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- SeaWorld loses appeal against killer-whale occupational safety ruling
- Meet Super Sisi, Egypt's new game hero
- North Korea welcomes foreigners to annual marathon for first time
- As deportations rise under Obama, join us to discuss the risks immigrants face
- Former Italian MP denies fleeing country to avoid arrest
- Indian elections: 10 things we have learned so far
- Sriracha hot sauce producer declared a public nuisance in California city - video
- India elections: subtle foreign policy could take tougher line under Modi
- Oscar Pistorius trial: Gerrie Nel accuses runner of 'tailoring his evidence' - video
- Oscar Pistorius flounders under grilling on 'improbable' testimony
- Ukrainian PM says government is ready for dialogue with eastern regions - video
- Mexican drug lord's insider notes may set him free after 10 years
- CIA and White House under pressure after Senate torture report leaks
- Pope Francis asks for forgiveness from those sexually abused by priests
- Stuck in Tijuana hoping for a miracle: the deportees with nowhere to go
- William and Kate beguile New Zealand's republicans into amnesia
- Spanish ambassador summoned over incursions into Gibraltar waters
- Former Italian MP flees Italy before court rules on his mafia conviction
- Ukraine PM offers more power to eastern regions to quell crisis
- Baby who survived Kenya church terror attack leaves hospital
- Burma's newspapers run black front pages in protest at journalist arrests
- China upholds four-year sentence of activist Xu Zhiyong
- Los Angeles police mistakenly kill hostage fleeing from attacker
- Oklahoma girl sells diamond she found in Arkansas park for $20,000
- Majority of migrants deported from US young Mexican men, figures show
| SeaWorld loses appeal against killer-whale occupational safety ruling Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:38 AM PDT Judges: company exposed trainers to 'recognised hazards' A US appeals court on Friday upheld a federal occupational safety agency's finding against SeaWorld Entertainment Inc, following the workplace death of one of its killer whale trainers. The ruling by the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit could have a major impact on how SeaWorld presents its shows, because it would require increased separation of humans and killer whales. Continue reading...      |
| Meet Super Sisi, Egypt's new game hero Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:21 AM PDT Animated game version joins tat such as Sisi underpants and Sisi branded fast-food in milking general's cult-like status On Egyptian streets Abdel Fatah al-Sisi the top general who ousted ex-president Mohamed Morsi last summer reached superhuman status months ago. Now the digital world has caught up: developers have released a Sisi-themed arcade-style game for Android users, billing the strongman as an Egyptian superhero. Super Sisi sees a two-dimensional version of Egypt's likely next president fly through a cartoon Cairo, attempting to save the country. In real life, Sisi's picture looms over most main roads in Cairo, with many seeing his leadership as the answer to three years of political instability. In the game, Sisi's avatar flies over the pyramids and the river Nile dodging bombs and explosives a plotline that might remind some of a real-life wave of militant attacks aimed at soldiers and policemen. Continue reading...      |
| North Korea welcomes foreigners to annual marathon for first time Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:14 AM PDT Pyongyang race allows tourist athletes in sign Kim Jong-un may want to attract more visitors and raise sporting profile North Korea has opened its annual marathon to amateur runners for the first time, with about 200 entrants from around the world expected to take part in the Pyongyang race on Sunday. The race, which winds around the highly secretive nation's capital, will see North Koreans and professional runners line up against tourists to complete the 26.2-mile course. A half-marathon and a 10k run are also taking place. Continue reading...      |
| As deportations rise under Obama, join us to discuss the risks immigrants face Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:05 AM PDT As we close a three-part series exploring the Obama administration's commitment to deportations, join us at 3pm ET to learn more about what's at stake for immigrants and the US government itself In a week when it was discovered that two thirds of the 2 million undocumented immigrants deported from the US under the Obama administration had committed only minor infractions or had no criminal record, the Guardian traveled from the forests of Washington to detention centres in Tijuana, in order to allow some to share their stories. Reporter Rory Carroll and photographer Felix Clay met migrant workers who make their living picking salal and mushrooms in Forks, Washington; those workers described being hunted by Border Patrol agents as the town's residents reported a general feeling of unease. Continue reading...      |
| Former Italian MP denies fleeing country to avoid arrest Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:04 AM PDT Marcello Dell'Utri, accused of having mediated between mafia and Berlusconi, claims he left country for 'treatment and rest' A former Italian MP who allegedly acted as a mediator between the Cosa Nostra and Silvio Berlusconi before the ex-prime minister entered politics has denied fleeing the country to avoid arrest as a court in Sicily declared him a fugitive. Anti-mafia investigators said they had not been able to find Marcello Dell'Utri a long-time Berlusconi ally who helped create the former premier's Forza Italia (FI) party in the 1990s whom they were seeking to issue with an arrest warrant. Continue reading...      |
| Indian elections: 10 things we have learned so far Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:51 AM PDT There are 3D hologram campaigns and Modi's phantom marriage, just two of the top 10 things we have learned from the world's biggest democratic election 1. You can campaign to be PM as a 3D hologram Having been rescheduled several times, on Friday evening, Narendra Modi will address audiences across India as a 3D hologram. The prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata party, will be projected via hologram technology to 100 locations simultaneously across the country . Modi made the announcement on Twitter and published a map marking locations where the hologram can be seen. The party claims the digital rally will be the first of its kind in the history of global electoral campaigning. Continue reading...      |
