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- Israel-Gaza violence: death toll rises as UN envoy warns over escalation
- British troops were twice as likely to be killed in Afghanistan as US forces
- ‘We must speak the truth’: Liz Cheney defiant in speech ahead of ouster from top Republican job
- Women dominate 2021 Brit awards as Dua Lipa tops winners
- Fangs and tentacles: rarely seen deep sea fish washes up on California beach
- One in four cities cannot afford climate crisis protection measures – study
- Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
- Budget immigration costs: Australia will spend almost $3.4m for each person in offshore detention
- Judge dismisses NRA bankruptcy case in blow for US gun lobby
- Māori party co-leader ejected from parliament after performing haka in racism row
- Doctors in London report fivefold increase in children swallowing magnets
- Coronavirus live news: India variant found in 44 countries – WHO; Taiwan faces new outbreak
- Unicef calls on UK to give 20% of vaccines to other countries
- McDonald’s and Uber to help encourage vaccine-hesitant Americans
- ‘We won’t be bouncing back’ – the unsettling truth about the big reopening
- Anthony Brown: the man who resisted deportation – then fought tirelessly for Windrush survivors
- Trading up: one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house
- Price of gold: DRC’s rich soil bears few riches for its miners – photo essay
- It’s oh so quiet: silent whale watching on Iceland’s first electric boat tour
- Toast haste! 20 chefs on the best hot sandwiches to make in a hurry
- This man made opera history. Why did I not know him?
- Pressure grows on UK to apologise over 1971 Belfast killings
- Outrage as male voice actor dubs Laverne Cox in Italian-language Promising Young Woman
- UK urged to repatriate family with Covid from camp on Syria-Iraq border
- Liz Cheney castigates Republican colleagues for backing Trump – video
- Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand’s Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week
- Budget 2021 reaction: Labor challenges Coalition on Covid vaccine rollout and wages growth – Australia politics live updates
- Israel-Palestine flare-up has caught Biden administration unprepared
- Why China and east Asia’s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery
- Why Yemen's civil war is about to get worse – video explainer
- Istanbul Photo Awards 2021: winners announced - in pictures
- Israeli airstrikes demolish tower block and Hamas rocket hits bus as violence escalates – video
- Kazan school shooting: students evacuated through windows – video
| Israel-Gaza violence: death toll rises as UN envoy warns over escalation Posted: 11 May 2021 11:33 PM PDT Further airstrikes and rocket fire reported in worst violence since 2014 war between Israel and Hamas Israeli jets and Palestinian militants traded fresh airstrikes and rocket fire early on Wednesday as the UN's Middle East envoy warned: "We're escalating towards a full-scale war." The death toll since bombardments broke out on Monday night rose to 40 – 35 in Gaza and five in Israel – as Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza and Palestinian militant groups fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv, Beersheba, and other central Israeli cities. Continue reading... |
| British troops were twice as likely to be killed in Afghanistan as US forces Posted: 11 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that looks at the scale of the sacrifice made by Nato allies over the course of the 20-year war. The UK also gave more to Afghanistan than the US in the form of economic and humanitarian assistance as a percentage of GDP, the study published on Wednesday by the Costs of War project at Brown University found. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘We must speak the truth’: Liz Cheney defiant in speech ahead of ouster from top Republican job Posted: 11 May 2021 11:09 PM PDT The Wyoming representative stands by her opposition to Trump's election lies as she prepares to be removed from No 3 House role On the eve of a vote almost certain to remove her from a leadership role in the Republican party, a defiant Liz Cheney embraced her fall from party grace and offered a final appeal to her colleagues: "We must speak the truth." Republicans are poised to remove Cheney from her House leadership position over her refusal to support Donald Trump's "big lie" that last year's election was stolen from him. Cheney, a Wyoming representative who hails from a Republican political dynasty, was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection" following the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol. Continue reading... |
| Women dominate 2021 Brit awards as Dua Lipa tops winners Posted: 11 May 2021 02:31 PM PDT 2020's heavily male ceremony reversed with wins for Arlo Parks, Haim and Billie Eilish, as Little Mix become first all-woman winner of British group Dua Lipa has topped the winners at the 2021 Brit awards, calling for Boris Johnson to approve "a fair pay rise" for frontline NHS staff as she picked up gongs including the top prize of British album for her chart-dominating disco spectacular Future Nostalgia. She also won female solo artist, bringing her total Brit award tally to five and cementing her position as one of the UK's most successful and critically acclaimed pop stars. Continue reading... |
