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- Georgia Senate runoffs: Democrat Raphael Warnock wins against Kelly Loeffler
- Coronavirus live news: Denmark bans South African visitors over new variant; China blocks WHO investigators
- Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdown
- Naked fugitive found in crocodile-infested waters near Darwin charged with fresh offences
- Dr Dre 'doing great' after hospitalisation for reported brain aneurysm
- James Comey: Donald Trump should not be prosecuted after leaving office
- North Korea: Kim Jong-un says economic plan a near-total failure at rare political meeting
- Virginity tests for female rape survivors outlawed by Pakistani court
- Beirut's wounds on show in display of art damaged by port blast
- Jacob Blake: officers will not be charged in shooting that left Black man paralyzed
- Top UK bosses are paid 115 times more than average worker, analysis finds
- Life without Covid: the nations that have sidestepped the pandemic so far
- Thousands of children sent to unregulated care homes amid Covid
- One in 50 people in England had Covid last week, says Chris Whitty
- Grammy awards postponed weeks before ceremony over Covid concerns
- Silence your inner critic: A guide to self-compassion in the toughest times
- What's expected to happen when Congress meets to certify the 2020 election result?
- Pomp and romps: how Bridgerton became the most talked about show on TV
- Let's all meet up in the year 3000! Inside the immersive Doctor Who: Time Fracture
- The lives of others: Ute Mahler's images of the real East Germany – in pictures
- Recall of the wild: South America's new era of nature-led tourism
- Light brigade: the Christmas holdouts keeping their decorations up
- Congolese people have been brutalised since 1996. Why isn’t the west helping?
- Georgia runoffs: Democrat Raphael Warnock wins in Senate battle – live
- Remain in Mexico policy needlessly exposed migrants to harm, report says
- 'A nightmare': father shattered after unlicensed driver allegedly kills children in NSW hit and run
- Boris's boosterism means he never learns | John Crace
- Qatar and Saudi Arabia breakthrough is more exhaustion than compromise
- 'I will fight for you': Democrat Raphael Warnock declares victory in Georgia Senate runoff – video
- One in 50 infected with Covid-19 in England, says Chris Whitty – video
- Boris Johnson says more than 1.1m people in England have been vaccinated – video
- England prepares for a wintry third lockdown – in pictures
| Georgia Senate runoffs: Democrat Raphael Warnock wins against Kelly Loeffler Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:14 PM PST Democrats within striking distance of taking control of the upper chamber in triumph that marks dramatic moment in American politics Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Martin Luther King once preached, has won one of the two runoff elections for the US Senate in Georgia, putting the Democrats within striking distance of taking control of the upper chamber. Warnock's victory over the ultra-Trump loyalist Kelly Loeffler was called by Associated Press just after 2am. It solidifies the astonishing transformation that has seen Georgia reshape itself from a southern Republican stronghold into a diverse and increasingly progressive state, just two months after Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win there in almost three decades. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Denmark has already barred entry to arrivals from UK over separate variant; Australia says China should allow in WHO investigators 'without delay'
China's foreign ministry has attempted to assuage concerns about the refusal to grant entry to a team of experts from the World Health Organisation due to investigate the origins of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, saying arrangements were being worked out. A foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, told a regular news briefing in Beijing that the problem was "not just about visas" for the team. Asked about reports that the dates had been agreed upon, she said there had been a "misunderstanding" and the two sides were still in discussions over the timing and other arrangements and "remain in close communication". |
| Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in sweeping crackdown Posted: 06 Jan 2021 01:28 AM PST Campaigners and politicians held in wave of arrests under the national security law More than 50 people, including pro-democracy politicians and campaigners, have been arrested in early-morning raids across Hong Kong in an unprecedented crackdown by authorities that was condemned as a "despicable" assault on freedom. In a police operation involving more than 1,000 officers, the 53 individuals were detained under the national security law (NSL), accused of "subverting state power" by holding primaries for pro-democracy candidates for the Hong Kong election. The election was ultimately delayed by Lam for a year, purportedly because of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Naked fugitive found in crocodile-infested waters near Darwin charged with fresh offences Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:50 PM PST Luke Voskresensky was rescued on the weekend by two fishermen but was re-arrested when they reached Darwin A naked alleged fugitive found by two fishermen sitting on a tree branch in Australian crocodile-infested waters has been slapped with additional charges of breaching bail and aggravated assault. Cam Faust said on Wednesday that he and fellow recreational fisher Kev Joiner heard Luke Voskresensky, 40, yell for help as they set crab traps from their dinghy in mangroves on the outskirts of the northern city of Darwin. Continue reading... |
