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- Climate experts warn world leaders 1.5C is ‘real science’, not just talking point
- Sudan coup: call for ‘march of millions’ to challenge military takeover
- Biden’s agenda remains unrealized as Democrats fail to close deal again
- Japan ports swamped by pumice spewed from undersea volcano
- Biden admits to Macron the US was ‘clumsy’ in Aukus submarine deal
- Tucker Carlson condemned over ‘false flag’ claim about deadly Capitol attack
- Prince Andrew asks US judge to dismiss lawsuit alleging sexual abuse
- Vigilante surveillance: the rise of Beijing’s neighbourhood patrols
- The Queen advised to rest for two weeks, says Buckingham Palace
- First group of LGBT+ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in the UK
- ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert
- Coronavirus live news: UK to send 20m vaccine doses to developing countries; China reports six-week high in cases
- Fresh air or foul odour? How Covid can distort the sense of smell
- Prince Harry and Meghan appeal to G20 to keep Covid vaccine donation pledges
- US FDA approves Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in children ages 5-11
- Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot
- Cop26: the time for prevarication is over | Katharine Viner
- Ken Dodd, Stockhausen and Psycho: unlocking Paul McCartney’s musical genius
- Blind date: ‘I should have stopped drinking before I said I was Charlotte Brontë in a previous life’
- ‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent
- Dining across the divide: ‘I thought, bloody hell, this is ridiculous’
- ‘A deliberate, orchestrated campaign’: the real story behind Trump’s attempted coup
- Rail commuting in Great Britain at less than half pre-pandemic level
- Boris Johnson vows to do ‘whatever is necessary’ to protect UK fishers
- Banana price war in UK supermarkets is hurting farmers, growers warn
- Pumice stones from undersea volcano wash ashore in Japan – video
- Queensland police seize Nazi flag flown near Brisbane synagogue
- Trudeau files last-ditch appeal against billions for Indigenous children
- Macron’s fighting talk on fishing is driven by far-right election threats
- Biden gives Pope Francis sentimental coin and calls him 'warrior for peace' – video
- Biden tells France the US was 'clumsy' in its handling of Aukus deal – video
- Pope Francis urges radical response to climate crisis at Cop26 – video
| Climate experts warn world leaders 1.5C is ‘real science’, not just talking point Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Scientists say keeping temperature rises to 1.5C is vital physical threshold for planet that cannot be negotiated The 1.5C temperature limit to be discussed by world leaders at critical meetings this weekend is a vital physical threshold for the planet's climate, and not an arbitrary political construct that can be haggled over, leading climate scientists have warned. World leaders are meeting in Rome and Glasgow over the next four days to thrash out a common approach aimed at holding global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the lower of two limits set out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Continue reading... |
| Sudan coup: call for ‘march of millions’ to challenge military takeover Posted: 30 Oct 2021 12:51 AM PDT Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan claims he will appoint technocrat prime minister to rule alongside generals Sudan's six-day-old military junta faces its most serious challenge with pro-democracy groups, civilian politicians and trade unions attempting to gather for planned mass demonstrations against Monday's coup. As security forces set up checkpoints and blocked bridges to the twin city of Omdurman overnight to try to prevent the protests, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned that Sudan's security forces must respect human rights, adding that any violence against peaceful demonstrators was "unacceptable". Continue reading... |
| Biden’s agenda remains unrealized as Democrats fail to close deal again Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:53 AM PDT Pelosi forced to postpone infrastructure vote on Thursday ahead of Biden's meeting with world leaders in Rome Joe Biden's nearly $3tn domestic agenda remains unrealized after an 11th-hour push to rally Democrats around a pared-down package that he framed as historic, failed to close the deal in time for his meeting with world leaders in Rome at the G20 summit. But after a dramatic Thursday of bold promises and dashed hopes, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was forced to postpone a vote on a $1tn infrastructure bill for a second time in a month, as progressives demanded more assurances that a compromise $1.75tn social policy plan would also pass. Continue reading... |
| Japan ports swamped by pumice spewed from undersea volcano Posted: 29 Oct 2021 09:54 PM PDT Dozens of fishing vessels and ports have been damaged, with tonnes of the floating pebbles being removed from coastlines every day Vast amounts of pumice pebbles, spewed out months ago by an undersea volcano, has clogged dozens of ports and damaged fishing boats along Japan's southernmost coastlines. Deputy chief cabinet secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki said on Friday that the pumice had so far affected 11 ports on Okinawa and 19 others in the Kagoshima prefecture, on Japan's southernmost island of Kyushu, and forced the central government to establish a disaster recovery task force. Continue reading... |
| Biden admits to Macron the US was ‘clumsy’ in Aukus submarine deal Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:06 AM PDT American president moves to repair relationship after France was blindsided by security pact
Joe Biden has moved to repair his damaged personal and political relationship with Emmanuel Macron by acknowledging that the announcement of a security and technology pact that blindsided France was a "clumsy" episode handled with a lack of grace. Continue reading... |
