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- Belarus exile group leader Vitaly Shishov found dead in Kyiv, police say
- Coronavirus live news: England and Wales deaths reach three-month high; Indonesia struggles with surge in cases
- Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Warholm smashes world record, GB sailing golds and cycling – live!
- Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history
- Dozens of bodies found floating in river between Ethiopia’s Tigray and Sudan
- Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
- Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms
- BP to buy back $1.4bn of shares as rising oil price bolsters profits
- Trial to test if cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours
- Officer who responded to US Capitol attack is third to die by suicide
- Matt Damon denies using homophobic slur ‘in personal life’
- US reaches Biden’s 70% first-shot goal as threat to unvaccinated people grows
- Hundreds of health workers in isolation as Delta hits Australian state of Queensland
- Savings bonds, lotteries and cheap food: do vaccine incentives work?
- Jeremy Clarkson criticises Covid scientists, saying ‘if you die, you die’
- The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport
- ‘You’re not snowflakes’: baby boomers answer gen Z’s biggest questions
- ‘Now it’s continuous noise’: Italy’s Crusoe adjusts to life off his island
- ‘Still going through hell’: the search for Yazidi women seven years on
- Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson review – Mills & Boon debut is chaste good fun
- Success of far-right Brothers of Italy raises fears of fascist revival
- Black barrister to lead independent police oversight board
- If education is such a great investment, it deserves serious international backing
- ‘No one’s invincible’: fresh mask mandates and rising Delta cases hit California
- The Fever review – dreamy film about an indigenous Brazilian’s alienation
- China authorities to test all Wuhan’s 11 million residents amid new Covid cases
- Experts’ modelling for vaccination targets released – as it happened
- ‘Collective strength’: the LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda
- Aerial footage of Pescara wildfire as residents and tourists evacuated – video
| Belarus exile group leader Vitaly Shishov found dead in Kyiv, police say Posted: 03 Aug 2021 12:25 AM PDT Police open murder investigation after activist discovered in park after failing to return from a run The head of a Kyiv-based non-profit organisation that helps Belarusians fleeing persecution has been found dead in a park in the Ukrainian capital, police have said. Vitaly Shishov, the head of Belarusian House in Ukraine (BDU), was reported missing by his partner on Monday after he did not return from a run and could not be reached on his mobile phone. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:42 AM PDT Latest updates: Covid deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 23 July up 50%; Indonesia's health workers struggle under weight of new cases
A total of 327 deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 23 July mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - up 50% on the previous week. It is the highest total since 362 deaths in the week to 16 April.
Russia on Tuesday reported 22,010 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,952 in Moscow, taking the total to 6,334,195 since the pandemic began. The government coronavirus task force also confirmed 788 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Warholm smashes world record, GB sailing golds and cycling – live! Posted: 03 Aug 2021 02:09 AM PDT
Gymnastics: Elsabeth Black of Canada is first up on the beam. She hurt her ankle in training a few days ago, had to withdraw from the all-around final, and is obviously struggling to even stay up there on the beam. But is determined to get through a routine. She scores a modest 13.866, but finishing it is what she really wanted. Does that bravely.
