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- Migration crisis: Italians protest over Austria border fence plan
- Juaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán transferred to prison near US-Mexico border
- Alberta wildfire explodes across forests: 'in no way is this under control'
- Republican party storm of discontent rumbles on over Donald Trump
- American Sniper memorial will include trees from George W Bush's Texas ranch
- Atopodentatus was a hammerheaded herbivore, new fossil find shows
- Dancing out of poverty in South Africa
- Gaziantep: home to Isis killers, sex traders… and a quest to rebuild Syria
- If this celebrity injunction continues, it will be the law that’s fallen out of bed
- Zoo celebrates Mother's Day with video tribute to its new mums – video
- Malcolm Turnbull calls double-dissolution election for 2 July – video
- Britain basks in the hottest weekend of the year
- Greece has ‘basically achieved’ reform goals, says Jean-Claude Juncker
- Trump accuses Clinton of wanting to abolish the second amendment
- Chinese economy: exports fall by 2% and imports by 11% in April
- Opposition leader Bill Shorten makes his 2016 election pitch – video
- Egypt: eight police killed in attack on outskirts of Cairo
- North Korea will not use nuclear weapons first, says Kim Jong-un
- Sister of Parramatta shooter was ‘top Isis recruiter’, says Pentagon
- Philippines' 'Duterte Harry': the would-be president accused of using death squads
- The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant’s son who wants to be loved and feared
- Raging Canadian wildfire could double in size
- Afghan civilian death toll ‘much higher than the official estimate’
- The refugee children of Idomeni: alone, far from home but clinging to hope
- Fifty years on, one of Mao’s ‘little generals’ exposes horror of the Cultural Revolution
- The ice cold war: fight for sealife in remote wilds of Antarctica
- Spanish journalists freed after being missing in Syria since July
- Egyptian court seeks death penalty against three journalists
- David Cameron under pressure to end tax haven secrecy
- Alberta wildfires leave Fort McMurray charred and desolate – in pictures
- What lies below: swarm of earthquakes detected beneath Mount St Helens
- Eerie footage from inside Fort McMurray following raging wildfires – video
- Blaze rips through Fort McMurray home – timelapse video
- Eyewitness: Alberta, Canada
- 'It's just charred earth': DJ returns to wildfire-hit ruins of Fort McMurray
- The annotated picture: Leicester the morning after
- #ThanksObama: president's greatest legacy may be Trumping of the GOP
- Party of one? Trump seizes Republican reins but general election prep is lacking
- Pigeons wearing lights illuminate New York's night sky – in pictures
| Migration crisis: Italians protest over Austria border fence plan Posted: 07 May 2016 11:25 AM PDT Clashes with police at Brenner Pass coincide with far-right march in Germany calling on Merkel to resign A demonstration against a plan to restrict access through the Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria has turned violent, with Italian police firing teargas at hundreds of protesters throwing stones and firecrackers. The clashes coincided with scuffles in Berlin between far-right marchers calling on the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, to resign over immigration and a much larger group of leftwing counter-demonstrators. |
| Juaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán transferred to prison near US-Mexico border Posted: 07 May 2016 12:28 PM PDT Sinaloa crime lord moved from maximum-security facility near Mexico City to prison across the border from El Paso, while lawyer remains baffled by decision Convicted drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the Texas border early Saturday. Lawyers for Guzmán, who was recaptured in January, have filed multiple appeals against their client being sent to the US, and Mexican officials have said it could take as long as a year to reach a final ruling. There was no immediate indication that the transfer could be a sign that the process is nearing conclusion. Continue reading... |
| Alberta wildfire explodes across forests: 'in no way is this under control' Posted: 08 May 2016 12:03 AM PDT
The devastating wildfire in northern Alberta could double in size by Sunday as officials frantically worked to evacuate thousands of people still trapped north of the oil city of Fort McMurray. "In no way is this fire under control," Rachel Notley, the premier of Alberta, said on Saturday, almost one week after the fire first ignited in a remote forested area of the province. |
| Republican party storm of discontent rumbles on over Donald Trump Posted: 07 May 2016 02:34 AM PDT Senior figures including two ex-presidents have snubbed tycoon despite presumptive nomination, but he has so far brushed it off Donald Trump has been confronted with deep discontent among senior members of his own party, including two former presidents, just days after becoming the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republicans. A candidate in Trump's position might ordinarily be enjoying praise and endorsements from their peers, but Trump has found himself having to shrug off snubs from the likes of George HW Bush and his son George W Bush – the only two former Republican presidents who are still alive. Continue reading... |