| Tucker Carlson condemned over ‘false flag’ claim about deadly Capitol attack Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Anti-Defamation League president denounce Fox News host's 'lies' as he plugs new series The conservative Republican Liz Cheney and the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League led condemnation of Fox News and Tucker Carlson, after the primetime host announced a series about the supposed "true story" of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January. They denounced Carlson for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories in the latest scandal to engulf a man whose popularity belies his record of racist and untrue statements on issues from immigration to racial justice. Continue reading... |
| Prince Andrew asks US judge to dismiss lawsuit alleging sexual abuse Posted: 29 Oct 2021 03:48 PM PDT Duke of York says Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of forcing her to have sex when she was 17, failed to state claim warranting relief Prince Andrew has asked a US judge to dismiss Virginia Giuffre's civil lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was 17. In a filing with the US district court in Manhattan on Friday, the Duke of York said the case should be dismissed because Giuffre failed to state a claim warranting relief. Continue reading... |
| Vigilante surveillance: the rise of Beijing’s neighbourhood patrols Posted: 29 Oct 2021 09:00 PM PDT Red-armbanded 'Chaoyang masses' likened to KGB and MI6 have become a common sight on streets of China's capital They are often seen wearing a red armband patrolling residential neighbourhoods of Chaoyang, the biggest district of Beijing, which is home to nearly 3.5 million people. On a sunny late autumn afternoon, they will sit with a group of retirees in the sun and chat away. But when an individual of interest turns up, their attention quickly diverts to them. In Chinese media and official police statements, these vigilante neighbourhood watchers are called the "Chaoyang masses". Last week, the state-owned Global Times went a step further, quoting internet users as saying the mysterious group "could match four famous intelligence [agencies], the CIA, MI6, KGB and Mossad". Some jokingly called it "the fifth largest intelligence agency in the world". Continue reading... |
| The Queen advised to rest for two weeks, says Buckingham Palace Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:04 AM PDT Monarch can undertake 'light, desk-based duties' and aims to attend Remembrance Sunday service Doctors have advised the Queen to rest for at least another two weeks and not to undertake any official visits, Buckingham Palace has said. It means the 95-year-old will not attend the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on the eve of Remembrance Sunday, though she hopes to be at the Cenotaph for the Remembrance Day service itself. Continue reading... |
| First group of LGBT+ Afghans fleeing Taliban arrive in the UK Posted: 29 Oct 2021 07:55 PM PDT Students and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be 'the first of many' in coming months A group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban's return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgender Afghans, who feared persecution and even death under the Islamists' rule. The evacuation of the 29 Afghans is "hoped to be the first of many" in the coming months, Britain's foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, hours after a Taliban spokesman said LGBT+ rights would not be respected. Continue reading... |
| ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert Posted: 29 Oct 2021 08:00 AM PDT Prof Stuart Russell says field of artificial intelligence needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are "spooked" by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb. Prof Stuart Russell, the founder of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, said most experts believed that machines more intelligent than humans would be developed this century, and he called for international treaties to regulate the development of the technology. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2021 01:32 AM PDT UK will send doses by end of year, Boris Johnson to tell G20 leaders in Rome; China records 59 locally transmitted infections Beijing's Universal Studios theme park tested all staff after close contacts of Covid cases visited the resort this week, it announced on social media. The close contacts are isolating and have tested negative for Covid, the theme park said in a post on its official Weibo account, adding that it had increased health monitoring at the park. "Out of prudent consideration for the health and safety of visitors, we are fully cooperating with the disease control and prevention department to notify those who visited the park on 24 October to undergo nucleic acid tests and necessary health monitoring," Universal Studios said in the post. "The solution is to decrease demand by increasing mandatory vaccination," the head of intensive care at Thessaloniki's Papanikolaou Hospital said on Friday. "There is no other way, we need vaccination." Continue reading... |
| Fresh air or foul odour? How Covid can distort the sense of smell Posted: 29 Oct 2021 04:14 AM PDT Coronavirus-induced parosmia is surprisingly common and the sensory confusion can have profound effects Deirdre likens her body odour to raw onions; Deepak says his favourite aftershave smells foul, and coffee like cleaning products; Julie thinks coffee and chocolate both smell like burnt ashes. Most people are aware that a cardinal symptom of Covid-19 is loss of smell, or anosmia. It may last for weeks or even months. Increasingly though, those who have recovered subsequently develop another disorienting symptom, parosmia, or a distorted sense of smell. This typically results in things that once smelled pleasant smelling bad or rotten. Continue reading... |
