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- US rejoins coalition to achieve 1.5C goal at UN climate talks
- Bosnia is in danger of breaking up, warns EU’s top official in the state
- Six dead and 100 feared missing after tower block collapses in Lagos
- Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg’s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs
- Morrison accused of worsening rift with French government after leak of Macron text
- Robert Durst indicted for murder 39 years after wife Kathie Durst disappeared
- Priti Patel urged to justify claim that most boat migrants are not real refugees
- China accused of blocking media access to Winter Olympics
- New Zealand company founded by students gives employees $10,000 ‘thank you’ bonus
- Carole Baskin sues Netflix for using footage of her in Tiger King 2
- China locks down Shanghai Disneyland and tests 34,000 visitors after single Covid case
- Coronavirus news live: China tells families to ‘stock up’ amid Covid outbreak, Japan’s cases dramatically decline
- Facebook failing to protect users from Covid misinformation, says monitor
- Australians fired for refusing Covid vaccine search social media for ‘welcoming’ employers
- Gemma Whelan: ‘Sex in Game of Thrones could be a frenzied mess’
- Pixel 6 review: the cut-price Google flagship phone
- Move over, Aristotle: can a bot solve moral philosophy?
- My first intimate partner publicly shamed me. Now sex makes me freeze
- ‘Without a puff of fossil fuels …’ My favourite no-fly holiday
- Amélie at 20: how has the sugar-sweet Parisian whimsy aged?
- Adieu gin, au revoir roast beef! How Hogarth became a proud European
- How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
- Salty language: why are UK and France fighting over fishing licences?
- Minister who uses wheelchair denied entry to Cop26 venue
- Sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution | Nesrine Malik
- First Thing: world leaders agree to end deforestation and slash methane emissions
- Two more Mexican journalists killed as reporters condemn worsening violence
- Cleo Smith search: WA police examining ‘every inch’ of campsite for ‘disturbances in sand’
- Nearly two-thirds of those who died young in 2019 were male, research finds
- New Zealand’s children will all soon study the country’s brutal history – it’s not before time | Vincent O’Malley
- Does Salisbury train crash point to wider problems on the network?
- Jacinda Ardern ends press conference after being heckled over Covid vaccines – video
- 'Many people are inside': Building collapses in Nigeria, trapping workers – video
- Children surviving the climate crisis – in pictures
- Shanghai Century: Shanghai Spirit – in pictures
- Seventeen people injured in Tokyo subway knife attack – video
| US rejoins coalition to achieve 1.5C goal at UN climate talks Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:34 AM PDT Exclusive: Boost for attempts to focus Glasgow Cop26 summit on limiting temperature rise The US has rejoined the High Ambition Coalition at the UN climate talks, the group of developed and developing countries that ensured the 1.5C goal was a key plank of the Paris agreement. The decision by the world's biggest economy and second biggest emitter, after China, to return to the High Ambition Coalition group of countries marks a significant boost to attempts to focus the Cop26 summit on limiting temperature rises to 1.5C, the tougher of the two goals of the Paris agreement. Continue reading... |
| Bosnia is in danger of breaking up, warns EU’s top official in the state Posted: 01 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: high representative says threat by Serb separatists to create their own army risks return of conflict The international community's chief representative in Bosnia has warned that the country is in imminent danger of breaking apart, and there is a "very real" prospect of a return to conflict. In a report to the UN seen by the Guardian, Christian Schmidt, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, said that if Serb separatists carry out their threat to recreate their own army, splitting the national armed forces in two, more international peacekeepers would have to be sent back in to stop the slide towards a new war. Continue reading... |
| Six dead and 100 feared missing after tower block collapses in Lagos Posted: 01 Nov 2021 10:22 PM PDT Rescue workers retrieve at least three survivors from rubble of luxury apartments under construction At least six people have died after a luxury residential high-rise under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, collapsed, trapping construction workers under a pile of concrete rubble, the state emergency services chief said. The official, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said a search and rescue effort had been launched for survivors late on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg’s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs Posted: 01 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT A computer company for gamers says it filed to trademark the name a year ago Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech's biggest behemoth. Lucky for Meta PCs, it's already a few months ahead of Facebook in having the name trademarked. According to a document shared by TMZ, the company filed for its trademark in August, a little over a year after it was started. Continue reading... |
