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- USS John S McCain: 10 US sailors missing after destroyer collides with oil tanker
- Police extend hunt for Barcelona attack suspect across Europe
- Jerry Lewis, king of comedy, dies at 91
- Donald Trump to announce new strategy on Afghanistan in major speech
- Iraqi forces advance on Isis-held city of Tal Afar
- India upholds controversial marriage annulment amid ‘love jihad’ inquiry
- Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots
- Thousands march in Hong Kong for release of pro-democracy leaders
- Grace Mugabe flies home to Zimbabwe with diplomatic immunity
- Oxford University employee and US professor charged with murder
- German writer held in Spain on Turkish warrant granted conditional release
- Briton hurt helping Finland attack victims says he is not a hero
- Bannon departs – but ‘Trump whisperer’ could have more influence from outside
- Man on a scooter plunges into sinkhole – video
- BBC braces for backlash over North Korea service
- Trump attacks Boston counter-protesters as 'anti-police agitators'
- Chinese carmaker Great Wall looks at bidding for Fiat Chrysler
- One dead after car hits bus shelters in Marseille
- Markets cautious ahead of key week for central banks – business live
- Arizona's 'concentration camp': why was Tent City kept open for 24 years?
- Invisible speedbumps: can these cheap tarmac Banksys slow drivers down?
- Eleanor Rigby's grave deeds to be auctioned with Beatles song score
- US warship damaged after collision – video
- North Korea warns Australia that supporting Trump is a 'suicidal act'
- Finnish court names knife attack suspect as Abderrahman Mechkah
- Spanish police focus on Ripoll imam who vanished before terror attacks
- Mourners in Barcelona light candles at Las Ramblas memorial – video
- South Korea warns North over 'repeated provocation' as US-Seoul war games begin
- Monday briefing: net closes on social media hate crimes
- How do you live on £36.95 a week? Asylum seekers on surviving on their allowance
- Diesel scandal is a risk to German economy, says ministry
- Barcelona unites for opening game of the football season
- North Korea's bold wave of propaganda art - in pictures
- Using confession to face up to crimes | Letters
- Tens of thousands march against right-wing rally in Boston - aerial video
- Best photos of the day: Barcelona tributes and fireworks in Russia
| USS John S McCain: 10 US sailors missing after destroyer collides with oil tanker Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:25 PM PDT A rescue mission is underway off Singapore in an incident which follows the fatal collision between USS Fitzgerald and merchant ship in June Ten American sailors are missing and five injured after the guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore. Singaporean, Malaysian and US search and rescue teams, consisting of patrol ships, helicopters and tug boats, were deployed to the area to look for the missing crew. Continue reading... |
| Police extend hunt for Barcelona attack suspect across Europe Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:01 AM PDT Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, continues to elude police despite 800 checkpoints and increase in anti-terrorism officers The hunt for the main suspect in the Barcelona terrorist attack has been extended to other European countries, a Catalan government official has said. Police said on Monday they believe Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national, was the driver of the van that ploughed through crowds of tourists in Las Ramblas on Thursday, killing 13 people and leaving dozens more seriously injured. Continue reading... |
| Jerry Lewis, king of comedy, dies at 91 Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:09 AM PDT Much-loved American comic behind hit films such as The Nutty Professor has died in Las Vegas •Peter Bradshaw on Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life Related: Jerry Lewis: a life in pictures Jerry Lewis, the "king of comedy" who dominated 1950s Hollywood, has died at the age of 91. |
| Donald Trump to announce new strategy on Afghanistan in major speech Posted: 20 Aug 2017 02:28 PM PDT US president to deliver address to troops and the nation at Fort Myer military base on Monday night Donald Trump will announce his decision on America's strategy in Afghanistan on Monday night in an address to US troops and the nation almost 16 years after the war began. The US president will "provide an update on the path forward for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia" in an address to be delivered at 9pm ET from the military base at Fort Myer, southwest of the capital, the White House said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Iraqi forces advance on Isis-held city of Tal Afar Posted: 20 Aug 2017 10:21 AM PDT Military leaders are confident of recapturing one of the last remaining Islamic State strongholds in the country but humanitarian groups fear for civilians Iraqi forces have pushed into the outskirts of one of the last Islamic State-held areas in the country – the north-western city of Tal Afar. The operation comes just over a month after Mosul was retaken from the terror group, ending a three-year rule over Iraq's second city and confining the extremists to ever-shrinking pockets of the country, stretching to the Syrian border. Continue reading... |
