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- China economy slows as power cuts, property woes and Covid take toll
- India floods: at least 25 dead after heavy rains spark landslides in Kerala
- MPs’ safety: Dominic Raab reveals three threats to ‘life and limb’
- ‘It feels really natural’: hundreds pose nude for Spencer Tunick shoot near Dead Sea
- Fukushima: Japan’s new PM won’t delay release of contaminated water into ocean
- US urges UK to rebuild relations with Paris after submarine contract row
- Cop26 corporate sponsors condemn climate summit as ‘mismanaged’
- Trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery set to begin
- Prince William reveals Earthshot Prize winners in global bid to tackle climate crisis
- Clubs face bouncer shortage as UK staffing squeeze hits nightlife
- Psychosis cases soar in England as pandemic hits mental health
- Coronavirus live: Auckland lockdown extended; psychosis cases soar in England
- New Zealand Covid update: Auckland to remain in lockdown even as fully vaccinated hit 70%
- Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough’
- ‘Existing is an act of resistance’: the Syrian refugees creating design from displacement
- Dune: science fiction’s answer to Lord of the Rings
- Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic
- ‘I was born a fighter’: the champion boxer changing young lives in Zimbabwe
- Krautrock legends Faust: ‘We were naked and stoned a lot – and we ate dog food’
- Madrid exhibition reimagines Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for digital age
- Hundreds strip off near Dead Sea for latest nude Spencer Tunick shoot – video
- Haiti’s flamboyant funerals – in pictures
- Former senior Labor party member implicates faction ‘linchpin’ at Victorian anti-corruption hearing
- Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes?
- Kidnap of foreign missionaries confirms the power held by gangs in Haiti
- Russian movie crew return to Earth after filming 12 days on the International Space Station – video
| China economy slows as power cuts, property woes and Covid take toll Posted: 17 Oct 2021 09:17 PM PDT GDP grew 4.9% in the quarter to September, the lowest for a year, as the post-pandemic recovery loses steam and Evergrande problems persist China's economy grew slower than expected in the third quarter, official data showed on Monday, thanks to power outages, supply bottlenecks, Covid outbreaks, and concerns about the struggling property sector. Although China's central bank governor said the country is "doing well", independent economists predicted that the mounting array of headwinds suggest a "deeper downturn" resulting in the country's weakest growth for more than a decade next year. Continue reading... |
| India floods: at least 25 dead after heavy rains spark landslides in Kerala Posted: 17 Oct 2021 03:42 PM PDT Rescuers search for survivors after days of rain bring devastation to south-eastern state At least 25 people have died in landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains in south-western India, officials said on Sunday, as rescuers scoured muddy debris for survivors and the military flew in emergency supplies. Residents were cut off in parts of the coastal state of Kerala as the rains, which started to intensify from late on Friday, swelled rivers and flooded roads. Continue reading... |
| MPs’ safety: Dominic Raab reveals three threats to ‘life and limb’ Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:50 AM PDT Deputy PM highlights 'widespread vilification of politicians' as he reveals most recent incident was threat of an acid attack The deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, has revealed he has received three threats "to life and limb" in two years that have resulted in police intervention. Raab was speaking as politicians and the public struggle to come to terms with the killing of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP for Southend West who was fatally attacked while meeting constituents in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on Friday. Continue reading... |
| ‘It feels really natural’: hundreds pose nude for Spencer Tunick shoot near Dead Sea Posted: 17 Oct 2021 05:01 PM PDT US artist returns to site for third time to highlight plight of Dead Sea, which is receding by about a metre a year Hundreds of people wearing only white body paint have walked across a stark desert expanse near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick. The 54-year-old photographer visited the spot in southern Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray for the third time the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects. Continue reading... |
| Fukushima: Japan’s new PM won’t delay release of contaminated water into ocean Posted: 17 Oct 2021 09:32 PM PDT Fumio Kishida said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific was safe Japan's new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said that there can be no delay to plans to release contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, despite opposition from fishers and neighbouring countries. Kishida, who made his first trip to the plant at the weekend since becoming prime minister last month, said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific Ocean was safe. Continue reading... |
