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- Exploding drone assassination attempt on Iraqi PM fails
- On the frozen frontiers of Europe with the migrants caught in a lethal game
- At least 19 killed as truck smashes into cars at toll booth in Mexico
- Wooden bird bought for £75 revealed to be Anne Boleyn’s – and is now worth £200,000
- Covid live news: ‘Get booster to save Christmas,’ UK health secretary urges; sharp rise in German infections
- Counter climate summit kicks off as activists lament Cop26 inaction
- UK stop-and-search data ‘withheld to hide rise in discrimination’
- New species of rare tadpole-carrying frog discovered in northern NSW
- Elon Musk asks Twitter followers if he should sell 10% of Tesla stock
- Relief and reunions in sight as US finally lifts Covid travel restrictions
- No more birthday candles, no more cities: experts on their worst pandemic predictions
- Health care company ends relationship with Packers star Aaron Rodgers
- ‘It feels almost naughty to leave’: for returned Australians, open borders bring new dilemmas
- I sold my eggs for an Ivy League education – but was it worth it?
- The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do?
- Katherine Ryan: ‘I thought plastic surgery was aspirational’
- Return of the sleazy party: the Conservatives and the Owen Paterson affair
- What do I say to my estranged daughter after years apart? | Ask Philippa
- In Trumpland parallel reality, election was stolen and racism was long ago
- Both/And review: Huma Abedin on Clinton, Weiner and a political life
- Hunting, shooting and taxing: call for grouse estates to pay green levy
- Museum celebrates Barcelona’s disappearing Gypsy heritage
- Drone footage shows aftermath of fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone – video
- Far-right figures in Charlottesville court over deadly violence of 2017
- From the archive: looking back at the tragedies of the Kennedys, 1974
- Cost of Australia holding each refugee on Nauru balloons to $4.3m a year
- Australia news live updates: NSW restrictions ease further tomorrow; Melbourne’s $44m package; Labor accuses Morrison of ‘impacting national security’
- Biden hails ‘monumental step forward’ as Democrats pass infrastructure bill – video
- Marília Mendonça: remembering her life and career – video obituary
- Astroworld: police describe events at fatal festival concert – video
| Exploding drone assassination attempt on Iraqi PM fails Posted: 06 Nov 2021 05:55 PM PDT Mustafa al-Kadhimi was unhurt when drone targeted his residence inside the fortified Green Zone, says government An exploding drone aimed at the Iraqi prime minister's house has failed to kill him, the government has said. Mustafa al-Kadhimi was reported by the government to be unharmed. In a statement released early on Sunday, the government said the drone tried to hit al-Kadhimi's home in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government offices. Residents of Baghdad heard an explosion followed by gunfire in the area. Continue reading... |
| On the frozen frontiers of Europe with the migrants caught in a lethal game Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:30 AM PDT Asylum seekers are pawns in a conflict between Poland and Belarus On the outskirts of the Białowieża forest – which bestrides the border between south-east Poland and Belarus – a group of seven Iraqi Kurds make their weary way towards the Polish hamlet of Grodzisk. The latest miles of their journey have been from Belarus – crossing back and forth twice, deported after their first and second attempts. Now a third time: through sub-zero temperatures, across the primeval forest's marshy terrain. Among them are two children: an eight-month-old girl and a two-year-old boy. When we came upon them, they were afraid to get up off the ground and begged us not to call the police, whispering: "They'll kill us." Continue reading... |
| At least 19 killed as truck smashes into cars at toll booth in Mexico Posted: 06 Nov 2021 08:52 PM PDT The crash sparked an inferno that also injured at least three people on the highway between Mexico City and Puebla state A transport truck has smashed into a toll booth and six other vehicles on a highway in central Mexico, leaving at least 19 people dead and three injured, authorities said. The brakes on the truck apparently failed before it crashed into the toll booth and then the vehicles on Saturday, igniting a large fire on the highway connecting Mexico City with Puebla state. Continue reading... |
| Wooden bird bought for £75 revealed to be Anne Boleyn’s – and is now worth £200,000 Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:30 AM PDT The carved falcon belonging to the ill-fated queen is being loaned back to Hampton Court Palace It was catalogued as an "antique carved wooden bird" when it was auctioned for £75 in 2019. Now it has been identified as Anne Boleyn's heraldic emblem, the 16th-century royal falcon that probably adorned her private apartments at Hampton Court Palace – only to be removed after Henry VIII ordered her execution and the eradication of all traces of her. Its true worth is believed to be about £200,000. The exquisite and richly decorated oak carving is in such extraordinary condition that it even bears its original gilding and colour scheme. In 1536, barely three years after it was made, Boleyn was beheaded on bogus adultery charges – just because she could not give Henry a male heir, only a daughter, the future Elizabeth I. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:19 AM PST Three million more in England to be invited to get booster next week; Germany reports 23,543 new cases reported in past 24 hours
