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- Twenty-four dead in Gaza after Jerusalem violence spreads
- US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay decreased – report
- Global renewable energy industry grew at fastest rate since 1999 last year
- Nasa spacecraft leaves asteroid Bennu with a belly full of space rock samples
- Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps
- China’s population growing at slowest rate in generations
- ‘I’m nothing like that person’: Texas death row inmate makes video plea for clemency
- California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state
- Golden Globes backlash: Tom Cruise hands back awards and NBC drops broadcast
- Airline passengers fined $20,000 as US agency cracks down on unruly fliers
- Coronavirus live news: India variant ‘of concern’ globally, says WHO; Pfizer vaccine approved for US 12-15-year-olds
- What is the deadly ‘black fungus’ seen in Covid patients in India?
- Why China and east Asia’s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery
- The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory
- Olivia Williams: ‘I’ve been close enough to stardom to see how horrifying it is’
- She broke her NDA to speak out against Pinterest. Now she’s helping others come forward
- Post-traumatic growth: the woman who learned to live a profoundly good life after loss
- Nepal says its Covid response is under control – everyone can see it’s not true
- Hear me out: why 2005’s House of Wax isn’t a bad movie
- ‘Pro-worker’ Republicans are status quo toadies cloaked as populists | Bhaskar Sunkara
- Algorithmic assumptions are everywhere but it turns out Instagram couldn’t know me any worse | Zoe Wiliams
- Lost and far from home, these whales are emblems for our times | Philip Hoare
- Why Scotland’s election result is unlikely to hasten a referendum | Michael Keating
- My son is far from home – and all he misses is the plants | Emma Beddington
- Nepal is being overwhelmed by Covid. We need help | KP Sharma Oli
- Keir Starmer’s botched reshuffle exposes his loss of authority | Owen Jones
- Trainer: Kentucky Derby winner faces disqualification due to ‘cancel culture’
- Sir Alex Ferguson: ‘Did I think we could still beat Bayern in 1999? No chance!’
- Quarterback Tim Tebow poised for NFL comeback … as a tight end
- Liz Cambage backtracks on Olympic boycott over ‘white-washing’ of photos
- Fulham relegated as Ashley Westwood and Chris Wood strike for Burnley
- The New York Yankees aren’t evil any more, they’re just boring
- Luka Doncic ejected from Mavericks game after ‘aggressive strike to the groin’
- The Post Office scandal – part 2
- Madonna: Truth or Dare at 30 – the most revealing pop star documentary ever?
- Shaun Ryder: ‘I was a heroin addict for 20-odd years, but there’s been no damage off that’
- ‘This is exciting for artists’: is this project the future of billboards?
- The Salesman: Arthur Miller’s American classic reframed in Iran
- Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux review – death, drugs and board games
- Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey join forces for mental health TV series
- Servants review – evil permeates a Catholic seminary
- Marianne Faithfull, AJ Tracey and more: May’s best album reviews
- ‘We had a therapist on set’ – William Jackson Harper on The Underground Railroad
- Families call for UN to launch inquiry into police killings of Black Americans
- Republican says party leader dismissed his warnings of Capitol violence
- Melinda Gates began divorce moves at time Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein revealed
- Tiger briefly on the loose in Texas suburb, viral video shows
- US ship fires 30 warning shots after Iranian vessels approach fleet
- US bans sex discrimination against LGBT people in healthcare
- Biden says ‘no evidence’ Russia involved in US pipeline hack but Putin should act
- Cali is the cockpit of chaos as Colombia protests threaten to spiral out of control
- China tourist left clinging to 100m-high bridge after glass panels smash
- Top Russian doctor at Navalny clinic found after disappearance
- Escape tunnel found under Western Australia immigration detention centre
- Stock markets slide as tech selloff spooks investors – business live
- French soldiers accuse government of trying to ‘silence’ warnings of civil war
- Hidden scars: mentally ill patients lost in Yemen’s war
- Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday
- ‘A hopeless situation’: oxygen shortage fuels Nepal’s Covid crisis
- Experts call for mandatory recycling of products containing rare metals
- Angela Rayner vows to reconnect Labour with working class voters
- Back up pictures – and don’t forget prints: nine ways to organise your photographs
- Thomasina Miers’ recipe for chicken and asparagus salad with peanut dressing | The simple fix
- Israel: car hits Palestinian protesters after being pelted with stones – video
- Meghan: Covid has wiped out 'generation of economic gain' for women
- Clashes in Jerusalem and fireworks in Russia – Monday’s best photos
- 100 days of Myanmar’s military coup – in pictures
| Twenty-four dead in Gaza after Jerusalem violence spreads Posted: 10 May 2021 10:28 PM PDT Seven of the deaths were members of a single family, including three children, health officials say Twenty-four people, including nine children, have died in Gaza, the enclave's health ministry has announced, following all-night airstrikes from the Israeli military, which accused Palestinian militants of launching more than 200 rockets. After weeks of intense violence in Jerusalem, Hamas, the Islamist group that rules inside Gaza, fired a barrage of rockets towards the holy city on Monday evening, believed to be the first time it had targeted the city in more than seven years. Continue reading... |
| US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers’ pay decreased – report Posted: 10 May 2021 09:01 PM PDT Workers saw 2% decrease as companies gave leaders bonuses and forgiving performance benchmarks amid pandemic The millionaire CEOs of some of the American companies with the lowest-paid workers saw an average pay raise of 29% in 2020 while their workers saw a 2% decrease, according to a report released Tuesday. The Institute for Policy Studies calculated that the average CEO compensation in 2020 was $15.3m when looking at the 100 companies with the lowest median wage for workers in the S&P 500 index. Continue reading... |
| Global renewable energy industry grew at fastest rate since 1999 last year Posted: 10 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT New wind and solar power projects in China, Europe and the US spurred 45% rise in capacity The world's renewable energy industry grew at its fastest pace since 1999 last year, despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and may have established a standard for growth in the future, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The global energy watchdog revealed that the delivery of renewable energy projects, including windfarms and solar power projects, grew by 45% last year in a step change for the global industry. Continue reading... |
| Nasa spacecraft leaves asteroid Bennu with a belly full of space rock samples Posted: 10 May 2021 04:06 PM PDT Osiris-Rex has been flying around the ancient asteroid since 2018 and collected nearly a pound of rubble last fall With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a Nasa spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years. Continue reading... |
| Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps Posted: 10 May 2021 11:38 PM PDT As many as 19.6 million users could be eligible for compensation, with damages of £1.5bn sought Apple is facing a billionpound legal claim after being accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging millions of people for apps on its App Store. The tech company has been accused of deliberately shutting out the competition in the store and forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating "excessive" profits for itself in the process. Continue reading... |
| China’s population growing at slowest rate in generations Posted: 11 May 2021 12:06 AM PDT Census data reveals demographic timebomb, adding pressure on Beijing to boost incentives for couples to have more children China has reported the slowest population growth since the early 1960s, despite scrapping its one-child policy in 2015 to encourage more births and stave off a looming demographic crisis. On Tuesday, the Chinese government released the results of its once-a-decade census, saying the overall population of China grew to 1.41178 billion in the 10 years to 2020, up by 5.38%. The increase reflects an average annual rise of 0.53%, down from 0.57% reported from 2000 to 2010. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m nothing like that person’: Texas death row inmate makes video plea for clemency Posted: 10 May 2021 11:09 AM PDT Quintin Jones, who is scheduled to be executed 19 May, appealed to the governor in a video published in the New York Times The death row prisoner stares into the camera from behind bullet-proof glass, and with a pained expression delivers a message to the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. "I know you don't know me," Quintin Jones begins. "I'm writing this letter to ask you if you could find it in your heart to grant me clemency, so I don't get executed on 19 May. I got two weeks to live, starting today." Continue reading... |
| California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state Posted: 10 May 2021 03:53 PM PDT Majority of counties now under emergency declaration as California faces extensive dry spell and dwindling water supply California has expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the nation's most populated state amid "acute water supply shortages" in northern and central parts of California. The declaration, expanded by Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, now includes 41 of 58 counties, covering 30% of California's nearly 40 million people. The US drought monitor shows most of the state and the American west is in extensive drought just a few years after California emerged from a punishing multiyear dry spell. Continue reading... |
| Golden Globes backlash: Tom Cruise hands back awards and NBC drops broadcast Posted: 10 May 2021 12:52 PM PDT Actor and network join industry figures distancing themselves from Hollywood Foreign Press Association after exposé Tom Cruise has returned his three Golden Globes in protest after criticisms levelled at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association continue to create problems in the industry. The actor, who won for Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, is one of many to stand up against the HFPA, the small group of international journalists who vote on the awards, after an exposé highlighted failings. NBC has also announced that it will not be airing the 2022 Golden Globes. Continue reading... |
| Airline passengers fined $20,000 as US agency cracks down on unruly fliers Posted: 10 May 2021 06:31 PM PDT One man ignored orders to wear a mask and is being fined $10,500 while another faces a $9,000 charge for shouting profanities The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced fines totaling $20,000 against two airline passengers who interfered with crews. The civil penalties come as as part of a zero-tolerance policy designed to combat a surge of similar cases in recent months. The agency said it will seek a $10,500 fine against a passenger who repeatedly ignored orders to wear a mask, which is required by federal regulation, then coughed and blew his nose into a blanket during a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles in December. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 May 2021 12:10 AM PDT India variant could be more transmissible, says WHO Covid chief; Pfizer vaccine approved in US for 12-year-olds in an emergency; Everest climbers urged to bring back oxygen cylinders for Nepal Covid patients
Some economic impact of Covid news here from PA Media – Heathrow says it lost nearly 6.3 million passengers in April compared with the same month in 2019. Just 536,000 people travelled through the London airport in April, a 92% reduction on the total for April 2019. Ministers say that from 17 May at the earliest international travel for leisure may be able to resume, and that countries would be placed in a traffic light system, with green, amber and red lists that would set out the rules for things such as testing and quarantining for those returning to England: Related: Stock markets slide as tech selloff spooks investors – business live
While he has been doing the media round in the UK this morning, health secretary Matt Hancock has also promised that the government would be publishing clear guidance on close personal contact. PA Media reports his interview on Sky News, where he said: "We will be changing the rules to be far more about people taking personal responsibility, exercising common sense according to their circumstances." Continue reading... |
| What is the deadly ‘black fungus’ seen in Covid patients in India? Posted: 10 May 2021 11:18 PM PDT Usually very rare, mucormycosis has a high mortality rate and is difficult to treat A rare black fungus that invades the brain is being increasingly seen in vulnerable patients in India, including those with Covid-19, as the health system continues to struggle in the midst of the pandemic. The health ministry on Sunday released an advisory on how to treat the infection. In the state of Gujarat, about 300 cases had been reported in four cities, including Ahmedabad, according to data from state-run hospitals. Continue reading... |
| Why China and east Asia’s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery Posted: 10 May 2021 10:53 PM PDT Analysis: Beijing's census data confirms trend reflected across a region that is looked to as engine of post-pandemic growth For many years China watchers have been concerned that its ageing population will slow economic growth, causing social as well as political problems. So today's census data may be an alarm bell for leaders in Beijing. But it is not just China that is witnessing this trajectory. Most countries in east Asia, even without fertility control policies such as China's one-child or two-child policies, share the same predicament: how to continue economic growth while encouraging people to have more children? Continue reading... |
