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- Chinese planes fly over Taiwan defence zone in second day of record show of force
- Canary Islands volcano ‘much more aggressive’ as new fissures erupt
- Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste
- BepiColombo spacecraft sends its first images of Mercury during flyby
- Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment
- North Korea accuses UN security council of double standards over missile tests
- Algeria recalls ambassador to France as diplomatic row mounts
- Tunisia police arrest MP and TV host who called president a traitor
- Scandal-ridden French tycoon Bernard Tapie dies aged 78
- Two princesses, a royal dressmaker and a row about a wedding gown
- Strike a pose: infrared scans reveal the method in Munch’s Madonna
- Covid live news: scientists warn UK may have worst to come; Israel tightens vaccine passport rules
- NSW reports ‘dramatic drop’ in new Covid cases as Melbourne edges closer to world’s longest lockdown
- New Zealand widens Covid lockdown as Delta spreads outside Auckland
- Rules and advice don’t slow the spread of the virus – human behaviour does | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
- Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
- ‘My relationship with Simone de Beauvoir was unique. It cannot be reproduced. It was love’
- Akala, Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri and more pick 20 classic books by writers of colour
- My grown-up granddaughter is rude and angry, I want her to apologise
- The 81 women killed in 28 weeks
- Stephanie Grisham: Trump turncoat who may be most damaging yet
- Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens worked as parliamentary guard
- ‘This whole thing has become politicized’: inside Missouri’s Covid culture wars
- Fire devastates Honduras' Caribbean resort island of Guanaja
- Dominic Perrottet set to become NSW premier after securing factional deal
| Chinese planes fly over Taiwan defence zone in second day of record show of force Posted: 02 Oct 2021 09:44 PM PDT Taipei says 39 Chinese fighter jets crossed into its defence zone in two sorties, following a 38-plane incursion on Friday China has for the second day in a row flown more than 30 military planes towards Taiwan in yet another record show of force. Taiwan's defence ministry said 39 aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone in two sorties on Saturday, one during the day and one at night. That followed a similar pattern on Friday, when 38 planes flew into the area south of the self-governing island. Continue reading... |
| Canary Islands volcano ‘much more aggressive’ as new fissures erupt Posted: 02 Oct 2021 07:00 PM PDT More lava spews out on to La Palma island as scientists record eight earthquakes up to magnitude 3.5 The erupting volcano on Spain's Canary Islands has blown open two more fissures, with authorities reporting "intense" activity in the area. The new fissures, about 15 metres (50 feet) apart, sent streaks of fiery red and orange molten rock down toward the sea, parallel to an earlier flow that reached the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week. Continue reading... |
| Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste Posted: 02 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisoners The cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyond identification before the Americans left. Below their ashy grey remains, pools of molten metal had solidified into permanent shiny puddles as the blaze cooled. The faux Afghan village where they trained paramilitary forces linked to some of the worst human rights abuses of the war had been brought down on itself. Only a high concrete wall still loomed over the crumpled piles of mud and beams, once used to practise for the widely hated night raids on civilian homes. Continue reading... |
| BepiColombo spacecraft sends its first images of Mercury during flyby Posted: 02 Oct 2021 05:57 PM PDT European-Japanese probe swoops in to almost 200km above Sun's nearest planet, photographing its pock-marked features The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, as it swung by the solar system's innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025. The mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury at 11.34pm GMT on Friday, using the planet's gravity to slow the spacecraft down. Continue reading... |
| Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment Posted: 02 Oct 2021 11:53 AM PDT Crowds parade through cities as polling shows president's ratings sinking to new depths Tens of thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro's impeachment, as a poll showed the Brazilian president's ratings had plumbed new depths. Huge crowds paraded through downtown Rio on Saturday to voice their outrage at Bolsonaro's response to a Covid outbreak that has killed nearly 600,000 people and dealt a heavy blow to the South American country's economy. Continue reading... |
| North Korea accuses UN security council of double standards over missile tests Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Top official says council ignores US weapons tests, after it met over Pyongyang's anti-aircraft missile launch North Korea has accused the United Nations security council of applying double standards over military activities among UN member states amid international criticism over its recent missile tests. The council met behind closed doors on Friday upon requests from the United States and other countries over the North's missile launches. Continue reading... |
