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- Israel retaliates after Iran 'fires 20 rockets' at army in occupied Golan Heights
- Malaysia's former leader set to become world's oldest PM at 92
- Canadian zoo faces charges after taking bear out for ice cream at Dairy Queen
- Robert Mueller investigating payments to Michael Cohen, Swiss drug giant says
- Canadian police investigate after 14th human foot washes up on coastline
- Fox to press on with Disney merger despite likely Comcast bid
- Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000
- Berlusconi vows not to veto pact between Italy's populist parties
- FKA twigs says uterus surgery 'knocked my confidence as a woman'
- Postwar generations shut out of economic mobility, finds report
- Google’s AI program DeepMind learns human navigation skills
- North Korea releases three US citizens in run-up to Trump summit
- One million fled economic crisis-hit Venezuela for Colombia in past year
- Gina Haspel's lack of clear answers on torture frustrates Senate Democrats
- Screen grabs: how religious sects seized Madagascar's cinema district
- Donald Trump angers Scots with ban on Irn-Bru at luxury golf resort
- Organised crime in Montenegro on rise amid claims of gang links to government
- Israel has hit nearly all Iranian infrastructure in Syria, claims military
- Donald Trump welcomes home three Americans released by North Korea
- Dignity, community and hope in the Haitian slum of Jalousie – in pictures
- Malaysia election: confusion as rival questions Mahathir's right to be sworn in
- Bill Shorten due to deliver Labor's budget reply speech – politics live
- After beatings, black potions and brutality, the Gambia seeks a fresh start | Ruth Maclean
- Fatal elephant attacks on Rohingya refugees push Bangladesh to act
- Elephants destroy Rohingya tents in Bangladesh refugee camp – video
- Now the Post is muzzled, Cambodia's free press is gone
- How Trump's Iran deal exit could hit aviation, oil and car industries | Rob Davies
- Syrian military video shows air defences trying to intercept Israeli missiles - video
- 'The Germans sneeze loudly': refugees on their adopted homelands - video
- Donald and Melania Trump greet three Americans freed by North Korea - video
- Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak refuses to admit defeat – video
- Truck loses load of chocolate on Polish highway – video
- Bum biting: wombat sex lives revealed – video
- 'We are not seeking revenge,' says Mahathir Mohamad after election victory – video
| Israel retaliates after Iran 'fires 20 rockets' at army in occupied Golan Heights Posted: 09 May 2018 06:21 PM PDT
Arch-enemies Iran and Israel edged closer to all-out war on Thursday after Israel's military said its positions in the Golan Heights were fired at with a barrage of Iranian rockets, prompting it to respond with extensive strikes targeting Tehran's forces across Syria. Related: Iran deal: how Trump's actions could flare violence in Middle East Continue reading... |
| Malaysia's former leader set to become world's oldest PM at 92 Posted: 09 May 2018 11:08 PM PDT Mahathir Mohamad's election victory brings an end to ruling coalition's lengthy hold on power Former Malaysian leader Dr Mahathir Mohamad is poised to become the world's oldest prime minister after defeating Najib Razak in a fiercely contested election that put an end to the ruling coalition's six-decade hold on power. Mahathir, 92, who was prime minister between 1981 and 2003, led the opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan, to its first election victory since Malaysian independence in 1957, winning an outright parliamentary majority. He will be sworn in by the king on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Canadian zoo faces charges after taking bear out for ice cream at Dairy Queen Posted: 09 May 2018 10:01 AM PDT Discovery Wildlife Park in Alberta faces two charges for failing to notify officials the bear was leaving the zoo A private zoo in the Canadian province of Alberta is facing charges after a bear from the facility was taken through a drive-thru Dairy Queen in a pickup truck and hand-fed ice cream through the vehicle's window. News of the outing emerged earlier this year after Discovery Wildlife Park, located about 70 miles north of Calgary in the town of Innisfail, posted a video on social media showing a captive Kodiak bear sitting in the passenger seat of a truck. Continue reading... |
| Robert Mueller investigating payments to Michael Cohen, Swiss drug giant says Posted: 09 May 2018 06:10 PM PDT Novartis confirms it paid Trump's lawyer's company $1.2m – significantly more than was initially disclosed Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has been investigating payments made by corporations to Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen, two of Cohen's clients said on Wednesday. AT&T and the Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis both said they were contacted by Mueller's office in November last year, as Novartis confirmed it had paid Cohen $1.2m – significantly more than was initially disclosed. Continue reading... |