| The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Whitechapel Bell Foundry dates back to 1570, and was the factory in which Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were made. But it shut in 2017 and a fight for its future has been raging ever since On a November evening in 2019, Nigel Taylor, who had until recently been the longest-standing employee at the oldest factory in England, took a seat inside a council chamber in the shadow of Canary Wharf in London. The room looked more like the setting of a US daytime TV court drama than a provincial government building in the East End, and it was packed with campaigners, councillors and property developers. Two fretful years had passed since the closure of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, where Taylor had worked for 40 years. Raycliff Capital, a US venture capital firm, had recently acquired the foundry buildings, and a hearing was scheduled to rule whether they could be converted into a boutique hotel. For many in attendance, these development plans were close to sacrilege. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry had been casting bronze bells – what some bellringers call "heavy metal" – since 1570. Big Ben was made there in 1858. The Liberty Bell was made there in 1752. Over the centuries, bells from Whitechapel had made their way all over the world. Some 500 Whitechapel tower bells can be found in Australia, 600 in the US and at least 900 in Canada, according to its former owner Alan Hughes. Continue reading... |
| Olivia Williams: ‘I’ve been close enough to stardom to see how horrifying it is’ Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT As she prepares to star in The Nevers, an eerie TV drama about supernatural Victorian women, the actor talks about fame, cancer – and squaring up to Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense What I wouldn't have given to be in an actual room with Olivia Williams, rather than down a Zoom. For all her early-90s RSC pedigree, she is forever the surprise find of The Postman, Rushmore and The Sixth Sense, films in which her casting seemed so idiosyncratic. How did this British actor, with her amused detachment and her totally rose-garden, tan-resistant complexion, end up in Hollywood? I always saw her as an ambassador for the nation, roaming around the end of last century, giving the world the impression that we were all incredibly graceful and surprisingly tall. She, conversely, maintains that she only ever got those parts because they'd blown the budget on their male lead and needed someone cheap. I just won't have that, I'm afraid. Surely it's faux modesty? Nope, she's pretty dug in – all those films, "they needed people who were just going to get on with it. Because they didn't have any budget or time to worry about people who were overly concerned with vanity or how long their trailer was." Continue reading... |
| She broke her NDA to speak out against Pinterest. Now she’s helping others come forward Posted: 10 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT Ifeoma Ozoma has co-sponsored a bill to protect workers who speak out on discrimination or harassment. 'Coming forward should not carry as much risk,' she said For months, Ifeoma Ozoma couldn't tell anyone – not even her closest friends and family – why she had left her high-profile job at Pinterest. Even as she gave speeches about her work at the tech company, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) she signed forbade her to share the reason for quitting her role as a public policy manager, where she engaged with press, elected officials and health experts. Continue reading... |
| Post-traumatic growth: the woman who learned to live a profoundly good life after loss Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT After the deaths of her son and husband, Rhian Mannings emerged slowly from grief to start a charity and find love again. What does her experience tell us about how suffering can change us? In February 2012, Rhian was a happy, busy wife, mother of three and a PE teacher in Cardiff. She and her husband, Paul, had met on a blind date in their early 20s. "I knew as soon as we met that I wanted to be with him for ever." Paul was handsome, kind and "sports-mad"; he was Rhian's rock, she says. By the end of their honeymoon, she was pregnant, while their third child, George, celebrated his first birthday on Valentine's Day 2012. He was a smiley baby, giggling, crawling everywhere, saying "hiya" all the time. "It was everything I'd ever wanted," Rhian says. A week after that birthday, Rhian and George were playing together after his bath when he had a seizure. An ambulance was called, but two hours after arriving at hospital, George died. Rhian says: "The nurse carried his body out of A&E and through the hospital corridors and found a closed children's day unit, with cartoon characters all over the walls, cots with teddy bears in. That's where we said goodbye to our little boy." In her memory, she watches the scene from above, hovering over it as if in a dream. "That emotion of shock saves you in a way; it protects you. Because I didn't feel anything." They had left home with their youngest son; they returned without him. "George's birthday cards were still up, and his presents were in a pile in the corner – but in the other corner was his vomit from when he fell ill, and bits of his clothing that had to be cut off him." Continue reading... |
| Nepal says its Covid response is under control – everyone can see it’s not true Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT I've watched from the UK as family and friends share increasingly desperate news. Nepal's leaders have ensured the lack of preparation Waiting for India's Covid wave to break over Nepal has been as painful as it was inevitable. Now that it's happening, this country of 30 million people is even more hapless and unprepared than India seems to have been. My friend, Dr Rakshya Pandey, a pulmonary care doctor in Kathmandu, says that during her long shifts, the thought sometimes enters her mind: ''Where would I go if I get sick? Where would I take my mother if she gets the virus?" Continue reading... |
| Hear me out: why 2005’s House of Wax isn’t a bad movie Posted: 10 May 2021 09:10 AM PDT The latest in our series of writers sticking up for hated films is a call to reconsider Paris Hilton's surprisingly effective performance in the horror remake The stars of 2005's House of Wax remake were all having their moments in Hollywood when they joined the reimagined slasher version of Vincent Price's 1953 classic. Elisha Cuthbert had just broken out in 2004's Girl Next Door while Chad Michael Murray was coming off both Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story. Jared Padalecki starred opposite the Olsen Twins in A New York Minute in 2004 and Robert Ri'chard held his own opposite Samuel L Jackson in the early 2005 drama Coach Carter. And then there was Paris Hilton. Related: Hear me out: why Deep Rising isn't a bad movie Continue reading... |
