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- Tokyo 2020 Olympics: China one-two in diving with Tom Daley bronze, cycling and more – live!
- Menopause at centre of increasing number of UK employment tribunals
- Six EU states overtake UK Covid vaccination rates as Britain’s rollout slows
- ‘No strategy, programme or project’: Labour divided ahead of conference
- Edinburgh Fringe returns with mix of in-person and online shows
- Taliban captures provincial capital in Afghanistan
- ‘The rabbit of the sky’: flocks of Canada geese plague New Zealand countryside
- WeChat’s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit, as China steps up attack on Tencent
- Israel targets Hamas sites after balloons from Gaza ignite fires
- ‘A sample of hell’: Rohingya forced to rebuild camps again after deadly floods
- Tiger kills woman working in safari park in Chile
- Covid patients reunited with the medics who saved them
- Coronavirus live news: more lockdowns ‘unlikely’ to be needed, says UK expert; Australia has record day of cases
- Alarm as US Covid cases above 100,000 a day for first time since February
- Rosanna Arquette: ‘I fear the world will fall into the hands of fascist dictators – and white supremacy’
- A look in the mirror: the existential threat facing beauty halls
- ‘People think you’re an idiot’: death metal Irish baron rewilds his estate
- Dear Gavin Williamson, if Latin is about levelling up, I have other ideas | Michael Rosen
- Courgettes, tomatoes and amaretti: Yotam Ottolenghi’s taste of Italian summer – recipes
- Blind date: ‘He dealt with the fish falling off his taco very smoothly’
- Archbishop of York calls for new vision of what it means to be English
- Ethiopia conflict set to escalate after Tigray rebels refuse to withdraw
- I want this pandemic to end – yet I secretly pine for another lockdown
- NSW Covid lockdown restrictions: update to Sydney and regional NSW coronavirus rules explained
- A fractured federation? How the closing of state borders in the Covid crisis has raised old quarrels
- Kris Wu arrest raises hopes for China’s #MeToo movement
- Taliban captures provincial capital in Afghanistan – video
- St Vincent leader attacked by anti-vaccine protester – video
- Thousands evacuate as North Korea floods damage homes and crops – video
| Tokyo 2020 Olympics: China one-two in diving with Tom Daley bronze, cycling and more – live! Posted: 07 Aug 2021 02:26 AM PDT
Rhythmic gymnastics: Perfect from Dina Averina. Power, grace, timing, not a single false move. What a beautiful performance. Her music was La Cumparsita tango. Her work matched the drama and emotional intensity note for note.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Alina Harnasko moves into the medals for Belarus, into second spot now. And now Dina Averina will decide the final standings. |
| Menopause at centre of increasing number of UK employment tribunals Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Rise in women taking employers to court citing event as proof of unfair dismissal and discrimination Growing numbers of women are taking their employers to court citing the menopause as proof of unfair dismissal and direct sex discrimination, researchers have said. According to the latest UK data, there were five employment tribunals referencing the claimant's menopause in 2018, six in 2019 and 16 in 2020. There have been 10 in the first six months of 2021 alone. Continue reading... |
| Six EU states overtake UK Covid vaccination rates as Britain’s rollout slows Posted: 06 Aug 2021 06:30 AM PDT Malta, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Ireland overtake UK in fully jabbed percentages Six EU states have now fully inoculated a larger share of their total populations with a coronavirus vaccine than the UK, after the bloc's dire initial rollout took off while Britain's impressive early jab rate has slumped. According to government and health service figures collated by the online science publication Our World In Data, Malta, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Ireland have all overtaken the UK in terms of the percentages of their populations who are fully vaccinated. Continue reading... |
| ‘No strategy, programme or project’: Labour divided ahead of conference Posted: 07 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT Keir Starmer is hoping his first in-person conference speech can unite party but he faces uphill task Keir Starmer will be packing the laptop as well as the buckets and spades as he heads off to Devon for a family break later this month: aides say he plans to use the holiday to work on a first draft of his party conference speech. It will be the Labour leader's first address to the party faithful in person – last year's was delivered online from an empty arts centre in Doncaster – and both fans and detractors agree it will have to be the speech of his life. Continue reading... |