| Canadian police investigate after 14th human foot washes up on coastline Posted: 09 May 2018 12:28 PM PDT Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovered a foot inside a hiking boot, the latest in a series of shoe-clad feet found since 2007 Canadian police are investigating after a human foot washed up on the shores of British Columbia – marking the 14th time since 2007 that tides have carried a shoe-clad foot on to the province's coastline. The latest grisly discovery was made on Gabriola Island in the strait of Georgia on Sunday, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A man was walking along the beach just after noon when he came across what appeared to be a disarticulated foot inside a hiking boot. The boot had become lodged in a logjam, police said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Fox to press on with Disney merger despite likely Comcast bid Posted: 09 May 2018 03:02 PM PDT 21st Century Fox chairman Lachlan Murdoch expects approval for Sky acquisition 'in a month or two' as $60bn Comcast offer expected The chairman of 21st Century Fox, Lachlan Murdoch, said the media company planned to press ahead with plans to merge with Disney and take full control of Sky on Wednesday but said the company was considering its options as cable giant Comcast prepares a higher bid. Last December Fox agreed to sell most of its cable and studio assets to the Walt Disney Company. It is also looking to acquire the shares of Sky it doesn't already own. |
| Indian pair arrested after using 'space suits' to con investor out of $200,000 Posted: 09 May 2018 11:47 AM PDT Police arrest father and son who convinced man to invest in invention to generate electricity from thunderbolts Indian police have arrested a father and son who used fake space suits to convince a businessman to hand over more than $200,000 (nearly £150,000). New Delhi police released pictures and video of the two accused wearing the silver suits after they were apprehended over claims they could sell magical copper plates to Nasa. Continue reading... |
| Berlusconi vows not to veto pact between Italy's populist parties Posted: 09 May 2018 02:43 PM PDT Former PM's blessing paves way for the League and Five Star Movement to form a government Italy's scandal-tainted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has given his blessing for his coalition partner, the League, to attempt to form a government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S). The 81-year-old's presence had been the sticking point preventing the two parties from breaking a political deadlock that followed inconclusive national elections in March. Continue reading... |
| FKA twigs says uterus surgery 'knocked my confidence as a woman' Posted: 09 May 2018 06:24 AM PDT Singer reveals she had six fibroid tumours – 'a fruit bowl of pain' – removed in December The singer FKA twigs has said her "confidence as a woman was knocked" after laparoscopic surgery to have six fibroid tumours removed from her uterus. The 30-year-old Mercury prize nominee, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, said she underwent the procedure in December. In a long Instagram post, she said she was a very private person and had been unsure whether she should share the news that she had been recovering from surgery. Continue reading... |
| Postwar generations shut out of economic mobility, finds report Posted: 09 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT US ranks poorly for providing opportunities to join top 25% of earners, says World Bank Children around the world have failed to get a better education than their parents and improve their economic circumstances, so generations of poor people in developing countries are becoming "trapped in a cycle of poverty determined by their circumstance at birth", says a World Bank report. According to the report, Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World, successive generations in the postwar era, far from enjoying a better life than their parents, have been "unable to ascend the economic ladder due to inequality of opportunity", or they have seen their progress stall in recent years. Continue reading... |
| Google’s AI program DeepMind learns human navigation skills Posted: 09 May 2018 10:00 AM PDT Google's AI beat humans at a game that involved racing around an unfamiliar virtual environment Notch up another win for the robots: the latest program from Google's artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has trounced experts at a maze game after it learned to find its way around like a human. Scientists noticed that when they trained the AI to move through a landscape, it spontaneously developed electrical activity akin to that seen in the specialised brain cells that underpin human navigational skills. So-called 'grid cells' were only identified in animals in 2005 in work that earned researchers a Nobel prize. Continue reading... |
