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- Biden raises US refugee admissions cap to 62,500 after delay sparks anger
- Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage
- Parts of California see May red flag fire warning for first time since 2014
- Top New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park goes vegan
- At least 13 dead as Mexico City metro overpass collapses
- FBI agent opened fire on an armed man outside CIA headquarters in Virginia
- Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial postponed until autumn at her request
- ‘Out-of-control’ Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry
- Chinese man seeking ‘freedom and equality’ says he travelled to Taiwan in dinghy
- Black man enslaved by South Carolina restaurant manager is owed $546,000, court rules
- US to authorize Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15 early next week - report
- Coronavirus live news: India passes 20m cases, US average daily infections fall below 50,000
- CVS and Walgreens wasted 128,500 Covid vaccine doses, report finds
- ‘It’s terrifying’: parents’ struggle to get help for children with long Covid
- Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax
- ‘Jaws at 35,000 feet’: the flight attendant whose thriller debut sold for seven figures
- Escape to glory: the intoxicating myth of boxing as ‘a way out’
- ‘A very dangerous way to run a show’: reclusive Simpsons writer speaks out
- ‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter
- Beyoncé looked glorious on my magazine cover. ‘Are you going to lighten her skin?’ my boss asked
- The ignorance that underpinned empire and slavery still has staunch defenders | Zoe Williams
- Big Pharma doesn’t want us to expand Medicare. We have to fight them | Bernie Sanders
- The Guardian view on King Charles III: the hardest of follow-up acts | Editorial
- Americans spend 25% of their income on childcare. Biden wants to change that | Moira Donegan
- How many more images of Covid disaster does it take to jolt rich countries into action? | Nesrine Malik
- Labour’s lost voters clamour for belonging – but will the party answer them? | Julian Coman
- Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez: ‘This is the reality of my life. No boxing, no life’
- NFL draft winners and losers: Bears and Pats excel as Steelers and Packers fumble
- Fans saw the Glazers’ money tricks 16 years ago but no one listened | David Conn
- Michail Antonio double boosts West Ham’s top-four hopes with Burnley win
- Boxer Felix Verdejo could face death penalty over alleged killing of pregnant woman
- The NFL champion and the caregiver: Chanda and OJ Brigance fight onward
- Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen salute mutual respect after latest battle
- America’s gun debate – why we’re getting it so wrong | podcast
- Star Wars: the Bad Batch review – badass clones strike back
- Under the Pavement Lies the Strand: Berliners build a feminist future
- We Still Say Grace review – religious horror strays from the path of credibility
- Hear me out: why Coneheads isn’t a bad movie
- ‘I did the vocals in the nude’ – the Bangles on how they made Eternal Flame
- Three dead and dozens injured after boat capsizes near San Diego
- ‘She doesn’t want the drama’: anger as Chicago mayor comes up short on police reform
- Los Angeles Times names ESPN’s Kevin Merida as new executive editor
- Baby born on plane that happened to be carrying doctor and neonatal nurses
- Warren Buffett names Greg Abel as next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
- EPA moves to restrict powerful planet-heating gases in air conditioners and fridges
- ‘Our moment is now’: can Washington DC statehood finally become a reality?
- Biden paid family leave plan aims to bring US into line with global peers
- Colombia braces for further unrest after police react violently to mass protests
- Boat accident in Bangladesh leaves at least 25 people dead
- G7 nations to agree on global plan to help 40m girls into education
- Melting ice reveals first world war relics in Italian Alps
- Supply chain bottlenecks hit manufacturers as recovery drives demand – business live
- Queen and Boris Johnson lead tributes to Northern Ireland on centenary
- State broadcaster in Italy under fire after ‘censoring’ rapper
- Hopes raised for two Americans jailed in Tehran being freed
- Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear
- Keir Starmer vows to clean up British politics after Tory sleaze rows
- Vital soil organisms being harmed by pesticides, study shows
- Terrawatch: midge fossils offer insight into past climates
- Fifty new outlets, 250 journalists: Canadian startup unveils plan to revive local news
- How could a vote on the unification of Ireland play out?
