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- Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning
- King Felipe: Catalonia's authorities have 'scorned' all Spaniards with referendum
- Nigeria's ex-first lady hits out at government's 'witch-hunt' over assets
- Yahoo says all of its 3bn accounts were affected by 2013 hacking
- Theresa May faces calls to sack Boris Johnson over Libya comments
- Puerto Rico: Trump appears to complain about cost of relief effort
- Roman Polanski under investigation by Swiss police over new rape allegations
- Outrage greets Mexican feminism panel with 11 participants – all of them male
- You've got wrong man, alleged people-trafficker tells Italian court
- US orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave Washington embassy over sonic 'attacks'
- Netanyahu backs annexation of 19 West Bank settlements
- Oscar Pistorius's family to sue makers of 'grossly misrepresentative' film
- Hindu festival chokes Indian waterways with flowers and idol debris
- Man at centre of Netflix's Making a Murderer case fails to get new trial
- Sirte: what was Boris Johnson talking about?
- King Felipe accuses Catalan authorities of fracturing Spanish solidarity – video
- Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Freedom of the City of Oxford
- Free bus passes for workers: Columbus's big idea to relieve a congested downtown
- ECB asks banks to set aside more cash for bad debt amid €1tn problem
- The pioneering vets who save rhinos left for dead by poachers – in pictures
- Dominica in tatters weeks after Maria: 'We saw everything totally destroyed'
- Netball: Diamonds under serious pressure in Constellation Cup Series
- Julie Bishop on Ivanka Trump: 'That president produced that daughter – interesting'
- RAF jets escort Ryanair flight to Stansted airport after security alert
- Despairing of Trump, Europeans look to Congress to save Iran nuclear deal
- Rohingya crisis: aid groups seek $400m to help a million people in Bangladesh
- Wednesday briefing: May writes riot act over Brexit disunity
- Britain's first atomic bomb detonated - archive, 4 October 1952
- Trump throws paper towels into crowd in Puerto Rico – video
- Hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico more than doubles to 34, governor says
- Test tube babies in a conflict zone: dealing with infertility in Gaza
- Babies behind bars: the Honduran prison where children live with their mothers – in pictures
- Supermarkets are creating an obesity crisis in African countries, experts warn
- Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend is a person of interest, police say – video
- Police release bodycam footage from officer at Las Vegas mass shooting – video
- 'You've thrown our budget a little out of whack', Trump tells Puerto Rico – video
- Donald Trump calls Las Vegas gunman 'demented' - video
- Exclusive footage of young wild elephants being captured in Zimbabwe - video
- Las Vegas shooting aftermath – in pictures
| Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:06 AM PDT
Authorities investigating the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, are preparing to question the girlfriend of gunman Stephen Paddock who has flown back to America after being named a 'person of interest' in the criminal case. As fresh details of the meticulous planning of the massacre were revealed by investigators, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of Clark County told a press conference that detectives were in contact with Marilou Danley, who had been travelling in the Philippines at the time of the killings. Continue reading... |
| King Felipe: Catalonia's authorities have 'scorned' all Spaniards with referendum Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:14 PM PDT Spanish monarch uses strongly worded television address to chastise Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, for attempting to break the 'unity of Spain' King Felipe of Spain has accused the Catalan authorities of attempting to break "the unity of Spain" and warned that their push for independence could risk the country's social and economic stability. In a rare and strongly worded television address on Tuesday evening, he said the Catalan government's behaviour had "eroded the harmony and co-existence within Catalan society itself, managing, unfortunately, to divide it". Continue reading... |
| Nigeria's ex-first lady hits out at government's 'witch-hunt' over assets Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT Patience Jonathan says current president's bid to retrieve millions allegedly siphoned off is revenge for her stance in 2015 poll Nigeria's former first lady has launched a tirade against the country's president, Muhammadu Buhari, and his government's efforts to claw back tens of millions of dollars that she allegedly siphoned off while her husband was in power. Patience Jonathan, the wife of Buhari's predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, railed against what she called an "unjustified witch-hunt" in a statement released in the name of her media aide, Belema Meshack-Hart. Continue reading... |
| Yahoo says all of its 3bn accounts were affected by 2013 hacking Posted: 03 Oct 2017 02:58 PM PDT The company said last December that data from more than 1bn user accounts was compromised in the largest breach in history, but is now tripling that figure Yahoo said on Tuesday that every one of its 3bn accounts was affected by a 2013 data theft at the tech company, tripling its earlier estimate of the largest breach in history. The company, now part of Verizon Communications, said last December that data from more than 1bn user accounts was compromised by hackers in August 2013. Continue reading... |
