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- ‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit
- Nadhim Zahawi admits errors made over Owen Paterson affair
- Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is ‘close to death’, family say
- Yorkshire CCC chairman resigns as Rafiq racism case fallout deepens
- Greece accused of ‘biggest pushback in years’ of stricken refugee ship
- Berlin honours couple who helped Jewish families flee Nazi Germany
- Migrant dies attempting Channel crossing to reach UK
- Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson vows to stop using real guns on film sets after Baldwin shooting
- UN Palestine aid agency is ‘close to collapse’ after funding cuts
- Cleo Smith’s alleged abductor Terence Darrell Kelly moved to maximum-security prison
- Warning over ‘extremely low’ wine production in Europe due to bad weather
- Covid live: Germany sets second consecutive daily record for new cases; US vaccine manufacturer loses contract
- Welsh study shows impact of Covid on 10- and 11-year-olds
- India celebrates Diwali under shadow of Covid and air pollution
- Ventilate your home to stop Covid spread, UK government says
- Speculation nation: Can Xi Jinping’s property tax deflate China’s housing bubble?
- Andrew Garfield: ‘I don’t think I present as goody-goody’
- Bothy culture: a tour of the Highlands’ sustainable sanctuaries
- ‘We feel pride’: old Western gets new life dubbed in Navajo language
- Will the UK trigger article 16 – and what will happen if it does?
- You be the judge: is my wife being too picky with our baby’s name?
- ‘A way to deal with emotion’: how teaching art can help prisoners
- Gunmen ambush and kill 69 in Niger’s troubled borderlands
- ‘I don’t have a choice’: childcare cost preventing US women from returning to work
- Tourists in Mexico shelter after armed gang storms Cancún beach – video
- ‘You may bring shame to your family’: Australia launches campaign to stop seasonal farm workers absconding
- ‘It is what girls need’: the FGM activist hoping to be the Gambia’s president
- The 1918 influenza tore through Māori communities. Anti-vaxxers risk this again | Morgan Godfery
- New Zealand couple dig up 'Doug', potentially the world's heaviest potato – video
- Europe ‘at the epicentre’ of Covid pandemic again, warns WHO – video
| ‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit Posted: 04 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030, while poorest 50% will release one tonne of CO2 a year The carbon dioxide emissions of the richest 1% of humanity are on track to be 30 times greater than what is compatible with keeping global heating below 1.5C, new research warns, as scientists urge governments to "constrain luxury carbon consumption" of private jets, megayachts and space travel. In keeping with the Paris climate goals, every person on Earth needs to reduce their CO2 emissions to an average of 2.3 tonnes by 2030, about half the average of today. Continue reading... |
| Nadhim Zahawi admits errors made over Owen Paterson affair Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:44 AM PDT But education minister denies debacle calls into question Boris Johnson's judgment The education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, has accepted the government committed errors in its attempt to save the former minister Owen Paterson from suspension, but denied the debacle called into question the prime minister's judgment. In a broadcast round, Zahawi accepted it was a "mistake" to try to link overhauling the standards system that had found Paterson guilty of paid advocacy, with a parliamentary attempt to preventing him facing the punishment of suspension. Continue reading... |
| Chinese journalist jailed over Covid reporting is ‘close to death’, family say Posted: 04 Nov 2021 10:16 PM PDT Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreak A citizen journalist jailed for her coverage of China's initial response to Covid in Wuhan is close to death after going on hunger strike, her family said, prompting renewed calls from rights groups for her immediate release. Zhang Zhan, 38, a former lawyer, travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 to report on the chaos at the pandemic's centre, questioning authorities' handling of the outbreak in her smartphone videos. Continue reading... |
| Yorkshire CCC chairman resigns as Rafiq racism case fallout deepens Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:12 AM PDT
The chairman of Yorkshire, Roger Hutton, has quit and "apologised unreservedly" over the club's handling of Azeem Rafiq's racism allegations. "I would like to take this opportunity to apologise unreservedly to Azeem," Hutton said. "I am sorry that we could not persuade executive members of the board to recognise the gravity of the situation and show care and contrition. Continue reading... |
| Greece accused of ‘biggest pushback in years’ of stricken refugee ship Posted: 04 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Cargo ship, carrying 382 migrants, was towed across the seas for four days before Athens was forced into a rescue after mayday call It was hailed as the biggest search-and-rescue operation in the eastern Mediterranean for a decade. But the bid to save hundreds of refugees on a stricken ship in the Aegean Sea has led to allegations that the operation bore all the hallmarks of an illegal pushback before the Greek coastguard was forced to change tactics. Only days after 382 asylum seekers disembarked on the island of Kos, criticism has mounted over their "unnecessarily prolonged" ordeal at sea. Continue reading... |
