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- Donald Trump says US could re-enter Paris climate deal
- Grounds for impeachment if Trump lied about trying to fire Mueller – Ken Starr
- UN envoy to attend Syria peace talks despite boycott
- Five Britons arrested for 'pornographic dancing' in Cambodia
- Dennis Peron, father of medical marijuana in California, dies at 72
- Cyprus president faces runoff after failing to win overall majority
- Two British skiers fall hundreds of metres to their deaths in France
- Trump hits back after Jay-Z calls president 'superbug' in racism debate
- Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases
- Alexei Navalny ‘detained’ at anti-Putin election protest
- Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies aged 91
- 'Super blue blood moon': stargazers prepare for rare celestial event
- Swollen Seine peaks in Paris
- The bureaucracy of evil: how Islamic State ran a city
- Tell us your experiences of cities at war
- A century of cities at war – in pictures
- Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis
- M&S one of UK retailers yet to renew safety deal in Bangladesh factories
- Minister explains why she condemned hardline Tory Brexiters as 'swivel-eyed' - Politics live
- Orange cave crocodiles may be mutating into new species
- Trump interview: 'I'm very popular in Britain. I get a lot of fan mail'
- 'The Rodney King of western Canada': killing of indigenous man heads to trial
- Missing Kiribati ferry: Australia and US join search for survivors
- Victoria heat blackouts spark blame debate as 7,000 properties without power
- NHS admits doctors may be using tools made by children in Pakistan
- Buyer's remorse: Australia's sorry record on defence hardware
- Narcissistic buddies meet in the Piers and Donald show
- Hillary Clinton mocks Trump in Fire and Fury Grammys skit – video
- Flooding in Paris – in pictures
- 'I would have taken a tougher stand in getting out' says Trump on Brexit – video
| Donald Trump says US could re-enter Paris climate deal Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:02 PM PST In ITV interview US president also says he would take tougher stand on Brexit than Theresa May Donald Trump has said the United States could re-enter the Paris climate change agreement – and that he would have taken a "tougher stand" in Brexit negotiations than Theresa May. The US president said his country could join the international accord if it had a "completely different deal" but called the existing agreement a "terrible deal" and a "disaster" for the US. Continue reading... |
| Grounds for impeachment if Trump lied about trying to fire Mueller – Ken Starr Posted: 28 Jan 2018 10:39 AM PST Independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton says: 'Lying to the American people is a serious issue that has to be explored' If Donald Trump lied to the American people when he called reports he tried to fire Robert Mueller "fake news", that would be grounds for impeachment, the independent counsel who investigated the Clinton White House said on Sunday. Related: Donald Trump denies report he tried to fire Robert Mueller in June Continue reading... |
| UN envoy to attend Syria peace talks despite boycott Posted: 28 Jan 2018 09:27 AM PST Russian-backed conference in Sochi turns into power struggle as opposition groups stay away The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, will attend a Russian-sponsored peace conference boycotted by the official Syrian opposition at which over 1,000 delegates are expected to endorse a statement urging the west to lift sanctions and start rebuilding Syria. The Syrian national dialogue congress, meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday and Tuesday, is also being boycotted by the main Syrian Kurdish groups. Continue reading... |
| Five Britons arrested for 'pornographic dancing' in Cambodia Posted: 28 Jan 2018 08:14 AM PST Group are among 10 foreigners arrested near Angkor Wat who could face 12 months in prison Five Britons are among a group of 10 foreigners arrested in Cambodia for "singing and dancing pornographically", after a raid on a party in Siem Reap near the tourist destination of Angkor Wat. They face up to a year in prison and could spend six months in detention before the case goes to court, according to reports. Continue reading... |
| Dennis Peron, father of medical marijuana in California, dies at 72 Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:24 PM PST
Dennis Peron, the activist who fired up the movement to legalize medical marijuana in California, died on Saturday in a San Francisco hospital. He was 72. Related: Is marijuana a medical miracle? The truth is, we still don't know Continue reading... |
| Cyprus president faces runoff after failing to win overall majority Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:05 PM PST Nicos Anastasiades falls short of 50% needed to win outright and will face Stavros Malas Presidential polls in Cyprus were inconclusive on Sunday, with no candidate winning an overall majority, forcing a runoff on 4 February between the incumbent, Nicos Anastasiades, and Stavros Malas, a communist-backed former health minister. Anastasiades, leader of the conservative Democratic Rally (Disy) party, came in first with 35.50% of the vote but fell short of the 50% required to win outright. In a repeat of the island's last presidential election, he now faces Malas, who ran as an independent with the support of the Progressive Party of Working People (Akel). The geneticist won 30.35%, sparking scenes of jubilation among supporters. Continue reading... |