| Prince Harry and Meghan appeal to G20 to keep Covid vaccine donation pledges Posted: 29 Oct 2021 12:38 PM PDT Prince Harry and Meghan join WHO in urging leaders to honour promises to help low-income countries Prince Harry and Meghan have joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and Save the Children in appealing to G20 leaders meeting this weekend to honour promises to send Covid-19 vaccines to low-income countries where just 3% of people have had a jab. It is one of the most directly political initiatives at a high-profile political summit by the former royal couple since they left the British royal household. Continue reading... |
| US FDA approves Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in children ages 5-11 Posted: 29 Oct 2021 12:39 PM PDT On Tuesday, CDC advisers will make more detailed recommendations on which children should get vaccinated The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday paved the way for children ages five to 11 to get Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine. After the FDA cleared kid-size doses – a third of the amount given to teens and adults – for emergency use, up to 28 million more American children could be eligible for vaccinations as early as next week. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Instead of focusing on 'micro consumerist bollocks' like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It's that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they invest great resources into avoiding or withstanding it: migrating or hibernating, for example. Humans are a different matter. When faced with an impending or chronic threat, such as climate or ecological breakdown, we seem to go out of our way to compromise our survival. We convince ourselves that it's not so serious, or even that it isn't happening. We double down on destruction, swapping our ordinary cars for SUVs, jetting to Oblivia on a long-haul flight, burning it all up in a final frenzy. In the back of our minds, there's a voice whispering, "If it were really so serious, someone would stop us." If we attend to these issues at all, we do so in ways that are petty, tokenistic, comically ill-matched to the scale of our predicament. It is impossible to discern, in our response to what we know, the primacy of our survival instinct. Continue reading... |
| Cop26: the time for prevarication is over | Katharine Viner Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Glasgow 2021 must be the moment when the promise of Paris 2015 becomes real – history will not forgive us otherwise Summits do not always live up to the name. They can get bogged down in detail and disagreement, never really reaching altitude. That is often the case with the annual UN climate summits known simply as the Cop, which have earned a reputation since the first was held 26 years ago for being bewildering marathons that overrun and underdeliver. Make a contribution from just £1 Become a digital subscriber and get something in return for your money Continue reading... |
| Ken Dodd, Stockhausen and Psycho: unlocking Paul McCartney’s musical genius Posted: 30 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT When the Pultizer-prize winning poet was asked to collaborate with the former Beatle on a book, he gained a unique insight into the creative process behind the band's biggest hits Towards the end of 2016 I had a phone call from an unfamiliar number. The voice, though, was immediately familiar. The newly elected Donald Trump introduced himself quite matter-of-factly. He lost no time in getting to the point: would I be willing to come to Washington to serve as his "Poetry Supremo"? That Sir Paul McCartney turns out to be such a brilliant mimic shouldn't have come as a surprise. Like almost all great writers, he'd apprenticed himself to the masters of the trade: Dickens, Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll. All apprenticeships are characterised by caricature and impersonation. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘I should have stopped drinking before I said I was Charlotte Brontë in a previous life’ Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Fred, 26, PhD student, meets Laurine, 24, French teaching assistant Fred on Laurine What were you hoping for? |
| ‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent Posted: 30 Oct 2021 12:30 AM PDT Higher education is one of the most casualised sectors of the UK economy, and for many it means a struggle to get by Like many PhD students, Aimée Lê needed her hourly paid job – as an English lecturer – to stay afloat. But what her students never guessed was that for two years while she taught them she was living in a tent. Lê decided to live outside as a last resort when she was faced with a steep rent increase in the third year of her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, and realised she would not be able to afford a flat and cover all her costs on her research and teaching income. Continue reading... |
| Dining across the divide: ‘I thought, bloody hell, this is ridiculous’ Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Astrology, the royal family, immigration: can two strangers agree on anything? • Click here if you'd like to dine across the divide Nickie, 68, Stockport Occupation Setting up an astrology company, after a career in sales Continue reading... |
| ‘A deliberate, orchestrated campaign’: the real story behind Trump’s attempted coup Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT A startling memo, a surreal Oval Office encounter – just some of the twists in the unfolding story of Trump's bid to cling to power, which critics say was no less than an attempted coup On 4 January, the conservative lawyer John Eastman was summoned to the Oval Office to meet Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Within 48 hours, Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election would formally be certified by Congress, sealing Trump's fate and removing him from the White House. The atmosphere in the room was tense. The then US president was "fired up" to make what amounted to a last-ditch effort to overturn the election results and snatch a second term in office in the most powerful job on Earth. Continue reading... |
