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- Smoke clouds Shanghai as chemical plant fire leaves at least one dead
- Wallaroos defeated by Canada in stormy Pacific Four finale
- Victorian Greens leader ousts party’s state convener over past comments about trans people
- Queensland cafe manager admits ‘little joke’ over Kardashian has turned into an ‘unbelievable mess’
- Wildcard Kyrgios cruises into Halle semis after blowing away Busta
- Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing
- Mystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academics
- Europe heatwave: France braces for record-breaking temperatures as Spain battles forest fires
- At least 18 dead and millions stranded as floods devastate India and Bangladesh
- Holiday homes are ‘hollowing out’ coastal areas, says MP
- Tens of thousands expected to march in London over cost of living crisis
- Ten-year fixed-rate UK mortgages ‘are now incredible value’
- Julian Assange’s extradition from UK to US approved by home secretary
| Smoke clouds Shanghai as chemical plant fire leaves at least one dead Posted: 17 Jun 2022 09:31 PM PDT Explosion heard 6km away before three blazes seen in separate buildings, with the fire expected to continue burning for some time At least one person was killed in a large fire at a Shanghai chemical plant that shot clouds of smoke across the city on Saturday, state media reported. The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co plant in outlying Jinshan district broke out around 4am but was brought under control later that morning, according to state news agency Xinhua. Continue reading... |
| Wallaroos defeated by Canada in stormy Pacific Four finale Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:25 PM PDT
Australia's womens rugby team, the Wallaroos, have been defeated 22-10 in a brave performance against world No 4 Canada in the wild weather of Whangarei, on New Zealand's North Island. The world No 8 ranked Wallaroos led the Pacific Four game early, after pushing the ball to the edges where winger Lori Cramer kicked ahead for halfback Layne Morgan to chase it down, snatch it up and win a penalty five metres out. A good leap at the line-out from lock Michaela Leonard secured possession for a fine forward drive for the line and hooker Ashley Marsters duly planted it over the stripe. Continue reading... |
| Victorian Greens leader ousts party’s state convener over past comments about trans people Posted: 17 Jun 2022 09:20 PM PDT Parliamentary leader Samantha Ratnam says she acted under party rules to overturn the recent election of Linda Gale The leader of the Victorian Greens has ousted the party's controversial state convener after successfully applying to have recent election results set aside. Linda Gale, a senior industrial officer at the National Tertiary Education Union, was elected last Saturday to fill a casual vacancy as state convener of the Victorian Greens, despite co-authoring a 2019 document that had been labelled "transphobic". Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Queensland cafe manager admits ‘little joke’ over Kardashian has turned into an ‘unbelievable mess’ Posted: 17 Jun 2022 08:29 PM PDT Matt Black says his claim the reality TV star and her boyfriend Pete Davidson had dined at restaurant had gotten twisted It was a story that sparked chaos and excitement for a small cafe in far north Queensland. On Thursday, in an interview with the ABC, the manager of a Cairns cafe claimed Kim Kardashian had joined her comedian boyfriend Pete Davidson for a meal the day before – in what appears to have been a hoax. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Wildcard Kyrgios cruises into Halle semis after blowing away Busta Posted: 17 Jun 2022 07:38 PM PDT
With no histrionics and no dramas, just pure, no-nonsense enjoyment, Nick Kyrgios has roared into the semi-finals of the Halle grass-court tournament. The Australian, so often sidetracked from his own brilliance by unnecessary distractions, was the model of businesslike concentration on Friday - with just the odd showman's trick chucked in - as he blew away Top 20 baseliner Pablo Carreno Busta 6-4 6-2. Continue reading... |
| Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing Posted: 17 Jun 2022 07:33 PM PDT Scholars respond to author's explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts
Literary academics have taken the Australian author John Hughes to task for apparently copying extracts from some classic texts including The Great Gatsby in parts of his new book, The Dogs. On Thursday Guardian Australia published a 1,700-word article by Hughes in which he gave his explanation for why some extracts from F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front had made their way into his novel. Guardian Australia has cross-referenced all the similarities between Hughes' work and sections from those classic texts and found some cases in which whole sentences were identical or where just one word had changed. Continue reading... |
| Mystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academics Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT Modern techniques to test traditional explanation that most bones from 1815 battle were ground into powder for fertiliser It was an epic battle that has been commemorated in words, poetry and even a legendary Abba song, but 207 years to the day after troops clashed at Waterloo, a gruesome question remains: what happened to the dead? While tens of thousands of men and horses died at the site in modern-day Belgium, few remains have been found, with amputated legs and a skeleton unearthed beneath a car park south of Brussels among the handful of discoveries. Continue reading... |
| Europe heatwave: France braces for record-breaking temperatures as Spain battles forest fires Posted: 17 Jun 2022 09:29 PM PDT Temperature could exceed 42C in parts of France as scientists warn heatwaves will hit earlier than usual due to climate change France, Spain and other western European nations braced for a sweltering weekend that is set to break records and sparked concern about forest fires and the effects of climate change. Temperatures already nudged over 40C (104F) in parts of France on Friday. Continue reading... |
| At least 18 dead and millions stranded as floods devastate India and Bangladesh Posted: 17 Jun 2022 10:56 PM PDT Lightning kills nine and 2 million homes submerged while armed forces asked to help amid continuing storms At least 18 people died as floods cut a swatch across north-eastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater, authorities said on Saturday. In India's Assam state, at least nine people died in the floods and 2 million others saw their homes submerged in flood waters, according to the state disaster management agency. Continue reading... |
| Holiday homes are ‘hollowing out’ coastal areas, says MP Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT Labour MP Luke Pollard says Covid-19 has 'turbo-charged' housing crisis in rural and coastal towns Coastal communities are being "hollowed out irretrievably" by a surge in holiday homes, an MP has warned, as new figures showed more than 17,000 properties in England have been "flipped" into short-term lets since Covid-19. The poll came as MPs and campaign groups warned that vital public services – including schools, trains and buses – were in danger of vanishing from tourist hotspots due to a shortage of affordable homes. Continue reading... |
| Tens of thousands expected to march in London over cost of living crisis Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT Demonstration organised by TUC will call on government to make 'better deal' for people struggling to cope with soaring inflation Tens of thousands of people are due to march in London on Saturday in protest over the government's handling of the cost of living crisis. Trade union leaders will join frontline workers and community organisations in calling for a "better deal" for those struggling to cope with soaring inflation. Continue reading... |
| Ten-year fixed-rate UK mortgages ‘are now incredible value’ Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT As rates on shorter-term loans increase, longer-term deals look more attractive Locking into a 10-year fixed-rate mortgage used to come at a considerable cost but as interest rates on shorter-term home loans have edged up, the price of a decade's worth of certainty has fallen. This week the best two-year fixed-rate mortgages had a rate of 2.54% for those borrowing 60% of the property's value, while five-year deals were at 2.64% and the best 10-year rate was 2.73%. Continue reading... |
| Julian Assange’s extradition from UK to US approved by home secretary Posted: 17 Jun 2022 11:32 AM PDT Appeal likely after Priti Patel gives green light to extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder Priti Patel has approved the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US, a decision the organisation immediately said it would appeal against in the high court. The case passed to the British home secretary last month after the UK supreme court ruled that there were no legal questions over assurances given by US authorities on Assange's likely treatment. Continue reading... |
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