| Two British skiers fall hundreds of metres to their deaths in France Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:35 PM PST Police say pair, skiing off-piste in French Alps with another man, slipped due to icy conditions Two British men have fallen "several hundred metres" to their deaths while skiing in the French Alps. The pair were on holiday in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and skiing off-piste when they fell on Sunday morning, local rescue services said. Continue reading... |
| Trump hits back after Jay-Z calls president 'superbug' in racism debate Posted: 28 Jan 2018 10:26 AM PST
Donald Trump duly hit back at Jay-Z on Sunday, after the rapper rejected the idea the Trump presidency has been good for African Americans and called the president a "superbug" in a discussion of his reported racist remarks. Related: Grounds for impeachment if Trump lied about trying to fire Mueller – Ken Starr Continue reading... |
| Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:51 PM PST Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities Sensitive information about the location and staffing of military bases and spy outposts around the world has been revealed by a fitness tracking company. The details were released by Strava in a data visualisation map that shows all the activity tracked by users of its app, which allows people to record their exercise and share it with others. |
| Alexei Navalny ‘detained’ at anti-Putin election protest Posted: 29 Jan 2018 01:31 AM PST Police seize Russian opposition leader at rally calling for boycott of March presidential election The Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny and 15 others have been arrested in Moscow after he attempted to lead a protest before a presidential election that is expected to return Vladimir Putin to power for another six years. Navalny, 41, was wrestled to the ground by officers on Sunday as he walked up Tverskaya, Moscow's main thoroughfare. Amid chaotic scenes, police with truncheons fought off supporters who attempted to pull him free. Continue reading... |
| Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad dies aged 91 Posted: 28 Jan 2018 03:43 AM PST Company says man who founded firm in 1943 aged 17 died peacefully at home in Sweden The founder of Sweden's Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, has died at the age of 91. The company said Kamprad, whom it described as "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century", had "peacefully passed away at his home" on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| 'Super blue blood moon': stargazers prepare for rare celestial event Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:48 AM PST Blue moon, super moon and blood moon combine to create moment not seen in the skies in more than 150 years A rare celestial event will grace the skies during the coming week when a blue moon and lunar eclipse combine with the moon being at its closest point to Earth, resulting in what is being called a "super blue blood moon". The trifecta will take place on 31 January and will be best visible from the western hemisphere. The last time the three elements combined at the same time was in 1866. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Jan 2018 07:09 PM PST City faces lengthy cleanup as water reaches 5.84 metres, just shy of levels seen in 2016 The swollen Seine has peaked at more than four metres above its normal level, leaving a lengthy mop-up job for Parisians after days of rising waters. The river rose to 5.84 metres (19.2ft) early on Monday morning, causing problems for commuters as well as people living near its overflowing banks. Continue reading... |
| The bureaucracy of evil: how Islamic State ran a city Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST Part one – the rise: It was in the Iraqi city of Mosul that Isis attempted to prove its legitimacy – by transforming from an insurgency into a state. Alongside the murders and mass terror ran a functioning bureaucracy, with streamlined rubbish collections and electricity smart meters
Every day, early in the morning, the former missile scientist would leave his house in Mosul. Riding buses, or on foot – he could no longer afford petrol – he'd call on friends, check on his mother or visit his sister's family. Sometimes he'd hunt for cheap kerosene, or try to score contraband books or cigarettes. Most often, he'd meander aimlessly – a traveller in his own city. In the evening, he'd sit at his old wooden desk, bent over his notebook, recording the day. Most of what he wrote was banal: the price of tomatoes, a quarrel with his wife. But he also wrote his observations of the remarkable events unfolding in Mosul. |
| Tell us your experiences of cities at war Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST Be it gang violence, terror attacks or military strikes, conflict has come to cities. We want to hear about your experiences of urban warfare to aid our coverage of Cities at War
As the world becomes increasingly urbanised, so too does warfare. Conflict has come to the doors of millions living in densely populated areas around the globe in the form of gang violence, terror attacks, and military strikes. Civilians are killed, historic centres are lost, and infrastructure is destroyed. Continue reading... |
| A century of cities at war – in pictures Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:00 PM PST From the Blitz to Beirut to Baghdad, some of the world's best photographers have strived to capture the scale and human cost of urban conflict
