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Anthony Fauci describes 'liberating feeling' of no longer working under Trump
Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead
Mitch McConnell proposes delaying Trump's impeachment trial
Patient dog waits for days outside hospital
Canada’s governor general resigns after report finds workplace harassment
Jesuit order in Spain apologises for decades of sexual abuse by members
Russia detains Navalny aides and warns against Saturday protests
James Bond film No Time to Die delayed again over Covid
Dutch exhibition offers new insight into Berbice slave uprising
New Zealand eagle rays astonish aquarium with mystery births
Coronavirus live news: Ireland faces six more weeks of lockdown, say reports; Japan insists Olympics are 'on track'
WHO platform for pharmaceutical firms unused since pandemic began
UK Covid live: £500 payment to anyone testing positive being considered, says minister
'Bating Filipino': MPs in Philippines pass bill to create new Covid-safe greeting
'In Paris, we are terrified of vulgarity': lessons in French style from Call My Agent!
Insta karma: who are we to denounce influencers’ selfie-obsession?
Joe Biden's Oval Office: what changes has the new president made?
Judi Dench: 'In my mind's eye I'm six foot and willowy and about 39'
‘Crime doesn't pay!’ Tommy James, the 100m-selling pop star robbed by the mob
Grave matter: Germans seek new ways to talk about dying
Boy, 14, arrested over death of Birmingham teenager
The effect of US sanctions on Iran was global – and a global effort must end them
US missionary faces new legal action over child deaths at Uganda health centre
Joe Biden to focus on economic recovery after publishing Covid strategy – live updates
NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws in ‘reckless’ destruction of documents
Judge's remarks made mother 'fearful' for herself and her child, hearing told
The teenage taekwondo trainer fighting child marriage in Zimbabwe – photo essay
Small but mighty, Pacific states have led the charge for banning nuclear weapons | Emily Defina
Communist party supporters celebrate Vladimir Lenin – in pictures
How Boncuk the dog waited days outside Turkish hospital – video
'A liberating feeling': Fauci critiques Trump administration – video
Joe Biden challenges Americans to 'mask up' for first 100 days – video
Joe Biden starts presidency by signing executive orders – video
Huge fireworks display concludes Joe Biden's inauguration day – video

Anthony Fauci describes 'liberating feeling' of no longer working under Trump

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:32 PM PST

America's top infectious diseases expert had a tortuous relationship with Trump and was increasingly sidelined

Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert in the US, spoke on Thursday of a "liberating feeling" of being able to speak scientific truth about the coronavirus without fear of "repercussions" from Donald Trump.

Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 07:56 PM PST

Google and Facebook are fighting legislation that would force them to enter into negotiations with news media companies for payment for content

Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia and Facebook has threatened to remove news from its feed for all Australian users if a code forcing the companies to negotiate payments to news media companies goes ahead.

The move would mean the 19 million Australians who use Google every month would no longer be able to use Google Search, and 17 million Australians who log into Facebook every month would not be able to see or post any news articles on the social media site.

Mitch McConnell proposes delaying Trump's impeachment trial

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:19 PM PST

Senate Republican leader says former president needs time to prepare

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial by a week or more to give the former president time to review the case.

House Democrats who voted to impeach Trump last week for inciting the 6 January Capitol attack have signaled they want a quick trial as President Joe Biden begins his term, saying a full reckoning is necessary before the country – and the Congress – can move on.

Patient dog waits for days outside hospital

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 08:30 PM PST

Boncuk returned each day to hospital in Turkish city of Trabzon where her owner, Cemal Senturk, was being treated

A devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in Turkey where her sick owner was being treated.

The pet, Boncuk, which means bead, followed the ambulance that transported her owner, Cemal Senturk, to hospital in the Black Sea city of Trabzon on 14 January. She then made daily visits to the facility, the private news agency DHA reported.

Canada’s governor general resigns after report finds workplace harassment

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:02 PM PST

Anonymous staff members say they were berated by Julie Payette to the point of tears, prompting an independent investigation

Canada's governor general has resigned after an external report found that the Queen's representative had overseen a toxic work environment in which staff were bullied to tears.

The report, which was to be released early next week, painted a damning picture of Julie Payette's leadership and had raised concerns among senior government figures over her ability to continue in the vice-regal role.

