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- Coronavirus live news: Greece orders new three-week national lockdown as Covid cases rise
- Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
- Police investigate if Vienna attacker was part of wider network
- Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star
- Tiny Japanese home 'filled' with 164 starving dogs
- North Korea bans smoking in public places to safeguard 'hygienic living'
- Prosecutors in Brazil file embezzlement charges against Jair Bolsonaro's son
- Indian TV anchor's arrest escalates feud with Maharashtra state
- Whale, that was close!: California kayakers nearly swallowed by humpback
- Coronavirus: US sets record for daily new cases average one day after election
- China bans non-Chinese arrivals from UK as England enters lockdown
- Only 'small chance' Oxford Covid vaccine ready by Christmas
- Denmark announces cull of 15 million mink over Covid mutation fears
- ‘We’re going to the skies and stars!’ The man building our jetpack future – in tribute to his Dad
- Under pressure: why athletes choke
- Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien: ‘I should be dead. I've had an excessive lifestyle'
- Scatalogical science: how poo analysis could help save endangered species
- Lahore’s metro line opened to fanfare – but what is the real cost of China's 'gift'?
- Investigating the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius - podcast
- Country diary: watching a still from a gargantuan motion picture
- Fighting reported in Ethiopia after PM responds to 'attack' by regional ruling party
- US election 2020: Biden holds lead over Trump in tense wait for results – live updates
- 'Prevent, discourage, confront': South American states tackle Chinese trawlers
- Chinese-Australian community leader charged under Australia's new foreign interference laws
- Jack de Belin's alleged rape victim says 'I'm not lying' at trial of NRL star
- Paths to US election victory: what Trump and Biden need to win
- Jacinda Ardern must use her mandate to tackle child poverty | Max Rashbrooke
- The pollsters were wrong – again. Here's what we know so far | Mona Chalabi
- Mail-in ballot tracker: counting election votes in US swing states
- Election fight: a divided US takes to the streets as the count goes on – in pictures
- 'Simply wrong': Pennsylvania governor reacts to Trump campaign court bid to stop count – video
- Joe Biden: 'When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winner' – video
- 'The American way': Mitch McConnell defends Trump threat to challenge election results – video
- 'Pennsylvania will have a fair election': governor announces possible result delay – video
- 'A disgrace': former aide John Bolton slams Donald Trump's early win claim – video
| Coronavirus live news: Greece orders new three-week national lockdown as Covid cases rise Posted: 05 Nov 2020 02:36 AM PST New restrictions in Greece take effect on Saturday; nations including Russia, Poland, and Switzerland see record case rises; Cyprus introduces night-time curfew
More on the lockdown in Greece from Reuters: Under the new countrywide restrictions to take effect from Saturday, retail businesses will be shut with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies. Civilians will need a time-slot permit to venture outdoors. Primary schools will stay open, but high schools will shut.
Ireland has started to suppress Covid-19 and has one of Europe's lowest disease incidence rates after two weeks of maximum tier restrictions. The R number, which indicates the number of people on average an infected person will infect, is now 0.7 and 0.9. To suppress the virus it must be below 1. Continue reading... |
| Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST Demolitions used as a 'key means' to 'coerce Palestinians to leave their homes' Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have razed a Palestinian village, leaving 73 people – including 41 children – homeless, in the largest forced displacement incident for years, according to the United Nations. Excavators escorted by military vehicles were filmed approaching Khirbet Humsa and proceeding to flatten or smash up tents, shacks, animal shelters, toilets and solar panels. Continue reading... |
| Police investigate if Vienna attacker was part of wider network Posted: 04 Nov 2020 06:36 AM PST Kujtim Fejzulai believed to have acted alone but known to have been an Isis sympathiser Austrian police are investigating whether an Islamist terrorist who killed four people in Vienna on Monday night was part of a wider network and if the attack could have been prevented. Kujtim Fejzulai, known to authorities as a sympathiser of the Islamic State group, which claimed credit for the murders, is believed to have been the lone gunman in the attack despite hours of uncertainty over whether accomplices remained at large. Continue reading... |
| Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:00 AM PST First fast radio burst found in our galaxy is traced to magnetar 30,000 light years away For more than a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of mysterious and fleeting bursts of radio waves that arrive from faraway galaxies. Now, scientists have discovered the first such blast in the Milky Way and traced it back to its probable source: a small, spinning remnant from a collapsed star about 30,000 light years from Earth. Continue reading... |