| Sriracha hot sauce producer declared a public nuisance in California city - video Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:29 AM PDT The producer of popular hot sauce Sriracha has been deemed a public nuisance by the city council in Irwindale, California, because of the smell the factory emits. Huy Fong Foods was partly shut down in November, creating a shortage that fans called the 'Srirachapocalypse' Continue reading...       |
| India elections: subtle foreign policy could take tougher line under Modi Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:22 AM PDT Election victory for BJP frontrunner could bring about readjustment in country's relations with China, US and south Asian neighbours In the heart of Kathmandu, in the narrow lanes around the famous Durbar Square, a quiet transformation is taking place. The Chinese are coming. There are the tourists almost 10% of the total visitors to Nepal in 2012 and more than eight times as many as a decade before. There are the new languages schools generously subsidised by Beijing. And there are the shops full of Chinese goods, even those which India, long the dominant power in the small Himalayan state, can supply in abundance. "Middle-class Nepali people can afford jeans if they are made in China," said Babu Dhakal, a 32-year-old shopkeeper who earns a living from cheap Chinese clothes, drinks Chinese beer and eats Szechuan cuisine when he can with new Kathmandu-based Chinese friends. Continue reading...      |
| Oscar Pistorius trial: Gerrie Nel accuses runner of 'tailoring his evidence' - video Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:11 AM PDT The prosecutor in the trial of Oscar Pistorius accuses the athlete on Friday of tailoring his evidence and having a selective memory. As Pistorius was cross-examined for a third day, prosecutor Gerrie Nel quizzed him about apparent discrepancies in the athlete's account of the night he shot Reeva Steenkamp dead. Oscar Pistorius denies intentionally killing his girlfriend Continue reading...       |
| Oscar Pistorius flounders under grilling on 'improbable' testimony Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:05 AM PDT Prosecutor asks why, if Pistorius shouted to Reeva Steenkamp to call police, she did not respond from inside toilet cubicle Oscar Pistorius has denied that his girlfriend was standing behind a door talking to him when he shot and killed her, during a floundering performance under cross-examination in his trial in Pretoria. Continue reading...      |
| Ukrainian PM says government is ready for dialogue with eastern regions - video Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:56 AM PDT Ukraine's interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the Kiev government is ready for dialogue with the regions of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russia separatists are occupying administrative buildings. On a visit to Donetsk on Friday Yatsenyuk met with regional government representatives. Demonstrators say they will only desist if Kiev agrees to hold a referendum on eastern Ukraine joining Russia Continue reading...       |
| Mexican drug lord's insider notes may set him free after 10 years Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:49 AM PDT Vicente Zambada, son of Sinaloa kingpin, struck deal with US to inform on cartels in exchange for reduced sentence The young Mexican drug lord Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla made headlines three years ago when he claimed the United States government had protected his father's drug cartel in return for providing information against rival cartel members. Now, with the revelation this week that Zambada's legal team and the US attorney's office signed a secret plea agreement a year ago, he has struck a deal of his own. It is, in effect, a cooperation agreement. With the stroke of a pen, the cartel insider who once vowed to put US undercover operations in Mexico on trial turned into an informant against the Sinaloa cartel of his powerful father, Ismael Zambada, a kingpin known simply as El Mayo. Continue reading...      |
| CIA and White House under pressure after Senate torture report leaks Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:44 AM PDT Senate committee found CIA interrogations and detentions to be 'brutal' and urges administration to release report as quickly as possible A leak of the major findings of a landmark Senate inquiry into the CIAs post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees led, on Friday, to intensified pressure on the White House and the CIA to release the inquiry speedily and with a minimum of redactions. The classified study, prepared by the Senate select committee on intelligence, concluded that the CIAs interrogations, secret detentions and outsourced torture sessions were brutal, and far worse than the agency communicated to policymakers. Continue reading...      |
| Pope Francis asks for forgiveness from those sexually abused by priests Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:43 AM PDT Pontiff vows there will be no going back in Catholic church's fight to protect children Pope Francis asked for forgiveness Friday from people who were sexually abused by priests, and vowed that there will be no going back in the church's fight to protect children. The pope made the off-the-cuff remarks after coming under criticism from victims' advocacy groups for a perceived lack of attention to the problem and ongoing demands that he sanction bishops who covered up for paedophiles. Continue reading...      |
| Stuck in Tijuana hoping for a miracle: the deportees with nowhere to go Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:19 AM PDT Just under 60,000 undocumented migrants were deposited in Tijuana last year. Rory Carroll reports on the traumatic uprooting for the deportees who have built a life in America Part one: the backward trek from Washington to Mexico Ricardo Sanchez came to the United States from his native Mexico, illegally, when he was nine. He grew up, got married, raised five children. During the day, he sold fruit from a stall; nights, he cooked in a restaurant, where his specialty was a steak with blue cheese, bacon and bourbon sauce that the regulars knew by his name. He built a life. Continue reading...      |
