyed over the past 20 years. Can it learn from mistakes made by other fast-growing Asian cities before it is too late? "People don't realise what they've lost," says Candy Nguyen as she peers through the locked gates of what was until recently the historic Ba Son shipyard. "Many don't even know what was here before." Ho Chi Minh City's oldest and most important maritime heritage site is hidden from the street by high blue hoardings peppered with slogans such as "Never still" and "Redefine the skylines". Continue reading... |
| Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’ Posted: 20 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST At 71, and tipped for an Oscar for The Wife, Glenn Close reveals she is having more fun than ever Glenn Close picks up the phone in her Montana home and all hell breaks loose. Between waves of helpless laughter, she tries to explain exactly what is causing the chaos. "Sorry to be – can you hear me? – oh my God –there's a dog going past the house and – wait there." The pooch making all that racket is Pip, Close's pet havanese. He only recently watched one of her films, she tells me; fittingly enough, it was the live-action version of 101 Dalmatians, in which she is a regally evil and blazingly camp Cruella de Vil in black-and-white fright wig and taloned gloves. "He was absolutely glued to the screen," she says. Possibly in terror at her puppy-killing plans. Pip has his own Instagram account (he's Sir Pippin of Beanfield). "Everyone knows about him, so I'll have to start posting more things on there," she says. Now may not be the time. Over the next five weeks, the 71-year-old actor will have numerous awards ceremonies to attend – including the Baftas on 10 February and the Academy Awards a fortnight later – and in all likelihood more statuettes to collect in honour of her performance in The Wife as Joan Castleman, the overlooked spouse of a Nobel-winning novelist, played by Jonathan Pryce. Since its premiere nearly 18 months ago, the film has been seducing audiences and critics everywhere, with the Oscar buzz for Close building to a deafening volume. A few weeks ago, she won a Golden Globe; her pop-eyed, gobsmacked expression when her name was read out, followed by an eloquent speech in which she paid tribute to her late mother ("who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life") and urged women "to find personal fulfilment", has won her new legions of fans. Continue reading... |
| Former soldier who contracted Q fever in Afghanistan sues MoD Posted: 21 Jan 2019 12:21 AM PST Wayne Bass says his life has been ruined after developing infection serving in Helmand A former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence over its failure to protect him from contracting Q fever in Afghanistan. Wayne Bass, a private from the 2nd Battalion, the Mercian Regiment, said his life had been ruined after developing the infection while serving in Helmand province in 2011 and not being given antibiotics by the army. Continue reading... |
| Vintage ski posters – in pictures Posted: 20 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST A collection of vintage ski and winter sports posters up to a century old – some worth thousands of dollars – is about to be auctioned in New York. The resorts advertised range from Europe's Alpine jewels to the mountains of Canada, and all offer fun in the outdoors Continue reading... |
| Turkey offers to take over security in Syrian city of Manbij Posted: 21 Jan 2019 01:45 AM PST Erdoğan telephones Trump after death of four US citizens in north-eastern town Turkey is ready to take over security in the Syrian city where four US citizens died in an Islamic State-claimed bombing last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Donald Trump in a telephone call on Sunday, the Turkish presidency said. Erdoğan told the US president that the suicide bombing in Manbij, a town in the north-east of the country controlled by a militia allied to US-backed Kurdish forces, was a provocative act aimed at affecting Trump's planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria. Continue reading... |
| 'People will end up dying': Trump's cuts devastate clinics in Zambia | Rebecca Ratcliffe Posted: 20 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST Teen pregnancies are soaring and HIV care has stalled in rural communities hit by 'global gag' funding cuts It is under-fives week at Zambia's Nyangwena health centre and, outside in the morning sunshine, women are taking turns to weigh their babies. A noisy toddler wriggles as his mum places him into the harness of a set of scales. Measurements are taken and, afterwards, ice lollies handed out to children. Reaching families in the surrounding rural communities is a major challenge for staff at the centre, and, after outreach services were stripped back, things are getting worse. Continue reading... |
| The 'exhausting' work of factcheckers who track Trump's barrage of lies Posted: 20 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST Since taking office, Trump has made 7,645 'false or misleading claims'. In the month of October he said 1,200 things that were false or misleading, according to Fact Checker database Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency has presented problems for journalists the world over. But spare a thought for the people whose job it is to keep track of his lies: the Trump factcheckers. Since taking office, the president has lied about everything from immigration figures to the number of burgers he served to the Clemson football team at the White House last week. Continue reading... |
| Online fund for unpaid Fyre festival staff raises tens of thousands Posted: 20 Jan 2019 05:14 AM PST GoFundMe receives almost $80,000 for Bahamian workers who lost out in festival scam Tens of thousands of pounds have been raised for Bahamian restaurant workers whose life savings were wiped out in a multimillion-pound fraud by the organisers of the Fyre festival. Maryann Rolle said her team worked round the clock preparing 1,000 meals a day for festival staff but went unpaid when it imploded in April 2017. Continue reading... |
| Chinese growth lowest in 28 years as Davos gets under way - business live Posted: 21 Jan 2019 01:40 AM PST Official data show China's economy grew 6.6% last year as the world's global elite head to the World Economic Forum
The pound has slipped before Theresa May lays out her "Plan B," designed to break the deadlock in parliament over Brexit. Sterling is down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.2847, and has lost 0.3% versus the euro, trading at 88.53 pence. It is generally understood that the revised plan for a negotiated Brexit involves asking the EU for changes, in the 'back stop' arrangement; but being one of the Union's 'red lines', it is unlikely that any proposed changes to the controversial arrangement will be accepted. Therefore, the chances of any substantial developments in the process this Monday are slim and because of the that, sterling is likely to remain where it has been for the last week, just above $1.28, with traders pricing in comparatively low chances of a no deal Brexit, but also reflecting a large degree of uncertainty regarding the outcome of the negotiations.