The chief executive of NHS Providers has described how he believes the Covid pandemic will soon be considered endemic and "draconian" lockdowns should be avoided. Chris Hopson told Times Radio: I think all of us in the NHS recognise that we are now moving from a situation of a pandemic towards an endemic where we need to live with Covid. Everybody in the NHS absolutely recognises that it's our job to cope as best we can with Covid pressures, without resorting to the very draconian lockdowns that we've had to go through before. Continue reading... |
| Counter climate summit kicks off as activists lament Cop26 inaction Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT Coalition aims to give voice to ideas and solutions it believes are largely absent from the Cop talks A counter climate summit kicks off in Glasgow on Sunday amid mounting criticism from activists about greenwashed solutions and stalled action from corporations and rich nations inside Cop26. The People's Summit for Climate Justice will bring together movements and communities from across the world to amplify voices, ideas and solutions it believes are largely absent from Cop – including the global green new deal, polluters' liability, indigenous ecological knowledge and the gulf between net zero and real zero emissions. Continue reading... |
| UK stop-and-search data ‘withheld to hide rise in discrimination’ Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:15 AM PDT Figures delayed as police and borders bills pass through parliament The Home Office has failed to release its annual stop-and-search data, prompting concern that the figures will reveal a further increase to disproportionate targeting of black people. At the same time, the department is refusing to publish the results of its own public consultation into its heavily criticised "anti-refugee" legislation. Continue reading... |
| New species of rare tadpole-carrying frog discovered in northern NSW Posted: 06 Nov 2021 06:25 PM PDT Assa wollumbin found in Wollumbin national park and will likely be listed as critically endangered A new frog species, one of only two in Australia known to carry its tadpoles on its body, has been discovered in the Gondwana rainforests world heritage area in northern New South Wales. The tiny frog measures 16mm and is found on one mountain in the Wollumbin national park. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk asks Twitter followers if he should sell 10% of Tesla stock Posted: 06 Nov 2021 02:38 PM PDT
Elon Musk on Saturday asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock. "Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock," Musk wrote in a tweet referring to a "billionaires' tax" proposed by Democrats in the US Senate. Continue reading... |
| Relief and reunions in sight as US finally lifts Covid travel restrictions Posted: 06 Nov 2021 07:00 AM PDT Curbs on vaccinated visitors from 33 countries to go on Monday – for many separated loved ones it's not a moment too soon On 8 November, the US will ease restrictions that effectively halted tourism and non-essential travel from 33 countries, including the UK, most of Europe and China. The restrictions have separated families and loved ones, with thousands missing out on birthdays, holidays – and in the case of the British tennis star Emma Raducanu's parents – a US Open final. Now all visitors with a WHO-approved vaccination (which includes AstraZeneca) will be allowed to visit the US. Visitors with passports from any country where fewer than 10% of the country's population has been vaccinated will also be allowed. Continue reading... |
| No more birthday candles, no more cities: experts on their worst pandemic predictions Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT Hugs and handshakes have survived the pandemic. Not so much shared lipsticks and formal business attire The coronavirus pandemic has proved an experiment in educated guesses. Experts in nearly every field, from public health and real estate to economics and labor, have offered predictions about how the virus would affect the world, well-meaning prophecies that were all but assured to transpire. The first, in April 2020 came from Dr Anthony Fauci, the United States' leading infectious disease expert, when he forecast the end of handshakes: "I don't think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you." Physical greetings were only the beginning. As the pandemic wore on, experts predicted the end of hugs, offices, cities, office wear, in-store cosmetic samples, co-working, ball pits, blowing out the candles on a birthday cake. While some conjectures have come to pass – Covid-19 would be a years-long battle and not a two-weeks-to-flatten-the-curve speed bump in the annals of human history – but others (see: the downfall of handshakes) have shown otherwise. Continue reading... |
