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- John Bolton to replace McMaster as Trump's national security adviser
- Nicolas Sarkozy denies 'crazy, monstrous' Libya funding allegations
- EU recalls ambassador from Russia as leaders back May over Salisbury
- Trump reveals $60bn of fresh tariffs on China as EU wins reprieve
- Genetic tests reveal tragic reality of Atacama 'alien' skeleton
- Uber crash shows 'catastrophic failure' of self-driving technology, experts say
- Spacewatch: European Space Agency increases research in other solar systems
- Romanian man gets driving licence back posthumously
- Bill Cosby lawyers ask judge to step aside over his wife's work with assault victims
- Paraguayan rape victim, 14, dies giving birth
- Marielle Franco murder: Brazilian authorities under global pressure to find killers
- 'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought
- Boris Johnson's Hitler remarks unacceptable, says Russian envoy
- 'I love the president': John Dowd quits as Trump lawyer in Mueller investigation
- Mumbai's leopards have killed humans – but could they also be saving lives?
- Europe's most densely populated square kilometres – mapped
- Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades'
- John Bolton: foreign policy radical who backs war with Iran and North Korea
- UK ad campaign to reduce knife crime features real-life cases
- Lignite mining: Greece’s dirty secret - in pictures
- Israel-bound flight crosses Saudi Arabia airspace for first time
- Wheat in heat: the 'crazy idea' that could combat food insecurity
- 'We did it here, you can do it there': Sydney joins Parkland school shooting protests
- US trade war: global shares plummet as China signals tariff retaliation – business live
- Dutton's department denies delaying Chinese student visas for political reasons
- Comic Relief to ditch white saviour stereotype appeals
- Parkland students: our manifesto to change America's gun laws | Editorial staff of the Eagle Eye
- Who is John Bolton, Trump's new national security adviser?
- Trump's China tariffs risk 'tit-for-tat protectionism' that threatens world economy
- Russian criminal tattoos – in pictures
- 'This can be a mean-spirited town': Rex Tillerson bids farewell – video
- 'I'd beat the hell out of him' says Joe Biden of Trump – video
- 'I'm a political nerd': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern thrilled at meeting Barack Obama - video
| John Bolton to replace McMaster as Trump's national security adviser Posted: 22 Mar 2018 04:42 PM PDT
HR McMaster has resigned as Donald Trump's national security adviser and will be replaced by John Bolton, the hawkish former US ambassador to the United Nations, the president announced on Thursday night. Related: 'I love the president': John Dowd quits as Trump lawyer in Mueller investigation Continue reading... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy denies 'crazy, monstrous' Libya funding allegations Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:50 PM PDT French ex-president says there is no proof he received millions in illegal election campaigning The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has denounced allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as "crazy" and "monstrous". "There is no proof ... not even the slightest beginning of any proof," Sarkozy told French TV after he was placed under formal investigation for illegal campaign financing, accepting bribes and the misappropriation of Libyan state funds over allegations that he received the illegal funding from Gaddafi for his election in 2007. |
| EU recalls ambassador from Russia as leaders back May over Salisbury Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:19 PM PDT Member states poised to expel diplomats as European Union leaders agree that Moscow is likely source of Salisbury attack The European Union has recalled its ambassador from Moscow after leaders on the continent threw their weight behind Theresa May's stance over the Salisbury attack. Several EU member states were poised to announce expulsions of diplomats, in a bid to dismantle Vladimir Putin's spy network. Following a summit in Brussels to discuss the response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack, EU leaders gave their full-throated backing to the prime minister by adopting a statement declaring it was "highly likely Russia is responsible" for poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. |
| Trump reveals $60bn of fresh tariffs on China as EU wins reprieve Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:25 PM PDT US president calls on Brussels to respond in kind to temporary amnesty, while move against Beijing hits stock markets Financial markets have taken fright after Donald Trump fired the latest shots in an escalating trade war between the world's two biggest economies by announcing $60bn (£42.5bn) of further tariffs on China. Amid relief in Brussels that the EU had won a temporary reprieve from Trump's already announced action to protect the US from imports of steel and aluminium, Wall Street braced itself for retaliation from China. Beijing announced it would consider higher tariffs on pork, aluminium pipe and other goods from the US, a trade worth about $3bn. Continue reading... |
| Genetic tests reveal tragic reality of Atacama 'alien' skeleton Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:00 AM PDT Mummified remains from Chilean ghost town revealed to be baby girl with malformations so bizarre they led to speculation over alien life When the mummified remains of a six-inch humanoid were found in an abandoned mining town in Chile's Atacama desert 15 years ago, speculation on its origins ran wild. The skeleton, which was sold to a private collector in Spain, was so bizarre it appeared in a documentary as potential evidence for alien life. Now scientists in California have extracted DNA from the mummy's bones and pieced together the real and tragic story of the individual, known as Ata. Rather than a visitor from another world, Ata was a girl who appears to have been stillborn, or to have died immediately after birth, with devastating mutations that shaped her extraordinary body. Continue reading... |
