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- Rural doctors braced for ‘devastating’ second wave as India’s workers flee cities
- ‘Mad and totally unethical’: Dominic Cummings hits out at Boris Johnson
- Indonesian submarine search: hopes fade as oxygen deadline passes
- Biden vows US will work with Russia on climate
- Ghislaine Maxwell makes first in-person court appearance since arrest
- Malaysia: artist detained for allegedly insulting queen with Spotify playlist
- Myanmar: Asean holds crisis talks as junta leader makes first foreign trip
- Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of Black children in teaching
- Ups and downs: Trump’s $27m-a-mile border wall being scaled with $5 ladders
- EU special status for halloumi fails to calm divisions in Cyprus
- Coronavirus live news: India sets new world record for daily cases; restrictions on outdoor mixing eased in Wales
- Fears Covid anxiety syndrome could stop people reintegrating
- ‘We’re the poo crew’: sleuths test for Covid by reading signs in sewage
- Covid-19: India’s hospital crisis deepens, Tokyo goes under state of emergency
- ‘Clients want us to clean the air’: how the pandemic took hygiene to a whole new level
- Okra bhajis and spinach and artichoke dip: Yotam Ottolenghi’s vegan recipes
- Joss Stone: ‘My dream dinner guest? Jordan Peterson’
- Michael Stipe: ‘The male idea of power is so dumb’
- The strange, amazing stories behind six everyday plants
- Can our passion for pets help reset our relationship with nature?
- Highs of 18C forecast for parts of UK as dry weather continues
- Gaza militants fire rockets after clashes flare in Jerusalem
- Chad rebels prepare offensive as president Idriss Déby is buried
- Yemen, Myanmar and George Floyd: human rights this fortnight in pictures
- Western Australia Covid lockdown: new case confirmed as hotel quarantine failures condemned
- India Covid crisis: families' plea for help amid oxygen shortages and mass cremations – video report
- Superyacht towed through narrow canal in Netherlands – video
- Angry resident reacts after gender reveal party using explosives sets off earthquake – video
| Rural doctors braced for ‘devastating’ second wave as India’s workers flee cities Posted: 23 Apr 2021 07:50 AM PDT As Covid cases spike, countryside physicians say hospital space is scarce while most infections go unreported Scenes of migrant workers massing at bus and train stations, fleeing lockdowns in Indian cities for their villages, are ominous to doctors in the country's hinterlands. They know that many of those in the crowds will be returning with Covid-19 strains that are ravaging urban India, leading to record numbers of daily infections this week and the country's highest daily death tolls since the virus emerged. In parts of rural West Bengal state, where politicians were holding mass election rallies until late this week, the surge has already started. Continue reading... |
| ‘Mad and totally unethical’: Dominic Cummings hits out at Boris Johnson Posted: 23 Apr 2021 09:46 AM PDT Ex-aide alleges PM tried to quash leak inquiry that implicated ally and wanted donors to fund work on flat Dominic Cummings has launched an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on Boris Johnson, alleging that the prime minister tried to quash a leak inquiry as it implicated an ally, and hatched a "possibly illegal" plan for donors to pay to renovate his flat. The outburst by Cummings, a day after anonymous No 10 sources claimed that he had leaked private text messages between Johnson and the billionaire James Dyson, prompted Labour to accuse the government of "fighting each other like rats in a sack". Continue reading... |
| Indonesian submarine search: hopes fade as oxygen deadline passes Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:23 PM PDT KRI Nanggala 402 was only equipped with enough oxygen for three days after losing power Hopes of rescuing dozens aboard a missing Indonesian submarine are fading as its oxygen reserves are believed to have run out, turning the focus to retrieving the stricken vessel from waters off Bali. As hundreds of military personnel took part in a frantic hunt for the KRI Nanggala 402, authorities said the German-built craft was equipped with enough oxygen for three days after losing power. Continue reading... |
| Biden vows US will work with Russia on climate Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Countries with poor track records on climate change, including Brazil and Saudi Arabia, were also courted at virtual summit The US will work with Russia on ways to combat the climate crisis, President Joe Biden has announced, saying he looked forward to joint efforts and was "very heartened" by the country's call for collaboration on new technologies such as carbon removal. But though Russia's president Vladimir Putin insisted he was "genuinely interested in galvanising international cooperation so as to look further for effective solutions to climate change as well as to all other vital challenges", he made no mention of reducing oil and gas supply or consumption. Continue reading... |
| Ghislaine Maxwell makes first in-person court appearance since arrest Posted: 23 Apr 2021 12:50 PM PDT Former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein appears in blue scrubs in court in Manhattan, and pleads not guilty to sex-trafficking charges When Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday, her appearance was a far cry from that of the jet-setter who once socialised with the rich and powerful. Related: Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to dismiss charges that she recruited girls Continue reading... |