| Health care company ends relationship with Packers star Aaron Rodgers Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:01 PM PDT
A Wisconsin health care organization has ended a nine-year partnership with Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback detailed his reasoning for avoiding the three Covid-19 vaccinations endorsed by the NFL and criticized the "woke mob" he alleged is out to "cancel" him. A statement posted on Twitter by Prevea Health said the company and Rodgers mutually agreed to end their partnership, effective Saturday. Prevea Health and Rodgers had been partners since 2012. Continue reading... |
| ‘It feels almost naughty to leave’: for returned Australians, open borders bring new dilemmas Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:00 PM PDT The resumption of international travel pits new lives against old dreams for Australians who returned from overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic To live and work overseas is a rite of passage for many Australians. Life abroad, however, took on a new sense of fragility with the rise of Covid-19. More than a million Australian citizens were forced to choose between riding out the pandemic in a foreign country, or returning to the relative safety of Australia. Since March 2020, it is estimated about half of those living abroad chose to come back, while tens of thousands wished to return but were unable to. Continue reading... |
| I sold my eggs for an Ivy League education – but was it worth it? Posted: 06 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PDT An increasing number of women are selling their eggs for as much as $20,000 a cycle to cover essential costs My eyes flutter open. I'm surrounded by four nurses holding me upside down. They shake me back and forth, urging the blood back to my head. As I regain consciousness I wonder: is this worth it? That "it" is the $10,000 question. Seven months ago, I received my acceptance to Columbia University's School of Journalism. I was absolutely stunned to be admitted, but even more shocked by the $116,000 price tag – and that was just for tuition. The school, whose education is widely considered the golden standard in journalism, would provide me with unparalleled access, in an industry I currently felt immobile in. Continue reading... |
| The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do? Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT Tech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health – with potential consequences for privacy and healthcare We all fear our smartphones spy on us, and I'm subject to a new type of surveillance. An app called TapCounter records each time I touch my phone's screen. My swipes and jabs are averaging about 1,000 a day, though I notice that's falling as I steer shy of social media to meet my deadline. The European company behind it, QuantActions, promises that through capturing and analysing the data it will be able to "detect important indicators related to mental/neurological health". Arko Ghosh is the company's cofounder and a neuroscientist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. "Tappigraphy patterns" – the time series of my touches – can, he says, confidently be used not only to infer slumber habits (tapping in the wee hours means you are not sleeping) but also mental performance level (the small intervals in a series of key-presses represent a proxy for reaction time), and he has published work to support it. Continue reading... |
| Katherine Ryan: ‘I thought plastic surgery was aspirational’ Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT The comedian will have you in stitches, but she can also leave you speechless. Katherine Ryan talks to Eva Wiseman about breast implants and potty training – and the jokes even she wouldn't risk today Katherine Ryan has named her autobiography The Audacity, a word (she explains) most commonly used to indicate disapproval. "Like, 'HOW DARE she carry herself with that wicked abundance of self-belief? How AUDACIOUS!'" It is the perfect title. The absolute perfect title for a memoir by a comedian equal parts louche and lurid, famous for her uncompromising attitude, convincing invulnerability and refusal to self-deprecate. Her cover photo, shot when she was nine months pregnant, sees Ryan lucent and blonde in an ice-blue gown trimmed with marabou feathers, holding aloft in her left hand her favourite of her three tiny dogs. It is these small dogs that greet me at her front door, and an entirely other lady. Instead of TV's Katherine Ryan, be-lashed and dazzling, a happy cross between Christine Baranski and Taylor Swift, I'm welcomed by real-life Ryan, makeup-less in leggings, immediately offering me a plate of halloumi salad and a selection of milks for my tea. A breast pump sits on the counter beside a bag of golden hair extensions and outside, by the dainty heated swimming pool, her 12-week-old baby Fred sleeps gently in his pram. The atmosphere is one of Californian tranquillity in the London suburbs, only punctured slightly by her description of a man lowering his anus on to a bed post. Continue reading... |