- Snake catcher wrangles stowaway tiger snake – video
- The Underground Railroad | Amazon Prime Video
- Hospital staff in Toronto deal with Covid crisis – in pictures
- Elvis never left: how Britain kept the king of rock’n’roll alive – in pictures
| Biden raises US refugee admissions cap to 62,500 after delay sparks anger Posted: 03 May 2021 03:47 PM PDT President said last month he would leave Trump-era figure of 15,000 in place this year Joe Biden has formally raised the US cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback for his delay in replacing the record-low ceiling set by Donald Trump. Refugee resettlement agencies have waited for Biden to quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States this year since 12 February, when a presidential proposal was submitted to Congress saying he planned to do so. Continue reading... |
| Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years of marriage Posted: 03 May 2021 11:18 PM PDT Pair say in statement 'we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple' but will continue to run foundation together Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they are to divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying they "no longer believe we can grow together as a couple". The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist and his wife have built up a combined $124bn (£89bn) fortune, making them among the five richest couples in the world. Continue reading... |
| Parts of California see May red flag fire warning for first time since 2014 Posted: 03 May 2021 11:58 AM PDT Temperatures expected to be 15F above average on Monday and Tuesday in drought-desiccated Sacramento area Dry, hot weather and strong winds have triggered a "red flag" fire warning for parts of northern California, the first time the National Weather Service has issued such a warning for the region in the month of May since 2014. Temperatures in northern California and the Bay Area are expected to peak 15F above average on Monday and Tuesday, with 20- to 35mph wind gusts expected in some parts, prompting the NWS to warn of dangerous fire conditions in the Sacramento region. The red flag warning is expected to expire after 11am Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Top New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park goes vegan Posted: 03 May 2021 01:49 PM PDT Daniel Humm, owner of foodie haven with three Michelin stars, says modern food system 'simply not sustainable' One of New York's top fine dining restaurants is abandoning meat and going for a plant-based menu after its chef and owner posted a message on its website saying the modern food system was "simply not sustainable". Daniel Humm is the driving force behind Eleven Madison Park, which has won three Michelin stars and is one of the top names in Manhattan's elite foodie scene. Continue reading... |
| At least 13 dead as Mexico City metro overpass collapses Posted: 03 May 2021 09:33 PM PDT Official say 13 dead and 70 injured as videos on Mexican television and social media showed the overpass falling on to cars below A rescue operation was under way after a Mexico City metro overpass partially collapsed on Monday night. At least 13 people died in the incident and about 70 were injured, civil protection authorities in Mexico said. Videos on Mexican television and social media showed train cars hanging in mid-air as sirens blared nearby. Footage on Milenio TV showed the overpass collapsing on to cars on a road below. Continue reading... |
| FBI agent opened fire on an armed man outside CIA headquarters in Virginia Posted: 03 May 2021 07:07 PM PDT The unidentified suspect was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital; the FBI is reviewing the shooting An armed man was shot and wounded after being confronted by at least one FBI agent outside the CIA headquarters on Monday, authorities said. The incident occurred around 6pm, the FBI said in a statement, describing it as an "agent-involved shooting". Continue reading... |
| Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial postponed until autumn at her request Posted: 03 May 2021 04:20 PM PDT Judge agrees to delay amid new charges and planning difficulties related to coronavirus A US judge has granted Ghislaine Maxwell's request to delay her trial on charges she procured teenage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, saying the trial will begin in the fall. The US district judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan said on Monday that a "short" postponement of the scheduled 12 July trial was appropriate because federal prosecutors had added new charges to the case, and Covid-19 protocols had made trial preparation harder. Continue reading... |
| ‘Out-of-control’ Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry Posted: 03 May 2021 07:55 PM PDT Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown, after launching space station hub Part of a huge rocket that launched China's first module for its Tianhe space station is falling back to Earth and could make an uncontrolled re-entry at an unknown landing point. The 30-metre high core of the Long March 5B rocket launched the "Heavenly Harmony" unmanned core module into low Earth orbit on 29 April from Wenchang in China's Hainan province. Continue reading... |