Football: The men's semi-final as well. Nothing to report so far, 0-0 between Brazil and Mexico in the second half. |
| Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:16 PM PDT Yakei took top spot after roughing up Sanchu, the alpha male who had been leader of 'troop B' on the island of Kyushu for five years In a rarely seen phenomenon in the simian world, a nine-year-old female known as Yakei has become the boss of a 677-strong troop of Japanese macaque monkeys at a nature reserve on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Yakei's path to the top began in April when she beat up her own mother to become the alpha female of the troop at the Takasakiyama natural zoological garden in Oita city. While that would have been the pinnacle for most female monkeys, Yakei decided to throw her 10kg weight around among the males. Continue reading... |
| Dozens of bodies found floating in river between Ethiopia’s Tigray and Sudan Posted: 02 Aug 2021 05:59 PM PDT Witnesses report some of the corpses had gunshot wounds or their hands tied amid escalating conflict in the region in recent weeks A Sudanese official has said local authorities in Kassala province have found around 50 bodies, apparently people fleeing the war in neighbouring Ethiopia's Tigray region, floating in the river between the countries over the past week. Some bodies were found with gunshot wounds or their hands bound, and the official said on Monday a forensic investigation was needed to determine the causes of death. The official spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to brief the media. Continue reading... |
| Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Over-reliance on tree-planting to offset carbon emissions could push food prices up 80% by 2050 Governments and businesses hoping to plant trees and restore forests in order to reach net-zero emissions must sharply limit such efforts to avoid driving up food prices in the developing world, the charity Oxfam has warned. Planting trees has been mooted as one of the key ways of tackling the climate crisis, but the amount of land needed for such forests would be vast, and planting even a fraction of the area needed to offset global greenhouse gas emissions would encroach on the land needed for crops to feed a growing population, according to a report entitled Tightening the net: Net zero climate targets implications for land and food equity. Continue reading... |
| Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms Posted: 02 Aug 2021 01:55 PM PDT Study says pigments on cave stalagmites were applied through 'splattering and blowing' more than 60,000 years ago Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave more than 60,000 years ago, according to a study published on Monday. The issue had roiled the world of paleoarchaeology ever since the publication of a 2018 paper attributing red ocher pigment found on the stalagmitic dome of Cueva de Ardales to our extinct "cousin" species. Continue reading... |
| BP to buy back $1.4bn of shares as rising oil price bolsters profits Posted: 03 Aug 2021 12:38 AM PDT Energy company raises oil price forecasts for rest of decade, but lowers them for longer term BP will hand shareholders a windfall of $1.4bn (£1bn) through share buybacks and has promised to increase its dividend by 4% a year up to 2025 after predicting a short-term increase in global oil prices before a quicker than expected shift to low-carbon energy. Rising global oil prices helped BP make an underlying profit of $2.8bn for the three months to June, up sharply from a loss of $6.68bn in the same quarter last year when Covid-19 brought the oil industry to a standstill. Continue reading... |
| Trial to test if cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT First such study in the world aims to find out if Sativex combined with chemotherapy can help treat glioblastoma Cancer charities and the NHS are preparing to investigate whether a cannabis-based mouth spray can treat brain tumours and help patients to live longer. Doctors will give patients across the UK with a recurrent brain tumour called a glioblastoma the drug, which is known as Sativex, alongside a chemotherapy medication – temozolomide – in a clinical trial in an attempt to kill off cancerous cells. Continue reading... |
| Officer who responded to US Capitol attack is third to die by suicide Posted: 02 Aug 2021 01:54 PM PDT Gunther Hashida, 44, was found dead at home on 29 July, the Metropolitan police department said A third police officer who defended the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump has taken his own life, Washington DC's Metropolitan police department confirmed on Monday. Officer Gunther Hashida, who was assigned to the emergency response team within the special operations department, was found dead at home on 29 July, the department said. Continue reading... |
| Matt Damon denies using homophobic slur ‘in personal life’ Posted: 02 Aug 2021 06:35 PM PDT Actor issues statement to Variety amid outrage over interview in which he says he recently 'retired the f-slur' Matt Damon has reportedly denied using a well-known homophobic slur "in his personal life", after being widely criticized for revealing in a recent interview that he "retired" the term after his daughter told him it was unacceptable. He said his daughter had taken him to task after he used the word in a joke "months ago". "She went to her room and wrote a very long, beautiful treatise on how that word is dangerous. I said, 'I retire the f-slur!' I understood," he said in the interview. Continue reading... |