| North Korea releases three US citizens in run-up to Trump summit Posted: 09 May 2018 09:50 AM PDT US secretary of state Mike Pompeo secures release of men during visit to Pyongyang North Korea has released three US citizens, in a move that continues the apparent thawing of its relations with the United States ahead of a planned meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump. The release of the three men, all US citizens of Korean heritage, marks a major diplomatic victory for the Trump administration and was secured during a visit to North Korea by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state. Continue reading... |
| One million fled economic crisis-hit Venezuela for Colombia in past year Posted: 09 May 2018 10:31 AM PDT Red Cross says with the crisis intensifying, an estimated 37,000 people were now crossing the Colombian border each day At least one million people have entered Colombia from Venezuela since President Nicolás Maduro's government descended into crisis last year, a senior Red Cross official told AFP on Wednesday. Related: Not welcome in Colombia, indigenous migrants stuck at border after fleeing Venezuela Continue reading... |
| Gina Haspel's lack of clear answers on torture frustrates Senate Democrats Posted: 09 May 2018 06:20 PM PDT Trump's pick for head of the CIA struggled at her confirmation hearing to clarify what she would do if the president ordered torture Donald Trump's choice for head of the Central Intelligence Agency struggled on Wednesday to tell US senators how she would respond if the president asked her to reintroduce the waterboarding of terrorist suspects. Gina Haspel, grilled about her time running a covert detention site where suspects were brutally interrogated during George W Bush's "war on terror", failed to explicitly condemn such techniques as immoral. Twice the hearing on Capitol Hill was interrupted by protesters, one of whom yelled: "Bloody Gina! You are a torturer," before being dragged out by police. Continue reading... |
| Screen grabs: how religious sects seized Madagascar's cinema district Posted: 09 May 2018 11:15 PM PDT Antananarivo is home to an array of vintage picturehouses, yet none have shown a film in decades. Now they host a new breed of celebrity preacher, all just as keen to entertain – and to profit It's Sunday afternoon on Rue Dussac, a dusty cobbled street in downtown Antananarivo, and a relaxed crowd of young, elegantly dressed Malagasy women has gathered in the shade outside the Rex cinema. Among them is Kantou, 20, who has come with her mother to see today's "show": a service of the Evangelical Messenger of Awakening (MRE) church. "I first started coming when I was 14. I was going through some serious emotional problems back then," says Kantou. Her mother had stopped believing in God after her divorce. They heard about the MRE church through a friend and have been coming every Sunday since. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump angers Scots with ban on Irn-Bru at luxury golf resort Posted: 09 May 2018 11:07 PM PDT Scotland's favourite non-alcoholic drink banned from Turnberry resort over its carpet-staining properties White House diplomacy has dipped to a new low after it emerged that Donald Trump's luxury golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, has banned the sale of Irn-Bru on the premises. The ban came to light after guests asked for Scotland's favourite non-alcoholic beverage to be supplied at an event but were refused because staff were concerned about potential spills. Continue reading... |
| Organised crime in Montenegro on rise amid claims of gang links to government Posted: 09 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT Shooting of reporter in leg 'latest warning for investigators' as state accused of complicity and ignoring drugs and violence Shortly after sunset on Tuesday evening a man approached Olivera Lakić, an investigative journalist, outside her apartment in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, and calmly shot her in the leg from close range. Lakić saw the silhouettes of three men fleeing the scene as she fell to the ground. A tourist paradise of mountains, canyons and an Adriatic coastline, Montenegro also has a serious problem with organised crime. For years the picturesque tranquility has been regularly shattered by car bombs and shootings, and in recent months there has been a spike in the violence. Continue reading... |
