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- Tokyo 2020 Olympics: athletics blasts off, Djokovic knocked out and more – live!
- Beijing warns of ‘counter-measures’ as Royal Navy sails South China Sea
- Greece sends police to Covid hotspot islands to step up controls
- Malta government bears responsibility for journalist’s murder, inquiry finds
- Women participate less at conferences, even if gender-balanced – study
- Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton’s
- Hong Kong jails man, 24, for nine years under national security law
- Russia rocket mishap briefly nudges International Space Station out of position
- Drugs deaths in Scotland soar to record level
- Sheila Jackson Lee is third Black lawmaker to be arrested during voting rights protests
- ‘No place in modern New Zealand’: government signals conversion practices ban
- Coronavirus live news: Philippines locks down 13 million in Manila; Japan to expand state of emergency
- Troops enforcing western Sydney lockdown will alienate community, advocates warn
- Israel to offer Pfizer Covid booster shots to people over 60
- Keir Starmer urges No 10 to bring forward Covid isolation end date
- Return of the pack: African wild dogs’ epic journey to a new home in Malawi
- Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 review: flexible laptop with beautiful OLED screen
- Big quiffs, zombies and dead crows: the wild world of psychobilly
- Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever review – inside pop stardom’s heart of darkness
- Experience: I survived a plane crash that killed 151 people
- Blasphemy, violence and live turtles: 10 plays that shocked the world
- Russian space module mishap pushes ISS out of position – video
- Marches in Minsk and Pegasus protests: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- Federal workers must be vaccinated or regularly tested | First Thing
- Sydney public hospitals postpone some elective surgery after NSW records 170 Covid cases
- ‘Best a human can be’: indigenous Amazonian Karapiru dies of Covid
- Aid cuts make a mockery of UK pledges on girls’ education | Zoe Williams
- China’s US ambassador pick shines light on debate over ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy
- Nobody in ICU fully vaccinated: how one small mistake became fodder for conspiracy theorists – video
- Wildfires raging across southern Turkey force residents to flee – video
- House falls off cliff in Argentina as sea reclaims land – video
- Heavy flooding hits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh – video
| Tokyo 2020 Olympics: athletics blasts off, Djokovic knocked out and more – live! Posted: 30 Jul 2021 03:06 AM PDT
Here's what's going on right now at 11am in London, 7pm in Tokyo, 8pm in Sydney and 6am in New York:
Novak Djokovic's bid for a "golden slam" is over – sort of. He is still in the mixed doubles, where he and Nina Stojanovic will take on ROC's Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina in the second semi-final. The winners of that will play Rublev and Pavlyuchenkova in the final, after they beat Australia's John Peers and Ash Barty in a final tie-break. It's not the gold medal he wanted, either way. In the men's singles, Zverev will face Karen Khachanov in the gold medal match, with Djokovic playing Spain's Pablo Carreño Busta for bronze. Zverev's compatriot, Steffi Graf, remains the only tennis player to win the "golden slam" – all four grand slams and singles Olympic gold in one year. Continue reading... |
| Beijing warns of ‘counter-measures’ as Royal Navy sails South China Sea Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:01 PM PDT Strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth is sailing through waters that are heavily contested between China and neighbouring countries China's military and state media have warned the UK against provocation as it sent a carrier strike group, led by a Royal Navy aircraft carrier, through the contested South China Sea. A spokesman for China's Ministry of National Defence, Wu Qian, said it respected freedom of navigation but firmly opposed any naval activities that aimed to provoke controversy. Continue reading... |
| Greece sends police to Covid hotspot islands to step up controls Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Party islands Mykonos and Ios could be shut down as Delta variant infection rates surge among young people Greece has begun deploying police units to holiday island hotspots as the country's tourism season moves into high gear amid a worrying spread of coronavirus variants. Authorities moved to beef up police presence on party isles such as Mykonos and Ios as concerns mounted over local entrepreneurs failing to comply with health measures aimed at curbing the pandemic. "The Delta variant has meant that every country is dealing with the fourth wave now and not as expected in November," the Greek tourism minister Haris Theoharis told the Guardian. "While hotels and family-type venues are implementing protocols diligently, there's more congestion than we would like to see in bars, especially among the younger crowd ... so we are trying to ensure some balance is kept." Continue reading... |
| Malta government bears responsibility for journalist’s murder, inquiry finds Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:47 AM PDT Inquiry into death of Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 says state had created a culture of impunity An independent inquiry in Malta into the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has found that the state had to bear responsibility after creating a "culture of impunity". The 437-page report, conducted by a team of judges and released on Thursday, said the state "failed to recognise the real and immediate risks" to the investigative journalist's life and "failed to take reasonable steps to avoid them". Continue reading... |