| US urges UK to rebuild relations with Paris after submarine contract row Posted: 17 Oct 2021 11:05 AM PDT Exclusive: diplomatic effort by US following Australia cancelling $66bn deal with France not matched by London The US has urged Britain to follow its example and try to repair its relations with Paris in the wake of the row over France's loss of its submarine contract with Australia. Australia pulled out of the $66bn (£48bn) contract for 12 diesel electric-powered submarines, signed in 2016, to opt instead for nuclear-powered submarines to be developed with America and the UK. The secretive and sudden cancellation of the contract has created a crisis of trust between Paris on the one hand and London, Canberra and Washington on the other. Continue reading... |
| Cop26 corporate sponsors condemn climate summit as ‘mismanaged’ Posted: 17 Oct 2021 01:25 PM PDT Exclusive: NatWest, Microsoft and GSK among firms to raise complaint over poor planning and breakdown in relations Companies that stumped up millions of pounds to sponsor the Cop26 climate summit have condemned it as "mismanaged" and "very last minute" in a volley of complaints as next month's event in Glasgow draws near. The sponsors, which include some of Britain's biggest companies, have raised formal complaints blaming "very inexperienced" civil servants for delayed decisions, poor communication and a breakdown in relations between the organisers and firms in the run-up to the landmark talks. Continue reading... |
| Trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery set to begin Posted: 17 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Judge estimates jury selection could take at least two weeks after duty notices were mailed to 1,000 people in Glynn county Georgia The trial of three white men accused of pursuing and murdering Ahmaud Arbery in one of Georgia's most notorious racial killings is scheduled to begin on Monday with jury selection, a process the judge estimates could take at least two weeks. Jury duty notices were mailed to 1,000 people in Glynn county, about one in every 85 adult residents, in an attempt to secure an unbiased panel of 12 plus four alternates for the trial of Travis McMichael, his father Greg and their friend William "Roddie" Bryan. Continue reading... |
| Prince William reveals Earthshot Prize winners in global bid to tackle climate crisis Posted: 17 Oct 2021 06:52 PM PDT Five global thinkers were each awarded a grant worth £1m to develop their ideas and technologies Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize, an ambitious environmental program aimed at finding new ideas and technologies around the world to tackle the climate crisis and Earth's most pressing challenges. Actors and activists strode down a green carpet at Alexandra Palace in north London. Emma Watson, Emma Thompson and David Oyelowo joined Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, in handing out the awards, with a £1m going to each winner. Continue reading... |
| Clubs face bouncer shortage as UK staffing squeeze hits nightlife Posted: 17 Oct 2021 04:01 PM PDT Trade body says one in five businesses had to close or cut hours last month for lack of security staff Nightclubs are suffering from a growing shortage of bouncers, in the latest staffing squeeze to hit the UK's economic recovery, with some estimates suggesting venues are having to pay security staff as much as 25% more. The lack of security personnel comes at a time when hospitality businesses are being hit by a cocktail of rising costs and are trying to rebound from months of closures during the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Psychosis cases soar in England as pandemic hits mental health Posted: 17 Oct 2021 04:01 PM PDT 75% rise in referrals for first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021 Cases of psychosis have soared over the past two years in England as an increasing number of people experience hallucinations and delusional thinking amid the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic. There was a 75% increase in the number of people referred to mental health services for their first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021, NHS data shows. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live: Auckland lockdown extended; psychosis cases soar in England Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:44 AM PDT New Zealand's biggest city will remain in lockdown for another two weeks; cases of psychosis have soared in England amid stresses of pandemic
Australia's Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory's vaccine policy, telling the Texan conservative "you know nothing about us". The spat began when the US Republican shared a video of Gunner announcing the territory's wide-ranging vaccine mandate for workers. Cruz lamented the "Covid tyranny of their (Australia's) current government," which he said was "disgraceful and sad". Continue reading... |
| New Zealand Covid update: Auckland to remain in lockdown even as fully vaccinated hit 70% Posted: 17 Oct 2021 09:00 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern says restrictions are needed to prevent a spike in cases, as experts warn any relaxation now would be 'very dangerous' Auckland, the city at the centre of New Zealand's Covid outbreak, will remain in level 3 lockdown for another two weeks, despite rising vaccination levels. The decision from prime minister Jacinda Ardern comes as experts remain concerned that an early move out of lockdown could be disastrous, and risk overwhelming the health system. Auckland is closing in on 90% of its population having had one shot; 89% of the region's population has now had at least one dose, and 70% are fully vaccinated. Continue reading... |
