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- Hurricane Ida live updates: first death in Louisiana as New Orleans loses power
- UN atomic watchdog says North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor
- Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 day six: swimming, athletics and more – live!
- Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85
- Caldor fire: crews battling California blaze face rising temperatures
- Over-50s want climate crisis addressed ‘even if it leads to high prices’
- Fire rips through 20-storey residential tower block in Milan
- Missile and drone attack kills at least 30 in south Yemen
- Cape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass
- Sustainable scotch: Hebridean distillery aims for net zero whisky
- Coronavirus live news: schools in Europe must stay open, says WHO; Auckland extends lockdown
- Even as New Zealand battles Covid, trust in government bucks global trend
- ‘Not open for humans’: Covid changes east Asia’s Ghost Month but free spirits remain
- How contagious is the Delta variant of Covid-19? See how coronavirus can spread through a population, and how countries flatten the curve
- Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
- ‘Selling a promise’: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos
- What personality are you? How the Myers-Briggs test took over the world
- Scepticism grows in El Salvador over pioneering Bitcoin gamble
- ‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
- The curse of Mies van der Rohe: Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle-strewn gallery
- Flames engulf residential tower block in Milan – video
- New Zealand Covid update: Auckland lockdown extended as cases drop to 53
- Australia Covid news live update: first Indigenous death as NSW confirms 1,290 cases and prisons in lockdown; Victoria records 73 cases and ACT 12
- Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: Kyrgyz women’s fight against a brutal tradition
- Children return to school in Jakarta as Indonesia eases Covid restrictions
- Pasifika are on the frontline in New Zealand’s Covid battle – and are copping racist abuse for it | Fa’anana Efeso Collins
- Locked-off camera shows devastating power of Hurricane Ida – video
- Smoke visible across Kabul after blast near airport – video
| Hurricane Ida live updates: first death in Louisiana as New Orleans loses power Posted: 30 Aug 2021 01:39 AM PDT Sheriffs say person killed by falling tree in Prairieville as city of New Orleans falls back on power generators after network fails
The National Weather Service has warned of flash flood emergencies in LaPlace, Luling and Destrehan, west of New Orleans. Residents are advised to move immediately to higher ground. Flash Flood Emergency including Laplace LA, Luling LA, Destrehan LA until 7:15 AM CDT pic.twitter.com/o9qCgMzHOX
All American Airlines and United Airlines outbound flights from Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Jackson, Mississippi, have been cancelled. TRAVEL ALERT |
| UN atomic watchdog says North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor Posted: 29 Aug 2021 06:20 PM PDT IAEA 'deeply troubled' by indications the 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon was operating North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog has said in an annual report. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009. The country then pressed ahead with its nuclear weapons programme and soon resumed nuclear testing. Its last nuclear test was in 2017. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 day six: swimming, athletics and more – live! Posted: 30 Aug 2021 02:14 AM PDT
Equestrian: Sophie Wells scores 73.449 and slots into bronze-medal position with one competitor to go, Michele George of Belgium.
Yes, exactly: Clare Balding says we need to take a breath and she's right, we do. Continue reading... |
| Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85 Posted: 29 Aug 2021 08:31 AM PDT Producer and performer who worked with Bob Marley and pioneered both dub and roots reggae styles dies in hospital in Jamaica • Obituary: one of Jamaica's finest and most unpredictable musicians Lee "Scratch" Perry, whose pioneering work with roots reggae and dub opened up profound new depths in Jamaican music, has died aged 85. Jamaican media reported the news that he died in hospital in Lucea, northern Jamaica. No cause of death has yet been given. Andrew Holness, the country's prime minister, sent "deep condolences" to Perry's family. Continue reading... |
| Caldor fire: crews battling California blaze face rising temperatures Posted: 29 Aug 2021 12:58 PM PDT Triple-digit temperatures possible and heat is expected to last several days as more than a dozen wildfires are fought in the state Spiking temperatures and increasing winds on Sunday added to the challenges faced by firefighters battling blazes across northern California, including the huge Caldor fire, which continued its march toward the Lake Tahoe resort region. Related: 'Our future might not look the same': wildfires threaten way of life in California's mountain towns Continue reading... |
| Over-50s want climate crisis addressed ‘even if it leads to high prices’ Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:01 PM PDT Research finds almost two-thirds of older people want UK government to move faster on green initiatives The majority of over-50s believe the UK government should be doing more to address the climate crisis, even if it leads to higher prices, a study has found. A survey of more than 500 people aged 50 and over found that almost two-thirds want ministers to move faster on climate initiatives, regardless of whether it meant products and services would be more expensive over time, or more difficult to access. Continue reading... |