Jesuit order in Spain apologises for decades of sexual abuse by members

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:18 PM PST

Society of Jesus admits 81 children and 21 adults were sexually abused by 96 of its members since 1927

The Jesuit order in Spain has admitted that 81 children and 21 adults have been sexually abused by 96 of its members since 1927, and has apologised for the "painful, shameful and sorrowful" crimes.

In a report released on Thursday, the Society of Jesus, whose members often work as teachers, said most of the abuse had taken place in schools "or was related to schools".

Russia detains Navalny aides and warns against Saturday protests

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:19 AM PST

Media warned not to promote pro-Navalny rallies after poisoned Kremlin critic jailed on return to Russia

Russian police have rounded up senior aides to Alexei Navalny ahead of a mass demonstration against Vladimir Putin on Saturday that could influence whether the opposition leader is released or given a long prison term.

Police have arrested Navalny's press secretary, two lawyers, and a top investigator for the opposition politician who helped prepare an investigation into a £1bn palace on the Black Sea they claim was bankrolled by Putin's friends and state companies. As of Friday, the video has been watched 50m times on YouTube.

James Bond film No Time to Die delayed again over Covid

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:15 PM PST

Daniel Craig's final outing as 007 hit by coronavirus disruption, along with Ghostbusters sequel and Cinderella

James Bond film No Time To Die has been delayed again as Hollywood grapples with the continued disruption caused by the pandemic.

Daniel Craig's final outing as 007 will now arrive on 8 October, the official Bond Twitter account announced. It had been set to be released in April following multiple pandemic-enforced delays.

Dutch exhibition offers new insight into Berbice slave uprising

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST

National archives showcases unique letters sent by the leader of first organised slave revolt

The Dutch national archives are showcasing a unique set of letters sent by the leader of the first organised slave revolt on the American continent to a colonial governor, in which the newly free man proposed to share the land.

The offer from the man known as Cuffy, from Kofi – meaning "born on Friday" – is said to provide a new insight into attempts to resist the brutal regimes of the colonial period, often overlooked in histories of enslaved people.

New Zealand eagle rays astonish aquarium with mystery births

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 06:33 PM PST

Scientists say pups may be result of asexual reproduction or that rays may have stored sperm from last encounter with males

Two eagle rays have surprised New Zealand aquarists and bemused scientists by giving birth without any males in their tank.

Nibble and Spot, both female and housed in the walk-through tunnel display at the SEA Life Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium in Auckland, had pups on New Year's Eve despite not having been near a male in two years.

Coronavirus live news: Ireland faces six more weeks of lockdown, say reports; Japan insists Olympics are 'on track'

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:56 AM PST

Irish government said to be considering extension of regulations; Japan says 'no truth' to reports about the possible cancellation of the Tokyo Games

10.56am GMT

Police in London have broken up a wedding with almost 400 guests in a "completely unacceptable breach" of Covid lockdown rules which only allow six people to attend.

Under strict measures introduced at the start of the year, weddings are currently only supposed to take place under "exceptional circumstances", but officers found hundreds of people when they were alerted to a gathering inside a school in Stamford Hill, north London,

10.43am GMT

Remy Julienne, a stuntman who worked on six James Bond films as well as the 1969 classic "The Italian Job", has died from Covid-19 aged 90.

A veteran of more than 1,400 films and TV commercials as an actor or stunt coordinator, Julienne had been in intensive care in a hospital in his home town of Montargis in central France since early January.

WHO platform for pharmaceutical firms unused since pandemic began

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST

Exclusive: 'pool' to share Covid-19 information has received no contributions since May 2020

A World Health Organization program for pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily share Covid-19 related knowledge, treatments and technology so they can be more widely distributed has attracted zero contributions in the eight months since it was established, the Guardian has learned.

The Covid-19 technology access pool (C-Tap) was launched in May last year to facilitate the sharing of patent-protected information to fight the virus, including diagnostics, therapeutics and trial data. The "pooling" of treatments and data would allow qualified manufacturers from around the world to produce critical equipment, drugs or vaccines without fear of prosecution for breaching patents.

UK Covid live: £500 payment to anyone testing positive being considered, says minister

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:57 AM PST

Latest updates: George Eustice says policy has been under review before playing down prospect of a full-blown travel ban

10.56am GMT

This is from Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University:

Genetic sequencing has shown how close Scotland was to eliminating COVID in the summer until holidays & travel. 'Stringent public health measures can be compromised if following this, movements from regions of high to low prevalence are not minimised.' https://t.co/kEdkzvQkyQ

10.36am GMT

There has been another record weekly rise in Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began, according to Northern Ireland's statistics agency.