| Morrison accused of worsening rift with French government after leak of Macron text Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:37 AM PDT Release of message from French president described as 'highly unconventional behaviour between state leaders' Scott Morrison has been accused of putting his personal political interests ahead of healing Australia's diplomatic rift with France, after the leaking of a text message from Emmanuel Macron to the prime minister. The release of a text received two days before the Aukus announcement – when the French president asked Morrison whether to expect good or bad news on the submarine project – was "highly unconventional behaviour between state leaders", a leading foreign affairs analyst said. Continue reading... |
| Robert Durst indicted for murder 39 years after wife Kathie Durst disappeared Posted: 01 Nov 2021 06:06 PM PDT Real estate heir was hospitalized with Covid after receiving life sentence for murder of his friend Susan Berman Robert Durst was indicted on Monday for murder in the death of his first wife, Kathie McCormack Durst, who disappeared nearly four decades ago. The multimillionaire real estate heir is currently serving a life sentence in California for the murder of Susan Berman, his friend and confidante who prosecutors say helped him cover up Kathie Durst's killing. Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel urged to justify claim that most boat migrants are not real refugees Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Peers question home secretary's basis for saying 70% of people on small boats are 'economic migrants' There are calls for Priti Patel to withdraw or justify claims she made before parliament that most people who travel to the UK in small boats are not genuine asylum seekers. Two Labour peers, David Blunkett and Shami Chakrabarti, have also questioned whether the home secretary has evidence that backs her claim that "70% of individuals on small boats are single men who are effectively economic migrants". Continue reading... |
| China accused of blocking media access to Winter Olympics Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:49 AM PDT Foreign media say authorities have blocked requests for access and harassed reporters Chinese authorities have been accused of "continuously stymying" attempts by foreign media to cover the Winter Olympics, by denying or ignoring requests for access and following, harassing and abusing journalists. In a scathing statement on Tuesday, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, which acts on behalf of foreign media in China, called for transparency and clarity from China's national Olympic organising committee. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand company founded by students gives employees $10,000 ‘thank you’ bonus Posted: 01 Nov 2021 09:20 PM PDT The company, which created an app that is now used in more than 180 countries, wanted to thank its 53 employees for helping it grow An education app founded by a group of university students nine years ago has surprised its 53 employees with a NZ$10,000 bonus, after being named the fastest growing company in New Zealand. Kami, meaning paper in Japanese, is a digital classroom platform and app, which allows teachers and students to interact with, and collaborate on, documents and learning resources, either within the classroom or remotely. Continue reading... |
| Carole Baskin sues Netflix for using footage of her in Tiger King 2 Posted: 01 Nov 2021 08:36 PM PDT Joe Exotic's nemesis accuses streaming giant of breach of contract for using footage of her and husband in trailer for second series Joe Exotic's nemesis Carole Baskin may throw the second series of the hit Tiger King Netflix documentary into disarray after taking legal action in Tampa, Florida. The founder of Big Cat Rescue and her husband, Howard Baskin, have accused Royal Goode Productions and Netflix of breach of contract by using footage of the couple in the trailer of Tiger King 2. Continue reading... |
| China locks down Shanghai Disneyland and tests 34,000 visitors after single Covid case Posted: 01 Nov 2021 09:36 PM PDT The popular theme park became the site of a suspected Delta outbreak, with authorities mass testing tens of thousands in the pursuit of Covid zero As fireworks lit up the sky over Shanghai Disney Resort on Sunday, chatter began to spread through the crowds. Qian, a young Chinese woman who'd decided to spend her Halloween at the theme park, saw a Weibo alert from Disney saying the park had closed and rides had stopped. No more guests could enter Disneyland – those already inside, all 34,000 of them, would have to be tested and isolate. The news filtered through the throngs of parkgoers but, as Qian described, caused no panic, despite the worsening outbreak of Delta across 16 Chinese provinces. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2021 02:24 AM PDT China has urged its citizens to stock up on daily necessities in case of emergency; Japan will gradually ease border restrictions amid falling Covid cases
Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory disease expert who helped formulate China's Covid strategy in early 2020, has told state media the country will not give up on its zero-tolerance policy towards local Covid-19 cases any time soon. President of the Chinese Medical Association from 2005 to 2009 and currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease, he said: The policy will remain for a long time. How long it will last depends on the virus-control situation worldwide. Continue reading... |