| Chinese man seeking ‘freedom and equality’ says he travelled to Taiwan in dinghy Posted: 03 May 2021 10:09 PM PDT The man told police he arrived in a 2.6m rubber dinghy he bought online A Chinese man seeking "freedom and equality" has said he travelled undetected to Taiwan in a dinghy through the heavily patrolled Taiwan strait, according to authorities. Taichung Port police officers detained the man, surnamed Zhou, after they received reports of a man behaving suspiciously near the docks. A police spokesperson said Zhou told officers he had travelled from Quanzhou in Fujian province, in a 2.6m long rubber dinghy he'd bought online, powered by an outboard motor. Continue reading... |
| Black man enslaved by South Carolina restaurant manager is owed $546,000, court rules Posted: 03 May 2021 09:05 AM PDT Bobby Paul Edwards, a white man serving 10 years in prison, must double restitution he pays to ex-employee John Christopher Smith A former restaurant manager serving 10 years in prison for effectively enslaving a man, forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay, must double the restitution he pays to his former employee – to more than half a million dollars, a court ruled. Bobby Paul Edwards, a 56-year-old white man who ran a restaurant in Conway, South Carolina, has now been ordered to pay John Christopher Smith, a Black man with intellectual disabilities, $546,000. Continue reading... |
| US to authorize Pfizer vaccine for ages 12-15 early next week - report Posted: 03 May 2021 04:43 PM PDT Approval would bolster US vaccine drive and help ease parents' worries over kids' exposure to virus The US Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine for adolescents between ages 12 and 15 years by early next week, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing federal officials familiar with the agency's plans. An approval is highly anticipated after the drugmakers said in March that the vaccine had been found to be safe, effective and produced robust antibody responses in 12- to 15-year-olds in a clinical trial. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: India passes 20m cases, US average daily infections fall below 50,000 Posted: 03 May 2021 11:35 PM PDT India records 357,229 new daily cases and 3,449 deaths; US daily cases fall to lowest average since October; Germany cancels Oktoberfest
Here's our report from Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi on the latest on the Covid crisis in India: India has passed a grim milestone of 20 million Covid-19 cases amid growing calls for the country to go into a national lockdown. Related: India passes 20m Covid cases as calls grow for national lockdown
Good morning from London, it is Martin Belam here. Overnight, Dan Diamond at the Washington Post has an interesting piece looking at vaccine hesitancy in the US, and the factors that drive people to change their minds. A new publicity drive to try and reassure people about the shots is getting underway in the US this week. Diamond writes: The emergence of these mind-changers suggests that at least some vaccine-wary Americans are willing to reconsider when their concerns are addressed by those they regard as credible. 19 former skeptics joined a focus group last week and their conversions have drawn intense interest from White House officials and public health experts, hoping to re-create those moments for the tens of millions of Americans who remain in the "no" camp. Alice Chen, a senior adviser for the vaccine equity advocacy organization Made to Save, credited the wave of efforts trying to win over holdouts, saying the cumulative effects laid the ground for breakthroughs. "Almost all of them changed their mind because somebody they love told them to, because they saw people around them getting vaccinated," Chen said. "I think that piece is so much more important than I think I even realized, going into this." Continue reading... |
| CVS and Walgreens wasted 128,500 Covid vaccine doses, report finds Posted: 03 May 2021 10:12 AM PDT US pharmacy chains responsible for vast majority of the recorded 182,874 wasted doses, according to Kaiser Health News US pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens are responsible for the vast majority of wasted vaccine doses, which total more than 180,000 reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a story from Kaiser Health News. As of late March, the CDC recorded 182,874 tossed doses. CVS and Walgreens combined wasted 128,500 doses – CVS wasted about half and Walgreens 21%. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s terrifying’: parents’ struggle to get help for children with long Covid Posted: 03 May 2021 06:17 AM PDT Lack of research into area means children are being sent away from A&E and parents told they are overanxious On Christmas Day, Gail Jackson's 16-year-old daughter said she was in so much pain she thought she would die. Liliana had been briefly admitted to hospital with Covid in September. Her symptoms never went away and, as time went on, new ones had emerged. "For months she had a relentless, agonising headache, nausea, tinnitus, fatigue and insomnia, but the worst thing was the agonising nerve pain," said Jackson. "I couldn't even touch her without her screaming in pain." Continue reading... |
| Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Despite lockdown surge the firm's Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax Fresh questions have been raised over Amazon's tax planning after its latest corporate filings in Luxembourg revealed that the company collected record sales income of €44bn (£38bn) in Europe last year but did not have to pay any corporation tax to the Grand Duchy. Accounts for Amazon EU Sarl, through which it sells products to hundreds of millions of households in the UK and across Europe, show that despite collecting record income, the Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid no tax. Continue reading... |
