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- Indonesia plane crash: divers discover wreckage after aircraft signal detected
- Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos, Gove is warned
- US Capitol attack: Trump impeachment looms as Republicans ponder his fate
- Coronavirus live news: China reports 69 new cases; Vietnam limits flights for lunar new year
- Twitter removes China US embassy post saying Uighur women no longer 'baby-making machines'
- Hong Kong security law being used to 'eliminate dissent' say US, UK, Australia and Canada
- Majority think Boris Johnson should resign as prime minister – poll
- How race to track mystery gene with links to three cancers saved millions
- Harry and Meghan reported to have quit social media
- Victory for Argentina’s women as abortion charges are dropped
- Cricket Australia and police investigate India's claims of fan abuse at SCG Test
- Rapid Covid testing across England will help identify symptomless carriers
- Now we have the coronavirus vaccine, how soon can we get back to normal life?
- Festivals, holidays, Euro 2020… will summer's big events still go ahead?
- Ginger root and meteorite dust … the Steiner ‘Covid cures’ offered in Germany
- On the road to nowhere: has the shine worn off the home workout?
- Tom Templeton: 'I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books'
- Call My Agent's Camille Cottin: 'Don’t we need culture more than we need shopping?'
- Making waves: the female surfer smashing records and stereotypes
- ‘I see human resilience every single day’: people in tough jobs on how to stay hopeful
- Mary Trump: ‘My uncle is unstable. He needs to be removed immediately’
- Woman arrested after two men die at house in east London
- ‘South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth’
- Johnson’s sycophancy over Trump has diminished Britain, says Nandy
- Covid sleuth shames Brazil's party people as deaths pass 200,000
- ‘Even mourning is said to shame China’: women of Wuhan fight to be heard
- Australia’s state by state Covid restrictions and coronavirus lockdown rules explained
- Covid seemed like a crisis far away from Cornwall. Not now
- Trump is being pelted in the stocks now – but don’t bet against him wriggling free
- Inequality, racism and polarisation set stage for Trump's 'American carnage'
- Trump Twitter: Republicans and Democrats split over freedom of speech
- Madrid blanketed by heaviest snowstorm in decades – video
- Chris Whitty urges people to stay home in new Covid campaign – video
| Indonesia plane crash: divers discover wreckage after aircraft signal detected Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:04 PM PST Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 crashed minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Saturday Indonesian divers have located wreckage from a Boeing 737-500 in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, officials said. The wreckage was discovered on Sunday at a depth of 23 metres (75ft), and included pieces of fuselage with aircraft registration parts. Earlier in the day, rescuers had retrieved body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the water's surface. There was no sign yet of survivors. Continue reading... |
| Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos, Gove is warned Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:30 PM PST Business groups tell ministers to sort out bureaucratic mess caused by EU trade deal Ministers must restart trade negotiations with Brussels immediately to sort out the "baffling" array of post-Brexit rules and regulations that now threaten much of the UK's export trade to the EU, leading business groups have said. Amid mounting anger among UK firms at cross-border friction they were told would not exist, British manufacturing and trade organisations met Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove in an emergency session on Thursday to discuss problems resulting from the deal struck by Boris Johnson with the EU before Christmas. Continue reading... |
| US Capitol attack: Trump impeachment looms as Republicans ponder his fate Posted: 09 Jan 2021 02:39 PM PST
Efforts to remove Donald Trump from the White House gathered pace on Saturday, as Democrats announced that at least 180 members of Congress would co-sponsor an article of impeachment they intend to introduce in the House of Representatives on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: China reports 69 new cases; Vietnam limits flights for lunar new year Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:39 AM PST Cases in mainland China now double yesterday's reported number; Vietnam will only allow necessary flights to enter country
People should be paid to self-isolate as part of a new Covid-19 strategy in the UK, a public health expert has said. Prof Devi Sridhar told Times Radio that the UK would need to overhaul its thinking on coronavirus using methods already tried in other countries, including improving test and trace systems and stricter measures at international borders. First, they have a strategy that from the start they said there was no acceptable level of infection, I think in Western countries, in the UK, there was always the idea that you could have a certain level of infection as long as it didn't really reach your hospital capacity. The second thing is they have functional testing, tracing and isolating, test results within 24 hours - which we still do not have - isolation, paying people to stay home as an act of good will not just requesting it and having people be penalised for it.