| Theresa May faces calls to sack Boris Johnson over Libya comments Posted: 04 Oct 2017 12:23 AM PDT Tory and Labour MPs demand action after foreign secretary said Libyan city of Sirte could be next Dubai once it 'cleared the dead bodies away' Theresa May is facing calls to sack Boris Johnson from her own backbenchers after he said that a war-torn Libyan city only has to "clear the dead bodies away" to become a world-class tourist and business destination. Related: Sirte: what was Boris Johnson talking about? Continue reading... |
| Puerto Rico: Trump appears to complain about cost of relief effort Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:49 PM PDT
Donald Trump has heaped praise on his administration's response to Hurricane Maria, said Puerto Rico's leaders should be "very proud" of the low official death toll – and appeared to complain at the cost of the recovery effort. The US president's remarks came on his first visit to the US territory since it was pummeled by a category 4 hurricane nearly two weeks ago, amid continuing criticism that his government has failed to adequately respond to the crisis. Continue reading... |
| Roman Polanski under investigation by Swiss police over new rape allegations Posted: 03 Oct 2017 12:28 PM PDT A woman named Renate Langer interviewed by police says the film-maker raped her in the town of Gstaad when she was 15, in 1972 Swiss police are investigating new rape allegations against Roman Polanski made by a woman who said the film-maker assaulted her in the town of Gstaad in 1972. Related: Roman Polanski on rape case sentence: 'As far as what I did: it's over' Continue reading... |
| Outrage greets Mexican feminism panel with 11 participants – all of them male Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:22 AM PDT
When a pink flyer promoting a feminism conference at Mexico's biggest university was posted on social media this week, it did not take long before people noticed something was amiss. The lineup featured two panels with 11 participants – and all of them were male. It was, as one woman tweeted, the graphic description of "mansplaining". Continue reading... |
| You've got wrong man, alleged people-trafficker tells Italian court Posted: 03 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT Accused says he is not notorious Eritrean smuggler Medhanie Yehdego Mered but a refugee wrongly arrested in Sudan The accused in Italy's highest-profile human trafficking case has spoken in court for the first time since his trial started more than year ago to claim he was the victim of mistaken identity. "This is not my name. This is not my surname. This is not my identity," the man, who Italian authorities say is the notorious Eritrean people smuggler, Medhanie Yehdego Mered, told a court in Palermo, Sicily. "You are prosecuting the wrong man. This is all absurd.'' Continue reading... |
| US orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave Washington embassy over sonic 'attacks' Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:20 AM PDT
The US has ordered 15 Cuban embassy officials to leave the country as result of a string of mysterious health incidents affecting 22 of its diplomats in Havana, which Washington says were the result of deliberate attacks. Related: US spies in Cuba were among first victims of mysterious sonic 'attacks' Continue reading... |
| Netanyahu backs annexation of 19 West Bank settlements Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:13 AM PDT Israeli PM's support of bill to bring Jewish areas into Greater Jerusalem shows refusal to revive peace process, say Palestinians Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has backed legislation that would in effect annex settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories that are home to between 125,000 and 150,000 Jewish people. In comments made at a meeting of his Likud party at the large settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Netanyahu said he would support the "Greater Jerusalem" bill. The bill, pushed by rightwing MPs, would annex 19 settlements around Jerusalem, placing them within the city's municipal boundaries. Continue reading... |
| Oscar Pistorius's family to sue makers of 'grossly misrepresentative' film Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:20 AM PDT Relatives of Paralympian threaten to take legal action over US drama Blade Runner Killer, scheduled for release next month The family of Oscar Pistorius are to sue the makers of a new film on the life of the South African sprinter, who is serving a prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend four years ago. In a statement on Tuesday, they said the film, to be released next month, was "a gross misrepresentation of the truth". Continue reading... |
| Hindu festival chokes Indian waterways with flowers and idol debris Posted: 03 Oct 2017 04:23 AM PDT Environmentalists say holy ceremonies such as 10-day Durga Puja overwhelming already polluted Yamuna river Sections of a major river in Delhi are choking with plastic, flowers and debris after an annual Hindu festival in which hundreds of idols were immersed in Indian waterways. Related: Murder most foul: polluted Indian river reported dead despite 'living entity' status Continue reading... |
| Man at centre of Netflix's Making a Murderer case fails to get new trial Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:51 AM PDT Judge says Steven Avery, whose conviction for the 2005 death of Teresa Halbach was focus of documentary series, failed to establish grounds to warrant new trial A Wisconsin man convicted in the killing of a woman that was the focus of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer has been denied a request for a new trial. Steven Avery's attorney said she planned to present new evidence to the court to try and revive his request after it was rejected by a state circuit judge. Avery had argued that his conviction in the 2005 death of photographer Teresa Halbach was based on planted evidence and false testimony. Continue reading... |
