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- Novak Djokovic visa: Australian minister Alex Hawke says risk of ‘civil unrest’ behind cancellation
- Virginia Giuffre seeks testimony from Prince Andrew’s former assistant
- Ashes 2021-22 fifth Test, day two: Australia v England – live!
- Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find
- Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population
- Alec Baldwin hands over phone in film shooting investigation
- Tonga tsunami warning as volcano erupts at sea
- Scepticism in uneasy Kazakhstan as president promises reform
- Lawsuit claims Facebook and Google CEOs were aware of deal to control advertising sales
- Mike Pence equates voting rights protections with Capitol attack
- Covid live news: pressure grows on Boris Johnson over lockdown parties; Djokovic to spend night in detention
- As Covid-19 peak seems to near, experts warn against letting guard down
- Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico’
- Panting, moaning and ‘pussy-gazing’: the couple who podcast their ‘elevated sex’ sessions
- Ann Dowd: ‘My closest brush with the law? Stealing lamb chops from a Chicago supermarket’
- Thank you for giving generously to the Guardian and Observer charity appeal
- Aligot, khachapuri and spätzle: Yotam Ottolenghi’s super-cheesy recipes
- ‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ – how cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction
- Joe Biden’s low point: can the president revive his sinking popularity?
- ‘It’s wonderful to be here’: snowdrop festival returns to Devon village
- Dakar Rally 2022: veterans, debuts and biofuels – a photo essay
- Covid global report: Omicron alert in southern Chinese city bordering Macau
- Australia’s first-dose vaccination reaches 95%; Djokovic back in hotel detention – as it happened
- Ashling Murphy: thousands attend vigils across Ireland for teacher killed going for run – video
| Novak Djokovic visa: Australian minister Alex Hawke says risk of ‘civil unrest’ behind cancellation Posted: 14 Jan 2022 08:38 PM PST Hawke says tennis champion is 'perceived by some as a talisman of a community of anti-vaccine sentiment'
Tennis champion Novak Djokovic, who has been described as a risk to "civil unrest" and a "talisman of anti-vaccination sentiment", may never get the chance to defend his Australian Open title, facing a three-year ban from the country ahead of a last-ditch court challenge to stay. Australia's immigration minister, Alex Hawke, personally cancelled the unvaccinated world No 1's visa, arguing his presence in Australia could incite "civil unrest" and encourage others to eschew vaccination against Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Virginia Giuffre seeks testimony from Prince Andrew’s former assistant Posted: 14 Jan 2022 01:53 PM PST Attorneys say they have 'reason to believe' that Robert Olney has 'relevant information' about duke's relationship with Epstein Prince Andrew's longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre is seeking testimony from his former equerry, according to court papers in her sexual abuse lawsuit against the royal. Giuffre's attorneys said on Friday that they had "reason to believe" that Robert Olney, the Duke of York's past assistant, has "relevant information about Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein". Continue reading... |
| Ashes 2021-22 fifth Test, day two: Australia v England – live! Posted: 15 Jan 2022 01:49 AM PST
64th over: Australia 246-7 (Carey 12, Cummins 0) There's a bat pad for Wood now. He nabs Starc as described. Cummins is next, and Wood is wayward down the legside but Billings gloves it brilliantly, sprawling to his left. Wood is clearly trying to shorten him up, as Cummins ducks another. So Wood comes around the wicket and he hits Cummins. The skipper wanted to duck, it wasn't that high, and it careers into (what looks like) his forearm. Continue reading... |
| Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST Exclusive: Studies show high temperatures and air pollution during pregnancy can cause lifelong health effects The climate crisis is damaging the health of foetuses, babies and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Scientists discovered increased heat was linked to fast weight gain in babies, which increases the risk of obesity in later life. Higher temperatures were also linked to premature birth, which can have lifelong health effects, and to increased hospital admissions of young children. Continue reading... |
| Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST Conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules Finland is joining Sweden and Norway in culling wolves this winter to control their population, as conservation groups appeal to the European Union to take action against the slaughter. Hunters in Sweden have already shot dead most of their annual target of 27 wolves, while Finland is to authorise the killing of 20 wolves in its first "population management cull" for seven years. Continue reading... |
