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- World expert in scientific misconduct faces legal action for challenging integrity of hydroxychloroquine study
- New ID law aims to help reduce ‘digital shyness’ in Germany
- Palestinians return to devastated homes as UN calls for Gaza dialogue
- Nepal calls new elections amid worsening Covid outbreak
- Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show
- US journalist Barrett Brown arrested in the UK on incitement offences
- Animal rights protesters blockade four McDonald’s distribution centres in UK
- Plan International accused of abandoning children in Sri Lanka exit
- Daniel Morgan’s son says Priti Patel has added to family’s agony
- Taiwan accuses China of spreading fake news about Covid outbreak
- China’s Mars rover drives across planet a week after landing
- Coronavirus live news: Covid jabs opened up to people aged 32 and 33 in England; Taiwan reports 321 new cases
- Spain to drop Covid restrictions on British visitors from 24 May
- ‘Black fungus’ disease linked to Covid spreads across India
- Sewage samples being tested across England to monitor Covid variants
- Marcus Rashford: ‘Whenever I hear “no”, I ask myself: why not?’
- Sing about war and cluck like a chicken: tips from the pros on how to win Eurovision
- Paris Lees: ‘It drives me crazy when people introduce me as a trans activist’
- ‘I wasn’t bold enough’: Ed Miliband on losing, leading and the future of Labour
- Dippers, curry and coffee caramel: Yotam Ottolenghi’s tofu recipes
- kd lang: ‘Every other day, I dislike my hair. It’s a love-hate relationship’
- Gaza damage and Glasgow raids: human rights this fortnight in pictures
- ‘People feel safer’: some Americans still masking up despite CDC guidance
- Townsville woman dies after being stabbed in neck with hunting knife
- ‘Parents risk children’s lives – the alternative is worse’: on board a migrant rescue ship
- New Zealand’s budget made progress on poverty, but it’s not mission accomplished yet | Max Rashbrooke
- Bytedance boss exits at time of uncertainty for Chinese tech firms
- Palestinians and Israeli police clash at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque hours after Gaza truce – video
| Posted: 21 May 2021 10:01 PM PDT Australian and international scientists publish open letter defending Dr Elisabeth Bik and calling for science whistleblowers to be protected A world-renowned Dutch expert in identifying scientific misconduct and error, Dr Elisabeth Bik, has been threatened with legal action for questioning the integrity of a study promoting the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The case, filed with the French state prosecutor by controversial infectious diseases physician Dr Didier Raoult, has prompted hundreds of scientists from across the world to publish an open letter calling for science whistleblowers to be protected. Continue reading... |
| New ID law aims to help reduce ‘digital shyness’ in Germany Posted: 21 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT More public services to go online, encouraging Germans to move away from paper forms and faxes Germany's infamously unwieldy and old-fashioned bureaucracy is to be given a welcome digital boost with a new law to make electronic identification easier and more efficient. Whether registering a new residency, a baby or a car, or applying for child support or a driving licence, German citizens will in future be able to do so by mobile phone in combination with an existing identity card. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians return to devastated homes as UN calls for Gaza dialogue Posted: 21 May 2021 05:44 PM PDT World leaders welcome ceasefire but Hamas and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu remain belligerent Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza have begun returning to their homes to inspect the devastation from 11 days of Israeli airstrikes in its war with Hamas. Gaza City, on the Mediterranean coast, had been warped by the intense attacks, with gaping holes in the skyline from where high-rise buildings had collapsed, their remains sprawling into the street. Cars mounted pavements to avoid craters. Continue reading... |
| Nepal calls new elections amid worsening Covid outbreak Posted: 21 May 2021 11:41 PM PDT President Bhandari dissolves parliament after declaring that neither the prime minister nor opposition have a majority to form a new government Nepal's parliament has been dissolved for the second time in five months and new elections called for November as the Himalayan country battled political turmoil alongside the coronavirus pandemic. President Bidhya Devi Bhandari made the order on Saturday after declaring that neither Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli nor Sher Bahadur Deuba, leader of the opposition Nepali Congress, had a majority to form a new government. Continue reading... |
| Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show Posted: 22 May 2021 12:30 AM PDT
