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- Trump State of the Union address promised unity but emphasized discord
- Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals
- US 'name-and-shame' list of Russian oligarchs binned by top Trump official – expert
- Hawaii official who sent false missile alert has been fired
- Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all
- Glee actor Mark Salling found dead aged 35
- Stowaway Australian parrot travels 2,300km on New Zealand cruise liner
- UN urged to launch global effort to end offshore tax evasion
- Porn actor Stormy Daniels casts doubt on denial of affair with Trump
- What to expect from Trump's first State of the Union address – and the response
- Family of man whose death was broadcast on Facebook sues social network
- Gone fishin': decorator crabs use other species as fishing rods, study reveals
- VW suspends media chief amid scandal over fume tests on monkeys
- 'His death kills me each day': Mosul residents return home – to what?
- Welcome to a new kind of war: the rise of endless urban conflict
- Cash-strapped Foreign Office puts Bangkok embassy up for sale
- Russia-backed Syrian peace talks agree deal on new constitution
- Key moments from Trump's State of the Union address – video highlights
- Pope Francis sends envoy to Chile to investigate sexual abuse claims
- The UK promised us Hong Kong would never walk alone – Theresa May has to keep that promise
- What's the most important thing you've lost or given away?
- Drivers going even 3mph over speed limit should be punished, says police chief
- UN children's agency appeals for record $3.6bn as wars trigger desperate need
- Aden crisis: alliances of convenience unravel across Yemen
- Stormy Daniels on Jimmy Kimmel: porn actor casts doubt on denial of Trump affair – video
- Joe Kennedy gives Democrats' response to Trump's State of the Union - video
- 'Americans are dreamers too': Trump calls for immigration changes – video
- Trump pays tribute to first responders in State of the Union address – video
- 'Extraordinary success': Trump lauds first year at State of the Union – video
| Trump State of the Union address promised unity but emphasized discord Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:26 PM PST The president's 'new American moment' speech stirred Republican applause while Democrats showed thinly disguised contempt Donald Trump has promised a "new American moment" in a State of the Union address that sought harmony but succeeded only in underlining the deep discord at the heart of the country's politics. Related: Fact check: Donald Trump's State of the Union address analyzed Continue reading... |
| Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals Posted: 30 Jan 2018 04:01 PM PST Killer whales able to copy words such as 'hello' and 'bye bye' as well as sounds from other orcas, study shows High-pitched, eerie and yet distinct, the sound of a voice calling the name "Amy" is unmistakable. But this isn't a human cry – it's the voice of a killer whale called Wikie. New research reveals that orcas are able to imitate human speech, in some cases at the first attempt, saying words such as "hello", "one, two" and "bye bye". Continue reading... |
| US 'name-and-shame' list of Russian oligarchs binned by top Trump official – expert Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:43 PM PST
A "name-and-shame" list of Russian oligarchs who made their money corruptly from their ties with Vladimir Putin was compiled by the US government agencies but then cancelled last week by a senior administration official, according to a Russia expert who was consulted on the list. It was replaced by an all-inclusive list of rich Russians apparently copied straight from the Forbes magazine's ranking of wealthy Russians, together with the names of some top Kremlin officials. Continue reading... |
| Hawaii official who sent false missile alert has been fired Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:15 PM PST
The head of Hawaii's emergency management agency has resigned and a state employee who sent out an false alarm of an imminent missile attack has been fired, it was announced on Tuesday, after an inquiry into a mistake which caused statewide panic earlier this month. According to a federal inquiry into the incident, the employee, a watch officer at the emergency management agency, believed the threat of a missile attack to be real as he had not heard a recorded message announcing it as an exercise. According to state officials, the watch officer had been a cause for concern to his colleagues for more than a decade and had twice before mistaken drills for real alerts. It was unclear how he had managed to remain in such a sensitive post for so long. Continue reading... |
| Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:30 PM PST More than 3,000 specialist nurses have visited all 15,000 villages, in a project bringing hope to the 34% of Rwandans with sight problems Rwanda has become the first low-income country to provide universal eye care for its 12 million population. The government has partnered with the organisation Vision for a Nation (VFAN) to train more than 3,000 eye care nurses based in 502 local health centres, prescribing glasses and referring those with serious eye problems to national clinics. Nurses have visited each of Rwanda's 15,000 villages. Continue reading... |
