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- New Zealand shooting: man shot dead by police after ‘terrorist attack’ in Auckland that injured six
- More than 40 killed in US north-east amid sudden heavy rains and flooding
- Afghanistan: Taliban expected to announce new government
- North Atlantic right whales critically endangered by climate crisis, new study finds
- Japan PM Yoshihide Suga announces he won’t run for re-election as party leader
- TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn
- China’s service sector shrinks, as markets await US payroll report – business live
- China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’
- Tonga royal family denies allegation late king covered up murder of Australian horse trainer
- Priti Patel orders review into effects of nitrous oxide
- New Zealand cinema’s expletive-laden voicemail gets rave reviews
- Coronavirus live news: North Korea rejects Covax offer; Australia secures vaccine swap with UK
- New Zealand: Covid-positive escapee had tried to flee hotel quarantine three times, officials say
- Kim Jong-un rejects Covax vaccine offer as North Korea fights pandemic in ‘our style’
- Sage members sent suspicious packages throughout pandemic, says leading scientist
- Drugs, divorce and incessant drum takes: Metallica on making metal’s biggest ever album
- Why authors are turning down lucrative deals in favour of Substack
- Sweet Thing director Alexandre Rockwell: ‘Weinstein was eating hot dogs like sushi, while a student rubbed oil on his lemon-sized boils’
- Megalopolis: can Francis Ford Coppola’s $100m gamble pay off?
- How street art is helping young migrants paint a brighter future in Italy
- Abba’s new songs reviewed: a perky, moving return to pop’s highest peaks
- Security operation for Queen’s death includes social media blackouts
- Nigeria’s IDP camp midwife ‘bringing joy’ to mothers left behind by state
- Trump loyalists team up with anti-vax doctors for ‘health and freedom’ tour
- Canadian jailed in China accused of taking military photos
- Scott Morrison unveils ‘dose swap’ deal with UK to provide extra 4m Pfizer vaccines
- Some slept, some cried, all were now refugees: inside one of the last Afghan airlifts
- Democrats rush to find strategy to counter Texas abortion law
- Covid-19 map of the US: latest cases state by state
- NSW Covid-19 update: record high 1,431 cases and 12 deaths with numbers 'to get worse' – video
- Storm Ida: flooding in New York – in pictures
- Forgotten village near Paris airport – in pictures
- 'Now I don't have anything': female TV anchor flees Afghanistan after interviewing Taliban – video
| New Zealand shooting: man shot dead by police after ‘terrorist attack’ in Auckland that injured six Posted: 02 Sep 2021 11:41 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern says attack was carried out by a 'violent extremist' who followed Islamic State ideology and was being monitored by police An attack at a New Zealand supermarket was "a terrorist attack" by a "violent extremist" who follows Islamic State ideology and who had been under heavy surveillance by police, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said. A man was shot dead on Friday afternoon by police after entering a West Auckland supermarket and stabbing at least six people, who are now in hospital. Continue reading... |
| More than 40 killed in US north-east amid sudden heavy rains and flooding Posted: 02 Sep 2021 07:29 PM PDT Deaths and damage spanned huge areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland The death toll from floods and tornadoes in the US north-east rose past 40 on Thursday, as authorities continued to digest the full impact of the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Ida struck Louisiana last Sunday, knocking out power to the city of New Orleans and causing deaths in that state and Mississippi. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan: Taliban expected to announce new government Posted: 02 Sep 2021 04:42 AM PDT Official says ceremony is being prepared at presidential palace in Kabul – two weeks after Islamist militia seized control The Taliban are expected to announce a new government in Afghanistan within hours, as chaos in the country deepened and aid experts warned of imminent economic collapse. More than two weeks after the Islamist militia seized control, sources told Agence-France Presse that the cabinet could be presented after morning prayers on Friday and Ahmadullah Muttaqi, a Taliban official, said on social media that a ceremony was being prepared at the presidential palace in Kabul. Continue reading... |
| North Atlantic right whales critically endangered by climate crisis, new study finds Posted: 02 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Warming sea and shifting food sources drive whales into areas where they risk ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear Climate change-induced warming in the Gulf of Maine has resulted in the population of the North Atlantic right whale to plummet, leaving the species critically endangered and conservationists desperate for safeguards, according to a study published this week in the journal Oceanography. Related: Cape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass Continue reading... |
| Japan PM Yoshihide Suga announces he won’t run for re-election as party leader Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:50 PM PDT Leader dogged by poor opinion ratings unexpectedly announces intention to step down after just a year amid anger over Covid response Japan's prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, is to step down from his party's leadership this month amid mounting discontent at his government's handling of the pandemic. "The battle against the coronavirus takes a vast amount of energy and I don't feel it is possible to carry on with that and fight the upcoming election for the party leadership," said Suga in a brief statement to reporters, during which he took no questions. Continue reading... |
| TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn Posted: 02 Sep 2021 05:44 PM PDT Critics of Texas' new law have been filing hundreds of fake reports to the whistleblowing website in hopes of crashing it Pro-choice users on TikTok and Reddit have launched a guerrilla effort to thwart Texas's extreme new abortion law, flooding an online tip website that encourages people to report violators of the law with false reports, Shrek memes, and porn. The law makes it illegal to help women in Texas access abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy. To help enforce it, anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life established the digital tipline where people can send anonymous information about potential violations. Continue reading... |
| China’s service sector shrinks, as markets await US payroll report – business live Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:45 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Eurozone businesses are still growing at considerable pace despite a slight slowdown last month in the face of 'rampant' cost pressures, the latest PMI survey shows. Data firm IHS Markit's composite index, which tracks activity in the sector, has come in at 59.0 for August - showing one of the fastest growth rates in the last 15 years, but slower than the 60.2 seen in July. "The benefit of looser lockdown restrictions has fuelled two of the best expansions since mid-2006 in July and August, but a step down since the preliminary 'flash' number tells us that this growth momentum is fading. While growth will naturally lose some impetus as the post-lockdown boom peters out, there are a number of other downside factors at play. The Delta variant has taken hold in Europe, while further material shortages and transport bottlenecks continue to restrain business activity. Rampant cost increases also persist, but slightly weaker rates of input and output price inflation provided some respite to both businesses and consumers alike, however. Business activity across the French service sector rose sharply in August (PMI: 56.3), underpinned by strong expansions in sales and headcounts. However, inflationary pressures intensified with input price inflation picking up to a 10-year high. Read more: https://t.co/uHdYWgSfjG pic.twitter.com/CmlPpsKnMb August #PMI data pointed to another increase in business activity across Germany's service sector with the #PMI at 60.8. Higher sales in both domestic and international markets supported the rise, while optimism continued to be recorded. Read more: https://t.co/MYkr9M67js pic.twitter.com/Gl8AKqhbgc
China's Alibaba Group will invest 100bn yuan ($15.5bn) by 2025 in support of "common prosperity", it said, becoming the latest corporate giant to pledge support for the initiative driven by the president, Xi Jinping. Related: China's Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for 'common prosperity' Related: Xi Jinping's drive for economic equality comes at a delicate moment for China Continue reading... |
| China’s Alibaba to invest billions by 2025 for ‘common prosperity’ Posted: 03 Sep 2021 12:15 AM PDT Move comes on back of Beijing encouraging firms to share wealth as part of a drive to ease inequality China's Alibaba Group will invest 100bn yuan ($15.5bn) by 2025 in support of "common prosperity", it said, becoming the latest corporate giant to pledge support for the initiative driven by the president, Xi Jinping. Beijing has been encouraging companies to share wealth as part of the effort to ease inequality in the world's second-largest economy. Other companies that have made similar announcements include Tencent Holdings, which also pledged 100bn yuan, and Geely Automobile. Continue reading... |
| Tonga royal family denies allegation late king covered up murder of Australian horse trainer Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:53 PM PDT Statement comes after allegations king helped George Brown's killers return to Tonga Tonga's royal family has denied an allegation that the late King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV was involved in covering up the murder of Australian horse trainer George Brown almost four decades ago. Brown's incinerated body was found in a burnt out car in bushland near Sydney in 1984. Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel orders review into effects of nitrous oxide Posted: 02 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT Possession could be criminalised as home secretary vows to 'take tough action' on use of laughing gas Possession of nitrous oxide, one of the most popular drugs among 16- to 24-year-olds, could be criminalised after the home secretary ordered experts to review its effects. Priti Patel said she was ready to "take tough action" on the widespread use of laughing gas, which is taken mostly through balloons filled from small metal cylinders often seen littering areas around nightclubs and music festivals. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand cinema’s expletive-laden voicemail gets rave reviews Posted: 02 Sep 2021 08:11 PM PDT Social media delights in the gaffe of a Movie Max employee at Timaru as a tonic during Covid lockdown An expletive-ridden voicemail recording, accidentally uploaded by a New Zealand cinema, is giving the nation a dose of cheer as it races to stamp out an outbreak of coronavirus. An employee of Movie Max Cinemas in the South Island port city of Timaru attempted to record a temporary closure voicemail while the region is in a level-3 lockdown, the country's second-highest setting. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: North Korea rejects Covax offer; Australia secures vaccine swap with UK Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:44 AM PDT North Korea's Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to fight Covid in 'our style' while Australia's Scott Morrison says he has secured an extra 4m vaccine doses from Britain
Some Balkan countries with low vaccination rates are delaying the start of the school term. In a report looking at different approaches to Covid protection in schools around Europe, Associated Press reveals that both Kosovo and Albania have postponed the beginning of the school year. The weekly average of new cases rose by tenfold between July and August in Kosovo where children have a delay of two weeks before they can get back to the classroom. In Albania teachers are now facing mandatory vaccination. Only a third of the population there has been vaccinated with rates even lower in Kosovo.
