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- Hongkongers queue to buy Apple Daily copies after editor-in-chief arrested
- Bear shot dead after rampage through Sapporo in Japan
- ByteDance revenues more than double on back of TikTok boom
- Budapest Pride goes ahead in solidarity against Hungary’s anti-LBGTQ+ laws
- Iran presidential voting opens after hardline cleric’s rivals excluded
- EU ‘has blood on its hands’, say activists calling for border agency’s abolition
- Chinese academic suspended for advocating polygamy
- Mysterious coelacanth fish can live for 100 years – study
- A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid
- Covid live: Israel to send 1m vaccines to Palestine in reciprocal deal; England offers jabs to all over-18s
- Office, hybrid or home? Businesses ponder future of work
- ‘People didn’t listen’: Julie Douib’s killing sparks fight against femicide in France
- The best video games of 2021 so far
- From Tubular Bells to Horses: 10 of the best pieces of album artwork
- Not only the brave: why straight actors playing gay are no longer automatically acclaimed
- Coca-Cola’s Ronaldo fiasco highlights risk to brands in social media age
- Bad strategy? How the Republican attack on voting rights could backfire
- Witness K spared jail after pleading guilty to breaching secrecy laws over Timor-Leste bugging
- Bird in the hand: French retiree strikes up unlikely friendship with pigeon – video
- Bear runs loose in Sapporo and breaks into Japanese army base – video
- Biden signs bill marking Juneteenth as federal holiday celebrating end of slavery in US – video
| Hongkongers queue to buy Apple Daily copies after editor-in-chief arrested Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:05 PM PDT Public outpouring of support for tabloid after raid on offices by national security police Hongkongers queued at city news stands before dawn on Friday to buy the latest edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, a day after national security police arrested its editor-in-chief and four other directors. On Thursday morning hundreds of officers from the Hong Kong police national security department raided the homes of the employees, including editor-in-chef Ryan Law, and the Apple Daily newsroom for the second time in less than a year. It froze millions of dollars in company assets. Continue reading... |
| Bear shot dead after rampage through Sapporo in Japan Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:39 PM PDT Animal 'exterminated' after it bounded through the city, injuring four people Hunters have shot and killed a brown bear in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo after it rampaged through the city, injuring four people, including a soldier. Authorities in Sapporo tweeted on Friday that the bear had been "exterminated", with a local television station saying hunters had shot the bear. Continue reading... |
| ByteDance revenues more than double on back of TikTok boom Posted: 18 Jun 2021 01:57 AM PDT Owner of video-sharing app also reports a 93% increase in gross profit to $19bn in 2020 ByteDance, the Chinese parent of TikTok, more than doubled its revenues last year as usage of the hugely popular video app boomed. The company, which last year weathered pressure from Donald Trump to sell its US operation as part of a trade war with China, reported a 111% increase in revenues to $34.3bn (£24.7bn). Continue reading... |
| Budapest Pride goes ahead in solidarity against Hungary’s anti-LBGTQ+ laws Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:25 PM PDT As oppressive legislation passed by Viktor Orbán's government, activists plan procession to 'show LGBT people they are not alone' For the second year in a row, Covid has succeeded in doing what many had once thought impossible: toning down Pride celebrations. From Berlin to Brighton, Toronto to San Francisco, parades have been cancelled or put online, floats forgotten and parties swapped for quieter, often more reflective events. But in Budapest, where LGBTQ+ activists are engaged in a near-existential fight against the rightwing government of Viktor Orbán, the stakes were too high for Pride to take a back seat. Continue reading... |
| Iran presidential voting opens after hardline cleric’s rivals excluded Posted: 18 Jun 2021 02:01 AM PDT Ebrahim Raisi expected to win easily as opposition groups urge boycott Iranians are voting in a presidential election in which the ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to victory, after all serious rivals were barred from running. After a lacklustre campaign, turnout was expected to plummet to a new low in a country exhausted by a punishing regime of US economic sanctions that has dashed hopes for a brighter future. Continue reading... |
| EU ‘has blood on its hands’, say activists calling for border agency’s abolition Posted: 17 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Coalition of rights groups demanding Frontex be defunded claim EU policies have 'killed over 40,555 people since 1993' Activists, captains of rescue ships and about 80 human rights organisations across the world have launched an international campaign calling for the European border agency to be defunded and dismantled. In an open letter sent last week to the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the European parliament, the campaign coalition highlighted the "illegal and inhumane practices" of the EU border agency, Frontex, which is accused of having promoted and enforced violent policies against migrants. Continue reading... |