| Tiny Japanese home 'filled' with 164 starving dogs Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:22 PM PST Experts say extreme animal hoarding cases are linked to poverty, isolation and ageing population Health officials in Japan have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house, in the latest case of animal hoarding that experts say is linked to poverty, isolation and the ageing population. The parasite-infested animals were found in a 30 square-metre (323 square feet) house in Izumo, a city in western Japan, last month following complaints from neighbours. Continue reading... |
| North Korea bans smoking in public places to safeguard 'hygienic living' Posted: 04 Nov 2020 04:11 PM PST Measure comes despite more than 43% of the country's male population being smokers, including leader Kim Jong-un North Korea's supreme people's assembly has introduced smoking bans in some public places to provide citizens with "hygienic living environments", state media KCNA reported. The tobacco-prohibition law aims to protect the lives and health of North Koreans by tightening the legal and social controls on the production and sale of cigarettes, KCNA on Thursday quoted the legislature as saying. Continue reading... |
| Prosecutors in Brazil file embezzlement charges against Jair Bolsonaro's son Posted: 04 Nov 2020 06:03 AM PST Flávio Bolsonaro accused of siphoning off employees' publicly funded wages Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son has been formally accused of embezzlement, money laundering, misappropriation of funds and directing a "criminal organisation" as sleaze allegations continue to swirl around the family of Brazil's far-right president. Prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro announced late on Tuesday that they had filed the charges against Flávio Bolsonaro, 39, a senator whose affairs have been under the spotlight since the eve of his father's January 2019 inauguration. Continue reading... |
| Indian TV anchor's arrest escalates feud with Maharashtra state Posted: 04 Nov 2020 07:32 AM PST Arnab Goswami's arrest follows claims that his BJP-backing TV channel smears opponents One of India's most famous and polarising television journalists has been arrested in connection with a 2018 suicide case, escalating an ongoing feud between the conservative news anchor and the Maharashtra state government. Arnab Goswami, the founder of the rightwing channel Republic TV, was arrested at his home in Mumbai early on Wednesday. It prompted a chorus of anger from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), including from the home affairs minister, Amit Shah, who called it a "blatant misuse of state power". Continue reading... |
| Whale, that was close!: California kayakers nearly swallowed by humpback Posted: 05 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Two whale-watchers at Avila beach had a close encounter that dumped them into the ocean Two kayakers in California had an unsettlingly close whale watching experience Monday, after a humpback appeared to overturn their boat and almost swallow them, according to a report. Liz Cottriel and Julie McSorley told the Fresno-area Fox affiliate that they were watching whales from a distance of about 30 feet (9.14 meters) during what appeared to be a peaceful morning near Avila beach. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: US sets record for daily new cases average one day after election Posted: 04 Nov 2020 06:53 PM PST Wednesday saw more than 91,000 people with new infections and deaths rising, underscoring the high stakes of the election The US has set a new record for average daily confirmed Covid-19 cases, with surging infections and hospitalizations as the country remains on edge waiting for a winner to be declared in the presidential race. Daily new coronavirus cases in America have increased 45% over the past two weeks to a record seven-day average of 86,352, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Deaths are also on the rise, up 15% to an average of 846 deaths every day. Continue reading... |
| China bans non-Chinese arrivals from UK as England enters lockdown Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:19 PM PST People from Belgium and Philippines are also barred in 'temporary measure taken in response to the pandemic' China has barred non-Chinese travellers from the UK, Belgium and the Philippines, imposing new border restrictions in response to the worsening Covid-19 pandemic. The Chinese embassy in the UK said on Wednesday that China's borders were now closed to those arriving from the UK, including those with valid visas and residence permits. The measure, a reversal of recently loosened restrictions, comes as England began a month-long lockdown in an effort to stop a resurgent outbreak. The country has the highest death toll in Europe of almost 48,000 deaths. Continue reading... |
| Only 'small chance' Oxford Covid vaccine ready by Christmas Posted: 04 Nov 2020 05:51 AM PST Prof Andrew Pollard tells MPs of need for careful scrutiny of clinical trial results The head of the Oxford University group developing one of the leading Covid vaccine contenders has played down the chances of vaccinating people by Christmas. "I think there is a small chance of that being possible, but I just don't know,'' said Prof Andrew Pollard, the chief investigator of the trial, giving evidence to MPs at a joint hearing of the science and health committees of the House of Commons. Continue reading... |