| Malaysia: artist detained for allegedly insulting queen with Spotify playlist Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:02 PM PDT Arrest of Fahmi Reza comes amid concerns of a crackdown on dissent under prime ministership of Muhyiddin Yassin A Malaysian artist has been detained by police for allegedly insulting the country's queen by making a Spotify playlist that mocked comments on her Instagram account, an arrest condemned by rights groups as a clampdown on free speech. Police said in a statement the graphic artist, Fahmi Reza, had uploaded a playlist with songs containing the word "jealousy", with a photo of Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar: Asean holds crisis talks as junta leader makes first foreign trip Posted: 23 Apr 2021 06:26 PM PDT Protests are expected at group's headquarters in Jakarta as the presence of Min Aung Hlaing triggers anger South-east Asian leaders are to hold Myanmar crisis talks with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who has become the focus of international outrage over a military coup and crackdown that has left more than 700 dead. The senior general was expected at the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) meeting in Indonesia's capital on Saturday, marking his first foreign trip since security forces staged a coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in early February. Continue reading... |
| Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of Black children in teaching Posted: 24 Apr 2021 02:03 AM PDT Bones of children who died in 1985 police bombing used in anthropology course – but some bones now appear to be missing Two Ivy League institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, are facing mounting demands to apologise and make restitution for their handling over decades of the bones of African American children killed by Philadelphia police in 1985. Related: Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course Continue reading... |
| Ups and downs: Trump’s $27m-a-mile border wall being scaled with $5 ladders Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT 'Unlike the wall, these ladders are functional,' artist and activist Scott Nicol points out to local magazine Texas Monthly For millennia two bitter foes have been in constant conflict with one another: the imposing, stout wall and the nimble, convenient ladder. That same struggle continues to play out today in the Rio Grande Valley along the southern border of Texas, where migrants crossing over from Mexico find themselves confronted with towering impediments to their journey, built by presidents Republican and Democrat alike, and decide to simply climb over them. A look at this structural struggle came this week in a story in Texas Monthly. In the piece the magazine follows along with a local artist and activist named Scott Nicol, a man who has become an expert spotter of wall ladders, which he often finds discarded after one use and photographs them. "It's made of cheap, rough wood, quickly nailed together because it is only going to be used once," Nicol says of one he finds along a walk by the border. Continue reading... |
| EU special status for halloumi fails to calm divisions in Cyprus Posted: 24 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT Bloc had hoped 'cheese diplomacy' could help bridge divide, but PDO status has fuelled further ructions Just when it seemed halloumi's greatest battle had been won, the "white gold" of Cyprus is once again causing ructions. Weeks after being awarded EU protected designation of origin (PDO) status, giving consumers the guarantee of an authentically made Cypriot product, the chewy cheese has managed to elicit anger on both sides of the UN-patrolled "green line" fracturing the divided country. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2021 02:18 AM PDT Parts of western Australia in three-day lockdown; Germany reports 23,392 Covid cases; Thailand curbs shop opening hours after daily case record
Iran has said that it would bar travellers from India over a Covid-19 variant to avert its spread in the already affected country. Officials, however, did not say if any cases of the variant first in India in late March had been detected in Iran, Reuters reports.
Russia recorded 8,828 new coronavirus cases, including 2,541 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 4,753,789 since the pandemic began. The coronavirus crisis centre said 399 more deaths were confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 107,900. Continue reading... |
| Fears Covid anxiety syndrome could stop people reintegrating Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Exclusive: compulsive hygiene habits and fear of public places could remain for some after lockdown lifted, researchers say Scientists have expressed concern that residual anxiety over coronavirus may have led some people to develop compulsive hygiene habits that could prevent them from reintegrating into the outside world, even though Covid hospitalisations and deaths in the UK are coming down. The concept of "Covid anxiety syndrome" was first theorised by professors last year, when Ana Nikčević, of Kingston University, and Marcantonio Spada, at London South Bank University, noticed people were developing a particular set of traits in response to Covid. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re the poo crew’: sleuths test for Covid by reading signs in sewage Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT Scientists in Exeter are identifying Covid through human faeces – this could be be expanded to monitor other diseases They call themselves the "poo crew" – a team of health detectives who are tracking down and heading off Covid outbreaks by reading the signs in our sewage. And they are expanding. Earlier this month, the Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection Programme opened a purpose-built laboratory on the fringes of Exeter, its sterile interior in stark contrast to the unsanitary subject of its investigations. The opening of the laboratory marks a dramatic expansion of what was, until less than a year ago, just a soil pipe dream: testing sewage for coronavirus to understand where it is circulating and get an early warning of future potential spikes in infection. In the future, this network could be expanded to monitor other infectious diseases including flu. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19: India’s hospital crisis deepens, Tokyo goes under state of emergency Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:24 PM PDT US restarts Johnson & Johnson vaccinations, New Zealand excludes Western Australia from bubble, EU pledges vaccine drive Hospitals in India have launched desperate appeals for oxygen as the Covid crisis spiralled, while Japan issued a state of emergency in some areas just three months before the Olympics are due to open. India on Saturday reported 346,786 new infections in the past day, setting a world record for a third consecutive day, while deaths rose by 2,624 – the highest daily rate for India so far. Continue reading... |