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| Worst case scenario: the ‘preppers’ gearing up for cataclysm | Alex Moshakis Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST Snowstorm, financial crash, nuclear war – would you be ready? We meet the survivalists prepared for catastophe Midway through December, while temperatures in the UK plummeted, heaps of snow drove transport services into a frenzy and schools into closure. Water supplies froze. Medical assistance slowed, threatening genuine peril. People began to store fuel. Across the Midlands, families were left without power – no electricity, no heat – in some instances overnight. For those of us safely tucked away indoors, or unaffected by the weather, the news could be shocking. It also brought to mind an unnerving question: would you be ready if calamity struck? The answer for most of us is no, not really. We tend to think of disaster as something that happens to others. But a growing number of people around the UK – preppers or survivalists, in the parlance – are quietly gearing up for the worst. They're filling pantries with supplies in case their local food chains disintegrate, storing thermals in their cars in the event that they break down in a snowstorm, packing "go-bags" with a collection of bare necessities – water, food, medicine, perhaps a portable stove – supposing they need to leave home in a hurry. If catastrophe were to strike, the thinking goes, a preparatory head-start might well be life-saving. Continue reading... |
| M&S one of UK retailers yet to renew safety deal in Bangladesh factories Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:15 PM PST John Lewis, Debenhams, Next and Sainsbury's have yet to join international rivals in deal Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, Debenhams, Next and Sainsbury's are among a group of British retailers yet to join international rivals in renewing their commitment to a factory safety deal in Bangladesh. Continue reading... |
| Minister explains why she condemned hardline Tory Brexiters as 'swivel-eyed' - Politics live Posted: 29 Jan 2018 01:32 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen
The so-called youthquake that fuelled support for Jeremy Corbyn at the general election was a myth, according to a study. As the Press Association reports, academics have found that turnout among young voters was broadly similar to the 2015 poll and may even have decreased. Voters under the age of 25 were more likely to vote Labour than ever before but were no more likely to turn out than in previous years, the British Election Study discovered. It said: The Labour 'youthquake' explanation looks to become an assumed fact about the 2017 election. The Oxford English Dictionary even declared 'youthquake' their word of the year. But people have been much too hasty. There was no surge in youth turnout at the 2017 election.
Brexit has its own lexicon. There are words that have their own meaning in the Brexit context (hard, soft, transition etc) but then there is also a category of words that only ever get used by diehards on one side of the debate or the other. For example, there is probably no recorded use of anyone using the term "vassal state" in modern times other than a Brexiter referring to the relationship between the UK and the EU. And, on the other side, the term "swivel-eyed" almost always means the speaker is referring to Eurosceptics - and not favourably. Claire Perry, who is now energy minister, has been caught deploying the term to refer to party colleagues. The Daily Telegraph has splashed on the story, which quotes a message Perry sent to colleagues on WhatsApp referring to Brexiter Tories using the term "traitor" to describe those backing the government's decision to pay the EU a "divorce bill" of up to £39bn. In response to a colleague who said he was getting criticism "from the usual suspect about sell-outs and traitors", Perry replied: The 'sell out traitor mob' should be ignored. Listening to them means wrecking the economy in the short term and via a Corbyn Government delivering a long steady slow decline for the country we love. And I would hypothesise that they are mostly elderly retired men who do not have mortgages, school-aged children or caring responsibilities so they represent the swivel-eyed few not the many we represent. TELEGRAPH: Minister: Brexiteers opposes to EU bill are 'swivel eyed' #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/ig1IBY6yio (1/3) The conversation with my MP colleagues was had at a time when we were all working so hard to get the Brexit Bill passed last year. Passions were running high and mine spilled over. No excuses but it was painful to see hard working, loyal colleagues branded as "traitors". (2/3) My comments were exclusively directed at those using the term of "traitor" to describe my colleagues, and to suggest that I am somehow applying them to anyone else is 100% wrong. (3/3) Whether one voted Leave or Remain in 2016 no longer matters. There is a unity of purpose to deliver the smooth and orderly Brexit that the PM and Brexit Secretary are negotiating. Related: May told to clarify Brexit stance or face no-confidence vote Continue reading... |
| Orange cave crocodiles may be mutating into new species Posted: 29 Jan 2018 12:50 AM PST In 2008 an archaeologist discovered crocodiles living in remote caves in Gabon. Now, genetics hint that these weird cave crocodilians may be in the process of evolving into a new species. It sounds like something out of a children's book: it's orange, it dwells in a cave and it lives on bats and crickets. But this isn't some fairy story about a lonely troll – it's the much weirder tale of a group of African dwarf crocodiles that are adapting to life in pitch-darkness. "We could say that we have a mutating species, because [the cave crocodile] already has a different [genetic] haplotype," said Richard Oslisly, who first discovered the cave crocs in 2008. "Its diet is different and it is a species that has adapted to the underground world." |