| Israel has hit nearly all Iranian infrastructure in Syria, claims military Posted: 10 May 2018 02:21 AM PDT Most intense Israeli incursion since 1973 follows Iran's alleged firing on Golan Heights Israel claimed on Thursday that it had hit nearly all Iranian infrastructure in Syria during airstrikes launched in response to a rocket attack on its troops in the occupied Golan Heights it blamed on Iran. The alleged Iranian barrage just after midnight and extensive response appeared to be the most serious confrontation ever between two foes who have long warned of war. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump welcomes home three Americans released by North Korea Posted: 10 May 2018 02:17 AM PDT Freedom for Tony Kim, Kim Hak-song and Kim Dong-chul was secured less than an hour before Mike Pompeo left Pyongyang Three Americans released by North Korea have landed in the US under cover of darkness, with Donald Trump waiting on the tarmac to greet their plane. The three men emerged from a US government plane, flashing peace signs high above their heads. A huge US flag hung between two fire trucks served as a backdrop against the night sky. Continue reading... |
| Dignity, community and hope in the Haitian slum of Jalousie – in pictures Posted: 10 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT Behind the brightly painted exterior of Jalousie, one of Haiti's largest slums, lies a community struggling with a lack of sanitation, intermittent electricity and rivers of plastic waste. Conservative estimates suggest more than 80,000 people now live in Jalousie, many of whom arrived after the 2010 earthquake, which the area miraculously escaped relatively unscathed. Life is often cramped, chaotic and challenging, but Jalousie's people have dignity, hope and a sense of community, regardless of the poverty and oppression they face Photographs: Tariq Zaidi Continue reading... |
| Malaysia election: confusion as rival questions Mahathir's right to be sworn in Posted: 10 May 2018 01:55 AM PDT Confirmation as prime minister thrown into doubt, with defeated incumbent Najib Razak allegedly offering inducements for MPs to switch sides The election of Mahathir Mohamad as Malaysia's new leader has been thrown into doubt after his rival Najib Razak refused to concede defeat and was allegedly offering opposition candidates $6m to switch sides. It was presumed that the election results, which saw a historic win for the opposition for the first time in 60 years, would make way for Mahathir, who this year switched to the opposition party, to return to power. Continue reading... |
| Bill Shorten due to deliver Labor's budget reply speech – politics live Posted: 10 May 2018 02:20 AM PDT The Coalition is fighting back against attacks on the budget as the opposition leader prepares to deliver his speech
One little bit of early news - Labor plans on scrapping upfront fees for 100,000 Tafe students as part of a $470 million plan to "boost tafe, apprenticeships and skills for Australians". "In the last five years, more than $3 billion has been cut from TAFE and training, and Australia has 140,000 fewer apprentices today than we did when the Liberals were first elected," Bill Shorten said in a statement ahead of his speech to parliament.
Bill Shorten's speech is due in the next 30 minutes. Continue reading... |
| After beatings, black potions and brutality, the Gambia seeks a fresh start | Ruth Maclean Posted: 09 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT For nearly a quarter of a century, Yahya Jammeh ruled with an iron fist – now moves are afoot to ensure it never happens again When Fatou Jatta was summoned to the presidential palace to be "cured" by Yahya Jammeh, president of the Gambia at the time, she knew that declining the invitation was not an option. Jammeh had convinced himself that, by mixing herbs and other mysterious substances with milk, he could cure people of HIV. He wanted some human guinea pigs on whom to try out his "treatment". |
| Fatal elephant attacks on Rohingya refugees push Bangladesh to act Posted: 09 May 2018 06:07 AM PDT Young boy becomes latest in series of casualties at Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, which lies on migration route long used by elephants Bangaldesh has pledged to step up its response to a series of deadly elephant attacks at a refugee camp housing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees after a 12-year-old boy was trampled to death. Shamsu Uddin died instantly when an elephant attacked him after he had fallen asleep while guarding paddy fields with friends in Uttar Shilkhali village in the coastal town of Cox's Bazar. |
| Elephants destroy Rohingya tents in Bangladesh refugee camp – video Posted: 09 May 2018 04:58 AM PDT One of the world's largest refugee camps, Kutupalong in the coastal town of Cox's Bazar, has fallen prey to elephant attacks that have caused a dozen deaths over the past six months. The camp is home to 700,000 Rohingya who have fled a brutal campaign of violence in Myanmar. The area around Kutupalong, a natural habitat for elephants, lies on a migration route used by the animals to move between Bangladesh and Myanmar in search of food and shelter. A response programme orchestrated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature aims to warn residents when an elephant enters the camp Fatal elephant attacks on Rohingya refugees push Bangladesh to act Continue reading... |