| Fangs and tentacles: rarely seen deep sea fish washes up on California beach Posted: 11 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Pacific footballfish, which was featured in Pixar's Finding Nemo, was found in perfectly preserved condition With its mouth agape – revealing a set of pointy black teeth – and a large protruding appendage surrounded by a series of tentacles, the sea creature resembled something out of a horror film. But, the 18in-wide fish, which somehow found its way from the depths of the Pacific to the shores of Newport Beach last Friday, is very real. It's just a rare find. One of the roughly 300 species of anglerfish found around the world (perhaps best known as the one with fangs and the lightbulb-like antennae dangling from its head that appeared in Pixar's Finding Nemo) the Pacific footballfish was spotted at Crystal Cove state park by a beachgoer, Ben Estes. The specimen was all the more surprising because of its perfectly preserved condition. Continue reading... |
| One in four cities cannot afford climate crisis protection measures – study Posted: 11 May 2021 09:01 PM PDT Survey of 800 cities around world finds almost 43% do not even have plan to adapt to impacts of global heating One in four cities around the world lack the money to protect themselves against the ravages of climate breakdown, even though more than 90% are facing serious risks, according to research. Cities are facing problems with flooding, overheating, water shortages, and damage to their infrastructure from extreme weather, which is growing more frequent as the climate changes. A survey of 800 cities, carried out by the Carbon Disclosure Project, found that last year about 43% of them, representing a combined population of 400 million people, did not have a plan to adapt to the climate crisis. Continue reading... |
| Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin Posted: 11 May 2021 10:14 AM PDT The crypto asset is down more than 30% this week but is still up by more than 1,000% from the start of 2021 A senior manager at Goldman Sachs in London has quit the US investment bank after making millions from investing in Dogecoin, the joke crypto asset which has risen by more than 1,000% in value this year. City sources said Aziz McMahon, a managing director and head of emerging market sales, had resigned from the bank after making money from investing in the digital currency based on the Doge internet meme. Continue reading... |
| Budget immigration costs: Australia will spend almost $3.4m for each person in offshore detention Posted: 11 May 2021 08:55 PM PDT Daily cost to taxpayers is $9,305 for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea
Australia will spend nearly $812m on its offshore immigration processing system next year – just under $3.4m for each of the 239 people now held on Nauru or in Papua New Guinea. On the figures presented in Tuesday's budget, it costs Australian taxpayers $9,305 every day for each person held offshore. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Judge dismisses NRA bankruptcy case in blow for US gun lobby Posted: 11 May 2021 05:29 PM PDT Federal court says claim was not filed in good faith, paving the way for legal bid by New York state to close the group down A federal judge has dismissed the National Rifle Association's bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a lawsuit from New York state that accuses it of financial abuses. The judge sitting in Dallas was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state. Continue reading... |
| Māori party co-leader ejected from parliament after performing haka in racism row Posted: 11 May 2021 10:07 PM PDT Rawiri Waititi had accused the opposition of racism and was asked to sit down by the speaker, but instead performed the ceremonial dance Māori party co-leader Rawiri Waititi has been thrown out of New Zealand's parliament after denouncing rhetoric from the opposition as racist and performing a haka. Waititi said the opposition was inciting racism across New Zealand through its stance on Māori healthcare. The haka is a ceremonial dance for Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand – it can represent a challenge, and is sometimes performed in moments of conflict. Continue reading... |
| Doctors in London report fivefold increase in children swallowing magnets Posted: 11 May 2021 03:30 PM PDT Button batteries and magnets found in certain types of children's toys associated with complications There has been a fivefold increase in magnet ingestion over the past five years in young children amid a steady rise in hospital admissions in London caused by the swallowing of foreign objects, doctors have said. While most of the time objects pass out of the body naturally without incident, button batteries and small permanent magnets found in cordless tools, hard disk drives, magnetic fasteners and certain types of children's toys have been associated with complications. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: India variant found in 44 countries – WHO; Taiwan faces new outbreak Posted: 12 May 2021 02:14 AM PDT Another record rise in India deaths; samples show UK is most affected by B.1.617 strain outside India; Taiwan outbreak 'could lead to tighter curbs'
Pope Francis expressed his pleasure today at being once again among his flock as he delivered his weekly general audience in public for the first time in six months, report Agence France-Presse.