| Denmark announces cull of 15 million mink over Covid mutation fears Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:49 AM PST Mutated virus infects 12 humans, sparking concerns that effectiveness of future vaccine could be affected The world's largest mink producer, Denmark, says it plans to cull more than 15 million of the animals, due to fears that a Covid-19 mutation moving from mink to humans could jeopardise future vaccines. At a press conference on Wednesday, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said 12 people are already infected with the mutated virus and that the mink are now considered a public health risk. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re going to the skies and stars!’ The man building our jetpack future – in tribute to his Dad Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST Richard Browning is pursuing the stuff of a million childhood dreams. But having built a working jetpack, will anybody use it? On a gloomy afternoon in a Sussex wood, a 21st-century superhero appears. Dressed in black, helmeted, a pack on his back and jets on his arms, he rises to a couple of metres above the ground, accelerates up above a grassy bank and then hovers in a swirling cloud of autumn leaves. No matter how many times you've watched a video on YouTube, nothing can quite prepare you for the sight of a human being in flight. It is the embodiment of a thousand myths, from Hermes and Peter Pan to Iron Man, as well as a million childhood dreams, and is the only correct answer to that old conundrum: which superpower would you choose, invisibility or flying? If it wasn't for the roar of the jet engines and the smell of fuel, you would assume it was just a dream. Continue reading... |
| Under pressure: why athletes choke Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it? Scott Boswell stood at the start of his bowling run-up, immersed in his own very public hell. It was the final of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy in 2001, which should have been the highlight of his cricket career. Instead, he found himself unable to do what he had been doing his entire life. "I became so anxious I froze. I couldn't let go. It was a nightmare," Boswell recalled. "How can I not be able to run up and bowl – something that I've done for so many years without even thinking about it? How can that happen? What's going on in my brain to stop me doing that, and to make me feel physically sick and anxious and that I can't do something that I've just done so naturally?" Continue reading... |
| Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien: ‘I should be dead. I've had an excessive lifestyle' Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST The creator of the cult show is not going quietly into his 70s. He talks about coming out as trans, going 'loopy' on crack – and speaking in tongues after suffering a stroke Richard O'Brien is 78, but his toothpick body and lightbulb head have always lent him a certain agelessness. A few months ago, however, the rakish Rocky Horror Show creator, Crystal Maze presenter and transgender parent-of-three received a stark reminder of his advancing years. He was pottering around at home in New Zealand when he suddenly found himself lying on the floor. "I didn't register that something was desperately wrong," he says, speaking from the house he shares with his third wife, Sabrina, 10 miles outside of Katikati. "I just thought: 'I wonder why I can't get up.'" Struggling to his feet, he attempted to make a drink, only to discover he couldn't put the top back on the milk. "I was in a dream-like state. Finally, I gave up with the milk, went to go back to the bedroom, slid down the wall and started speaking in tongues. That's when Sabrina called the ambulance." Continue reading... |
| Scatalogical science: how poo analysis could help save endangered species Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:45 PM PST Three separate species of banded langur have been identified after DNA analysis of their faeces, paving the way for targeted conservation strategies Across the world, conservationists, scientists and volunteers are racing to save thousands of endangered species. And for some, their efforts have not been wasted. A recent report found that conservation programmes have saved several bird and mammal species from extinction in recent decades. But the numbers of many data deficient species and sub-species continue to dwindle – and how do you save a species if it hasn't even been recognised? Continue reading... |
| Lahore’s metro line opened to fanfare – but what is the real cost of China's 'gift'? Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:15 PM PST The Pakistani city's railway is a hit with passengers, but critics say worker deaths and huge debt are too high a price to pay In a global pandemic, people across the world have avoided public transport systems where they can. But this week the Pakistani city of Lahore unveiled its "gift from China" – a $1.6bn (£1.23bn) light-rail transit system. The Orange Line metro is designed to carry nearly a quarter of a million people a day in Pakistan's second-largest city. On Monday, 50,000 masked commuters packed into gleaming, air-conditioned trains festooned with Chinese and Pakistani flags to celebrate the first day of operation. Tayyaba Urooj, a 45-year-old mother, was among them, and had brought nine of her relatives from Karachi along for the trip. "Alhamdulillah, the train just started. We want it to succeed and for Pakistan to succeed," says Urooj in the packed carriage. "I am a little worried because it's congested – but it's Pakistan, so there's always a rush." Continue reading... |
