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- Israeli police storm al-Aqsa mosque ahead of Jerusalem Day march
- Taliban declares three-day Eid ceasefire as 11 killed in new bombing
- Body of arrested Myanmar poet Khet Thi returned to family with organs missing
- Starmer’s reshuffle bid to demote Rayner described as ‘despicable act of cowardice’ – politics live
- Tokyo Olympics: poll shows 60% of Japanese people want Games cancelled
- Anger as Chinese safari park kept leopard breakout from the public for nearly a week
- Colorado shooting: seven dead after man opens fire at birthday party
- US invokes emergency powers after cyberattack shuts crucial fuel pipeline
- Smartphone is now ‘the place where we live’, anthropologists say
- Not cricket? Scientists suggest bamboo bats are a match for willow
- Coronavirus live news: Johnson to announce timetable for lifting England restrictions; France to reopen outdoor bars
- Meghan: Covid has wiped out 'generation of economic gain' for women
- ‘Dracula’s castle’ offers tourists Covid shots
- NSW health minister condemns media for naming Sydney ‘barbecue man’ at centre of Covid outbreak
- ‘We thank your government for our full pockets’ – Calais smugglers speak
- David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’
- ‘The next decade will be all about heat’: can Athens head off climate crisis?
- ‘We had a therapist on set’ – William Jackson Harper on The Underground Railroad
- Trump’s grip over Republicans hardens as party cleaves to election ‘big lie’
- Police commissioner candidate withdraws over drink-driving conviction
- Welcome to Semuliki: on the trail of the ADF’s Islamist militants | photo essay
- New Zealand stabbing: four injured in attack at Dunedin supermarket
- Australia politics live: federal court rejects bid to overturn India travel ban; Jack de Belin rape trial jury fails to reach verdict on most charges
- At least 1m people facing starvation as Madagascar’s drought worsens
- Afghan families bury schoolgirls killed in Kabul blasts – video
- Footage shows debris from China’s largest rocket falling to Earth – video
| Israeli police storm al-Aqsa mosque ahead of Jerusalem Day march Posted: 10 May 2021 01:07 AM PDT About 180 people reported injured overnight as hardline Israelis prepare for parade through Old City Israeli police have stormed a sacred Jerusalem site that holds the Dome of the Rock after all-night clashes with Palestinian protesters, before a planned parade by hardline Israeli nationalists through the Old City in a provocative annual flag-waving march. The Palestine Red Crescent reported 180 people injured overnight, with 50 admitted to hospital, after officers in riot gear clashed with Palestinian demonstrators in East Jerusalem, extending Jerusalem's worst unrest in years. Continue reading... |
| Taliban declares three-day Eid ceasefire as 11 killed in new bombing Posted: 09 May 2021 10:06 PM PDT Bus attack comes after jihadist group denies atrocity at secondary school that killed at least 50 people At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in the bombing of a bus in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province. The blast took place late on Sunday night, said Zabul's provincial governor's spokesman Gul Islam Sial, adding that 25 people were injured including women and children who were in critical condition. Continue reading... |
| Body of arrested Myanmar poet Khet Thi returned to family with organs missing Posted: 09 May 2021 07:18 PM PDT Wife says Khet Thi, whose poetry inspired resistance to junta, died after being taken for interrogation on Saturday Myanmar poet Khet Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, has died in detention and his body was returned with the organs removed, his family said. A spokesperson for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death of Khet Thi, who had penned the line "They shoot in the head, but they don't know the revolution is in the heart." His Facebook page said he was 45. Continue reading... |
| Starmer’s reshuffle bid to demote Rayner described as ‘despicable act of cowardice’ – politics live Posted: 10 May 2021 02:25 AM PDT Latest updates: Kim Johnson, the MP for Liverpool Riverside, says she was 'very disappointed with how Starmer had treated deputy leader
One of the winners in the shadow cabinet reshuffle was Shabana Mahmood, who has been appointed Labour's national campaign co-ordinator. She has been giving interviews this morning and she told BBC Breakfast that the party needed to "learn the lessons we need to learn from the places where we have suffered defeat to earn the trust of voters again". She said that was "the only show in town and that is the thing that the whole of our movement has to be focused on". On the Today programme earlier Diane Abbott, the former shadow home secretary, said Sir Keir Starmer should stick to the policies he set out in his 10 pledges during the leadership campaign. One of them, on migrants' rights, said Starmer would "defend free movement as we leave the EU". When Mahmood was interviewed on Today, she was asked if Labour was still committed to "free movement" and she sidestepped the question, saying there would be a policy review underway. This is from the Evening Standard's Joe Murphy. Labour looks to be in the process of wriggling out of @Keir_Starmer's unwise pledge to restore free movemement.@ShabanaMahmood being pinned on @BBCr4today by @bbcnickrobinson and she's very plainly not reaffirming it
