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- Trump comes close to admitting defeat but stops short of formal concession
- Coronavirus live news: next two weeks in UK may be 'challenging'; Russia reports record cases
- Boris Johnson boots out top adviser Dominic Cummings
- Rothschild descendant claims initial victory in legal battle with Vienna
- 'All of Peru is fired up': protesters fill streets after ousting of president
- SpaceX delays Crew Dragon launch due to poor weather
- Israeli agents in Iran kill al-Qaida's top lieutenant – report
- Study adds to calls to ban dogs from beaches during nesting season
- BBC finds Princess Diana's lost note that it says clears Martin Bashir
- Violent extremism linked to failure of migrants to integrate, EU says
- Matrix party ‘disguised as film shoot’ to bypass German Covid rules
- Super-rich buying up 'Downton Abbey estates' to escape pandemic
- 'Failure is not an option': Biden's Covid taskforce ready to step up
- Is the vaccine safe? Do I need it if I've had Covid? Readers' questions answered
- Global report: Germany may extend lockdown as Covid cases in Italy soar
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘America under Trump felt like a personal loss'
- ‘They know their vote matters’: the Georgia Senate runoffs battle is already on
- I've been lucky enough to meet my childhood heroes. It's (mostly) been a thrill | Hadley Freeman
- Blind date: 'We realised we have matching tattoos'
- How to get good at chess
- ‘I want to give my child the best’: the race to grow human breast milk in a lab
- Over half Muslim Labour members 'do not trust party to tackle Islamophobia'
- Ethiopia says Tigray region forces fired into neighbouring Amhara
- US election results 2020: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to win presidency
- Montreal police say no threat at Ubisoft offices after 'hoax' 911 call
- 'Big cat' country? New Zealand's obsession with giant feline sightings
- Western Australia opens hard border as Victoria records 15th day of zero coronavirus cases
- Measles cases hit 20-year high as Covid disrupts vaccinations, report finds
- Digested week: Covid vaccine and Cummings exit offer hope … of sorts | John Crace
- Donald Trump comes close to admitting defeat but stops short – video
| Trump comes close to admitting defeat but stops short of formal concession Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:26 PM PST
Donald Trump has come closer than ever to admitting that he lost the US presidential election, suggesting "time will tell" but stopping short of a formal concession to president-elect Joe Biden. Related: Joe Biden ignores Trump obstruction to press ahead with cabinet selection Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: next two weeks in UK may be 'challenging'; Russia reports record cases Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:29 AM PST
Here's a round up of the latest developments:
Higher education experts in the UK are warning that the government may use the coronavirus crisis to turn struggling universities into polytechnics and cut student numbers. Ministers have appointed a board for the government's "Higher education restructuring regime", which has been set up to help universities in financial trouble. Some academics are calling it an "economic hit squad". Related: Fears 'economic hit squad' will use Covid crisis to kill off some UK universities Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson boots out top adviser Dominic Cummings Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:06 AM PST Source says aide's instant departure came after he was accused of briefing against PM Boris Johnson has ordered Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street with immediate effect, in a dramatic end to a tumultuous era which leaves a void at the heart of Downing Street. Cummings and his ally Lee Cain – both ardent Brexiters blamed by MPs for a macho culture and a series of communications crises – were asked to step down on Friday instead of staying in place until Christmas. Continue reading... |
| Rothschild descendant claims initial victory in legal battle with Vienna Posted: 14 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Geoffrey Hoguet is suing Austrian authorities for control of trust set up by his ancestors, but seized by Nazis in 1938 A Rothschild descendant has claimed an initial victory in a legal battle with the city of Vienna over a medical trust set up by his ancestors, seized by Nazis and now controlled by the city. Geoffrey Hoguet is suing Austrian authorities for control of the trust, which he claims has been hollowed out by town hall officials who have made themselves administrator and potential beneficiary of assets worth up to €110m (£98m). Continue reading... |
| 'All of Peru is fired up': protesters fill streets after ousting of president Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:46 AM PST
Fierce clashes in Peru between police and protesters have wounded at least 11 people, doctors and rights groups said on Friday, as thousands of Peruvians took to the streets to protest against the ousting of President Martín Vizcarra. The clashes, and other more peaceful protests in the capital Lima and other cities, are piling pressure on a fragmented congress and the new government of Manuel Merino. Thursday night's rallies were among the largest in two decades in Peru. Continue reading... |
| SpaceX delays Crew Dragon launch due to poor weather Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:41 PM PST Forecasts of gusty, onshore winds over Florida force reschedule to Sunday of first full mission carrying four astronauts Nasa and SpaceX have announced a 24-hour weather delay of their planned launch of four astronauts into orbit for America's first fully fledged human mission using a privately owned spacecraft. The liftoff time slipped from Saturday to Sunday evening due to forecasts of gusty, onshore winds over Florida – remnants of storm Eta – that would have jeopardised a return landing for the Falcon 9 rocket's reusable booster stage, Nasa officials said. Continue reading... |