| Women participate less at conferences, even if gender-balanced – study Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Exclusive: small changes in conference design can make big difference to female inclusion, say researchers Women are less likely to participate in proceedings at medical and scientific conferences, even with gender-balanced delegates, although simple interventions in conference design sparked a significant improvement in female inclusion, a study has found. Medical and scientific conferences are imperative to the professional visibility of clinicians and academics, and researchers conducted this latest analysis based on data gleaned from the Society for Endocrinology's annual national conferences. Continue reading... |
| Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton’s Posted: 30 Jul 2021 02:25 AM PDT DNA testing has confirmed remains belong to missing hiker, says charity LBT Global Human remains found in the search for the British hiker Esther Dingley who went missing in the Pyrenees have been confirmed by DNA testing as being hers, the charity LBT Global has said. Dingley, 37, had been walking solo in the mountains near the Spanish and French border and was last seen on 22 November. |
| Hong Kong jails man, 24, for nine years under national security law Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:49 AM PDT Former waiter Tong Ying-kit is first person charged and tried under draconian law introduced last year The first person charged and tried under Hong Kong's draconian national security law has been sentenced to nine years in jail after he was convicted of secession and terrorism for crashing his motorbike into police officers while flying a protest flag. Tong Ying-kit, a 24-year-old former waiter, was convicted on Tuesday by a three-judge panel appointed by Hong Kong's leader to hear national security cases. On Thursday, he was sentenced to six and a half years for the secession offence and eight years for terrorism, with two and a half years of the latter sentence to be served consecutively, local media reported. Continue reading... |
| Russia rocket mishap briefly nudges International Space Station out of position Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:31 PM PDT After several 'hiccups' on the journey to the ISS, the Nauka lab module accidentally fired its rockets after docking Russia's troubled Nauka laboratory module has caused a fright when its rockets accidentally fired after docking the with the International Space Station, briefly throwing the station out of position. A few hours after docking, Nauka's propulsive devices unexpectedly fired, forcing personnel aboard the ISS to fire thrusters on the Russian segment of the station to counter the effect. Continue reading... |
| Drugs deaths in Scotland soar to record level Posted: 30 Jul 2021 02:32 AM PDT Country has Europe's worst drugs death rate, more than three-and-a-half times higher than rest of UK Drugs deaths in Scotland have hit a new record after 1,339 people died last year from overdoses or the cumulative effects of years of addiction. National Records of Scotland, the statistics agency, said the figure was a 5% increase on drugs-related fatalities registered in 2019. The country continues to have the worst drug death rate in Europe, with 21.2 deaths per 1,000 of the population, more than three-and-a-half times higher than the rest of the UK. It is the seventh annual increase in a row. Continue reading... |
| Sheila Jackson Lee is third Black lawmaker to be arrested during voting rights protests Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:06 PM PDT Congress members Joyce Beatty and Hank Johnson were previously arrested for participating in separate demonstrations Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democratic representative of Texas, was arrested in Washington DC on Thursday while protesting lawmakers' delay in passing legislation to protect voting rights, becoming the third member of the Congressional Black Caucus to be arrested for civil disobedience in recent weeks. Related: Voting curbs enacted in 18 US states this year despite none finding widespread fraud Continue reading... |
| ‘No place in modern New Zealand’: government signals conversion practices ban Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:00 PM PDT Proposed legislation would make it an offence to perform conversion practices on anyone aged under 18 New Zealand has introduced legislation to ban conversion practices, saying the practice is harmful and has "no place in modern New Zealand". Conversion therapy refers to the practice, often by religious groups, of trying to "cure" people of their sexuality, gender expression, or LGBTQI identity. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2021 03:01 AM PDT Manila to be under tightest quarantine curbs from 6-20 August; Japan set to expand state of emergency
The United States has donated three million doses of coronavirus vaccines to Uzbekistan, its ambassador said, as Washington seeks to boost its relationships with the Central Asian states bordering Afghanistan. US Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum tweeted that embassy staff had greeted a plane carrying three million doses of the Moderna vaccine at Uzbekistan's main airport in the capital Tashkent early on Friday morning.