| Fire rips through 20-storey residential tower block in Milan Posted: 29 Aug 2021 03:39 PM PDT Rescue workers 'knocking down doors' to make sure none of the 70 families remained inside Fire has ripped through a 20-storey residential building in Milan, leaving rescue workers scrambling to make sure no one had been caught in the flames and thick smoke. The blaze on Sunday started on the upper floors of the tower on the southern outskirts of the capital of the Lombardy region. Continue reading... |
| Missile and drone attack kills at least 30 in south Yemen Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:49 AM PDT At least three explosions took place at al-Anad airbase, officials said A missile and drone attack on a key military base in south Yemen has killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the country's civil war in recent years. Mohammed al-Naqib, the spokesman for Yemen's southern forces, said the attack on Sunday on al-Anad airbase in the province of Lahj wounded at least 65. He said the casualty toll could rise since rescue teams were still clearing the site. Continue reading... |
| Cape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass Posted: 29 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT
For those aboard a recent whale watching cruise off Cape Cod, the decomposing carcass of a year-old humpback calf floating in the waters of the Stellwagen Bank national marine sanctuary made for a heartbreaking sight. Related: Experience: I was attacked by two sharks at once Continue reading... |
| Sustainable scotch: Hebridean distillery aims for net zero whisky Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Islay's 9 distilleries burn 15m litres of oil a year. Now Bruichladdich is leading a radical effort to reduce emissions Like the other famous malt whiskies made on Islay, Bruichladdich heavily promotes its idyllic island location, carefully selected Scottish barley, clear Hebridean water and loving attention of its craft distillers. But Bruichladdich is confronting a significant problem. Like its neighbouring distilleries, and many more of Scotland's 134 whisky producers, it relies on fuel oil, brought in on diesel-powered ferries, to fire the boilers. Islay's nine distilleries burn 15m litres of oil each year. Ironically, this beautiful spot may well have the highest per capita CO2 emissions of any community in Scotland. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: schools in Europe must stay open, says WHO; Auckland extends lockdown Posted: 30 Aug 2021 02:09 AM PDT 'Vital' to maintain education for children across the continent; New Zealand's largest city sees curbs extended by two weeks; Scottish first minister in isolation
The New South Wales government in Australia has been criticised for its "outrageous" refusal to reveal inmate vaccination rates, as it announced a lockdown of the prison system due to fears a Covid outbreak at the Parklea correctional centre may have spread. On Monday, Corrective Services NSW, the government agency charged with managing the state's 13,118 prisoners, announced all its prisons would lock down after an outbreak at the privately-run Parklea jail doubled to more than 60 cases. Related: NSW locks down prisons over Covid fears but refuses to reveal inmate vaccination rates
Russia has reported 792 deaths linked to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours and 18,325 new cases. Deaths have not dropped below 700 since early July, when infections began hitting record levels, especially in the two biggest cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. |
| Even as New Zealand battles Covid, trust in government bucks global trend Posted: 29 Aug 2021 09:21 PM PDT With a nationwide lockdown and some of the world's strictest restrictions, Jacinda Ardern is counting on her people's goodwill again In locked-down New Zealand, life orbits around the 1pm briefing. As the home-bound nation digests its lunch, the director general of health, Ashley Bloomfield – frequently alongside prime minister Jacinda Ardern – takes the stage behind a socially distanced podium and updates the country. In the midst of a Covid outbreak, those briefings occur almost every weekday. They are so clockwork-regular, so predictable in their essential structure, that certain sentences became memes: "Kia ora koutou katoa. There are X cases of Covid-19 in the community," each begins. After the last outbreak, media outlet The Spinoff spliced together Bloomfield saying it 44 times. Continue reading... |
| ‘Not open for humans’: Covid changes east Asia’s Ghost Month but free spirits remain Posted: 29 Aug 2021 05:29 PM PDT Households prepare offerings in prayer for their ancestors and gods, but many temples are closed On the 15th day of Ghost Month, when the gates to hell are believed to open and spirits walk the earth, Taoist masters are invited to the Zhupu Altar, a massive temple built on a hillside in Keelung, northern Taiwan. The masters hold a ceremony to assist the spirits of those who died without family or friends to pray for them, known as "hungry ghosts" but commonly referred to as good brothers and sisters to avoid offence. Ghost Month is marked across east Asia, including Hong Kong, southern China, Indonesia and Malaysia. In Taiwan, Keelung is a significant site, with a history of violent disputes during the Qing dynasty, and it hosts the island's biggest events. The ceremonies often draw tens of thousands of onlookers from afar, but these are Covid times. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2021 08:05 PM PDT How contagious is the Delta Covid variant? Take charge of this interactive and watch how small changes in isolation or reproduction rates of Covid-19 can affect our battle against it. One important characteristic of viruses and other pathogens is how contagious or infectious they are. One key measure of this is the R0, or basic reproduction number, which indicates how many new cases one infected person generates. This is not just a measure of the inherent infectiousness of a disease. It also depends on other factors, including the rate of contact within a population and the duration of the infectious period. It's a situation-dependent value, so in one city the R0 might be higher and in another lower. It also assumes that the entire population is susceptible to the disease. So what does the R0 of Covid look like, and how does it compare with other diseases? Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of? I ask Frank Oz if he feels like the Paul McCartney to Jim Henson's John Lennon, the one left behind to carry the flame after his revered creative partner suddenly and shockingly died. Oz takes a deep breath and turns his head to the side, thinking. If you grew up in the 1970s and 80s, your childhood was shaped by Henson and Oz and their work with the Muppets, just as the kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s did so in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney. Even if you weren't a devoted fan of the Muppets themselves, you couldn't help but take in their influence osmotically, what with The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, the Muppets movies and Labyrinth swirling in the atmosphere. I was pretty much raised on the Muppets, just as I now raise my own kids on them, and I cannot remember a time when Henson and Oz's creations were not stamped in my mind's eye. Continue reading... |
| ‘Selling a promise’: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT The company's collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry still hasn't faced a 'true reckoning' A charismatic young leader, billions of dollars in valuations and a technology that promised to change the world but failed to deliver: the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of the medical tech startup Theranos has been seen by many as an indictment of the hype-train attitude of Silicon Valley. Nearly 20 years after Theranos's launch, its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is headed to trial, charged with defrauding clients and investors. Silicon Valley is facing a public that's wary of its methods and intentions – but the verdict is still out on whether startup culture has fundamentally changed. Continue reading... |
| What personality are you? How the Myers-Briggs test took over the world Posted: 30 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Deemed 'astrology for businessmen' for some, lauded as life-saving by others, the personality tests are a 'springboard' for people to think about who they are I am a born executive. I am obsessed with efficiency and detached from my emotions. I share similarities with Margaret Thatcher and Harrison Ford. I am among 2% of the general population, and 1% of women. People like us are highly motivated by personal growth, and occasionally ruthless in the pursuit. We make difficult partners and parents, but good landscape architects. We are ENTJs: extroverted, intuitive, thinking, judging – also known as the executive type or, sometimes, "the Commander". Continue reading... |
| Scepticism grows in El Salvador over pioneering Bitcoin gamble Posted: 29 Aug 2021 09:30 PM PDT Country will be first to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender next month – but economists are sounding warnings over risks Litha María de Los Angeles slaps two cheese-filled pupusas – the El Salvadoran cornmeal flatbread – on the griddle. With a camera click on the QR code, she receives her payment: four hundred-thousandths of a Bitcoin. Then, as the rain pelts the corrugated iron roof and a gust of wind lifts the blue plastic table cloths, the power cuts out. A tumultuous few weeks awaits El Salvador as it prepares to become the first country to adopt Bitcoin, the world's most popular decentralised digital currency, as legal tender on 7 September. With that deadline looming, a host of challenges – technological, financial and criminal – threaten to sink the plan of the president, Nayib Bukele, to ride the Central American economy out of its current choppy waters on the back of a cryptocurrency wave. Continue reading... |
| ‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks Posted: 29 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT The livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake's occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently There was a time when the vast Lake Chilwa almost disappeared. In 2012 it had been extremely hot in southern Malawi, with little rain to fill the rivers that ran into the lake. "Many fishermen were forced to scramble for land near the lake banks, while others had to migrate to the city," says Alfred Samuel. "We could barely feed our children because the lake could not provide enough fish, or water for rice growing." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT The modernist maestro had carte blanche to build a great museum. The result? A breathtaking icon hopeless for displaying art. British architect David Chipperfield relives his gargantuan repair job Never has so much praise been lavished on so dysfunctional a building. The last major project of modernist master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie is a perfectly square temple of steel and glass, raised above the street on its own granite acropolis. Built in 1968, not far from the recently erected Berlin Wall, it was intended to symbolise the freedoms of the west, its big black roof enclosing an epic column-free hall for the display of modern art. It has long been venerated as a 20th-century Parthenon, the ultimate example of Mies's pursuit of "universal space". But as a museum, it has always been a disaster. Ever since it opened, the New National Gallery has been dogged by cracking windows, heavy condensation and awkward display spaces, presenting a curatorial nightmare for its staff. Beneath the impractical grand hall are subterranean galleries for the permanent collection that have the dreary feeling of a windowless office complex. It is one of the most extreme examples of the quest for purity of form trumping the demands of function. Continue reading... |