| ‘Pro-worker’ Republicans are status quo toadies cloaked as populists | Bhaskar Sunkara Posted: 10 May 2021 06:10 AM PDT JD Vance, Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley love saber-rattling about 'elites'. But they have no interest in taking on corporate power JD Vance, author of the bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, wants to be a senator. He's fresh off a trip to visit Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago and he's solicited the support of the tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel has contributed $10m to a new Pac – Protect Ohio Values – created to support a possible Vance bid for the Senate seat of the retiring Republican Rob Portman next November. While elite donations roll in, Vance is playing up his rightwing-populist credentials to the Republican base, praising Tucker Carlson as "the only powerful figure who consistently challenges elite dogma" and complaining about corporations who have opposed state voter suppression efforts. But Vance has a secret he doesn't want voters to find out about: in form, and substance, he's a 1990s Clintonite. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Its algorithm suggests I am most interested in jewellery, luxury goods, electronic music, love and emotions. Nothing could be further from the truth You are worried about what social media giants know about you, because of course you are. Data is gold; algorithms, also gold. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. One day soon, all this will be robots. The connection between those last three statements isn't logical: they just all sit in the same bag marked "the future". So when I discovered the pocket of Instagram where you can find out what it thinks you're interested in (on the app, you'll find it under Settings> Security> Access data > Ads), I obviously felt it my duty as a netizen to see what dark insights it had into my private soul. Here goes: jewellery; luxury goods; electronic music; love; emotions; fashion design; crafts. I mean: no offence, Kraftwerk (and loved ones) but I could not name eight things I am less interested in. Maybe oxbow lakes. Continue reading... |
| Lost and far from home, these whales are emblems for our times | Philip Hoare Posted: 10 May 2021 05:06 AM PDT From the Thames to the Mediterranean, seeing nature out of place reminds us of our impact on the planet With the weekend's arrival of a young minke whale stuck in the River Thames – not far from where a seal pup was recently savaged by a dog – it seems marine mammals are appearing everywhere they shouldn't be. Since the beginning of April, an exotic visitor has been spotted off the coast of southern Europe. A lone grey whale, measuring eight metres long – and 7,000 miles from its fellow Pacific grey whales on the other side of the world – was seen off Rabat, Morocco, at the start of March. It wandered through the strait of Gibraltar – and into an enormous trap, the Mediterranean. Since then its progress has been charted from the north African coast to southern Italy and the south of France, from Naples to the Côte d'Azur. Unable to find its usual source of food, it is growing thinner and weaker in its search for a way out. Continue reading... |
| Why Scotland’s election result is unlikely to hasten a referendum | Michael Keating Posted: 10 May 2021 07:27 AM PDT Scots are still evenly split on independence, and a lengthy constitutional stalemate seems likely Opinion polls for most of the past three years have shown Scotland to be evenly divided between supporters of union and independence. The Scottish parliament election result confirms this again. While the Scottish National party narrowly failed to gain an overall majority, independence supporters (the SNP and the Greens) have 72 of the 129 seats. Scottish electors cast two votes. The first is for a constituency MSP, elected by first-past-the-post as in Westminster elections. The second is for a regional party list, with seats distributed proportionally to ensure that the overall balance in the parliament is close to the regional list vote. Pro-independence parties won 49% of the constituency vote and 50.1% of the vote in the regional lists. The polarisation of Scottish politics around the constitutional issue is exacerbated by Brexit. While unionists and nationalists backed remain by substantial majorities in 2016, since then there has been a move of remainers towards independence, while a smaller number of leavers have moved in the opposite direction. This polarisation has benefited the SNP and the Conservatives, while Labour has been squeezed. The middle ground, on which the largest section of Scottish opinion was previously camped – more devolution but short of independence – has shrunk. Continue reading... |
| My son is far from home – and all he misses is the plants | Emma Beddington Posted: 10 May 2021 06:24 AM PDT Our elder boy is finally having some fun after a year of lockdown. But he can't forget the seedlings he left behind I am taking pictures of ailing house plants. There are a few casualties: a furry reddish thing is droopy, a stripy green and white chap has yellowing leaves and something spiky has a withered arm (branch, whatever). "Excellent, excellent," I mutter to myself, holding them up to the light to get a better shot. The plants belong to my elder son, who is away. His Covid testing job became so boring when infection rates plummeted that relations between the cleaning and security teams deteriorated into a Sharks v Jets-style beef, while others spent their 12-hour shifts doing crosswords. Instead, he found a conservation volunteering gig far from home, finally escaping the suffocating family cocoon of the past year: no more sitcom repeats and Wednesday night takeaway rota. I'm delighted. I hope all his cohort of newly minted adults get the chance of a few months of carefree fun before another year of student debt and awful job prospects hits. Continue reading... |
| Nepal is being overwhelmed by Covid. We need help | KP Sharma Oli Posted: 10 May 2021 06:16 AM PDT There are deep bonds between our nations, and so I appeal to the UK, chair of the G7, for urgent assistance
As I write this, my country is battling a new and brutal wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The rise in the number of infections poses a serious challenge to our brave doctors, nurses, other care providers, citizen volunteers and the entire health service system. Nepal's history is one of hardship and struggle, yet this pandemic is pushing even us to our limits. The number of infections is straining the healthcare system; it has become tough to provide patients with the hospital beds that they need. Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer’s botched reshuffle exposes his loss of authority | Owen Jones Posted: 10 May 2021 10:17 AM PDT Now many Labour MPs no longer believe their leader will become prime minister, expect the muttering to grow louder Before the chaos of the past five days, there were already growing doubts among Labour MPs about Keir Starmer's leadership – but until now, these worries were largely muffled by relief that anyone other than Jeremy Corbyn was running the party. That has now changed. For MPs, the belief that Labour may be headed for government imposes an anxious discipline: a leader holding the prospect of political power is like someone carrying a priceless vase that the smallest misstep could shatter. What quiets the party's warring factions, if only for a time, is the fear of toppling the vase. Continue reading... |
| Trainer: Kentucky Derby winner faces disqualification due to ‘cancel culture’ Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 AM PDT
Bob Baffert, whose horse faces disqualification from the Kentucky Derby after a failed drugs test, has blamed the situation on "cancel culture". Medina Spirit won this month's Derby by half a length at Churchill Downs but on Sunday it emerged the horse had tested positive for double the legal amount of the steroid betamethasone after the race. Churchill Downs has suspended Baffert from entering horses at the track, and indicated it would invalidate Medina Spirit's victory if the results of the drug test are upheld. Continue reading... |