| ‘Clients want us to clean the air’: how the pandemic took hygiene to a whole new level Posted: 24 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT The past year has turbo-charged our relationship with cleanliness, raising expectations and turning many into germophobes. Has it gone too far? Before Lynsey Crombie sits on a train, or outside a cafe, she takes out her antibacterial wipes and cleans the table, the arms of her seat – anywhere she might touch or put her phone down. "I've always done it," says the bestselling author of The 15-Minute Clean and How To Clean Your House And Tidy Up Your Life. "Until last year I used to get some funny looks." These days there are no funny looks, the pandemic having made germophobes of many of us. Between March and May of 2020, UK sales of liquid disinfectant were 74.9% higher, and bleach 32% higher, than the year before. Until the vaccine came along, hygiene seemed to be our best defence against a deadly enemy that threatened our entire way of life, and we diligently held that line. What did you do in the war effort, Mummy? I triple-sanitised the door handle, darling. Continue reading... |
| Okra bhajis and spinach and artichoke dip: Yotam Ottolenghi’s vegan recipes Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:30 AM PDT Even omnivores will be up for these crunchy bhajis with mint yoghurt, and a moreish vegan side dish or dip There are many reasons to be vegan – concerns about animal welfare, the environment and personal health being the obvious three. I've never been good at being any "one" thing, but, though I'm not vegan, I can go for days eating as if I were, not least because there's a fourth reason to feel passionate about eating vegan, be that sometimes, often or always: because it can be so darned tasty. Vegan ingredients are my daily staples – my olive oil and bread, my pulses and tahini – and they're also what I reach for when I want to dial up the savoury flavour in my cooking; miso paste, in particular, does the job here. When I want a briny kick, I'll often reach for capers, while when I want a smooth, creamy texture, silken tofu works wonders. On other days, it might be black garlic, preserved lemon and tahini, for much the same reasons. And the list goes on. So, today, two recipes for those who are vegan every day and for those who find themselves being so accidentally. Continue reading... |
| Joss Stone: ‘My dream dinner guest? Jordan Peterson’ Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:30 AM PDT The singer-songwriter on smoking, her new baby and the C word Born in Kent, Joss Stone, 34, released her debut album, The Soul Sessions, in 2003 and went on to win Brit and Grammy awards. In 2019, she was deported from Iran as she attempted to complete her Total World Tour, performing in 200 countries. She lives in Nashville with her partner, Cody DaLuz, and their three-month-old baby. When were you happiest? |
| Michael Stipe: ‘The male idea of power is so dumb’ Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT He was in the one of the most influential indie bands ever, but the songwriter prefers life as a visual artist. He talks presidents, parties and photographing his heroes The last time I saw Michael Stipe, he had a beanie hat on and was wandering between the tents at the Extinction Rebellion camp in Trafalgar Square. It was early evening in October 2019, and we had just finished an interview at a nearby hotel. The fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu had arrived with his twin sister Sara, to take Stipe to dinner, but Stipe wanted to check out the protest first. The crowd-phobic Erdem wasn't sure, but Stipe was almost skipping with excitement. Both scenes – heading off for a meal with his world-renowned artistic friend and mixing with young grungy activists – were exactly his thing. We had met to discuss Stipe's second book of photography, Our Interference Times, which he'd created with the author Douglas Coupland. It was a hefty tome that explored the dissonance between the analogue and the digital. (If that sounds pretentious, the book was very accessible.) It was a follow-up to Volume 1, published in 2018, made with curator Jonathan Berger. That book was more intimate: only 35 pictures, including ones of a young River Phoenix, and Kurt Cobain's hands. Continue reading... |
| The strange, amazing stories behind six everyday plants Posted: 24 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT Did you know that tomatoes respond to a high C note? Or that the prickly pear made red fabric popular, and yams helped create the contraceptive pill? Often beautiful, sometimes deadly, but constantly ingenious, plants are the sources of life and delight, myth and mayhem. Their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. Some have a troubling past, while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilisations to flourish. Continue reading... |