| Israeli agents in Iran kill al-Qaida's top lieutenant – report Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:04 PM PST Abu Muhammad al-Masri was gunned down in Tehran more than three months ago, says New York Times Al-Qaida's second-in-command was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times has reported, citing intelligence officials. Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Tehran, the NYT reported. He was accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Continue reading... |
| Study adds to calls to ban dogs from beaches during nesting season Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:59 PM PST Research reveals how ground-nesting birds frequently scared from nest by off-lead canines There is only one thing more terrifying for a nesting bird than a person walking nearby: when that two-legged beast is joined by a four-legged companion. A study of how ground-nesting birds are disturbed on beaches in Spain has revealed how they are almost always scared from their nests by passing off-lead dogs, but seem unperturbed by motorbikes, helicopters and low-flying planes. Continue reading... |
| BBC finds Princess Diana's lost note that it says clears Martin Bashir Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:50 AM PST Broadcaster claimed document proved royal was not coerced into doing 1995 interview The BBC says it has found the handwritten note from Princess Diana that it claimed clears Martin Bashir of wrongdoing in relation to his landmark 1995 interview with the royal. The broadcaster had previously said it had lost the crucial piece of paper, which it used to explain away Bashir's use of fake bank statements to gain an introduction to Diana. Continue reading... |
| Violent extremism linked to failure of migrants to integrate, EU says Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:00 AM PST Reference to Islam removed from EU governments' declaration after disagreements The rise of violent extremism in Europe has been linked to the failure of migrants to integrate, in a hard-debated joint declaration by EU governments on the recent terror attacks. The statement by EU home affairs ministers was described by Horst Seehofer, Germany's interior minister, as a "great sign of solidarity" when delivered on Friday but it had been heavily watered down from a controversial initial draft. Continue reading... |
| Matrix party ‘disguised as film shoot’ to bypass German Covid rules Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:23 AM PST Keanu Reeves among 200 people at studio party where guests came as extras, says report German health authorities say they plan to speak to the studio where the latest Matrix film was shot after a party allegedly attended by the Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves was held to mark the end of filming, despite coronavirus restrictions. About 200 people were at the party disguised as a film shoot, with the guests invited to come as extras in an apparent attempt to bypass health regulations, according to the German tabloid Bild. Continue reading... |
| Super-rich buying up 'Downton Abbey estates' to escape pandemic Posted: 14 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families 'recalibrate their priorities' The world's super-rich are seeking to escape from coronavirus lockdowns in cities by buying multimillion-pound English country estates to create Downton Abbey lifestyles, complete with butlers, cooks, housekeepers and armies of gardeners. Estate agents are reporting a surge in sales of vast country estates and former castle properties, which until Covid-19 struck had become increasingly hard to shift as the richest of the rich instead opted to live in luxurious skyscraper penthouses, on tropical islands or superyachts. Continue reading... |
| 'Failure is not an option': Biden's Covid taskforce ready to step up Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST Advisory board set up by president-elect to play high-profile role as pandemic enters its deadliest phase so far President-elect Joe Biden has set up a 13-member coronavirus advisory board will play a high-profile role in helping the Biden-Harris administration contain the coronavirus pandemic in the US as it enters its deadliest phase so far. Related: Officials condemn Trump's false claims and say election 'most secure in US history' Continue reading... |
| Is the vaccine safe? Do I need it if I've had Covid? Readers' questions answered Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:20 AM PST 'Zero chance' mRNA can alter genes, says expert, adding that vaccine can 'top up' immune response from infection "The concerted efforts put into developing a vaccine are wonderful but they can't possibly know about long-term adverse effects. I'll have it if it's offered to me, and at my age long-term effects are irrelevant. I just hope it doesn't turn out to be a latter-day thalidomide." Jenny Walters, retired teacher, Ashburton Continue reading... |