| Sirte: what was Boris Johnson talking about? Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:28 AM PDT What prompted British foreign secretary's comments about the war-torn Libyan city that led to accusations of insensitivity? Boris Johnson created a fresh storm at the Conservative conference and provoked calls for his resignation, after saying that the war-torn Libyan city of Sirte had only to "clear the dead bodies away" to become a world-class tourist destination like Dubai. But what lay behind his remarks that prompted criticism of insensitivity and callousness? |
| King Felipe accuses Catalan authorities of fracturing Spanish solidarity – video Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:19 AM PDT The Spanish monarch said on Tuesday that Catalan authorities had attempted to break 'the unity of Spain'. Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of Spain's national police force in Barcelona on Tuesday amid strikes in protest at police violence during the disputed referendum on Catalonian independence Continue reading... |
| Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Freedom of the City of Oxford Posted: 04 Oct 2017 12:29 AM PDT Council's removal of honour is latest by a British institution over her apparent defence of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Aung San Suu Kyi is to be stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford, where she studied as an undergraduate, over her response to the Rohingya crisis. Oxford city council voted unanimously to support a cross-party motion that said it was "no longer appropriate" to celebrate the de facto leader of Myanmar. The council is to hold a special meeting to confirm the honour's removal on 27 November. Continue reading... |
| Free bus passes for workers: Columbus's big idea to relieve a congested downtown Posted: 03 Oct 2017 04:20 AM PDT Columbus is the first major US city to give downtown workers free public transport passes regardless of who they work for, and whether they intend to use them. Can the programme change the mindset of this car-centric city? One of the problems faced by the US city of Columbus is simple to articulate but hard to fix. Parking pressures in the centre are forcing businesses further out, and the question for downtown businesses is how to get people out of cars and on to public transport. With a population of 860,090, Ohio's state capital is now the 14th largest city in the country and after Chicago, the second-biggest in the midwest. It has grown by 28% (from 668,808) since 1997, and it is easy to see why; Columbus has a large university population, a growing arts scene, old money foundations spreading wealth and attractive older neighbourhoods in the centre. Continue reading... |
| ECB asks banks to set aside more cash for bad debt amid €1tn problem Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:19 AM PDT Central bank attempts to prevent creation of new eurozone debt pile by making it more expensive to hold problem loans The European Central Bank is attempting to put a lid on the near €1tn (£886m) of bad debts stored up in eurozone banks by asking lenders to be more prudent about the way they handle new customers falling behind on repayments. The Frankfurt-based central bank issued new guidance on Wednesday intended to stop a new pile of problem debts being built up inside eurozone banks by setting out how much cash it wants lenders to set aside for bad debts incurred from January 2018. Continue reading... |
| The pioneering vets who save rhinos left for dead by poachers – in pictures Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT South Africa's rising poaching problem has seen a shocking 6,115 rhinos killed in the last nine years. Saving the Survivors' ground-breaking initiative sees a small team of vets race to the scene to try and treat the animals before it's too late Continue reading... |
| Dominica in tatters weeks after Maria: 'We saw everything totally destroyed' Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:30 PM PDT Things are slowly improving after the devastation of its strongest hurricane on record, but much of the island is still isolated without power and water More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria battered Dominica – pelting it with winds of nearly 160mph and stripping it of vegetation – aid workers and officials say that much of the island remains without power and water, and cut off from communications. The island of 71,000 people was the first to bear the brunt of the category 5 hurricane when it struck in mid-September. "My roof is gone," Roosevelt Skerrit, the island's prime minister, wrote on Facebook as the storm made landfall. "I am at the complete mercy of the hurricane. House is flooding." Continue reading... |
| Netball: Diamonds under serious pressure in Constellation Cup Series Posted: 03 Oct 2017 05:09 PM PDT The 57-47 loss to Silver Ferns in September sparks unprecedented turmoil for one of Australia's most successful teams After a shock 10-goal loss to the Silver Ferns last month, the Australian netball Diamonds are in unfamiliar territory heading into the first Test of the coveted trans-Tasman Constellation Cup in Auckland. The reigning World and Commonwealth champions are, for the first time in recent years, under serious pressure. The Diamonds' 57-47 defeat in the Quad Series decider in Invercargill, labelled "simply unacceptable" by coach Lisa Alexander – which handed the perennial bridesmaid Kiwis their first series win over Australia since 2012 – has sparked a period of unprecedented turmoil for one of the country's most successful teams; male or female. |