William Hill has warned (again) that full year profits will be down 15% from 2017, totalling £234m. The bookmaker already cut its profit forecast in November. The company said it would "remodel [its] retail offer while building a digitally-led international business". It is looking at new products to offer alternatives to fixed-odds betting terminals, following the UK government's decision to slash maximum stakes on FOBTs from £100 to £2. William Hill is also closing 900 betting shops in the UK, as announced last summer. Continue reading... |
| Man arrested at Sydney airport over baby formula crime syndicate allegations Posted: 20 Jan 2019 10:45 PM PST Syndicate allegedly handled $1 million of stolen goods in the past year and may have run empire over a number of years Police in New South Wales allege a Sydney family ran an expansive crime empire that stole and illegally exported thousands of tins of baby formula to China. Police on Monday said they had arrested six people, including four from the same family, over the alleged coordinated theft of more than 4,000 tins of baby formula, manuka honey and other goods. Continue reading... |
| EU support for Libya contributes to 'extreme abuse' of refugees, says study Posted: 20 Jan 2019 09:30 PM PST Human Rights Watch accuses EU institutions of sustaining network of 'inhuman and degrading' migrant detention centres The EU's support for Libya's anti-migrant policies is contributing to a cycle of "extreme abuse", including arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, extortion and forced labour. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, who interviewed 66 migrants and asylum seekers in Libya last year, EU institutions and member states are continuing to sustain a network of detention centres characterised by "inhuman and degrading" conditions where the risk of abuse is rife. Continue reading... |
| 'Inhuman conditions': life in factory making Spice Girls T-shirts Posted: 20 Jan 2019 10:00 AM PST Staff at Bangladesh plant tell of fainting and abuse while sewing charity tops designed by group Salma has never even heard of the Spice Girls. Her life, hunched over a sewing machine for up to 16 hours a day, is a world away from the luxuries enjoyed by the millionaire pop band. But while neither knows it, Salma and the Spice Girls are connected. The factory where she has worked for more than five years, off a narrow, winding road three hours' drive from Dhaka, is where charity T-shirts designed by the group were made. Continue reading... |
| Forget the 'border crisis' – it is Trump's shutdown that's made us less safe Posted: 20 Jan 2019 03:00 AM PST With thousands of FBI and TSA staff furloughed and critical functions hit, the shutdown is a disaster for national security President Trump closed the US government over a fabricated border crisis, and in doing so has sparked a real national security emergency. By shutting down the government, Trump has disabled America's defenses against threats to national security. Trump decided to shut down the government over the claim that America needs a wall to deal with a crisis at the border with Mexico. But there is no crisis on the border other than the humanitarian crisis of his own making, best illustrated by the thousands of children separated from their parents and the two children who died in Customs and Border Protection custody. Trump's claims of more terrorists and crime flowing across the border are lies and the vast majority of hard drugs coming across the border come through official ports of entry, not between ports of entry where a wall might stand. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Lunar eclipse 2019: super blood wolf moon – in pictures Posted: 20 Jan 2019 09:35 PM PST The rare celestial event was visible across the northern hemisphere Super blood wolf moon: lunar eclipse stargazers battle cold and clouds Continue reading... |
| Violent protests in Athens as thousands rally against Macedonia deal – gallery Posted: 20 Jan 2019 02:56 PM PST Greek parliament to vote this week to ratify proposed new name of its neighbour, the Republic of North Macedonia. Continue reading... |
| Native American mocked by students in Maga hats – video report Posted: 20 Jan 2019 04:41 AM PST A group of Kentucky students in Washington DC for an anti-abortion rally have been filmed harassing a Native American who was singing and drumming. The group were filmed surrounding Nathan Phillips, and one teenager wearing a Maga hat can be seen standing in front of Phillips and staring into his face while smiling Continue reading... |
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