Police intelligence documents show that Washington's Trump Hotel raised its rates "as a security tactic", in the hope of deterring Trump-supporting QAnon supporters from staying there in early March, on a day which some believed would see Trump restored to office. The information, which police gleaned from a Business Insider version of a story published in Forbes on 6 February, was confirmed in an 8 February intelligence briefing stolen by ransomware hackers from Washington's Metropolitan police department (MPD). Continue reading... |
| US journalist Barrett Brown arrested in the UK on incitement offences Posted: 21 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT He had been in Britain since November and intended to claim asylum on the basis that he had been persecuted in the US for his journalism The American journalist Barrett Brown has been arrested and detained in the UK for allegedly overstaying his visa and for alleged public order and incitement offences relating to his role in holding a protest banner which said: "Kill Cops." Police arrested Brown on Monday at a canal boat moored in east London, where he had been living for several months with a British woman. He was interviewed and released on bail the following day, but immediately detained by immigration authorities. Continue reading... |
| Animal rights protesters blockade four McDonald’s distribution centres in UK Posted: 21 May 2021 11:11 PM PDT Animal Rebellion activists use trucks and bamboo structures to block sites, demanding company turns fully plant-based by 2025 Animal rights protesters have set up blockades at four McDonald's distribution centres across Britain which they say will impact roughly 1,300 restaurants. Activists from Animal Rebellion used trucks and bamboo structures to blockade distribution sites at Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood from around 4.30am on Saturday morning, the group said. Continue reading... |
| Plan International accused of abandoning children in Sri Lanka exit Posted: 21 May 2021 11:15 PM PDT Children's charity faces claims it failed vulnerable children and misled donors after shutting down activities in the country One of the world's largest children's rights charities has admitted it "made a number of mistakes" when it left Sri Lanka abruptly last year, amid accusations it had misled the public and donors and failed 20,000 vulnerable children in the country. Former employees and provincial governors who spoke to the Guardian described Plan International's exit as "irresponsible", "cynical and indefensible". Continue reading... |
| Daniel Morgan’s son says Priti Patel has added to family’s agony Posted: 21 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Home secretary urged to 'bring our torture to an end' by allowing publication of report into police and media corruption Opinion: our father was murdered, yet we have no closure after 34 years – only anger and grief The son of the murdered private detective Daniel Morgan has said the home secretary has exacerbated the 34 years of agony for his family by blocking the publication of the report into the role police and media corruption played in shielding his killers. Breaking a public silence of over three decades, the son, also called Daniel, said the report of a panel investigating the 1987 murder should be published, without the government vetting it beforehand. Continue reading... |
| Taiwan accuses China of spreading fake news about Covid outbreak Posted: 21 May 2021 08:37 PM PDT Beijing is using 'cognitive warfare' to undermine trust in the island's government, says official A Taiwanese official has accused China of spreading fake news about the Covid-19 outbreak on the island, saying this was why the government was publicising and refuting instances of false information circulating online. After months of keeping the pandemic under control, Taiwan is dealing with a surge in domestic infections, and the whole island is under a heightened state of alert with people asked to stay at home and many venues shut. Continue reading... |
| China’s Mars rover drives across planet a week after landing Posted: 22 May 2021 01:33 AM PDT Solar-powered Zhurong rover is expected to be deployed for 90 days to search for evidence of life China's first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the planet, China's space administration has said. The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10:40am on Saturday Beijing time (0240 GMT), the China National Space Administration said. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 May 2021 01:53 AM PDT Germany to bar visitors from UK over Covid variants of concern; sewage samples being tested across England to monitor Covid variants
The spread of variants such as the one discovered in India is concerning because of the possibility of a new strain that could evade vaccines, an expert has said. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, virologist Dr Chris Smith said that experts were concerned about "the possibility of a new variant emerging that could sidestep the protection conferred by vaccination".