| American Sniper memorial will include trees from George W Bush's Texas ranch Posted: 07 May 2016 05:59 AM PDT The Chris Kyle Memorial Plaza is expected to open in July and will also feature a bronze statue of the Navy Seal and author who was killed in 2013 Four trees from former president George W Bush's ranch will be part of a West Texas memorial to the Navy Seal and American Sniper author Chris Kyle. Related: American Sniper: an old-fashioned western in military uniform Continue reading... |
| Atopodentatus was a hammerheaded herbivore, new fossil find shows Posted: 06 May 2016 11:00 AM PDT Find changes previous view of Atopodentatus unicus, revealing the 244-million-year-old creature to be the earliest known plant-eating marine reptile An ancient creature with a skull the shape of a vacuum attachment could have been one of the first plant-eating marine reptiles, researchers say. Dug up in Luoping County in the Yunnan province of China, the newly discovered fossils of the sea-dwelling creature Atopodentatus unicus, thought to have lived around 244 million years ago, suggest it had a "hammerhead" skull, with two very different sets of teeth that allowed it to feed on underwater plant matter. Continue reading... |
| Dancing out of poverty in South Africa Posted: 08 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT Dane Hurst escaped township life to become a dancer with the Rambert in London. Now he's bringing his dream back home. Frances Byrnes charts his next step The school where Dane Hurst, star of Rambert dance company, learned to dance was eaten by termites and burned down by children. Thirteen years after he left South Africa, he has returned to the junction of Gelvandale and Helenvale in Port Elizabeth to show me where it was. A childcare centre stands there now, locked behind breezeblocks and barbed wire. There's a TB clinic, an armoured post office, a liquor store and scrubby grass. A man emerges from an outbuilding and Dane introduces himself, tells him he's a dancer in the UK, but that he grew up here. The man, Justin, tells him about the gangs who roam these streets. He counts on his fingers: there are 18 gangs in the 1.5km from the old bus terminus to the house Dane grew up in. They've had 50 gun deaths in the past three months – the latest a two-year old girl caught in crossfire. To my surprise Dane says that his uncle was recently killed just here while washing his car. "Oh man," smiles Justin. "It's amazing – small world." Neither man reveals any other feelings. Continue reading... |
| Gaziantep: home to Isis killers, sex traders… and a quest to rebuild Syria Posted: 07 May 2016 11:00 PM PDT The Turkish city hosts the HQ of Tamkeen, a UK-backed aid agency reintroducing democracy to a country ravaged by civil war Dragging on his American-brand cigarette, Rami al-Khatib leans back and looks away. There is a wry smile but it hints at a bubbling frustration. I have asked him whether he feels optimistic about the future. "There are two questions you should never ask a Syrian," he says, "and that's one of them." From behind a wisp of smoke, Khatib, 29, a law student at Damascus university before the conflict, adds: "The other is: where do you see yourself in five years' time?" The young Syrian's disdain at the line of questioning is understandable. Khatib was born in the now infamous city of Palmyra, where Isis massacred hundreds and where Vladimir Putin last week emphasised his role in winning it back for the regime by staging a classical concert in its ruins. Brought up in Homs, Khatib helped with the 2014 evacuation and watched as snipers picked off women walking through the rubble. He still has family in the city. Continue reading... |
| If this celebrity injunction continues, it will be the law that’s fallen out of bed Posted: 07 May 2016 11:00 PM PDT The controversial gagging order is still in place, despite breaches in the US and heavy hints in the British press. This is becoming a farce This is all getting very silly. Our supreme court is still pondering the case of the celebrity caught three in a bed who doesn't want his privacy infringed. (In England, that is, not Scotland, where they do things differently – as does that fount of all media gossip, the US, where names have been named on the net long since.) Are we gagging for the court to let us know who's fallen out of bed? No: if we're interested, we found out long ago – just as (another case returning from an American tour) we remember from five years ago who the "world-famous family actor" who slept with a prostitute who slept with Wayne Rooney is. And if, by chance, the years have erased his memory, there are nudges and winks all over the Mail, Sun and Telegraph to remind us. Continue reading... |
| Zoo celebrates Mother's Day with video tribute to its new mums – video Posted: 07 May 2016 10:35 PM PDT A lot of babies have been born over the past year at Symbio Wildlife Park, which means a lot of new mums. The Sydney zoo decided to pay tribute to them on Mother's Day, with a video of mothers and their young Continue reading... |
| Malcolm Turnbull calls double-dissolution election for 2 July – video Posted: 07 May 2016 10:24 PM PDT The prime minister speaks to the media in Canberra, announcing the governor general has accepted his advice for a double-dissolution election to take place on 2 July. 'Australians will have a very clear choice – to keep the course, maintain the commitment to our national economic plan for growth and jobs, or go back to Labor, with its high-taxing, higher spending, debt and deficit agenda, which will stop our nation's transition to the new economy dead in its tracks' Continue reading... |