Sajiv Javid has said the delivery of 4 million vaccines from the UK to Australia will help the country "supercharge" their vaccine rollout. Earlier we reported that the doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines were sent in a swap deal. Javid said: "Vaccines have built a strong wall of defence in the UK and we want to support nations around the world in recovering from COVID-19 and improving access to vaccines." Continue reading... |
| New Zealand: Covid-positive escapee had tried to flee hotel quarantine three times, officials say Posted: 02 Sep 2021 06:25 PM PDT Man's mother said she had called police on her son when he left home in Auckland after receiving his positive test result A man who tested positive for Covid-19 before absconding from a quarantine facility in Auckland on Thursday had attempted to escape three times before he was successful, health officials report. New Zealand police arrested the man at a south Auckland address on Thursday afternoon, roughly 10km from the Novotel Ibis hotel in Ellerslie, where he was quarantining. He had been in the community for at least 12 hours at the time of his arrest. Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un rejects Covax vaccine offer as North Korea fights pandemic in ‘our style’ Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:22 PM PDT Unicef says country wants to send its UN-backed allotment of 3m Sinovac shots to other nations, with some experts believing it may want other vaccines North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign in "our style" after he turned down some foreign Covid-19 vaccines offered via the UN-backed immunisation program. During a Politburo meeting on Thursday, Kim said officials must "bear in mind that tightening epidemic prevention is the task of paramount importance which must not be loosened even a moment", the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Sage members sent suspicious packages throughout pandemic, says leading scientist Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:18 AM PDT Prof Calum Semple and others advising government on Covid-19 response have been targeted by anti-vaxxers Members of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) have been sent suspicious packages and hate mail throughout the pandemic, one of the UK's leading virologists has revealed. Prof Calum Semple, a member of Sage and the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said the incidents of abuse included one "particularly nasty" experience when he was targeted by anti-vaxxers. Continue reading... |
| Drugs, divorce and incessant drum takes: Metallica on making metal’s biggest ever album Posted: 02 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Now 30 years old, the Black Album has sold more than 30m copies. The band discuss its legacy, fighting in the studio – and making an all-star cover version By the end of the 80s, it seemed certain that Metallica would be the biggest metal band in the world. Their 1988 album, … And Justice for All, had been in the US chart for a year and a half. Their first music video, One, had finally earned them MTV airplay, blasting their intricately crafted savagery through every TV set in the US. Their Damaged Justice tour had packed arenas across the US and Europe. They seized their moment with the Black Album, as their self-titled next LP became known. Released 30 years ago this month, no metal album since has matched its impact; every parameter was reset for what such belligerent music could achieve. It went 16 times platinum in the US and has spent 622 weeks (and counting) in the US album chart. Its third single, the swelling Nothing Else Matters, passed 1bn YouTube views last month. The band are commemorating the record's 30th anniversary by releasing a 52-track covers album, The Metallica Blacklist, with stars as giant and eclectic as Miley Cyrus, Elton John, Phoebe Bridgers and Biffy Clyro giving their takes on the album's tracks. Continue reading... |
| Why authors are turning down lucrative deals in favour of Substack Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT The newsletter platform has poached big names including Salman Rushdie along with a slew of comic book authors from DC and Marvel The subscription newsletter platform Substack announced on Wednesday it had signed an exclusive deal with Salman Rushdie – but he is just the latest in a growing number of authors making the leap to write serialised fiction delivered straight to the inboxes of subscribers who pay a monthly fee. Several comic book writers and artists have announced lucrative deals to provide exclusive content for the California-based company founded four years ago, in some cases eschewing contracts with Marvel and DC to do so. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT After winning Sundance in 1992, the director's career stalled, thanks in part, he says, to Harvey Weinstein. It was making films with his family that saved him When Alexandre Rockwell's basement flooded a few years ago, he spotted an opportunity. Why not do the repairs himself and put the $80,000 (£58,000) insurance payout towards making a new film? He hired graduate students from New York University, where he is the head of directing at the graduate film school, as crew and cast his children, Lana, 18, and Nico, 15, in the leading roles. Lana is on our video call, too, laughing at her dad as he finishes the story. "I'll do whatever I have to do to make a film," he jokes. "I just hope I don't have to burn my house down next time, or cut my leg off." Lana was 15 when the family shot Sweet Thing. It is the second movie directed by their dad that she has appeared in with her brother Nico – a follow-up of sorts to 2013's Little Feet. In both, the Rockwells play siblings growing up dirt poor, constantly in harm's way, but whose innocence is a kind of magical overcoat, protecting them from the world – up to a point. Little Feet was about two little kids taking their goldfish to the ocean to set it free. The new one is a coming-of-age tale, Stand by Me meets Badlands. Shot in black and white on 16mm film, the two movies share a freewheeling energy and a fairytale quality; the world seen through a child's sense of wonder. Continue reading... |