| Now the Post is muzzled, Cambodia's free press is gone Posted: 09 May 2018 07:55 PM PDT There are no reliable sources of information left. Not for ordinary people, diplomats or NGOs This week the last banner of Cambodia's independent press was torn down, leaving little more than a bloodied flagpole. The Phnom Penh Post was bought by an investor who demanded a "damaging" article be removed, prompting a mass resignation. With the Post compromised, all that remains is the Khmer Times (a paper denounced by its own former editor-in-chief), Facebook and the odious government mouthpiece Fresh News. There are no reliable sources of information left. Not for the Cambodian people, nor for diplomats and NGOs. Continue reading... |
| How Trump's Iran deal exit could hit aviation, oil and car industries | Rob Davies Posted: 09 May 2018 05:02 AM PDT Billions of dollars of deals signed by international companies are under threat Billions of dollars of deals signed by international companies with Iran are under threat after the US president, Donald Trump, announced he was pulling out of a "rotten" nuclear deal with Tehran. Iran's agreement in 2015 to curb its nuclear ambitions led to the US easing crippling sanctions, in a rapprochement in which big firms seized an opportunity to invest in a global top-30 economy with a population of about 80 million. |
| Syrian military video shows air defences trying to intercept Israeli missiles - video Posted: 10 May 2018 02:11 AM PDT The Syrian military has released a video showing what is believed to be Syrian air defences intercepting Israeli missiles. Syrian media say it is the first time in years that Syrians have fired at Israeli forces in Golan. They also claim the hostilities began when Syrian positions in the country's south were targeted by Israeli fire from across the border Continue reading... |
| 'The Germans sneeze loudly': refugees on their adopted homelands - video Posted: 10 May 2018 12:41 AM PDT A record number of refugees arrived in Europe between 2015 and 2016. First comes the excitement but soon they realise it is not entirely like home. Two years have passed and refugees living in UK, Spain, France and Germany tell whether reality met their expectations. Continue reading... |
| Donald and Melania Trump greet three Americans freed by North Korea - video Posted: 10 May 2018 12:39 AM PDT Tony Kim, Kim Hak-song and Kim Dong-chu land in the US under cover of darkness, with the US president and first lady waiting on the tarmac to greet them. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, flew to Pyongyang for a surprise one-day visit on Wednesday, during which he met Kim Jong-un and secured the three men's release Continue reading... |
| Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak refuses to admit defeat – video Posted: 10 May 2018 12:08 AM PDT Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak says he accepts 'the verdict of the people' after his ruling coalition failed to secure a simple majority in a general election for the first time ever. However he did not admit defeat and instead highlighted that no party had achieved a simple majority. "Because no party has gotten a simple majority, therefore the king will be making a decision as to who will be the prime minister," said Najib. Continue reading... |
| Truck loses load of chocolate on Polish highway – video Posted: 09 May 2018 09:35 PM PDT They say you can't have too much of a good thing, but 12 tonnes of chocolate smeared across a highway is less than sweet. Pressurised water and heavy machinery was brought in to clear the mess Continue reading... |
| Bum biting: wombat sex lives revealed – video Posted: 09 May 2018 09:11 PM PDT A whiskery love bite on a hairy bum. It may sound like a perturbing form of foreplay but scientists believe it could help save critically endangered wombat populations in Australia's north. Scientists have spent two wombat breeding seasons researching the sex lives of vulnerable southern hairy-nosed wombats, using infrared cameras and urine samples. Footage supplied by Symbio Wildlife Park. |
| 'We are not seeking revenge,' says Mahathir Mohamad after election victory – video Posted: 09 May 2018 05:00 PM PDT Mahathir, 92, who was Malaysia's prime minister between 1981 and 2003, will become the world's oldest PM after defeating Najib Razak in a fiercely contested election • Malaysia election: confusion as rival questions Mahathir's right to be sworn in |
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