| Sir Alex Ferguson: ‘Did I think we could still beat Bayern in 1999? No chance!’ Posted: 10 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT In an exclusive interview, the legendary manager and son Jason reflect on the brain haemorrhage that nearly killed him and the film they have just made, his upbringing in Scotland, the lows and highs at Manchester United, his admiration for Steven Gerrard … and that Champions League final "You're lying on your bed and you are on your own," Sir Alex Ferguson says as he remembers being in hospital exactly three years ago this week when, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he came close to death. "It can become lonely and frightening," the greatest manager in the history of British football continues as he relives that raw memory. Ferguson and I are just starting an interview which is shaped by so many layered and rollicking recollections. Memories of the ghostly shipyards of Glasgow and his teeming life as a boy in Govan ripple through him. He relives the pain and sectarianism he experienced at Rangers, the fire and transformation he generated at Aberdeen and the early abuse and enduring glory of his 27 years at Manchester United. Memories of his father, with whom he fell out until football reunited them, merge into an evocation of everything his wife Cathy has done for him. Continue reading... |
| Quarterback Tim Tebow poised for NFL comeback … as a tight end Posted: 10 May 2021 01:09 PM PDT
Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer are apparently getting back together, this time in the NFL. The former Florida star and 2007 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback is expected to team up with his college coach by signing a one-year contract to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars, the NFL Network reported on Monday. The network said the deal "could be official in the next week or so." The 33-year-old Tebow would be returning to the NFL after a spell in baseball with the New York Mets' minor league teams and he would be playing for Meyer for the first time since his senior year in 2009. Continue reading... |
| Liz Cambage backtracks on Olympic boycott over ‘white-washing’ of photos Posted: 10 May 2021 09:22 PM PDT
Australian basketball star Liz Cambage has backtracked on threats to boycott the Tokyo Olympics in a racially based protest. The Opals' star centre has confirmed she will play at the Tokyo Games after last week accusing Australia's Olympic fraternity of "white-washing" after a photo shoot lacking racial diversity. Cambage, born to a Nigerian father, took umbrage with photos of predominantly white Australian Olympians, saying people of colour had been marginalised and she would "sit this one out", referring to the Tokyo Games. But the 29-year-old now says she will compete at her third Olympics in Tokyo. Continue reading... |
| Fulham relegated as Ashley Westwood and Chris Wood strike for Burnley Posted: 10 May 2021 01:57 PM PDT Fulham's race is run and, even though they have seen fine margins go against them in recent weeks, there was no hard luck story to tell this time. In truth there was little of the devastation seen at the end of recent last-minute heartbreaks, either: once a superior Burnley had scored twice before half-time to make sure of their own Premier League status it was clear, from the stands and quite possibly on the pitch, that there was no way back and Scott Parker's players knew they were going down long before David Coote's whistle ended the ordeal. In the end Fulham contrived the great escape bid that never quite was, seeming favoured for survival after winning at Anfield in March but amassing a single point from the subsequent seven games. They are tidy, bright and well structured but almost completely toothless too, ultimately offering little to stir the blood even though two or three of their squad should have a fair shot at playing top-level football somewhere next season. A draw here would have ensured they retained a faint pulse; victory might have left Burnley facing late-season flutters of their own, but neither outcome would have been deserved. Continue reading... |
| The New York Yankees aren’t evil any more, they’re just boring Posted: 10 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT The Bronx Bombers are in danger of losing their place as the premier franchise in baseball after a series of ringless, sizzle-less seasons For roughly a century, the New York Yankees have stood at the center of Major League Baseball's universe. That's where you live when you win 27 World Series titles, are continuously near the top of baseball's payroll list, and play in one of the biggest sports markets in the world. Traditionally, the Yankees have been in it to win at all costs. In December 2002, the Yankees, furious after losing twice in the playoffs following a run of four titles in five years, beat out their Boston rivals in a battle for Cuban free agent Jose Contreras. "The evil empire extends its tentacles even into Latin America," said then Red Sox president Larry Luchino. Continue reading... |
| Luka Doncic ejected from Mavericks game after ‘aggressive strike to the groin’ Posted: 10 May 2021 07:55 AM PDT
Luka Doncic's below-the-belt swipe at Collin Sexton earned him an ejection on Sunday night. It didn't slow down the Dallas Mavericks against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Doncic received a flagrant-two foul, an automatic ejection, early in the second half for hitting Sexton with "an aggressive strike to the groin area," according to lead official David Guthrie. It occurred while jostling for position under the Cleveland basket. Continue reading... |
| The Post Office scandal – part 2 Posted: 10 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT Janet Skinner was jailed for false accounting after being wrongfully accused by her employer, the Post Office, of responsibility for the loss of more than £59,000. Now, with her conviction quashed, she and others are demanding answers The Post Office brought prosecutions against dozens of its employees after accusing them of theft and false accounting based on evidence from its IT system called Horizon. Janet Skinner was one of those who went to jail for false accounting and last month she was one of 39 former operators who had their convictions overturned by the court of appeal. Continue reading... |
| Madonna: Truth or Dare at 30 – the most revealing pop star documentary ever? Posted: 10 May 2021 12:09 AM PDT The 1991 hit film gave us the pop star at her most open, inviting us into her uncensored world, a far cry from the tightly protected celeb docs we see today When teenage pop phenomenon Billie Eilish recently unveiled a drastic new image on the cover of Vogue magazine, the internet went into feverish overdrive. Previously distinguished by raven-dark locks and loosely androgynous, body-concealing attire, the singer instead turned to hyper-feminised exaggeration: bombshell-style platinum curls atop a tightly cinched, rose-coloured bustier, with a polite nod to fetishwear in its visible buckles and accompanying nude PVC skirt. Related: Express yourself: why Madonna directing her own biopic isn't as ominous as it sounds Continue reading... |
