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- Trump mounts extraordinary defence of his 'mental stability'
- More than 90 Iranian university students 'detained' by regime
- Angela Merkel at bay … Social Democrats to set high coalition price
- From shacks to des res: one village’s great leap in China’s march to the future
- Brutal and 'bone-chilling' cold envelops US east coast two days after storm
- Fire as one plane crashes into another at Toronto Pearson airport
- The missing of Raqqa: families search for loved ones disappeared by Isis
- Omani football fans injured as stadium's glass barrier breaks
- Golden Globes: #MeToo movement set to make major impact on awards
- May drops manifesto promise to allow foxhunting vote
- A Copenhagen killing: the story behind the submarine murder
- From Ear to Ear to Eye review – voices of battle and the bazaar
- Eight people die and 86 rescued from sinking dinghy off Libya
- Farc deal opens path for Colombia's other rebels: 'The future has to be about war'
- Oil tanker on fire and 32 crew missing after collision off China's coast
- Nursing home kidnapping accused believed victim was her mother, court told
- The week in patriarchy: hoping for a better year – but not holding my breath
- Cars freeze in floodwaters in Revere, Massachusetts – video
- Trump tweets: I am a 'very stable genius' – video
| Trump mounts extraordinary defence of his 'mental stability' Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:15 AM PST President boasts of being 'a very stable genius' and calls Michael Wolff a 'fraud' but author says his explosive book will 'finally end this presidency' In an extraordinary public defence of his own mental stability, Donald Trump issued a volley of tweets that seemed guaranteed to add fuel to a raging political fire. Related: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House review – tell-all burns all Continue reading... |
| More than 90 Iranian university students 'detained' by regime Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:13 AM PST Reports of over 1,000 people being arrested by authorities comes as Emily Thornberry defends Jeremy Corbyn's silence on issue Ninety university students are among the more than 1,000 people arrested in Iran's unrest, an Iranian MP has said. Mahmoud Sadeghi, who represents an electoral district in Tehran, was quoted by the Iranian labour news agency as saying: "It seems that the total number of detainees is around 90. Ten students from universities in Tehran and some other cities are in an uncertain position and … it is still unknown which body has detained them." Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel at bay … Social Democrats to set high coalition price Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:58 PM PST German chancellor faces hard talks with centre-left on Sunday to secure fourth term, but rightwingers may cause trouble Germany's beleaguered chancellor will return to the negotiating table on Sunday with politicians from the Social Democratic party (SPD) and representatives of her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), to stave off the end of "Merkelism" by re-establishing the coalition that governed Germany from 2013 to 2017. Angela Merkel's efforts will involve tough bargaining with the centre-left, which eyes control over the country's well-stocked state coffers as a reward for entering a new coalition – in the knowledge that failure of the talks could spell the end of the Merkel era. Continue reading... |
| From shacks to des res: one village’s great leap in China’s march to the future Posted: 06 Jan 2018 04:05 PM PST Running water, L-shaped sofas and flatscreen TVs are gracing new homes for some of the beneficiaries of Xi Jinping's war on poverty Xiao Ercha lives in a tumbledown shanty beside a pigsty, thousands of miles and a world away from the awe-inspiring skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai. Tatty mosquito nets hang from the bamboo poles propping up the shack's cracked asbestos roof; kittens and chickens scuttle across its earthen floor. Xiao, 57, shakes his head when asked to name the leader of his nation, the second largest economy on earth. Continue reading... |
| Brutal and 'bone-chilling' cold envelops US east coast two days after storm Posted: 06 Jan 2018 04:23 AM PST
Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the US east coast most of this weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont. Related: Lizard blizzard: iguanas rain from trees as animals struggle with US cold snap Continue reading... |
| Fire as one plane crashes into another at Toronto Pearson airport Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:47 PM PST Passengers evacuated after collision between Westjet and Sunwing airliners when one of them was being towed and the other was waiting to park Passengers were forced to evacuate via emergency slides in the frigid cold on Friday night after two planes collided on the ground at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. No injuries were reported. WestJet said an inbound from Cancun, Mexico with 168 passengers and a crew of six was stationary and waiting to go to a gate when it was struck by a Sunwing aircraft moving back from a gate. Continue reading... |