French health minister Olivier Véran has warned his compatriots that they will have to adapt their summer holidays to fit around when they need their second vaccine. The long summer break is sacrosanct in France. Schools close for eight weeks and every year - even before lockdowns - main homes are locked up, many pets are dumped by the roadside, and everyone goes away either for July (les juillards) or for August (les aoûtards), and some for both. |
| Unicef calls on UK to give 20% of vaccines to other countries Posted: 11 May 2021 10:01 PM PDT Children's charity urges UK to set example and start sharing jabs with lower-income countries from June The UK should commit to giving 20% of its vaccines to other countries that are in urgent need of them as early as June, according to Unicef, which says the UK will still have enough to vaccinate every adult by the end of July. The children's charity estimates the UK will have enough spare doses this year to fully vaccinate a further 50 million people around the world, and urges the government to set an example to the G7 by starting to share them next month. Vaccinating the populations of other countries is the only way to ensure new coronavirus variants do not spread, it says. Continue reading... |
| McDonald’s and Uber to help encourage vaccine-hesitant Americans Posted: 11 May 2021 08:54 AM PDT McDonald's to promote vaccine information on coffee cups while Uber and Lyft to give free rides to vaccine sites Incentivising the vaccine-hesitant in America has reached the fast food and ride-share industries. Burger chain McDonald's has announced it is partnering with the White House to promote vaccination information on its coffee cups. Continue reading... |
| ‘We won’t be bouncing back’ – the unsettling truth about the big reopening Posted: 11 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Next week, after 14 months of closure and despair, the arts are reawakening. But the damage caused by Covid runs deep – and recovery is by no means assured "If we had to close down again," says Andrew Lloyd Webber, "we couldn't survive." Webber is staging his new musical Cinderella, with book by Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell, in a full-capacity theatre in July, having already delayed its premiere twice. He has mortgaged his house in London and will be selling one of his seven theatres. "It cost £1m a month to keep them dark," he says. "You can't just lock them up and throw away the key. I don't run the theatres for profit and there wasn't a reserve." Across the UK, the arts are reawakening after over 14 months of unprecedented disruption. As venues reopen – dates differ across the nations, though 17 May is a key date in Scotland and England – there will be much to celebrate, and many delights in store for audiences. But the pandemic hit culture and entertainment more severely than any other part of the economy, including hospitality, throwing fresh light on already deep inequalities. Continue reading... |
| Anthony Brown: the man who resisted deportation – then fought tirelessly for Windrush survivors Posted: 11 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT When he applied to university in the 80s, Brown was told to leave the UK. Decades later, finally awarded a law degree, he set about helping people who had been targeted by the Home Office In the summer of 1982, Anthony Brown, then 21, was hoping for an acceptance letter for a place to study law in London. He had worked hard for his A-levels in computing, maths and physics at North Trafford College in Manchester and was full of energy and idealism. After his degree, he planned to join the police, to help counter the violent style of policing he had seen in television coverage of the recent Brixton riots. Instead, he received a letter from the Home Office telling him he was in the UK illegally and needed to report to Manchester airport for deportation. Brown, who was born in Jamaica but moved to England as a six-year-old in 1967, had been classified as an immigration offender. It was immediately clear that he was not going to be able to start a law degree. Continue reading... |
| Trading up: one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house Posted: 12 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Demi Skipper would like a new house, but she's not buying one. Instead she's planning a daring strategy of trades – and millions are following her journey While many of us were still finding novelty in group Zoom calls last May, Demi Skipper decided she was going to get a house. But not using money. Instead, she was going to trade items. Now the owner of one of only a few Chipotle celebrity cards in the world, and hoping to reach a house by the end of summer, the 29-year-old's journey started where many voyages do: in a YouTube hole. Continue reading... |
| Price of gold: DRC’s rich soil bears few riches for its miners – photo essay Posted: 11 May 2021 11:05 PM PDT As the value of gold reached new heights last year, those mining it continued to face crippling deprivation and dangerous conditions
The muddy slopes surrounding the eastern Congolese gold-mining town of Kamituga hold vast wealth and crippling deprivation. In South Kivu province near the borders of Rwanda and Burundi, Kamituga has mineral resources estimated to be worth $24tn (£17tn) in untapped deposits. Yet the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest levels of GDP per capita in the world and people work in dangerous conditions with little hope of scratching out anything more than a meagre existence from tough and dangerous work. Continue reading... |
