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- Colombia producing more cocaine than ever before, UN figures show
- 'Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests
- Stream of floating bodies near Mosul raises fears of reprisals by Iraqi militias
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Tracking Trump: Junior's email errors put first family in a spot of Russian bother
- Could you spot a bogus Airbnb listing among the genuine ones?
- The Trumps of Russia? How billionaire Agalarov family ended up in the spotlight
- A year on, families of 'martyrs' who resisted Turkey coup count cost
- Ferris Bueller's daily grind: how poverty in Chicago went suburban
- ‘I was pretending to be a boy for a variety of reasons’: the strange case of Gayle Newland
- Woman who fears daughter faces FGM gets deportation reprieve
- Honolulu fire: three dead after blaze breaks out in high-rise building
- 'It's like I've been born again': the young Syrians making a new life in Mexico
- Liu Xiaobo cremated in 'private ceremony', amid fears for wife's safety
- 300,000 fines levied on participants in remote work-for-dole program
- As Japan falls out of love with sake, the world orders another glass
- Homes swallowed by huge sinkhole in Florida – video
- Two tourists stabbed to death in beach attack at Egyptian resort
- The never-ending threat to democracy continues. Can't a girl have a week off? | Jessica Valenti
- Dress codes in the Church of England | Letters
- Macron pulls out all the stops on Bastille Day as Trump leaves satisfied
- Torture by Sri Lankan police routine, says human rights lawyer
- Narendra Modi as a dog tweet investigated by Mumbai police
- French army band medleys Daft Punk at Bastille Day parade – video
- Pitching Up – ancient sports for children in Ireland's most ethnically diverse town
- Trump and Macron watch Bastille Day parade in Paris – video
- Martina Hingis: ‘If I can help kids to play sport and learn, I will’ | Les Roopanarine
- American in Paris: Donald Trump's visit to France – in pictures
- Donald Trump: awkward handshake moments compilation – video
| Colombia producing more cocaine than ever before, UN figures show Posted: 14 Jul 2017 02:46 PM PDT
Colombia has spent years trying to shake off its reputation as the cocaine capital of the world, but the country is producing more of the drug than ever before, according to new figures from the United Nations. Related: Deforestation soars in Colombia after Farc rebels' demobilization Continue reading... |
| 'Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:54 PM PDT Scientists say marine life has proved 'remarkably resilient' despite the Pacific island being declared a wasteland in the 1950s The former island paradise of Bikini Atoll is slowing blooming back to life, 70 years after the United States dropped 23 nuclear bombs on it, including a device in 1954 that was 1,100-times larger than the Hiroshima atom bomb. A team of scientists from Stanford University have been surprised to discover an abundance of marine life apparently thriving in the crater of Bikini Atoll, which was declared a nuclear wasteland after the bombings, with its 167 inhabitants relocated to other islands. Continue reading... |
| Stream of floating bodies near Mosul raises fears of reprisals by Iraqi militias Posted: 15 Jul 2017 01:00 AM PDT Unidentified corpses are being fished out of the Tigris river, with human rights observers suggesting government forces are behind the deaths The bodies washed up with grim regularity on the banks of the Tigris downstream from Mosul, a daily reminder of the vicious fight against Islamic State that played out a few dozen miles away. All were heavily decomposed, most bound and blindfolded, some mutilated. The corpses began arriving last spring, but as the mission to oust Isis fighters from the once-thriving city intensified, so too did the number of dead floating towards the west bank town of Qayyarah. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 15 Jul 2017 12:57 AM PDT Wildfires in California, the Iraqi forces' victory in Mosul, the Tour de France and protests in Caracas – the news of the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Tracking Trump: Junior's email errors put first family in a spot of Russian bother Posted: 15 Jul 2017 12:00 AM PDT Donald Trump had hoped to put allegations of Russian collusion behind him – but then along came an email chain, and a week of frantic denials It was a fairly quiet week for Donald Trump, but his son and namesake more than made up for it. A drip-drip-drip of stories gradually revealed Donald Trump Jr to have come very close to undermining his father's claims that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia to help him win the 2016 election. Related: Ex-Soviet counter-intelligence officer says he attended Trump Jr meeting Continue reading... |
| Could you spot a bogus Airbnb listing among the genuine ones? Posted: 14 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT A British family lost £4,100 when their Airbnb villa in Sicily, booked for this week, turned out to be fake. We also look at why tenants should beware too An internet businessman based in Bath, who lost more than £4,100 to sophisticated Airbnb fraudsters after booking what he thought was a smart holiday villa in Sicily for three weeks. He, his wife and their two children, who have asked not to be named, were supposed to start their holiday this week; instead, the listing turned out to be a scam. Rather than packing the sun cream, he says he spent the week contemplating whether legal action against Airbnb would be successful. Continue reading... |
