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- Landslide hits popular resort town in Japan leaving more than a dozen people missing
- Former Guantánamo detainee faces forced repatriation to Russia after release, say experts
- ‘Real’ T rex goes on show in England for first time in over a century
- Coronavirus live news: Iran fears fifth wave due to Delta variant; keep some restrictions in England after 19 July, doctors urge
- Thailand reports record Covid-19 cases as concerns mount about vaccine shortages
- Ministers urged to keep some Covid restrictions after 19 July due to ‘alarming’ rise in cases
- Georgia Pritchett: ‘My male equivalents on Veep and Succession all got their own shows’
- Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for sweet potato mochi with black sesame sauce | The new vegan
- I Think You Should Leave: strange, goofy, and extremely funny
- Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann review – feminist pyrotechnics
- The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’
- ‘They said I don’t exist. But I am here’: one woman’s battle to prove she isn’t dead
- Man charged with murder after Oxford Circus stabbing
- Wildfire watchmen: the mountain tower where lookouts spot blazes
- ‘We thought it wouldn’t affect us’: heatwave forces climate reckoning in Pacific north-west
- NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian reports 35 new Covid cases as Sydney lockdown hits halfway mark
| Landslide hits popular resort town in Japan leaving more than a dozen people missing Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:29 PM PDT Several houses were obliterated and others buried in the mudslide, which followed days of heavy rain A huge landslide has swept away homes and left 19 people missing at a popular resort town in central Japan after days of heavy rain, local officials say. Television footage on Saturday showed a torrent of mud obliterating some buildings and burying others in Atami, southwest of Tokyo, with people running away as it crashed over a hillside road. Continue reading... |
| Former Guantánamo detainee faces forced repatriation to Russia after release, say experts Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Ravil Mingazov, who spent 15 years in the US prison camp, could be sent to Russia where 'he will not be free for the rest of his life,' experts warn A former Guantánamo detainee is facing forced repatriation from the United Arab Emirates to Russia where he faces a "substantial risk of torture" according to UN human rights experts. Ravil Mingazov is a Muslim Tartar who spent 15 years without charge in the US prison camp on Guantánamo Bay before being transferred to the UAE in January 2017. The conditions of the transfer were kept secret, but his family and legal team were given assurances that he would be freed after a few months. Those assurances were not kept. Continue reading... |
| ‘Real’ T rex goes on show in England for first time in over a century Posted: 03 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT The skeleton of Titus, discovered in the US in 2018, makes its world debut at Nottingham museum The first 'real' Tyrannosaurus rex to be exhibited in England for more than a century will go on show in Nottingham on Sunday. The skeleton of Titus, discovered in the US state of Montana in 2018, will make its world debut at the Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum as part of a new exhibition on the dinosaur's life and environment. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:10 AM PDT BMA chair says easing restrictions not an 'all or nothing decision'; Indonesia locks down Bali and Java in effort to curb surging infections
Phase 3 trials for Bharat Biotech's Covaxin vaccine showed it was 93.4% effective against severe disease, the Indian firm had said. It was also found to be 77.8% effective against symptomatic Covid-19 in the trial, according to Reuters.