A three-week lockdown has begun in Cyprus where authorities have been battling a surge in coronavirus cases over the past month. Restrictions aimed at curbing rising Covid-19 infections were reintroduced at 5am local time with all retail businesses, including department stores, malls, restaurants, hairdressers and beauty parlours, being ordered shut. Continue reading... |
| Twitter removes China US embassy post saying Uighur women no longer 'baby-making machines' Posted: 09 Jan 2021 09:31 PM PST Post claimed women in Xinjiang had been 'emancipated' as a result of China's claimed efforts to eradicate extremism Twitter has removed a post by China's US embassy claiming that Uighur women have been "emancipated" from extremism and were no longer "baby-making machines". The post linked to an article denying allegations of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang. Twitter said the post had "violated the Twitter rules" but did not provide further details. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong security law being used to 'eliminate dissent' say US, UK, Australia and Canada Posted: 09 Jan 2021 09:43 PM PST Joint statement by four foreign ministers expresses 'serious concern' about national security law which saw dozens of activists arrested last week The foreign ministers of Australia, the United States, Britain and Canada have issued a joint statement expressing "serious concern" about the arrest of 55 democracy activists and supporters in Hong Kong last week. The arrests were by far the largest such action taken under a national security law (NSL) that China imposed on the semi-autonomous territory a little more than six months ago. Continue reading... |
| Majority think Boris Johnson should resign as prime minister – poll Posted: 09 Jan 2021 12:40 PM PST Opinium survey finds 43% think PM needs to go, but only 20% say Keir Starmer should step down More people think Boris Johnson should resign as prime minister than think he should continue in office, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer. The first poll of 2021 found that 43% thought he should resign, while 40% said that he should remain as leader. However, most Conservative voters (87%) think Johnson should stay on as leader, with just 7% thinking he should resign. Just 20% believed Keir Starmer should resign as Labour leader, with 52% saying he should remain as leader. Continue reading... |
| How race to track mystery gene with links to three cancers saved millions Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:30 AM PST 25 years ago, a mutation was discovered that makes some people susceptible to the disease, and now it has transformed treatment Ten years ago, Tony Herbert developed a lump on the right side of his chest. The clump of tissue grew and became painful and he was tested for breast cancer. The result was positive. "I had surgery and chemotherapy and that worked," he said last week. But how had Herbert managed to develop a condition that is so rare in men? Only about 400 cases of male breast cancer are diagnosed every year in the UK compared with around 55,000 in women. A genetic test revealed the answer. Herbert had inherited a pathogenic version of a gene called BRCA2 and this mutation had triggered his condition. Continue reading... |
| Harry and Meghan reported to have quit social media Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:53 AM PST Pair said to have become disillusioned by 'hate' they encountered online The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reportedly abandoned social media as they focus on their new roles in the US. Harry and Meghan, who amassed more than 10 million followers on their official royal Instagram account, are said to have become disillusioned by the "hate" they encountered online. Continue reading... |
| Victory for Argentina’s women as abortion charges are dropped Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:15 AM PST Hundreds of criminal cases could be halted following landmark change in legislation Argentina has announced it will drop criminal charges against women accused of having abortions following the government's historic decision to legalise the procedure. The announcement offers hope to the mostly poor and marginalised women facing criminal sanctions. But lingering problems such as obstetric violence and sexism in the justice system show the struggle for reproductive justice is not over, according to campaigners. Continue reading... |
| Cricket Australia and police investigate India's claims of fan abuse at SCG Test Posted: 09 Jan 2021 09:33 PM PST
India veteran Ravichandran Ashwin claims he has been the victim of abuse from Sydney crowds for almost a decade, as Australia's acting prime minister supported Cricket Australia and the NSW police for launching investigations into allegations of a racial slur during the third Test. Crowd incidents have overshadowed both days three and four at the SCG. Continue reading... |