| Uber crash shows 'catastrophic failure' of self-driving technology, experts say Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PDT Concerns raised about future testing as footage suggests fatal collision in Arizona was failing of system's most basic functions Video of the first self-driving car crash that killed a pedestrian suggests a "catastrophic failure" by Uber's technology, according to experts in the field, who said the footage showed the autonomous system erring on one of its most basic functions. Days after a self-driving Uber SUV struck a 49-year-old pedestrian while she was crossing the street with her bicycle in Tempe, Arizona, footage released by police revealed that the vehicle was moving in autonomous mode and did not appear to slow down or detect the woman even though she was visible in front of the car prior to the collision. Multiple experts have raised questions about Uber's Lidar technology, which is the system of lasers that the autonomous cars uses to "see" the world around them. Continue reading... |
| Spacewatch: European Space Agency increases research in other solar systems Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT The Ariel mission to study the composition of exoplanets is one of a number of exploratory missions at the ESA The European Space Agency announced this week that its next science mission will be a space telescope to study the composition of planets around other stars. The Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large‐survey mission (Ariel) was chosen as part of the Cosmic Vision programme to explore themes such as "What are the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life?" Continue reading... |
| Romanian man gets driving licence back posthumously Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:21 PM PDT Ruling comes days after a Romanian court refused to declare a living man alive Days after a Romanian court refused to declare a living man alive, another tribunal has ruled that a dead man can have his driving licence back. Last year, Valerian Vasiliu appealed to a court in Iasi in north-eastern Romania against losing his licence after being caught speeding. The court ruled in his favour but he died a few days later. The police, unmoved, appealed against the ruling, which has however now been upheld. Continue reading... |
| Bill Cosby lawyers ask judge to step aside over his wife's work with assault victims Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:17 PM PDT Cosby's team contends that the judge's rulings could appear to be influenced by his wife, an 'activist and advocate for assault victims' Lawyers for fallen TV comedy actor Bill Cosby on Thursday asked the judge in his sexual assault retrial scheduled for next month to step aside. They argued that the judge could be seen as biased because his wife is a social worker who has described herself as an "activist and advocate for assault victims". Cosby's team contends that some of Judge Steven O'Neill's recent pretrial rulings could give the appearance he is being influenced by his wife's work, particularly his decision last week to let prosecutors have up to five additional accusers testify. He allowed just one at the first trial. Continue reading... |
| Paraguayan rape victim, 14, dies giving birth Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:11 PM PDT
A 14-year-old rape victim has died during childbirth in Paraguay, where abortion is forbidden unless giving birth threatens the life of the mother. Related: Paraguayan 11-year-old gives birth after pregnancy sparked abortion debate Continue reading... |
| Marielle Franco murder: Brazilian authorities under global pressure to find killers Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:10 AM PDT
As pressure grows on the authorities in Brazil to find the killers of Rio de Janeiro councillor Marielle Franco, an open letter by international activists, writers, journalists, film-makers, politicians and actors has called for an investigation of her murder by an independent commission. Franco and her driver were shot dead on 14 March, in a targeted assassination which unleashed a wave of anger across Brazil, and provoked urgent debate on the country's racism, violence and impunity. Continue reading... |
| 'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought Posted: 22 Mar 2018 07:59 AM PDT The patch of detritus is more than twice the size of France and is up to 16 times larger than previously estimated An enormous area of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean is teeming with far more debris than previously thought, heightening alarm that the world's oceans are being increasingly choked by trillions of pieces of plastic. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson's Hitler remarks unacceptable, says Russian envoy Posted: 22 Mar 2018 06:46 AM PDT 'Nobody has the right to insult the Russian people who defeated nazism,' ambassador says
Speaking at a press conference, Alexander Yakovenko complained that Britain had refused to cooperate with Moscow over the investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. "We have seen no evidence," he said. Continue reading... |
| 'I love the president': John Dowd quits as Trump lawyer in Mueller investigation Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:44 AM PDT
John Dowd, Donald Trump's lead lawyer in the Mueller investigation into Russian election interference and alleged links between Trump aides and Moscow, resigned his role on Thursday while protesting his "love" for the president. Related: Trump attacks Joe Biden amid reports of 2020 presidential run Continue reading... |
| Mumbai's leopards have killed humans – but could they also be saving lives? Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT Leopards roaming the Sanjay Gandhi National Park could be helping to control the city's dangerous stray dog population, study suggests A fleeting glimpse of the black spots and gold fur of a leopard is not an uncommon sight at Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the Indian city of Mumbai. Leopards are often thought of as a threat to humans, but rather than being a problem in Mumbai, they may actually be helping their human neighbours – even saving their lives – as we argue in our paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Continue reading... |