| Britain basks in the hottest weekend of the year Posted: 07 May 2016 09:13 PM PDT Saturday was the warmest day of 2016 with the mercury at 24.9C in Suffolk with 26C 'a fairly safe bet' on Sunday The weekend is set to be the hottest of the year so far, with temperatures of 26C "a fairly safe bet" in some parts on the country on Sunday. Saturday was the warmest day of the year so far, but Sunday is set to be even hotter. Continue reading... |
| Greece has ‘basically achieved’ reform goals, says Jean-Claude Juncker Posted: 07 May 2016 08:37 PM PDT European Commission head says eurozone partners will begin discussing possible debt relief Greece has "basically achieved" the objectives of the reforms required by its creditors and its eurozone partners will begin discussing possible debt relief for the country, according to European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker. Related: IMF threatens to pull out of Greek rescue Continue reading... |
| Trump accuses Clinton of wanting to abolish the second amendment Posted: 07 May 2016 06:30 PM PDT The Republican says his likely Democrat opponent wants to 'take your guns away' despite her never making any such statement Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has accused Hillary Clinton of wanting to "abolish the second amendment". Related: #ThanksObama: president's greatest legacy may be Trumping of the GOP Continue reading... |
| Chinese economy: exports fall by 2% and imports by 11% in April Posted: 07 May 2016 10:51 PM PDT Latest sign of weakness as export sector posts year-on-year declines for nine of last 10 months China's exports slumped nearly 2% in April compared with the same month last year, as imports fell almost 11%, officials said on Sunday, the latest sign of weakness in the world's second largest economy. Related: China's factories grow less than expected, raising recovery doubts Continue reading... |
| Opposition leader Bill Shorten makes his 2016 election pitch – video Posted: 08 May 2016 12:23 AM PDT Labor leader launches his party's election campaign in Tasmania, responding to news of a 2 July election by claiming that Malcolm Turnbull's views are 'a real risk to living standards of all Australians'. Shorten earlier shared a beer with Beaconsfield mine collapse survivors Todd Russell and Brant Webb on the 10th anniversary of the disaster Continue reading... |
| Egypt: eight police killed in attack on outskirts of Cairo Posted: 07 May 2016 10:53 PM PDT Egypt is in the midst of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since mid-2013 Gunmen shot dead eight plainclothes Egyptian policemen in the Helwan district south of Cairo, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Related: Egyptian court seeks death penalty against three journalists Continue reading... |
| North Korea will not use nuclear weapons first, says Kim Jong-un Posted: 07 May 2016 10:03 PM PDT The country's dictator tells the first party congress in 36 years that he is willing to normalise relations with 'hostile states' North Korea will not use nuclear weapons against other nations unless its sovereignty is threatened, and will work toward nonproliferation and global stability, leader Kim Jong-un has said, according to state media. Related: The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant's son who wants to be loved and feared Continue reading... |
| Sister of Parramatta shooter was ‘top Isis recruiter’, says Pentagon Posted: 07 May 2016 07:36 PM PDT Shadi Jabar, who fled Sydney a day before her brother shot Curtis Cheng, helped plan attacks on west and urged women to go to Syria The Sydney woman whose teenage brother shot dead police accountant Curtis Cheng reportedly became a high-level recruiter for Islamic State in Syria before she was killed in a US airstrike. Related: Neil Prakash, most senior Australian fighting with Isis, killed in Iraq airstrike Continue reading... |
| Philippines' 'Duterte Harry': the would-be president accused of using death squads Posted: 07 May 2016 04:37 PM PDT Rodrigo Duterte is the frontrunner for the 9 May elections but his questionable record has the country concerned The maverick mayor's grin is everywhere – on cars crawling in traffic, on flaking cement walls, and on campaign T-shirts worn by Davao city's residents. Underneath Rodrigo Duterte's face is his slogan: "Change is coming." Likened to Dirty Harry, a ruthless police inspector played by Clint Eastwood, "Duterte Harry" has drawn scorn from rights groups who accuse him of allowing vigilantes to kill hundreds of suspected criminals. Continue reading... |
