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- Taiwan national day: we won’t bow to China, says president amid tensions
- Trade war looms as UK set to spurn EU offer on Northern Ireland
- Biden administration delivers brusque message to Pakistan
- ‘It was John who wanted a divorce’: McCartney sets the record straight on Beatles split
- Iran says more than 120kg of uranium enriched to 20%
- China lambasts Tony Abbott for ‘despicable and insane performance in Taiwan’
- A third of police forces referred sex assault claims to watchdog
- Priti Patel’s fury as Johnson blocks public sexual harassment law
- Trump holds Iowa rally as poll in early voting state shows strong support
- Missing apostrophe in Facebook post lands NSW real estate agent in legal hot water
- Covid by numbers: 10 key lessons separating fact from fiction
- Covid live news: UK faces uncertain winter – health chief; Australia planning to allow international travel
- These adults moved back in with their parents during the pandemic. But did they regret it?
- Sharri Markson’s book on Covid’s Wuhan lab leak theory raises more questions than it answers
- Succession star Brian Cox: ‘I’m enjoying this. It’s like confession…’
- Selma Blair: ‘Things fell into place when I was diagnosed with MS’
- Inside the murky world of Istanbul’s taxi cartels
- The love spy: how I became a relationship detective
- How do we talk to teens about sex in a world of porn?
- I’m dying. Will it help my beloved husband to cope if I leave him notes?
- Woman in hospital after being hit by car and stabbed in Cumbria
- Beautiful obsession: a 20-year mission in waters of Lake Tanganyika
- How tracking grizzly bears is helping veterans find way back from trauma
- You’ve seen the gory Squid Game TV show? Now buy the tracksuit…
- PM backs plans to fast-track international reopening; Victoria records 1,890 cases, five deaths; NSW 477 cases, six deaths – as it happened
- Lightning flashes over La Palma volcano as lava engulfs buildings – video
- Brazil: massive sandstorm smothers parts of São Paulo state – video
- Xi Jinping insists China will achieve 'reunification' with Taiwan – video
| Taiwan national day: we won’t bow to China, says president amid tensions Posted: 09 Oct 2021 10:28 PM PDT Tsai Ing-wen says China's plans for Taiwan offer neither freedom nor democracy and the island will continue to build its defences No one will force Taiwan to take the path laid out by Beijing, president Tsai Ing-wen has vowed on the Taiwanese national day, pledging to continue bolstering the island's military defences. Responding to repeated threats from China's leaders that it will one day take Taiwan – by force if need be – and overthrow its democratically elected government, Tsai said Taiwan had the resolve to defend itself and its future, which "must be decided in accordance with the will of the Taiwanese people". Continue reading... |
| Trade war looms as UK set to spurn EU offer on Northern Ireland Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:32 AM PDT EU leaders urged to push back against No 10's brinkmanship over role of European Court of Justice Fears that the UK is heading for a trade war with the EU have been fuelled by strong indications from the government that proposals to be unveiled in Brussels on Wednesday over Brexit arrangements do not go far enough. The Brexit minister, David Frost, will use a speech in Portugal on Tuesday to say that the EU scrapping its prohibition on British sausages to resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol does not meet the UK and unionists' demands. Continue reading... |
| Biden administration delivers brusque message to Pakistan Posted: 09 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT With relations frosty over Taliban victory and Pakistani repression, deputy secretary of state visits for 'specific and narrow purpose' A senior US official visiting Islamabad has made clear to Pakistan that the Biden administration has downgraded the bilateral relationship. On the eve of her arrival, the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman, used a public event in Mumbai to lay out in blunt terms the new parameters of US-Pakistan relations, stressing there would be no equivalence with Washington's deepening ties to India. Continue reading... |
| ‘It was John who wanted a divorce’: McCartney sets the record straight on Beatles split Posted: 10 Oct 2021 12:45 AM PDT Rock history has painted Paul McCartney as the man who broke up the band. Now he reveals that it was Lennon who was first to look for a way out It remains the most analysed break-up in rock history: the one that set the template. When the Beatles split more than 50 years ago and Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr went their separate ways, it was McCartney who shouldered most of the blame. But now McCartney is setting the record straight for good. "I didn't instigate the split. That was our Johnny," he has insisted in a candid and detailed interview to be broadcast later this month. Continue reading... |
