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- Sheikh’s daughter called UK police after kidnap, lawyer claims
- Saudi crown prince signals new purge with ‘treason’ arrests
- International Women's Day: events highlighting gender inequality take place around the world - live updates
- Harry Redknapp and Caitlyn Jenner caught in charity support sting
- MH17 families fear they still face a long road to justice as trial begins
- UK urged to act over men facing death in Egypt for alleged childhood crimes
- Duke and Duchess of Sussex receive standing ovation at Royal Albert Hall
- Stephen King attacks axing of Woody Allen book
- Marxist marsupial: Germany’s left draws hope from an unlikely hero
- Burning calories: pig starts farm fire by excreting pedometer
- Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’
- UK companies to invest £12bn in switch to electric vehicles
- Trump's immigration policies may put people at risk of coronavirus – experts
- Coronavirus: quarter of Italy's population put in quarantine as virus reaches Washington DC
- Sport Australia defies Senate on questions over sports rorts grants
- Snapshot sisterhood: women train the lens on women – in pictures
- In New Zealand, we are starting to value women's work fairly. It's time for the world to follow
- Taipei seems to have the virus in hand. Now I worry about returning to the UK
- Is coronavirus mutating into a more deadly strain? Covid-19 myths busted
- Bill Clinton says his affair helped his anxiety. Has he not non-apologised enough? | Poppy Noor
- Coronavirus quarantine hotel in China collapses – video
- 'It has arrived': Italian Democratic party leader announces he has coronavirus – video
| Sheikh’s daughter called UK police after kidnap, lawyer claims Posted: 07 Mar 2020 11:13 PM PST Revelation fuels calls for investigations into Cambridgeshire force and Foreign Office after high court bombshell There are demands for independent inquiries into the roles of the Foreign Office and Cambridgeshire police after an investigation into the abduction of a princess on a British street was allowed to lapse. Princess Shamsa Al Maktoum of Dubai was snatched two decades ago by men working for her father, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai, who is a friend of the Queen. Continue reading... |
| Saudi crown prince signals new purge with ‘treason’ arrests Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:01 PM PST King's brother and Prince Mohammed bin Salman's predecessor are accused of coup plot A purge of princes and aides continued across Saudi Arabia on Saturday after the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, claimed to have foiled a coup being plotted by two of the country's most senior royals – widely seen as among the few left standing in the way of his ascension. Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, the only full brother of the monarch, King Salman, and Mohammed bin Nayef, who was heir to the throne until being ousted by Prince Mohammed, face treason charges after being accused of organising against the ambitious heir. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Mar 2020 03:32 AM PDT On International Women's Day, we'll be following the commemorative events all around the world.
David Schneider, co-writer of the screenplay for critically acclaimed comedy Death of Stalin, has poked fun at those complaining about the existence of IWD. "We apologise for the temporary interruption to #InternationalMensDay. Normal service will be resumed at midnight"#InternationalWomensDay
The Australian government has announced a number of new policies to support women in an IWD announcement. Continue reading... |
| Harry Redknapp and Caitlyn Jenner caught in charity support sting Posted: 07 Mar 2020 11:49 PM PST The celebrities took large fees in return for backing a fake environmental group set up by C4's Dispatches programme Caitlyn Jenner and Harry Redknapp have both accepted thousands of pounds in return for backing a fake charity set up by Channel 4 in a sting operation. In a Dispatches documentary, Celebs For Sale: The Great Charity Scandal, to be broadcast on Monday evening, the two well-known faces are revealed to be part of a widespread practice of paying celebrities for public support. Continue reading... |
| MH17 families fear they still face a long road to justice as trial begins Posted: 08 Mar 2020 12:08 AM PST Family of Richard Mayne say it could be years before they know why 298 people died On Sunday Liz Mayne will make a familiar "pilgrimage" to the Netherlands. In 2015, she flew in to inspect the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine the previous summer. "You could still smell the burning," she says. "It was an overwhelming experience." Her son Richard, a second-year student at Leeds University, was one of 298 people on board. Ten were Britons. All perished. Richard was 20. His body was recovered intact from sunflower fields near the village of Hrabove. He was returned in the clothes he had set off in: sweatshirt and socks bearing the logo of his favourite rugby team, the Leicester Tigers. Continue reading... |
| UK urged to act over men facing death in Egypt for alleged childhood crimes Posted: 08 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PST Foreign secretary asked to intervene as death penalty hangs over four young men at mass trial in Cairo A group of British MPs has called on the foreign secretary to intervene in the case of four young men facing a death sentence in Cairo for crimes they allegedly committed as children. One of them is Ammar El Sudany, who was in the bath when Egyptian security forces raided his home. Continue reading... |