| US reaches Biden’s 70% first-shot goal as threat to unvaccinated people grows Posted: 02 Aug 2021 05:41 PM PDT CDC director issues new warning as cases rise: 'Covid-19 is clearly not done with us' At least 70% of adults in the US have now received at least one Covid-19 vaccination shot, the White House announced on Monday, reaching a target Joe Biden originally said he had hoped to achieve by 4 July. The administration reported the news in a tweet hailing "Milestone Monday" by Cyrus Shahpar, the government's Covid-19 data director, who said the seven-day average of people receiving their first dose – 320,000 – was the highest since the Independence Day holiday. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of health workers in isolation as Delta hits Australian state of Queensland Posted: 02 Aug 2021 09:19 PM PDT Outbreak forces millions into lockdown in the sunshine state as New South Wales races to administer 6m doses amid Covid surge Hundreds of critical health workers in the Australian state of Queensland have gone into isolation as the country battles a growing Delta outbreak, while New South Wales raced to administer 6m vaccine doses before the scheduled end of lockdown in less than four week's time. Queensland's chief health officer, Dr Jeannette Young, said health workers in quarantine included all the cardiac surgeons at the Queensland Children's hospital, leading to delays in surgery and outpatient work. Continue reading... |
| Savings bonds, lotteries and cheap food: do vaccine incentives work? Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Australian Labor party has suggested using money to encourage Covid vaccinations, a strategy that is popular around the word Labor's call for Australians who get vaccinated by Christmas to be offered a $300 cash incentive has been denounced by the government as an "insulting" and a "thought bubble" that is not necessary given the current take-up rate of vaccines. But – insulting or not – it's a strategy that has been incredibly popular with governments around the world throughout the pandemic. In May, Australia's chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, said Australia needed "as many incentives as we can for people to become vaccinated", and when asked about options such as lottery tickets and cash bonuses he said all ideas were "potentially on the table". Continue reading... |
| Jeremy Clarkson criticises Covid scientists, saying ‘if you die, you die’ Posted: 02 Aug 2021 04:01 PM PDT Broadcaster complains about caution shown by 'communists at Sage' over reopening society It is a long list that includes travellers, cyclists, animal rights activists, lorry drivers, George Michael and Liverpool. Now Jeremy Clarkson has opened himself up to more anger after he criticised "those communists at Sage" preventing opening up because, he argues, "if you die, you die." In an interview with the Radio Times, Clarkson gives his views on the pandemic and what should happen next. Many will find his thoughts typically boorish and insensitive. Continue reading... |
| The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT To every age dogged with pollution, accidents and congestion, the transport solution for the next generation seems obvious – but the same problems keep coming back In the 1890s, the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been in use for thousands of years, and it was hard to imagine life without them. But as the number of such vehicles increased during the 19th century, the drawbacks of using horses in densely populated cities were becoming ever more apparent. In particular, the accumulation of horse manure on the streets, and the associated stench, were impossible to miss. By the 1890s, about 300,000 horses were working on the streets of London, and more than 150,000 in New York City. Each of these horses produced an average of 10kg of manure a day, plus about a litre of urine. Collecting and removing thousands of tonnes of waste from stables and streets proved increasingly difficult. Continue reading... |
| ‘You’re not snowflakes’: baby boomers answer gen Z’s biggest questions Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT It can feel as if the generation gap is wider than ever – but not when people really talk. Here, four sixtysomethings offer advice to those in their teens and 20s We live in an era in which, for the most part, the generations do not mix frequently. Grandparents are visited occasionally; young people seek the freedom of independent living as early as possible. On social media, intergenerational warfare is commonplace, as members of gen Z (those born between the mid-90s and the early 10s) criticise older people for hoarding wealth, while baby boomers bemoan the perceived sensitivity of the younger generation. But what would happen if baby boomers gave the TikToking young adults of today an insight into their thinking – and threw some life advice into the bargain? To that end, we assembled a panel of baby boomers – Tayo Idowu, 64, a marketing director from London; Liz Richards, 68, a retired nurse from Derby; Paul Gibson, 63, an accountant from Arundel, West Sussex; and Maggie Tata, 65, a carer from London – to answer gen Z's questions (even the tongue-in-cheek ones). Continue reading... |