| Rapid Covid testing across England will help identify symptomless carriers Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Tens of thousands are unwittingly spreading coronavirus – lateral flow devices will confirm infection in under 30 minutes Rapid testing to find symptomless carriers of Covid-19 is to be launched in England this week. The aim of the programme is to identify some of the tens of thousands of infected people who are unwittingly spreading the virus across the country. The dramatic escalation of the programme – which uses detectors known as lateral flow devices – comes as Covid death rates have continued to soar and hospitals have reported alarming numbers of patients needing intensive care. Continue reading... |
| Now we have the coronavirus vaccine, how soon can we get back to normal life? Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST The government has ordered sufficient doses to inoculate the entire population of the UK against Covid-19 but we are in for a long haul When will the Covid-19 vaccine begin to have an effect on the nation? The government has pledged to offer vaccines to 15 million people – the over-70s, healthcare workers and those required to shield by mid-February, and millions more by spring. This should slowly bring the virus under control although it will take many weeks before we can be sure the vaccine is having an effect. Numbers of daily cases of Covid-19 may drop but that decline could simply be due to impact of current lockdown measures. Only when hospital admissions start to reduce significantly will we be sure the vaccine is having an impact. Then there could be be a slackening of lockdown measures. Few scientists believe that will happen before Easter, however. Continue reading... |
| Festivals, holidays, Euro 2020… will summer's big events still go ahead? Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST Burgeoning hopes for a normal sporting and cultural calendar are now in question again as infections increase As Covid-19 cases rise across the world, hopes that life could get back to some semblance of normality by summer are fading. What chance do we have of going to a festival, flying off for a holiday or attending a major sporting event? Continue reading... |
| Ginger root and meteorite dust … the Steiner ‘Covid cures’ offered in Germany Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:15 AM PST The movement best known for its schools is firmly entrenched within the German health sector In a pandemic where global leaders have peddled quack treatments and miracle cures, Germany has often stood out as a shining beacon for science. It is the country that developed the first diagnostic test to detect the coronavirus, and the first vaccine approved in the west to shield people against the disease. It is a country whose physicist chancellor told parliament she passionately believes "there are scientific findings that are real and should be followed." Continue reading... |
| On the road to nowhere: has the shine worn off the home workout? Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST In 2020, in response to Covid, gyms closed and moved online – with massive success. But can we really get fit at home? If Britney can get through 2007, you can get up this hill!" My quads are burning. Sweat soaks into the handlebars. But deep down? I know that Cody Rigsby, my Peloton instructor, a Hercules in Lycra, is correct. I can get up this hill. Furthermore, I can't let Cody down. You don't want to disappoint someone who calls you "boo" on a regular basis. "Get your life together, boo!" says Cody. I dig deeper. I push those pedals. I climb the hill. I attempt to get my life together. "Proud of you Peloton!" says Cody. It might be the Britney soundtrack, it might be the endorphins coursing through my system, but for a moment, at least, I believe him. Even though Cody is in his studio in New York and I am in my garage in Bristol. Even though there is no hill, just a £1,750 stationary bicycle with a dial I turn to increase resistance. Even though the Britney Spears 30-Minute Class I just completed wasn't even live. I am not even a number on Cody's screen. Continue reading... |
| Tom Templeton: 'I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST The former Observer writer and now GP talks about his new book, 34 Patients, and the challenges he has faced during the pandemic How has life changed for you at the surgery during the pandemic? Do you miss seeing people face to face? |
| Call My Agent's Camille Cottin: 'Don’t we need culture more than we need shopping?' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST The scene-stealing star of the French comedy series - a word-of-mouth Netflix hit - on her journey from a prank show in Paris to co-stardom with Matt Damon "I bought a few sheep during lockdown. Nobody told me they'd eat all my plants. How Parisian is that?" I'm discussing the pandemic with actor Camille Cottin, who during the first Covid lockdown last year decamped from her apartment in the French capital to do up an old farmhouse in Normandy. Now, she's back in Paris, preparing for what will be a huge year. Already a star in her native France, Cottin is making the leap to major Hollywood roles. Tom McCarthy's Stillwater, in which she co-stars with Matt Damon, is due for release in the autumn. She is currently polishing her English for her role in Ridley Scott's Gucci biopic, which starts shooting in a few months and features Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci and Lady Gaga his ex-wife. And she has just signed up for a huge project that she's not yet allowed to talk about. Before all that comes the fourth and final season on Netflix later this month of Call My Agent!, the word-of-mouth hit drama that has found new fans looking to binge during lockdown. As Andréa – tough, ruthless, gay, and agent to some of France's biggest movie stars – Cottin's is the standout role in a show that has brought her international attention, including a role in series three of Killing Eve. Continue reading... |