| Iran says more than 120kg of uranium enriched to 20% Posted: 09 Oct 2021 05:55 PM PDT Announcement comes amid signs Tehran may be open to resuming stalled talks on 2015 nuclear deal Iran has amassed more than 120kg of 20% enriched uranium, well above the level agreed to in the 2015 deal with world powers, the head of the country's atomic energy agency has told state television. "We have passed 120 kilograms," said Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran's atomic energy organisation. "We have more than that figure. Our people know well that [western powers] were meant to give us the enriched fuel at 20% to use in the Tehran reactor, but they haven't done so. Continue reading... |
| China lambasts Tony Abbott for ‘despicable and insane performance in Taiwan’ Posted: 09 Oct 2021 05:00 PM PDT Embassy in Canberra describes former Australian PM as 'a failed and pitiful politician' after he raised concerns that Beijing 'could lash out disastrously' China's embassy in Canberra has denounced the former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott for what it called a "despicable and insane performance in Taiwan". On a visit to Taipei to address a regional forum last week, Abbott raised concerns that Beijing "could lash out disastrously very soon" amid growing tensions over the future of Taiwan – and argued the US and Australia could not stand idly by. Continue reading... |
| A third of police forces referred sex assault claims to watchdog Posted: 09 Oct 2021 11:34 PM PDT Twenty-seven allegations about officers passed on in week Couzens sentenced Almost a third of police forces in England and Wales referred allegations of sexual assault and harassment against their own officers to the police watchdog in the days following the sentencing of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard, the Observer can reveal. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) received 27 detailed referrals involving officers and serious sexual offences in the week after Couzens was handed a whole-life term on 30 September for the kidnap, rape and murder of Everard while he was a serving officer. Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel’s fury as Johnson blocks public sexual harassment law Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:26 PM PDT Home Office fears PM views aggressive targeting of women and girls as 'mere wolf whistling' amid moves to create specific offence Boris Johnson has infuriated the home secretary by overruling attempts to make public sexual harassment a crime. This has prompted concern at the Home Office that the prime minister views the issue as mere "wolf whistling", rather than the aggressive targeting of women and girls going about their daily lives. Sources say tensions have emerged between Johnson and Priti Patel, and other senior Home Office figures, after he blocked plans to make public sexual harassment a specific offence. Continue reading... |
| Trump holds Iowa rally as poll in early voting state shows strong support Posted: 09 Oct 2021 02:20 PM PDT
Donald Trump returned to Iowa on Saturday for a campaign-style rally, on the heels of a poll showing strong support in the state which traditionally kicks off presidential elections. Trump has not announced a second run for the White House. Continue reading... |
| Missing apostrophe in Facebook post lands NSW real estate agent in legal hot water Posted: 09 Oct 2021 04:38 PM PDT Court declines to dismiss defamation case against Anthony Zadravic, who said failure to punctuate social media post was trivial A real estate agent's failure to use an apostrophe in a Facebook post could prove costly after a New South Wales court declined to dismiss a defamation case against him on the basis it was trivial. Late on 22 October last year, Anthony Zadravic posted that another real estate agent was "selling multi million $ (sic) homes in Pearl Beach but can't pay his employees superannuation". Continue reading... |
| Covid by numbers: 10 key lessons separating fact from fiction Posted: 09 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT To make sense of coronavirus data, the Observer asked David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters of the Royal Statistical Society Covid taskforce to write a column. That column has now inspired a book. Here are some of its insights Genomic sequencing has identified more than 1,000 different seeds of Sars-CoV-2 introduced in early 2020. Instead of one central outbreak, reverberating outwards like an explosion, we now know there were many erupting simultaneously across the country. There were far more imports of Sars-CoV-2 from France, Italy and Spain than from China – viruses can take indirect flights. The peak was early March, after the school half-term, but a popular holiday time for adults. At the Champions League football match at Anfield between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid on 10 March, 49,000 local supporters mixed with 3,000 fans of the opposing team, while schools in Madrid were shut and supporters could not attend matches. To add insult to injury, Liverpool lost 3–2, and 4–2 on aggregate. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:16 AM PDT Follow all the latest on the coronavirus pandemic from the UK and around the world The UK Health Security Agency chief executive Dr Jenny Harries has said that this year there could be a "multi-strain flu" and encouraged everyone who is eligible to ensure they take up the offer of both their coronavirus and flu jabs. She told Sky: "The difference here is because we have, if you like, skipped a year almost with flu, it's possible we might see multi-strain flu. Continue reading... |