| ‘Now it’s continuous noise’: Italy’s Crusoe adjusts to life off his island Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:52 AM PDT It is more than three months since Mauro Morandi left Budelli after living alone there for 32 years Every morning, Mauro Morandi woke up to the uninterrupted sea view that only he was privy to. Immersed in nature, he was intimately in tune with the dawn sounds and habits of the wildlife that surrounded his home, a former second world war shelter on Budelli, the Mediterranean island where he had lived alone for more than 30 years. Now the 82-year-old is adjusting to life in a one-bedroom apartment next to a shop with a Sky TV sign outside, surrounded by neighbours and with only a glimpse of the ocean in between the gaps separating the buildings opposite on nearby La Maddalena, the largest of an archipelago of seven islands off the north coast of Sardinia, Italy. Continue reading... |
| ‘Still going through hell’: the search for Yazidi women seven years on Posted: 03 Aug 2021 02:01 AM PDT As two women are rescued in Syria after being kidnapped by Isis years earlier, Yazidis renew calls for international help to find the thousands still unaccounted for For seven years, their families waited and hoped for news. In July, they finally received it. Two young women, kidnapped by Islamic State as teenagers, had been found alive in Syria. Salma*, now 25, was located in Deir el-Zour province, in the east of the country. She had "suffered all kinds of injustice", said the Yazidi House in the Al-Jazira region, an organisation that assisted with the rescue of both women. Continue reading... |
| Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson review – Mills & Boon debut is chaste good fun Posted: 02 Aug 2021 04:01 PM PDT The romance of her heroine's 'rebellious' red hair is much more of a feature in the Duchess of York's historical novel than sex She is a spirited, Titian-haired, freckled beauty, whose curls just won't quit. While initially submitting to the strictures of high society and the tribulations of the marriage market, she endures a pasting from the press before emerging triumphant, throwing off the weight of expectations to become her true self. And write a children's book. The heroine of the Duchess of York's debut novel for adults, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott, bears no small resemblance to its author, in both looks and life story. Her Heart for a Compass is out on Tuesday from romance publisher Mills & Boon, but readers hoping for the sexy shenanigans usually found in the publisher's output will be disappointed. While Margaret indulges in a handful of kisses, and at one point has a man "adjusting his kilt, swearing under his breath", the pleasures she experiences are all very much above the waistline. Continue reading... |
| Success of far-right Brothers of Italy raises fears of fascist revival Posted: 02 Aug 2021 09:00 PM PDT Political party has overtaken Matteo Salvini's far-right League as Italy's biggest party in opinion polls Spartaco Perini spoke overwhelmingly about his time as a second world war resistance fighter in the days before he died. The founder of one of Italy's first antifascism groups in Colle San Marco, a hamlet of Ascoli Piceno in the central Marche region, he was lauded by the Allied forces for his role as a fearless informant, work that helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis and end Benito Mussolini's dictatorship. But he had one regret. "In his last few days, he spoke a lot about the great things the partisans did to restore freedom and bring about democracy," said Pietro Perini, the partisan's son and president of the Ascoli Piceno unit of Anpi, an anti-fascism organisation. "But he also felt they made one error – and that was not to have eradicated it [fascism] completely." Continue reading... |
| Black barrister to lead independent police oversight board Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:01 PM PDT Scrutiny board headed by Abimbola Johnson among initiatives that show police accept they need to change Police chiefs hoping to pull themselves out of a race crisis have appointed a new tsar who has previously said black people fear calling on officers for help. Barrister Abimbola Johnson will chair a new independent scrutiny and oversight board as part of a promised suite of changes to policing meant to boost confidence among minority ethnic groups. Continue reading... |
| If education is such a great investment, it deserves serious international backing Posted: 02 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT The World Bank and IMF should step in to finance a recovery of children's learning chances devastated by the pandemic "Education," wrote Nelson Mandela, "is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." One wonders what he would have made of the response to the education crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A crisis threatening to derail social and economic progress, trapping millions of children in poverty. The UN secretary general has warned of a "generational catastrophe", yet the international response has been marked by staggering complacency. That lack of concern was on public display at last week's Global Education Summit in London. Fresh from cutting UK aid to education by 40%, Boris Johnson – a self-styled champion for universal girls' education – opened proceedings by declaring that education was "the single best investment we can make in the future of humanity". Continue reading... |