| Berlin honours couple who helped Jewish families flee Nazi Germany Posted: 04 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PDT Plaque for Malwine and Max Schindler is installed at Pariser Strasse 54 outside couple's former Berlin home A Berlin couple who dedicated themselves to spiriting Jewish families and political dissidents out of Nazi Germany via a clandestine network disguised as an English-language tutoring service have been honoured in the German capital for the first time since their story fell into obscurity half a century ago. A commemorative plaque was installed on Thursday by Berlin authorities at Pariser Strasse 54 in the Wilmersdorf district, outside the former home of Max and Malwine Schindler. Their legacy was rediscovered two years ago through a cache of letters and photographs found in a garden shed in Australia. Continue reading... |
| Migrant dies attempting Channel crossing to reach UK Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:26 AM PDT French authorities say person was found dead and two others treated for hypothermia on beach near Calais A migrant has died after attempting to cross the Channel to get to the UK, French authorities have confirmed. The Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea said one person was found dead on the beach of Wissant, near Calais, on Thursday morning after the discovery of a boat filled with water. Continue reading... |
| Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson vows to stop using real guns on film sets after Baldwin shooting Posted: 04 Nov 2021 06:15 PM PDT Actor bans real guns in movies made by his company after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Hollywood action star Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock, has promised to not use real guns in his movies anymore after a fatal shooting incident involving actor Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico last month. Johnson, who was in Los Angeles attending the world premiere of his new Netflix blockbuster, Red Notice, with co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, said on Wednesday films made by his company, Seven Buck Productions, would "not use real guns ever again". Continue reading... |
| UN Palestine aid agency is ‘close to collapse’ after funding cuts Posted: 04 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PDT UK has cut relief grant for Palestinians by more than 50% from £42.5m in 2020 to £20.8m in 2021 Cuts to the budget of the UN's relief agency for Palestinians – including a halving of the UK grant – means the agency is close to collapse, the head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, has said. The UK has cut its core grant by more than 50% from £42.5m in 2020 to £20.8m in 2021. Lazzarini, the commissioner general of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which serves Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza but also in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, said the agency was in an existential crisis due to a $100m (£74m) shortfall this year, but also because of a method of long-term funding that has proved unsustainable. Continue reading... |
| Cleo Smith’s alleged abductor Terence Darrell Kelly moved to maximum-security prison Posted: 04 Nov 2021 09:24 PM PDT Kelly, 36, transferred from Carnarvon to Perth in Western Australia after being charged with various offences including one count of taking a child under 16 The man charged with abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith will be transferred from Carnarvon to a maximum-security prison in Perth. Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, appeared briefly before a magistrate in Carnarvon on Thursday charged with various offences related to the abduction of Cleo, including one count of forcibly taking a child under 16. Continue reading... |
| Warning over ‘extremely low’ wine production in Europe due to bad weather Posted: 04 Nov 2021 06:33 PM PDT Industry body head warns there is 'no vaccine' against climate change and winemakers must adapt with 'urgent necessity' World wine production is expected to fall to one of its lowest levels on record after harsh weather battered vineyards in Europe's major wine-producing regions. The conditions "severely impacted" production in Italy, Spain and France, resulting in "extremely low" production volumes, an international wine body has said. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:43 AM PDT Unvaccinated Germans told they face 'very high' risk of infection; Maryland-based vaccine manufacturer had contaminated 15m doses
Germany recorded its second consecutive daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday as infections pick up across Europe, and its disease control center said unvaccinated people now face a "very high" risk of infection. The country saw 37,120 reported new infections over the past 24 hours, according to the disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute. That compared with Thursday's figure of 33,949 — which in turn topped the previous record of 33,777 set on Dec. 18 last year. |
| Welsh study shows impact of Covid on 10- and 11-year-olds Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Children ate less healthily, took less exercise and had more emotional problems, say researchers Children in the UK ate fewer vegetables, took less exercise and experienced worsening emotional difficulties following the Covid outbreak, according to a research study. A biennial survey conducted by investigators at Cardiff University found that primary school-age children reported a sharp increase in "elevated or clinically significant emotional difficulties" in early 2021, compared with the same survey conducted in 2019. Continue reading... |
| India celebrates Diwali under shadow of Covid and air pollution Posted: 04 Nov 2021 09:59 AM PDT Celebrations back in full swing for first time since pandemic began but many fear festival will bring fresh surge It is the festival that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, and this year Diwali held a special significance for India as it got back into full swing for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. Oil lamps lit up windows, shops, homes and monuments across the capital, Delhi, and devotees gathered at temples and shrines, as excitement over the festival, severely dampened last year by Covid-19, gripped the country once more. Continue reading... |