| Algeria recalls ambassador to France as diplomatic row mounts Posted: 02 Oct 2021 06:08 PM PDT Envoy recalled 'for consultations' after Emmanuel Macron said the former colony was ruled by a 'political-military system' Algeria has recalled its ambassador to France for consultations as diplomatic tensions mount over comments by Emmanuel Macron that the former French colony was ruled by a "political-military system". "Algeria recalls its ambassador [Mohamed Antar-Daoud] from Paris for consultations," state television said, quoting a statement from the presidency. Continue reading... |
| Tunisia police arrest MP and TV host who called president a traitor Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:21 AM PDT Pair have been prominent critics of Kais Saied since he seized power in July and suspended parliament Tunisian police have arrested a member of parliament and a television presenter who have been prominent critics of president Kais Saied since his seizure of power in July, their lawyer said. The lawyer, Samir Ben Omar, said the military judiciary had ordered the arrests, accusing the pair of conspiring against state security and insulting the army after they broadcast a programme on Zaytouna television station. Continue reading... |
| Scandal-ridden French tycoon Bernard Tapie dies aged 78 Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:24 AM PDT Business magnate who also turned his hand to sport, politics and acting, dies four years after cancer diagnosis The French business magnate and former politician Bernard Tapie, whose larger-than-life career was marked by a series of legal problems, has died aged 78, four years after being diagnosed with cancer. "Dominique Tapie and his family have the immense sadness to announce the death of her husband and their father, Bernard Tapie, this Sunday," his family said in a statement to La Provence newspaper in Marseille, in which Tapie was a majority stakeholder. Continue reading... |
| Two princesses, a royal dressmaker and a row about a wedding gown Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:15 AM PDT Queen's dressmaker's private documents and scrapbooks detailing furore over Princess Margaret's wedding dress are up for sale Drawings and legal documents that once belonged to the Queen's former dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell have revealed details of a row that rocked the House of Windsor and his own illustrious fashion house 60 years ago. A rediscovered bundle of private papers and scrapbooks, to be auctioned next month, also includes previously unseen designs by Hartnell created for Princess Anne. "The colours are amazing and very evocative of the era," said vintage fashion specialist Susan Orringe. Continue reading... |
| Strike a pose: infrared scans reveal the method in Munch’s Madonna Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Preparatory sketch discovered beneath Norwegian master's painting shows how he struggled with the original composition It is one of art history's most evocative female forms, a painting of a nude woman arching her back sensually, one arm behind her head and the other behind her back. Now a preparatory drawing has been discovered beneath Edvard Munch's Madonna in the National Museum of Norway, revealing that the Norwegian master struggled over how he should place her arms, initially showing them just hanging down, until inspiration came to him. The underdrawing also shows that this masterpiece is likely to have been the first of five painted versions that Munch created in the 1890s. Continue reading... |
| Covid live news: scientists warn UK may have worst to come; Israel tightens vaccine passport rules Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:04 AM PDT Fears the indoor socialising will spread virus in UK; Israel says people only eligible for green pass if they have received a booster jab
Russia has broken its record for Covid deaths in one day, with 890 people dying in the last 24 hours. Its government's coronavirus task force added it had recorded 25,769 new cases in the last 24 hours, including 4,294 in Moscow. A total of 209,918 people have now died from the virus. Continue reading... |
| NSW reports ‘dramatic drop’ in new Covid cases as Melbourne edges closer to world’s longest lockdown Posted: 02 Oct 2021 10:04 PM PDT Dr Kerry Chant warns next week is 'critical' for state as Victoria and ACT see slight declines in numbers