| Michael Caine on Brexit, Boris Johnson and big breaks: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough’ Posted: 17 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT He blew the doors off in the 60s as part of an upstart generation of actors. As he releases a new film and tries his hand at novel-writing, is he about to make a clean getaway from the movie business? Michael Caine is 88 and walks with a stick. He has a gammy leg and a dodgy spine and reckons the only time he leaves the house these days is when his wife has the time to take him out for a drive. The other week he was sent a screenplay that had his character running away from a bunch of crooks, and this made him laugh – the very idea he could play it. "I can't walk, let alone run," he says. "And I'm more or less done with movies now." He was winding down anyway, hadn't shot a film in a year, and then sneaked in one last movie, Best Sellers, just before the pandemic struck. He doubts he will ever make another, which is fine by him, no great loss. He's got his knighthood and his Oscars; what does he have left to prove? He says: "I've done 150 movies. I think I've done enough." Continue reading... |
| ‘Existing is an act of resistance’: the Syrian refugees creating design from displacement Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:44 AM PDT An installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale shows how camp residents have transformed the raw materials of aid to preserve their heritage and culture When the world's largest Syrian refugee camp started to overflow in 2013 it was so big it had become Jordan's fourth-largest city. The camp, Za'atari, housed a staggering 150,000 people, and the influx of new arrivals meant that another camp had to be built a few kilometres away. Za'atari had been plagued by design flaws that were linked to violence and disorder, so when Azraq opened in 2014 as a "model camp" for the region it was heralded as a chance to rectify those problems. But it wasn't as simple as that. Continue reading... |
| Dune: science fiction’s answer to Lord of the Rings Posted: 18 Oct 2021 12:34 AM PDT Frank Herbert's novel, now adapted for cinema with Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, is finally getting the recognition it deserves, agree authors including Neil Gaiman and Jeff VanderMeer If science fiction has an answer to fantasy's The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien's epic saga of the battle to defeat the Dark Lord, Sauron – then Frank Herbert's Dune has to be a strong contender. Published in 1965, it is the story of the desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune; of the rare and priceless "spice" that can be found there; of the Atreides family, sent to Dune's dangerous surface to rule; of its native Fremen people, who are capable of surviving in this inhospitable environment. Of the giant sandworms, hundreds of metres long, which hunt beneath the sands, and of Paul Atreides' reluctant ascent to messianic status. And it is finally getting the mainstream attention it deserves, thanks to Denis Villeneuve's film adaptation, out in the UK on 21 October. I first read Dune when I was 18. It left behind deep, haunting memories: Paul Atreides chanting the Litany against Fear as his humanity is tested by the Gom Jabbar; the first appearance of a sandworm, vast and magnificent; the complexity of Paul's rise to become the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach, the Fremen's Mahdi (like much of the Fremen's culture, the word is lifted from the vocabulary of Islam). As one character puts it: "No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero." Continue reading... |
| Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic Posted: 17 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world's factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19 One day last December, 101,000 chickens at a gigantic farm near the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia started to collapse and die. Tests by the state research centre showed that a relatively new strain of lethal avian flu known as H5N8 was circulating, and within days 900,000 birds at the Vladimirskaya plant were hurriedly slaughtered to prevent an epidemic. Avian flu is the world's other ongoing pandemic and H5N8 is just one strain that has torn through thousands of chicken, duck and turkey flocks across nearly 50 countries including Britain in recent years and shows no sign of stopping. Continue reading... |
| ‘I was born a fighter’: the champion boxer changing young lives in Zimbabwe Posted: 17 Oct 2021 11:01 PM PDT Boxing helped prizefighter Arifonso Zvenyika overcome real hardship. Now he teaches the sport he loves to aspiring fighters in a Harare ghetto Beneath a corrugated iron roof in the crowded Harare suburb of Mbare, a group of boys darts back and forth across a smooth concrete floor, firing a series of rapid punches into the air. A wiry older man, dressed in low-slung tracksuit bottoms and flip-flops, watches their moves, encouraging them to "Jab! Jab! Jab!". Continue reading... |