| India upholds controversial marriage annulment amid ‘love jihad’ inquiry Posted: 20 Aug 2017 04:01 PM PDT Widespread shock as supreme court endorses dissolution of union between woman from Hindu family and Muslim man and orders forced marriage inquiry The Indian supreme court has upheld a decision to annul the marriage of a 24-year-old woman in Kerala and force her to live back at her parents' house because she married a Muslim man. Related: 'Love jihad' in India and one man's quest to prevent it | Aman Sethi Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots Posted: 20 Aug 2017 07:01 AM PDT Open letter signed by Tesla chief and Google's Mustafa Suleyman urges UN to block use of lethal autonomous weapons to prevent third age of war Some of the world's leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots. Tesla's Elon Musk and Google's Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 specialists from across 26 countries who are calling for the ban on autonomous weapons. Continue reading... |
| Thousands march in Hong Kong for release of pro-democracy leaders Posted: 20 Aug 2017 07:03 AM PDT In sweltering heat, protesters wear brown prison uniforms in homage to jailed Alex Chow, Nathan Law and Joshua Wong Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Hong Kong – some clad in prison uniforms – to demand the release of three of the former British colony's best-known pro-democracy leaders. Related: Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-China protests Continue reading... |
| Grace Mugabe flies home to Zimbabwe with diplomatic immunity Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:12 AM PDT Wife of president Robert Mugabe returns to Harare despite facing allegations of assault on model in Johannesburg Grace Mugabe, the wife of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, flew home from South Africa on Sunday after being granted diplomatic immunity from being prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a young model in Johannesburg. State broadcaster ZBC showed her greeting government and military officials at the airport in Harare after returning on an Air Zimbabwe plane with her husband, who had attended a summit of southern African leaders in Pretoria. |
| Oxford University employee and US professor charged with murder Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:33 AM PDT Police rule out love triangle saying more disturbing motive lies behind stabbing of 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago Detectives have ruled out a love triangle between an Oxford University employee, a US professor and their alleged murder victim, who was found with more than 40 stab wounds, police have said. Somerville College's Andrew Warren, 56, and Professor Wyndham Lathem, 42, have been charged with murdering hair stylist Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in Lathem's Chicago apartment. |
| German writer held in Spain on Turkish warrant granted conditional release Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:22 AM PDT Turkish-born author Doğan Akhanlı, who has written about human rights in Turkey, was arrested while on holiday Germany welcomed the release on Sunday of a German writer detained in Spain on a Turkish warrant and accused Turkey of abusing the international system used to hunt down fugitives. Turkish-born writer Doğan Akhanlı, who has German citizenship, was arrested on Saturday while on holiday in southern Spain. Akhanlı was conditionally released after a court hearing on Sunday, but ordered to remain in Madrid while Turkey's extradition request is considered, his lawyer said. Continue reading... |
| Briton hurt helping Finland attack victims says he is not a hero Posted: 20 Aug 2017 03:55 AM PDT Hassan Zubier, a paramedic living in Sweden, says he was stabbed as he tried to help people during incident in Turku A British paramedic who was repeatedly stabbed while helping victims of a terrorist attack in Finland has denied being a hero, insisting he was merely following his training. Continue reading... |