| Facebook failing to protect users from Covid misinformation, says monitor Posted: 01 Nov 2021 05:01 PM PDT Twenty accounts and groups tracked by NewsGuard gained more than 370,000 followers over past year Misinformation and sceptical views about Covid-19 and vaccines has been allowed to spread on more than a dozen Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages and groups that together have gained 370,000 followers over the past year, according to a report. The misinformation and promotion of vaccine hesitancy includes posts in Facebook groups claiming that children are being "murdered by the experimental jab they're being pressured to take", and an Instagram account promoting a documentary by Andrew Wakefield, one of the key figures in promoting discredited links between MMR inoculation and autism. Continue reading... |
| Australians fired for refusing Covid vaccine search social media for ‘welcoming’ employers Posted: 01 Nov 2021 03:09 PM PDT People turn to Telegram and Facebook to find jobs as mandates bite
Unvaccinated Australians who have lost their jobs for refusing to comply with Covid vaccine mandates are using social media to find and share employment opportunities at workplaces where the new rules are not being enforced. Telegram and Facebook have had an influx of people searching for paid jobs after states and territories implemented mandates covering a range of industries from health and aged care workers, teachers and police to construction and hospitality workers. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Gemma Whelan: ‘Sex in Game of Thrones could be a frenzied mess’ Posted: 01 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT She had one of the most notorious sex scenes in TV history. But the actor is now making waves as an upstanding cop in The Tower. She talks about intimacy coaches, on-set innuendo and cracking America Deadlines meant I saw ITV's twisty police corruption drama The Tower as a rough cut, featuring on-screen notes about final editing perfections, computer-generated backgrounds, extra lines of dialogue – and the instruction: "Hide pregnancy bump." This related to the increasing evidence of Freddie, now four weeks old, and sleeping between feeds in a pub garden near the London home of his mother, Gemma Whelan, who is amused to hear of this prenatal technology. "Wow!" she says. '"How are they going to do that? Paint it out? Or cut in a waistline from earlier?" Continue reading... |
| Pixel 6 review: the cut-price Google flagship phone Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Top camera, Android 12 and Tensor chip but competitive pricing makes for a bargain The Pixel 6 is Google's affordable flagship phone for 2021 and proves to be a leader in the field with a top-class camera and a new advanced chip at its heart – while undercutting most of the competition on price. The phone costs £599 ($599/A$999), which is £250 less than the Pixel 6 Pro, while still offering 90% of what you get with Google's top model. Screen: 6.4in 90Hz FHD+ OLED (411ppi) Processor: Google Tensor RAM: 8GB of RAM Storage: 128 or 256GB Operating system: Android 12 Camera: 50MP + 12MP ultrawide, 8MP selfie Connectivity: 5G, eSIM, wifi 5, NFC, Bluetooth 5.2 and GNSS Water resistance: IP68 (1.5m for 30 minutes) Dimensions: 158.6 x 74.8 x 8.9mm Weight: 207g Continue reading... |
| Move over, Aristotle: can a bot solve moral philosophy? Posted: 02 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT Delphi, an online AI bot, promises to answer any moral question users pose. We put it to the test Corporal punishment, wearing fur, pineapple on pizza – moral dilemmas, are by their very nature, hard to solve. That's why the same ethical questions are constantly resurfaced in TV, films and literature. But what if AI could take away the brain work and answer ethical quandaries for us? Ask Delphi is a bot that's been fed more than 1.7m examples of people's ethical judgments on everyday questions and scenarios. If you pose an ethical quandary, it will tell you whether something is right, wrong, or indefensible. Continue reading... |
| My first intimate partner publicly shamed me. Now sex makes me freeze Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT I lost my virginity to someone whose sexual needs far exceeded mine. Years later, I still hunger for a trusting relationship, but am haunted by the pain of that initial experience I am a man in my 30s and have recently admitted to myself that I cannot form an intimate sexual relationship. I am not, and never have been, interested in sex for its own sake; I want trust and intimacy even more than sex, although I hunger for both together. I have been close with potential partners many times, but each time I get to the point where the other person wants to progress to sex, I freeze and cannot carry on, until one of us breaks it off. I then hate myself for not following through yet again. Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders. If you would like advice from Pamela on sexual matters, send us a brief description of your concerns to private.lives@theguardian.com (please don't send attachments). Each week, Pamela chooses one problem to answer, which will be published online. She regrets that she cannot enter into personal correspondence. Submissions are subject to our terms and conditions: see gu.com/letters-terms. Comments on this piece are premoderated to ensure discussion remains on topics raised by the writer. Please be aware there may be a short delay in comments appearing on the site. Continue reading... |