| The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant’s son who wants to be loved and feared Posted: 07 May 2016 04:05 PM PDT North Korea's ruling party meets this weekend for the first time in 36 years. Will the congress show the young leader as the supreme head of a nuclear power, or merely reveal his insecurities? It is possible to believe almost anything about Kim Jong-un, North Korea's erratic, unpredictable and little-known leader. And people do. In line with the regime's tradition of obsessive secrecy, firm facts about the 33-year-old who rules the world's last Soviet-style totalitarian state are as rare as a Pyongyang apology. Thus one of the most chilling tales about Kim is also largely unsubstantiated: how the young dictator, having inherited power and determined to be his own man, deliberately set about eliminating the senior apparatchiks who had grown rich and powerful under the tutelage of his late father, Kim Jong-il. As if unwitting actors in a devious, internecine plot from a Godfather movie, the pall-bearers who carried the elder Kim's coffin during an elaborate state funeral ceremony in the capital in December 2011 have disappeared, died of unknown causes, or been purposefully eliminated, one by one, in the past five years. Continue reading... |
| Raging Canadian wildfire could double in size Posted: 07 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT Evacuees continue to stream from Alberta oil town Fort McMurray as high winds and dry conditions fan flames The raging wildfire that forced the evacuation of the Alberta oil town of Fort McMurray intensified on Saturday as hot, dry weather whipped up fires around the beleaguered community. Police continued to escort fresh convoys of evacuees out of the region as officials warned the fire could double in size this weekend. The blaze – the largest of more than 40 wildfires that are now burning across the province of Alberta – has forced virtually all the 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray to flee. The weather, which has seen temperatures rise to 28C, continues to hinder efforts to fight the wildfire, said Matthew Anderson, an official with the Alberta government. "It's going to be a very extreme fire-hazard kind of day," he said. "The fire's growth potential is quite large." Continue reading... |
| Afghan civilian death toll ‘much higher than the official estimate’ Posted: 07 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT New analysis suggests that there could be hundreds of uncounted victims of the war The civilian toll of Afghanistan's war has been underestimated, revised figures from an Afghan government official and details of UK military investigations into the deaths of two children suggest. The government reckoning of the toll from a bombing in 2011, and the cases of the children, were documented but never published or shared more widely, and so are not included in the most commonly referenced and respected tallies of the dead over 15 years of fighting. Continue reading... |
| The refugee children of Idomeni: alone, far from home but clinging to hope Posted: 07 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT They have fled their wartorn homelands in Syria and Afghanistan. Now they are stuck in northern Greece – so close to a new life In the hours before he disappeared, Kusai talked about returning home to Syria. Navigating the Islamist checkpoints and shoot-to-kill Turkish border guards to reach the destroyed city of Aleppo was preferable to waiting for the border to open. The 16-year-old, a slight boy with a pensive air, had hoped to reach his brother in Germany but had spent two months stranded in the squalid improvised refugee camp at Idomeni in northern Greece, praying for Macedonia to reopen the gateway to central Europe. Continue reading... |
| Fifty years on, one of Mao’s ‘little generals’ exposes horror of the Cultural Revolution Posted: 07 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT In the face of silence from the Communist party, a former Red Guard has written a blog about the bloody summer of '66 Thousands of teenage hands rocketed skywards as the Great Helmsman stepped down from the rostrum in Tiananmen Square to greet the shock troops of his revolution. It was the summer of 1966 and Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – a catastrophic political convulsion that would catapult China into a decade of heartbreak, humiliation and deadly violence – was under way. Related: Thousands visit birthplace of Chairman Mao – in pictures Continue reading... |
| The ice cold war: fight for sealife in remote wilds of Antarctica Posted: 07 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT The Ross Sea is the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth Over the next few weeks, a discreet but vital diplomatic campaign will be launched to try to save one of the most remote regions of the world: the Ross Sea in Antarctica. Marine conservationists, who have been pressing to set up a no-fishing zone for several years, say it is now paramount that their plan to create a 1.25 million square kilometre "no take" area in the Ross Sea is successful. They believe failure would seriously jeopardise future plans to protect the polar regions, which are now bearing the brunt of global warming. Continue reading... |
| Spanish journalists freed after being missing in Syria since July Posted: 07 May 2016 03:42 PM PDT Trio went missing in Aleppo 10 months ago but are now said to be in Turkey waiting to be taken to Spain Three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing in Syria last year and were believed to have been kidnapped have been released, the Spanish government has said. The three men – Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel López and Ángel Sastre – disappeared last July. They were working on an investigative report in the northern city of Aleppo, where other journalists have been captured in the past, Spanish media reported at the time. Continue reading... |