| Return of the sleazy party: the Conservatives and the Owen Paterson affair Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT As No 10 ham-fistedly let the scandal spread, was this about saving an old Brexit ally or protecting the PM himself? A Conservative MP who entered parliament in 2010 began to receive what he described as a series of "unusually persistent" texts from his Tory whip last week. The member in question had been part of the Conservative intake that followed the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009. The arrival of this new group at Westminster – many of them with impressive previous careers outside politics – was supposed to demonstrate, as David Cameron said at the time, that his party was reforming its ways, ridding itself of sleaze. Continue reading... |
| What do I say to my estranged daughter after years apart? | Ask Philippa Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Try to imagine events through her eyes. If you hold on to your position, believing her to be selfish, nothing will change The question My youngest daughter has ignored me since I divorced her mother some years ago. She didn't even visit when I suffered from cancer and had chemotherapy. When she got married, my partner and I were not allowed to attend. I've never met her child, yet her husband's father, who is in the same situation as me, widowed with a new partner, is allowed to visit and see my grandchild. I also have a married son with children and they all are fine with me and my partner. Now, before my elderly mother's birthday, she says I can visit her so that the party won't be the first time we meet again. I can't get over the fact that she has been so selfish and ignored me for years, even when I was so ill with cancer. I'm livid that I've been treated this way. I don't know what to say if I visit her. Continue reading... |
| In Trumpland parallel reality, election was stolen and racism was long ago Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Monroe county, Georgia, where Donald Trump won 74% of the vote, is home to views on everything from education to vaccines that are untethered from facts It's a gray afternoon, promising rain and with temperatures in the 50s, people have taken their jackets out of the closet. The streets of downtown Monroe, Georgia, a town of about 14,000 residents 45 miles due east of Atlanta, are quiet for a Saturday. It's the county seat of Walton county and a monument honoring Confederate veterans stands tall outside the county courthouse. The soldier carved from granite looks across Broad Street to the town's police station and is flanked to the south by the Walton Tribune's office and a district office for representative Jody Hice. Continue reading... |
| Both/And review: Huma Abedin on Clinton, Weiner and a political life Posted: 07 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT The close aide to Hillary Clinton has written a tale spliced with pain but blind to her boss's weak spots In 2015, Hillary Clinton's brains trust deliberately elevated the stature of the "extreme" Republican contenders, the "pied pipers", Donald Trump included. On election night in 2016, Clintonworld stared into the abyss. "It was sheer disbelief," Huma Abedin writes in her new memoir. "More like shock." Continue reading... |
| Hunting, shooting and taxing: call for grouse estates to pay green levy Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:45 PM PDT Move would encourage landowners to repair peatlands, restore woods and cut carbon emissions, says conservation group Taxing deer and grouse estates for failing to ensure their land properly locks up carbon dioxide could play a crucial role in fighting the climate crisis, a leading conservation group has said. The John Muir Trust, a charity set up to protect wild places in Britain, says such a plan could help to absorb millions of tonnes of carbon every year, and help the UK – in particular Scotland – achieve its goal of reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible. Continue reading... |
| Museum celebrates Barcelona’s disappearing Gypsy heritage Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PST Artefacts reflect joys and sorrows of a community persecuted in Spain since Catholic reconquest in 1492 It doesn't look like a place of legend, but the narrow Carrer de la Cera is the birthplace of la rumba catalana, the infectiously rhythmic stepchild of flamenco created by Barcelona's Gypsy community in the 1950s and popular today throughout the world. Now the city's gitanos have their own museum, a tiny, vibrant space on the Carrer de la Cera, which lies in the multicultural el Raval neighbourhood. The museum will open its doors on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Drone footage shows aftermath of fuel tanker blast in Sierra Leone – video Posted: 06 Nov 2021 06:36 AM PDT At least 92 people were killed and dozens more injured in the capital, Freetown, when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, according to local authorities Continue reading... |
