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- Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright resigns along with police chief
- Ever Given impounded as Suez Canal Authority pursues salvage costs
- Coronavirus live news: UK expands trial on mixing vaccines; France stops all flights from Brazil over variant fears
- Neighbours: more actors come forward with allegations of racist slurs and discrimination on set
- Japanese regulator bans restart at nuclear plant over safety breaches
- Queen returns to royal duties four days after death of Prince Philip
- ‘Worrying picture’: Journalists in Europe face increasing risk, press freedom group warns
- Christchurch mosque terrorist to launch legal challenge in New Zealand high court
- W Galen Weston, Canadian retail tycoon behind Primark and Selfridges, dies at 80
- Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it — study
- Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later
- ‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India
- UK study on mixing Covid vaccines between jabs to be expanded
- Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory
- A gold nose pin, boxes of eggs, or a tax rebate: Covid vaccine incentives around the world
- ‘His spirit lives on’: Vanuatu’s Tanna island mourns Prince Philip as its own
- ‘I miss the English bants’: Parminder Nagra on ER, Bend It Like Beckham and new sci-fi Intergalactic
- 100 days to Tokyo: Pessimism and fear remain in Japan as Games loom | Justin McCurry
- Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison’s big appetite stop Spain’s forest fires?
- Amazon Echo Dot (4th gen) review: Alexa’s new small budget ball
- Phone wet and won’t turn on? Here’s what to do with water damage (hint: putting it in rice won’t work)
- Tamara Ecclestone burglary: Italian man pleads guilty to role in £25m raid
- Will we need a Covid pass to get into the pub?
- Neglected tropical diseases are the landmines of global health | Albert Picado and John H Amuasi
- Ballparks, stadiums and race tracks: US mass vaccination sites – in pictures
- Australia news live: mass coronavirus vaccine hubs planned; Scott Morrison to meet Brittany Higgins
- Damned either way, Biden opts out of Afghanistan as US tires of ‘forever wars’
- US decision to pause J&J jabs is another blow to global Covid fight
- Fight to vote: why US democracy is at a tipping point – video
- Daunte Wright's brother speaks out at vigil as police use teargas against protesters – video report
| Minnesota officer who killed Daunte Wright resigns along with police chief Posted: 13 Apr 2021 12:42 PM PDT Police chief had said that officer Kim Potter meant to fire her Taser but fired her service weapon by mistake, killing the 20-year-old Kim Potter, the white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot the Black resident Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, and her chief of police, Tim Gannon, resigned on Tuesday. Their resignations come after two nights of protests in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center over Sunday's killing of Wright, who was unarmed when he was pulled over for a traffic violation on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Ever Given impounded as Suez Canal Authority pursues salvage costs Posted: 13 Apr 2021 03:42 PM PDT Megaship that ran aground now caught in legal row between owners and Egyptian authorities reportedly seeking $900m Two weeks after it was freed from the Suez Canal, the giant container ship Ever Given is once again stuck. This time however, the 220,000-ton megaship is not caught in the sand, but snared in a legal row between Egyptian authorities and the ship's owners over the financial impact of the accident. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 14 Apr 2021 01:52 AM PDT UK study to examine if vaccines can be safely mixed; French PM says P.1 variant is partly to blame for fuelling third wave in France
PA have the latest figures from the ONS which suggest an estimated 54.9% of people in private households in England were likely to have tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in the week to 28 March - largely unchanged on the previous two weeks. The presence of Covid-19 antibodies suggests someone has had the infection in the past or has been vaccinated.