| Glee actor Mark Salling found dead aged 35 Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:03 AM PST Salling, who played Puck on the hit series, was facing up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child abuse images Mark Salling, the actor best known for his role in Glee, has died at the age of 35. His attorney confirmed the news in a statement. The cause of death has not yet been verified. Continue reading... |
| Stowaway Australian parrot travels 2,300km on New Zealand cruise liner Posted: 30 Jan 2018 07:56 PM PST A galah, a variety of cockatoo originally from Brisbane in Queensland, was confined to a luxury cabin after it was discovered An Australian cockatoo has enjoyed a scenic cruise around New Zealand in a luxury cabin after staging a getaway from its Brisbane home. The bird – a variety of cockatoo known in Australia as a galah – was discovered by cruise ship staff when they docked at Milford Sound in New Zealand's South Island, after travelling at least 2,300 kilometres without detection. Continue reading... |
| UN urged to launch global effort to end offshore tax evasion Posted: 30 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST Campaign group launches financial secrecy index and warns UK is still protecting overseas territories The United Nations has been urged by the Tax Justice Network to coordinate a global effort to end offshore tax evasion and corruption, amid warnings that the UK is continuing to insulate its overseas territories from financial transparency. Commenting on the launch of the TJN's Financial Secrecy Index 2018, which ranks countries on the size and secretiveness of their offshore sectors, its chief executive, Alex Cobham, said big financial centres had proven unwilling to reform voluntarily. Continue reading... |
| Porn actor Stormy Daniels casts doubt on denial of affair with Trump Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:17 PM PST On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Daniels appears to question the authenticity of a statement denying the affair, only for her lawyer to insist it is real
The allegations that Donald Trump paid hush money to hide an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels took another bizarre twist on Tuesday night during an interview with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that followed the president's first State of the Union address. Continue reading... |
| What to expect from Trump's first State of the Union address – and the response Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:59 AM PST The economy, infrastructure and immigration are likely topics as the president speaks before Congress and a number of notable guests Donald Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address at the Capitol in Washington at 9pm ET on Tuesday. Here is what we can expect him to say, who we can expect to be in attendance and who will say what in response. Related: Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI Continue reading... |
| Family of man whose death was broadcast on Facebook sues social network Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:36 AM PST Family of Robert Godwin, who was fatally shot last year in Cleveland, says Facebook was negligent in failing to act on attacker's threats The family of 74-year-old Robert Godwin, whose murder was broadcast on Facebook, has sued the social network for negligence and wrongful death. Godwin was shot at close range in Cleveland in April last year as he walked home from an Easter meal with his family. His attacker Steve Stephens filmed a first-person view of the shooting and uploaded it to his Facebook page, where it remained for more than two hours and was copied, reposted and viewed millions of times. Continue reading... |
| Gone fishin': decorator crabs use other species as fishing rods, study reveals Posted: 30 Jan 2018 07:04 AM PST A researcher's diving holiday lead to a startling discovery of never-before-seen behaviour: crabs using hydrozoans as fishing hooks Every night as the sun goes down, on the coral reefs of the Red Sea small, delicate and slightly fuzzy-looking crabs work their way through the maze of coral. They take up stations atop the corals' outermost structures, exposing themselves to the current in the plankton-rich waters. These are decorator crabs, of the genus Achaeus, known for their peculiar habit of covering themselves with an array of invertebrates, including delicate hydrozoans: multi-headed creatures with tiny tentacled polyps that feed on plankton. In a recent paper published in the journal Marine Biodiversity, Dr Joan J Soto Àngel, from the University of Valencia, suggests that the crabs are not only benefitting from the camouflage and defence the hydroids provide, but are also "fishing", using their covering of hydrozoan polyps as the hooks. Continue reading... |