| It’s oh so quiet: silent whale watching on Iceland’s first electric boat tour Posted: 11 May 2021 10:30 PM PDT A carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík, in north Iceland, makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures 'Look! Look! Over there …" The boat listed dramatically as 50 passengers raced to its starboard side. Seconds earlier someone had spied the distinct blow – a spray of airborne water – that signalled a whale was about to emerge. A silence fell over the crowd as we waited, patiently. Continue reading... |
| Toast haste! 20 chefs on the best hot sandwiches to make in a hurry Posted: 12 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Languishing in a lunch rut? Extremely bored of omelettes? Here are some super-fast, super-tasty alternatives – from crab crumpets to a roast pepper delight There's a good chance that you're still working from home. And, if that's the case, there's a good chance that you've run out of new lunches. Making cheese on toast for yourself might have seemed exotic and new last March, but now you're sick of the stuff. And omelettes. And you would rather die than ever see another Super Noodle. But all is not lost. With a little extra care and attention, a hot sandwich can become all the comfort food you need. But what to make? Here are 20 top chefs with their favourites. Continue reading... |
| This man made opera history. Why did I not know him? Posted: 12 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Peter Brathwaite knew Bobby (Don't Worry Be Happy) McFerrin but not his father Robert, the first Black man to sing at the Met. He celebrates a trailblazer and an inspiration Here's a little song I wrote Everyone knows Bobby McFerrin's 1988 earwormy hit and its gloriously silly video. I remember dancing round the living room with my sisters singing along full pelt, each of us taking turns to try our hands at imitating the vocal percussion. More recently, a friend put it on one evening. I took that as an invitation to sing and dance, but really she just wanted to test my trivia. Did I know that Bobby McFerrin's dad was an opera singer? No. Did I know Bobby's dad – born 100 years ago – was a baritone, like me? No. Did I know that Bobby's dad was the first Black man to sing at America's flagship opera company – the Metropolitan Opera? I had no idea. Continue reading... |
| Pressure grows on UK to apologise over 1971 Belfast killings Posted: 12 May 2021 02:19 AM PDT Government urged to 'step up and apologise' after coroner rules troops were responsible for nine of deaths Calls are growing for the UK government to issue an apology to the families of 10 civilians killed in west Belfast in 1971. Fresh inquests into the deaths involving the army concluded that the victims were "entirely innocent" and soldiers were responsible for nine of the fatal shootings. Continue reading... |
| Outrage as male voice actor dubs Laverne Cox in Italian-language Promising Young Woman Posted: 12 May 2021 02:09 AM PDT Cox's character in the revenge thriller given deep voice of Roberto Pedicini, sparking backlash over European dubbing of trans actors The Italian-language version of Emerald Fennell's revenge thriller Promising Young Woman has come under fire for giving trans actor Laverne Cox a male voice. Scheduled to hit theatres across the country on 13 May, the release has been pushed back after a clip of Una Donna Promettente was posted by Universal Pictures Italy on 6 May. In the since-restricted video, Cox's character, Gail, talks to protagonist Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, in a distinctively masculine tone. The Orange Is the New Black star was given the deep tones of voice actor Roberto Pedicini. Italian viewers couldn't believe their ears, immediately taking to social media to voice their outrage. "I think this dubbing choice was a straight-up act of violence," Italian trans actor and voice actor Vittoria Schisano tells the Guardian. "It's insulting. I'd feel bullied if I were [Cox]," she added. Schisano dubbed Cox on Netflix documentary Amend: The Fight for America, and was the Italian voice behind trans character Natalie on the latest season of Big Mouth. Her most recent project is Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, where she voices General Atitaya. Schisano says she doesn't know any other trans voice actors in Italy and wasn't even asked to read for Cox's role in Promising Young Woman. Continue reading... |
| UK urged to repatriate family with Covid from camp on Syria-Iraq border Posted: 12 May 2021 01:49 AM PDT Charity says family likely to include victims of trafficking and they are unable to access adequate care Pleas are being made for the repatriation of a British family who have contracted Covid-19 in a detention camp on the Syria-Iraq border. They include a toddler with respiratory problems and an adult with asthma, according to campaigners, who say members of the family were trafficked into Isis-held territory. Continue reading... |
| Liz Cheney castigates Republican colleagues for backing Trump – video Posted: 11 May 2021 11:18 PM PDT The US representative Liz Cheney, speaking in the House a day before her expected ouster from a Republican leadership post, chastised her party colleagues for not standing up to the former president Donald Trump and his false claim that the November election was stolen. 'Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that,' she said. Cheney, the No 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump in January after he delivered a fiery 6 January speech to supporters, many of whom then stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to block certification of his election loss to Joe Biden