France is suspending all flights to and from Brazil to contain the spread of a highly-contagious new Covid-19 variant picked up in the country. Prime Minister Jean Castex said the so-called Brazilian variant, known as P.1, is extremely virulent and partly to blame for fuelling the third coronavirus wave in France last month. |
| Neighbours: more actors come forward with allegations of racist slurs and discrimination on set Posted: 13 Apr 2021 04:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Sharon Johal left the Australian soap last month but says she endured a 'painful' four years, alleging 'direct, indirect and casual racism' from fellow cast members One of Neighbours' longstanding cast members has claimed she endured "direct, indirect and casual racism" on set, including racial slurs and mockery, saying the past four years starring in the long-running Australian soapie were "painful and problematic". In a detailed 1,500 word statement provided to Guardian Australia, Sharon Johal said she tried to "deny, bury and ultimately survive" racist taunts allegedly from some of her colleagues. She also claimed that the television show's production company, Fremantle Media, failed to take any effective action to rein in the alleged behaviour and left her feeling powerless, isolated and marginalised. Continue reading... |
| Japanese regulator bans restart at nuclear plant over safety breaches Posted: 14 Apr 2021 12:42 AM PDT Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has been prevented from restarting its only operable atomic facility after a series of safety breaches, dealing a significant blow to Japanese attempts to resume nuclear power generation. Japan's nuclear regulator is to issue a "corrective action order" on Wednesday that would ban Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) from transporting new uranium fuel to its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture or loading fuel rods into its reactors. Continue reading... |
| Queen returns to royal duties four days after death of Prince Philip Posted: 13 Apr 2021 03:35 PM PDT Monarch held ceremony for the retirement of her household's most senior official, the Lord Chamberlain The Queen has returned to royal duties, four days after the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, to mark the retirement of her household's most senior official. The monarch held her first in-person event to host a ceremony at Windsor as William Peel formally stood down as Lord Chamberlain. The earl had overseen the arrangements for the duke's funeral, known as Operation Forth Bridge. He had handed responsibility for the operation to his successor, former MI5 spy chief Andrew Parker, just a week before Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle. Continue reading... |
| ‘Worrying picture’: Journalists in Europe face increasing risk, press freedom group warns Posted: 13 Apr 2021 09:00 PM PDT Reporters Without Borders speaks of pressures on press freedom after murder of Giorgos Karaivaz in Athens last week The murder of a high-profile Greek journalist last week marks the fourth killing of a reporter in Europe in the past five years and has underlined growing concerns about a steady decline of press freedoms in several EU member states. Related: Greek crime journalist shot dead in Athens in 'execution-style' murder Continue reading... |
| Christchurch mosque terrorist to launch legal challenge in New Zealand high court Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:53 PM PDT Gunman who was sentenced to life in prison last year and was designated a 'terrorist entity' has requested a judicial review The Australian man who carried out the Christchurch mosque massacres is launching a legal challenge against his jail conditions in the New Zealand high court. Brenton Tarrant, who was last year sentenced to life imprisonment for 51 murders and one charge of terrorism, will represent himself in a hearing in Auckland on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| W Galen Weston, Canadian retail tycoon behind Primark and Selfridges, dies at 80 Posted: 13 Apr 2021 04:05 PM PDT UK-born billionaire forged empire spanning luxury stores such as Fortnum & Mason and food brands including Twinings and Loblaws in Canada W Galen Weston, the patriarch of one of Canada's wealthiest families and a retail titan, has died aged 80. Weston was the third generation of his family to lead George Weston Limited, an already-prosperous retail empire founded by his grandfather, which he expanded significantly. Continue reading... |
| Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it — study Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Colony does not perish when queen dies as 'chosen' workers shrink brains and expand their ovaries Few species in the animal kingdom can change the size of their brain. Fewer still can change it back to its original size. Now researchers have found the first insect species with that ability: Indian jumping ants. They are like catnip to researchers in the field. In contrast to their cousins, Indian jumping ants colonies do not perish once their queen dies. Instead, "chosen" workers take her place – with expanded ovaries and shrunken brains – to produce offspring. But, if a worker's "pseudo-queen" status is somehow revoked, their bodies can bounce back, the research suggests. Continue reading... |
| Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later Posted: 13 Apr 2021 09:52 PM PDT The century-old temple clock has come back to life when an aftershock of the 2011 quake hit the region For almost 10 years, the clock hanging in Bunshun Sakano's temple was a reminder of the day nature's force came close to destroying his community. The clock, which is thought to be about 100 years old, stopped ticking after the north-east coast of Japan was struck by an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people on 11 March 2011. Continue reading... |
| ‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India Posted: 13 Apr 2021 07:00 PM PDT Doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before Dr K Senthil had feared it was coming. He had feared it as he saw the reckless crush of hundreds of people taking part in large wedding parties over the past months, feared it as he saw the maskless faces of shoppers at the market, feared it as he witnessed thousands come together for political rallies in the ongoing elections in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where he is the president of the state medical council. Continue reading... |
| UK study on mixing Covid vaccines between jabs to be expanded Posted: 13 Apr 2021 11:55 PM PDT Researchers to examine whether mixing vaccines may give longer-lasting immunity against virus A major UK study examining whether Covid vaccines can be safely mixed with different types of jabs for the first and second doses is to be expanded. Researchers running the Com-Cov study, launched in February to investigate alternating doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines for the first and second doses, will now include a shot of the Moderna or Novavax vaccines. Continue reading... |
| Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why Before the pandemic, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen's patients might come into his consulting room, lie down on the couch and talk about the traffic or the weather, or the rude person on the tube. Now they appear on his computer screen and tell him about brain fog. They talk with urgency of feeling unable to concentrate in meetings, to read, to follow intricately plotted television programmes. "There's this sense of debilitation, of losing ordinary facility with everyday life; a forgetfulness and a kind of deskilling," says Cohen, author of the self-help book How to Live. What to Do. Although restrictions are now easing across the UK, with greater freedom to circulate and socialise, he says lockdown for many of us has been "a contraction of life, and an almost parallel contraction of mental capacity". This dulled, useless state of mind – epitomised by the act of going into a room and then forgetting why we are there – is so boring, so lifeless. But researchers believe it is far more interesting than it feels: even that this common experience can be explained by cutting-edge neuroscience theories, and that studying it could further scientific understanding of the brain and how it changes. I ask Jon Simons, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, could it really be something "sciencey"? "Yes, it's definitely something sciencey – and it's helpful to understand that this feeling isn't unusual or weird," he says. "There isn't something wrong with us. It's a completely normal reaction to this quite traumatic experience we've collectively had over the last 12 months or so." Continue reading... |
| A gold nose pin, boxes of eggs, or a tax rebate: Covid vaccine incentives around the world Posted: 13 Apr 2021 07:49 PM PDT Members of the public are being offered gifts and discounts to encourage vaccine take-up There isn't much to like about having a needle stuck into your arm, so to encourage vaccinations, some countries are offering incentives to sweeten the deal. In one Indian city, residents are being offered a gold nose pin or a stick blender if they get a shot, while in China, not one but two boxes of eggs await responsible citizens. "The eggs don't matter," one Beijing resident – a woman in her 60s – told the South China Morning Post. She was queueing for her vaccination because authorities kept asking her to get the vaccine, not for the protein. Continue reading... |
| ‘His spirit lives on’: Vanuatu’s Tanna island mourns Prince Philip as its own Posted: 13 Apr 2021 05:08 PM PDT Villagers believe Duke of Edinburgh was born on Tanna and left it to woo and wed the Queen Days after the news of Prince Philip's death reverberated around the world, a young woman and her mother selling snacks in a marketplace on the Vanuatu island of Tanna heard it for the first time. Sophie, who declined to provide a family name, visibly flinched as the information registered. She quickly recovered the reserved demeanour so common on the island but the news clearly touched her deeply. Continue reading... |