| Europe's most densely populated square kilometres – mapped Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:30 AM PDT Prof Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield has crunched data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) to locate the densest square kilometre in every European country – the top 15 are shown below Continue reading... |
| Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' Posted: 22 Mar 2018 04:30 AM PDT Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge A shattering collapse of civilisation is a "near certainty" in the next few decades due to humanity's continuing destruction of the natural world that sustains all life on Earth, according to biologist Prof Paul Ehrlich. In May, it will be 50 years since the eminent biologist published his most famous and controversial book, The Population Bomb. But Ehrlich remains as outspoken as ever. Continue reading... |
| John Bolton: foreign policy radical who backs war with Iran and North Korea Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:11 PM PDT Trump's new national security adviser will drive the White House down a more confrontational road in two crucial regions Donald Trump has hired an unwavering and radical advocate of war against both North Korea and Iran to oversee his administration's national security policy. John Bolton has made a career of deriding diplomacy as a sign of weakness, and has disparaged both the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, and even the current administration's use of sanctions as means of pressuring the North Korean regime to give up its nuclear arsenal. Continue reading... |
| UK ad campaign to reduce knife crime features real-life cases Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:16 AM PDT The #knifefree campaign comes amid warnings of a stabbing epidemic in London An advertising campaign to reduce knife crime among young people featuring real cases has been launched amid warnings of a stabbing epidemic in London. The £1.35m Home Office campaign will target 10- to 21-year-olds on social media and digital TV channels. A poster campaign will be displayed in English cities where knife crime is prevalent. Continue reading... |
| Lignite mining: Greece’s dirty secret - in pictures Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT Mining for lignite - or brown coal - in Greece is a huge industry. Together with Germany and Poland, the country accounts for more than one-third of the world's coal production. But for residents of villages in the extraction areas of West Macedonia, it has many impacts, from displacement to health problems. Photographs and research by Anna Pantelia Thick dust suspended in the atmosphere makes it hard to see the sun over Ptolemaida, a city 500 kilometres north-west of Athens in the West Macedonia region, known for its brown coal (lignite) mines and power stations. Kostas works as a guard for the state-owned Public Power Corporation (PPC), like his father before him. "My father died of cancer when I was 12," he says. "Four other men from his shift lost their lives from cancer." Continue reading... |
| Israel-bound flight crosses Saudi Arabia airspace for first time Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:27 AM PDT Riyadh silent on why it granted access but flight signals a tacit improvement in relations Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace for the first time to an Israel-bound passenger plane, breaking a 70-year-ban on commercial jets overflying the Arab kingdom to reach the Jewish state. While Riyadh does not formally recognise Israel, Thursday night's touchdown by the Air India flight in Tel Aviv signalled a thawing of relations between the two states that share a common enemy, Iran. Continue reading... |
| Wheat in heat: the 'crazy idea' that could combat food insecurity Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT Durum wheat varieties can withstand 40C heat along the Senegal River basin, and could produce 600,000 tonnes of food In the northern Senegalese village of Ndiayene Pendao, close to the border with Mauritania, Fatouma Sow is pulling weeds. Her team of female farmers tread carefully among the tall, ripening plants as they prepare to harvest the country's first ever crop of durum wheat. They had grown onions and tomatoes on the one-hectare plot (2.47 acres), Sow explains, but the crops took too long to grow and disrupted the essential rice growing season. Now the wheat offers a fast-growing, lucrative alternative. Continue reading... |
| 'We did it here, you can do it there': Sydney joins Parkland school shooting protests Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:53 AM PDT Survivors' activism held up as an inspiration for young people around the world Australian students and politicians have rallied in Sydney in solidarity with the survivors of the Parkland school shooting, as part of a global protest to end gun violence. On Saturday survivors of last month's shooting, their families and supporters will rally in Washington DC as part of the March for Our Lives, which calls on US lawmakers to do more on gun control. Continue reading... |
| US trade war: global shares plummet as China signals tariff retaliation – business live Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:06 AM PDT European shares fall after a huge sell-off overnight in Asia, reflecting investor fears over US-China tit-for-tat measures. Follow all the action here
EU leaders meeting in Brussels have welcomed President Trump's decision to row back on plans to impose tariffs on European steel. Washington said on Thursday tariffs would be suspended for the EU - America's biggest trading partner - Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea. The tariffs are suspended until 1 May as discussions continue. Europe has clearly stated its intention to riposte and enter a trade war ... it's a good thing that President Trump changed his mind on tariff increases. I am very pleased that we have avoided a situation for the German steel and aluminium industry and its workers, that could have led to great uncertainty. We don't want further unilateral measures, rather we want sensible agreements. This is progress, let's keep talking.