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'Bating Filipino': MPs in Philippines pass bill to create new Covid-safe greeting

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:43 PM PST

Contactless greeting will help fight pandemic, say MPs of worst-hit country in south-east Asia, though some people would prefer more action on a vaccine

House lawmakers in the Philippines have passed a bill to legislate a new, Covid-safe form of greeting in an effort to reduce contact during the pandemic.

According to the bill approved by the House of Representatives, the new gesture will involve "gracefully laying the palm of the right hand over the centre of one's chest while simultaneously lowering the head, with eyes either closed or cast down".

'In Paris, we are terrified of vulgarity': lessons in French style from Call My Agent!

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:35 PM PST

The costume designer from the hit French show on how the clothes make the characters – and how you can channel their effortless chic

In France, the hit Netflix series Call My Agent! is called Dix Pour Cent in reference to the fee charged by French cinema agents. For those in the know, the name says it all. For others, like me, the reference was opaque at first, but it sent the message that this is a show – unlike others representing a cliched take on French life, such as Emily in Paris – that positions itself as an insider's peek into the capital and its movie business.

The many cameos from A-list actors playing themselves – with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sigourney Weaver lined up to appear in season four; Weaver called the series "a love letter to the business" – similarly underlines the show's proximity to the authentic professional world, something that is subtly shown, too, through its clothes.

Insta karma: who are we to denounce influencers’ selfie-obsession?

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST

Influencers attract a lot of scorn, but have we got the wrong end of the selfie stick, wonders Pls Like creator Liam Williams

The Covid-19 pandemic era has been a strange one for influencers. While audiences are more captive than ever, marketing spend froze in early 2020 and has been erratic ever since. For those whose trade involves taking photographs of their thighs in front of ambiguously located infinity pools, 2021 doesn't look much rosier. If you can take seriously the idea that "being an influencer" is a real job, you might spare some sympathy for these self-reliant freelancers, whose hard-won livelihoods on capitalism's more exotic frontiers have met an ironic nemesis. Could a virus, the very thing that provided the metaphoric mechanism for their rise, also be their downfall?

Joe Biden's Oval Office: what changes has the new president made?

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 01:11 AM PST

From a Cesar Chavez bust and the removal of portraits, to a desk piled high with orders tearing up Trump's legacy

The Oval Office has long symbolised the power and grandeur of the US presidency, and incoming White House incumbents traditionally change the decor to reflect the tone of their administration.

Joe Biden has unveiled the new ceremonial backdrop to his administration, marking a number of significant changes from that of his predecessor.

Judi Dench: 'In my mind's eye I'm six foot and willowy and about 39'

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST

At 86 and in lockdown, the actor finds herself in the rare position of not working. Instead, she talks about theatrical ghosts, her friendship with Harvey Weinstein and definitely not being a national treasure

It's all go for Judi Dench, stuck at her house in deepest Surrey. What a freewheeling week; she is beside herself with excitement. Yesterday, she explains, she received her Covid vaccine. This required a trip to the village and was the first time she had left home since she can't remember when. Then today it's a phone interview, the thing she is doing right now. Her cup runneth over. Her world has turned Technicolor. "I'm not even joking," she says with a sigh. "It's nice to actually have something to do."

Lockdown, I fear, is not the life Dench was born to. She used to practically eat and drink on the stage, but the theatres have closed, who knows for how long. She used to bounce from one film set to the next, but now production is mothballed and the industry has gone to ground. All of which means that she is confined to the house, an 86-year-old actor shoved into what she hopes is a partial and temporary retirement. She gets up each morning determined to keep herself busy. She crawls back to bed with most of the tasks left undone. After a while, she admits, the time starts to drag.

‘Crime doesn't pay!’ Tommy James, the 100m-selling pop star robbed by the mob

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST

He made hits such as I Think We're Alone Now and Mony Mony, but a gangster label boss kept up to $40m of his royalties. As his complete Roulette recordings are rereleased, why no hard feelings?

'I hope you're ready, kid, because you're about to go on one hell of a ride," Morris Levy, the boss of Roulette Records, told Tommy James as the teenager signed a contract with the label. It was 1966 and James, 19, a small-town boy with the fastest-selling hit single in Pittsburgh's history, had arrived in Manhattan the previous morning to find every label wanted to sign him. The next day, all offers were retracted – except Roulette's. Levy – a notorious gangster whose label had prospered in the early 50s with Frankie Lymon and Count Basie – was referred to without irony as the Godfather and, when he put the word out that James was his, no record executive dared to cross him.