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| Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand’s Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week Posted: 12 May 2021 01:45 AM PDT Author, who usually writes poetry, beat two previous winners to the prestigious NZ$57,000 book award A collection of short stories has won the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand book awards – only the second time a collection has won the fiction prize in the awards' history, and the first time in over a decade. Airini Beautrais won the NZ$57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction for her collection, Bug Week & Other Stories. Beautrais has published several books of poetry, but Bug Week is her first work of fiction. She was nominated alongside two previous winners of the award – Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam – as well as a past nominee, Brannavan Gnanalingam. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 12 May 2021 01:59 AM PDT Coalition budget delivers $30bn in tax breaks and money for fossil fuel projects but no measures to help struggling universities or clean energy projects. Follow all the latest news and reaction to the 2021 federal budget as it happens
Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Christian Porter of sexual assault in 1988 (which he denies), has brought an urgent federal court application seeking to force one of Porter's barristers off the ABC defamation case. Porter is represented by Sue Chrysanthou SC in the defamation case he launched against the public broadcaster. Dyer's application argues Chrysanthou should be removed from the case because she advised her on a separate but related matter. Yesterday proceedings were commenced against Sue Chrysanthou SC in the Federal Court. Sue is briefed on my behalf in my case against the ABC and Louise Milligan. These proceedings seek an order that she be restrained by the court from appearing as my barrister in my defamation proceedings. It has been widely known for two months that Sue has been acting as my Counsel in this well publicised matter – yet the action has come shortly before court appearances on significant issues in the proceedings and over eight weeks after they were commenced.
The ABC's election analyst Antony Green has called the remaining seat from the 1 May election for the Liberal party – which means premier Peter Gutwein will be returned with a Liberal majority government. He said there were not enough votes left to count in the Clark electorate to elect independent Sue Hickey to the fifth spot. Hickey's defection/sacking from the Liberal party in March was named by Gutwein as the trigger for holding a state election a year early. Gutwein government returned in majority. There are not enough votes left in the count to elect Sue Hickey in Clark. The last seats will be Liberal Madeleine Ogilvie and Independent Kristie Johnston Continue reading... |
| Israel-Palestine flare-up has caught Biden administration unprepared Posted: 11 May 2021 09:45 PM PDT Analysis: The White House is playing for time and needs to decide quickly how to deal with Trump's legacy of unwavering support for Netanyahu Joe Biden came into office thinking he could put the Israel-Palestine issue on the back burner to focus on other, bigger, issues. That is not working out well. The upsurge in violence has caught the new administration on the back foot, under-staffed and without a clearly defined approach. Continue reading... |
| Why China and east Asia’s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery Posted: 10 May 2021 10:53 PM PDT Analysis: Beijing's census data confirms trend reflected across a region that is looked to as engine of post-pandemic growth For many years China watchers have been concerned that its ageing population will slow economic growth, causing social as well as political problems. So today's census data may be an alarm bell for leaders in Beijing. But it is not just China that is witnessing this trajectory. Most countries in east Asia, even without fertility control policies such as China's one-child or two-child policies, share the same predicament: how to continue economic growth while encouraging people to have more children? Continue reading... |
| Why Yemen's civil war is about to get worse – video explainer Posted: 12 May 2021 12:05 AM PDT More than six years after Houthi rebels seized Yemen's capital and forced its government into exile, a bloody civil war still rages across the country. Despite a Saudi-led bombing campaign that has destroyed Yemeni infrastructure and crippled its economy, the Houthis remain in control of most of the country's population centres. The Guardian's Middle East correspondent, Bethan McKernan, explains why a new Houthi offensive could heap more misery on the millions of civilians caught in the crossfire
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| Istanbul Photo Awards 2021: winners announced - in pictures Posted: 11 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The winners of this year's Istanbul Photo Awards, organised by Anadolu Agency, have been announced. Continue reading... |
| Israeli airstrikes demolish tower block and Hamas rocket hits bus as violence escalates – video Posted: 11 May 2021 04:43 PM PDT Israel has vowed to further intensify its attacks on Gaza, after a day of ferocious confrontations that left more than 30 people dead. On Tuesday evening, a 13-storey tower collapsed after being hit by an Israeli airstrike. In response, Hamas's military wing said it had fired 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv.
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| Kazan school shooting: students evacuated through windows – video Posted: 11 May 2021 05:31 AM PDT
Footage from the scene showed emergency services assisting students out of the building's upper floors. Continue reading... |
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