Andy Burnham, who was re-elected as the Labour mayor for Greater Manchester last week, has also criticised the way the shadow cabinet reshuffle was held. He said: I didn't like the way that was handled, I'll be honest, and I didn't see why we were getting a negative story on Saturday night when myself and Steve Rotheram and other people around the country had good victories to celebrate, so that wasn't right, but I don't think the way Angela was treated was right. But it's been resolved and we move on from this morning. There's a shadow cabinet in place now. I can't support this.https://t.co/mbmGHaROdL Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Olympics: poll shows 60% of Japanese people want Games cancelled Posted: 09 May 2021 09:13 PM PDT
Preparations for the Tokyo Olympics have suffered another setback after a poll found that nearly 60% of people in Japan want them to be cancelled, less than three months before the Games are due to open. Japan has extended a state of emergency in Tokyo and several other regions until the end of May as it struggles to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by new, more contagious variants, with medical staff warning that health services in some areas are on the verge of collapse. Continue reading... |
| Anger as Chinese safari park kept leopard breakout from the public for nearly a week Posted: 09 May 2021 09:54 PM PDT Three leopards from Hangzhou Safari Park were spotted by villagers on 1 May, but the park only reported the missing leopards on Saturday A search for the last of three leopards that escaped from a safari park in eastern China was ongoing, authorities said Monday, as the park came under fire for concealing the breakout for nearly a week. The three leopards from the Hangzhou Safari Park were spotted by villagers as early as 1 May, according to the state-owned Global Times newspaper. However, the safari park only reported the missing leopards and alerted the public on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Colorado shooting: seven dead after man opens fire at birthday party Posted: 09 May 2021 05:18 PM PDT Shooting happened just after midnight Sunday in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police say A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, killing six adults before killing himself, police said on Sunday. The shooting happened just after midnight in a mobile home park on the east side of Colorado Springs, police said. Continue reading... |
| US invokes emergency powers after cyberattack shuts crucial fuel pipeline Posted: 09 May 2021 09:44 PM PDT Biden administration scrambles to avoid shortages after Colonial Pipeline targeted in worst-ever attack on US infrastructure The Biden administration has invoked emergency powers as part of an "all-hands-on-deck" effort to avoid fuel shortages after the worst-ever cyber-attack on US infrastructure shut down a crucial pipeline supplying the east coast. The federal transport department issued an emergency declaration on Sunday to relax regulations for drivers carrying gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined petroleum products in 17 states and the District of Columbia. It lets them work extra or more flexible hours to make up for any fuel shortage related to the pipeline outage. Continue reading... |
| Smartphone is now ‘the place where we live’, anthropologists say Posted: 09 May 2021 11:01 PM PDT A UCL study has found people around the world feel the same about their devices as they do about their homes Smartphone users have become "human snails carrying our homes in our pockets", with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to a landmark study. A team of anthropologists from UCL spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in nine countries around the world, from Ireland to Cameroon, and found that far from being trivial toys, people felt the same way about their devices as they did about their homes. Continue reading... |
| Not cricket? Scientists suggest bamboo bats are a match for willow Posted: 09 May 2021 04:01 PM PDT Researchers create bat with similar performance from what they say is cheap and sustainable material Cricket has been bowled a googly by scientists who have suggested the traditional willow used to make bats could be replaced by bamboo to increase their sustainability and boost the sport's reach. "Willow has been the principal material for cricket bats for centuries," said Dr Darshil Shah at the University of Cambridge, who co-authored the study. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT People to mix indoors in England from next week; France to also reopen outdoor dining on 19 May
It's a slightly different vaccine decision in Norway, where a government-appointed commission said the country should exclude the Covid-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson in its inoculation programme due to a risk of rare but harmful side-effects, Those who would volunteer to take either of the two vaccines should however be allowed to do so, the commission added.