| Trump interview: 'I'm very popular in Britain. I get a lot of fan mail' Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST A round-up of some of the more eyebrow-raising statements in the US president's interview with Piers Morgan Donald Trump has given a wide-ranging interview to Piers Morgan for ITV. In it the US president claimed he was popular in the UK despite calls for protests if he takes up Theresa May's invite for a state visit; said he did not know if he had been invited to Prince Harry's wedding; said women voters liked his strong support for the military and defended his fondness for junk food. Related: Narcissistic buddies meet in the Piers and Donald show Continue reading... |
| 'The Rodney King of western Canada': killing of indigenous man heads to trial Posted: 29 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST The case of Colten Boushie, 22, killed after seeking help at a farm, has divided Canadians over race and policing After a warm summer day spent swimming in a Saskatchewan river, the five friends piled into the car for the 50-minute ride home. But as they headed towards the Red Pheasant First Nation in western Canada, a tyre blew out. The group pulled into a nearby farm, hoping to find help. A shot was soon fired, killing one of the young men in the vehicle, 22-year-old Colten Boushie. Continue reading... |
| Missing Kiribati ferry: Australia and US join search for survivors Posted: 28 Jan 2018 10:47 PM PST Search efforts widened with up to 100 people feared to have been on board the Pacific island vessel when it capsized a week ago Australian and American rescue teams have joined the search for survivors from the Kiribati ferry that capsized in the central Pacific more than a week ago. It was initially estimated that around 50 people were onboard, but according to Kiribati's president, Taneti Mamau, up to 100 people may have been passengers. Continue reading... |
| Victoria heat blackouts spark blame debate as 7,000 properties without power Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:29 PM PST The premier, Daniel Andrews, says outages were substation faults, not supply problems Rain may be soaking Victoria but the legacy of the state's hot spell continues, as politicians squabble over who is to blame for tens of thousands of households losing power. Late on Monday some customers had gone almost 24 hours without power, including during Victoria's hottest night this summer. Continue reading... |
| NHS admits doctors may be using tools made by children in Pakistan Posted: 28 Jan 2018 11:00 PM PST Closer scrutiny demanded as NHS supplier concedes surgical instruments in routine use could be product of child labour Children as young as 12 are making surgical instruments in hazardous conditions in Pakistan, prompting fears that the tools could be used in the NHS, the Guardian has discovered. In Sialkot, Punjab, where 99% of Pakistan's surgical instrument production is centred, illegal child labour was witnessed in at least a dozen small workshops. Continue reading... |
| Buyer's remorse: Australia's sorry record on defence hardware Posted: 28 Jan 2018 09:06 PM PST While Malcolm Turnbull spruiks Australia as a top arms exporter, potential buyers may be wary Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled an "ambitious, positive plan" to make Australia one of the world's largest weapons exporters. Unveiling the new "defence export strategy" on Monday, the prime minister said Australia would raise its profile in the international arms trading game by helping private firms sell weapons in "priority markets" such as the Middle East. Continue reading... |
| Narcissistic buddies meet in the Piers and Donald show Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:16 PM PST Who needs the Paris agreement? Piers Morgan's chat with Donald Trump was about entertainment One narcissistic egomaniac, meet another narcissistic egomaniac. Just in case anyone was in doubt about who was the real star of Piers Morgan's interview with Donald Trump, Piers began the show with a few minutes devoted entirely to himself. How brilliant he had been to get the interview. What good buddies he and the US president were. The best buddies ever. "I've missed you, Mr President," Piers began. The Donald didn't look as if the feeling was mutual, but the television cameras were rolling and he was too polite or too savvy to say otherwise. Continue reading... |
| Hillary Clinton mocks Trump in Fire and Fury Grammys skit – video Posted: 28 Jan 2018 08:36 PM PST Cardi B and DJ Khaled were just some of the celebrities who took turns reading passages from Michael Wolff's tell-all book about the Trump administration as part of a mock audition for best spoken-word performance. But the star of the 2018 Grammys skit was former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Grammys host James Corden assured Clinton that her 'audition' was guaranteed to win the award for best spoken word album next year |
| Flooding in Paris – in pictures Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:45 AM PST Paris remained on flood alert after the Seine burst its banks, leaving streets inundated and forcing part of the Louvre to close. Forecasters said the flooding should peak by the end of the day Continue reading... |
| 'I would have taken a tougher stand in getting out' says Trump on Brexit – video Posted: 28 Jan 2018 04:29 AM PST The US president says he would have taken a different approach from Theresa May towards Brexit negotiations. Trump said he 'would have negotiated it differently' and he had 'a lot of problems' with the European Union. He made the comments during an interview with Piers Morgan for ITV, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday night at 10pm. A preview of the interview released on Friday showed Trump saying he was prepared to apologise for retweeting inflammatory videos by the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First Continue reading... |
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