| These adults moved back in with their parents during the pandemic. But did they regret it? Posted: 10 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Little did they know that 'boomeranging' back home would change the way they saw their parents, forever When David and Linda Ellis sent their daughter Juliette, the youngest of their three children, off to college in 2019, they figured they had become empty-nesters for good. In short order, the couple downsized from their family home in Raleigh, North Carolina, to a much more manageable three-bedroom apartment rental nearby. Little did the Ellises know that, in under a year's time, two of their three adult children would once again join them under the same roof. After their school and work went remote in March 2020, Juliette Ellis and middle brother Gregory flew in from their respective posts in Vancouver and Brooklyn to wait out the uncertainty of Covid-19 with Mom and Dad. The eldest Ellis son, Justin, remained a short drive away in nearby Chapel Hill. Continue reading... |
| Sharri Markson’s book on Covid’s Wuhan lab leak theory raises more questions than it answers Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:00 PM PDT Details are deficient, scientific analysis contentious and expert voices missing in Markson's thesis about 'what really happened' in China, which establishes a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology With 4.55 million deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic so far, the hunt for its origins has turned into something akin to an inquest on a mass scale. Are we dealing essentially with a terrible accident, negligence or even something more sinister? The Australian journalist Sharri Markson's conclusions fall somewhere close to the latter. She has established a crime scene around the Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China, with the murder weapon a virus called Sars-CoV-2. Continue reading... |
| Succession star Brian Cox: ‘I’m enjoying this. It’s like confession…’ Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT In a lively and wide-ranging conversation, one of the most revered actors of his generation talks Hollywood rivalries, Scottish independence – and the future of the hit TV show Over the years, I have crossed paths several times with the Dundonian actor Brian Cox. In 2002, I interviewed him for the BBC about the controversial US indie film L.I.E., of which he remains particularly proud. We met again in Shetland, where I co-curate the annual Screenplay film festival, when he was campaigning for Scottish independence. More recently we did a podcast together in which he enthused about his love of Danny Kaye in the 1955 comedy The Court Jester, a film he rewatches every year. No wonder, then, that reading his hugely entertaining autobiography, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, feels like catching up with an old friend. In his book he recounts being at the Golden Globes in 2020, where he won best actor in a TV series as Logan Roy in the scathingly satirical Succession. Among the attendees were Elton John and Al Pacino, both of whom pointedly praised Cox for his outstanding title role in the 2017 drama Churchill – a film that was overlooked at awards season in favour of Darkest Hour, for which Gary Oldman won an Oscar playing Churchill. Continue reading... |
| Selma Blair: ‘Things fell into place when I was diagnosed with MS’ Posted: 10 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Hollywood actor Selma Blair talks honestly and with refreshing humour about how her life has changed, her groundbreaking documentary – and the comfort of famous friends Selma Blair is telling me a joke about three tampons walking down the road: heavy flow, medium flow, and light flow, only I've been warned by her representatives that she can only do these video chats in half-hour bursts, and we're heading for minute 40 if I don't make her stop. "No, let me finish this joke!" she insists, heading into a wildly funny and absolutely unprintable punchline. It is morning in Los Angeles and Blair needs to conserve energy for the doctor: five hours of plasma treatment at home will follow this interview – part of her regular procedures since having stem-cell treatment for the multiple sclerosis that was diagnosed in 2018. I first interviewed her shortly before then, when she was working on the Netflix sci-fi series Another Life, with no idea what lay ahead of her (or the world.) We had lunch at the glamorous Chateau Marmont and cackled about being single mothers with the same bleak sense of humour. Soon after, she went into isolation, and then the world followed – something she found almost comforting, as if we all got diagnosed together. Continue reading... |