| Edinburgh Fringe returns with mix of in-person and online shows Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Festival is part of world's largest annual arts season which has been forced to curtail events due to Covid The Edinburgh festival Fringe returns this weekend with a hybrid programme of nearly 800 in-person and online shows after its cancellation last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Fringe makes up part of the world's largest annual arts season, alongside the Edinburgh international festival and the book and film festivals, which open later this month, and all have been forced to significantly curtail this August's events for the second year running. One of the most famous, the military tattoo staged at Edinburgh castle, has again been cancelled. Continue reading... |
| Taliban captures provincial capital in Afghanistan Posted: 06 Aug 2021 09:33 AM PDT Loss of Zaranj in Nimroz, near the border with Iran, a major blow to the western-backed government The Taliban has captured an Afghan provincial capital after pleas for reinforcements by local security forces went unheard, in a major blow to the western-backed government. Zaranj, in the south-western province of Nimroz, fell after just three hours of fighting becoming the first provincial capital to be taken by the insurgents who have intensified their nationwide offensive as foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Continue reading... |
| ‘The rabbit of the sky’: flocks of Canada geese plague New Zealand countryside Posted: 07 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT The birds exist in a pest-control grey area, with no agency taking the lead, allowing the population to boom They are aggressive, territorial, noisy and excrete more than a kilogram of faeces a day. Now huge flocks of Canada geese have made parts of rural New Zealand their home, bringing havoc in their wake. The introduced birds are polluting waterways, damaging pasture and are so numerous in some places that they pose a threat to aircrafts, but little is being done to curb the problem. Continue reading... |
| WeChat’s youth mode is illegal, says lawsuit, as China steps up attack on Tencent Posted: 06 Aug 2021 08:36 PM PDT The messaging app does not comply with laws protecting children, say prosecutors, in fresh crackdown on tech firms Prosecutors in Beijing have initiated a civil lawsuit against a subsidiary of Tencent, saying the "youth mode" on the company's popular social messaging app WeChat does not comply with laws protecting minors. Related: No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world Continue reading... |
| Israel targets Hamas sites after balloons from Gaza ignite fires Posted: 06 Aug 2021 10:39 PM PDT Israeli military says strikes target rocket launching site as balloons aim to pressure Israel to ease restrictions Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel's military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the strikes on Saturday that targeted what the military said was a rocket launching site and a compound belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza. Continue reading... |
| ‘A sample of hell’: Rohingya forced to rebuild camps again after deadly floods Posted: 06 Aug 2021 10:01 PM PDT At least 21,000 refugees displaced after heavy rain devastates Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the area The process of rebuilding has begun once again for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh after a week of heavy rains made thousands homeless. The chest-high waters that flowed through parts of Cox's Bazar have exposed the vulnerability of the area's unplanned settlements, which have to be repeatedly repaired and rebuilt after flooding, cyclones and fires. Continue reading... |
| Tiger kills woman working in safari park in Chile Posted: 06 Aug 2021 08:22 PM PDT Police say the woman did not realise the door of the animal's cage was open and was immediately attacked A young woman working at a safari park in Chile has died after a tiger attacked her, police said. The woman, who has not been identified by police, was among staff cleaning and carrying out maintenance work on Friday in the big cats' enclosure of a safari park in the city of Rancagua, 90km south of the capital Santiago. Continue reading... |
| Covid patients reunited with the medics who saved them Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Four people who were so ill that they barely remember their time in the ICU meet the doctors and nurses who held their hands In a light-filled studio in east London, a petite woman in scrubs receives a bouquet of flowers from a tall man, dressed smartly, only faintly out of breath. The room is thick with emotion. They are strangers, but stare at each other with wonder in their eyes. And then Dr Susan Jain, an intensive care consultant at Homerton university hospital, breaks the silence with a laugh. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2021 02:24 AM PDT Latest updates: Neil Ferguson's claim comes as number of people in hospitals in England with virus falls; Australia suffers worst Covid day this year
China stepped up measures to protect its capital, Beijing, as an uptick in coronavirus cases driven by the more infectious Delta variant spread across multiple cities in the country. The National Health Commission reported on Saturday 107 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for 6 August, compared with 124 a day earlier.