| Julie Bishop on Ivanka Trump: 'That president produced that daughter – interesting' Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:54 AM PDT Minister also says she made deal with female cabinet colleagues to vocally support their idea no matter the topic Australia's foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, has apparently expressed surprise that "one of the most thoughtful and down-to-earth" people she has met is the daughter of the US president. Bishop used a women's affairs lunch on Wednesday to discuss various gender issues, including her time as the lone female in Tony Abbott's first cabinet. |
| RAF jets escort Ryanair flight to Stansted airport after security alert Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:13 AM PDT Spokesman for airport says flight from Lithuania to Luton was diverted and landed safely with police in attendance A Ryanair passenger jet has been escorted into Stansted airport by two RAF fighter jets following a suspected hoax security alert. Flights were temporaily grounded at the airport as the passneger plane was diverted from its route between Kaunas, Lithuania, and Luton airport in Bedfordshire. Continue reading... |
| Despairing of Trump, Europeans look to Congress to save Iran nuclear deal Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:15 PM PDT Despite pressure from UK and France, US president expected to declare Tehran in violation of agreement but Senate could yet block reimposition of sanctions European governments fear a concerted effort to persuade Donald Trump to continue to certify the Iran nuclear deal may have failed and are now looking for other ways to try to salvage the two year-old agreement. European lobbying efforts are now focused on Congress which will have two months to decide – in the absence of Trump's endorsement of the 2015 deal – whether to reimpose nuclear-related sanctions. Continue reading... |
| Rohingya crisis: aid groups seek $400m to help a million people in Bangladesh Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:29 PM PDT Agencies' aid plan targets 1.2 million people, many of them children, who need life-saving help Humanitarian organisations helping Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh say they need $434m (£327m) over the next six months to help up to 1.2 million people, many of them children, who need life-saving help. There are an estimated 809,000 Rohingya sheltering in Bangladesh after fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, more than half a million of whom have arrived since 25 August to join 300,000 Rohingya who were already in Bangladesh. Continue reading... |
| Wednesday briefing: May writes riot act over Brexit disunity Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:24 PM PDT PM will demand end to spats in personal speech … Las Vegas police release bodycam footage … and maybe go easy on the pesto Good morning everyone, Graham Russell here with what's going on today. Continue reading... |
| Britain's first atomic bomb detonated - archive, 4 October 1952 Posted: 03 Oct 2017 09:30 PM PDT 4 October 1952 An atomic weapon of British manufacture was exploded in the Montebello islands early yesterday. There was a flash, a double bang, a blast of wind, and a cloud unlike the usual mushroom-shaped one The sound and the appearance of yesterday's atomic explosion in the Monte Bello Islands have caused speculation that Britain may have produced a new type of atomic weapon. Observers on the mainland report that they heard a double explosion, the second louder than the first. This could be accounted for, it is stated, by the trigger effect of a "conventional" atomic weapon exploding some other material as in a hydrogen bomb. It could also be produced by a new method of exploding a "conventional" bomb. Continue reading... |
| Trump throws paper towels into crowd in Puerto Rico – video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 09:20 PM PDT The US president and first lady visit a disaster relief distribution centre at Calvary Chapel outside San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday where Trump throws paper towels into the crowd. Donald Trump's first visit to the US territory since it was pummeled by a category 4 hurricane nearly two weeks ago came amid criticism that his government has failed to adequately respond to the crisis. The island's 3.4 million residents – particularly those in the more isolated parts – are still largely without electricity, communications and access to clean drinking water and food. But Trump told reporters: 'It's now acknowledged what a great job we've done.' The official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico now stands at 34. The governor says the hurricane that struck on 20 September with winds over 150 mph caused $90bn in damage across the Caribbean island Continue reading... |
| Hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico more than doubles to 34, governor says Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:58 PM PDT Update on Hurricane Maria comes after Donald Trump's short visit to assess the storm's impact, as governor estimates $90bn in damage across the island The official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico has increased to 34 from 16, the US territory's governor said Tuesday. Governor Ricardo Rosselló also said he believes the hurricane that struck on 20 September with winds over 150 mph caused $90bn in damage across the Caribbean island. Continue reading... |