| Shaun Ryder: ‘I was a heroin addict for 20-odd years, but there’s been no damage off that’ Posted: 10 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT From ADHD to alopecia and learning the alphabet at 28, the Happy Mondays singer has had a wild, eventful life. He discusses hedonism, parenting – and why he has to spend so much time correcting Bez Shaun Ryder is being uncharacteristically quiet. That's because he's mistakenly stuck himself on mute and can't work out how to turn on the microphone of the computer he's on. We spend a rather amusing (and awkward) five minutes mouthing silently at each other, pointing fingers and shrugging shoulders, while Ryder wrestles with his device, occasionally spinning it around so that he appears upside down. Eventually, though, an unmistakable Salford accent comes crackling through my speakers: "Can ya hear me now?" Loud and clear, Shaun, which is good because I've got a burning question that demands answering. Earlier this year, Ryder contracted Covid-19, along with his entire household (Ryder lives with his second wife, Joanne, and their two daughters). He was sick for three weeks, with bouts of fatigue that dragged on after that. But, according to best pal Bez – his partner in crime through the hedonistic days of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, and currently appearing with Ryder in the more family-friendly TV show Celebrity Gogglebox – the virus had a very unusual side-effect: it caused the hair Ryder had lost through alopecia to grow back. We've learned to be endlessly surprised by this virus, but is this really true? Continue reading... |
| ‘This is exciting for artists’: is this project the future of billboards? Posted: 10 May 2021 11:17 PM PDT An ambitious interactive structure in West Hollywood is the first part of a new initiative set to bridge outdoor advertising and public art In 1967, Elektra Records took a risk by purchasing a large hand-painted billboard on West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard to promote a new album by The Doors, an up-and-coming local band in residency at Whiskey a Go Go, a nearby nightclub. It would ignite a golden era of advertising on the 1.5-mile stretch known as Sunset Strip, where large-format signage advertised the latest releases to passersby. The area has been home to advertising art since the era of speakeasies and silent movies, and in 1991, the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that the iconic 70ft-tall Marlboro Man sign was "a more enduring urban monument than almost any other building in Los Angeles". Related: To infinity and beyond: the spectacular sensory overload of Ryoji Ikeda's art Continue reading... |
| The Salesman: Arthur Miller’s American classic reframed in Iran Posted: 10 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing At the start of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller devotes a full page of notes to describe the house where the long-married Willy and Linda Loman live in New York. It is, he writes, a "small, fragile-seeming home". In his 2016 film The Salesman, Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi cranks up that symbolism. When we first meet the central couple, amateur-theatre actors Emad and Rana Etesami (played by Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti), their flat in Tehran is crumbling around them. Building work has made the structure unsafe, and they are suddenly forced to evacuate. This large-scale get-out is the first of several pertinent exits and entrances in Farhadi's film about theatre. Emad and Rana initially weather the disruption with kindness and good humour, but before long the cracks in their marriage begin to show too. Continue reading... |
| Under the Wave at Waimea by Paul Theroux review – death, drugs and board games Posted: 10 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT A car accident knocks a sixtysomething surfer's life off balance in the veteran travel writer and novelist's intricate page-turner Paul Theroux, who has averaged roughly a book a year since 1967 and who turned 80 last month, isn't slowing down. Not for him the approach of Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, whose fiction dwindled into novellas before stopping entirely. Theroux's new novel is a full-fat epic, inspired by his adopted home of Hawaii (he divides his time between there and Cape Cod: must be rather tiring, to quote Basil Fawlty). This is the story of champion surfer Joe Sharkey, to whom surfing is "a dance on water … not a sport at all … but a way of living your life", who surfs a wave as though "carving his signature on it". But this surfer dude – famous at 17, a champion at 20 – is now 62 years old, not really a dude any more, and not too sure about the surfer bit either. He enjoys a level of renown, though some younger surfers haven't heard of him, and ageing fame isolates. He doesn't have any friends, and chatting up a young waitress, he's stopped short when she says her boyfriend's father "used to see you in the lineup when he was a kid". Oof. Continue reading... |
| Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey join forces for mental health TV series Posted: 10 May 2021 07:33 AM PDT
Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey will premiere a television documentary series on mental health issues later this month, with the singer Lady Gaga and the actor Glenn Close among those contributing. The Me You Can't See, co-created and produced by Harry and Winfrey, will feature stories from high-profile guests and others about mental health and emotional wellbeing issues, Apple TV+, the streaming service which will air the show from 21 May, said on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Servants review – evil permeates a Catholic seminary Posted: 10 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT Shame, self-reproach and secret communications fill this deeply disturbing story of two students in 80s Czechoslovakia As if in a succession of scenes from a starkly remembered bad dream, this deeply disturbing film in haunting monochrome, from director Ivan Ostrochovský and co-writer Marek Lescák, tells the story of two students in a Catholic seminary in early-80s Czechoslovakia, part of the (real life) Pacem in Terris organisation, a collaborationist body through which the church submitted to state control in return for the right to (notional) existence. Juraj (Samuel Skyva) and Michal (Samuel Polakovič) are fresh-faced boys who arrive at the seminary to find themselves in an austere haunted house of shame, reeking of paranoia, exhaustion and self-reproach. Dissident young priests are secretly communicating with the Vatican and with Radio Free Europe and the priestly authorities have neither the courage to endorse this defiance nor the ruthlessness to suppress it, and so the secret police are making their malign presence felt – in the form of "Dr Ivan", who has a blackmailing hold on one of the senior clerics. He is a deeply malevolent man with a skin disorder, played by Vlad Ivanov, another in this actor's gallery of odious east European authority figures. Continue reading... |
| Marianne Faithfull, AJ Tracey and more: May’s best album reviews Posted: 10 May 2021 07:08 AM PDT Read all the Guardian and Observer's four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, spanning pop, classical and more Continue reading... |
| ‘We had a therapist on set’ – William Jackson Harper on The Underground Railroad Posted: 10 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The Good Place star plays a free man helping slaves to escape in Barry Jenkins' epic series. The actor talks about the trauma of re-enacting such violent times – and the need to face up to history When he was a child growing up in Texas in the 1980s, William Jackson Harper went to a show at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas. "There was some part of the programme where some guy, somewhere in the stands, screams out, 'The south will rise again!' Things like that just came up that I didn't clock as major moments. But as I got older I was like, 'Oh, that was messed up.'" He continues: "There's a point in a lot of black people's lives where, especially if you're around a lot of white people, all of a sudden your race becomes a thing. For me, it was middle school. It makes everything that's happening now seem like, 'Oh well, nothing ever really changed. It just went underground and now it's back on the surface.'" Continue reading... |