| Bannon departs – but ‘Trump whisperer’ could have more influence from outside Posted: 19 Aug 2017 10:50 AM PDT Despite his exit from the White House, Trump's longtime ally retains plenty of power – and a war with Republican leaders in Washington is firmly in his sights As Steve Bannon's departure from the White House amplified predictions of a brewing war between the so-called "alt-right" and the Republican establishment, there was speculation Donald Trump's former chief strategist could hold even more influence on the president from the outside than he did during his tumultuous tenure inside the West Wing. Related: Trump lauds Bannon but Charlottesville fallout persists with new row over arts event Continue reading... |
| Man on a scooter plunges into sinkhole – video Posted: 20 Aug 2017 07:37 AM PDT A motorcyclist escaped with only minor injuries after riding into a sinkhole in China. The footage, taken last week, shows the man looking at his phone shortly before crashing into the gaping crater in the road. CCTV captured the moment the street collapses before the unwitting motorcyclist drops into the hole head-first. |
| BBC braces for backlash over North Korea service Posted: 20 Aug 2017 08:18 AM PDT Director of BBC World Service says tensions over North Korea's nuclear tests vindicate the launch of a targeted service The BBC is braced for a backlash from the North Korean government about the launch of a new service targeted at the country amid growing international tensions over its nuclear missile tests. Francesca Unsworth, the director of BBC World Service, said the corporation was wary about launching the new North Korean service next month due to the likely opposition from the government but insisted the fragile political situation vindicated the move. Continue reading... |
| Trump attacks Boston counter-protesters as 'anti-police agitators' Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:48 PM PDT
Donald Trump described anti-fascist and anti-racist demonstrators who converged on Boston as "anti-police agitators" on Saturday, in a tweet that seemed destined to revive the still simmering controversy over his remarks equating the far right and anti-Nazis in Charlottesville last weekend. Related: Bannon departs – but 'Trump whisperer' could have more influence from outside Continue reading... |
| Chinese carmaker Great Wall looks at bidding for Fiat Chrysler Posted: 21 Aug 2017 02:27 AM PDT Potential bid for all or part of Italian-American group, with specific interest in its Jeep brand, send target's shares up in Milan China's Great Wall Motor Company has said it is interested in bidding for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which owns brands including Jeep and the lorry maker Ram. A company official confirmed it was pursuing all or part of FCA after the US publication Automotive News reported that a "well-known Chinese automaker" had made an offer this month, triggering a jump in FCA's Milan-listed shares. Continue reading... |
| One dead after car hits bus shelters in Marseille Posted: 21 Aug 2017 02:26 AM PDT Driver arrested after vehicle driven into two bus shelters in southern French city, police say At least one person has died and another has been injured after a car was driven into two bus shelters in Marseille. French police said the car's driver drove on to the pavement in the Croix-Rouge area north of the city at about 8.15am, hitting and injuring one person. Continue reading... |
| Markets cautious ahead of key week for central banks – business live Posted: 21 Aug 2017 02:22 AM PDT North Korea and Trump back in the spotlight as bankers prepare for Jackson Hole summit in the US
Sterling is just about holding steady against the other major currencies at the moment after its worst week since early June, but the currency remains under pressure. It is marginally lower against the dollar at $1.2870, having earlier fallen as low as $1.2851. Against the euro, it is up 0.1% at €1.0959. #IHSMarkit survey shows proportion of #UK #households expecting #BOE #interest #rate hike in next 12 months down to 33% in Aug (48% in Jul)
Back with China's interest in Fiat Chrysler: Great Wall confirms it is interested in buying Fiat Chrysler. Can't see how this will possibly be a problem for @realDonaldTrump. Continue reading... |
| Arizona's 'concentration camp': why was Tent City kept open for 24 years? Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:15 PM PDT In 1993 Joe Arpaio, America's 'toughest sheriff', opened a temporary outdoor jail in Phoenix. After more than two decades, the notorious project is finally closing 'Hitler! Hitler!" the prisoners chanted to the TV cameras in protest. It was 4 February 2009. More than 200 Latino men in black-and-white striped uniforms, shackled to each other, were being marched towards an outdoor unit especially for "illegal alien" prisoners in Arizona's infamous jail, Tent City. The chants were directed at the Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, who a few months before had called this outdoor jail close to downtown Phoenix – his own tough-on-crime creation – a "concentration camp" in a speech to political supporters at his local Italian-American club. |