China's latest Covid-19 outbreak is thought to originate from passengers arriving in Nanjing on a flight from Russia. |
| Troops enforcing western Sydney lockdown will alienate community, advocates warn Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:57 PM PDT Hard-hit suburbs are home to many Indigenous Australians, refugees and migrants
The deployment of troops to enforce Sydney's lockdown could alienate the community and fuel vaccine hesitancy, particularly in the hard-hit western suburbs where many Indigenous Australians and migrants and refugees live, community groups and residents are warning. Three hundred defence personnel are preparing to be deployed on Sydney's streets on Monday after New South Wales police made a formal request for their help. They'll undergo training at the weekend before joining police on the streets as they enforce a sixth week of lockdown. Continue reading... |
| Israel to offer Pfizer Covid booster shots to people over 60 Posted: 29 Jul 2021 05:01 PM PDT Announcement makes Israel the first country to offer a third dose of a western vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale Israel's prime minister has announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster shot to those people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of the world's most successful vaccination drives earlier this year, the first country to offer a third dose of a western vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale. Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer urges No 10 to bring forward Covid isolation end date Posted: 30 Jul 2021 12:29 AM PDT Labour leader calls for date on which fully vaccinated in England can avoid self-isolation to match that of Wales Keir Starmer has challenged Downing Street to bring forward the date on which fully vaccinated people in England can avoid coronavirus isolation if they have been in contact with a person who has tested positive, in a move that would match a date of 7 August in Wales. The call from the Labour leader – which adds to pressure from Conservative MPs – comes after the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, insisted on Thursday that the public had to "stick with" the 16 August date. Continue reading... |
| Return of the pack: African wild dogs’ epic journey to a new home in Malawi Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:30 PM PDT In an 'absolute win' for the endangered species, 14 dogs were transported by road and air to a 'safe space' in a country they have not populated in large numbers for decades Under cover of night, a pack of African wild dogs swarms around an impala carcass. Awake and hungry after a 27-hour transcontinental journey, this animated scene in Liwonde national park is a sign of "mission accomplished": African wild dogs are back in Malawi. "The feeling is absolutely surreal and so emotional," says Cole du Plessis, coordinator of the Wild Dog Range Expansion Project, who this week oversaw the successful translocation of the 14 African wild dogs from South Africa and Mozambique to Malawi's Liwonde national park and Majete wildlife reserve. "When we flew into Liwonde, on the final leg of the journey, and I saw all the vehicles waiting, I'll admit I got a bit teary. It's such an incredible feeling to finally have the dogs here safely." Continue reading... |
| Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 review: flexible laptop with beautiful OLED screen Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Latest thin, light and adaptable Windows 10 machine looks great, is fast and has a nine-hour battery Samsung's latest Galaxy Book Pro is a fast and versatile Windows 10 laptop that has a gorgeous-looking OLED screen. Available as a standard laptop costing from £1,099 ($999) or one with a screen that folds back on itself called the Galaxy Book Pro 360 for an extra £100 ($200). It is the successor to 2020's Galaxy Book Flex and follows a similar theme: good 13.3in screen, 360-degree folding hinge and thin metal body available in a distinctive royal blue colour. Continue reading... |
| Big quiffs, zombies and dead crows: the wild world of psychobilly Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT The turbocharged twist on rockabilly enraptured 80s punks and rock'n'rollers – and alienated plenty more – with its food fights, ferocious club nights and phantasmagoria If you wanted to date the moment one of the biggest youth subcultures of 80s Britain arrived, you could pick 40 years ago this month, on 4 July 1981. That night, at the Marquee club in Soho, a few hundred kids gathered to watch a band who were almost singlehandedly kickstarting a new wave of alternative music. Waiting for them to come on, those fans launched into the song that served as their heroes' unofficial theme, from David Lynch's Eraserhead. "In heaven, everything is fine," they sang. "You've got your good things, and I've got mine." A few months later, that chorus opened, and gave its name to, the first LP by the Meteors. And as their frontman would later claim, "Only the Meteors are pure psychobilly." In time, psychobilly – a turbocharged twist on rockabilly, the country-enhanced variant on R&B that prefigured the classic rock'n'roll of the late 50s – would become codified. "My take on it would be a much more aggressive, loud approach to rockabilly that must include a double bass, modern lyrics – no cars, pinups or bubble gum – lots of graveyards, vampires, zombies, horror flick and death-influenced lyrics," says Mark Harman of Restless, who came through the psychobilly scene in the early 80s. "Anything goes, really. Overdriven guitars and full rock drum kits, big quiffs, weird and wild clothing, makeup and props – blood and skeletons welcome. It should be fast and loud, exciting and fun." Continue reading... |
| Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever review – inside pop stardom’s heart of darkness Posted: 29 Jul 2021 04:01 PM PDT (Darkroom/Interscope) "I'm getting older," sings Billie Eilish, who's 19, on Happier Than Ever's opening track. "I've got more on my shoulders", she adds, which is certainly true. Her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? wasn't just a huge global hit, but an album that significantly altered mainstream pop music. Two years on, streaming services are clotted with bedroom-bound, teenage singer-songwriters dolefully depicting their lives: anticipation for what the genuine article does next is understandably running very high. When We All Fall Asleep … was an album that turned universal teenage traumas – romance, hedonism, friendship groups – into knowingly lurid horror-comic fantasies, in which tongues were stapled, friends buried, hearses slept in and marble walls spattered with blood. That playfulness is less evident on its successor. It flickers occasionally, as on Overheated's exploration of stardom in the era of social media, complete with death threats ("You wanna kill me? You wanna hurt me?" she mumbles, before giggling: "Stop being flirty") or on NDA, where the "pretty boy" she entices home is required to sign the titular legal agreement before he leaves. But the overall tone is noticeably more sombre. Continue reading... |
| Experience: I survived a plane crash that killed 151 people Posted: 30 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT I was fighting with my brother over the window seat. After that, I don't remember anything, except waking up next morning My childhood was perfect. I was born and raised in New Jersey and lived in a lovely house with my family around me. For my sixth birthday my mom went all out with a Pocahontas theme – it was amazing. It's the last beautiful memory I have of my family together. A month later, in December 1995, we were due to travel to Colombia as a family for the first time. I was so excited as it was going to be my first flight. We were travelling to meet family members I had never met before, for a big reunion. We were rushing on the way to the airport and our car almost flipped over on the way because of the snow on the roads, so we were delayed. It was chaos once we got there – rush, rush, rush. We only just boarded on time, and the plane took off late. Continue reading... |
| Blasphemy, violence and live turtles: 10 plays that shocked the world Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT A history of theatre's most controversial moments, from Jerry Springer: The Opera to Sarah Kane's 'unrelenting' Blasted Sensationally vulgar, this musical take on the TV host was taken to court for blasphemy. Featuring tap-dancing members of the Ku Klux Klan and Jesus dressed as a baby, it was designed to distress. "For all its shock and schlock tactics," wrote Michael Billington at the time, "the show implies that TV has a moral responsibility." The BBC received 63,000 complaints after airing the musical in 2005. Continue reading... |
| Russian space module mishap pushes ISS out of position – video Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:49 AM PDT Russia's troubled Nauka laboratory module caused a fright when its rockets accidentally fired after docking the with the International Space Station, briefly throwing the station out of position. A few hours after docking, Nauka's propulsive devices came on unexpectedly, forcing personnel onboard the ISS to launch thrusters on the Russian segment of the station to counter the effect Continue reading... |
| Marches in Minsk and Pegasus protests: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 30 Jul 2021 12:01 AM PDT A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Haiti to Pakistan Continue reading... |
| Federal workers must be vaccinated or regularly tested | First Thing Posted: 30 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT With the Delta variant spreading, Joe Biden announced new requirements for federal workers and urged local governments to do more to incentivize people to get vaccinated Good morning Joe Biden announced yesterday that all civilian federal workers must show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 or face regular testing and physical distancing, masking and travel restrictions. Continue reading... |
| Sydney public hospitals postpone some elective surgery after NSW records 170 Covid cases Posted: 30 Jul 2021 03:02 AM PDT NSW Health takes measure with nearly 200 Covid patients in hospital, but all emergency and urgent elective surgery will continue
Non-urgent elective surgery will be suspended at all public hospitals across greater Sydney as they deal with an influx of Covid patients. NSW Health announced the measure, to take effect from Monday, after the state reported 170 locally acquired cases on Friday. That was down on the record 239 cases the previous day, but at least 52 cases were in the community for some or all of their infectious period. Continue reading... |