| The missing of Raqqa: families search for loved ones disappeared by Isis Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST Relatives plead for help tracing hundreds of people detained during Islamic State's reign of terror in Syrian city The families of hundreds of civilians who were kidnapped by Islamic State and held in its notorious jails have urged the military factions that ousted the group from Raqqa, its de facto capital, to help them find their loved ones. Relatives say hundreds and possibly thousands of people detained during Isis's reign of terror in Syria remain unaccounted for despite the group's loss of territory and retreat to desert hideouts. Continue reading... |
| Omani football fans injured as stadium's glass barrier breaks Posted: 06 Jan 2018 03:18 AM PST About 40 people hurt during celebrations following Oman's victory over United Arab Emirates in Gulf Cup final in Kuwait Almost 40 football fans from Oman have been injured in Kuwait after a glass barrier broke during celebrations following the country's Gulf Cup win over the United Arab Emirates. The Pim Verbeek-coached Omanis claimed the title for only the second time in the nation's history on Friday night with a 5-4 penalty shootout win after the game had ended scoreless after 120 minutes. Continue reading... |
| Golden Globes: #MeToo movement set to make major impact on awards Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST The first major ceremony of the season comes after a tumultuous year in Hollywood, and stars will pay tribute to the women who have spoken out against sexual harassment Awards season kicks off on Sunday, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will reward the best films and TV shows of the year. But the conversation around the 75th Golden Globes has centred less on the potential winners and more on how the ceremony will be affected by the ever-growing #MeToo movement. Continue reading... |
| May drops manifesto promise to allow foxhunting vote Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:21 AM PST U-turn over plan to allow parliament chance to reverse ban on bloodsport could trigger backlash by rural Tories Theresa May has confirmed that she has ditched plans that would have allowed the end of the ban on foxhunting, in the latest attempt to repair the Conservatives' reputation on animal rights. In a U-turn that will anger some party members and supporters in its rural heartlands, she revealed that she was dropping plans in the Tory election manifesto to hold a parliamentary vote on reversing the ban. Continue reading... |
| A Copenhagen killing: the story behind the submarine murder Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST Peter Madsen was a central figure in Copenhagen's alternative art and music community. But then he was accused of murdering journalist Kim Wall. Richard Orange reports on the shock waves of the crime A bearded Icelander in a boiler suit starts pounding the exposed strings of the disembowelled piano in front of him, and the space below deck begins pulsating with distorted, echoing rhythms. To transform the sound, the man's plucking and palming is being run through a laptop, an iPad and other electronics by Andreas Wetterberg, a member of Illutron, a floating art collective moored off the Copenhagen peninsula of Refshaleøen. But the piano is just the beginning. "Things are only going to get crazier now that we can play around with rocket engines and all that stuff," he says of the experimental music scene on this former bridge-laying barge. "There's a group of us doing stuff with old pulsejet engines – it's basically a very primitive jet engine – but imagine it being used as a musical instrument: it has a tone to it which is really wild." Continue reading... |
| From Ear to Ear to Eye review – voices of battle and the bazaar Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST Nottingham Contemporary From phone films to ballistics reports, testimony is central to this powerful survey of contemporary Arab art In the spring of 2014, in one of the most controversial crimes of recent times, Israeli border guards shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank town of Beitunia. CNN reporters captured the deaths on camera, disproving the soldiers' claim that they were quelling a riot; but still the Israeli government defended its own. In the chaotic investigation that followed, audio-ballistic spectrograms of the event produced by the Amman-born artist and "audio investigator" Lawrence Abu Hamdan proved crucial. He was asked – as we are now, in his immensely powerful installation at Nottingham Contemporary – to listen rather than look. The spectrograms hang before you like targets in a shooting gallery. Each represents a different kind of gunshot, plucked from the soundtrack of carnage; and each approaches or recedes according to the trial unfolding in transcript on a screen below. Were the soldiers firing live ammunition or rubber bullets, as they insisted? Or were they in fact trying to disguise the fatal shots to make them sound like rubber bullets, with murderous intent? Hamdan gave the clinching evidence; but what strikes is the eerie silence of his installation. The case appears more horrifying as the lies and distortions are laid bare on screen, uninflected by the mollifying tones of human voices. The bodies of evidence hang in the air, ghosts of the speechless victims. Continue reading... |