| The Trumps of Russia? How billionaire Agalarov family ended up in the spotlight Posted: 14 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT Aras Agalarov and his pop singer son Emin have known the Trumps for years. Now the Donald Jr email scandal has put them in an unwanted spotlight He's a billionaire construction magnate who likes shiny and expensive things and built a luxury tower block adorned with his own name: it's not surprising that people have referred to Aras Agalarov as the Russian Trump. Agalarov and his pop singer son Emin have known the Trump family for years, and emails released this week by Donald Trump Jr suggest the Agalarovs may have been a conduit for Russian efforts to help the Trump camp. Continue reading... |
| A year on, families of 'martyrs' who resisted Turkey coup count cost Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:00 PM PDT More than 250 people were killed and 2,000 injured as soliders tried to oust Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last July The last time Gülzerin Kılıç saw her son was exactly a year ago – when he walked out of the house on the night of 15 July as tanks rolled on to the streets of Istanbul during the attempted military coup. Mehmet, 22, died from a sniper's bullet at the Bosphorus bridge as he marched to challenge the soldiers who had blockaded the thoroughfare, answering the call – along with thousands of his fellow citizens who took to the streets – to challenge the plotters and protect the democratically elected government. Continue reading... |
| Ferris Bueller's daily grind: how poverty in Chicago went suburban Posted: 14 Jul 2017 04:16 AM PDT On the surface, Lake County, Illinois – the setting for John Hughes' 1980s films of affluent suburban angst – is all detached houses, swimming pools and malls. Hidden from view, though, is the growing need Lake County, Illinois – one of the wealthiest counties in the United States – conforms to many popular conceptions of the American suburban ideal. Set beside Lake Michigan north of the city of Chicago, Lake County abounds with large single-family homes built mostly since 1970. Parks, swimming pools and recreational spaces dot the landscape. Commuter trains and toll roads ferry workers into Chicago, and back again. Residents are highly reliant on cars for local trips to work, school or child care stops, and to strip malls containing familiar chain stores and restaurants. Officeplexes, megachurches and well-equipped modern school buildings can be found across the county. In more exclusive residential areas, one can glimpse mansions inhabited at various points in time by iconic Chicago figures, such as Michael Jordan. The county even served as a backdrop for Ferris Bueller's Day Off and film-maker John Hughes's other movies about affluent suburban youth angst in the 1980s. |
| ‘I was pretending to be a boy for a variety of reasons’: the strange case of Gayle Newland Posted: 15 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT She was convicted of sexually assaulting a female friend while disguised as a man. How? Simon Hattenstone hears a tale of loneliness and betrayal in the digital age Judge David Stockdale QC is a serious man with a hangdog expression and a lugubrious manner. He speaks in a basso profundo and looks as if he may never have smiled in his life. But he is measured and scrupulously fair: the perfect lawyer to preside over last month's retrial of 27-year-old Gayle Newland in Manchester. In September 2015, Newland was convicted of sexually assaulting a close friend while disguised as a man, and sentenced to eight years in prison. But that conviction was overturned on appeal, after it was ruled that the original judge's summing up had been biased in favour of the prosecution. It is 19 June, with temperatures reaching 33C in parts of Britain – the hottest June day since 1976. The air-conditioning, which cost £5m to install, has failed in courtroom five. "I am going to remove my wig," Stockdale says. "Members of the jury, I can only apologise for the heat." An ancient contraption is wheeled in to blow cold air across the room. Continue reading... |
| Woman who fears daughter faces FGM gets deportation reprieve Posted: 14 Jul 2017 03:53 PM PDT Theresa May intervenes after SNP MP highlights case of Lola Ilesanmi who feared three-year-old daughter would face female genital mutilation in Nigeria Theresa May has intervened to halt the deportation of a woman who claimed that her three-year-old daughter would face female genital mutilation if they returned to Nigeria. The decision to refuse Lola Ilesanmi's application to remain in the UK has been withdrawn and the prime minister has ordered Brandon Lewis, the immigration minister, to personally oversee a review of her case. |