| Chinese academic suspended for advocating polygamy Posted: 17 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT Bao Yinan from East China University of Political Science and Law accused over WeChat statements A Chinese academic has been suspended by his university after he advocated polygamy on his personal WeChat account, sparking a new discussion around China's evolving attitudes towards sex. Bao Yinan, a legal researcher at the prestigious East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, was accused by his employer of "making wrong statements". The university has now suspended all his teaching activity and formed a "special working group" to investigate the matter, it said in a statement at the weekend. Continue reading... |
| Mysterious coelacanth fish can live for 100 years – study Posted: 17 Jun 2021 09:28 PM PDT Research sheds more light on the giant 'living fossils' once thought extinct but which have survived since the age of the dinosaurs The coelacanth – a giant, mysterious fish that has survived since the time of the dinosaurs – can live for 100 years, a study has found. The slow-moving fish, which grow to be the size of a human, are nicknamed a "living fossil", and also grow at a very slow pace. Continue reading... |
| A silent decimation: South America’s losing battle against Covid Posted: 18 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Strained and underfunded health systems, economics and misinformation have all led to a surge in deaths The cold, tired and desperate relatives camped outside the Barrio Obrero general hospital in Asunción don't need charts or datasets to confirm what they can see with their own eyes. As Paraguay records the world's highest daily proportion of Covid deaths, the huddled families wait for news of their loved ones – and for the sudden requests for medicine and supplies that the country's chronically underfunded health system cannot provide. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jun 2021 02:28 AM PDT Palestinian Authority agrees to send same amount back to Israel later this year; England opens vaccine booking to all adults
The more infectious Delta coronavirus variant will become dominant in Germany in Autumn at the latest, the country's top public health official said, urging the public both to continue wearing masks indoors and get vaccinated. "The Delta variant makes up about 6% of infections, but it share is growing," Lothar Wieler, head of Germany's Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said. "It is not a question of if Delta will become dominant but a question of when," he added. "It will have the upper hand in autumn at the latest."
The organisers of the Notting Hill Carnival in London have made the decision to take the event off the streets because of the pandemic. PA report that in a statement, the board of Notting Hill Carnival Ltd said it had decided this year's event in London "will not be on the streets due to the ongoing uncertainty and risk Covid-19 poses". |
| Office, hybrid or home? Businesses ponder future of work Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT The government's work from home guidance in England could end next month, leaving three options The government could announce an end to its work from home guidance in England next month, leaving companies with three broad choices: bring everyone back to the office; introduce a flexible working regime; or allow people to work from their home office, kitchen table or garden shed permanently. Here we look at the pros and cons of each option. Continue reading... |
| ‘People didn’t listen’: Julie Douib’s killing sparks fight against femicide in France Posted: 17 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT She told police 10 times her ex-partner would kill her and he did – one of 146 such deaths in France that year Julie Douib told many people she thought her ex-partner would kill her. She told her family. She reported him to the police on 10 occasions. She even told them he had a gun and she was afraid he would use it, but they said they could not do anything unless he pointed it at her. So it should have been little surprise when he did. Or that Julie's last words as she lay dying of gunshot wounds on the balcony of her home in L'Île-Rousse, Corsica, were, according to the neighbour who held her hand: "He's killed me." Continue reading... |
| The best video games of 2021 so far Posted: 17 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Hostile alien planets, giant vampire women and a jazz age murder mystery – plus some old favourites, rebooted – are among the best games released this year PC |
| From Tubular Bells to Horses: 10 of the best pieces of album artwork Posted: 18 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT The most eye-popping record sleeves, including Pink Floyd's floating pigs, De La Soul's flower power and Patti Smith's simple portraiture Pre-internet, it could be hard to find anything out about music, so a record cover might be the only information you had access to. At primary school, I learned that Tubular Bells was in a controversial film called The Exorcist (which at the time I thought was porn). I got the album for its mysterious shiny tube floating in the clouds like a UFO – and the music inside matched that soaring image. Continue reading... |