| ‘I miss the English bants’: Parminder Nagra on ER, Bend It Like Beckham and new sci-fi Intergalactic Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT She went from Leicester to Los Angeles – and is now bound for outer space. But Intergalactic, which was filmed in Manchester, has made the British star want to return home I can't tell if the pained expression on Parminder Nagra's face is because of the bad Zoom connection or the words I can't help blurting out the moment she appears on my screen. She's sitting at a table in her home in Los Angeles, the California sun streaming through sash windows into a sitting room dotted with keepsakes from her many films, and all I can think to say is: "I can't believe I'm talking to Jess from Bend It Like Beckham! I loved that film!" We're meant to be discussing the actor's new role in Intergalactic, a dystopian sci-fi drama about a group of female high-security prisoners who hijack a spaceship and set off in pursuit of freedom. But instead we're discussing the role Nagra took on almost 20 years ago, playing Jess, a teenager who discovers herself on the football pitch, while navigating her Indian heritage and British life. Is it annoying that people still talk about Bend It? "No," says Nagra, "because it's such a huge part of my life. I've just gotten older. I keep thinking people are going to think I still look the same, when I don't. But I'm still proud of the film. It's probably what I'm most recognised for." Continue reading... |
| 100 days to Tokyo: Pessimism and fear remain in Japan as Games loom | Justin McCurry Posted: 14 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT Despite feelgood golf and swimming stories the local opinion on the Covid-delayed Games is that they should not happen When Hideki Matsuyama sank the putt that won the Masters on Sunday, he not only made history by becoming the first Japanese man to win a major golf title – he gave the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics rare cause for celebration. Days earlier his compatriot Rikako Ikee secured a place at the rescheduled 2020 Games in the 100m butterfly less than eight months after she had recovered from leukaemia. Continue reading... |
| Eat, roam, repeat: Can the bison’s big appetite stop Spain’s forest fires? Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Conservationists hope the return of the near-extinct herbivore – 'a living strimmer' – will clear the undergrowth that fuels fires As the temperatures begin to rise, Spain is braced for another summer of the forest fires that over the past 10 years have destroyed about 741,000 hectares (1.8m acres) of forest. Last year, fires consumed 45,000 hectares according to government estimates, the year before 60,000 hectares, and there are signs that, as in California and Australia, the fires are becoming more frequent and more intense. Continue reading... |
| Amazon Echo Dot (4th gen) review: Alexa’s new small budget ball Posted: 13 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Smart speaker ditches puck shape but keeps solid sound and function with or without LED clock display Amazon's fourth-generation Echo Dot has evolved from its predecessors' puck-like appearance into a small ball, shaking up the idea of what a small smart speaker can look like. The new Echo Dot is priced the same as the last one, costing from £50, although it will be frequently available at a discount at various retailers, and looks like the full-sized £80 Echo hit with a shrink ray. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 13 Apr 2021 06:08 PM PDT While many smartphones are advertised as 'water resistant', this doesn't mean they're immune from water damage If you've ever gotten your phone wet in the rain, dropped it in water or spilt liquid over it, you're not alone. One study suggests 25% of smartphone users have damaged their smartphone with water or some other kind of liquid. Liquid penetrating a smartphone can affect the device in several ways. It could lead to: Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tamara Ecclestone burglary: Italian man pleads guilty to role in £25m raid Posted: 13 Apr 2021 06:58 PM PDT Alessandro Donati speaks only to confirm his identity and will be sentenced later An Italian national has admitted his role in a £25m raid at the Kensington mansion of Tamara Ecclestone. Alessandro Donati, 43, pleaded guilty at Isleworth crown court on Tuesday to a single count of conspiracy to burgle properties between 29 November and 18 December 2019. Continue reading... |
| Will we need a Covid pass to get into the pub? Posted: 13 Apr 2021 07:00 PM PDT The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced plans for a domestic Covid-status certificate. We look to Israel, where a similar scheme has been introduced, and discuss how it might work here Last week, Boris Johnson set out plans for a domestic vaccine passport system to help the country emerge from lockdown. To see how it might work, Anushka Asthana talks to the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, Oliver Holmes, about life in Israel, where the government introduced a similar scheme in February. Continue reading... |
| Neglected tropical diseases are the landmines of global health | Albert Picado and John H Amuasi Posted: 13 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT They are 20 disparate diseases that, like mines, unduly affect the world's poorest people. Now there's a plan to eradicate them by 2030 In January the World Health Organization launched a new strategy for eradicating neglected tropical diseases, boldly setting targets to eliminate 20 of them by 2030. But what are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)? There is no easy answer. The concept was first proposed in the early 2000s to bring to light a group of diseases that disproportionately affect poor people yet, despite their collective impact, do not attract as much attention as diseases such as HIV/Aids, malaria or tuberculosis. Continue reading... |