Victoria's Covid infections have dropped slightly with Melbourne's 246-day lockdown to become the world's longest on Tuesday. And while New South Wales recorded a substantial drop in local Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the state continued to see a rise in Covid-related hospitalisations and deaths. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| New Zealand widens Covid lockdown as Delta spreads outside Auckland Posted: 02 Oct 2021 09:03 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern puts parts of Waikato into five-day lockdown while country's largest city records 32 new cases New Zealand's Delta Covid variant outbreak has spread beyond Auckland, prompting the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to put additional regions into a snap lockdown. There were 32 new coronavirus cases on Sunday in the country's largest city, which has been in lockdown since mid-August, and two cases in the Waikato region, some 147km (91 miles) south of Auckland. Ardern announced on Sunday that parts of the region will go into a five-day lockdown. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT Surveys can help us understand how the pandemic is influenced by our choices Recent queues for fuel have shown the consequences of abrupt changes in behaviour. Almost as sudden were the changes around the first lockdown in March 2020, when close meetings between people plummeted by about three-quarters. We know this through the CoMix contact survey from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which has continued to ask UK adults about their "direct contacts", that is any sort of skin-to-skin contact or anyone to whom at least a few words were exchanged in person. Can you remember how many such contacts you had yesterday? Pre-lockdown, people reported an average of 11 such meetings a day, but this fell to three afterwards and stayed low. Some warned of the dangers of "freedom day" on 19 July, with some mathematical modelling estimating more than 100,000 cases a day. But the CoMix survey shows there was no exuberant return to socialising and so no subsequent explosion of cases. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands Three to four days a week, for one or two hours at a time, Rosie Okumura, 35, telephones thieves and messes with their minds. For the past two years, the LA-based voice actor has run a sort of reverse call centre, deliberately ringing the people most of us hang up on – scammers who pose as tax agencies or tech-support companies or inform you that you've recently been in a car accident you somehow don't recall. When Okumura gets a scammer on the line, she will pretend to be an old lady, or a six-year-old girl, or do an uncanny impression of Apple's virtual assistant Siri. Once, she successfully fooled a fake customer service representative into believing that she was Britney Spears. "I waste their time," she explains, "and now they're not stealing from someone's grandma." Okumura is a "scambaiter" – a type of vigilante who disrupts, exposes or even scams the world's scammers. While scambaiting has a troubled 20-year online history, with early forum users employing extreme, often racist, humiliation tactics, a new breed of scambaiters are taking over TikTok and YouTube. Okumura has more than 1.5 million followers across both video platforms, where she likes to keep things "funny and light". Continue reading... |
| ‘My relationship with Simone de Beauvoir was unique. It cannot be reproduced. It was love’ Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT As an autobiographical novel by the writer is published for the first time in English, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir – the adopted daughter with whom Simone shared the last 26 years of her life – talks about their bond "Simone de Beauvoir was haunted by the death of her childhood friend Zaza… I think she spent the rest of her life looking for the intimacy they'd had," says Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. "For a long time she didn't succeed, but I believe she found it with me." For all but the most ardent followers of the 20th-century feminist and author of The Second Sex this statement may come as a surprise. De Beauvoir is most famously linked to fellow writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she enjoyed – and at times endured – a 50-year open relationship. Continue reading... |
| Akala, Bernardine Evaristo, Ben Okri and more pick 20 classic books by writers of colour Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Twenty contemporary writers recommend overlooked novels, essays and poetry that deserve to sit alongside the classics on our bookshelves. Introduction by Kadish Morris It wasn't until I started university in 2008 that I truly realised how little regard there was for Black authors. My creative writing lecturer was a Black poet, whose teaching material and reading lists were saturated with authors of colour, but each term, I noticed that the class was shrinking. One day, there was a discourse bubbling among my white peers; they deemed him too biased, and proclaimed that his reading list was too Black. He'd been suggesting interesting works such as Ishmael Reed's Juice! and Clarence Major's Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar, but students banged their fists on the table for more Plath, more Twain, more Orwell. A 2017 report showed that of 400 authors named as writers of literature by 2,000 people, only 7% were from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds. Sunny Singh, co-founder of the Jhalak prize, which recognises Black and Asian writers in Britain, said the list reflected "a deeply entrenched imaginative conservatism, where the need to hold on to a nostalgic past combines with a fear of confronting a complex present in all its variety". Continue reading... |