Russia reported 22,320 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including 2,235 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,424,884. The government's coronavirus taskforce said 793 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 164,094. Continue reading... |
| Alarm as US Covid cases above 100,000 a day for first time since February Posted: 06 Aug 2021 12:08 PM PDT
Daily Covid-19 cases in the US moved above 100,000 a day for the first time since February, higher than the levels of last summer when vaccines were not available, and came as health officials sounded alarm over lagging rates of vaccination driving the surge of the infectious Delta variant. The seven-day average of hospital admissions has also increased more than 40% from the week before, with health workers describing frustration and exhaustion as hospitals in Covid hotspots were again overwhelmed with patients, almost 20 months into the pandemic in the US. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2021 01:30 AM PDT The actor and film-maker on being ghosted for her politics, the best kiss of her life and having an angel experience Born in New York City, Rosanna Arquette, 61, starred with Madonna in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, for which she won a Bafta. Her other movies include Pulp Fiction and Crash. In 2002, she made Searching For Debra Winger, a documentary about women in the film industry; her podcast series is called Radical Musings. She is married, has a daughter and lives in Los Angeles. When were you happiest? |
| A look in the mirror: the existential threat facing beauty halls Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Covid pandemic has accelerated shift to online purchases, with big brands buying up startups The department store beauty hall is facing a fight for survival: the pandemic has accelerated the shift to buying cosmetics, skincare and other pampering products online, and a growing number of sales are now via a smartphone rather than over the counter. Manicured sales assistants, testing pots and makeovers are being replaced by powerful influencers and digital beauty halls that can switch up the products on offer at the tweak of an algorithm. Continue reading... |
| ‘People think you’re an idiot’: death metal Irish baron rewilds his estate Posted: 06 Aug 2021 09:30 PM PDT Trees, grasses and wildlife are returning as Lord Randal Plunkett recreates a vanished landscape in County Meath Lord Randal Plunkett strides through the hip-high grass of Dunsany, a 650-hectare (1,600-acre) estate in the middle of Ireland, trailed by an invisible swarm of midges and his four jack russell terriers: Tiny, Lumpy, Chow and Beavis & Butt-Head. The cattle and sheep are long gone, so too are the lawns and many of the crops. In their place is a riot of shrubs, flowers and trees, along with insects and creatures that call this fledgling wilderness their home. Continue reading... |
| Dear Gavin Williamson, if Latin is about levelling up, I have other ideas | Michael Rosen Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:30 AM PDT Why not emulate private schools with class sizes, playing fields, music facilities and modern languages? Just as many of us are thinking ahead to winter and a possible next wave of Covid, worrying about whether schools have proper ventilation and what emergency measures you might have up your sleeve if a major outbreak occurs, you choose to put Latin at the top of your agenda. Well, not quite top because you also managed to signal the end of BTecs (a disaster in the making). Perhaps you were using your Latin splash to hide that announcement. You're also keeping very quiet about what is happening with the GCSE marking – the results only days away for my offspring. I can't work out which is going to be more exciting: hearing his results or listening to your convoluted explanations as to why a) this year's teacher assessment method was perfect and b) why – even though it's been perfect – we'll all have to go back next year to the one-off, high-stakes, unnecessary obstacle of GCSEs. Continue reading... |
| Courgettes, tomatoes and amaretti: Yotam Ottolenghi’s taste of Italian summer – recipes Posted: 07 Aug 2021 01:30 AM PDT Slow-cooked courgettes with a toasty breadcrumb topping, a summery tomato and feta salad with lemon dressing and, to finish, a classic pick-me-up of soft amaretti with coffee sauce Italian summer, anyone? I know! Me, too! This might not be a summer when we get to drink espresso with a little amaretti biscuit on the side in situ, but I fully intend to pretend for a good few meals. Amaretti biscuits, Italian extra-virgin olive oil, hard ricotta from Puglia, the sweetest tomatoes and most basil-y of basil leaves you can get your hands on: invest in the power of food to transport. Cin-cin! Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘He dealt with the fish falling off his taco very smoothly’ Posted: 06 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Esteban, 31, stores and shipping assistant, meets Sofia, 29, midwife What were you hoping for? |
| Archbishop of York calls for new vision of what it means to be English Posted: 07 Aug 2021 02:17 AM PDT Stephen Cottrell says it is time to 'rediscover a national unity more fractured than I have ever known it' The archbishop of York has called for a new "expansive" vision of what it means to be English to counter a "negative political discourse and a hopeless future". Courage and compassion should be the cornerstones of an Englishness that people could be proud of, said Stephen Cottrell, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England. Continue reading... |