| Invisible speedbumps: can these cheap tarmac Banksys slow drivers down? Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:02 AM PDT London hopes optical illusions painted on busy roads will trick motorists into reducing their speed. The locations are secret, but we tracked some down It's an odd look, the one people shoot you when you tell them you'll be spending the afternoon driving over illusory speedbumps. Well, fake speedbumps may not be real, but that doesn't mean they don't work. TfL trialled them in Newham, London in 2014, cutting traffic speeds there by 3mph. They are painted humps on the road: white arcs, about a metre wide, like slightly asymmetrical Vs that, by the miracle of perspective, fool the eye into seeing them as looming out of the tarmac as drivers approach. Continue reading... |
| Eleanor Rigby's grave deeds to be auctioned with Beatles song score Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Certificate of purchase and receipt for grave space to be sold with miniature bible belonging to woman whose name was immortalised by McCartney What to buy for the Beatles fan who has everything? The right to be buried on top of Eleanor Rigby in a Liverpool graveyard, perhaps. Deeds for the grave of the woman who may have been the inspiration for the Beatles song go on sale at an auction next month. Continue reading... |
| US warship damaged after collision – video Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:58 PM PDT The USS John S McCain was left damaged on its port side following a collision with an oil tanker. Ten sailors are missing and five injured after the guided-missile destroyer collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC, the US navy said Continue reading... |
| North Korea warns Australia that supporting Trump is a 'suicidal act' Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:31 AM PDT Pyongyang's official news agency says Malcolm Turnbull 'invites disaster' by pledging to support the US in any conflict with Kim Jong-un's regime North Korea has warned Australia it has committed a "suicidal act" by committing its troops to help the US in any conflict over Pyongyang's nuclear program and by joining military exercises with US and South Korean forces. The official KCNA news agency noted that the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had recently vowed his country's military would fight alongside the US if the latter was attacked by North Korea. |
| Finnish court names knife attack suspect as Abderrahman Mechkah Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:59 AM PDT Moroccan man, 18, suspected of killing two women and wounding eight other people in Turku, may appear in court via video link An 18-year-old Moroccan man suspected of killing two women and wounding eight other people in a knife attack in Finland has been named by a court as Abderrahman Mechkah. The crimes are being treated as murder and attempted murder with terrorist intent. Continue reading... |
| Spanish police focus on Ripoll imam who vanished before terror attacks Posted: 21 Aug 2017 01:15 AM PDT In town a short drive from the French border, 12 members of the terror cell helped each other along the path to radicalisation and mass murder Nowhere is the shock at last Thursday's attack in Barcelona greater than in Ripoll, a small town of 11,000 people in the foothills of the Pyrenees, a short drive south of the French border. Residents there have been coming to terms with the news that not only were many of the terrorists little more than boys – four of those shot by police after driving into a group of pedestrians in Cambrils, south of Barcelona, in the early hours of Friday, were teenagers – but that many of them had lived among them. Continue reading... |
| Mourners in Barcelona light candles at Las Ramblas memorial – video Posted: 21 Aug 2017 12:51 AM PDT A crowd gathered at a makeshift memorial on Las Ramblas promenade in Barcelona on Sunday night to pay tribute to the victims of last week's terrorist attacks in Spain. Candles and flowers were laid along the historic shopping district, the site of a van attack that killed 13 people, injured 120 others and brought Islamist extremism to the heart of Catalonia Continue reading... |