Thus James, now 73, stepped on to what he calls "a ride". With his backing band, the Shondells, he scored 23 US chart singles, plus nine gold or platinum albums – selling 100m records – including much-covered pop classics such as I Think We're Alone Now and Crimson and Clover. For these, he received a pittance.

Grave matter: Germans seek new ways to talk about dying

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST

Lockdown and a hit Netflix series are inspiring alternative grieving rites, from chocolate and painted stones to memorial workshops

On a plane tree-lined shopping street in Berlin's fashionable Gräfekiez neighbourhood, two children are glued to the front of a brightly lit ground-floor office space, decorated with the understated minimalism of a design agency.

The object of their curiosity is a Lego window display, showing a miniature cemetery and a coffin carried by four tiny pallbearers, complete with black top hats.

Boy, 14, arrested over death of Birmingham teenager

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:33 AM PST

Fifteen-year-old died after being attacked by group of young people in Handsworth

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who died in hospital after a street attack in Birmingham.

He was arrested on Friday morning, a day after the 15-year-old victim was set upon by a group of young people in Linwood Road, Handsworth, West Midlands police said.

The effect of US sanctions on Iran was global – and a global effort must end them

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST

A coordinated move by the US, UK and EU to strengthen the nuclear agreement could pave the way to reducing tensions

For nearly three years, the fate of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal has hung precariously in the balance. The Trump administration withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – to use its official name – in 2018, arguing that a policy of economic coercion, dubbed "maximum pressure", would deliver an improved agreement. But all it achieved was the hollowing out of the existing one. Europe, which has played a key role in preventing the JCPOA's total collapse, now must seize the opportunity to help revive and even strengthen it.

The JCPOA's original bargain was straightforward: limiting and monitoring what the international community viewed as the most concerning aspect of Iranian policy – the proliferation risks of its nuclear programme – and in return delivering relief from international sanctions built up over years.

US missionary faces new legal action over child deaths at Uganda health centre

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:56 AM PST

Four families seek damages and apology from Renee Bach, who settled two cases out of court last year

Four Ugandan families are taking legal action against an American missionary accused of taking part in treatments at a religious health centre she ran, despite having no medical qualifications.

Renee Bach founded the now defunct Serving His Children (SHC) centre in Jinja, a city in east Uganda, where the families took their children, three of whom later died.

Joe Biden to focus on economic recovery after publishing Covid strategy – live updates

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:59 AM PST

Calls to delay Donald Trump impeachment trial as former president appoints defense lawyer Bowers

10.59am GMT

Joe Biden has opened his presidency with a flurry of executive orders aimed at targeting the economic and pandemic crises the Democrat has inherited from the previous Trump administration. However, for CNN, Zachary Wolf argues that executive orders aren't a solution – they're a symptom:

This yo-yo style of government is not how things are supposed to work in the US. Big policy changes are supposed to move through Congress and then to the president's desk, molded by the compromises necessary to get everyone to agree. Instead, with Congress absolutely stuck on key issues for the past 15 years – give or take – presidents have settled into a pattern of making executive policy on their own, which has resulted in them doing and then undoing each other on key issues. (That is, unless the courts step in first.)

Presidents have power. The actions Biden signed on Thursday were meant to focus the federal government's efforts on Covid, create a national effort to get kids back in schools, encourage mask usage, mobilize FEMA and the national guard to help get vaccines into communities, harness local pharmacies and reinsert the US in the worldwide Covid effort.

10.46am GMT

Joe Biden on Friday will sign a pair of executive orders aimed at providing immediate relief to American families grappling with the economic toll of the Covid-19 pandemic and expanding safety protections for federal workers.

The first action targets food insecurity, by expanding nutritional programs for low-income families and children. The order would also attempt to clarify a rule to ensure that jobless Americans would still qualify for unemployment insurance if they declined work that would jeopardize their health.

NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws in ‘reckless’ destruction of documents

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 01:58 AM PST

Investigation found notes shredded by adviser to Gladys Berejiklian relating to $252m grants scheme should have been retained as state archives

The NSW premier's office broke state record-keeping laws by shredding documents related to a pork-barrelling scheme, a watchdog has found.