| Global report: Germany may extend lockdown as Covid cases in Italy soar Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:14 AM PST Record daily infections in Germany; Naples hospitals at risk of being overwhelmed; France reports slowdown in rate of new cases Germany's partial lockdown could be extended beyond the end of the month and hospitals in parts of Italy are near breaking point as Covid-19 cases continued to surge in both countries, despite positive signs elsewhere in Europe. New daily coronavirus cases in Germany hit a record of 23,542 on Friday, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases reported, prompting government spokesman Stefan Seibert to say measures "were not expected to be relaxed" by next week. Continue reading... |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘America under Trump felt like a personal loss' Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST As her novel Half of a Yellow Sun is hailed as the Women's prize 'winner of winners', the Nigerian-born, US-based author talks about her relief over Joe Biden's victory – and the bittersweet highs of a difficult year A few hours before Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and I are due to speak, the result of the US election is finally called. The Nigerian novelist, who is based in Maryland but is currently in Lagos, where she spends part of the year, had been on her way back from taking her daughter to a birthday party when she heard the news. "The moment that we've been waiting for," she says. "Everyone was calling: my best friend, my mum, my sister called, we were all sort of screaming down the phone." Her husband, a hospital doctor, had returned to the US the previous week. "He and I were going crazy," she says. "I was almost close to tears because I thought this is really about people who just want decency back. I feel it is really not ideological, it is more about wanting something human and humane. I find it so moving." As it is for so many, her relief is tempered by disappointment at Donald Trump's unexpectedly strong performance. "I've always felt that Trump is as much America as Obama," she says. "People on the left like to say 'This is not America', but actually it is. If you look at the history of America, it is not that surprising that Trump is so popular." People feel "very threatened" both by the idea of a more inclusive, multiracial politics and women having more overt power, she says. So the victory for Kamala Harris as the first black female vice-president-elect is all the more thrilling. "It is impossible to talk about her, about what's happened today, without thinking about what might happen in four or eight years – that she might in fact become president," Adichie says. "Even if just for the symbolism of it, because the symbolic nature of leadership is important." Continue reading... |
| ‘They know their vote matters’: the Georgia Senate runoffs battle is already on Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST Trump's defeat in the reliably red state has shown Democratic voters the power of their ballot, activists say as they focus on Ossoff and Warnock's races Donald Trump may have forced a recount of the votes in Georgia that helped end his presidency, but the activists who organised the surge in turnout that helped defeat him have already turned their attention to two elections that will decide who controls the US Senate and the course of Joe Biden's presidency. Tens of millions of dollars are pouring in to the Georgia runoff races, which can be expected to draw Biden back to the campaign trail as voters have the opportunity to make history by defeating the state's two Republican senators to give the new president control of both houses of Congress. Continue reading... |
| I've been lucky enough to meet my childhood heroes. It's (mostly) been a thrill | Hadley Freeman Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST I'd love to suggest I embarked on my career with a grand plan. But really, it was just me wanting to meet people I like to watch Never meet your heroes is the cliche, as everyone knows. Except me, apparently, because I have spent my career doing the opposite. In fact, it was down to my insistence on meeting people I admire that I have a job at all. The year was 1999, and I was not, contrary to what Prince had promised, partying at all. Instead, I was doing interviews for my student paper, because that sounded like a good way to meet people I'd always wanted to meet. These lucky folk included Ian Hislop, because I liked Have I Got News For You, and the late Richard Whiteley, because I liked Countdown. My mother spotted a writing competition for young women in the Sunday Telegraph, and so I entered my Hislop and Whiteley interviews. (This is exactly how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein got their starts in journalism, too.) For the first and last time in my life, I won an actual competition. On the back of this, I was offered a job at the Guardian, where my first interviews were with Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver, because I liked their TV show, Popworld, and Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, because – can you guess? – I liked The Adam And Joe Show. I'd love to suggest I embarked on my career with a grand plan. But really, it was just me wanting to meet people I like to watch. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: 'We realised we have matching tattoos' Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST Junior, 35, international student recruiter, meets Lizzi, 29, lingerie buyer What were you hoping for? |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:56 PM PST You don't have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit to improve your game The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen's Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? Continue reading... |
| ‘I want to give my child the best’: the race to grow human breast milk in a lab Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:49 PM PST Thought up by a tired new mother, and now backed by Bill Gates, manufactured human milk sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But just how liberating will it be? Dr Leila Strickland became a mother when she was a few months away from completing her postdoctorate fellowship in cell biology at Stanford University. She spent the first three months of her son's life "at home on maternity leave, relentlessly struggling to breastfeed. I was having a hard time producing enough milk." She never expected to find feeding her baby a greater challenge than advanced cytology. "My mom breastfed me and my sister until we were over two years old. All my life, I'd fully embraced the proposition that breast milk is the best nutrition for a baby, and that this is what I would feed my baby." Lactation consultants, paediatricians and well-meaning friends told her to just keep trying. "Because I was so unprepared for it, I found it really isolating. I felt like there was something wrong with me." Continue reading... |