| ‘No one’s invincible’: fresh mask mandates and rising Delta cases hit California Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT A surge in San Francisco infections prompts indoor masking, but experts predict high vaccination rates will keep most out of hospitals A surge in Covid-19 infections, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, has prompted San Francisco and six other counties in California's Bay Area to reimpose mask mandates for indoor spaces, less than two months after experts in the highly vaccinated region celebrated what they hoped would be a return to normal. In recent days, San Francisco's infection rates have surged to nearly 20 times what they were at their lowest point in June and two of the city's hospitals have reported that more than 200 of their own workers have tested positive for the virus. Continue reading... |
| The Fever review – dreamy film about an indigenous Brazilian’s alienation Posted: 03 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT Maya Da-Rin's subtle, poetic debut about a man with a mysterious fever engages with the hidden lives of the Desana people of Brazil Here is a mysterious and opaque movie, a feature debut from 42-year-old Brazilian artist and film-maker Maya Da-Rin. It does not give up its meaning easily, or perhaps at all. Newcomer Regis Myrupu won the best actor prize at the Locarno film festival for his understated performance as Justino, a member of the indigenous Desana people working as a security guard at a container port in Manaus harbour in northern Brazil. He is a widower, fussed over by his affectionate daughter Vanessa (Rosa Peixoto), who has just got into medical school at Brasília and will have to move away very soon and may not see her dad for many years. And perhaps that is what has caused a strange, profound unease in Justino. He suffers from a fever which is resistant to diagnosis. He becomes dreamy and inattentive at work and is called to see the stern head of human resources, who after some perfunctory inquiries about his mental health gives him a warning. Continue reading... |
| China authorities to test all Wuhan’s 11 million residents amid new Covid cases Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:33 PM PDT Eight cases reported in city where coronavirus first emerged in 2019 Chinese officials have ordered all 11 million residents of Wuhan to be tested for Covid-19, after new cases emerged in the city for the first time in more than a year. On Tuesday the national health commission reported eight cases in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 was first detected in late 2019, before spreading around the world. Continue reading... |
| Experts’ modelling for vaccination targets released – as it happened Posted: 03 Aug 2021 01:36 AM PDT Gladys Berejiklian can't say whether cases have 'peaked', as Queensland records 16 cases. This blog is now closed
We'll leave it there for now. Thanks for following along with us. Before I go, here are today's main stories:
Elias Visontay has been looking at the federal government vaccine rollout data released today. He writes: Suburbs in south-west and western Sydney under the harshest lockdown conditions have the lowest Covid vaccination rates in New South Wales, while northern parts of the city have the highest number of immunised residents. Related: Vaccination rates lowest in Sydney suburbs with most Covid cases Continue reading... |
| ‘Collective strength’: the LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda Posted: 02 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Kidnapped by Lord's Resistance Army rebels as a girl, Victoria Nyanjura has pushed through major reforms for victims of abduction and rape When Victoria Nyanjura was abducted from her Catholic boarding school in northern Uganda by members of the Lord's Resistance Army, she prayed to God asking to die. She was 14 when she was taken, along with 29 others, in the middle of the night. During the next eight years in captivity she was subjected to beatings, starvation, rape and other horrors that she cannot talk about even 18 years later. Five of the girls who were taken prisoner with her died, and Nyanjura gave birth to two children. Continue reading... |
| Aerial footage of Pescara wildfire as residents and tourists evacuated – video Posted: 02 Aug 2021 05:11 AM PDT At least five people were wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as one of the worst heatwaves in decades swept across south-east Europe. About 800 people were evacuated from their homes, including a convent of nuns, after a fire broke out in the 53-hectare (131-acre) Pineta Dannunziana nature reserve, as the fires continue to be active on different fronts Continue reading... |
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