| William and Kate beguile New Zealand's republicans into amnesia Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:14 AM PDT Royal couple and George wow the crowds, even those campaigning for 'de-Britishised' flag barely a few months ago New Zealand's recent wranglings over its Commomwealth history seemed to vanish in a blur of cakes, flags and bunting adorned with the Union flag, as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge continued their rapturous tour of the Pacific nation. A couple of months ago, the prime minister, John Key, posited it was time to think about replacing the country's national flag, preferably with a design that wasn't dominated by Britain's colours. Continue reading...      |
| Spanish ambassador summoned over incursions into Gibraltar waters Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:11 AM PDT Spanish state vessels have unlawfully entered British waters around Gibraltar more than 600 times since start of 2013 Spanish government vessels have unlawfully entered British territorial waters around Gibraltar more than 600 times since the start of 2013, according to official figures. There were 496 incursions in 2013 and 112 in the first three months of 2014, the figures disclosed by the British foreign secretary, William Hague, revealed. Continue reading...      |
| Former Italian MP flees Italy before court rules on his mafia conviction Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:52 AM PDT Marcello Dell'Utri, said to have acted as a mediator between the Cosa Nostra and Silvio Berlusconi, has been declared a fugitive A former Italian MP who allegedly acted as a mediator between the Cosa Nostra and Silvio Berlusconi before the ex-prime minister entered politics is believed to have fled Italy as the supreme court prepares to hear his final appeal against a conviction for mafia association. Marcello Dell'Utri, a long-time Berlusconi ally who helped create the former premier's Forza Italia (FI) party in the 1990s, has been declared a fugitive after authorities said they had been unable to serve him with an arrest warrant issued earlier this week. Continue reading...      |
| Ukraine PM offers more power to eastern regions to quell crisis Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:52 AM PDT Arseniy Yatsenyuk meets officials in Donetsk, where pro-Russian groups demand a referendum on independence from Kiev In an attempt to quell the deepening crisis in eastern Ukraine, the interim prime minister has offered to devolve more power to the regions. Arseniy Yatsenyuk met officials in Donetsk on Friday, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying government buildings and demanding a referendum on independence from Kiev. Continue reading...      |
| Baby who survived Kenya church terror attack leaves hospital Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:45 AM PDT Satrin Osinya was shot in the head by the same bullet that killed his mother as she tried to shelter him during deadly raid in March, reports IQ4 news First, a jihadist bullet lodged in his skull. Then his father had no money to take him to the hospital for surgery. The situation was further complicated when it dawned on the family that there was no neurosurgeon in the whole of Mombasa County, their home county. The father was in deep agony and anguish, and the 18-month old baby was writhing in pain as words of consolation poured in from all over Kenya. Continue reading...      |
| Burma's newspapers run black front pages in protest at journalist arrests Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:32 AM PDT One journalist was imprisoned for 'disturbing a civil servant' and trespassing after attempting to interview an education official Burmese newspapers printed black front pages on Friday in protest against the recent arrests and sentencing of journalists, in the latest sign the country's media climate is worsening. It came as Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged by the imprisonment of a Burmese journalist for trying to interview an education official. Continue reading...      |
| China upholds four-year sentence of activist Xu Zhiyong Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:05 AM PDT Human rights organisations condemn ruling, accusing Chinese authorities of 'procedural violations' Chinese authorities have rejected an appeal by imprisoned rights advocate Xu Zhiyong, as a publisher released his autobiography and his beleaguered civic group, the New Citizens Movement, launched a website in a concerted gesture of defiance. Xu, 41, was sentenced in January to four years in prison for "gathering a crowd to disturb public order". The charge stems from a series of small protests he organised in 2012 and 2013 to champion rural children's education rights and official transparency. Continue reading...      |
| Los Angeles police mistakenly kill hostage fleeing from attacker Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:58 AM PDT John Winkler, 30, fatally shot after running out of apartment Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies mistakenly shot to death a hostage who was fleeing from a knife-wielding attacker at a West Hollywood apartment, authorities announced Thursday. John Winkler, 30, an aspiring television producer, died at a hospital following Monday night's confrontation. Continue reading...      |
| Oklahoma girl sells diamond she found in Arkansas park for $20,000 Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:55 AM PDT Tana Clymer found the yellow diamond last October while hunting for gems at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas An Oklahoma City girl has sold a 3.85-carat diamond she found at an Arkansas park for $20,000. Tana Clymer told television station KWTV that she plans to use the money from the recent sale of the yellow diamond to help pay for college. Continue reading...      |
| Majority of migrants deported from US young Mexican men, figures show Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:24 AM PDT Data shows Mexican nationals comprised 65% of the 368,644 deportees in 2013, with almost 80% of those aged 20-39 Most of the undocumented people deported from the United States last year were young Mexican men, according to a new study. Mexican nationals comprised 65.5% of the 368,644 deportees, and of them the vast majority were men in their twenties and thirties, said the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data research organisation at Syracuse University. Continue reading...      |
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