| Making waves: the female surfer smashing records and stereotypes Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST In the intimidating and macho world of big-wave surfing, Brazilian Maya Gabeira is breaking male and female records – and challenging the sport's testosterone-fuelled identity The thing that struck Maya Gabeira was the sound. "I had never heard anything similar: it was the first affirmation that that was the biggest wave I had ever ridden," she says. "It was just 'phwoooaaaarrrrrrr.'" She mimics a bomb exploding in her hands. There was also a continuous "Brrrrrrrrrrrrr," she says, like a deep engine humming – the sound of tonnes of water falling, falling, falling from a great height. "It almost vibrates inside your body." The Brazilian big-wave surfer is reflecting on the events of 11 February 2020, when she rode a monstrous 22.4m (73.5ft) wave at Nazaré in Portugal. It set the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman. It was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone, male or female – the first time this feat has been achieved by a woman. Continue reading... |
| ‘I see human resilience every single day’: people in tough jobs on how to stay hopeful Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST A hospice nurse, bereavement counsellor, firefighter, climate change lecturer and social worker share their secrets Adam Graham, 41, hospice nurse, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Mary Trump: ‘My uncle is unstable. He needs to be removed immediately’ Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST The niece of the US president fears he could wreak more damage to democracy Two weeks before the election, Mary Trump described her uncle Donald's campaign to me in stark terms: "He knows he's in desperate shape, so he's going to burn it all down, sow more chaos and division…[and] if he's going down, he's going to take us all down with him." In the Observer's Biden/Harris victory edition, as she considered the loser's remaining weeks in office, her tone was still edgy. "I worry about what Donald's going to do in that time to lash out." The storming of the Capitol still shocked her. "What struck me first was how degrading it was. That amount of desecration. The tawdriness of it. Tawdriness is who Donald is, but playing out in the halls of Congress." She describes the people vandalising offices, carrying Confederate flags, wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirts – and yet Trump's message to them was how much they were loved. Continue reading... |
| Woman arrested after two men die at house in east London Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:06 AM PST Twenty-eight-year-old detained and taken to hospital after incident on Sunday morning in Ilford A 28-year-old woman has been arrested after two men died at a house in east London, police said. The men were found seriously injured at the property in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, on Sunday morning and died at the scene, said the Metropolitan police. Continue reading... |
| ‘South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth’ Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Covid fatigue, super-spreader events and a virulent local variant of the virus put economy and healthcare in crisis South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, "Covid fatigue" and a series of "super-spreader" events. On Thursday health officials announced 844 deaths and 21,832 new cases in a 24-hour period, the worst toll yet. Experts believe the second wave has yet to reach its peak in the country of 60 million, and fear healthcare services in the country's main economic and cultural hub may struggle to cope with the influx of patients. Continue reading... |
| Johnson’s sycophancy over Trump has diminished Britain, says Nandy Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:30 AM PST Tory leadership abandoned British values in a 'nauseating' embrace of American populism, says shadow foreign secretary Boris Johnson and other Tory cabinet ministers who spent years "queueing up to pour praise" on Donald Trump, despite his objectionable views have achieved nothing other than to diminish the UK's reputation in the world, the shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said. Calling for a new UK foreign policy with a "moral centre", Nandy attacks key figures in the Conservative leadership for the way they lauded Trump as a means of advancing their own careers, forgetting that his attitudes amounted to a rejection of British values of tolerance, democracy and the promotion of minority rights. Continue reading... |