| Egyptian court seeks death penalty against three journalists Posted: 07 May 2016 01:24 PM PDT Sentencing for journalists and several others in case, including former president Mohamed Morsi, delayed until 18 June An Egyptian court has recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar, in a ruling condemned by the Doha-based al-Jazeera channel as shocking. Jordanian national Alaa Omar Sablan and Ibrahim Mohammed Helal, who both work for al-Jazeera, and Asmaa al-Khateeb, a reporter for Rassd – a pro-Muslim Brotherhood news network, were sentenced in absentia. They can appeal. Continue reading... |
| David Cameron under pressure to end tax haven secrecy Posted: 07 May 2016 12:54 PM PDT PM faces call to force British territories to adopt anti-corruption laws after Panama Papers scandal David Cameron is under intense pressure to invoke special powers that would force British tax havens to end their fiercely protected secrecy. In the wake of the Panama Papers scandal, which revealed the extent to which the likes of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) were being used to hide money offshore, the prime minister is being urged to set a timetable for imposing stringent anti-corruption laws on Britain's tax havens. Continue reading... |
| Alberta wildfires leave Fort McMurray charred and desolate – in pictures Posted: 07 May 2016 09:57 AM PDT Canadian police discover whole neighbourhoods burnt to the ground as firefighters slowly beat the blaze out of the city Continue reading... |
| What lies below: swarm of earthquakes detected beneath Mount St Helens Posted: 07 May 2016 08:38 AM PDT Scientists suggest volcano is restoring its stores of magma as rate of earthquakes has been 'steadily increasing' and reaching nearly 40 located per week A swarm of more than 130 earthquakes has been detected beneath Mount St Helens over the last eight weeks, according to the US Geological Survey. Since March, the rate of such earthquakes under the Washington state volcano has been "steadily increasing", the USGS reported. At its peak, nearly 40 earthquakes have been located per week. Continue reading... |
| Eerie footage from inside Fort McMurray following raging wildfires – video Posted: 07 May 2016 06:51 AM PDT Footage captured by a firefighter shows the chilling aftermath inside Fort McMurray on Wednesday. Raging wildfires forced 80,000 residents to flee the Canadian city in northern Alberta and also destroyed more than 1,600 homes and buildings Read: 'It's just charred earth': DJ returns to wildfire-hit ruins of Fort McMurray Continue reading... |
| Blaze rips through Fort McMurray home – timelapse video Posted: 07 May 2016 04:53 AM PDT Indoor security camera footage shows wildfire roaring through a living room in Fort McMurray, Canada. The five-minute footage has been sped up. James O'Reilly, who owns the house, told ABC News that he was making his way out of the city when his phone buzzed with an alarm from his security system. He then watched on his iPhone as flames ravaged his home Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 May 2016 04:31 AM PDT Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading... |
| 'It's just charred earth': DJ returns to wildfire-hit ruins of Fort McMurray Posted: 07 May 2016 02:52 AM PDT Days after 80,000 people were evacuated from Canadian oil hub, the fight to restore essential services has begun Thirty hours after raging wildfires forced more than 80,000 residents to flee the northern Alberta city of Fort McMurray, one evacuee, Chris Byrne, decided it was time to head back to his charred city. "I'm not a cop, I'm not a firefighter," said Byrne, who is, instead, a host at the local radio station Rock 97.9. "I don't have any special skills, but one thing that I do love is being able to inform people." Continue reading... |
| The annotated picture: Leicester the morning after Posted: 07 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT Claudio Ranieri and his squad ate their first lunch as champions at a local Italian restaurant, and got more attention than usual Continue reading... |
| #ThanksObama: president's greatest legacy may be Trumping of the GOP Posted: 07 May 2016 10:00 AM PDT Republicans worried about their electoral fortunes can look to the White House, whose occupant inspires the loathing that has fuelled the billionaire's rise Republicans have blamed the current president for so much that a satirical meme was born. Flat tire? Broken fingernail? "Thanks, Obama." Related: Party of one? Trump seizes Republican reins but general election prep is lacking Continue reading... |
| Party of one? Trump seizes Republican reins but general election prep is lacking Posted: 07 May 2016 05:23 AM PDT Most leading candidates – Hillary Clinton included – have started to beef up operations for the general by now. Will Trump's staggering shortfall haunt him? Donald Trump is not just the presumptive Republican nominee for president. He is now the Republican party. Related: Illma Gore: 'If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it's Trump' Continue reading... |
| Pigeons wearing lights illuminate New York's night sky – in pictures Posted: 07 May 2016 07:29 AM PDT Artist Duke Riley released 2,000 pigeons wearing LED lights into the night sky over Brooklyn and directed the birds with a flag and pole Continue reading... |
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