| ‘Jaws at 35,000 feet’: the flight attendant whose thriller debut sold for seven figures Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Torri Newman dreamt up her terror-in-the-skies novel Falling while guarding the cockpit as the pilots took a toilet break. She reveals how she kept going through furlough and 41 rejections Flight attendant Torri Newman was working on the red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York when the idea for her debut novel came to her. To be precise, she was blocking access to the cockpit, a security procedure required when pilots take a toilet break. "I was standing at the front of the airplane," she says, "looking out at the passengers. It was dark and they were all asleep. And I had this thought, 'All of their lives, our lives, are in the hands of the pilots.' That's not exactly new – but the flipside of that also came to mind. With that much power and responsibility, how vulnerable does that make a commercial pilot?" Newman, speaking via Zoom from her home in Phoenix, Arizona, was rattled. "I just couldn't shake the thought. A few days later, I was working a different trip with a different set of pilots, and I said to the captain, 'Hey, what would you do if your family was taken, and you were told that if you didn't crash the plane, they would be killed?" What was his reaction? "He had no clue what he would do – the thought terrified him." Continue reading... |
| Escape to glory: the intoxicating myth of boxing as ‘a way out’ Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT My Irish father felt a kind of kinship with the black British boxers of the 1980s and 90s. Boxing, like the world of work my father was in, was overseen by self-serving men getting rich off the work of first- and second-generation immigrants When I think of him in my childhood, my father is an evening man: impatient, loud, sporadically gentle. His days were spent outside, in this period uncertainly so, at the disposal of mostly unscrupulous subcontractors, corrupt and flagrantly benevolent to a gang of favourites of which he was never a member. The little I knew about what he did was put together piecemeal, in private. It was rarely discussed, aside from the odd overheard complaint about poor treatment, docked pay, being cleaned out by this latest bunch of cowboys. On the rare evenings when he returned late, his hair plastered to his head with sweat, his face was a red light meaning "don't ask". Nor did many of his colleagues make appearances at home. The only one I can recall now is Peter, site partner from a time spoken of in more glowing terms – a few years in the late 1970s spent working for a man named Gavin. This might have been a forename or surname, especially with my father's Irish pronunciation, an accent I'd come to think of as unreliable, its vowels beyond transcription. Through the tangled cross-connections of the Irish in our patches of north London – Enfield, Edmonton, Tottenham – Peter was married to a friend of my mother's, or at least a fellow traveller from the school gates. I gathered he was possessed of an extraordinary work rate, partly because he was often late on Saturday evenings to pick up his wife and son from our house in between cab fares, his weekend evenings spent on the meter after a six-day concreting job. There were mentions of occasional run-ins with customers – bad luck to them – and something that passed into family myth, and is surely exaggerated in my memory: his falling 30ft to the ground from a scaffolding and walking out of the hospital hours later, affronted by the lost time. Continue reading... |
| ‘A very dangerous way to run a show’: reclusive Simpsons writer speaks out Posted: 03 May 2021 05:49 AM PDT John Swartzwelder, known for creating some of the best Simpsons episodes, has opened up about the show's heyday – and why Homer is a big talking dog The reclusive Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder, who is credited with creating some of the most popular episodes in the show's 31-year history, has given his first interview since leaving the hit series 18 years ago. The screenwriter, who wrote 59 episodes between 1990 and 2003 – including the James Bond parody You Only Move Twice and Homer the Great, which memorably featured the Stonecutters sect – spoke to the New Yorker's Mike Sacks via email. Introducing his subject, Sacks described Swartzwelder as a cult figure for his offbeat work on the show, "conjuring dark characters from a strange, old America: banjo-playing hobos, cigarette-smoking ventriloquist dummies … pantsless, singing old-timers". Continue reading... |
| ‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter Posted: 03 May 2021 06:39 AM PDT A new film rejects the popular narrative and recasts the former president, 96, as hugely prescient thinker, particularly on climate change When I reach Jimmy Carter's grandson by Zoom, he answers wearing a Raphael Warnock campaign T-shirt. Jason Carter is a lawyer and politician himself, mid-40s, animated and well-read, with blue eyes reminiscent of his grandfather's. He's just got off the phone with his 93-year-old grandmother, Rosalynn. It's a special day; Joe Biden is on his way to the Carter house in Plains, Georgia. "My grandfather has met nearly everyone in the world he might want to," Jason Carter says. "Right now, he's meeting with the president of the United States. But the person he'd say he learned the most from was Rachel Clark, an illiterate sharecropper who lived on his family's farm. Continue reading... |