| ‘Without a puff of fossil fuels …’ My favourite no-fly holiday Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT With Cop26 in full swing, we ask environmentalists and nature writers where they take a break without it costing the Earth Holly Tuppen, sustainable travel writer |
| Amélie at 20: how has the sugar-sweet Parisian whimsy aged? Posted: 01 Nov 2021 11:02 PM PDT Jean-Pierre Jeunet's fantastical romantic comedy made a star of Audrey Tautou and its distinctive visuals influenced a decade's worth of film-makers There's a defining moment early in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie when Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou), a painfully shy and uncommonly adorable waitress at the Two Windmills cafe in Montmartre, arranges the return of childhood treasures to a middle-aged man who'd hidden them in her apartment building 40 years earlier. She has gone through an exhaustive search to find this man, meeting all manner of eccentric Parisians along the way, but she eventually summons the right person to a phone booth and watches the tears roll down his cheeks as this tin full of trinkets unleashes a flood of memories. As she glides blissfully through the frame, the narrator says, "Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony. It's a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her." Continue reading... |
| Adieu gin, au revoir roast beef! How Hogarth became a proud European Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT His most famous satires are often seen as part Shakespeare comedy, part Carry On film. But Tate Britain's Hogarth and Europe exhibition shows the artist was no Little Englander In one of his most celebrated paintings, O the Roast Beef of Old England, William Hogarth appears as himself, sketching the fortifications at Calais at the very moment of being mistakenly arrested as a spy in 1748. It is not what you would call a subtle scene. The raggedy French soldiers are on their last legs, barely sustained by watery soup, while a gaggle of fishwives resemble the flounder they are selling from their tatty basket. There's a fat, greedy friar trying to get his hands on a sumptuous joint of beef which has just been unloaded and is on its way to one of the many English restaurants that thrive in Calais (only 200 years earlier the town had belonged to Britain). Spying, by implication, is not something that Britons resort to, although the figure of Hogarth busily sketching to one side is a warning not to dismiss John Bull as dense. The "Old England" Hogarth conjures up here is affluent, abundant and free. The French, meanwhile, are reduced to a series of humiliating stereotypes: silly, salacious and in thrall to the absolutist Roman Catholic church (you can just make out some gorgeously attired priests and abasing peasants in the background). It is easy to see why Hogarth is so often positioned as the founding father of a particular strand of art which is essentially British: figurative, storytelling and not afraid to poke fun at itself. His most famous social satires including A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode are often read as a cross between a Shakespearean comedy and a Carry On film, with more disguises, reversals of fortune, libidinous ladies and drunken lads than you can shake a bottle of gin at. Continue reading... |
| How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile Posted: 01 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Listening to the women who alleged abuse, and fighting to get their stories heard, helped change the treatment of victims by the media and the justice system On Saturday 29 October 2011, the day the entertainer Jimmy Savile died aged 84, a couple of comments were posted on the Duncroft School page of the networking site Friends Reunited. Duncroft was designated as an "approved school" by the Home Office, and offered residential care for "intelligent but emotionally disturbed girls". "He died today, RIP no RIH yes rot in hell," read one message. "Perhaps some closure for the childhoods that were ruined by this animal." Over the next few days a handful more messages appeared: "You child molester – you were no better than all the other pervs who have been banged up … only your celebrity status saved you." Someone else wrote how she would never recover from what "JS" did to her. Across the news bulletins and weekend front pages, Savile was being given a sendoff fitting for someone who had achieved national treasure status. As BBC Radio 1 DJ, and co-presenter of the BBC's flagship music programme Top of the Pops, Savile became a personality in the pop music scene in the 60s and 70s; his oddness and mannerisms enhanced his celebrity. As the host of the long-running Saturday evening TV show Jim'll Fix It, he played godfather, granting the wishes to children who wrote in. On the Monday after his death, during the news editors' 9.15 morning meeting at BBC headquarters in west London, those present were asked to take coverage of Savile's funeral seriously. The concern was that the news editors might sneer at Savile; they were reminded that, to much of the audience, Savile was a northern hero. He had started out working in the mines, going on to earn a knighthood and befriend royalty through his television shows and charity work. Continue reading... |