Germany has opened access to Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccines to all adults, lifting a priority system determining who gets the jabs first. With the majority of people over 60 expected to be already vaccinated by June, health minister Jens Spahn said authorities decided not to restrict the jabs to older people over very rare thrombosis risks. Continue reading... |
| Meghan: Covid has wiped out 'generation of economic gain' for women Posted: 10 May 2021 01:50 AM PDT The Duchess of Sussex has made her first television appearance since her and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan warned women had been 'disproportionately affected' by the pandemic in a pre-recorded message for Global Citizen's Vax Live charity concert. The Duchess of Sussex said 47 million more women around the world were expected to slip into extreme poverty and called for equitable distribution of Covid vaccines. President Joe Biden, Harry and Jennifer Lopez were among the big names who took part in the event Continue reading... |
| ‘Dracula’s castle’ offers tourists Covid shots Posted: 10 May 2021 02:18 AM PDT Visitors to Bran Castle in Romania offered vaccines – with a free trip to the 'torture chamber' thrown in Visitors to Romania's forbidding Bran Castle, which styles itself as the inspiration for Dracula's lair, are being jabbed with needles rather than vampire fangs in a coronavirus vaccination drive. "I came to visit the castle with my family and when I saw the poster I gathered up my courage and agreed to get the injection," said Liviu Necula, a 39-year-old engineer. Continue reading... |
| NSW health minister condemns media for naming Sydney ‘barbecue man’ at centre of Covid outbreak Posted: 09 May 2021 08:16 PM PDT Brad Hazzard says AFR story that identified man was 'appalling', and warned it would undermine public health • NSW restrictions: what you can and can't do under new coronavirus rules The New South Wales health minister has said a newspaper's decision to name the man who visited numerous barbecue shops in Sydney while infected with Covid-19 was "appalling" and would undermine public health. Brad Hazzard said the Australian Financial Review's story identifying a patient "stinks" because it may discourage the public from cooperating fully with the contact tracers in the future and the man had not consented to have his identity revealed. Continue reading... |
| ‘We thank your government for our full pockets’ – Calais smugglers speak Posted: 09 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT As the UK pours millions into security measures, migrants say the gangs who control the Channel just get more powerful "Sorry, my battery's low because I drained it watching YouTube tutorials on how to assemble dinghies," Abuzar says. He is speaking on a video call from the abandoned shed in Calais he calls home. "I want to join my brother for asylum in the UK, but I have to work for smugglers because I don't have enough money to pay for the crossing. "They hide boat parts on the beaches for me to assemble at night, but I'm so scared– – if I mess it up, children could drown on the boat." Continue reading... |
| David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’ Posted: 09 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever – offering hope to an injured world 'I think it looks terrific," says David Hockney. "It's all on one theme, isn't it? And there's not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring." The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with it – and rightly so, for it is hypnotic and ravishing. But while I am getting a sneak preview in person, Hockney is here only virtually, his face appearing on two screens, one a giant TV, the other a small laptop. He is at home, at what he calls his "seven dwarves house" in Normandy, wearing a red, black and white check jacket, a checkerboard tie, a blue-green pullover and round, gold-framed glasses. His kaleidoscopic choice of clothing, challenging the very limits of the video call's bandwidth, is as vibrant and beguiling as the canvases hanging around us. Hockney has not just painted spring; he has come dressed as it. Continue reading... |
| ‘The next decade will be all about heat’: can Athens head off climate crisis? Posted: 09 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Mayor overseeing a green regeneration in city where temperatures can already surpass 40C Like every Athens mayor, Kostas Bakoyannis is acutely aware of the illustrious heritage of one of the world's oldest cities. After all, he says, it is busts of Pericles and his mistress Aspasia that adorn the entrance of the neoclassical town hall. From the windows of his cavernous office, he can glimpse the Parthenon through the jumble of concrete buildings and antennas. But Bakoyannis prefers to talk about the present, not least his plans for fountains, parks and trees – antidotes to the afflictions of more modern times. Continue reading... |
| ‘We had a therapist on set’ – William Jackson Harper on The Underground Railroad Posted: 10 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The Good Place star plays a free man helping slaves to escape in Barry Jenkins' epic series. The actor talks about the trauma of re-enacting such violent times – and the need to face up to history When he was a child growing up in Texas in the 1980s, William Jackson Harper went to a show at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas. "There was some part of the programme where some guy, somewhere in the stands, screams out, 'The south will rise again!' Things like that just came up that I didn't clock as major moments. But as I got older I was like, 'Oh, that was messed up.'" He continues: "There's a point in a lot of black people's lives where, especially if you're around a lot of white people, all of a sudden your race becomes a thing. For me, it was middle school. It makes everything that's happening now seem like, 'Oh well, nothing ever really changed. It just went underground and now it's back on the surface.'" Continue reading... |