| South Korea warns North over 'repeated provocation' as US-Seoul war games begin Posted: 21 Aug 2017 12:05 AM PDT President Moon Jae-in defends joint military drills and urges Pyongyang not to use them as an excuse to increase tensions Seoul and Washington have begun annual war games, prompting the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, to warn North Korea against using them as an excuse to intensify the "vicious cycle" of tensions. Tens of thousands of South Korean and US troops are taking part in the Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint military drills, a largely computer-simulated exercise that runs for two weeks in the South. Continue reading... |
| Monday briefing: net closes on social media hate crimes Posted: 20 Aug 2017 10:28 PM PDT DPP unveils plan to put online abuse on a par with face-to-face incidents … sailors missing as US destroyer hits oil tanker … Big Ben takes it toll Good morning, Graham Russell here with the news stories to start your week. Continue reading... |
| How do you live on £36.95 a week? Asylum seekers on surviving on their allowance Posted: 20 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT Secondhand clothes, discounted food, children's toys and books donated by charities ... We talk to some of the 39,000 asylum seekers whose weekly allowance leaves them counting out their lives in pennies How do you live on £36.95 a week? It's a question that 39,000 asylum seekers in Britain are currently grappling with. When people arrive in the UK and apply for asylum, they are not allowed to work while they wait for their claim to be decided. Those who have savings must live off them; those who are destitute – an understandably high number, given the circumstances in which many people flee their countries – are entitled to support in the form of housing and an allowance of £36.95 a person a week. Continue reading... |
| Diesel scandal is a risk to German economy, says ministry Posted: 20 Aug 2017 08:37 PM PDT The cheating on diesel tests are bracketed with Brexit and possible US tariffs as potential threat to growth The emissions scandal ensnaring German carmakers is a risk to Europe's largest economy, the finance ministry said on Monday. In its monthly report, the ministry named the issue, which broke out almost two years ago after Volkswagen admitted to cheating US diesel emissions tests, as a threat to Germany along with Britain's decision to leave the European Union and protectionist trade policies by the US government. Continue reading... |
| Barcelona unites for opening game of the football season Posted: 20 Aug 2017 02:55 PM PDT Players wear black armbands in memory of the victims of attacks in Catalonia to chorus of 'we are not afraid' from the crowds First came the stillness of mourning, then a defiant roar of "We are not afraid" as tens of thousands of Barcelona football fans started the new La Liga season by paying their respects to the victims of Thursday's terrorist attacks. With emotions still raw in the Catalan capital following the car attacks that killed 13 people on Las Ramblas boulevard and another person in the town of Cambrils, the phrase "only a game" had rarely felt more appropriate ahead of the kick-off against Real Betis, which Barcelona won 2-0. Continue reading... |
| North Korea's bold wave of propaganda art - in pictures Posted: 20 Aug 2017 01:11 PM PDT The searing propaganda is aimed to embolden the country and urge its people to resist US imperialism - with an arsenal of missiles eyed as the ultimate threat Continue reading... |
| Using confession to face up to crimes | Letters Posted: 20 Aug 2017 11:31 AM PDT Readers Fr Alec Mitchell, Judith Daniels and Dr Henry Thompson respond to Joanna Moorhead's article Confession is sacrosanct As a (sinful) Anglo-Catholic priest, I, too, would never disclose anything said to me during the sacrament of confession (or reconciliation, as many now prefer to call it), even under threat of prosecution (Confession is sacrosanct, Joanna Moorhead, 17 August). However, the confessor is at liberty to prescribe an act of penance, and this could surely include, in cases such as child abuse, domestic violence, or murder, for example, a promise to seek professional help, or even an admission of guilt to the appropriate authorities, before any further absolving could be given. In this way, all consciences would be respected and sacrilegiousness avoided. |
| Tens of thousands march against right-wing rally in Boston - aerial video Posted: 20 Aug 2017 05:54 AM PDT An estimated 40,000 protesters marched against a 'free speech rally' in Boston on Saturday. Police formed a cordon around those attending the rally for fear of a repeat of the events in Charlottesville, Virginia Continue reading... |
| Best photos of the day: Barcelona tributes and fireworks in Russia Posted: 20 Aug 2017 05:52 AM PDT A selection of photo highlights from around the world, including tributes to the victims of the Spain attacks Continue reading... |
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