| Duke and Duchess of Sussex receive standing ovation at Royal Albert Hall Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:49 PM PST London concert for Royal Marines one of couple's final public engagements as senior royals The Duke and Duchess of Sussex received a standing ovation at the Royal Albert Hall as they attended one of their final public engagements before they step back as senior royals. The couple were treated to a sustained round of applause before the national anthem and as they took their seats in the royal box at the London venue on Saturday for the annual Mountbatten Festival of Music. Continue reading... |
| Stephen King attacks axing of Woody Allen book Posted: 08 Mar 2020 12:10 AM PST Writer 'uneasy' over US publisher's decision to drop director's memoir Author Stephen King has hit out at publisher Hachette over its decision to drop publication of Woody Allen's memoir after a protest from his son, the author Ronan Farrow, prompted a walkout of staff at the publishing group's New York office last Thursday. "The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy," King, the horror writer, said on Twitter. "It's not him; I don't give a damn about Mr Allen. It's who gets muzzled next that worries me." Continue reading... |
| Marxist marsupial: Germany’s left draws hope from an unlikely hero Posted: 08 Mar 2020 01:43 AM PST Radicals are enjoying a resurgence, but their most popular activist is a communist kangaroo The most popular symbol of the radical left in Germany is an avowed anti-capitalist and a firm believer in collective property. He takes down neo-Nazis with the same bouncy energy as he tackles property speculators. Books expounding his views, running at several volumes, top the German bestseller charts; posters bearing his face are currently plastered all over the country's cities. Continue reading... |
| Burning calories: pig starts farm fire by excreting pedometer Posted: 07 Mar 2020 11:29 PM PST Seventy-five square metres of farm near Leeds set alight after copper in pedometer battery reacted with dung and dry hay Firefighters in North Yorkshire have tackled a blaze that broke out after a pig swallowed a pedometer which then combusted in its pen after excretion. The fire crews were called to a blaze covering 75 square metres at four pigpens in Bramham, near Leeds, on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’ Posted: 08 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PST Even as a little girl, Alison Brie knew how to entertain a crowd. Now, the star of Mad Men and Glow is tackling the heartbreak of her grandmother's struggles with mental illness When Alison Brie was in middle school, her grandmother, who was schizophrenic and homeless, was knocked down by a car and left in a coma. "My family didn't have the resources to care for her," Brie says. "And she lived on the street." On a visit to the hospital, she remembers struggling to connect the dirty homeless woman in the bed with a photo at home of her grandparents on their wedding day – "Dancing, looking beautiful, radiant." Brie, 37, who has alert, glacier-bright blue eyes, tells this moving story with unrehearsed candour. Talking publicly about her grandmother is still a fresh experience, and raw, but it's also cathartic. For a long time, these were conversations she had only with her mother, but that time is over. Her new film, Horse Girl, now on Netflix, is a fiction, but one that mines her grandmother's story for a twisting meditation on mental illness with a mischievous coda: just because someone is schizophrenic doesn't mean the aliens aren't real. Continue reading... |
| UK companies to invest £12bn in switch to electric vehicles Posted: 08 Mar 2020 01:34 AM PST With a fuel duty rise expected in this week's budget, a survey by Centrica finds businesses on course to move to cleaner cars and vans British companies are expected to spend more than £12bn switching their fossil fuel vehicles for clean electric versions over the next two years. A survey found that nearly half of UK businesses are planning to invest in chargeable cars and vans in advance of the government's ban on sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035. Continue reading... |
| Trump's immigration policies may put people at risk of coronavirus – experts Posted: 08 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PST Surveillance in 'sanctuary cities' and increased Ice presence could deter immigrants from accessing healthcare Since 2017, Donald Trump has pushed a hardline immigration agenda that has sown confusion, fear and distrust among immigrant communities. Now, as the world deals with a public health emergency in the shape of the coronavirus outbreak, experts worry his immigration policies may put everyone at risk. There is a widespread fear that the president's policies have sown such fear of deportation and wariness of any contact with US authorities among immigrants – who also have greater difficulty getting healthcare – that many of them will not seek help if they fall sick with the virus. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: quarter of Italy's population put in quarantine as virus reaches Washington DC Posted: 07 Mar 2020 11:47 PM PST Giuseppe Conte signs decree early on Sunday after 1,200 cases confirmed in 24 hours Italy has formally locked down more than a quarter of its population in a bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the outbreak reached Washington DC and a political convention attended by Donald Trump and Mike Pence. More than 5,800 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Italy, after an alarming increase of more than 1,200 in a single 24-hour period. Two hundred and thirty-three people have died. Almost 100 countries are now responding to outbreaks. Continue reading... |