| Salty language: why are UK and France fighting over fishing licences? Posted: 02 Nov 2021 12:13 AM PDT At the heart of the row is the Brexit deal's failure to spell out what proof French fishers need to get a permit Britain and France have been at loggerheads over post-Brexit fishing licences for UK waters since the start of the year. Talks are continuing but both sides have threatened action – and mistranslations have not helped. Continue reading... |
| Minister who uses wheelchair denied entry to Cop26 venue Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:55 AM PDT Israeli minister hits out at 'outrageous' treatment after waiting for two hours before having to return to hotel An Israeli minister has described how she was denied entry to the Cop26 summit because as a wheelchair user she was unable to access the Glasgow venue, criticising the refusal to accommodate her as "outrageous". Karine Elharrar, Israel's energy and water resources minister, who has muscular dystrophy, waited for two hours outside after organisers refused to let her enter the compound in the vehicle in which she had arrived, she said. Continue reading... |
| Sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution | Nesrine Malik Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT Mercenaries, the army and Bashir-era business interests have seized control and will sell the country's resources to the highest bidder Last week in Sudan, two years disappeared in a flash. Two years of working to bring Sudan in from the cold after almost three decades of isolation. Two years of trying to establish a civilian government. Two years of mourning those who had died in Sudan's revolution to oust Omar al-Bashir. And two years of tentative hope that perhaps these deaths had not been in vain. In the end, all that mattered was that it was two years during which the military grew tired of partnering with civilians in a transitional power-sharing agreement. Last week, the army seized power in a coup that erased everything the Sudanese people had gained since Bashir's military government was toppled in 2019. That revolution had reignited hope for democratic rule, not only in Sudan, but across the Arab world. In hindsight, its short-lived nature seems inevitable. Sudan's uprising may have removed Bashir, but behind him sat a military and security state with deep roots and complex economic interests. When it became clear that the Sudanese people were not going to tolerate another military figurehead as a replacement for Bashir, an agreement with civilian parties resulted in a transitional power-sharing arrangement that should have paved the way for elections. Continue reading... |
| First Thing: world leaders agree to end deforestation and slash methane emissions Posted: 02 Nov 2021 02:14 AM PDT Historic declaration at Cop26 commits countries to reducing major causes of CO2 emissions plus, the end of the avocado Good morning. World leaders have agreed a deal that aims to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to tackle human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Major producers and consumers of deforestation-linked commodities including Indonesia, China and Brazil have put their name to the deforestation deal, which aims to curtail the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The detailed US proposals on methane gases may prove to be one of the lasting successes of Cop26 in Glasgow where Biden will announce his action plan. On Monday, Biden urged other world leaders to embark upon a shift to clean energy and vowed that the US will 'lead by example'. What else is causing the illegal market to thrive? Business owners say high taxes, the limited availability of licenses, and expensive regulatory costs have put the legal market out of reach. How do those who are licensed to sell cannabis legally stay afloat? For now, the only way legal, state-licensed businesses say they are able to stay profitable is to keep one foot in the illegal, unlicensed market. Continue reading... |
| Two more Mexican journalists killed as reporters condemn worsening violence Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:57 PM PDT Veteran reporter Fredy López Arévalo shot and killed inside his home while photojournalist Alfredo Cardoso taken by gunmen Mexican journalists have expressed alarm after two veteran reporters were attacked in their own homes in less than 24 hours, bringing this year's death toll for media workers to nine – already surpassing the eight deaths recorded in 2020. Fredy López Arévalo, a veteran reporter in the southern state of Chiapas, was shot in the head inside his home in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas on Thursday. López had covered Central American politics and the Zapatista uprising for news organisations such as Reuters, the Los Angeles Times and Notimex, and he still reported on the local political situation. Continue reading... |