| Can our passion for pets help reset our relationship with nature? Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT As lockdown puppy sales soar and the cats of Instagram are liked by millions, endangered species are vanishing from the planet. Can pets teach us how to care about all animals? It was the carefree summer of 2019, and I was on a beach in San Francisco – surrounded by a thousand corgis. Sand is not the natural environment for dogs whose legs are only as long as ice lollies. But this was Corgi Con, possibly the world's largest gathering of corgis. It was weird. It was glorious. There were corgis in baby harnesses and corgis under parasols. There were corgis dressed as a shark, a lifeguard, a snowman, a piñata and Chewbacca from Star Wars (the latter two were overweight). There were stalls selling sunglasses and socks for dogs. I overheard two people considering whether to buy a corgi-emblazoned cushion, but decide against it on the basis that they already had one. Continue reading... |
| Highs of 18C forecast for parts of UK as dry weather continues Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:37 AM PDT Forecast should maintain trend of what has been one of the driest Aprils on record Most of the UK can look forward to a dry and sunny weekend as daytime temperatures in some areas are forecast to reach 18C (64F), the Met Office has said. Chilly conditions on Saturday morning are due to make way for a warm afternoon, with the highest temperatures expected in Manchester and Caernarfon, Wales. Continue reading... |
| Gaza militants fire rockets after clashes flare in Jerusalem Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:57 AM PDT Rockets seen as response to unrest in mostly Palestinian east Jerusalem, including far-right Jewish groups chanting 'death to Arabs' Militants in Gaza have fired at least 35 rockets into Israel in one of the most intense flare-ups in months, seemingly triggered by days of tensions in Jerusalem in which far-right Jewish groups and the Israeli police have clashed with Palestinians. Hours of sustained rocket launches early on Saturday – and Israel's retaliatory strikes on the strip using fighter jets and attack helicopters – broke a months-long lull along the frontier with the coastal enclave. Continue reading... |
| Chad rebels prepare offensive as president Idriss Déby is buried Posted: 23 Apr 2021 08:44 AM PDT Front for Change and Concord heads towards capital, N'Djamena, where memorial took place Rebels were preparing a new offensive towards the capital of Chad on Friday as dignitaries and supporters paid their final respects to Idriss Déby, the veteran ruler of the central African state, who died earlier this week from wounds sustained "on the battlefield". The Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) said its forces were about 190 miles (300km) north of N'Djamena, the capital, but would observe a pause in hostilities to allow time for Déby, who was 68 when he died, to be buried. Continue reading... |
| Yemen, Myanmar and George Floyd: human rights this fortnight in pictures Posted: 23 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Cambodia to Peru |
| Western Australia Covid lockdown: new case confirmed as hotel quarantine failures condemned Posted: 24 Apr 2021 01:08 AM PDT Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid says state governments are not doing enough to protect those in quarantine from coronavirus Continued leaks from hotel quarantine are "a frustration to all Australians" and state governments are not doing enough to prevent it, the president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Omar Khorshid, has said, while the Western Australian premier called on the federal government to "step up and help". Authorities revealed one new community case was detected on Saturday – a man in his 40s – as WA's Perth and Peel region began a snap three-day lockdown after the latest hotel quarantine outbreak. The virus spread in the corridors of the Mercure quarantine hotel in Perth, infecting a man who was staying adjacent to a couple with the virus who had returned from India. Continue reading... |
| India Covid crisis: families' plea for help amid oxygen shortages and mass cremations – video report Posted: 23 Apr 2021 04:41 PM PDT India's underfunded health system is on the brink of collapse as the world's worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation. This week the number of recorded cases passed 300,000 a day, along with more than 2,000 deaths - which is close to twice the daily deaths India experienced during the first peak of the virus between July and September 2020. Hospitals in Delhi have now issued SOS alerts on Friday, saying they had only a few hours' supply of oxygen left and pleading for government help, while social media was flooded with requests for oxygen cylinders, shared by people seeking urgent care for their relatives. India, the world's second most populous nation, has confirmed 16 million cases so far, second only to the US. The country's real death toll from the virus is thought to be significantly higher than official figures, amid reports of some state governments fudging data, and crematorium equipment in some states melting due to the constant heat of fires burning day and night.
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| Superyacht towed through narrow canal in Netherlands – video Posted: 23 Apr 2021 07:06 AM PDT A Dutch superyacht has completed its four-day passage through a narrow canal en route to the North Sea for testing. At 94 metres long, it is the largest possible vessel which can pass through. Tom van Oossanen, a superyacht photographer who captured the footage, said: 'The designers face limitations due to the narrow waterways and bridges. It's always a tight squeeze. The locals usually love it. It's very instagrammable' Continue reading... |
| Angry resident reacts after gender reveal party using explosives sets off earthquake – video Posted: 23 Apr 2021 04:06 AM PDT A New Hampshire family's gender reveal party set off reports of an earthquake, and could be heard from across the state line, police said. The source of the blast was 80lbs (36kg) of Tannerite, which is typically sold over the counter as a target for firearms practice, according to officials. Sara Taglieri, a resident, said 'of all of the blasts I have experienced, nothing was as loud' as the explosion on Tuesday evening Continue reading... |
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