| Honolulu fire: three dead after blaze breaks out in high-rise building Posted: 15 Jul 2017 02:09 AM PDT Around 100 firefighters tackle the incident at Marco Polo apartments, which did not have sprinklers, in the Hawaiian capital At least three people have been killed after a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in Honolulu, Hawaii. Thick black smoke and flames could be seen coming from the Marco Polo building near Waikiki after the fire started on the 26th floor on Friday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| 'It's like I've been born again': the young Syrians making a new life in Mexico Posted: 14 Jul 2017 04:35 AM PDT Some came to Mexico fearing they would find more violence. But instead they've found a new home and a second chance When they still lived back home in Derik, northern Syria, Silva Hassan Namo and her family would gather each evening around the television to watch the latest episodes of their favourite Mexican telenovelas. Even after civil war forced them to flee to Iraq, the family would follow the soap operas whenever they could, to escape the grim monotony of life in a refugee camp. Continue reading... |
| Liu Xiaobo cremated in 'private ceremony', amid fears for wife's safety Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:11 PM PDT Liu Xia attends the cremation, but rights activists say they have not heard from her in three days The Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo has been cremated in north-eastern China, Chinese authorities have announced, amid growing fears for the safety of his wife, Liu Xia. The veteran dissident died on Thursday, aged 61, becoming the first Nobel peace prize winner to die in custody since the 1935 recipient, German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, died under surveillance after years confined to Nazi concentration camps. Continue reading... |
| 300,000 fines levied on participants in remote work-for-dole program Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:55 PM PDT Analysis done by ANU shows Indigenous people are 27 times more likely to be penalised by loss of income than those on another similar program Participants in a work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous people are 27 times more likely to be penalised by loss of income than those on another similar program, an analysis by the Australian National University has found. In the 21 months since the Community Development Program (CDP) began in July 2015, almost 300,000 fines have been levied against its 35,000 participants. Continue reading... |
| As Japan falls out of love with sake, the world orders another glass Posted: 14 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT Number of breweries is falling along with sales, but exports are rising as the West develops a taste for the rice wine Perched on the side of a hill deep in the forests of Tokyo's western fringe, Ozawa Shuzo has been turning rice into sake for more than 300 years. Drunk chilled – and at a sensible pace - its premium labels are regarded as the perfect accompaniment to the delicate flavours of Japanese cuisine. Continue reading... |
| Homes swallowed by huge sinkhole in Florida – video Posted: 14 Jul 2017 02:05 PM PDT Two homes have been engulfed after a huge sinkhole opened up in Pasco County, Florida. The hole was initially the size of a small swimming pool, but quickly grew to span 200ft, and is thought to be 50ft deep. At least nine other houses are thought to be in danger Continue reading... |
| Two tourists stabbed to death in beach attack at Egyptian resort Posted: 14 Jul 2017 12:57 PM PDT German women killed at seaside hotel – and four other tourists injured – hours after five policeman shot dead near Cairo Two German women were stabbed to death and four other foreign tourists were wounded in a beach attack at a seafront hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada on Friday. The assault came just hours after five policemen were killed in a shooting near some of Egypt's most famous pyramids outside of Cairo. Continue reading... |
| The never-ending threat to democracy continues. Can't a girl have a week off? | Jessica Valenti Posted: 14 Jul 2017 12:25 PM PDT This week's news has been bizarre and scary. But it does feel like we're starting to get somewhere. At least, that's what I'm telling myself • Get this newsletter via email – sign up I would really love for one week to go by when I don't have to think about Russia. Or the Trumps. Or the seemingly never-ending threat to democracy that we're currently dealing with. Can't a girl have a week off? Let's try to focus on the positive: at least this stuff is coming out; at least there are emails proving what so many suspected. At least it's looking unlikely that Trump Jr will be able to weasel his way out of being held accountable. (Though if I see any more pieces calling this nearly middle-aged man a "kid" I will lose it.) Continue reading... |
| Dress codes in the Church of England | Letters Posted: 14 Jul 2017 10:20 AM PDT The discussion at the general synod about the wearing or non-wearing of robes was no big deal, says retired vicar John Williams It's not what clergy wear that sets them apart (Surplice to requirement: vicars don't need robes, says C of E, 11 July), but rather what they say and do, which for many, especially young people, renders the church irrelevant. Beliefs in forms of literal biblical fundamentalism and doctrinal orthodoxy do not resonate with much of contemporary culture. It is unfortunate that the church spends time discussing ecclesiastical millinery and human sexuality over and above those matters that really have effect and consequences upon ways of life and living. These do not have to be named, they are too well known. People still look to the church for relevant and radical challenges to issues of social cohesion, poverty, inequality and justice. At least vestments enable congregations to know and identify who the presiding minister is. |