| Megalopolis: can Francis Ford Coppola’s $100m gamble pay off? Posted: 02 Sep 2021 11:04 PM PDT The auteur's long-planned passion project is finally edging toward production, an audacious gambit that he plans to mostly fund himself When it was announced that Francis Ford Coppola might finally make his long-gestating film Megalopolis, a jolt of electric excitement went through the bodies of cineastes around the world. Like the unrealized visions of Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune, it seemed as if it would only be screened in the imaginary multiplexes of cinephile's dreams. Yet, against all odds, Coppola seems to be dusting off the director's beret. Related: Francis Ford Coppola: 'Life is a great screenwriter' Continue reading... |
| How street art is helping young migrants paint a brighter future in Italy Posted: 02 Sep 2021 10:30 PM PDT An innovative community project has brightened buildings, 'brought people together' and provided an emotional outlet after traumatic journeys Jadhav*, 18, from Bangladesh, arrived in Italy 10 months ago, but is still haunted by memories of his journey with people smugglers across the Mediterranean Sea. "There were 156 people packed into a small boat. There were women and children," says Jadhav in broken Italian and Bengali translated on a smartphone app. "Waves were coming over the side. People were weeping. There was no hope of survival." Continue reading... |
| Abba’s new songs reviewed: a perky, moving return to pop’s highest peaks Posted: 02 Sep 2021 12:42 PM PDT It is so powerful to hear Agnetha and Anni-Frid singing I Still Have Faith In You together after 40 years – and the slinky, cheeky Don't Shut Me Down is even better Abba Voyage is probably just going to be a cruise, I thought. Only in my dreams did I think it would be a new song. Then at 6pm came the news: a whole new album, with two tracks released at once to herald its arrival. Heralding this pop miracle are I Still Have Faith In You (★★★★) and Don't Shut Me Down (★★★★★), two songs precision-honed to wallop emotion out of the listener (if you're willing, that is: if you've always been immune to Abba's charms, these songs won't melt your cold heart). I've been an Abba fan since I was a little girl, and the opening strings on the former, full of minor-key melancholy, had me welling up immediately, pointing as they do to a classic Abba trope. Here's a melody that feels like it's already in its middle – leaving the listener lost, rooting around for something to console them – before it moves, with exquisite deliberation, towards the first verse (Dancing Queen also does this brilliantly). Continue reading... |
| Security operation for Queen’s death includes social media blackouts Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:38 AM PDT Secret documents reveal scale of funeral strategy and government anxieties over resources The UK government's vast security operation to manage the immediate aftermath of the death of the Queen include official social media blackouts and a ban on retweets. The secret documents, codenamed Operation London Bridge and seen by Politico, reveal the scale of the plans for the funeral and government anxieties about whether the UK has the resources to execute them. Continue reading... |
| Nigeria’s IDP camp midwife ‘bringing joy’ to mothers left behind by state Posted: 03 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT After seeing a woman die in childbirth, Liyatu Ayuba stepped in and has now delivered 118 babies Having watched a woman and her baby die needlessly after being refused admission to a hospital over a lack of money, Liyatu Ayuba wanted to never let it happen again. The 62-year-old is one of Nigeria's nearly 3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) – driven out of their homes by the violence of the Boko Haram Islamist militants. Ayuba fled Gwoza in the north-eastern state of Borno in 2011 with her family. After her husband was killed by Boko Haram and her teenage son badly wounded, she went to the makeshift Durumi 1 IDP camp, in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, where about 500 families live. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Trump loyalists team up with anti-vax doctors for ‘health and freedom’ tour Posted: 03 Sep 2021 12:30 AM PDT
Top loyalists to Donald Trump, who frequently push lies about election fraud, have joined forces with conservative doctors touting unproven Covid curesand vaccine skepticism, and like-minded evangelical ministers at a series of events across the US this summer. Related: Capitol riot inquiry to investigate whether Trump's White House was involved in attack Continue reading... |