| Not only the brave: why straight actors playing gay are no longer automatically acclaimed Posted: 18 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT If Ammonite and Supernova are anything to go by, queer roles are no longer awards bait. Instead, such films' stars find themselves having to justify taking work away from LGBT+ performers In February 1994, Hollywood seemed to change for ever. Tom Hanks – the epitome of the American everyman – won a best actor Oscar for playing the out gay protagonist in a major studio movie. In retrospect, Philadelphia looks a bit iffy. It is melodramatic, littered with tropes, and gets an awful lot of cathartic mileage out of the tragic martyrdom of its lead. Still, the tide appeared to have turned for good. Hollywood was not merely telling queer stories, it was rewarding them. Gay and lesbian roles were no longer something an agent would immediately bin; they were a fast track to kudos and awards. Continue reading... |
| Coca-Cola’s Ronaldo fiasco highlights risk to brands in social media age Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Stars like the Portugal captain, with 550m followers, are beyond the control of sport sponsors Cristiano Ronaldo's decision to remove two Coca-Cola bottles from view at a press conference, and dent the value of the fizzy drink maker's sponsorship of the European Championship, has highlighted the risks brands face associating with sports stars made powerful by the social media era. The Portugal captain, a renowned health fanatic who eschews carbonated drinks and alcohol, underlined his point by holding a bottle of water while saying "agua", Portuguese and Spanish for water. The water brand in question happened to be owned by Coca-Cola too, but the damage – by a major sports star with 550 million social media followers – was done. Continue reading... |
| Bad strategy? How the Republican attack on voting rights could backfire Posted: 18 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Republicans are pushing hundreds of bills to limit voting access. Some measures may get in the way of their own voters As the coronavirus wreaked havoc around the world, lawmakers in the US were faced with a monumental task: carrying out a presidential election in the middle of a once-in-century pandemic. Concerned about the possibility of virus spread at polling places, Democrats pushed the federal government to approve more funding for states to expand absentee and early-voting options. Continue reading... |
| Witness K spared jail after pleading guilty to breaching secrecy laws over Timor-Leste bugging Posted: 18 Jun 2021 01:42 AM PDT ACT magistrate Glenn Theakston says Witness K appeared to be motivated by justice rather than personal gain Witness K has been spared jail time for his role in exposing Australia's 2004 bugging of Timor-Leste with a Canberra court finding he appeared to be motivated by justice not personal gain. The former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer stood behind a wall of black panels, invisible to the packed courtroom, as he was sentenced on Friday to a three-month suspended term of imprisonment and a 12-month good behaviour order. Continue reading... |
| Bird in the hand: French retiree strikes up unlikely friendship with pigeon – video Posted: 17 Jun 2021 10:58 PM PDT French retiree Xavier Bouget says he was out walking in one day near his home in Gommenech, Brittany when he saw a tiny pigeon fall to the ground as it tried to escape from a cat. Bouget later mentioned this story to his wife who asked why he didn't pick up the bird. So he went back to find it and "came home with Blanchon in my pocket," he said. Now, Blanchon, a white pigeon, follows the 80-year-old when he rides on his bicycle, tinkers in his workshop and works in his garden. The pigeon has become a constant companion, with Bouget revealing the key to the friendship. "Every human being can have that relationship with animals. It is a matter of patience, of watching how they live, of adapting to their way of life because they manage to adapt to yours." Continue reading... |
| Bear runs loose in Sapporo and breaks into Japanese army base – video Posted: 17 Jun 2021 09:10 PM PDT A wild bear has run through the of streets the Japanese city of Sapporo and made it past the gates of a Japanese defence base next to Okadama airport. According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, the bear reached the grounds of the airport by jumping the fence. The bear was first sighted in the early hours of Friday before it was killed. Continue reading... |
| Biden signs bill marking Juneteenth as federal holiday celebrating end of slavery in US – video Posted: 17 Jun 2021 06:14 PM PDT The US will officially recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday on 19 June after Joe Biden signed a bill into law which commemorates the end of slavery in the country. The president described a day to remember the moral stain of slavery but also to celebrate the capacity to heal. Before signing the bill, Biden said: 'I've only been president for several months, but I think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors I will have had as president' Continue reading... |
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