Women who are breastfeeding are not at any risk from the vaccine, an expert has said, adding that there may even be benefits for the baby. Prof Linda Bauld told BBC Breakfast that there was a study that found that antibodies are passed from the vaccinated mother onto the infant. Continue reading... |
| Spain to drop Covid restrictions on British visitors from 24 May Posted: 21 May 2021 09:12 AM PDT Spanish PM says negative test not needed even as Boris Johnson warns against travel to amber list countries Spain will allow British holidaymakers into the country without the need to provide a negative Covid test from 24 May. In a move aimed at restarting the country's battered tourist industry, the Spanish government has announced that visitors from the UK will be free to enter Spain "without restrictions and without health requirements". The same applies to visitors from Japan. All arrivals are still required to fill out a health form. Continue reading... |
| ‘Black fungus’ disease linked to Covid spreads across India Posted: 21 May 2021 05:59 AM PDT 7,200 mucormycosis cases reported, usually in patients with diabetes or compromised immune systems States across India have begun declaring a "black fungus" epidemic as cases of the fatal rare infection shoot up in patients recovering from Covid-19. The fungal disease, called mucormycosis, has a 50% mortality rate. It affects patients initially in the nose but the fungus can then spread into the brain, and can often only be treated by major surgery removing the eye or part of skull and jaw. Continue reading... |
| Sewage samples being tested across England to monitor Covid variants Posted: 21 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Wastewater analysis programme will aim to detect variants early and identify need for surge testing Sewage samples are being tested to determine which Covid-19 variants are most prevalent across regions accounting for two-thirds of England's population. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the programme had helped identify the need for surge testing in areas such as Bristol and Luton. On Wednesday, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said testing and vaccinations were being surged in six areas as a result of wastewater analysis. Continue reading... |
| Marcus Rashford: ‘Whenever I hear “no”, I ask myself: why not?’ Posted: 22 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Last year the football star twice fought Boris Johnson on food poverty – and won 2-0. Now he has a new goal: helping the 383,000 British kids who have never owned a book Imagine being Marcus Rashford. You're just going about your business, playing football for Manchester United and England, being an everyday sporting superstar. Then you put out a Twitter thread suggesting that the country's poorest children need to be supported better in the pandemic, and it's the government's responsibility to help them. And the tweets go viral. And the public agrees with you. And suddenly you're no longer just a footballing hero, you're a leader, a sage, Mahatma Rashford, Marcus Mandela, a footballing messiah. Just imagine being Marcus Rashford, a supremely successful footballer, a shy young man who has never really shared an opinion publicly before, and you're now dictating government policy. How profoundly must it change you? Ordinarily, after all, footballers are interviewed about football. And yet today we're meeting to talk about child literacy, Rashford's latest passion. He tells me he didn't start reading properly till he was 17 (which, let's remember, is only six years ago). Once he started, he couldn't stop. He mentions his favourite book, Relentless by Tim Grover, the personal trainer who took some of the world's greatest athletes, including Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, and made them even better. Relentless is a self-help book about how to maximise your potential. Its subtitle is From Good To Great To Unstoppable. And unstoppable is what Rashford aims to be – not just in football, but in all walks of life. Continue reading... |
| Sing about war and cluck like a chicken: tips from the pros on how to win Eurovision Posted: 22 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT After an enforced hiatus, the contest is back. As the hopefuls don their sequins, here's how to succeed at the gloriously OTT pop jamboree To some, it's a cultural cringefest. To others, it's the World Cup of music. But no matter your spin, the Eurovision Song Contest remains one of the world's most-watched television programmes, with the last edition, in 2019, attracting more than 180 million viewers. Founded in 1956, it has inspired and outlasted countless reality singing franchises owing to its mix of big voices, over-the-top staging and a fervent nationalism, as artists sing for themselves and their countries. Winning songs can be brash or beautiful; they just need to cultivate votes across the public and a professional jury across Europe (and Australia). Past winners include a bearded drag queen from Austria, a Finnish metal band wearing latex monster masks, and Céline Dion, who, despite having no connection to Switzerland, was scouted to sing for them before she was a global megastar. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| Paris Lees: ‘It drives me crazy when people introduce me as a trans activist’ Posted: 22 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT She survived a troubled youth – and a spell in prison – to forge a new life for herself as a writer and campaigner. Now, despite the pain of revisiting those years, she's telling her story in full Paris Lees always knew she would write the story of her life. She knew it when she was a teenager in Hucknall, just north of Nottingham, getting beaten up in alleyways, imagining that her bullies would get to read about her in the paper. She knew when she told her auntie Rachael that when she was older, her life would be like Sex And The City, going to book launches and parties, meeting politicians, wearing nice clothes. She knew when an author visited her university during her graduation, and her mother told her it would be her one day. "It was a bit of a running joke," she says. "I've always known. I just had to write this book." That book is What It Feels Like For A Girl, a memoir that reads like a novel, written in dialect, Trainspotting-style. Here, it is a Nottingham/east Midlands slang, where "right" is "rate" and "myself" is "mysen", though Lees has only the bare bones of that accent today. She arrives for lunch almost an hour after we agreed to meet, outside a cafe in Canary Wharf in London, not far from where she lives. "Sorry, sorry," she says, a fast-talking, 10-to-the-dozen whirlwind in a black hoodie and PVC trousers, hiding for a moment behind tinted Gucci specs in the freezing-cold shadows of metal-and-glass skyscrapers. She didn't sleep last night, she says, out of nerves. She is anxious about discussing the book, and has been dithering at home, picking up things to give me or show me. She hands over a finished copy of the memoir, wrapped in black tissue, which peels off to reveal a bold, brash neon jacket, with a photograph of young Lees on the cover. In thick eyeliner, hair piled high, she looks like a club kid from two decades before her time. "You tell me how bright this is! Doesn't it just grab your attention?" she says, beaming. Continue reading... |
| ‘I wasn’t bold enough’: Ed Miliband on losing, leading and the future of Labour Posted: 22 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The former Labour leader has always been big on ideas, but never had the chance to put them into practice. He talks about his new vision for politics
Ed Miliband was a cabinet minister before he learned how to ride a bike properly. He had mastered staying upright on two wheels as a child, but not much more. At around the same age he also picked up the rudiments of socialism, from the group of intellectuals and leftwing politicians that visited his father Ralph, an eminent Marxist academic. It was not until the summer of 2015, when the British electorate had firmly rejected Ed Miliband's application to be prime minister, that he discovered the simple pleasure of cycling. That story, the late bloom on a bike, is one of many personal vignettes seeded into Go Big, Miliband's book about policy ideas that can change the world, and how to put them into practice. (Getting people out of their cars and on to cycle lanes is one chapter.) Go Big is not a memoir, but it does hint at a personal journey. Does the prescription contained in the book's title imply that, as Labour leader, he went too small? Continue reading... |
| Dippers, curry and coffee caramel: Yotam Ottolenghi’s tofu recipes Posted: 22 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT Tofu's versatility is unbound: use the firm stuff in beer-battered dippers or fry and douse in a spicy sambal, while the silken variety is as good in an egg-free aïoli as it is in coffee-caramel coconut flan Tofu is often praised for its versatility and ability to take on other flavours. That might sound like I'm damning it with faint praise, but far from it – I find the difference in texture between firm and silken tofu, for example, just a little bit wondrous. Firm tofu, for which soybean milk is curdled and pressed of all its moisture, retains its shape when cooked, making it ideal for stir-fries, barbecues, skewers and so forth. With silken tofu, on the other hand, the soy milk isn't curdled or pressed, so it retains all its moisture, and crumbles and collapses easily into dressings, sauces, desserts and so on. So, today, three recipes to showcase how being sponge-like and versatile is, in fact, high praise indeed. Continue reading... |