| Ballparks, stadiums and race tracks: US mass vaccination sites – in pictures Posted: 14 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT As the US entered the latest phase of the fight against the pandemic, photographer Filip Wolak felt it was important to capture the unprecedented efforts that the healthcare communities put into place to help mitigate the virus's lasting effects. This photo project attempts to capture the largest vaccination sites across the country. Some of the sites pictured were documented in their early stages when the vaccination supply was still limited – Wolak hopes to return to them again. The photographs were taken from a small airplane, overflying the locations at a high altitude. This point of view allowed Wolak to capture the magnitude of these efforts. In some of the cases, multiple images were combined into one, which allowed a wider reach without degradation of details Continue reading... |
| Australia news live: mass coronavirus vaccine hubs planned; Scott Morrison to meet Brittany Higgins Posted: 14 Apr 2021 01:40 AM PDT PM stops short of apologising to former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate for speech in parliament; former South Australia Labor MP charged with blackmailing state opposition leader. Follow updates live
And that's where I'll you for tonight. Here's what we learned today:
A Sydney couple received a fright when they discovered a rare venomous snake in a bag of supermarket lettuce – but recovered and later used the fresh produce in a salad wrap. This Calla Wahlquist and Matilda Boseley co-production comes under the category of: do not want. Related: Snakes and lettuce: Australian couple find venomous snake in their Aldi fresh produce Continue reading... |
| Damned either way, Biden opts out of Afghanistan as US tires of ‘forever wars’ Posted: 13 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Analysis: Despite warnings not enough has been done to stablise the country, the president has decided to set aside the rule 'if you break it, you fix it' Joe Biden has decided that 20 years is enough for America's longest war, and has ordered the remaining troops out no matter what happens between now and September. Biden's withdrawal is one area of continuity with his predecessor, although unlike Donald Trump, this administration consulted the Afghans, US allies and its own agencies before announcing the decision. But both presidents were responding to a national weariness of "forever wars". Continue reading... |
| US decision to pause J&J jabs is another blow to global Covid fight Posted: 13 Apr 2021 08:04 AM PDT Analysis: rare side-effects mean that confidence in both the Johnson & Johnson and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines is now shaken The call in the US for a pause in the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine is another blow to hopes of vaccinating the whole world as fast as possible. Health agencies recommended that US states pause use of the jab while investigations take place into six cases of women who have experienced rare blood clotting events combined with low platelets in the days following vaccination. Continue reading... |
| Fight to vote: why US democracy is at a tipping point – video Posted: 14 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT The new Georgia voting rights law makes it harder to vote, especially for communities that tend to vote for Democrats – and that's what Republicans want. But it's not just Georgia: these restrictive voting laws are being considered in nearly every state in America, from Arizona to Texas to Florida. These efforts come on the heels of the 2020 presidential election, which Republicans lost by slim margins in several states. Many Republicans claimed they lost because of voter fraud – because people who were ineligible to vote found a way to skirt the rules and cast ballots. Election officials around the nation said there was no widespread fraud, but Republicans are using this argument to push for a wide array of laws that will skew election in their favor. If enacted, Americans will have to ask a hard question: is the US still a democracy? Alvin Chang and Sam Levine explain this Republican effort to suppress voting rights as part of the Guardian's Fight to Vote series Continue reading... |
| Daunte Wright's brother speaks out at vigil as police use teargas against protesters – video report Posted: 13 Apr 2021 05:17 AM PDT Dallas Bryant, the brother of the 20-year-old Black man who was shot dead by police in the suburbs of Minneapolis on Sunday, says he could never understand Wright's fear of being pulled over by police because he is white. He also questioned the validity of the explanation by police that the officer who shot Daunte accidentally shot him because she confused her Taser electrical weapon for her gun. Police clashed with protesters for a second night. Law enforcement agencies used teargas and other methods to disperse hundreds of people who had gathered outside police headquarters Continue reading... |
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