| Beyoncé looked glorious on my magazine cover. ‘Are you going to lighten her skin?’ my boss asked Posted: 03 May 2021 10:30 AM PDT Being urged to retouch then re-retouch the singer's photo left Justine Cullen shaken. In this extract from her new book she recalls the 'cookie cutter' cycle her industry was trapped in I stood and knocked tentatively on my publisher's office door, holding a printout of my latest cover gingerly in my fingertips. The cover I held in my sweaty hands this time was Beyoncé, and she looked … well, she looked like Beyoncé. She looked perfect. The publisher held the cover in her hands and looked at it approvingly. "It's wonderful," she said, nodding. I gave a relieved little sigh and turned to leave the room. But, just as I got to the door, she glanced back up from her computer screen and piped up, nonchalantly, as though having an afterthought: "Are you going to make her skin a little lighter?" Continue reading... |
| The ignorance that underpinned empire and slavery still has staunch defenders | Zoe Williams Posted: 03 May 2021 08:17 AM PDT It's not the 'woke' who want to erase the past, but those who are determined that it should never be examined It seems that the government's war on woke is box office gold, infinite spite fired at an endlessly replenished stream of targets, none of them moving very fast, since they totally weren't expecting culture secretary Oliver Dowden to even be aware of their work. But, ask anyone who uses it pejoratively to describe another person what "woke" actually means, and it turns out to have a specific usage. In an academic or museum trustee, it means anyone who talks about decolonising the curriculum, as in the case of the academic whose reappointment to the board of the Museum of Greenwich was reportedly vetoed by Dowden. In the context of youth, it's the ones on Black Lives Matter protests, unless it's the ones posing a threat to a slave owner's statue. Continue reading... |
| Big Pharma doesn’t want us to expand Medicare. We have to fight them | Bernie Sanders Posted: 03 May 2021 05:12 AM PDT By lifting the ban on Medicare negotiating prescription drugs prices we can expand benefits and lower the age of eligibility We are beginning to make progress in creating a government that works for all people, and not just the very wealthy. But we still have a very long way to go. By now you've heard the big headlines about the American Rescue Plan that Joe Biden signed into law in March: the $1,400 direct payments, the massive expansion of the child tax credit, the extension of unemployment benefits and the production and distribution of tens of millions of vaccine doses that are desperately needed if we are going to crush this pandemic. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on King Charles III: the hardest of follow-up acts | Editorial Posted: 03 May 2021 10:25 AM PDT Public confidence in the monarchy legitimises the institution. Will the Prince of Wales gain it on ascending to the throne? In last year's "democracy rankings" by the Economist Intelligence Unit, four of the top five spots went to countries where the head of state wears a crown. Nobody with a modern democratic outlook would dream of putting a monarchy atop a democracy. In practice they seem to work rather well. The reasoning, perhaps, being that somebody has to possess the final power of decision and thus stamp a democratic regime with their own views. Why not an apolitical sovereign, born to power irrespective of ability and whose opinions are hidden? Only a constitutional monarch, the logic runs, could permit unimpeded public administration. This is one of the arguments in a lively, republican-leaning essay by Tom Clark in this month's Prospect magazine. He argues persuasively for shrinking the crown to a continental-sized monarchy. Mr Clark, formerly one of this column's writers and editors, says that it would be unwise to assume the institution "can – or should – just carry on as it has been after Elizabeth II". He says that the crown could be sunk by a more divisive monarch. Royalty depends on popularity. YouGov polling in 2020 put Elizabeth II's approval rating at 69%, way above her son and heir Prince Charles, at just 40%. Only 7% approve of Prince Andrew, who unwisely went on TV and defended his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading... |