| kd lang: ‘Every other day, I dislike my hair. It’s a love-hate relationship’ Posted: 22 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT The singer-songwriter on her Buddhist faith, her mother, and not missing sex Born in Canada, kd lang, 59, won her first Grammy in 1988 for her duet with Roy Orbison on the song Crying. The following year she won a second for her album Absolute Torch And Twang. Her 1992 album, Ingénue, went multiplatinum and includes the Grammy-winning hit Constant Craving. On 28 May, she releases makeover, a collection of remixes. She lives in Calgary. What is your greatest fear? |
| Gaza damage and Glasgow raids: human rights this fortnight in pictures Posted: 21 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Peru Continue reading... |
| ‘People feel safer’: some Americans still masking up despite CDC guidance Posted: 22 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Some believe face coverings will stretch beyond the immediate pandemic in the US as confusion surrounding mask mandates persists For many Americans, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear a mask in most indoor or outdoor settings, the news was met with enthusiasm, a sign that the Covid-19 pandemic was coming to an end. But, despite an official green light for many to go maskless, amid confusion surrounding mask mandates, some Americans are choosing to mask up for the foreseeable future. Continue reading... |
| Townsville woman dies after being stabbed in neck with hunting knife Posted: 21 May 2021 07:54 PM PDT Police found the 29-year-old on the footpath outside her home severely injured but she later died in hospital A 29-year-old woman has died after being stabbed in the neck with a hunting knife at a Townsville home, sparking a homicide investigation. Neighbours called police to the Condon property about 7.20pm on Friday and found the severely injured woman lying on the footpath outside the property. Continue reading... |
| ‘Parents risk children’s lives – the alternative is worse’: on board a migrant rescue ship Posted: 21 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT More than 700 people have died in the Mediterranean this year. But Sea-Eye, a German charity, is fighting hard to save lives Amani clutches her son, Mohammed, as she is pulled from an unstable wooden boat in the Mediterranean. "Please help. My baby is soaked in water and freezing," says the 23-year-old Syrian refugee. It's shortly before 2am, last Monday and about 80 miles (130km) from the Libyan coast a group of maritime emergency responders from the Sea-Eye 4 are on patrol. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT There is only one way to really make a change in New Zealand is to raise the bottom more rapidly than the middle "Today, we close a chapter on our past." So said New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Thursday, as she launched a budget that included the largest increases to benefits since the 1940s. But although she should be congratulated for finally taking concrete steps to attack poverty and inequality, there is a real danger of celebrating too soon. Child poverty is one of our much-lauded prime minister's signature issues, and she has committed herself to ambitious targets that require hardship rates to be cut by as much as two-thirds by 2028. If achieved, this would be an exceptional feat, a rapid reduction that would place New Zealand among the world's best performers. Continue reading... |
| Bytedance boss exits at time of uncertainty for Chinese tech firms Posted: 21 May 2021 04:17 AM PDT Analysis: political undercurrents cannot be ignored as Zhang Yiming stands down to 'daydream' In the latest retreat by a leading figure in China's booming tech sector, the chief executive of TikTok's parent company has said he will step down to focus on long-term strategy, saying he prefers "reading and daydreaming" to the challenge of running a multinational firm. Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old boss of Bytedance, set out the reasons for the move in an unusually candid memo addressed to the company's staff. "The truth is, I lack some of the skills that make an ideal manager," he confessed. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians and Israeli police clash at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque hours after Gaza truce – video Posted: 21 May 2021 10:29 AM PDT Israeli police fired stun grenades towards Palestinians who threw rocks and petrol bombs at officers outside Jerusalem's flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, hours after Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire in Gaza. Police raids at the mosque and clashes with Palestinians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan had led in part to the war between Israel and Hamas Continue reading... |
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