| Covid sleuth shames Brazil's party people as deaths pass 200,000 Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Anonymous activist says he's no 'moral watchdog' but vows to continue effort in hope of persuading revellers to stay home Fuelled by black coffee, yellow-tipped cigarettes and white, incandescent rage, the faceless sleuth lurks on social media poised to unmask his next target. "It's outrageous, bizarre, it's horrifying – a collective genocide," fumed the twentysomething activist who burns the midnight oil scouring the internet for footage of parties being thrown despite a rapidly deteriorating Covid crisis that has killed more than 200,000 Brazilians. Continue reading... |
| ‘Even mourning is said to shame China’: women of Wuhan fight to be heard Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:30 AM PST Three writers who blogged about life in the city where Covid began still face constant threats and monitoring "When people from other places come to Wuhan now, they would have a feeling that nothing ever happened here," said Ai Xiaoming, sitting in the book-filled study of her home in the city at the heart of China's coronavirus outbreak last January. "It feels like they know nothing about the dead, or the families' feelings," said the 67-year-old writer and documentary film-maker. "The [Chinese] media rarely reports on these issues. There is no space for these people to tell their stories." Continue reading... |
| Australia’s state by state Covid restrictions and coronavirus lockdown rules explained Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:17 AM PST What are the restrictions in Brisbane since a worker tested positive to the UK strain of Covid-19? Do I have to wear a mask and how do Victoria's border closures with NSW and Queensland work? Untangle Australia's Covid-19 laws and guidelines with our guide Australian states and territories have different levels of restrictions to contain Covid-19. Here we answer some common questions about restrictions in each state, based on the information available as of 8 January. Continue reading... |
| Covid seemed like a crisis far away from Cornwall. Not now Posted: 10 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST We still have our beaches and fresh air, but the county isn't so well served by healthcare facilities First we thought Covid would come in July, when restrictions were lifted and tourists and second home owners escaped the confines of their cities and headed down the M5 for fresh air at the coast. Then we thought it would come in September, when tourists and second home owners headed back up the motorway, leaving the virus behind them. But coronavirus rates have remained persistently low in Cornwall since the beginning of the pandemic and for many of us, including myself and my family, the crisis has seemed far removed from our corner of the world. Continue reading... |
| Trump is being pelted in the stocks now – but don’t bet against him wriggling free Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:30 PM PST The chances of seeing the outgoing president in an orange jumpsuit are low – even as the potential charges mount up fast Lock him up! Echoing Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chant against Hillary Clinton, many Americans appear keen on jailing their president after his criminally reckless incitement of last week's mob-driven, amateur-hour insurrection in Washington. His harshest critics would despatch him forthwith to a federal penitentiary or mental institution. Yet despite fears that an unstable Trump poses a security threat in his final 10 days in office, he is unlikely to be forced out. It's just not that easy, politically or legally. Continue reading... |
| Inequality, racism and polarisation set stage for Trump's 'American carnage' Posted: 09 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST Analysis: The attack on the US Capitol shook America's image of itself but is democracy really in its most precarious moment since the civil war? In the film Mr Smith Goes to Washington, James Stewart's eponymous hero gazes with reverence and awe at the dome of the US Capitol, the near sacred citadel of American democracy. Continue reading... |
| Trump Twitter: Republicans and Democrats split over freedom of speech Posted: 09 Jan 2021 12:45 PM PST
Twitter's decision to permanently suspend Donald Trump's account in the wake of the storming of Capitol Hill on Wednesday continues to stoke fierce debate, supporters and critics split on partisan lines as they contest what the suspension means for a cherished American tradition: freedom of speech. Related: Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol Continue reading... |
| Madrid blanketed by heaviest snowstorm in decades – video Posted: 09 Jan 2021 10:28 AM PST The Spanish government has urged people to stay at home as the worst snowstorm in 50 years struck the country, bringing Madrid and the surrounding region to a frozen standstill Continue reading... |
| Chris Whitty urges people to stay home in new Covid campaign – video Posted: 09 Jan 2021 03:15 AM PST 'Once more, we should all stay home.' That is the message from England's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, in a new coronavirus information campaign that warns the new variant is placing huge pressure on the NHS. Whitty is fronting adverts on radio, TV and social media from Friday which urge the public to 'act like you've got it' to stop the spread of the virus Continue reading... |
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