| Flames engulf residential tower block in Milan – video Posted: 30 Aug 2021 12:53 AM PDT Firefighters have battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-storey residential building and poured black smoke into the air. Residents were evacuated and the city's mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said there were no reports of injuries or deaths. He added that firefighters were kicking down doors, apartment by apartment, to make sure there were no residents left behind. The 60-metre (200ft) tall building, part of a recent development project, was designed to look like the keel of a ship and included an aluminium sail on its roof, which burned and fell to the street in pieces Continue reading... |
| New Zealand Covid update: Auckland lockdown extended as cases drop to 53 Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Experts say this week is 'crunch' time as country waits to see whether numbers will continue to fall Auckland will remain in full lockdown for another two weeks despite a drop in community cases of Covid-19. New Zealand reported 53 new cases in the community on Monday, bringing the total number in its outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant to 562. It is a drop of 30 cases from Sunday, which was the biggest single day for the outbreak, with 83 cases. There were 82 cases on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2021 02:14 AM PDT Aboriginal man in 50s becomes first Indigenous death with Covid; NSW jails locked down; 52 of Victoria's new cases linked; Labor senator Alex Gallacher dies; truck drivers block M1 in Queensland vaccination protest. Follow updates
Here's the main stories on Monday, 30 August:
Here is our story on the news we brought you earlier about the suspension of the inquiry into how the prime minister's office handled Brittany Higgins' rape allegation: Related: Head of PM's department halts inquiry around Brittany Higgins' rape allegation Continue reading... |
| Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: Kyrgyz women’s fight against a brutal tradition Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT At least 12,000 women are still abducted and forced into marriage every year in Kyrgyzstan. But pressure is growing to finally end the medieval custom Aisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not far from the Torugart crossing into China. "It was 5 o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I had a paper bag full of samsa [a dough dumpling stuffed with lamb, parsley and onion]. My aunt always prepared them on weekends," she said. "A car with four men inside comes in the opposite direction to mine. And all of a sudden it … turns around and, within a few seconds, comes up beside me. One of the guys in the back gets out, yanks me and pushes me inside the car. I drop all the samsa on the pavement. I scream, I squirm, I cry, but there is nothing I can do." Continue reading... |
| Children return to school in Jakarta as Indonesia eases Covid restrictions Posted: 29 Aug 2021 09:16 PM PDT After 18 months of remote learning, some students will re-enter classrooms as the capital sees a fall in coronavirus infections After almost 18 months, children in Jakarta will begin to re-enter classrooms on Monday, as Indonesia, which faces on of the worst Covid outbreaks globally, eases restrictions in some areas. Indonesia began gradually loosening its lockdown measures last week, allowing restaurants and places of worship to open their doorsat 25% capacity, and malls to operate at 50% capacity. The relaxed rules were introduced across several regions in Java and Bali , including greater Jakarta, greater Bandung and greater Surabaya. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2021 05:16 PM PDT Public indifference to abuse of the Pasifika community is especially concerning – we all need to show compassion in this crisis The past week in lockdown has been tumultuous for many in my community. I was on my way to pick up my daughter from school when media outlets began reporting that New Zealand was headed for a possible level 4 lockdown, suggesting the Delta variant had breached our borders and there was a probable case in the community. By the time I arrived at the school, notifications were filling my messenger feed with supermarkets packed to the brim as the rush for toilet paper began. New Zealand went into full lockdown that night in its fight against Covid-19. Within a matter of hours, news emerged that a person from the North Shore of Auckland had tested positive followed by people who had attended a large church gathering in south Auckland. Church plays a pivotal role in the Pacific community. It serves as a hub to express our faith, language and culture, where we reconnect with friends and family. It grounds us and allows us to recharge before we head back into a society that is different to what we knew in our home islands dotted around the Pacific. Continue reading... |
| Locked-off camera shows devastating power of Hurricane Ida – video Posted: 29 Aug 2021 10:12 PM PDT Video footage caught on a locked-off camera at a dock in Port Fourchon, Louisiana shows the immense power of Hurricane Ida as it made landfall off the US south coast. The category 4 storm moved through the state northward, causing structure damage and downed trees. Continue reading... |
| Smoke visible across Kabul after blast near airport – video Posted: 29 Aug 2021 09:49 AM PDT US forces have launched a 'defensive' military strike in Kabul against a vehicle carrying 'multiple suicide bombers' from the Islamic State's local affiliate in Afghanistan who were aiming to attack the airport, American officials have said. There was no immediate word on casualties and few other details have so far emerged about the incident, which may have triggered a second blast in a nearby house. Witnesses reported an explosion near Kabul airport and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky. Taliban officials confirmed the US account. According to some reports, a child died in the second blast |
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