| Investigating the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius - podcast Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, the damage wreaked was catastrophic. Ash and pumice darkened the skies, and hot gas flowed from the volcano. Uncovering the victims, fated to lie frozen in time for 2,000 years, has shown they died in a range of gruesome ways. Nicola Davis speaks to Pier Paolo Patrone about his work analysing ancient inhabitants of Pompeii and nearby towns, and what it tells us about the risk people face today Continue reading... |
| Country diary: watching a still from a gargantuan motion picture Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:30 PM PST Eigg, West Highlands: The view beneath my feet, of paper-thin exoskeletons of a type of sea urchin, is also captivating At Laig beach on the island of Eigg, the tide has withdrawn to reveal a vast intertidal zone where black basalt and white shell sands plait together, weaving and interweaving to produce a neat and monochrome twill. Here and there, the delicate, skull-like structures of sea potatoes protrude through this smooth and glossed surface; pierced through with tiny holes tracing a star-shaped pattern, they are the paper-thin exoskeletons of a type of sea urchin. Some still bear what looks like ruffled clumps of taupe-white fur: tiny spines, not yet fallen away. Continue reading... |
| Fighting reported in Ethiopia after PM responds to 'attack' by regional ruling party Posted: 04 Nov 2020 06:31 AM PST Abiy Ahmed says defence forces mobilised in Tigray region 'to save the country' Fighting has been reported in northern Ethiopia after the country's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, ordered a military response to an "attack" by the ruling party of the restive Tigray region on a camp housing federal troops. Analysts and diplomats have been warning for weeks that a standoff between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) could plunge Ethiopia into a bitter and bloody civil conflict. Continue reading... |
| US election 2020: Biden holds lead over Trump in tense wait for results – live updates Posted: 05 Nov 2020 02:52 AM PST
Election Day was Tuesday. It's Thursday and we still don't know who the next president of the United States is going to be. Here's how the key states are looking now… Arizona: 11 electoral votes
Here are some of the most striking images from overnight of exhausted election workers, protesters on the street, and police in riot gear across the US. Continue reading... |
| 'Prevent, discourage, confront': South American states tackle Chinese trawlers Posted: 04 Nov 2020 03:31 PM PST Huge fleets' intrusions into Pacific fishing territory prompt Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to join forces Related: 'It's terrifying': can anyone stop China's vast armada of fishing boats? Four South American countries have joined forces in a bid to combat illegal fishing by huge Chinese fleets off their coasts. Continue reading... |
| Chinese-Australian community leader charged under Australia's new foreign interference laws Posted: 05 Nov 2020 12:16 AM PST High profile figure Sunny Duong the first person to be charged under 2018 laws as relations between China and Australia deteriorate A Chinese-Australian community figure who was pictured with federal minister Alan Tudge donating $30,000 in Covid-19 relief to a Melbourne hospital in June has become the first person charged with a foreign interference offence. Di Sanh Duong, known as Sunny, appeared before the Melbourne magistrates court on Thursday charged with preparing for a foreign interference offence. Continue reading... |
| Jack de Belin's alleged rape victim says 'I'm not lying' at trial of NRL star Posted: 05 Nov 2020 01:09 AM PST The woman was 19 when she says the NRL player and his friend raped her in a Wollongong unit in late 2018 NRL star Jack de Belin's alleged rape victim was filmed making a sexual hand gesture towards his co-accused in the hour before the attack, a jury has been told. The Wollongong district court on Thursday was shown CCTV of the woman and the footballer's co-accused, Callan Sinclair, interacting on the dancefloor of CBD bar Mr Crown about 12.30am on 9 December 2018. Continue reading... |
| Paths to US election victory: what Trump and Biden need to win Posted: 05 Nov 2020 12:14 AM PST How the uncounted votes could fall and what that would mean for each of the candidates Paths to victory remain in the US presidential race for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but Biden has more ways to win and appears to be running stronger state to state, based on the places – cities, mainly – where large absentee votes have yet to be counted. Biden leads the electoral college vote tally 264-214 after he was declared the winner in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday and Trump gained one vote in Maine. Adding Alaska for Trump – which had not been called but where the result is not in doubt – gives the president 217. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern must use her mandate to tackle child poverty | Max Rashbrooke Posted: 04 Nov 2020 05:55 PM PST Covid has set back the PM's modest progress on childhood hardship, meaning greater policy ambition is needed As the New Zealand First party's vote share evaporated on election day, so too did Jacinda Ardern's last excuse for not making more progress on child poverty, her signature issue. No longer able to blame inaction on her one-time conservative coalition partner, and possessing an absolute majority, the Labour leader now has a free hand on an issue dear to her heart. She may have labelled climate change her "nuclear-free moment", referencing the 1980s Labour government's famous opposition to nuclear weapons, but it is child poverty reduction, not climate change, that she has always taken as her "extra" portfolio. Continue reading... |