| Ventilate your home to stop Covid spread, UK government says Posted: 04 Nov 2021 05:01 PM PDT UK-wide campaign will ask people to open their windows for 10 minutes every hour when they are socialising People are being urged to open their windows for 10 minutes every hour when they are socialising at home in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19 as winter approaches. Doctors and scientists are backing a government-funded campaign across all media platforms to encourage people to ventilate their home to help disperse virus particles. Continue reading... |
| Speculation nation: Can Xi Jinping’s property tax deflate China’s housing bubble? Posted: 04 Nov 2021 04:00 PM PDT Analysis: President faces an uphill battle to undo a system that has led to a bloated property sector Xi Jinping's to-do list has seen a lot of ticks in recent months: more flights into Taiwan's defence zone; suppressing dissenting voices in Hong Kong; clipping the wings of tech barons; outlawing the out-of-school tutoring industry. The list goes on. However, one key initiative – introducing a local property tax – has attracted fewer headlines but is apparently so controversial within China's ruling Communist party that even Xi is still only able to deal in trial schemes rather than wholesale change. Continue reading... |
| Andrew Garfield: ‘I don’t think I present as goody-goody’ Posted: 04 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT With his films Tick, Tick ... Boom! and The Eyes of Tammy Faye tipped for Oscars success, he discusses his inner malevolence, his mother's death – and his 'heartbreaking' time as Spider-Man Andrew Garfield is smiling beatifically and clasping his hands together as if in prayer. The pose suits an actor who has cornered the market in the holy and heroic, from a Jesuit priest in Silence to a Seventh-day Adventist saving lives on the battlefield in Hacksaw Ridge; from a man left paralysed by polio in Breathe to a credulous innocent who dies surrendering his organs in Never Let Me Go. He is a remarkable actor, but watch too many of his movies back to back and you are liable to hear celestial trumpets. His prayer-like gesture of gratitude comes in response to my promise not to ask whether he and his fellow former web-slinger Tobey Maguire will be appearing in the new Spider-Man: No Way Home. "I appreciate that," says the 38-year-old, speaking over Zoom from Calgary, where he is shooting the murder-and-Mormons series Under the Banner of Heaven. There seems no point posing the Spidey question when he has greeted each identical inquiry this year with a display of shrugging bafflement that may or may not be genuine. (Let's see when the movie opens next month.) Continue reading... |
| Bothy culture: a tour of the Highlands’ sustainable sanctuaries Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Scotland's newly reopened mountain bothies are shining examples of sustainable tourism. Our photographer takes us on a guided tour The Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) charity has reopened its 105 mountain huts, shelters and howffs after more than a year of closure due to Covid. The overwhelming majority of these are in Scotland and they reopened in August for what the MBA described as "responsible use", pointing out that Covid has not gone away. The bothies are all sorts of shapes and sizes in varied locations – many are extremely remote and operated with the agreement of owners and estates and maintained by MBA volunteers since the late 60s and early 70s. Above,Allt nam Fang, approaching Meanach Bothy; right, Meanach Bothy, renovated in 1977, is approximately 1,000ft above sea level Continue reading... |
| ‘We feel pride’: old Western gets new life dubbed in Navajo language Posted: 04 Nov 2021 06:47 PM PDT Clint Eastwood's A Fistful of Dollars is the latest to be dubbed in the Indigenous language set to premiere on 16 November Manuelito Wheeler isn't sure exactly why Navajo elders admire Western films. It could be that decades ago, many of them were treated to the films in boarding schools off the reservation decades ago. Or, like his father, they told stories of growing up gathered around a television to watch gunslingers in a battle against good and evil on familiar-looking landscapes. Continue reading... |
| Will the UK trigger article 16 – and what will happen if it does? Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT How likely is it that Britain will trigger the Northern Ireland protocol clause, and could it lead to a trade war? Fears are growing that the UK will trigger article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol, potentially rupturing the already strained relations with the EU. If current talks with the EU collapse, it is expected just after Cop26 in seven days' time. On Wednesday Ireland's prime minister heightened concerns that this was now almost a racing certainty after his bluntest warning yet to the UK that such a move would be "reckless", "irresponsible" and have "far-reaching consequences". Continue reading... |
| You be the judge: is my wife being too picky with our baby’s name? Posted: 05 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT We air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict We had a shortlist of baby names, but my wife has thrown one of them out for no good reason Continue reading... |