| Sport Australia defies Senate on questions over sports rorts grants Posted: 07 Mar 2020 07:46 PM PST Exclusive: senior officials claim no 'specific recollection' of a hastily convened teleconference to discuss colour-coded spreadsheets Sport Australia defied a Senate committee request to respond to questions about its role in the Morrison government's controversial sports grants program, while senior officials involved in the administration of the grants claim to have no "specific recollection" of a hastily convened teleconference to discuss the government's colour-coded spreadsheets. Sport Australia had been ordered to respond to 40 questions its officials had taken on notice following a 28 February committee hearing examining the $100m sports grants program by 6 March. Continue reading... |
| Snapshot sisterhood: women train the lens on women – in pictures Posted: 07 Mar 2020 11:00 PM PST To mark International Women's Day, ActionAid is staging a photography exhibition that celebrates female trailblazers in poor countries – from the Guatemalan hip-hop artist who uses her music to champion feminism, to the founder of Kabul's first yoga studio. All of the images, which are on show at the Oxo Tower in London until 8 March, are taken by female photographers Continue reading... |
| In New Zealand, we are starting to value women's work fairly. It's time for the world to follow Posted: 07 Mar 2020 05:25 PM PST On International Women's Day, let's commit to properly compensating women for the unpaid and underpaid work they have always done The world would stop running were it not for the unpaid and underpaid work undertaken by women. It is past time for our contribution to be recognised, and remunerated fairly. Here in Aotearoa New Zealand, we are creating a new process to appropriately value the caring work traditionally undertaken by women. It started in 2013, when a care and support worker named Kristine Bartlett, supported by her union (E Tū), filed a pay equity claim under the Equal Pay Act 1972. She made the case that the caring work she did was undervalued because it was mainly performed by women. This was compared to work that was male-dominated but required a similar level of skill, effort and responsibilities. Continue reading... |
| Taipei seems to have the virus in hand. Now I worry about returning to the UK Posted: 07 Mar 2020 03:02 PM PST After the Sars outbreak on the island state in 2003, when 150,000 were quarantined, Taiwan vowed to be better prepared next time As I stepped into a cosy restaurant in Taipei, the waiter signalled for me to stop, then ran at me, gun in hand. He held it near my forehead, then – click – my temperature was checked. He look relieved as he ushered me to a corner table. Taiwan's capital (population 2.7 million) is on high alert. Temperature checks, face masks and hand sanitisers are the new normal as the city, and the island state, unifies in its battle against contagion. Continue reading... |
| Is coronavirus mutating into a more deadly strain? Covid-19 myths busted Posted: 07 Mar 2020 04:10 AM PST The truth about the protective value of face masks and whether it's easy to catch Covid-19
All viruses accumulate mutations over time and the virus that causes Covid-19 is no different. How widespread different strains of a virus become depends on natural selection – the versions that can propagate quickest and replicate effectively in the body will be the most "successful". This doesn't necessarily mean most dangerous for people though, as viruses that kill people rapidly or make them so sick that they are incapacitated may be less likely to be transmitted. Continue reading... |
| Bill Clinton says his affair helped his anxiety. Has he not non-apologised enough? | Poppy Noor Posted: 07 Mar 2020 04:00 AM PST Monica Lewinsky has moved on – but the former president just can't let his relationship with the then intern go Back when Bill Clinton was in office, CBD oil wasn't yet on the market. The president, therefore, it seems, took to some unusual methods to manage his anxiety. In a new Hulu docuseries about Hillary Clinton, the former president says his affair with 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky (he was 49 at the time) was "to manage his anxieties". Related: Hillary review – did the US presidential hopeful take the wrong road? Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus quarantine hotel in China collapses – video Posted: 07 Mar 2020 08:27 PM PST A hotel in south-eastern China that was being used as a quarantine centre for people arriving from coronavirus-hit regions has collapsed, trapping dozens, according to the local government Continue reading... |
| 'It has arrived': Italian Democratic party leader announces he has coronavirus – video Posted: 07 Mar 2020 06:49 AM PST The governor of Italy's Lazio region is the latest official to test positive for coronavirus in the country. Nicola Zingaretti, who is also head of the Democratic party, one of the national ruling parties, announced his diagnosis on Facebook on Saturday. At least three government prefects – in Bergamo, Brescia and Matera – have tested positive for the virus, along with three Milan prosecutors, according to reports
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