| Dr Dre 'doing great' after hospitalisation for reported brain aneurysm Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:05 PM PST The billionaire rapper thanks friends and fans for their well wishes and says he will be 'back home soon' Billionaire rapper and producer Dr Dre says he will be "back home soon" after receiving medical treatment at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm. The six-time Grammy award winner said in a social media post on Tuesday night that he was thankful for well wishes from friends, family and fans. TMZ reported that he had a brain aneurysm on Monday and was recovering at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. Dre did not give a reason for his hospitalisation. Continue reading... |
| James Comey: Donald Trump should not be prosecuted after leaving office Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST
Donald Trump should not be prosecuted once he leaves the White House no matter how much evidence has been amassed against him, the former FBI director James Comey writes in a new book. Related: Trump call to Georgia secretary of state electrifies voters in Senate runoffs Continue reading... |
| North Korea: Kim Jong-un says economic plan a near-total failure at rare political meeting Posted: 05 Jan 2021 05:49 PM PST Ruler begins second Workers' party congress by admitting strategy fell short in 'almost all areas' North Korea's ruler, Kim Jong-un, has admitted that his economic policies have largely failed, and vowed to avoid a repeat of the "painful lessons" of the past at a rare meeting of the country's ruling party. Kim told the congress of the Workers' party that his five-year economic plan had failed to achieve its goals "in almost all areas to a great extent", North Korean state media said on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Virginity tests for female rape survivors outlawed by Pakistani court Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:27 PM PST Judge said the 'humiliating' practice was used to cast suspicion on the victim, and deflected focus from the act of sexual violence A Pakistani court has outlawed the practice of subjecting female rape survivors to a virginity test in an unprecedented ruling. Lahore's high court ruled on Monday that the virginity test has no legal basis and "offends the personal dignity of the female victim". Continue reading... |
| Beirut's wounds on show in display of art damaged by port blast Posted: 05 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST Exhibition presents torn paintings and grazed sculptures in a museum itself hit by explosion Through the entrance is a version of Guido Reni's 17th-century portrait of St John the Baptist, blown to shreds. Nearby, a chandelier lies splattered on the ground where it fell. Mirrors are cracked, paintings ruptured, and roofs in some rooms half-caved in. Beirut is slowly rebuilding from the explosion on 4 August that destroyed much of its eastern seafront neighbourhoods and tore through galleries and hotel lobbies where some of Lebanon's most renowned art was on display. Continue reading... |
| Jacob Blake: officers will not be charged in shooting that left Black man paralyzed Posted: 05 Jan 2021 03:44 PM PST Prosecutor says white officer who shot Blake several times in the back would not be charged due to Wisconsin self-defense law A Wisconsin prosecutor announced Tuesday that he will not bring criminal charges against the white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back from close range last August, which left the Black Kenosha father paralyzed from the waist down. Michael Gravely, Kenosha county district attorney, said during a press conference that his office determined that the officer, Rusten Sheskey, would not be charged based on the state's law relating to self-defense. Continue reading... |
| Top UK bosses are paid 115 times more than average worker, analysis finds Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:01 PM PST Vast gap in earnings described as 'unfair' and 'repugnant' by trade union leaders Bosses of top British companies will have made more money by teatime on Wednesday than the average UK worker will earn in the entire year, according to an independent analysis of the vast gap in pay between chief executives and everyone else. The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies are paid a median average of £3.6m a year, which works out at 115 times the £31,461 collected by full-time UK workers on average, according to research by the High Pay Centre thinktank. Continue reading... |