| My grown-up granddaughter is rude and angry, I want her to apologise Posted: 02 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Put aside rights and wrongs and try to understand, says Philippa Perry. Being right is overrated The question I am writing to ask your advice about our 22-year-old granddaughter. We house-sit for my daughter and her family when they are away. They have dogs, but don't like to put them in kennels. We have always got on well with our granddaughter and indulged her, along with her brothers. But she is spoilt. Last month while we were there to house-sit, there was shouting between her and my husband. She didn't like the fact that my husband had disciplined our dog when we arrived – but our dog was jumping up. I know my husband has a short temper, but it blows over quickly. Her reaction was over the top. She stormed off and wouldn't look at him. She asked him to leave the lounge as she wanted to watch a film. She actually arranged for a friend to call every two days to check the dogs were being looked after OK, as if we are untrustworthy. She texted me to say we were not to go into her room and she referred to my husband by his name and not "Grandad". Continue reading... |
| The 81 women killed in 28 weeks Posted: 02 Oct 2021 12:20 PM PDT Since Sarah Everard's brutal murder, only one thing has changed – the death toll People said something had changed with the awful death of Sarah Everard. But the message certainly hasn't reached the men who rape, harm and kill women. And I can't see a difference in the government, police, Crown Prosecution Service or the judiciary either. Since Sarah Everard was abducted, raped, murdered and, in the words of her mother, "disposed of as if she were rubbish", at least 81 other UK women have been killed in circumstances where the suspect is a man. It is absolutely ludicrous that we know this because of my work, a random northern woman in east London, not the government, not the National Police Chiefs Council. Each of these women will have died in terror and pain, just like Sarah. Each one leaves behind grieving friends and family for whom the loss will last a lifetime. Continue reading... |
| Stephanie Grisham: Trump turncoat who may be most damaging yet Posted: 02 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Former press secretary has decided to 'break her silence' but may find media less hospitable than to those who went before On Monday, Stephanie Grisham will appear on Good Morning America. ABC is billing the interview as the former White House press secretary's chance to "break her silence". Donald Trump is unlikely to be watching. Grisham is not the first insider to break omertà on the Trumps, who rose from running a New York real estate empire to occupying the White House, but she may well be the politico who got closest of all. Continue reading... |
| Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens worked as parliamentary guard Posted: 03 Oct 2021 01:48 AM PDT Questions mount over vetting of former Met officer, who had access to Houses of Commons and Lords The Metropolitan police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard guarded parliament five times, it has emerged as a senior Conservative criticised the force for appearing to have "overlooked" warning signs about his behaviour. Wayne Couzens, 48, worked in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command and finished a shift guarding the US embassy hours before he carried out a false arrest of Everard on 3 March before abducting her. Continue reading... |
| ‘This whole thing has become politicized’: inside Missouri’s Covid culture wars Posted: 03 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT With winter coming, health officials are now concerned that the arguments that have roiled Missouri will leave it vulnerable again when a next wave hits The boarded-up storefront of Rae's Cafe in Blue Springs, Missouri, does not look much like a Covid-19 battleground – but it has become a cause célèbre of the anti-masking movement since owner Amanda Wohletz began a campaign in July to defy local Jackson county mask mandates imposed after Delta variant infections surged. Despite warnings, citations, the revocation of a food permit and a county health department's order to close her doors, Wohletz persisted, claiming in court that the mandate ordering everyone five and up is required to wear a face covering when visiting indoor public spaces was "unconstitutionally created" and efforts to enforce it were "unlawful, nonsensical". Continue reading... |
| Fire devastates Honduras' Caribbean resort island of Guanaja Posted: 02 Oct 2021 01:46 PM PDT Blaze engulfs more than 200 houses and businesses, forcing hundreds of residents to flee A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent resort, relief authorities said. Dramatic video footage shared on social media showed rows of seaside houses engulfed in flames and wooden homes collapsing in Guanaja, a Caribbean island about 44 miles (77km) off the north coast of Honduras. Continue reading... |
| Dominic Perrottet set to become NSW premier after securing factional deal Posted: 03 Oct 2021 12:54 AM PDT State treasurer declares his intention to take over from Gladys Berejiklian with Stuart Ayres as deputy Liberal leader The New South Wales treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, looks set to become the next premier of the state at the age of 39 after gathering the support of his own right faction and key moderate powerbrokers. Perrottet announced his candidacy for the Liberal leadership on Sunday evening, paying tribute to the outgoing premier Gladys Berejiklian. Continue reading... |
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