| Alec Baldwin hands over phone in film shooting investigation Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:32 AM PST Actor's phone is turned over to authorities investigating fatal shooting on New Mexico film set in October Alec Baldwin has handed over his cellphone to investigators who are looking into the fatal shooting on the New Mexico set of the film Rust in October, his attorney and a law enforcement official said. A search warrant for Baldwin's iPhone was issued in December. The Santa Fe County, New Mexico, sheriff's office had said earlier this week that it was still trying to obtain the device from the 30 Rock actor. Continue reading... |
| Tonga tsunami warning as volcano erupts at sea Posted: 14 Jan 2022 11:52 PM PST Alert in Pacific nation after latest in a series of spectacular eruptions from the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano The Pacific nation of Tonga issued a tsunami warning on Saturday after an undersea volcano erupted. Video posted to social media showed large waves washing ashore in coastal areas. Continue reading... |
| Scepticism in uneasy Kazakhstan as president promises reform Posted: 14 Jan 2022 09:00 PM PST Thousands of people still in jail after protests while behind-the-scenes power struggle continues Kazakhstan's president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who at the height of unrest last week said he had ordered troops to shoot to kill without warning, has spent this week taking a softer line and promising genuine reform. However, with thousands of people still in detention and a behind-the-scenes power struggle still not fully resolved, many have expressed scepticism. Continue reading... |
| Lawsuit claims Facebook and Google CEOs were aware of deal to control advertising sales Posted: 14 Jan 2022 06:12 PM PST Newly revealed documents from the complaint against Google shed light on potential advertising sales manipulation Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were allegedly aware of and approved a deal to collaborate on the potential manipulation of advertising sales, according to newly revealed documents. The documents, which came to light on Friday, were filed as part of a lawsuit against Google brought by the attorneys general of multiple US states. The lawsuit was first filed in December 2020 and claimed Google misled publishers and advertisers about the price and process of advertising auctions. At that time, many documents and parts of the lawsuit were redacted, but court rulings have since made them public. Continue reading... |
| Mike Pence equates voting rights protections with Capitol attack Posted: 14 Jan 2022 03:48 PM PST Ex-vice-president says Democratic push to expand voter access and 6 January effort to overturn the election are both 'power grabs' Mike Pence has equated Democratic efforts to pass voting rights protections with the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, writing in a staggeringly misleading and inaccurate op-ed that both were "power grabs" which posed a threat to the US constitution. As vice-president to Donald Trump, Pence refused to overturn the 2020 election, rebuffing pressure to reject valid slates of electors at the Capitol on 6 January 2021. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Jan 2022 01:47 AM PST British PM faces fresh allegations that staff held regular drinking sessions when social mixing was prohibited, as Serbian tennis star fights deportation from Australia As the United States's Covid peak seems to near, with hospitalisations and cases seemingly subsiding in states with high vaccination rates, experts have cautioned against letting our guard down and celebrating too soon. Eric Berger has this report: As Covid-19 peak seems to near, experts warn against letting guard down Continue reading... |
| As Covid-19 peak seems to near, experts warn against letting guard down Posted: 14 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST Hospitalizations and cases seem to be subsiding in states with high vaccination rates, but experts caution against celebrating too soon In February 2021, Dr Craig Spencer wrote in a Medium post that he was as "eager as anyone to see the end of this pandemic. Thankfully, that may be in sight". "Covid cases and hospitalizations are dropping," wrote Spencer, director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. "Vaccines are getting into arms. So, what happens next?" Continue reading... |