| Test tube babies in a conflict zone: dealing with infertility in Gaza Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT The UN has called the Gaza Strip unlivable, yet IVF treatment is widely available to its residents, with some paying thousands of dollars while others take advantage of a goodwill gesture by the ruling Hamas party The Gaza Strip was a month into this summer's suffocating electricity crisis when Thair Salah Mortaja became a father for the first time. He had spent thousands of dollars to overcome infertility – first paying for drugs, then a futile operation, and finally for costly in vitro fertilisation (IVF) – but the struggle for parenthood did not end there. His wife, Fatima, went into labour when she was just seven months pregnant, partly because of poor prenatal care. Their doctor wanted to get her to a specialist in Nablus, but the hard-to-procure permit to exit blockaded Gaza into Israel and proceed to the West Bank city didn't come through. After a tense labour, she gave birth prematurely to triplets (multiple births are common with IVF). But the intensive baby care unit at Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, was already over capacity. Continue reading... |
| Babies behind bars: the Honduran prison where children live with their mothers – in pictures Posted: 03 Oct 2017 05:02 AM PDT There is only one prison in Honduras that holds only women. The Penitenciaria Nacional Femenina de Adaptación Social, based in Tamara, 40km from the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, holds 700 female prisoners and is the only facility in the country where infants can live with their mothers. The prison is home to 49 children, and six more babies on the way Photographs by Christina Simons. Text by Alëx Elliott |
| Supermarkets are creating an obesity crisis in African countries, experts warn Posted: 03 Oct 2017 02:22 AM PDT Middle-class no longer eating what they grow, contributing to rising numbers of overweight people and creating a 'double burden of malnutrition', say researchers Changing dietary habits are creating an obesity crisis in African countries as middle-class people buy their food from supermarkets rather than eating food they grow, a group of international food security experts has warned. A report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel, a group of agriculture and food experts, claims obesity is becoming a significant challenge for governments, agencies and the private sector in African countries, many of which are already dealing with malnutrition and stunting. Diabetes is also on the rise, said the panel. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend is a person of interest, police say – video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:30 PM PDT Police say the gunman in the Las Vegas shooting set up cameras inside and outside the hotel room where he opened fire on the crowd at a country music concert. Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news conference on Tuesday that he believed shooter Stephen Craig Paddock set up the cameras to see if anyone was coming to take him into custody. Paddock's girlfriend, travelling in the Philippines, is a person of interest, the sheriff said Continue reading... |
| Police release bodycam footage from officer at Las Vegas mass shooting – video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:07 PM PDT Sheriff Joe Lombardo plays bodycam footage from officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department who responded to the mass shooting at a concert on Sunday. Shots could be heard as police tried to locate the gunman and usher people away from gunfire Continue reading... |
| 'You've thrown our budget a little out of whack', Trump tells Puerto Rico – video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:38 PM PDT Donald Trump has made his first visit to Puerto Rico since the US territory was pummelled by Hurricane Maria nearly two weeks ago. Shortly after landing in San Juan, the president praised his administration's response, said the island's leaders should be "very proud" of the low official death toll – and appeared to complain at the cost of the recovery effort. The island's 3.4 million residents are still largely without electricity, communications and access to clean drinking water and food Puerto Rico: Trump praises 'great job we've done' in visit to stricken island Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump calls Las Vegas gunman 'demented' - video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 09:44 AM PDT Before departing for Puerto Rico on Tuesday, the US president talks about Sunday night's mass shooting. 'What happened in Las Vegas is in many ways a miracle,' he said. 'The police department has done such an incredible job, and we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by.' Although police have not described the shooter's mental health at all, the president called him 'a sick man, a demented man, a lot of problems, I guess.
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| Exclusive footage of young wild elephants being captured in Zimbabwe - video Posted: 03 Oct 2017 03:49 AM PDT This rare footage exposes the secretive world of wild elephant capture in Zimbabwe. The captors shoot tranquiliser guns from a helicopter on the young elephants, and then dive in the chopper to drive away the rest of the herd. Over the last 20 years more than 1000 wild elephants from Africa and Asia have been captured and sold to zoos around the world; the elephants are often captured while still young. |
| Las Vegas shooting aftermath – in pictures Posted: 03 Oct 2017 03:14 AM PDT Following the worst mass shooting in modern US history, in which a man killed at least 59 people and injured more than 500, tributes are paid and vigils held as Americans reel from the attack Continue reading... |
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