| VW suspends media chief amid scandal over fume tests on monkeys Posted: 30 Jan 2018 04:55 AM PST Move follows report carmaker used animals to demonstrate diesel emissions technology The carmaker Volkswagen has suspended its head of external relations and sustainability after admitting that he had known about experiments in which monkeys were locked in small chambers and exposed to diesel exhaust. Thomas Steg, a former government spokesman who worked for German chancellor Angela Merkel and her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, is the first person to be relieved of his duties as VW said it was "drawing the consequences" of the scandal, which has rocked both the government and industry. Continue reading... |
| 'His death kills me each day': Mosul residents return home – to what? Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST After Isis were driven out of Mosul, traumatised families slowly returned to their devastated neighbourhoods. Over more than two months, they told Mona Mahmood their harrowing stories Warning: this report contains distressing details Overwhelmed with grief and anger, families have been returning to what is left of their homes in the Old City of Mosul, following its liberation from Isis. In a set of interviews conducted over more than two months, people haunted by the memories of their loved ones gradually opened up about the traumatic experiences they survived, and the uncertain future they now face. Continue reading... |
| Welcome to a new kind of war: the rise of endless urban conflict Posted: 30 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST Consider why the deaths of 6 million people in rural Congo are rarely mentioned, while 13 killed in London is global news In the 21st century, the search for national security has become a source of urban insecurity. The traditional security paradigm in our western-style democracies fails to accommodate a key feature of today's wars: when our major powers go to war, the enemies they now encounter are irregular combatants. Not troops, organised into armies; but "freedom" fighters, guerrillas, terrorists. Some are as easily grouped by common purpose as they are disbanded. Others engage in wars with no end in sight. Continue reading... |
| Cash-strapped Foreign Office puts Bangkok embassy up for sale Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:49 AM PST Foreign Office hopes to raise £420m from building's sale to reinvest in other projects The scale of financial pressure on the British diplomatic service has been underlined by a Foreign Office announcement that it is raising £420m by selling its embassy in Bangkok. The sale is the largest land deal in Thai history and the Foreign Office's biggest ever sale. The department said the proceeds would be reinvested elsewhere in the overseas estate and would fund 30-40 modernisation projects around the world, including in Washington DC. |
| Russia-backed Syrian peace talks agree deal on new constitution Posted: 31 Jan 2018 02:09 AM PST UN special envoy defends presence at Sochi talks after criticism from Syrian opposition A 50-strong commission representing most strands of Syrian society will draft a new constitution for the country, the UN and Russia have agreed at the end of a peace conference put together by Vladimir Putin in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura faced intense criticism from the Syrian opposition for attending the conference, which the opposition boycotted on the basis that it was an attempt to supplant the UN peace process and marginalise their role in ending Syria's seven-year civil war. Continue reading... |
| Key moments from Trump's State of the Union address – video highlights Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:35 AM PST Donald Trump promises a 'new American moment' in his State of the Union address. At times, his speech was met with rapturous applause from Republicans, with one senator waving a 'make America great again' baseball cap, and boos from Democrats over claims about 'chain migration' Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis sends envoy to Chile to investigate sexual abuse claims Posted: 30 Jan 2018 08:16 AM PST Bishop Juan Barros has been accused by victims of covering up for the country's most notorious pedophile priest Pope Francis is sending the Vatican's most respected sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate a bishop accused by victims of covering up for the country's most notorious pedophile priest. The Vatican said on Tuesday that Charles Scicluna, the archbishop of Malta, would travel to Chile "to listen to those who have expressed the desire to provide elements" about the case of the Right Rev Juan Barros, bishop of Chile. Continue reading... |
| The UK promised us Hong Kong would never walk alone – Theresa May has to keep that promise Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:25 PM PST The Chinese government is waging a fully-fledged crackdown on opposition in Hong Kong. The prime minister must speak up before it is too late In 1996, on the eve of handover, the British prime minister, John Major, vowed: "Hong Kong will never have to walk alone". With Xi Jinping refusing to respect the autonomy and freedoms Hong Kong was guaranteed after its return to Chinese control, it now falls to Major's Conservative party heir, Theresa May, to make good on that pledge. Continue reading... |