| Canadian jailed in China accused of taking military photos Posted: 02 Sep 2021 05:25 AM PDT Reports in state media give rare details of allegations against Michael Spavor and his compatriot Michael Kovrig Chinese state media have accused the jailed Canadian Michael Spavor of supplying photographs of military equipment to Michael Kovrig in repeated acts of espionage, offering rare details of the allegations against the two men. The two men were arrested in December 2018, just days after Canadian officials arrested the Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou. Last month Spavor, who lived in China and arranged tours to North Korea, was sentenced to 11 years in prison and deportation from China. Kovrig, a former diplomat turned analyst for the International Crisis Group, was also tried in secret in March. Kovrig is yet to have his verdict or sentence announced. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison unveils ‘dose swap’ deal with UK to provide extra 4m Pfizer vaccines Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:49 AM PDT Ahead of national cabinet meeting the prime minister says deal will boost supplies in September as 12 to 15-year-olds join rollout
Australia's vaccine program has received a boost, with a doubling of the number of Pfizer vaccines flowing into the country, after a 'dose swap' deal was secured with the UK. Scott Morrison says the deal will "break the back" of the September supply issues, with the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, agreeing to send 4m Pfizer doses to Australia, which will be distributed to the states and territories on a per capita basis. Continue reading... |
| Some slept, some cried, all were now refugees: inside one of the last Afghan airlifts Posted: 02 Sep 2021 06:02 AM PDT Those on board the cramped military plane weren't granted a last glimpse of their homeland before the difficult journey ahead, while all knew thousands still waited desperately below The American marine shouted "push!". And hundreds of people did, shoving inside the Boeing C-17 military aircraft; tumbling over, then pulling their bodies into tight huddles on the floor to let as many others in as possible. As the rear door closed and the deafening engines started, lifting the heavy plane off the runway at Kabul's international airport, people broke down wailing; crying. Now refugees. Continue reading... |
| Democrats rush to find strategy to counter Texas abortion law Posted: 02 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Biden administration's options are limited and filibuster poses roadblock to federal legislation Joe Biden and top Democrats are scrambling for a strategy to counter Republican restrictions on women's reproductive rights amid the fallout from a Texas statute that has banned abortions in the state from as early as six weeks into pregnancy – but the options available to the administration are thin. The conservative-dominated supreme court in a night-time ruling refused an emergency request to block the Texas law from taking effect, in a decision that amounted to a crushing defeat for reproductive rights and threatened major ramifications in other states nationwide. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 map of the US: latest cases state by state Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:45 AM PDT The US emerged as an early hotspot for the coronavirus and it continues to have some of the highest case and death rates in the world. It leads the world in both confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. It's important to point out that the actual death toll is believed to be far higher than the tally compiled from government figures. |
| NSW Covid-19 update: record high 1,431 cases and 12 deaths with numbers 'to get worse' – video Posted: 02 Sep 2021 07:15 PM PDT NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says Covid-19 case numbers are expected to continue rising and peak in the next two weeks after a record high 1,431 new cases and 12 deaths were recorded across the state. 'In terms of hospitalisation in ICU beds, there is often a week or two week lag. It means that the highest number of people in our intensive care wards are likely to present during the month of October,' Berejiklian said. Friday's numbers were the highest daily infection figures ever recorded by an Australian jurisdiction in a day. ► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube
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| Storm Ida: flooding in New York – in pictures Posted: 02 Sep 2021 06:50 AM PDT Record-breaking rainfall brought by the remnants of Storm Ida has swept through the New York area leaving parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey affected by rare flooding Continue reading... |
| Forgotten village near Paris airport – in pictures Posted: 02 Sep 2021 04:12 AM PDT The Vieux Pays of Goussainville should have disappeared during the construction of the Charles de Gaulle airport in the 70s, however some inhabitants resisted the takeover of their houses and continue to live there despite the noise and isolation Continue reading... |
| 'Now I don't have anything': female TV anchor flees Afghanistan after interviewing Taliban – video Posted: 02 Sep 2021 03:59 AM PDT The Afghan television anchor Beheshta Arghand has been evacuated from Afghanistan amid risks for her safety and freedom after interviewing a Taliban official live on air after the fall of Kabul in late August. Arghand, who is now in Qatar, said she had felt trapped in a leadership that did not accept women. The Taliban limited freedom of the press to ask questions, enforced burkas to be worn on some TV stations and suspended female journalists at others Continue reading... |
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