| Cleo Smith search: WA police examining ‘every inch’ of campsite for ‘disturbances in sand’ Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:39 AM PDT Officers also sifting through garbage collected from roadside bins near where four-year-old went missing West Australian police are using drones and aircraft to create a detailed map of the Blowholes campsite as they look for "disturbances in the sand" during the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of four-year-old Cleo Smith. Police recruits are also sifting through a mountain of rubbish collected from roadside bins stretching more than 600km along Western Australia's north-west coast in the hope of finding any clue that could lead to Cleo. Continue reading... |
| Nearly two-thirds of those who died young in 2019 were male, research finds Posted: 01 Nov 2021 05:36 AM PDT Boys and young men neglected in efforts to tackle mortality in 10- to 24-year-olds, Lancet report says, with a failure to address violence, substance use and accidents Boys and men are more likely than women to die as teenagers or young adults, according to new research that warns the gender gap in mortality rates for that age group is widening in many countries. In 2019, boys and young men aged 10 to 24 accounted for nearly two-thirds (61%) of all global deaths. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2021 05:35 PM PDT A more truthful understanding of history is largely dependent on education. A lot is riding on the success of this new curriculum Aotearoa New Zealand has come a long way in the past few years in its efforts to engage with its history in a more upfront and honest manner. For those of us who have campaigned for such a change, this is not before time. This newfound willingness to move beyond a rose-tinted approach to the nation's past in which anything uncomfortable or considered to reflect poorly on the Pākehā (European) majority is shunned and ignored has taken considerable effort and is still very much a work in progress. Continue reading... |
| Does Salisbury train crash point to wider problems on the network? Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:35 PM PDT Analysis: while UK railways have an excellent safety record, dangerous incidents have been increasing in frequency Rail accident inspectors have said it is too early to release indications of what caused the collision between two trains at Salisbury on Sunday evening. But by now CCTV and data logs from signals and trains are likely to have given them a strong idea of what led the Great Western and South Western Railway services to crash into each other. That might prove to be a fault with the signal; or that a train passed a red light; that the brakes failed; or even that the brakes worked but the wheels slid, in the season when leaves on the line can make the rails treacherous. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern ends press conference after being heckled over Covid vaccines – video Posted: 02 Nov 2021 01:09 AM PDT The New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, abruptly halted a media conference after being heckled by at least two people who appeared to be anti-vaxxers. One man claiming to be a journalist continued interrupting, asking Ardern: 'Why is the vaccine not working in Israel? And you are still pushing it.' Ardern replied: 'Sir, I will shut down the press conference if this continues.' For context, Israel is recording a seven-day average of about 600 new daily cases, compared with a peak of about 11,000 daily infections in September. No vaccine on the market claims to be 100% effective at preventing transmission |
| 'Many people are inside': Building collapses in Nigeria, trapping workers – video Posted: 01 Nov 2021 05:22 PM PDT A residential high-rise building under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos collapsed, trapping up to 100 workers under a pile of concrete rubble. The building was in the affluent neighbourhood of Ikoyi, where many blocks of flats are under construction. Building collapses are frequent in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, where regulations are poorly enforced and construction materials often substandard. Continue reading... |
| Children surviving the climate crisis – in pictures Posted: 01 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PDT Save the Children has been documenting the stories of children living on the frontline of the climate crisis, sending world-renowned photographers to Cambodia, Australia and Pakistan to learn about their lives Continue reading... |
| Shanghai Century: Shanghai Spirit – in pictures Posted: 01 Nov 2021 03:05 AM PDT A new exhibition captures the changing face of Shanghai through the past two centuries and the development of the past 30 years, from street photography to fashion shoots, from the intimacy of the lilongs to the grandeur of public facades. The exhibition is presented by Porsche in collaboration with the Shanghai Centre of Photography
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| Seventeen people injured in Tokyo subway knife attack – video Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:42 AM PDT A 24-year-old man was arrested after brandishing a knife and starting a fire on a train in Tokyo on Sunday night. The incident occurred on a Keio Line train near Kokuryo station in the western Tokyo city of Chofu. Seventeen people were injured, including a 72-year-old passenger who was stabbed on the train. Continue reading... |
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