| Life without Covid: the nations that have sidestepped the pandemic so far Posted: 05 Jan 2021 04:43 PM PST A handful of countries – most of them islands, most of them remote – remain coronavirus-free, but life has not remained wholly unchanged For all of its virulence, for all the breathtaking speed with which it spread seemingly everywhere around the globe, there are places still where Covid-19 has not reached, and might never. Places without face masks or elbow-bumps, without QR codes or capacity limits, without lockdowns or social distancing. There are a handful of countries across the globe – many of them islands, most of them remote – that have managed to escape the pandemic. But while the virus hasn't hit, the global shockwaves it has sent rippling around the world certainly have. Continue reading... |
| Thousands of children sent to unregulated care homes amid Covid Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Exclusive: commissioner for England says children at risk of 'abuse or exploitation' due to lack of council placements Thousands of the most vulnerable children have been sent to unregulated care homes during the pandemic at a cost of millions to the taxpayer, a Guardian investigation has found. Council bosses say they have nowhere else to put those most at risk as there are not enough places for the number of children in need, which has soared during the Covid crisis. The result is young people are placed in supported living facilities not monitored by Ofsted and therefore deemed a safety risk. One council chief described these homes as the "wild west". Continue reading... |
| One in 50 people in England had Covid last week, says Chris Whitty Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST Figure for people outside hospitals and care homes revealed as number of new daily cases in UK tops 60,000 for first time One in 50 people in private households in England – more than 1.1 million – are estimated to have had the coronavirus in the week ending 2 January. The Office for National Statistics figures were released on Tuesday, as the number of new cases of people in the UK testing positive for Covid-19 topped 60,000 for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Grammy awards postponed weeks before ceremony over Covid concerns Posted: 05 Jan 2021 12:20 PM PST The biggest night in US music is being pushed back as a result of virus spread in California The 2021 Grammy awards will be postponed after a steady increase in Covid-19 cases in California. The ceremony was scheduled to take place on 31 January hosted by Trevor Noah and while a new date has yet to be confirmed, sources suggest that it could be pushed back until March. A limited show had already been planned without an audience and only performers and presenters allowed on stage with nominees accepting awards remotely. Continue reading... |
| Silence your inner critic: A guide to self-compassion in the toughest times Posted: 06 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Is your internal monologue friendly, calm and encouraging – or critical and bullying? Here is how to change it for the better Tobyn Bell still remembers the precise moment when his self-compassion practice paid off. He had just arrived home from work and was turning over in his mind the mistakes he had made that day, what he could or should have done – the kind of self-critical thoughts he had struggled with for years. Then, unexpectedly, another voice piped up in response, calm and steadying, addressing Bell by a fond nickname from his childhood. Continue reading... |
| What's expected to happen when Congress meets to certify the 2020 election result? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST Normally, Congress simply receives results from states and announces them to the US – but this year may include some twists A joint session of Congress is scheduled to begin meeting on Wednesday at 1pm to finally certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Never in the modern political history of the United States have these proceedings been notable. For 150 years, Congress has acted in accordance with the constitution and the 1887 Electoral Count Act to simply receive election results from the states and announce them to the nation. It usually takes a couple hours on a weekday, and does not make many headlines. Continue reading... |
| Pomp and romps: how Bridgerton became the most talked about show on TV Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST The Regency drama has become one of Netflix's biggest shows of all time. Four writers explain the secrets of its success – from colourblind casting to equal-opportunities undressing |
