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First UK flight from Nepal brings 120 Britons home
Nepal earthquake: children saved from the rubble – live updates
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First UK flight from Nepal brings 120 Britons home

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 01:24 AM PDT

Government plane – which flew aid out to earthquake-hit country – arrives back at London Stansted carrying British citizens including children and older people

Nepal earthquake: children saved from the rubble – live updates

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 01:18 AM PDT

15-year-old Pema Lama rescued in Kathmandu
An 11-year-old girl saved in Bhaktapur
Nepal earthquake: how to donate

6.18pm AEST

Others survivors buried with Pemba were shouting until Wednesday, he told the BBC's Yogita Limaye.

Earlier we reported that rescue workers have resumed searching the building after Pemba told them two more people were buried with him.

Pemba tells me there were still people shouting out there until yesterday.

There were two bottles of clarified butter (ghee) near him. Pemba ate that to survive.

Pemba says he was shouting for days. Drank water dripping from wet clothes to survive.

Doctor tells me Pemba is in very good condition pic.twitter.com/GhqTc0OBrE

Cheers went up. Officer who pulled him out was hoisted up by colleagues on their shoulders. Small moment of joy amidst this grave tragedy.

6.06pm AEST

Pemba managed to survive in a 50cm hole underneath 2m of rubble, according to the BBC's Nick Garnett.

He was freed using a car jack that pushed up a sheet of metal Pemba had been stuck under, Garnett told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.

5.56pm AEST

The Guardian's graphics teams has put together a helpful guide to the extent and location of the earthquake damage and the humanitarian crisis it has prompted.

5.54pm AEST

There's been no more word on the rescue of a 11 year old girl in Bhaktapur.

Her survival may not have been quite as extraordinary as first appeared. Nepal Times editor Kunda Dixit said she had been trapped under the rubble for almost four days. But the Nepalese Army released an image of her which carried Sunday's date.

5.46pm AEST

Two more people are trapped in the rubble, 15-year-old earthquake survivor told his rescuers, writes Ishwar Rauniyar from the Nepalese capital.

About 30 minutes ago Pemba Lama was rescued alive from a Guest House in Gongabu, Kathmandu, after being trapped since Saturday.

4.58pm AEST

The first images are emerging of Pema Lama the 15-year-old boy who was pulled from the rubble in Kathmandu five days after the earthquake.

4.46pm AEST

That boy in Kathmandu has been pulled out alive, while a girl in Bhaktapur has also been rescued.

AP reports:

Girl, 11, rescued from Bhaktapur Dattatreya Sq after 90 hrs under rubble by Nepal Army. #NepalQuake pic.twitter.com/AAb9EmLnv7

4.35pm AEST

While we wait for more news on the attempts reach the the boy in Kathmandu, let's hope it ends like this.

Guardian video shows the rescue of an elderly woman in Bhaktapur, east of the capital.

4.26pm AEST

Rescuers in Kathmandu are trying to reach a 15-year-old boy buried under the rubble and apparently still alive five days after the earthquake.

USAID team leader Andrew Olvera says: "We have lights, we have generators, we have heavy breaching equipment, jackhammers, and we're trying to get him out."

Happening now: #USAID aiding in rescue of boy still trapped in rubble in #Kathmandu. #NepalEarthquake pic.twitter.com/tXAH966PXU

Hope amidst despair. 15 year old boy possible still alive after 120 hours under the rubble. Frantic efforts to pull him out.

3.52pm AEST

AFP also has an update on the situation at Mount Everest. Remarkably the tourism minister for Nepal has declared that climbing will continue from next week despite the earthquake. Here's some of that report:

Saturday's avalanche that ripped through base camp also destroyed ladders through the treacherous Khumbu icefall higher up the mountain, raising doubts about the future of this year's climbing season.

But tourism department chief Tulsi Gautam advised climbers against abandoning their expeditions, saying repairs were under way.

3.36pm AEST

On that theme of how difficult it has been for the rescue teams involved in the Nepal earthquake disaster AFP tweets this out:

#UPDATE: Nepal toll rises as relief teams face five-day trek to deliver quake aid http://t.co/68PDihS8T1 pic.twitter.com/sbjrUIJz5k

3.08pm AEST

In some parts the rescue phase is now over:

Search and rescue operation has ended in #Kathmandu's historic Darbar square - the clean up begins #NepalEarthquake pic.twitter.com/WpLFjRG7Xh

3.06pm AEST

Reuters has just filed its latest story from the capital. It makes for grim reading with the weather now adding to the problems that rescue and relief workers are facing.

While rescue teams were out in the capital Kathmandu despite the rain, helicopters could not fly to the worst-hit areas in the countryside of the impoverished Himalayan nation.

"There may not be any more survivors," said Rameshwor Dandal, chief of the disaster management centre at Nepal's home ministry.