A day after Gladys Berejiklian's staff were half-heartedly cleared by the information commissioner over the incident, the State Archives and Records Authority (SARA) has concluded rules were broken.

Judge's remarks made mother 'fearful' for herself and her child, hearing told

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 02:36 AM PST

Barrister urges landmark appeal hearing for courts in England and Wales to set aside decision that father should be allowed contact with child

A family court judge has come under fire for "wholly inappropriate" comments made to a young mother during a private hearing on child contact arrangements.

Judge Richard Scarratt made the mother "fearful" and put pressure on her to accept that the child have contact with her father, a barrister representing the mother has claimed.

The teenage taekwondo trainer fighting child marriage in Zimbabwe – photo essay

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:45 PM PST

Natsiraishe Maritsa saw so many friends being forced into marriage that she started a campaign to drive out the practice.

It is 11am on a Sunday and Natsiraishe Maritsa, 17, is running through some workout drills with a group of sweating teenage girls from her neighbourhood in Epworth, a poor township nine miles (15km) south-east of the capital, Harare.

On a normal Sunday, Maritsa and her friends would be attending church, but the strict 30-day lockdown imposed by the government earlier this month has banned religious gatherings – so it's time to catch up on a taekwondo training session.

Small but mighty, Pacific states have led the charge for banning nuclear weapons | Emily Defina

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:00 AM PST

A global treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons becomes international law today. But the fight to rid the world of these dismal weapons continues.

In 1995, thousands of people marched peacefully hand-in-hand through the Tahitian capital of Pape'ete. The palm-lined streets were awash with songs of protest.

On a nearby shorefront, Cook Islanders had just arrived by traditional voyaging canoe: a vaka. They were there to deliver a message of solidarity with their island neighbours, en route to the nuclear test site of Moruroa.

Communist party supporters celebrate Vladimir Lenin – in pictures

Posted: 22 Jan 2021 12:35 AM PST

Supporters mark the 97th anniversary of Lenin's death during commemorations in Red Square in Moscow. Lenin, who died in 1924, was placed in the mausoleum despite his wish to be buried near his mother at Volkovo cemetery in St Petersburg

How Boncuk the dog waited days outside Turkish hospital – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 08:25 PM PST

Boncuk, a devoted pet, spent days waiting outside a hospital in Trabzon, Turkey, where her sick owner Cemal Senturk was being treated. Boncuk followed the ambulance that transported Senturk to hospital before making multiple visits to front door. According to Senturk's daughter, Aynur Egeli, she would take Boncuk home but the dog kept going back. After six days apart Boncuk and Senturk were reunited when he was discharged

Patient dog waits for days outside hospital

'A liberating feeling': Fauci critiques Trump administration – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:45 PM PST

Dr Anthony Fauci made not-so-veiled critiques of the Trump administration during a White House press briefing on Thursday. He said the new administration meant he did not need to 'guess' when he didn't know the answer to questions.

The health expert said the new administration felt 'liberating' and he did not take pleasure correcting the president and facing consequences for doing so.

But Fauci pushed back against the characterization from some Biden officials that the new administration has to start 'from scratch' on coronavirus vaccine distribution

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Joe Biden challenges Americans to 'mask up' for first 100 days – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:20 PM PST

Joe Biden has urged Americans to wear face masks for 99 days as part of a challenge for his first 100 days in office during a speech on Thursday in which he unveiled his administrations's national Covid strategy.

Biden signed an executive order to mandate face coverings during interstate travel and within federal buildings as he noted the US coronavirus death toll is higher than that from the second world war.

Joe Biden starts presidency by signing executive orders – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 05:55 AM PST

Joe Biden wasted no time as the newly elected president of the United States by signing a flurry of executive orders on issues including Covid-19, immigration and the environment.

Some of the executive actions undo policies from Donald Trump's administration, including halting the travel ban from Muslim-majority countries, and ending the national emergency declaration used to justify funding construction of a wall on the US-Mexico border

Joe Biden marks start of presidency with flurry of executive orders

Huge fireworks display concludes Joe Biden's inauguration day – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:22 AM PST

The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States concluded with a spectacular fireworks display over Washington DC, with Biden and the first lady watching from the White House.

The newly-elected president took the opportunity to underline the importance of 'unity' in a democracy while the vice-president, Kamala Harris, said Biden was calling on people to have the 'courage to see beyond crisis'

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