| Let's all meet up in the year 3000! Inside the immersive Doctor Who: Time Fracture Posted: 06 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST Audiences can explore 17 different worlds, meet Daleks and drink cocktails in an ambitious theatre show this spring 'This entire year for live arts has been a real one step forward, two steps back process," says Daniel Dingsdale. He's been one of the lucky ones, working on a huge production that has survived the coronavirus upheaval and is set to open in spring. Dingsdale is the writer of Doctor Who: Time Fracture, an ambitious immersive theatre show officially licensed by the BBC and developed by Immersive Everywhere. It promises to take audiences across time and space on a mission to save the universe – all within the confines of Covid safety restrictions. Continue reading... |
| The lives of others: Ute Mahler's images of the real East Germany – in pictures Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST In 1974, the German photographer set out to convey the truth about how people really lived in the communist GDR – depicting her fellow citizens with a 'timeless coolness' Continue reading... |
| Recall of the wild: South America's new era of nature-led tourism Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Macaws, jaguars, tapirs and woolly monkeys are just a few of the critically endangered species being reintroduced as part of Latin America's rewilding drive In 1947, Christopher Isherwood undertook a six-month tour of South America, concentrating on cultural sites, large cities and hobnobbing with local grandees. The title of the travelogue he wrote about the trip, The Condor and the Cows, sums up how most Europeans felt about South America. While the condor has since been pushed to near-extinction, the cows have persisted: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela are still seen by outsiders as primarily farming nations and global breadbaskets. Other Latin American countries are known for their wine, coffee, tropical fruits, soya beans and fishmeal. Colombia, the most biodiverse country in the world per square kilometre, is known more for its exports of cocaine than for its dazzling birdlife. Continue reading... |
| Light brigade: the Christmas holdouts keeping their decorations up Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:28 PM PST English Heritage and Church of England back extending traditional January deadline to brighten gloom of lockdown In other years, the threat of bad luck if you fail to take your Christmas decorations down by Twelfth Night might have meant something. In 2021, the idea that things could get any worse seems blackly comic. And so it is that for some people, baubles, lights, and trees are staying in place this year. Continue reading... |
| Congolese people have been brutalised since 1996. Why isn’t the west helping? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST Despite accusations of war crimes in the central African country, the international community seems unmoved On New Year's Eve, a gang of militia left its jungle base and swept across Beni, a forested north-eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looking for Nande people to kill. Locals alerted the Congolese army but they were ignored. In small farms in Tingwe, a few kilometres from a DRC army base, the gang found 25 people – men, women and children – out harvesting food. One by one they hacked them to death with machetes and axes. Continue reading... |
| Georgia runoffs: Democrat Raphael Warnock wins in Senate battle – live Posted: 06 Jan 2021 02:02 AM PST
Elections analysts see Democrat Jon Ossoff headed for a victory over former senator David Perdue that would fall outside the automatic recount margin. The race has not yet been called, and election workers have taken an overnight break. Counting is to resume in Atlanta at 8:30am ET. Ossoff now ahead by .4 points as the last bit of DeKalb in-person early vote arrives. In just four years, Donald Trump cost the Republican Party the House, the Senate, and the presidency. .@StaceyAbrams what do you know about vaccine distribution
In a December interview, Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown, a key organizer in Georgia, described a new voting coalition rising up in the South that "is really going to transform it": As we watch the Georgia results, I keep thinking of my interview with @MsLaToshaBrown last month: "There is a multigenerational, multicultural coalition that is rising up in the South and is really going to transform it."https://t.co/2SlUQRe7bB The work wasn't overnight. It has been an ongoing process for more than a decade. The way I talk about community power is like electricity: Thomas Edison didn't create electricity in the purest sense; what he created was a conduit to organize the energy and direct it. It was already there. That's the same way I see organizing: We're not creating power; the power is already there. This outcome in Georgia is a result of deep-seated organizing. It works. While I do certainly believe that Black folks, particularly Black women, were at the vanguard, we weren't leading this by ourselves. There is a multigenerational, multicultural coalition that is rising up in the South and is really going to transform it. I have a tv hit on @CNN at 7am and I'm still up. |