2.57pm AEST

Ishwar Rauniyar adds to his previous reporting from Kathmandu:

The city today is little calm and with less movement of people even as thousands are still leaving Kathmandu valley.

"It's been five days since we have been living in open space, in Bhaktapur, but no one came to help us so I am planning to go back to my home in Sunsari district in the eastern Nepal," said Rajendra Yadav,39, who was getting bus ticket.

2.07pm AEST

AFP reports that a group of trekkers has been rescued from the Gorkha valley after they built a 3-metre "help" sign to attract attention:

As the helicopter swooped over Nepal's lush Gorkha Valley in search of earthquake survivors, the 10-foot 'HELP!' sign spelled out by a desperate group of foreign trekkers couldn't fail to grab the pilot's attention.

"Thank God you've come!" said 31-year-old Julia Strelcoua after the Indian military helicopter landed in a clearing and then whisked her and fellow trekkers to safety in the adventure sports hub of Pokhara.

1.38pm AEST

New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has pledged to donate all her prize money from this week's LPGA tournament to the relief effort in Nepal.

We had a big one in New Zealand, too, a couple years ago [in Christchurch], and it affected a lot of people.

Natural disasters you can't do much about. Sometimes it's hard to be prepared for it, so I thought, those people there, nice people and very innocent, I wanted to give this tournament's earnings and donate it to them.

1.26pm AEST

Ishwar Rauniyar, who is working for the Guardian in Nepal, reports that many people are still awaiting aid:

At a time when the government is saying they have sent relief packages to almost every parts of affected area, this morning I received a call from Swarathok in the remote district of Sindhupalchowk, which has been left devastated by the earthquake, saying "no aid agencies or government has appeared to help them".

Rasmita Shrestha said: "No one has come to help us. There is not even a single house standing out of 71 houses in the village."

1.16pm AEST

Around 120 British nationals who were in Nepal when the earthquake struck have just arrived back at London's Stansted airport on a UK aid flight that had delivered relief supplies to Kathmandu.

The youngest is a four-year-old child.

Cheers and tears as as families of first evacuated arrive home @GMB pic.twitter.com/eamQazFWXh

We know that this is an agonising time for those who are waiting for news of loved ones. But the scale of the disaster and the limited communications means that it may be some time before we can account for everyone.

Many are likely to be in a place of safety but not able to communicate easily.

12.54pm AEST

Police in Nepal say the death toll from Saturday's earthquake has topped 5,500.

12.16pm AEST

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it will take time for food and other supplies to reach more remote communities that have been cut off by landslides.

The programme's Geoff Pinnock, who is coordinating aid flights, said:

More helicopters, more personnel and certainly more relief supplies, including medical teams, shelter, tents, water and sanitation and food, are obviously needed.

12.04pm AEST

Part of the problem is the sheer scale of devastation: more than 8 million people have been affected by the earthquake and its aftermath, with the UN estimating that 1.4 million people are currently in need of food assistance.

As Jason Burke reports, transporting the aid to those who need it is also a major hurdle:

A series of bottlenecks is slowing the entry of aid into the country. Nepal's sole international airport, in Kathmandu, is massively congested. Though some major NGOs had stockpiles of basic non-perishable items in Nepal before the quake, the poor country's inadequate road system has posed huge problems even in areas that emerged relatively unscathed from the quake.

The problems were made even worse on Wednesday by a mass exodus from Kathmandu. Tens of thousands crowded on to buses to leave the city, driven by the prospect of further earthquakes, epidemics and a breakdown in law and order.

11.42am AEST

Associated Press reports that China has closed all climbing on its side of Mount Everest for the rest of the spring:

Hundreds of climbers and Sherpas who were attempting to climb Mount Everest from the north side when the earthquake struck the region are packing their gear and heading out after expedition leaders said Chinese authorities had closed all climbing in Tibet for the spring.

Meanwhile, some climbers in Nepal have announced plans to try to return to the mountain, a move that was criticised by others in the climbing community.

On Wednesday, Chinese officials held their final meeting and announced their decision to end the climbing season. Ballinger said two reasons were cited: safety concerns over possible additional earthquakes and solidarity with Nepal and the Sherpas. "China believes Sherpas should be able to go home and begin rebuilding," he said.

Nineteen people were killed in the base camp on the Nepal side of the mountain when a quake-triggered avalanche swept through.

In Nepal, some climbers have received permission to try again for the summit. Russell Brice, leading a team for the London-based Himalayan Experience Limited, posted a blog saying they are considering a return to Everest. "Our Himex team will stay at Everest BC for the next few days and we will then decide if we will continue or not," he said.

11.28am AEST

This graphic shows the zone affected by Saturday's quake. Close to the epicentre is Gorkha, to where the Guardian's Jason Burke travelled this week. You can read his dispatch here.

In neighbouring India 61 people were killed and China's official Xinhua News Agency said 25 people had died in Tibet.