| Far-right figures in Charlottesville court over deadly violence of 2017 Posted: 07 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT More than a dozen accused of civil rights violations related to racist mayhem in trial that has driven judge to exasperation Two blocks from the oak and boxwood trees slowly turning amber in the downtown Charlottesville park that saw one the most violent political confrontations of the Trump era is the tightly-secured federal courtroom where the origins of the racist mayhem that struck over that mid-August weekend in 2017 are now being forensically examined. Close to four years after the event, a sprawling civil lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to commit racially motivated violence against nine residents of Charlottesville during the white-supremacist Unite the Right march and rally is drawing together some of the most notorious figures of America's alt-right movement. Continue reading... |
| From the archive: looking back at the tragedies of the Kennedys, 1974 Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy reflects movingly on the death of Jack and other sad events The Observer Magazine of 10 March 1974 featured a very moving account by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of some of the tragedies that befell the Kennedys, serialised from her memoir Times to Remember. After her husband Joe's debilitating stroke, she recalled a lunch between him and Herbert Hoover – 'Joe, who cannot speak, and Mr Hoover, who cannot hear' – in New York, 1962. 'And so poignant, inexpressibly sad, when each of them from time to time through the meal wept silently.' Continue reading... |
| Cost of Australia holding each refugee on Nauru balloons to $4.3m a year Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Taxpayer cost of offshore processing regime revealed as government remains silent on where $400m went The cost to Australian taxpayers to hold a single refugee on Nauru has escalated tenfold to more than $350,000 every month – or $4.3m a year – as the government refuses to reveal where nearly $400m spent on offshore processing on the island has gone. Australia currently pays about $40m a month to run its offshore processing regime on Nauru, an amount almost identical to 2016 when there were nearly 10 times as many people held on the island. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:02 PM PDT NSW restrictions to ease further from tomorrow for fully vaccinated; greater Darwin lockout extended, Katherine to switch to lockout; Victorian government announces $44m package for Melbourne CBD; Labor says Morrison is 'impacting national security' in submarine row with France; NSW woman wins $1m vaccination campaign. Follow updates live
Bowen is asked about the use of carbon credits to meet targets. Bowen says they will play a role, but it cannot be an excuse to avoid real action. Of course there will continue to be some emissions with the best will in the world and carbon credits can play a role, properly and carefully designed with proper verification and it's an economic opportunity for Australia again with the right policy settings which this government is simply going to fail to deliver. We said we'll have more to say post Glasgow. We've now got the Government's alleged plan, in inverted commas. We don't have their modelling. You don't release a budget reply until you see the budget. ...We're waiting on more detail from the modelling. The government puts too much store in carbon capture and storage. They use it as an excuse to avoid reducing emissions in other ways. If it can play a role practically – and not just capture and storage, but capture and use – a wonderful entrepreneur won a prize in Glasgow for carbon capture and use. Continue reading... |
| Biden hails ‘monumental step forward’ as Democrats pass infrastructure bill – video Posted: 06 Nov 2021 09:24 AM PDT Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress's passage of his $1tn infrastructure package as a 'monumental step forward for the nation' after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to finally seal the deal. His reference to infrastructure week was a jab at his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose White House declared several times that 'infrastructure week' had arrived, only for nothing to happen Continue reading... |
| Marília Mendonça: remembering her life and career – video obituary Posted: 06 Nov 2021 08:41 AM PDT Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil's biggest singers and a Latin Grammy winner, has been killed in a plane crash on her way to a concert. Her press office said their plane crashed between Mendonça's home town of Goiânia and Caratinga, a small city 220 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. The aircraft was around seven miles from Caratinga, her destination for that evening's gig. Continue reading... |
| Astroworld: police describe events at fatal festival concert – video Posted: 06 Nov 2021 05:53 AM PDT At least eight people died and numerous others were injured in what officials on Saturday described as a surge of the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston while rapper Travis Scott was performing. Officials declared a 'mass casualty incident' just after 9pm on Friday during the festival where an estimated 50,000 people were in attendance, the Houston fire chief, Samuel Peña, told reporters at a news conference Continue reading... |
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