Next is one of Britain's biggest retailers and the latest results for the year ending January 2018 reflect a tough trading backdrop on the UK's high streets. In many ways 2017 was the most challenging year we have faced for 25 years. A difficult clothing market coincided with self-inflicted product ranging errors and omissions. At the same time, the business has had to manage the costs, systems requirements and opportunities of an accelerating structural shift in spending from retail stores to online. Continue reading... |
| Dutton's department denies delaying Chinese student visas for political reasons Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:36 AM PDT Reports link delays to tense relations between over question of covert Chinese Communist party influence in Australia The Department of Home Affairs, the new "super-ministry" whose minister is Peter Dutton, has strongly rejected claims it is deliberately delaying Chinese student visas, following stories in China's state-run media and social media that claim the issue is "politically motivated" . The Global Times story and an article by Australian Red Scarf – a populist, patriotic Chinese-language website popular with Chinese students in Australia – claimed between 100 and 200 Chinese students have been left in limbo while they wait for visas, with some being forced to look elsewhere to study. Continue reading... |
| Comic Relief to ditch white saviour stereotype appeals Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Charity to change approach after receiving criticism for 'poverty tourism' campaigns The head of Comic Relief has halted its use of celebrities for appeals described by an aid watchdog as "poverty tourism" that reinforce white saviour stereotypes. The departure from having white celebrities front fundraising films from Africa for Sports Relief and Red Nose Day, follows another scathing attack on Comic Relief last week. Continue reading... |
| Parkland students: our manifesto to change America's gun laws | Editorial staff of the Eagle Eye Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:00 PM PDT After the massacre at our high school, our lives have changed forever – so we're proposing these changes to halt mass shootings As a student publication, the Eagle Eye works to tell the stories of those who do not have a voice. Today, we are the ones who feel our voice must be elevated. In the wake of the tragedy that occurred at our school on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, our lives have changed beyond what we ever imagined. We, along with our publication, have been transformed. We will remain so for the rest of our lives. Continue reading... |
| Who is John Bolton, Trump's new national security adviser? Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:34 PM PDT The former UN ambassador under George W Bush and a notorious hawk, Bolton has called for bombing Iran and North Korea John Bolton, the incoming national security adviser, will have the ear of Donald Trump at a perilously fraught moment in world affairs. A notorious hawk who advocates the unilateral wielding of US might, Bolton is dismissive of international diplomacy, and has called for the bombing of both Iran and North Korea. Continue reading... |
| Trump's China tariffs risk 'tit-for-tat protectionism' that threatens world economy Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:38 PM PDT Experts say US and Chinese consumers will see higher prices – and fear other countries will be dragged in to the dispute Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on $60bn worth of Chinese imports has raised the prospect of a trade war that threatens to engulf the global economy. Related: US imposes sanctions on China, stoking fears of trade war Continue reading... |
| Russian criminal tattoos – in pictures Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT These photographs of prisoners' tattoos were collected by Arkady Bronnikov from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s. An expert in criminalistics, he visited correctional institutions across the Soviet Union to collect photos to help to understand the tattoos' language, and to identify and catch criminals. Continue reading... |
| 'This can be a mean-spirited town': Rex Tillerson bids farewell – video Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:28 PM PDT Rex Tillerson has said farewell to the state department with a parting shot at Washington, a plea for integrity – and no mention of the man who fired him. Tillerson didn't directly address the icy manner in which he was dismissed last week by Donald Trump, after one of the shortest stints by a secretary of state in recent history Continue reading... |
| 'I'd beat the hell out of him' says Joe Biden of Trump – video Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:58 AM PDT Donald Trump has struck out on Twitter at former vice president Joe Biden, who mused days before about beating up the US president if the two were in high school. At a rally hosted by a sexual assault awareness group on 20 March, Biden recalled a recording released during the 2016 presidential campaign of Trump using profanities to refer to lewd behaviour with women. 'If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,' Biden said Continue reading... |
| 'I'm a political nerd': New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern thrilled at meeting Barack Obama - video Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:09 AM PDT Jacinda Ardern says 'as a political nerd' she is very happy to welcome Barack Obama on his first visit to the country. Ardern asked Obama for advice on both political and parenting matters, as she leads the country and is expecting her first child Continue reading... |
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