| Remain in Mexico policy needlessly exposed migrants to harm, report says Posted: 05 Jan 2021 09:01 PM PST Human Rights Watch describes crimes including rape, kidnapping, extortion but Biden team warns change may not be immediate The incoming US president, Joe Biden, has been urged to scrap a "devastating" migration program that activists say has exposed tens of thousands of asylum seekers – many of them children – to violence, abduction and rape in some of the world's most dangerous cities. The Trump administration created the "Remain in Mexico" program in January 2019 in an effort to deter asylum seekers trying to enter the US through is southern border. Continue reading... |
| 'A nightmare': father shattered after unlicensed driver allegedly kills children in NSW hit and run Posted: 06 Jan 2021 01:55 AM PST Two other children hurt and a 34-year-old woman was critically injured after car hit them at high speed A father has said he is living "a nightmare" after two of his young sons were killed when an unlicensed driver hit a group of five pedestrians in central west New South Wales. Police say the 25-year-old driver – who allegedly never held a driver's licence and was later caught with a prohibited drug – fled the scene of the crash on foot. Continue reading... |
| Boris's boosterism means he never learns | John Crace Posted: 05 Jan 2021 12:53 PM PST The prime minister's first Downing Street press conference kept up his veneer of acting as if he knew what he was doing Let's take the positives first. There have been no changes in government policy on coronavirus in the past 24 hours. After the confusion of the past few days, weeks and months, that is in itself cause for celebration. A sign of some much needed stability in Westminster. Boris Johnson's narcissism is an open secret. What's less clear is whether he is at heart just deeply cynical: a politician who is aware of his own failings and goes out of his way to conceal them. Or whether he is a man who is merely the product of his own imagination: bending reality to suit his personality. It's hard to know which is the more disturbing prospect. But then maybe it's a bit of both. Continue reading... |
| Qatar and Saudi Arabia breakthrough is more exhaustion than compromise Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:32 AM PST Talk of brotherly unity rather than lessons learned dominated the Gulf Cooperation Council summit The meeting on Tuesday between Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was hailed as a breakthrough that brought together two feuding parties who were finally willing to resolve their differences. But as the two leaders gathered at a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in the north-western Saudi region of Al-Ula there was no mention of concessions, or further ultimatums, such as those that had led to the rift. The detente seemed borne more of exhaustion than compromise; the talk more of brotherly unity than lessons learned, and the end to it all more about the incoming US president than regional realpolitik. Continue reading... |
| 'I will fight for you': Democrat Raphael Warnock declares victory in Georgia Senate runoff – video Posted: 06 Jan 2021 12:24 AM PST Shortly after midnight, Rev Raphael Warnock delivered a message of hope to Georgians and declared his win in the Senate runoff election: 'Whether you voted for me or not – know this: I see you. I hear you. And I will fight for you.' He beat Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler, a Trump loyalist. This is the first time for 24 years that a Democrat will represent Georgia in the Senate
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| One in 50 infected with Covid-19 in England, says Chris Whitty – video Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:35 AM PST More than 1.1 million people are estimated to have had coronavirus in the week ending 2 January, the government's chief medical officer said. The latest figure was up from an estimated 800,900 in the week ending 23 December, the previous period for which figures were collated. Whitty added that even with the arrival of the vaccine, restrictions could need to be brought back next Christmas if the virus resurges. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson says more than 1.1m people in England have been vaccinated – video Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:26 AM PST The prime minister said 1.3 million people across the UK have been vaccinated against Covid-19. More than 650,000 people over 80 – 23% of the cohort - have received their jab, he added. Johnson also pledged that 1,000 more vaccination stations would be open by the end of the week |
| England prepares for a wintry third lockdown – in pictures Posted: 05 Jan 2021 08:12 AM PST Empty streets and shuttered shops as England grits its teeth for a new lockdown, with people allowed to leave their homes for limited reasons only, and measures expected to stay until mid-February or even March Continue reading... |
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