| Over half Muslim Labour members 'do not trust party to tackle Islamophobia' Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:01 PM PST New report is latest sign that leadership is losing trust of ethnic minority supporters More than half of Muslim members of the Labour party do not trust Keir Starmer to tackle Islamophobia, with nearly the same proportion saying they do not have confidence in the party's complaints process, a new poll has found. The report by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) is the latest sign that the party's new leadership is losing the trust of minority ethnic members and supporters, even as it struggles to recover from an antisemitism crisis that led to a collapse in support from Jewish voters. Continue reading... |
| Ethiopia says Tigray region forces fired into neighbouring Amhara Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:57 AM PST Analysts fear fighting in northern area could reopen long-running feuds and escalate Ethiopia said forces loyal to the ruling party of the northern Tigray region had fired into neighbouring Amhara region on Friday, raising fears that fighting in the area could draw in other parts of the country. Thousands of Ethiopians have been crossing the border into Sudan and aid workers have pleaded for access to Tigray, where intense fighting has sparked fears of a devastating conflict in Africa's second most populous country. Continue reading... |
| US election results 2020: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to win presidency Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:22 AM PST Joe Biden has won the 2020 US election, while Georgia recounts, and Donald Trump refuses to concede Continue reading... |
| Montreal police say no threat at Ubisoft offices after 'hoax' 911 call Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:10 PM PST
A major police operation was under way in Montreal on Friday afternoon at offices of French video game company Ubisoft that media reported was a possible hostage-taking, but police later said no threat had yet been found, and CBC News reported that the incident had been caused by a hoax 911 call. Police confirmed the large deployment on Twitter had started at about 1.30pm, but offered no details while urging people to "avoid the area" near St-Laurent Boulevard and St-Viateur Street in Montreal's Mile-End neighbourhood, close to downtown. Police later updated in a statement that "no threat has been detected so far. No injuries were reported." Continue reading... |
| 'Big cat' country? New Zealand's obsession with giant feline sightings Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:00 AM PST Is there a pleasure in not knowing if the decades-old mystery about a cat prowling the country's South Island is fact or fiction? The photograph is disappointing. Blurry, as they all are. It shows a dark blob striding up a leafy trail in the distance. The size of the creature is hard to deduce, though the witness, an osteopath named Mark Orr who was out mountain-biking with friends in Hanmer Springs, said the animal was "about knee-height", looked "very strong and quite stocky", and "just had an aura about it". An aura. Almost all animals have auras, don't they? Even feral cats, goats, wild pigs. While the mention of the aura seemed strange, it was also compelling. I want to believe. Continue reading... |
| Western Australia opens hard border as Victoria records 15th day of zero coronavirus cases Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:50 PM PST NSW, South Australia and Queensland all report Covid-19 cases of people in quarantine Hundreds of people had started arriving in Perth and more were crossing into Western Australia by road after the scrapping of the state's Covid-19 hard border closure on Saturday. The move came as Victoria recorded its 15th day straight with no coronavirus cases or deaths. Continue reading... |
| Measles cases hit 20-year high as Covid disrupts vaccinations, report finds Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:56 AM PST Number of people dying from the disease also increased by 50% since 2016, according to data from the WHO and CDC The number of measles cases worldwide surged to nearly 900,000 in 2019, the highest figure in more than two decades, underlining a significant U-turn in global progress to combat the disease. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the number of people dying from measles also increased by 50% since 2016, with an estimated 207,500 deaths in 2019 alone. Continue reading... |
| Digested week: Covid vaccine and Cummings exit offer hope … of sorts | John Crace Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:41 AM PST It will take months to roll out immunisation, and the PM's top adviser is leaving just in time to avoid his Brexit aftermath Monday Tuesday |
| Donald Trump comes close to admitting defeat but stops short – video Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:41 AM PST Donald Trump appeared to come close to acknowledging Joe Biden's election victory in a Rose Garden press conference. Discussing the possibility of a national lockdown, the president said: 'Whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, I guess time will tell ... this administration will not go to a lockdown.' Donald Trump has refused to concede to president-elect Biden, instead making false claims of mass voter fraud. Continue reading... |
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