| Rail commuting in Great Britain at less than half pre-pandemic level Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:01 PM PDT Number of commuter trips made in mid-October was just 45% of pre-Covid figure, industry says The number of train journeys made by commuters in Great Britain remains at less than half of pre-pandemic levels, figures show. The industry body Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said in mid-October the number of railway journeys made by those going to work was just 45% of what it was before the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson vows to do ‘whatever is necessary’ to protect UK fishers Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:46 AM PDT French and EU vessels could face 'rigorous checks' in British waters if Paris carries out threats Boris Johnson vowed to do "whatever is necessary" to protect British fishers, with French and EU vessels put on notice of "rigorous" checks when in British waters and even tariffs on goods if Paris acts on its recent threats. As France prepared to act on its plan to tie up British goods in red tape at ports in a row over fishing licences, the prime minister said he intended to ask Emmanuel Macron to see past the "turbulence" in British-French relations. Continue reading... |
| Banana price war in UK supermarkets is hurting farmers, growers warn Posted: 30 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Retailers accused of ignoring soaring production costs to keep prices low, with Aldi singled out as leading way The huge popularity of bananas makes them a weapon in UK supermarket price wars, but the tactic is hurting farmers amid soaring production costs, growers have said. The major supermarket chains are ignoring the impact of higher raw material and freight costs because they want to offer the "cheapest bananas on the market", according to a joint statement from Latin American producers and exporter associations. Continue reading... |
| Pumice stones from undersea volcano wash ashore in Japan – video Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:25 PM PDT Drone footage shows vast amounts of pumice pebbles, spewed out months ago by an undersea volcano, clogging up a fishing port in Kagoshima prefecture, in southern Japan. The pumice has so far affected 19 ports in Kagoshima, and 11 on Okinawa, putting hundreds of fishing boats out of action and damaging the tourism industry. Continue reading... |
| Queensland police seize Nazi flag flown near Brisbane synagogue Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:10 PM PDT Swastika seen hanging from Margaret Street apartment complex in city's CBD Congregants at a Brisbane synagogue were confronted by the sight of a Nazi flag flying from a nearby apartment window on Saturday. Visitors to the synagogue reported seeing the swastika symbol hanging from a UniLodge complex on Margaret Street in the central business district on Saturday morning, the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies vice-president, Jason Steinberg, said. Continue reading... |
| Trudeau files last-ditch appeal against billions for Indigenous children Posted: 29 Oct 2021 03:34 PM PDT Tribunal ordered Canadian government to pay compensation to children who suffered discrimination in welfare system Justin Trudeau's government has launched a last-minute court appeal against a ruling that would require it pay billions of dollars to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system. Minutes before a court deadline on Friday afternoon, the government filed papers indicating it planned once again to fight a human rights tribunal decision ordering the compensation payment. Continue reading... |
| Macron’s fighting talk on fishing is driven by far-right election threats Posted: 29 Oct 2021 05:35 AM PDT Analysis: British government is not entirely innocent but Paris knows forceful rhetoric should only go so far In January 2017, Emmanuel Macron, in third place in the race to be the next president of France and seen by some as an electoral bubble waiting to burst, staged a photo opportunity in the fish market of Le Guilvinec in Brittany. "Brexit will not go well because Brexit cannot go well," Macron told fishers who had raised their concerns about the future. "But I'll make [the fishing problem] a red line in our negotiations with the UK." Macron's seizing of the Élysée Palace later that year was hugely buoyed up by the turnout in the coastal region. Close to a third of voters in Brittany gave him their vote in the crucial first round of the 2017 contest, a greater proportion than in any other region of France. Continue reading... |
| Biden gives Pope Francis sentimental coin and calls him 'warrior for peace' – video Posted: 29 Oct 2021 12:00 PM PDT Joe Biden held an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican and gifted him a 'command coin' sometimes awarded to soldiers and leaders. 'You are the most significant warrior for peace I've ever met,' the US president told the pope. Citing what he said was a tradition linked to the coin, he joked: 'Next time I see you, if you don't have it, you have to buy the drinks' Continue reading... |
| Biden tells France the US was 'clumsy' in its handling of Aukus deal – video Posted: 29 Oct 2021 10:45 AM PDT Joe Biden tried to repair his personal and political relationship with Emmanuel Macron by acknowledging that the announcement of a security and technology pact that blindsided France was a 'clumsy' episode handled with a lack of grace. The US president and his French counterpart met at France's Vatican embassy in Rome on Friday, before the G20 leaders' summit this weekend, for their first in-person discussion since Macron was left feeling betrayed and humiliated by September's security deal Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis urges radical response to climate crisis at Cop26 – video Posted: 29 Oct 2021 06:29 AM PDT Pope Francis has urged world leaders to offer 'concrete hope' to future generations. In a special message for BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow next week, the pontiff said climate change and Covid-19 had 'raised numerous doubts and concerns about ... the way we organise our societies'. These global crises could only be overcome through 'a renewed sense of shared responsibility for our world', he added Continue reading... |
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