| Krautrock legends Faust: ‘We were naked and stoned a lot – and we ate dog food’ Posted: 17 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT They blagged a fortune off their label after promising to be 'the German Beatles' – then went wild in the countryside making experimental krautrock. But was there more to Faust than pneumatic drills and nude donkey rides? Jean-Hervé Peron, former bassist and vocalist with Faust, would like to get something straight about his old band – specifically, the period in the early 1970s when they were living in a commune in Wümme, a rural area outside Hamburg. Faust's time in Wümme is one of the great sagas in the history of experimental rock, which begins with their wily late manager, Uwe Nettelbeck, somehow convincing Polydor that they were signing not a recently formed collection of Hamburg musicians who would prove to be the most uncompromising band in an uncompromising era for German rock – even by the standards of fellow travellers Can, Kraftwerk and Amon Düül II, Faust's eponymous 1971 debut album was a provocative, revolutionary, flat-out weird listen – but "the German Beatles". Faust's keyboard player, Hans-Joachim Irmler, thinks their manager played on the fact that Polydor had lost both the actual Beatles, who had been signed to the label for a year while still performing in Hamburg, and Jimi Hendrix "because they didn't care enough", concentrating their attention on the lightweight, upbeat brand of Mitteleuropean bubblegum pop known as schlager. Having extracted a reputed DM 30,000 (roughly £160,000 today) out of the company, Faust decamped to an old school in Wümme, at which point the story gets more legendary still. Vast quantities of drugs were taken and the wearing of clothes was optional. Meals were frequently taken in the nude and the band's original drummer, Arnulf Meifert, rode a donkey naked through a nearby village. Continue reading... |
| Madrid exhibition reimagines Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for digital age Posted: 17 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Triptych's 21st-century variations comment on technology, consumerism, sex and the planet Adam is a busy robot poring over the codes of creation. The climate disaster has imprisoned the devil in a block of ice. And a social media sinner is lashed to a hashtag for all eternity while a Terminator stalks through a charnel house hell. The Garden of Earthly Delights is once again in full, admonitory bloom. More than five centuries after it was completed, Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece is being reimagined and reinterpreted by 15 international artists using everything from sound art and sculpture to painting, video, installation, gifs and digital animation. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds strip off near Dead Sea for latest nude Spencer Tunick shoot – video Posted: 17 Oct 2021 09:33 PM PDT Some 300 people wearing only white body paint have taken part in a nude photographic installation aimed at raising awareness about the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea. It was part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick. The American photographer is best known for organising large-scale nude shoots. Continue reading... |
| Haiti’s flamboyant funerals – in pictures Posted: 17 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Celebratory wakes, lavish funerals, fanfare bands and dramatic displays are just some of Haiti's death rites, which, like its weddings, are often extravagant social events despite the country's poverty Continue reading... |
| Former senior Labor party member implicates faction ‘linchpin’ at Victorian anti-corruption hearing Posted: 18 Oct 2021 01:37 AM PDT Branch stacking common practice and part of culture, Banyule mayor Rick Garotti tells Ibac inquiry A senior member of a Labor party faction that allegedly used public resources as part of a vast branch stacking operation has implicated another Andrews government MP in the scheme. Rick Garotti, the mayor of Banyule council, in Melbourne's north, gave evidence during an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission public hearing on Monday. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes? Posted: 17 Oct 2021 07:00 AM PDT Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency's most-wanted 'red notice' list now includes political refugees and dissidents Flicking through the news one day in early 2015, Alexey Kharis, a California-based businessman and father of two, came across a startling announcement: Russia would request a global call for his arrest through the International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol. "Oh, wow," Kharis thought, shocked. All the 46-year-old knew about Interpol and its pursuit of the world's most-wanted criminals was from novels and films. He tried to reassure himself that things would be OK and it was just an intimidatory tactic of the Russian authorities. Surely, he reasoned, the world's largest police organisation had no reason to launch a hunt for him. Continue reading... |
| Kidnap of foreign missionaries confirms the power held by gangs in Haiti Posted: 17 Oct 2021 08:53 AM PDT Analysis: about half the capital, Port-au-Prince, is controlled by criminals, many of whom do dirty jobs for business and politicians The kidnapping of 17 foreign missionaries in Haiti marks the latest escalation in a wave of criminality in the impoverished and politically fragile Caribbean state, which has long seen waves of gang-related crime coincide with heightened political turmoil. According to some estimates, Haiti's powerful gangs, numbering about 90 criminal organisations in total, control territory amounting to half of the sprawling capital of Port-au-Prince and cost the country over $4bn a year. Continue reading... |
| Russian movie crew return to Earth after filming 12 days on the International Space Station – video Posted: 17 Oct 2021 06:26 PM PDT A Russian actor and a film director have returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station, shooting scenes for The Challenge, the first movie filmed in orbit. Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko joined cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky in a Soyuz capsule that landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe. The film, if completed on time, will beat a Hollywood production announced by Tom Cruise, Nasa and SpaceX Continue reading... |
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