| Eight people die and 86 rescued from sinking dinghy off Libya Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:21 PM PST About 150 migrants were on board when dinghy was launched from Libya, according to authorities, with a search continuing to find survivors At least eight people died and 86 others were rescued after a rubber dinghy starting sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, according to the Italian coast guard, which said a search was continuing to find any more survivors. The coast guard, which coordinates rescues in international waters off Libya's coast, said an aircraft on patrol for a European anti-smuggling operation spotted the dinghy in difficulty, on Saturday morning. Italian navy and coast guard vessels were involved in the rescue. |
| Farc deal opens path for Colombia's other rebels: 'The future has to be about war' Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST The ELN, now the country's biggest rebel army, remains deeply at odds with the government as an October ceasefire comes to an end In the humidity of the Colombian jungle, a rebel fighter known as Davidson shows more than 100 fellow insurgents how to build an anti-personnel landmine from a plastic canister, a syringe, a battery, and what he calls "a few secret ingredients". Davidson is an explosives expert for the National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia's largest rebel army following last year's landmark peace deal and demobilisation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). Continue reading... |
| Oil tanker on fire and 32 crew missing after collision off China's coast Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:07 AM PST China and South Korea mount search operation for crew of Iranian tanker spilling oil east of Shanghai after collision with Hong Kong freighter Thirty-two people, mostly Iranians, were missing after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship off China's eastern coast, authorities said on Sunday. The missing – 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis – were all from the Iranian tanker Sanchi, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil condensate. It spilled oil and was floating while still on fire early on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Nursing home kidnapping accused believed victim was her mother, court told Posted: 06 Jan 2018 10:07 PM PST Police prosecutor says Irene Moschones, 51, believes that her mother did not die in 2013 but is in a nursing home A woman charged with kidnapping a 97-year-old resident from a Melbourne nursing home allegedly believes the woman is her mother, whose death and funeral several years ago was faked as part of a conspiracy. Irene Moschones, 51, appeared before Melbourne magistrates court on Sunday charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment after 97-year-old Dimitra Pavlopoulou was taken from her Clarinda nursing home on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| The week in patriarchy: hoping for a better year – but not holding my breath Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:54 AM PST The new year has already seen disturbing Trump tweets and backlash to #MeToo – proving we must keep up the fight For a brief moment on New Year's Eve, as we left the garbage year 2017 behind us, I felt a brief respite from the horror. But then came the morning, and along with it the realization that things are going to be as bad as they ever were. Enter "who has the bigger button" tweets and more backlash to the #MeToo moment. Related: Donald Trump: the Grinch who turned Christmas into a political battleground Continue reading... |
| Cars freeze in floodwaters in Revere, Massachusetts – video Posted: 06 Jan 2018 09:29 AM PST Cars have been frozen in floodwaters in Revere, Massachusetts, after a storm and freezing temperatures hit the US east coast. Brutally cold conditions were expected to continue to envelop the US east coast most of this weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont. Continue reading... |
| Trump tweets: I am a 'very stable genius' – video Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:43 AM PST As questions are raised about Donald Trump's mental health following the publication of Michael Wolff's explosive book Fire and Fury, the US president tweets that two of his greatest assets are 'mental stability and being, like, really smart' Continue reading... |
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