| Trump’s grip over Republicans hardens as party cleaves to election ‘big lie’ Posted: 09 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Far from losing influence over the party, critics say, Trump has in fact burrowed far into its DNA so that the two are now all but inseparable Ron DeSantis was exultant. "The way Florida did it I think inspires confidence; I think that's how elections should be run," the state governor told reporters last November. "Rather than us be at the centre of a Bush v Gore in 2020, we're now being looked at as the state that did it right." This boast of a smoothly run election just six months ago makes DeSantis's actions this week all the more curious. The governor suddenly found it necessary to impose sweeping reforms that limit mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes – and signed the new law live on the Fox News network on Thursday with no other media allowed. Continue reading... |
| Police commissioner candidate withdraws over drink-driving conviction Posted: 09 May 2021 11:09 AM PDT Tory Jonathon Seed, who was running in Wiltshire, was told 30-year-old offence debarred him, contradicting earlier assurances A Tory candidate to be a police and crime commissioner (PCC) has withdrawn on the eve of counting after it emerged he had a 30-year-old conviction for drink-driving. Jonathon Seed has been debarred from becoming a PCC due to a historical driving offence that had come to light, the Conservative party said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Welcome to Semuliki: on the trail of the ADF’s Islamist militants | photo essay Posted: 09 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has been embedded with Congolese soldiers in the DRC's 'triangle of death'. The elusive insurgents they are hunting have pledged allegiance to Islamic State At the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, in a vast territory that ranges from the lofty Rwenzori mountains to the lush rainforest of the Semliki valley, one of the world's most active militant groups is responsible for the massacre of hundreds of civilians. The ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) was originally an opposition rebel group from Uganda rooted in a radical agenda of religious militancy. Taking advantage of the regional power vacuum, the group fled to Beni territory in neighbouring DRC to find shelter from the Ugandan army. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand stabbing: four injured in attack at Dunedin supermarket Posted: 09 May 2021 10:59 PM PDT Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said there was no evidence the attack at a Countdown store was an incident of domestic terrorism Four people have been injured, three critically, after a stabbing attack at a supermarket in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Police said a suspect had been arrested and taken into custody after the incident at a Countdown supermarket on Monday afternoon. Two supermarket staff members were among those injured. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 May 2021 02:19 AM PDT Judge declines to overturn flight ban after hearing first half of legal challenge; Morrison government promises $4bn in infrastructure spending in budget; NSW Covid 'missing link' eludes authorities. Follow the latest updates
We'll leave our live coverage here for today. This is how things stand:
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has not ruled out supporting more independent candidates in future election contests, as he has in the Upper Hunter byelection. He told political editor Katharine Murphy: As I said in my book, I resigned as prime minister, but I have not resigned as an Australian citizen. I wouldn't rule anything in or out, and I wouldn't expect anyone else to be ruling things in or out at this point. It will depend on the issues and how parties and candidates deal with them at the time. Related: Malcolm Turnbull reserves right to back more independent candidates in elections Continue reading... |
| At least 1m people facing starvation as Madagascar’s drought worsens Posted: 09 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT People eating termites and clay as UN says acute malnutrition has almost doubled this year in south Madagascar's worst drought in 40 years has left more than a million people facing a year of desperate food shortages. The south of the island will produce less than half its usual harvest in the coming months because of low rains, prolonging a hunger crisis already affecting half the Grand Sud area's population, the UN estimates. Continue reading... |
| Afghan families bury schoolgirls killed in Kabul blasts – video Posted: 09 May 2021 07:23 AM PDT Grieving families gathered on Sunday after an attack on a girls' school in the Afghan capital of Kabul in which about 50 people were killed and at least twice as many injured, mainly female pupils aged between 11 and 15. The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, blamed the Taliban, saying the group was 'escalating its illegitimate war and violence'. The Taliban denied responsibility and blamed Islamic State Continue reading... |
| Footage shows debris from China’s largest rocket falling to Earth – video Posted: 09 May 2021 04:14 AM PDT The remnants of China's largest rocket plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media and people in Oman and Jordan who captured footage of its light in the sky. Most of the rocket debris burned up in the atmosphere, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office Continue reading... |
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