| ‘A way to deal with emotion’: how teaching art can help prisoners Posted: 04 Nov 2021 11:24 PM PDT The Prison Arts Collective brings art, and renowned artists, to incarcerated people as a form of therapy and escape The American prison has a long cultural history, depicted in movies from The Shawshank Redemption to The Green Mile. They are generally portrayed as harsh, dehumanising places populated by hardened criminals and vicious guards. Who better, then, to demystify prisons and those who live in them than artists themselves? "We've had this glorified TV version of what a prison is in America and sure, it's not a cakewalk, but it's also humans in there – our fellow humans," says Brian Roettinger, a graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Continue reading... |
| Gunmen ambush and kill 69 in Niger’s troubled borderlands Posted: 04 Nov 2021 03:03 PM PDT Attack on mayor's delegation adds to 530 already killed by jihadist groups in southwest Niger this year Gunmen killed 69 people including a local mayor in a jihadist attack in a remote area of south-west Niger, the country's interior minister has confirmed, amid a wave of violence against civilians that has swept the country this year. A delegation led by the mayor of Banibangou was ambushed on Tuesday about 50 km (30 miles) from the town, near the border with Mali. The area is overrun by militants associated with a local affiliate of Islamic State that has killed hundreds of civilians in rural communities this year. Continue reading... |
| ‘I don’t have a choice’: childcare cost preventing US women from returning to work Posted: 05 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT The pandemic has worsened childcare issues in terms of their expense, the low pay for workers and lack of accessibility The high costs and lack of access to childcare is preventing many thousands of women from returning to the workforce in the United States despite a widespread labor shortage. Childcare systems in America were already facing significant problems in terms of their expense, the low pay for workers, and lack of accessibility for families before to the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened these issues as childcare centers were forced to shut down, and many closed permanently, have yet to reopen, or have lowered enrollment. Continue reading... |
| Tourists in Mexico shelter after armed gang storms Cancún beach – video Posted: 04 Nov 2021 07:12 PM PDT Staff and tourists near the Mexican resort city of Cancún have been sent rushing for shelter after a group of armed men entered the beach outside a luxury hotel and opened fire. Two men were killed on Thursday in what state officials described as a confrontation between drug dealers at the Hyatt Ziva in Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancún Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT Aggressive campaign comes as seasonal worker program hit with claims of 'inhumane conditions' for pickers The Australian government has launched an aggressive campaign to prevent Pacific Islander farm workers from fleeing their jobs as new figures reveal more than 1,000 seasonal pickers absconded in the past year. The campaign warns pickers they may "bring shame to their families" if they run away from their jobs and they risk having their visa cancelled. Continue reading... |
| ‘It is what girls need’: the FGM activist hoping to be the Gambia’s president Posted: 04 Nov 2021 03:30 AM PDT Despite inexperience and few allies, Jaha Dukureh is offering people change and a break with the past in December's election Jaha Dukureh was a young mother of three with little campaigning experience when she started a movement in the Gambia to end female genital mutilation, backed by the Guardian. In the seven years that followed she advised Barack Obama in the US, where she was then living, helped have FGM banned in her home country, was nominated for a Nobel peace prize and became a UN ambassador. Continue reading... |
| The 1918 influenza tore through Māori communities. Anti-vaxxers risk this again | Morgan Godfery Posted: 04 Nov 2021 12:00 PM PDT Some of New Zealand's anti-vaxxers say that the Covid vaccine is a form of 21st-century colonialism – it's not One thing that characterises the typical anti-vaxxer, other than being wrong, is their short attention span. In the space of a single conversation the enemy can range from 5G, the electromagnetic spectrum that can apparently spread biological matter as well as a phone signal, to Bill Gates, the Microsoft ("microchip") billionaire allegedly at the centre of a nexus to command and control the world populace. In New Zealand, anti-vaxxers take this shopping list of modern hazards and foreign enemies and add their own local products. In one conspiracy prime minister Jacinda Ardern is part of an international plot to microchip New Zealanders using the Pfizer vaccine as the vector. Her reward? The UN secretary generalship. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand couple dig up 'Doug', potentially the world's heaviest potato – video Posted: 04 Nov 2021 10:06 PM PDT A giant 7.9kg potato found in a New Zealand couple's overgrown garden may set a new world record for the heaviest of its kind ever to be discovered. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were weeding in their Hamilton garden when Colin hit the large tuber. The couple have grown fond of the potato, nicknaming it Doug and taking it for walks. The current Guinness world records entry for the heaviest potato is a 2011 specimen found in Britain, that weighed in at just under 5kg, with the Craig-Browns saying they are waiting to hear if Doug will be the new record holder Continue reading... |
| Europe ‘at the epicentre’ of Covid pandemic again, warns WHO – video Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:22 PM PDT WHO chiefs have warned Europe is 'at the epicentre' of the pandemic after uneven vaccine coverage and a relaxation of preventive measures across the 53 countries in the region. Hans Kluge of the World Health Organization has said cases are again at near-record levels and 500,000 more deaths forecast by February Continue reading... |
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