| Families call for UN to launch inquiry into police killings of Black Americans Posted: 10 May 2021 07:01 AM PDT Relatives of 165 victims of police brutality backed by ACLU and 250 groups worldwide write to UN commissioner for human rights The families of 165 victims of police brutality in the US are calling on the United Nations to set up an independent inquiry into the ongoing scourge of police killings of Black men and women. With the support of more than 250 civil society groups from around the world including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the families are hoping to engage the UN in efforts to rein in police violence against African American communities. The call comes in the wake of last year's nationwide and international protests following the murder of George Floyd by the now ex-police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. Continue reading... |
| Republican says party leader dismissed his warnings of Capitol violence Posted: 10 May 2021 10:22 AM PDT Adam Kinzinger says he told Kevin McCarthy 'his words and our party's actions would lead to violence ' The Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger said on Monday he warned the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, about potential violence at the US Capitol on 6 January, but McCarthy dismissed his concerns. Related: Trump's grip over Republicans hardens as party cleaves to election 'big lie' Continue reading... |
| Melinda Gates began divorce moves at time Bill’s meetings with Jeffrey Epstein revealed Posted: 10 May 2021 11:52 AM PDT Wife of world's fourth-richest man explored options almost two years ago, roughly at time sex criminal Epstein died in jail Melinda French Gates had concerns about her husband's dealings with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when she consulted lawyers to explore the option of divorcing the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, according to reports. The billionaire philanthropists announced their decision to divorce last week after declaring their marriage "irretrievably broken" – but did not explain why. Continue reading... |
| Tiger briefly on the loose in Texas suburb, viral video shows Posted: 10 May 2021 11:32 AM PDT 54-second video showed Bengal tiger roaming freely in front of houses before owner seen putting it in his vehicle A tiger was briefly on the loose in a Houston suburb on Sunday, terrifying residents before its owner grabbed it and fled in a car. A 54-second video posted on social media showed the Bengal tiger roaming freely in front of houses in the Energy Corridor, 18 miles west of downtown Houston. Continue reading... |
| US ship fires 30 warning shots after Iranian vessels approach fleet Posted: 10 May 2021 12:07 PM PDT Coast guard vessel takes action after 13 Iranian fast boats come within 150 yards in strait of Hormuz A US coast guard ship fired about 30 warning shots as a group of 13 Iranian fast boats sped toward US navy vessels in the strait of Hormuz, in what the Pentagon called "unsafe and unprofessional" maneuvers by the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGCN). The incident marked the second time within the last month that US military vessels have had to fire warning shots because of what they said was unsafe behavior by Iranian vessels in the region, after a relative lull in such interactions over the past year. Continue reading... |
| US bans sex discrimination against LGBT people in healthcare Posted: 10 May 2021 06:15 AM PDT
The US will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in healthcare, the Biden administration announced on Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care. The action by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in healthcare also protect gay and transgender people. Continue reading... |
| Biden says ‘no evidence’ Russia involved in US pipeline hack but Putin should act Posted: 10 May 2021 12:52 PM PDT US president said Russia 'has some responsibility' to deal with ransomware attacks while pipeline shut since Friday Joe Biden said on Monday that "so far" there has been no evidence that the cyber attack late last week on a US pipeline had any involvement from the Russian state but that he believes Russia "has some responsibility" to deal with ransomware attacks emanating from its soil. "It's a criminal act, obviously. We have efforts under way with the FBI and DoJ to disrupt and prosecute ransomware criminals," the US president said. Continue reading... |
| Cali is the cockpit of chaos as Colombia protests threaten to spiral out of control Posted: 10 May 2021 11:58 AM PDT The presence of armed civilians attacking protesters has added a worrying dimension to a wave of unrest that has claimed 47 lives On a recent evening, Andrés pulled on his gas mask and helmet and headed for the barricades at the entrance to his rundown neighbourhood in Cali, a city which has become the center of Colombia's anti-government protests. But as he approached the roadblock of rocks, rubble and barbed wire, he saw a motorcycle speeding towards him. In an attempt to turn the vehicle back, another demonstrator shone a laser pen in the driver's eyes. Continue reading... |
| China tourist left clinging to 100m-high bridge after glass panels smash Posted: 10 May 2021 04:19 AM PDT Man rescued after sudden gusts shattered panels on bridge in Longjing city A man was left stranded on a glass-bottomed suspension bridge in north-eastern China after sudden gale-force winds shattered the transparent panels around him. The man was on the 100-metre-high bridge at Piyan Mountain in Longjing city, when it was hit by sudden strong weather, the local tourism department said. Continue reading... |
| Top Russian doctor at Navalny clinic found after disappearance Posted: 10 May 2021 09:27 AM PDT Alexander Murakhovsky speaks to press three days after going missing while on holiday in a Siberian forest The former chief physician of the hospital where the Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was first treated for novichok poisoning has been found alive days after disappearing into a Siberian forest. Alexander Murakhovsky emerged from a forest in the Omsk region on Monday three days after vanishing while on holiday, abandoning an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) miles from a hunting lodge where he was staying with friends. Continue reading... |
| Escape tunnel found under Western Australia immigration detention centre Posted: 10 May 2021 09:11 PM PDT Twenty-metre-long unfinished tunnel beneath Yongah Hill detention centre had been dug 'over several months' A 20-metre-long unfinished escape tunnel has been discovered at an immigration detention centre in Western Australia, refugee advocates say. The nascent tunnel – dug three metres underground – was found on Monday morning, built underneath an accommodation block in Falcon compound of the Yongah Hill detention centre. Continue reading... |
| Stock markets slide as tech selloff spooks investors – business live Posted: 11 May 2021 12:21 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
The FTSE 100 is a classic 'sea of red', with every constituent dropping in early trading.