| The pollsters were wrong – again. Here's what we know so far | Mona Chalabi Posted: 04 Nov 2020 01:02 PM PST Demographics cannot be divided into neat slices of pie and people don't vote in tidy groups. We still haven't learned that lesson On any given day, my role is to write. On this particular day, I am supposed to write about what 240 million people decided – whether they stood in line or stuck down an envelope and which box they checked on a piece of paper. But at this particular moment, I have nothing to write. I am watching people talk loudly on a television screen and reading people type in ALL CAPS on Twitter and I am thinking about the importance of not writing. Continue reading... |
| Mail-in ballot tracker: counting election votes in US swing states Posted: 04 Nov 2020 10:46 AM PST With millions of Americans voting by mail during the pandemic, the Guardian and ProPublica are tracking the votes in critical states to determine how many are counted, rejected and delayed This piece is published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they're published An unprecedented number of Americans have voted by mail this year to avoid Covid-19 risk. Joe Biden's supporters said they were more likely to vote by mail while Donald Trump's supporters said they were more likely to vote in person. With postal delays, rejected ballots and a dearth of funding, the process isn't always smooth – ballots can be rejected for multiple reasons, and due to court challenges, election rules are changing even while voting is underway. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republican officials have spent the last months casting doubt on the mail-in voting process, paving the way for legal battles during the vote count. Continue reading... |
| Election fight: a divided US takes to the streets as the count goes on – in pictures Posted: 04 Nov 2020 09:14 PM PST Protesters turned out in cities across the US for the second night while votes are still being counted for the 2020 presidential election
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| 'Simply wrong': Pennsylvania governor reacts to Trump campaign court bid to stop count – video Posted: 04 Nov 2020 04:49 PM PST Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has condemned a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign to stop the counting of ballots in the crucial state. Democrat governor Wolf had previously tweeted that more than 1 million ballots were still to be counted. 'This afternoon, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to stop the counting of ballots in Pennsylvania,' he said. 'That is simply wrong. It goes against the most basic principles of our democracy'
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| Joe Biden: 'When the count is finished, we believe we will be the winner' – video Posted: 04 Nov 2020 02:48 PM PST Joe Biden expressed confidence in his victory in the presidential election, he stressed he was not 'declaring' victory but said it was 'clear' he would hit the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. On the election results, Biden emphasised all votes should be counted and he characterised his potential win as non-partisan, calling once again for unity in the US Continue reading... |
| 'The American way': Mitch McConnell defends Trump threat to challenge election results – video Posted: 04 Nov 2020 11:05 AM PST 'We don't know who won the presidential race yet,' said Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as he defended Trump's threat to challenge election results in the supreme court, a statement that drew wide criticism. McConnell on Wednesday said Trump should not be criticised for threatening to bring in his lawyers, adding the Biden campaign would do the same. 'In a close election you can anticipate in some of these states you are going to end up in court, (it's) the American way,' McConnell said during a news conference in Louisville, Kentucky Continue reading... |
| 'Pennsylvania will have a fair election': governor announces possible result delay – video Posted: 04 Nov 2020 08:53 AM PST The governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, said the electoral system in the state is working, but due to millions of mail-in ballots the results could be delayed until after Wednesday. During a press conference Wolf assured voters every ballot would be counted before results are announced in the key state Continue reading... |
| 'A disgrace': former aide John Bolton slams Donald Trump's early win claim – video Posted: 04 Nov 2020 06:41 AM PST The former Trump US national security adviser John Bolton has said the president's premature claim of victory in the election is 'a disgrace'. Early on Wednesday, Trump said he would take the election to the supreme court to stop votes being counted. He falsely claimed victory, as the election remained too close to call with millions of votes yet to be counted
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