11.16am AEST

Five days after the devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, killing more than 5,000 people and injuring at least 100,000, many survivors – particularly those in more remote areas – have still yet to receive emergency aid.

Despite stories of incredible survival – a four-month-old baby pulled from the rubble of his family house in the town of Bhaktapur; a man rescued after being trapped for 82 hours – hopes are fading that more people will be found alive amid the ruins.

We are hungry, we haven't had anything to drink. We haven't been able to sleep.

I have a seven-year-old child who is sleeping in the open. It's getting cold and people are getting pneumonia.

Officials and relief workers are desperately seeking information on about 10,000 people living in the northernmost areas of Gorkha district, where the epicentre of Saturday's earthquake was located.

Nothing is known of the condition of villagers in these remote and mountainous areas near the frontier with Tibet, but up to 90% of buildings in nearby areas a similar distance from the epicentre have been destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.

Freddie Gray protests spread from Baltimore across US – video

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 01:09 AM PDT

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Argentina to pay compensation over 1994 Jewish centre attack

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 12:55 AM PDT

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Nepal earthquake: CCTV from Kathmandu captures building collapse – video

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 12:46 AM PDT

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Nepal aid effort hampered by rain: 'nature seems to be against us'

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 12:26 AM PDT

Nepal's officials say chances of finding more survivors in rubble are bleak as death toll nears 5,500 and weather deteriorates, further hampering aid delivery

Gallery takes down Joko Widodo's portrait after Bali Nine executions

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 12:23 AM PDT

Canberra's National Portrait Gallery removes portrait of Indonesian president hours after executions because of concerns it could be defaced

Freddie Gray: protests across US as Baltimore forced to free 100 suspects

Posted: 30 Apr 2015 12:18 AM PDT

Marches in New York, Boston, Ferguson and Washington, while authorities in Baltimore back down after holding people for days without charge

Protests over the death in Baltimore police custody of Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.

Gray died last weekend in Baltimore with a severed spine after apparently being injured in police custody.

Is the 'Bilbao effect' all it’s cracked up to be? A history of cities in 50 buildings, day 27

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:30 PM PDT

Every struggling post-industrial city has the same idea: hire a star architect (like Frank Gehry) to design a branch of a famous museum (like the Guggenheim), and watch your city blossom with culture. After all, it worked for Bilbao ... didn't it?

Axl Rose critical of Indonesia after public appeal fails to stop executions

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:19 PM PDT

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose argued the death penalty was out of proportion to the crime and said he was deeply troubled by president Widodo's actions

Targets for terror: the shocking data on school and university attacks

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

The horrors of the Peshawar school killings made headlines but, as the graphs below show, from Iraq to India children and teachers live under threat

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Pakistan’s burqa-clad cartoon superhero makes foray into India

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

The award-winning cartoon series aims to address serious issues that girls and women face in the two south Asian countries

Baltimore: hail of habeas corpus petitions leads to release of riot suspects

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 10:46 PM PDT

Police detention of around 100 people without charge on governor's orders is described by public defender as showing 'no respect for due process'

Shorten dismisses Plibersek's call for binding vote on same-sex marriage

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 10:20 PM PDT

The Labor leader says the party's focus should continue to be on pressuring Abbott to allow Coalition MPs a conscience vote on same-sex marriage

Group representing 1m medical students backs fossil fuel divestment

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 10:01 PM PDT

Fossil fuel industry is a bigger threat to global health than tobacco, says open letter to the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation from future doctors

China and South Korea criticise Japanese prime minister's speech in US

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 09:26 PM PDT

Shinzo Abe denounced for not repeating previous PMs' apologies for Japan using sex slaves during second world war

Chinese and South Korean media have denounced the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, for failing to issue a new apology for Japan's wartime conduct or mention its use of wartime sex slaves in his historic speech to the US Congress on Wednesday.

Abe, the first Japanese leader to address a joint session of Congress, offered his "eternal condolences" for Americans who died during the war, and acknowledged that Japan had "caused suffering" in Asia.

From the archive, 30 April 1937: Editorial: the senseless bombardment of Guernica

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT

The bombing makes it easy to realise the brutal thoroughness of totalitarian warfare

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Posted: 29 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT

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Russian politician denounces Apple’s U2 album gift as ‘gay propaganda’

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Rightwing politician demands an investigation into U2's album giveaway, which he says 'spammed youths with illegal content' and promoted gay sex

A Russian Duma deputy has asked Russia's attorney general to investigate Apple for distributing "gay propaganda" to minors.

Alexander Starovoitov, a member of the rightwing LDPR party, says Apple spammed youths with illegal content when it released U2's latest album, Songs of Innocence, to more than 500 million iTunes customers worldwide in September 2014.

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Posted: 29 Apr 2015 08:40 PM PDT

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