| ‘Best a human can be’: indigenous Amazonian Karapiru dies of Covid Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT Karapiru Awá Guajá, among the last of the hunter-gatherer Awá tribe, survived a massacre and a decade alone in the forest, inspiring others with his resilience and 'extraordinary warmth' He survived a massacre that killed most of his family in the Brazilian Amazon and lived for 10 years alone in the forest, but Karapiru Awá Guajá could not escape the pandemic. Karapiru, one of the last of the hunter-gatherer nomadic Awá of Maranhão state, died of Covid-19 earlier this month. With only 300 Awá thought to remain, they have been called the "earth's most threatened tribe". Continue reading... |
| Aid cuts make a mockery of UK pledges on girls’ education | Zoe Williams Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:31 AM PDT The government's words at the global education summit are completely at odds with its behaviour. Whatever the event achieves will be despite its UK hosts, not because of them With all the fanfare Covid would allow, the global education summit opened in London this week. Ahead of the meeting, the minister for European neighbourhood and the Americas was on rousing form. "Educating girls is a gamechanger," Wendy Morton said, going on to describe what a plan would look like to do just that. The UK, co-hosting the summit with Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, plans to raise funds for the Global Partnership for Education, from governments and donors. The UK government has promised £430m over the next five years. Continue reading... |
| China’s US ambassador pick shines light on debate over ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy Posted: 29 Jul 2021 06:56 AM PDT Analysis: Xi Jinping wants his country to appear more lovable, but critics say Beijing's efforts are too superficial China's appointment of a new ambassador to the US has shone a light on the ongoing debate among analysts about how Beijing communicates with its biggest competitor, the future of its "wolf warrior" diplomacy and how Xi Jinping's call to "tell a good China story" might work in practice. The debate over the "wolf warrior" style – under which, as the Chinese ambassador to Sweden said on Swedish public radio in 2019, "we treat our friends with fine wine, but for our enemies we have shotguns" – comes amid a burst of positive publicity that delighted Beijing's propaganda officials: the foreign coverage of the herd of 15 wandering Asian elephants in southern China that captured the country's imagination and led Chinese vloggers to travel hundreds of miles to take selfies with them. Continue reading... |
| Nobody in ICU fully vaccinated: how one small mistake became fodder for conspiracy theorists – video Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:44 PM PDT During a Covid-19 press conference, NSW health offical Jeremy McAnulty 'misspoke' and inferred that all Covid patients in intensive care had been vaccinated when in fact none of them had been fully vaccinated. The video of the mistake has been widely shared on social media. A single post on one Australian page which regularly shares vaccination misinformation had more than 1,800 'interactions', including almost 300 'shares'. In less regulated online spaces, the video has been shared globally among conspiracist groups. In US-based Telegram groups clips of the video have been seen tens of thousands of times across various groups. Some called it evidence the vaccine is 'deadly gene therapy' and 'pure poison'. The Guardian also saw posts sharing the video in Telegram pages in Europe and the UK ► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube
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| Wildfires raging across southern Turkey force residents to flee – video Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:17 AM PDT Strong winds have fanned multiple wildfires in southern Turkey, killing at least three people and sending many others to hospital as homes burned down in the blazes. A wildfire that broke out on 28 July near the Mediterranean coastal resort town of Manavgat, in Antalya province, had largely been contained, but another fire that started early Thursday and swept through the district of Akseki kept firefighters engaged. Wildfires are common in Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean regions during the arid summer months, although some previous forest fires have been blamed on arson Continue reading... |
| House falls off cliff in Argentina as sea reclaims land – video Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:41 AM PDT This is the moment a house fell into the sea in the resort town of Mar del Tuyú in Argentina. The footage, captured by a neighbour on 28 July, shows waves crashing against the property as part of it breaks away and falls into the water. The owners of the property were not at home when the incident occurred Continue reading... |
| Heavy flooding hits Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh – video Posted: 29 Jul 2021 03:55 AM PDT Thousands of shelters in Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh have been flooded after heavy rainfall battered the region for more than a week, deepening the despair among those living there. The flooding has affected large parts of the Kutupalong refugee camp, which has existed since the early 1990s but was expanded on uneven, landslide-prone terrain in 2017, when it became the world's largest refugee camp for the 700,000 Rohingya people escaping military massacres in Myanmar, called 'genocidal' by the UN. While natural disasters are an annual occurrence in the region, activists say refugees there are highly vulnerable to the rapidly changing climate Continue reading... |
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