| What's the most important thing you've lost or given away? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:46 AM PST We'd like to hear from you if you have a story of regret after some private government documents were left in a secondhand shop in Australia Blushing bureaucrats in Australia are investigating after secret files were "leaked" to the public after being accidentally left in a secondhand shop. The 195 documents – some labeled "top secret" – were obtained by the ABC, which has called them The Cabinet Files. |
| Drivers going even 3mph over speed limit should be punished, says police chief Posted: 31 Jan 2018 01:24 AM PST Chief constable argues stricter enforcement of speed limits would make Britain's roads safer Drivers should be punished for speeding even if they only go 3mph over the limit, Britain's roads policing chief has said. Anthony Bangham, the chief constable of West Mercia and the lead for the National Police Chiefs Council on road policing, called on police forces to end the practice of only prosecuting drivers who break the speed limit by more than 10%. Continue reading... |
| UN children's agency appeals for record $3.6bn as wars trigger desperate need Posted: 30 Jan 2018 03:55 AM PST One in four children live in countries affected by conflict or disaster, says Unicef, though billions required in assistance unlikely to be met The UN's children's agency has launched its biggest emergency appeal for funding, warning that conflict is creating unprecedented levels of need. Almost one in four children live in a country affected by conflict or disaster, according to Unicef, which has appealed for $3.6bn (£2.6bn) to provide emergency assistance in 2018. |
| Aden crisis: alliances of convenience unravel across Yemen Posted: 30 Jan 2018 08:51 AM PST Fracturing of complex bonds risks making a stalemated war even more intractable The alliance of convenience that held together former enemies in Yemen's civil war is fracturing, as various bonds within the warring sides come unstuck. On Tuesday, fighters allied with the pro-secession Southern Transitional Council (STC) surrounded the presidential palace in Aden, the seat of the internationally recognised government of Yemen. Their presence has forced the prime minister to prepare to flee, and demonstrates that the unlikely bond between the two in their fight against Houthi rebels has come to an end. |
| Stormy Daniels on Jimmy Kimmel: porn actor casts doubt on denial of Trump affair – video Posted: 31 Jan 2018 12:58 AM PST Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the adult film star Stormy Daniels appears to question the authenticity of a statement denying her affair with the US president, Donald Trump, only for her lawyer to insist it is real. 'Did you sign this letter that was released today?' Kimmel asked. 'I don't know, did I?' Daniels said, refusing to answer directly. Continue reading... |
| Joe Kennedy gives Democrats' response to Trump's State of the Union - video Posted: 30 Jan 2018 09:56 PM PST Massachusetts representative Joe Kennedy III says 'bullies may land a punch' and leave a mark but have 'never managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future', during the Democratic response to Trump's first State of the Union address Continue reading... |
| 'Americans are dreamers too': Trump calls for immigration changes – video Posted: 30 Jan 2018 08:22 PM PST The US president proposes immigration changes during his first State of the Union speech. 'So tonight, I am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties – Democrats and Republicans – to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion and creed.' Donald Trump says while the US is 'a compassionate nation', 'my greatest compassion, my constant concern is for America's children, America's struggling workers' |
| Trump pays tribute to first responders in State of the Union address – video Posted: 30 Jan 2018 07:57 PM PST The US president recognizes several public servants during his State of the Union address, including a US Coast Guard pilot who helped rescue victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston and a firefighter who helped save children from a summer camp threatened by wildfires in California. He also praises wounded Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise, who returned to work three months after being shot on a baseball court |
| 'Extraordinary success': Trump lauds first year at State of the Union – video Posted: 30 Jan 2018 07:39 PM PST In his first address, the US president says his administration embarked on a 'righteous mission' to 'make America great again for all Americans'. Reflecting on the past year, Donald Trump says: 'We have endured floods and fires and storms, but through it all we have seen the beauty of America's soul and the steel in America's spine' Continue reading... |
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