The London stock market has opened sharply lower, following losses in Asia-Pacific markets overnight. The blue-chip FTSE 100 has tumbled by 132 points, or 1.85%, down to 6991 points. Related: Treasury to sell £1.1bn in NatWest shares, cutting taxpayer stake to 54.8% Continue reading... |
| French soldiers accuse government of trying to ‘silence’ warnings of civil war Posted: 10 May 2021 03:04 AM PDT Second letter from military staff says threat of punishment 'quite perverse' and repeats: 'Civil war is brewing in France' Serving members of the French military have fired a second salvo at Emmanuel Macron's government in an open letter accusing it of "cowardice, deceit, perversion", just weeks after a first letter said the country was heading for "civil war". Like the first letter, it appears in the rightwing magazine Valeurs Actuelles. It was reportedly signed anonymously "by active military personnel" and is appended with a petition on the magazine's website for others to sign. Continue reading... |
| Hidden scars: mentally ill patients lost in Yemen’s war Posted: 10 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT With one psychiatrist for 750,000 people and huge stigma about mental health, patients get little help Radhwan Ali Hassan lives with his mother in a small house perched at the top of a sleepy Yemeni village called Aqeeqah, on the outskirts of Taiz city. From inside his bare-walled room, the 35-year-old hears the distant sound of an ice-cream van. He sees children running past his window and can smell goats, but he cannot remember the last time he walked outside. Thick metal shackles around his ankles are attached to a heavy chain fastened to the far wall. They clatter as Hassan paces his room, rocks from side to side and smiles vacantly. His pupils are wide, his movements slow. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson being investigated over Caribbean holiday Posted: 10 May 2021 06:20 AM PDT Parliamentary standards watchdog says it is looking into a possible breach of MPs' code of conduct Boris Johnson is under investigation over who paid for his Caribbean holiday with his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, during Christmas 2019. The parliamentary standards commissioner, Kathryn Stone, confirmed on Monday morning that she was investigating a possible breach of the MPs' code of conduct. Continue reading... |
| ‘A hopeless situation’: oxygen shortage fuels Nepal’s Covid crisis Posted: 10 May 2021 04:18 AM PDT Terrible scenes seen in India of a healthcare system in collapse are being repeated across the border The story of Dilli Raj Joshi is now a sadly familiar one. After travelling to a wedding in mid-April with his family – a fun, rowdy affair – he began to be troubled by a headache and then breathing difficulties. Joshi's worried family took him to a nearby hospital, where he was diagnosed with Covid-19 and pneumonia. As his condition deteriorated, the doctors suggested he be transferred to a hospital with intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators, as they had none. But though the family frantically searched for three days, no ICU ward had any space for Joshi. On Friday he died, having never received the medical care he needed to live. Continue reading... |
| Experts call for mandatory recycling of products containing rare metals Posted: 10 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT Disc drives, circuit boards, fluorescent lamps and batteries for electric vehicles could be among affected products Rare elements such as indium, yttrium, neodymium, cobalt and lithium are vital for the production of low-carbon technology, but many are being thrown away because of the lack of a requirement to recycle them, industry experts have warned. Concern is growing over the future supply of such elements, as the switch to green technology – including electric vehicles, solar panels and low-carbon heating – will require far greater volumes of rare earths and other critical raw materials. Continue reading... |
| Angela Rayner vows to reconnect Labour with working class voters Posted: 10 May 2021 11:30 AM PDT Exclusive: deputy leader says party must do more to speak to people in low-wage jobs she grew up with Labour has talked down to voters for too long Angela Rayner has said, in her first bid to assert her newfound authority as the party's voice of the working class. In an article for the Guardian, the deputy leader said Labour would invest tens of billions of pounds in green industries to boost jobs in areas where manufacturing has declined. The proposal, in her new brief on the future of work, is designed to be an answer to Labour's critics who say the party has offered few bold new policies. Continue reading... |
| Back up pictures – and don’t forget prints: nine ways to organise your photographs Posted: 10 May 2021 04:05 AM PDT Most of us have phones, computers and boxes full to bursting with our snaps – and will probably only ever look at a fraction of them. So how do you work out what to keep? If you're anything like me, then your phone is full to bursting with unsorted photographs. If I were to die tomorrow, and my loved ones used my photo roll to better understand me, they'd be confronted by several shots of exactly the same thing, a bunch of blurred documents and a dozen or so Kathryn Hahn screengrabs. That's no legacy to leave. We could all do with a photographic tidy-up – whether it be digital snaps on phones and computers or physical prints piled up in storage – but how? Continue reading... |
| Thomasina Miers’ recipe for chicken and asparagus salad with peanut dressing | The simple fix Posted: 10 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT Sticky, golden, crisp-skinned chicken thighs tossed into a salad of just-in-season spring vegetables and spicy, satay-style sauce While crisped-in-a-pan leftover roast chicken is great in salads, and poached chicken is healthy and succulent, the method I use here is one of my go-tos for feeding a horde of hungry children. It also saves you from turning on the oven and produces the most deliciously browned results. Let me know how you get on. Continue reading... |
| Israel: car hits Palestinian protesters after being pelted with stones – video Posted: 10 May 2021 06:18 AM PDT Israeli police published dramatic CCTV video from a road near the Old City in Jerusalem of a white car being pelted with stones by Palestinian demonstrators, before the driver reverses and hits one of them. The car then speeds forward, hitting another person and colliding with a wall. An armed Israeli police officer runs in to protect the driver, believed to be Israeli, who faces more rock-throwing. Tensions have soared in recent days in advance of the now-delayed Israeli court ruling on whether authorities were able to evict dozens of Palestinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, just outside the Old City, and give their homes to Jewish settlers  |
| Meghan: Covid has wiped out 'generation of economic gain' for women Posted: 10 May 2021 01:50 AM PDT The Duchess of Sussex has made her first television appearance since her and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan warned women had been 'disproportionately affected' by the pandemic in a pre-recorded message for Global Citizen's Vax Live charity concert. The Duchess of Sussex said 47 million more women around the world were expected to slip into extreme poverty and called for equitable distribution of Covid vaccines. President Joe Biden, Harry and Jennifer Lopez were among the big names who took part in the event Continue reading... |
| Clashes in Jerusalem and fireworks in Russia – Monday’s best photos Posted: 10 May 2021 06:11 AM PDT |
| 100 days of Myanmar’s military coup – in pictures Posted: 10 May 2021 12:30 AM PDT Myanmar has been in turmoil since the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was deposed on 1 February, triggering a mass uprising of daily protests and a nationwide civil servants' boycott. As journalists are not officially allowed to report from the country, the photographers' names have been withheld Continue reading... |
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