| Ethiopia conflict set to escalate after Tigray rebels refuse to withdraw Posted: 06 Aug 2021 06:34 PM PDT Government says it will 'deploy entire defensive capability' and Amhara region threatens attack against Tigray forces Ethiopia's spreading conflict has escalated after the government warned that it could deploy its "entire defensive capability" against the restive Tigray region after advances by rebels into neighbouring regions. After the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebuffed calls on Friday to withdraw from the neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions, the government in Addis Ababa said the rebels were testing its patience and threatening the ceasefire called in June. Continue reading... |
| I want this pandemic to end – yet I secretly pine for another lockdown Posted: 07 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT For some of us, living with Covid the past 18 months gave us permission to slow down, and to re-evaluate how we want to live when this is finally over When I walked out of my town's massive conference center in early April, a second Pfizer shot fresh in my arm, a flood of emotions swelled in me. Creeping behind the feelings of joy and anticipation, I felt a strange bit of sadness that, all the way home, I could not shake. When I walked into my house and my three-year-old dashed into my arms, it hit me. 'I think I'm going to miss being locked down,' I realised, in disbelief. Continue reading... |
| NSW Covid lockdown restrictions: update to Sydney and regional NSW coronavirus rules explained Posted: 07 Aug 2021 02:21 AM PDT Covid restrictions extended for greater Sydney, with 8 LGAs in hard lockdown, including stricter mask rules and a 5km radius travel limit. Some restrictions have been eased with some construction to resume and a singles bubble introduced. Here's the full list of what you can and can't do in NSW
Sydney's lockdown has been extended to at least 28 August with a raft of changes to restrictions announced. Three more local government areas have been added to a hard lockdown, which now includes an outdoor mask mandate and a 5km radius travel limit, as cases continue to increase in Sydney's west and south-west. The stricter rules now cover eight LGAs; Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool, Cumberland, Blacktown, Parramatta, Georges River and Campbelltown. Continue reading... |
| A fractured federation? How the closing of state borders in the Covid crisis has raised old quarrels Posted: 06 Aug 2021 01:00 PM PDT I fancy myself a federationist, but when Victoria closed down, I am ashamed to admit that the old serpent of NSW schadenfreude re-awoke in me Last time there was a national cabinet in Australia, I was a somewhat dyslexic six-year-old to nine-year-old and the nation was in great peril. And even then the national war cabinets were not along the lines of the Covid national cabinet – the states were beneath making war policy and had no part in it. Since those days I have seen a gradual accretion of powers to the federal sphere. There was certainly no federal health ministry at federation and, at the last pandemic in 1918-19, quarantine seemed to be the chief health business the federal government was engaged in. A formal federal health ministry was not brought into being until after the pandemic in 1921. As for a federal education ministry, it came into being in 1968, and the first minister was John Gorton. Continue reading... |
| Kris Wu arrest raises hopes for China’s #MeToo movement Posted: 06 Aug 2021 07:29 AM PDT Analysis: public opinion shifting, but reaction from authorities may have related more to crackdown on fame culture It felt like a turning point. The arrest of one of China's biggest pop stars on rape allegations had raised hopes that authorities were finally addressing the country's #MeToo movement. So many recent cases of harassment, abuse or violence against women had been swept under the carpet, excused or smothered by political censorship. But this was Kris Wu, known in China as Wu Yifan: a ubiquitous megastar with numerous international high-end brand endorsement deals. Continue reading... |
| Taliban captures provincial capital in Afghanistan – video Posted: 06 Aug 2021 12:47 PM PDT The Taliban has captured an Afghan provincial capital after pleas for reinforcements by local security forces went unheeded, in a major blow to the western-backed government. Officials in the city near the border with Iran said that government forces had called for reinforcements for more than a week, but their appeals went unanswered. Continue reading... |
| St Vincent leader attacked by anti-vaccine protester – video Posted: 06 Aug 2021 10:30 AM PDT Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, has been taken to hospital after a protester threw a rock at his head during a demonstration led by nurses and other workers in the eastern Caribbean island. The protest was organised by unions representing nurses, police and other workers who claimed that the government planned to mandate vaccines for certain employees. Gonsalves clarified that he would not make vaccines mandatory Continue reading... |
| Thousands evacuate as North Korea floods damage homes and crops – video Posted: 06 Aug 2021 03:32 AM PDT More than 1,100 homes in North Korea were damaged, thousands of people evacuated and farms and roads washed away after days of heavy rains brought flooding, state media reported. Continue reading... |
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