| Macron pulls out all the stops on Bastille Day as Trump leaves satisfied Posted: 14 Jul 2017 09:10 AM PDT US president appeared suitably impressed with his French counterpart's attempt to woo him with a display of pomp and power When France's top military band, in their gold-buttoned uniforms, shattered the formality of the Bastille Day military parade by breaking into a medley by Daft Punk, it wasn't a surprise. For days, the French military's top musicians had been bemusing passersby on the Champs Élysées as they rehearsed their bewilderingly fast dance steps, with many of them darting to and fro heaving tubas and trombones. Continue reading... |
| Torture by Sri Lankan police routine, says human rights lawyer Posted: 14 Jul 2017 06:00 AM PDT Country's judicial system and tolerance of abuse a stain on country's international reputation, reports Ben Emmerson QC The use of torture by Sri Lankan security services has become routine, a UN special rapporteur has concluded following a visit to the country. The four-day visit by Ben Emmerson QC was conducted with the full cooperation of the Sri Lankan government, but the British lawyer found that the country's judicial system, and tolerance of torture, is a "stain on the country's international reputation". Continue reading... |
| Narendra Modi as a dog tweet investigated by Mumbai police Posted: 14 Jul 2017 04:54 AM PDT Comedian Tanmay Bhat under fire after modifying a picture of the Indian prime minister using popular Snapchat filter Police in Mumbai have registered a criminal case against a comedian over a tweet of the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi modified by Snapchat's popular dog filter. The comedy group All-India Bakchod, co-founded by comedian Tanmay Bhat, tweeted the image on Wednesday with the hashtag #wanderlust, an apparent jibe at Modi's propensity for foreign visits. They later deleted it after intense criticism from supporters of the Hindu nationalist leader. |
| French army band medleys Daft Punk at Bastille Day parade – video Posted: 14 Jul 2017 04:45 AM PDT A French army marching band medleys Daft Punk at the end of the Bastille Day parade on Friday. Donald Trump looks somewhat bemused as they perform Get Lucky and some of the group's other hits. French president Emmanuel Macron smiles as other dignitaries clap and dance along Continue reading... |
| Pitching Up – ancient sports for children in Ireland's most ethnically diverse town Posted: 14 Jul 2017 04:00 AM PDT Ballyhaunis in the west of Ireland is at first glance a traditional farming town, a place that in the past has been deeply affected by the emigration of its young. But today Ballyhaunis is unique in an Irish context. The majority of children in the local community school speak neither English nor Gaelic at home due to waves of inward migration from Pakistani, eastern European and African communities. The local policeman Darran Conlon has a mission. He is trying to teach the younger generation of these immigrants how to play traditional Gaelic games, not only to help welcome them to the community but also to simply ensure that the local club – the lifeblood of the town – can actually field a team. |
| Trump and Macron watch Bastille Day parade in Paris – video Posted: 14 Jul 2017 03:53 AM PDT French president Emmanuel Macron and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, watched a parade in Paris on Friday to mark Bastille Day and 100 years since the US joined the first world war. Macron will later fly to Nice to commemorate a year since a truck attack killed 86 people in the Mediterranean city Continue reading... |
| Martina Hingis: ‘If I can help kids to play sport and learn, I will’ | Les Roopanarine Posted: 14 Jul 2017 07:03 AM PDT On the 20th anniversary of her Wimbledon win, the Swiss tennis star is emulating Serena Williams by supporting sport and education projects in poor countries Having twice retired from tennis only to have a change of heart, Martina Hingis likes to joke that she is pursuing her fourth career. Judging by her cheerful disposition as she gently feeds tennis balls to a three-year-old boy at a coaching clinic on the middle Sunday of Wimbledon, where she was champion two decades ago almost to the day, a fifth act beckons. Last December, Hingis became the latest in a long line of tennis stars to put her name to a cause, signing up as an ambassador for Right to Play, a global organisation that uses sport and play to educate children in some of the world's poorest communities. Continue reading... |
| American in Paris: Donald Trump's visit to France – in pictures Posted: 14 Jul 2017 08:29 AM PDT Trump's 24-hour trip coincides with Bastille Day and the centenary of US involvement in the first world war Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump: awkward handshake moments compilation – video Posted: 14 Jul 2017 06:22 AM PDT Donald Trump's handshakes are now famous. Here is a compilation of some of his most memorable greetings Footnote: An earlier version of this video included handshake moments between Trump and Poland's first lady which, in the context, were misleading. Continue reading... |
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