| Inside the murky world of Istanbul’s taxi cartels Posted: 10 Oct 2021 01:35 AM PDT Turkey's biggest city's drivers caught in brutal power struggle between politicians, unions and wealthy licence holders Beneath the minarets of Istanbul's fabled skyline, an unusual turf war is simmering between the powerful taxi owners' association and the city authorities. Being a cab driver in the metropolis spanning two continents and three waterways isn't easy. Unlike other global cities, drivers don't own their own cars – instead, Istanbul's 50,000 cabbies rent the 17,395 licensed cars in operation, working in shifts. Continue reading... |
| The love spy: how I became a relationship detective Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT As a teen, Daniella Isaacs sneaked a peek at her mother's private journal – and was surprised at what she read. The discovery sent her on a life-long journey questioning the meaning of trust, desire and, ultimately, love I discovered my mum's diary in her bedside drawer. I read it compulsively and in secret. I was 14, that despicable adolescent age when my friends were desperate to swap body fluids and I just wanted to stay home and do magic tricks. I found the sacred book one Saturday night when my parents were out. I'd had a craving to go snooping. They always locked their bedroom door – it was no wonder I wanted to mine the off-limits zone. The diary rocked my existence. A tome of secrets that revealed the inner sanctum of my parents' marriage, it consumed me, and ripped apart the fairytale narrative I had been sold, instead revealing the jagged truth of their relationship. The pain was addictive. But soon, reading the diary wasn't enough. I started hacking into their mobile phones (it was easier back then). And it was the days of the landline, so I was able to silently listen into their hushed phone calls. I was a pubescent Nancy Drew trying to crack the mystery of my parents' marriage. Continue reading... |
| How do we talk to teens about sex in a world of porn? Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Teenage boys' easy access to violent sexual images is creating a crisis for them – and for women, argues the anti-porn campaigner Violence against women is never far from the news, but currently it is high on the agenda – and porn features again and again as a factor. From the murder of Sarah Everard to the paltry sentence handed down to Sam Pybus, the latest man to use the so-called "rough sex defence", it seems the world is riven with misogyny. Sarah's killer Wayne Couzens was attracted to "brutal sexual pornography", the court heard during his trial. Pybus – who was sentenced to four years and eight months last month for manslaughter after strangling a vulnerable woman during sex – was also known to use violent porn. Tackling porn culture is clearly a key part of tackling sexual violence towards women. I have campaigned to end the sex trade for decades, and am well aware of its role in the sexual exploitation of women. Continue reading... |
| I’m dying. Will it help my beloved husband to cope if I leave him notes? Posted: 09 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Thank you for a really beautiful email, writes Philippa Perry. I will store your lesson away for myself The question I need your help. Specifically, a woman therapist's help, in fact. Even though I've got a perfectly good and helpful therapist, who's helped me a lot in the three years since I was diagnosed with stupid cancer aged 43, I'm finding that the thing I want to do is probably quite female and when I mentioned it to him, he said: "That's what women do." Long story short: happily married to a lovely man. No kids of my own, wicked stepmother to a 24-year-old. I was busy-busy-busy working when I got a terrible cancer diagnosis. Loads of chemo, loads of weeping. Grim prognosis. Still, I'm cracking on and writing this from a hotel on a jolly to London. Quite at peace with death, although obviously I'm sorry it's coming so soon. It's the living through to the end that's killing me. Continue reading... |
| Woman in hospital after being hit by car and stabbed in Cumbria Posted: 09 Oct 2021 02:35 PM PDT A crashed Kia Rio and a dead man found by police soon after incident in which a child was also injured A woman has been taken to hospital after she was hit by a car and then stabbed while with a child in Cumbria. Police are investigating an incident that occurred at about 2.30pm on Saturday in the Woodend area in Egremont. Continue reading... |
| Beautiful obsession: a 20-year mission in waters of Lake Tanganyika Posted: 09 Oct 2021 10:15 PM PDT Marine photographer Angel Fitor first saw endangered cichlids in a pet shop. Now his award-winning images could help save these fish Lake Tanganyika is the world's longest freshwater lake. It stretches for more than 400 miles across central Africa and provides a home for some of the planet's most extraordinary aquatic creatures. But this remarkable refuge – and its inhabitants – are under threat. Pesticide runoffs from farms, sewage and overexploitation by collectors for the ornamental fish trade are devastating life in the lake. In particular, these forces are driving many populations of cichlid fish – of which there are more than 240 species in Lake Tanganyika – to extinction. Continue reading... |