| Guillermo Del Toro: ‘I saw real corpses when I was growing up in Mexico’ Posted: 15 Jan 2022 01:00 AM PST In his new film Nightmare Alley, the Oscar-winning director abandons fantasy for gritty noir – but, as he knows from his childhood, humanity has its own share of monsters Guillermo Del Toro used to describe Hollywood as "the Land of the Slow No". Here was a place where a director could die waiting for a project to be greenlit. "The natural state of a movie is to be unmade," he says over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. "I have about 20 scripts that I lug around that no one wants to make and that's fine: it's the nature of the business. It's a miracle when anything at all gets made." Nevertheless, Del Toro has established himself as this century's leading fantasy film-maker, more inventive than latter-day Tim Burton and less bombastic than Peter Jackson (with whom he co-wrote the Hobbit trilogy). From the haunting adult fairytale Pan's Labyrinth and the voluptuously garish Hellboy romps to his beauty-and-the-fish love story The Shape of Water, which won four Oscars, he is the master of the glutinous phantasmagoria. Continue reading... |
| Panting, moaning and ‘pussy-gazing’: the couple who podcast their ‘elevated sex’ sessions Posted: 14 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST Lacey Haynes and Flynn Talbot want to improve the world's love life – starting by doing it live on air in every episode Lacey Haynes is a women's "intuitive healer", and guides couples in yoga-informed "elevated sex". When she opens her front door, the first thing I notice about the Canadian podcaster is her fashionable faux fur slippers and chic blunt fringe. Where is the western wellness guru uniform of linen tunic, elephant-print trousers and culturally inappropriate head jewellery, I wonder? Inside the living room, I spot the hot-pink sofa that Haynes' Australian husband, Flynn Talbot, a men's life coach and fellow elevated sex practitioner, calls "love island". Fans of their podcast – Lacey and Flynn Have Sex – will know it as one of many locations around their house where they take the title literally, recording themselves having sex in the bedroom, on the kitchen barstool, and beyond. Continue reading... |
| Ann Dowd: ‘My closest brush with the law? Stealing lamb chops from a Chicago supermarket’ Posted: 15 Jan 2022 01:30 AM PST The Handmaid's Tale actor on her crush on Clint Eastwood and selling frozen food over the phone Born in Massachusetts, Ann Dowd, 65, appeared in the films Lorenzo's Oil and Philadelphia, and had various roles in the TV series Law & Order. She received award nominations for her performances in the 2012 film Compliance and the HBO series The Leftovers. Since 2017, she has played Aunt Lydia in the drama series The Handmaid's Tale, winning an Emmy. Her more recent movies include Hereditary and Rebecca; her latest, Mass, is in cinemas and on Sky Cinema from January 20. She is married to actor Lawrence Arancio; they have three children and live in New York City. Aside from a property, what's the most expensive thing you've bought? |
| Thank you for giving generously to the Guardian and Observer charity appeal Posted: 14 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST This weekend is the last chance to donate to our 2021 appeal supporting those on the frontline of the climate emergency
In this year's Guardian and Observer charity appeal we have supported communities and individuals hit hardest by the climate emergency, people who have seen their lives upended and livelihoods lost by extreme weather. It's a topical issue, and not going away – and there is still time to donate: so far we have raised over £800,000. Our appeal is shaped by vivid stories of climate emergency: floods, drought and wildfires; from reindeer killed by unnatural arctic heat to chronic crop failure by the shores of Lake Victoria. At its heart, however, lies inequality and poverty: the stark truth is the countries least responsible for global emissions have by far suffered worst from climate-induced disasters. Continue reading... |
| Aligot, khachapuri and spätzle: Yotam Ottolenghi’s super-cheesy recipes Posted: 15 Jan 2022 01:30 AM PST Melted cheese is always good, and especially on the gloomiest of days: indulge in this German spin on mac'n'cheese, or a Georgian bread filled with a lake of cheese and egg, or winter veg on super-cheesy mash Blue Monday may or may not be the most gloomy day of the year, but it's a good idea to have some pre-emptive preparations in place either way. For me, that always takes the form of food and its unfailing ability to comfort. From there, it tends to be a very short step to melted cheese: grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza, mac'n'cheese, tuna melt … it's no coincidence that so many people's favourite comfort food is basically an excuse to melt, stretch and eat cheese. No need to smile for the camera, but we can all still say, "Cheeeeese!" UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Continue reading... |
| ‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ – how cryptocurrency dealing fuels addiction Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST Fears rise over how unregulated trading and promotion of crypto assets are creating a new generation of addicts Steven has lost more bitcoin than most people will ever own. Raised on the remote Shetland archipelago, he left school at 13 to become a trawlerman before moving into construction, eventually earning £85,000 a year digging tunnels for Crossrail. "But my mind would twist and I'd go all in, like a poker player that thought he had the perfect hand. I was convinced I was going to be a bitcoin millionaire." Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden’s low point: can the president revive his sinking popularity? Posted: 14 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST After a week of setbacks, some analysts say time is running short to impress voters ahead of the November polls Even for a White House familiar with roadblocks and frustration, Thursday's setbacks on vaccine mandates and voting rights came as hammer blows. Aside from the immediate derailing of two key policy tenets of Joe Biden's administration, the vaccine ruling by the supreme court, which quickly followed Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema's public assassination of his voting reform efforts, prompted a new round of questions over whether his presidency was doomed. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s wonderful to be here’: snowdrop festival returns to Devon village Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST Galanthophiles flock to Buckland Monachorum for 375 varieties of the flower that tells us spring is on the way In the winter sunshine they glinted and gleamed, bright white flowers dotted around the lawns and wooded slopes of a glorious garden on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. And within minutes of opening its doors, the Garden House was busy with hordes of galanthophiles – snowdrop lovers – taking in the sight of a beloved flower that at this time of year provides a vivid reminder that warmer, cheerier seasons are ahead. Continue reading... |
| Dakar Rally 2022: veterans, debuts and biofuels – a photo essay Posted: 15 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST This year's rally once again returned to Saudi Arabia where 750 competitors in 430 vehicles traversed more than 8,000km over 12 stages. The rally started and ended in Jeddah, going through canyons and cliffs in the Neom region, passing by the Red Sea coastline, into stretches of dunes surrounding the capital Riyadh. Click here to check out images of the rally from yesteryear From Jeddah to Riyadh and everywhere in between, this has been a visually spectacular year at the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. Fourteen days of dunes, fast straight tracks, rocky sections, and cliff backdrops. Titles have been contested and first-time entrants have been broken in. All of the contestants were hoping for glory in the vast desert landscape where mistakes are rarely forgiven, but few claimed it. The dust settles on the world's toughest rallying event and a variety of stories emerge from the Saudi desert. Nani Roma, the seasoned veteran who has won the Dakar on both a motorbike and in a car, showed us how far biofuels have come in recent years. Bahrain Raid Extreme driver Nani Roma and co-driver Alex Haro Bravo drive their Prodrive Hunter T1 on Stage 7 from Riyadh to Al Dawadimi. Photograph: Marian Chytka Continue reading... |
| Covid global report: Omicron alert in southern Chinese city bordering Macau Posted: 14 Jan 2022 10:15 PM PST
The southern Chinese city of Zhuhai has suspended public bus routes after announcing it had detected at least seven cases of the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant there and warning residents not to leave the city. The coastal city, which borders the gambling hub Macau, said late on Friday that Omicron had been detected in one mildly ill and six asymptomatic patients, after mass testing due to a case in a neighbouring city. Continue reading... |
| Australia’s first-dose vaccination reaches 95%; Djokovic back in hotel detention – as it happened Posted: 14 Jan 2022 10:41 PM PST Health minister Greg Hunt calls vaccine levels a sign of hope; tennis star returns to detention in Melbourne's Park Hotel. This blog is now closed
Hillsong church says the singing and dancing at their youth summer camp bears no resemblance to a music festival. This is Sian Cain's piece from yesterday – somehow I'd missed seeing the video footage. Oh yeah, totally doesn't look anything like a music festival: Continue reading... |
| Ashling Murphy: thousands attend vigils across Ireland for teacher killed going for run – video Posted: 14 Jan 2022 03:02 PM PST Thousands have gathered in towns and cities across Ireland after the 'senseless' killing of the 23-year-old teacher, with echoes of the national reckoning that was sparked in the UK last year by the murder of Sarah Everard. Murphy was killed on Wednesday afternoon while going for a run along the banks of the Grand Canal in Tullamore in County Offaly Continue reading... |
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