Cambodia has reported a record number of daily deaths as infections continue to surge in the south-east Asian country. The nation of 16.49 million announced a 36 further deaths, taking the death toll to 696, according to a report in the Khmer Times. Coronavirus cases rose by 948, with active cases at 6,472. Continue reading... |
| Thailand reports record Covid-19 cases as concerns mount about vaccine shortages Posted: 02 Jul 2021 09:36 PM PDT Health authorities reported more than 6,200 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, setting a record for a third straight day Health authorities in Thailand reported more than 6,200 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, setting a record for a third straight day, as concerns mounted over shortages of treatment facilities and vaccine supplies. Officials also reported 41 deaths, bringing the total to 2,181. Continue reading... |
| Ministers urged to keep some Covid restrictions after 19 July due to ‘alarming’ rise in cases Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:57 PM PDT Leading doctors are urging the government to keep 'sensible, cautious' measures in place to minimise spread of virus See all our coronavirus coverage Leading doctors are urging the government to keep some measures in place in England after 19 July in a bid to help control the spread of Covid amid the "alarming" rise in cases. The British Medical Association (BMA) said that keeping some protective measures in place was "crucial" to stop spiralling cases numbers having a "devastating impact" on people's health, the NHS, the economy and education. Continue reading... |
| Georgia Pritchett: ‘My male equivalents on Veep and Succession all got their own shows’ Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT She has written for some of the best TV shows in recent years – but as Pritchett's comic, self-deprecating memoir comes out, she explains why she doesn't get work in the UK
There is an astonishing episode in Georgia Pritchett's hugely enjoyable new memoir, My Mess Is a Bit of a Life, in which her 10-year-old brother, Matt, is snatched in the street by a knife-wielding maniac while the pair are walking to school. This is south London in the 1970s, and Pritchett, who is six years old at the time, can only stand on the pavement and stare in horror. The man is disarmed by police, Pritchett's brother is released unharmed and, along with the rest of her family, she adjourns to the local station, where the now 53-year-old's presiding memory of the morning is not of trauma, but of the moment a police horse does a really long wee and nobody knows where to look. It was, she says over Zoom from west London, "very British and symbolic of us having to face a difficult thing that we didn't want to talk about" – in other words, the typifying approach to life and art of the British comedy writer. With credits on everything from Veep and Have I Got News for You to Miranda, The Thick of It and Succession, Pritchett is one of the country's most successful screenwriters, although you wouldn't necessarily know it from her book. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life follows the writer through her semi-bohemian childhood – her mother, Josephine Haworth, is an author; her father, Oliver (nicknamed "the Patriarchy"), a journalist and columnist; and her grandfather was the writer VS Pritchett – to her early years in TV and beyond, and the joy of it is that it is firmly rooted in self-deprecation. By her own admission, Pritchett is overanxious, neurotic, oddly proportioned (she has, she says, an unusually long torso and remarkably short legs, such that "the overall effect is more ferret than human"), and almost fatally self-effacing. A typical episode features Pritchett in labour with her first son, trying to give birth without causing a fuss, while her girlfriend – known only as The Moose – makes small talk with the doctor. Eventually, it becomes too much: "'Sorry to interrupt, but the baby is coming out of my body,' I said politely, as the baby's head appeared. Then I lost consciousness." Continue reading... |
| Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for sweet potato mochi with black sesame sauce | The new vegan Posted: 03 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT Rice flour and sweet potato make chewy-crunchy cakes to coat with a salty-sour sesame dip When I think of food that "sparks joy", to borrow the phrase of a well-known house organiser, I don't think of multicoloured cakes or the smoke and dance of Mexican restaurant sizzlers. It's the fun, playful chewiness of the Japanese glutinous flour rice cakes called mochi that I want. Often they're sweet, filled with adzuki beans or peanuts, but they can also be savoury, as in today's recipe. Here, they are fried like pancakes to give them a toasty, crisp exterior before being coated in a deeply flavourful and dark sesame sauce. Continue reading... |
| I Think You Should Leave: strange, goofy, and extremely funny Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Tim Robinson's acclaimed Netflix sketch show is back for more weird and wonderful set-pieces that feel both unsettling and deeply relatable There is a sketch from the first season of I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson (Tuesday, Netflix) that is etched permanently on to my brain. I mean, actually, there are several etched on to my brain: the hotdog car crashing into a clothes shop, for example, or the multi-part epic that ends with a man singing sombre yacht rock at his mother's funeral. Or "you flinched, and now you have to marry your mother-in-law". Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann review – feminist pyrotechnics Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT A collection of wickedly funny, rousing polemics takes aim at ecotourism, the beauty industry … and crime fiction In 1938, three years before her suicide at 59, Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, a long-form essay on patriarchy and its seemingly inevitable trajectory, war – a forceful indictment of the fascism that was then sweeping Europe and beyond. Her most conspicuously pacifist work, Three Guineas was contentious for its time. It argued that subjugation of women in the domestic sphere (notably, Woolf refers to "the daughters of educated men", women of her own privileged class) is reflected in an equal lack of representation in the public domain of education and influence: "The public and private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other," she wrote. As part of a solution, Woolf proposed supporting three causes with a guinea each: specifically, a society to avert war, a campaign for the rebuilding of a women's college and an organisation to encourage women's professional employment. Always elegant, Three Guineas nevertheless throbs with justifiable anger and fear. Its rallying cry and the recognition that the personal is also political would go on to, for example, inspire female peace activists of the 1960s, who took various of its sentences as antiwar slogans. "Set fire to the old hypocrisies," urges Woolf. Unsurprisingly, its central themes have not dated. Ellmann is hellbent on upbraiding the deleterious forces of the prevailing misogyny Continue reading... |
| The battle for Mount Rushmore: ‘It should be turned into something like the Holocaust Museum’ Posted: 03 Jul 2021 02:15 AM PDT The national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year – and Native Americans want the site back with a focus on oppression Mount Rushmore national memorial draws nearly 3 million visitors a year to its remote location in South Dakota. They travel from all corners of the globe just to lay their eyes on what the National Park Service calls America's "shrine of democracy". Phil Two Eagle is not opposed to the fact that the giant sculpture of American presidents is a major tourist attraction but he thinks the park should have a different focus: oppression. Continue reading... |
| ‘They said I don’t exist. But I am here’: one woman’s battle to prove she isn’t dead Posted: 03 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Five years ago, Jeanne Pouchain was declared dead by a French court. It was news to her – and just the beginning of a Kafkaesque nightmare The trouble began in 2016. When Jeanne Pouchain's passport application was declined, she was annoyed – but assumed she must have forgotten an important piece of paperwork. Several weeks later, at a doctor's appointment in her town of Saint-Joseph, outside Lyon in south-east France, both Pouchain, then 53, and her GP were perplexed when his computer spat out her carte vitale, the green card that gives access to the French public health system. Pouchain put it down to a technical blip. She assumed that was also the reason her pharmacy suggested she would have to pay in full for her diabetes drugs. Continue reading... |
| Man charged with murder after Oxford Circus stabbing Posted: 03 Jul 2021 02:34 AM PDT Tedi Fanta Hagos, 25, charged over fatal stabbing of 60-year-old man in central London on Friday evening A man has been charged with murder after a 60-year-old was stabbed in central London. Tedi Fanta Hagos, 25, of Ravenhill, Swansea, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on Friday and is expected to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Saturday, Scotland Yard said. Continue reading... |
| Wildfire watchmen: the mountain tower where lookouts spot blazes Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Despite advances in fire-monitoring technology, volunteers remain a crucial defense amid worsening fire seasons Every 10 minutes, when the alarm on his phone goes off, Rory Hewitt carefully scans the horizon. Perched atop the east peak of Mt Tamalpais, one of the highest points in the San Francisco Bay Area, he watches the city towers that gleam in the distance, the fog curling and coasting above the bay, and Marin county sprawling more than 2,571ft beneath him. To the south, the ancient redwood trees of Muir Woods, a blanket of green, stretch to the sea, and to the north-west, yellowing hillsides seem to poke through the canopy, bleeding all the way into Sonoma county. Satisfied after circling a gangway and looking out in each direction, Hewitt comes back inside the small square structure built directly on to the peak where he serves as a Marin county fire lookout. For now, there were no signs of smoke amid the wispy clouds and afternoon haze. Continue reading... |
| ‘We thought it wouldn’t affect us’: heatwave forces climate reckoning in Pacific north-west Posted: 03 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Left-leaning states had focused on how global heating would affect others. Then the 'heat dome' arrived The record heatwave in the Pacific north-west is forcing a reckoning on the climate crisis, as many living in the typically mild region consider what rising temperatures mean for the future. A "heat dome" without parallel trapped hot air over much of the states of Oregon and Washington in the United States, and southern British Columbia in Canada, in past days, shattering weather records in the usually temperate region. Continue reading... |
| NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian reports 35 new Covid cases as Sydney lockdown hits halfway mark Posted: 03 Jul 2021 01:49 AM PDT Queensland records five new local coronavirus cases as premier Annastacia Palaszczuk lifts Brisbane and Moreton Bay lockdown
The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has declared "the green shoots are there" in Sydney's Covid-19 outbreak despite the state recording another 35 cases of the virus, the highest daily count in more than a year. At the halfway point of Sydney's two-week lockdown, the outbreak has grown to 261 cases since a Bondi limousine driver tested positive on 16 June, spreading from the city's eastern suburbs to new outbreaks of concern. Continue reading... |
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