| How tracking grizzly bears is helping veterans find way back from trauma Posted: 10 Oct 2021 02:30 AM PDT A project in western Canada lets former military service members put their skills to use tracking bears with wildlife experts and helps both groups overcome mental and physical wounds On a recent crisp sunny morning, a small group of wildlife guides and British and Canadian military veterans, reached a ridge in the mountains of British Columbia and found themselves within 15 metres of a grizzly bear. "He knew we were there. He could smell us but he was just doing his thing," said Joe Humphrey, a former Royal Marine. The bear walked past them and ambled further up the valley. Continue reading... |
| You’ve seen the gory Squid Game TV show? Now buy the tracksuit… Posted: 09 Oct 2021 11:45 PM PDT The hit South Korean Netflix show, likely to become the most-watched TV series ever, is setting trends around the globe Not only is it likely to be the most-watched television series ever, but the South Korean series Squid Game is already having a global commercial and cultural impact. Fans have sent sales of the show's signature green tracksuits and white Vans slip-ons soaring – up 7,800%, according to data provided by Sole Supplier – and South Korean dalgona biscuits are fast becoming a youth craze. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2021 11:12 PM PDT Scott Morrison backs 'fast-track' of international travel for NSW; Victoria records 1,890 new cases and five deaths; NSW records 477 cases and six deaths; 30 new cases in ACT; NSW lockdown for those fully vaccinated set to lift at midnight. This blog is now closed
Speers pivoted from asking communications minister Paul Fletcher about holding social media companies to account to holding the federal government to account. There was a lot of back and forth and at one point Fletcher referenced the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian as NSW premier as evidence of the failings of an anti-corruption authority. The government's proposed federal integrity commission wouldn't be allowed to hold any public hearings. Why not? What's there to hide? David, the proposed federal integrity commission would have the powers of a royal commission to deal with criminal corrupt conduct at a commonwealth level. And of course ... No public hearings, which is my question. Why not? It will go through an investigation process.And then, if appropriate, it will refer material to the director of public prosecutions, and then you go through an open-court process. This commission wouldn't have public hearings. I mean, don't you think voters, taxpayers, deserve to see what's going on? I mean, we wouldn't know about Daryl Maguire's business dealings from his parliamentary office and kickbacks he was receiving. Don't we need to see this stuff? I think the outcomes last week where a very popular and highly competent premier stood down highlights some of the flaws in the model. So we don't support a model where you are presumed guilty unless you can prove your innocence. Your government, of course, tried to scrap Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. You were worried about protecting free speech. Now it sounds like you want to go in the other direction and make it harder to say things that can be considered racist. The test, David, will be the impact on the individual. If a reasonable person would consider that it was intended to harm and if it's menacing, harassing or offensive – those words, by the way, taken from an existing provision in the criminal code dealing with online content. So what we're doing is leaning in on this issue and all of the issues that arise in relation to online safety. Our government's taken a leadership position on this since we came to government. The Australian eSafety Commissioner, set up in 2015, is world-leading ... Continue reading... |
| Lightning flashes over La Palma volcano as lava engulfs buildings – video Posted: 09 Oct 2021 06:10 AM PDT The red-hot eruption from the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma was accompanied by flashes of lightning early on Saturday. A study published in 2016 by the journal Geophysical Research Letters found lightning can be produced during volcanic eruptions because the collision of ash particles creates an electrical charge Continue reading... |
| Brazil: massive sandstorm smothers parts of São Paulo state – video Posted: 09 Oct 2021 03:57 AM PDT A sandstorm made by powerful winds whipping up dust from the ground has engulfed Barretos and surrounding towns north of the city of São Paulo. The storms were triggered by the worst drought to hit Brazil in nine decades, which depleted hydroelectric reservoirs, forcing the grid operator to fire up more expensive thermoelectric plants and the government to implement a 'water scarcity' power rate Continue reading... |
| Xi Jinping insists China will achieve 'reunification' with Taiwan – video Posted: 09 Oct 2021 03:09 AM PDT The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, said on Saturday that reunification with Taiwan must happen and that it would happen peacefully, despite a week of tensions. Xi spoke at an official celebration in Beijing's Great Hall of the People that focused largely on the ruling Communist party continuing to lead China as the country rises in power and influence Continue reading... |
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