| Americans spend 25% of their income on childcare. Biden wants to change that | Moira Donegan Posted: 03 May 2021 06:04 AM PDT As one sociologist put it: 'Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women.' That needs to change At first glance, it seemed a bit odd that the Biden administration separated its economic agenda into two different bills. The first of these huge pieces of legislation was the American Jobs Plan, a $2tn infrastructure bill that would fix roads and bridges but also invest in clean drinking water and high-speed internet access. The second of the bills, unveiled on Wednesday, is the American Families Plan, a $1.8tn investment in education, paid leave and childcare. The bills are both framed as long-term, forward-thinking investments addressing a decades-long negligence in federal spending, and they're both being pitched as tickets to greater American prosperity. "Jobs, jobs, jobs," Joe Biden repeated in his address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, touting the legislation. Related: Why are Republicans so threatened by universal daycare? | Arwa Mahdawi Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The crisis in India forced the west to respond. But without an ambitious global plan, other nations may suffer similar fates As the number of Covid-19 cases rose dramatically in Europe and the US during the early part of last year, something strange seemed to be happening in the global south. South Africa's entire death toll was less than 100 at the same time that Britain was losing more than 1,000 lives a day. India's death rate during this period was so low that it was termed a "mystery". More confident conclusions were drawn about Africa's fate; some thought it had been spared the worst of Covid-19 because it took decisive action early on in the pandemic, while others said the continent had been saved by its warm climate, its low elderly population and its "good community health systems". There was even brief excitement about the curative potential of homegrown sweet wormwood, a plant that the president of Madagascar claimed was a treatment for Covid-19. Most of this reasoning was speculative. But by the late summer of 2020, two clear trends were emerging. While parts of western Europe were enduring a devastating first wave of Covid-19 cases, Africa and south Asia were experiencing a slow-moving, sometimes stalling rate of infection and a comparatively low death toll. Those trends are now being reversed. Continue reading... |
| Labour’s lost voters clamour for belonging – but will the party answer them? | Julian Coman Posted: 03 May 2021 07:00 AM PDT For most of those who turned their back on Labour, ideas of Britishness, pride and industry have nothing to do with the right In the wake of Labour's terrible, soul-destroying election defeat in 2019, the need to "listen" to the red wall constituency voters who had deserted the party became an instant truism. In the trauma of the moment, there was a genuine desire to understand why so many of the places that had sustained the labour movement for so long had voted for the enemy. But the ability to listen well is a rare and difficult skill. The great German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, who devoted his intellectual career to the art of understanding what others mean, defined it beautifully. The good listener, said Gadamer, "does not go about identifying the weaknesses of what another person says in order to prove that one is always right, but one seeks instead, as far as possible, to strengthen the other's viewpoint so that what the other person has to say becomes illuminating". Continue reading... |
| Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez: ‘This is the reality of my life. No boxing, no life’ Posted: 03 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT The Mexican fighter talks exclusively about his upcoming bout with Billy Joe Saunders, childhood bullies and the pitfalls of fame "I love this," Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez says as he looks around the scattered debris of his gym in San Diego. His intense gaze scans the heavy bags and speed balls, the hand wraps and water bottles, the gloves and head guards, with an empty ring at its very heart. It's just after 10 in the morning and the familiar clatter and din of his training camp has already begun for the day. Álvarez, the best boxer in the world, turns back to my Zoom screen and then, leaning forward, he speaks in Spanish with surprising ardour for a 30-year-old fighter who has been boxing professionally for more than half his life: "I love it. I'm always motivated because I love boxing." It's strangely moving as we reach the core of a rare one-to-one interview with Álvarez and he switches back to English to say two simple yet compelling sentences. "This is the reality of my life. No boxing, no life." Continue reading... |
| NFL draft winners and losers: Bears and Pats excel as Steelers and Packers fumble Posted: 03 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT Chicago made an aggressive – and impressive move – for the talented Justin Fields while Pittsburgh overreached to take a running back Chicago Bears: Chicago had the most to shout about after the dust settled in Cleveland. The Bears executed the finest move of the weekend when they traded up to snag Justin Fields at the expense of first- and fifth-round picks this year, and a first- and fourth-rounder in 2022. Aggressive decisions like this are often a desperate reach but getting such an all-round talented quarterback at No 11 feels like an unmitigated steal. Continue reading... |
| Fans saw the Glazers’ money tricks 16 years ago but no one listened | David Conn Posted: 03 May 2021 07:47 AM PDT Premier League waved through a debt-loading takeover of Manchester United from which the family make fortunes In 2005, a generation ago now, when supporters were first protesting against the pending takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family, the approach of the football authorities was mostly to brush off their concerns. There seemed to be a sense among the blazers in the Football Association and the Premier League suits that the fans just did not really understand the mystique of a corporate takeover, or the excitements of having "investors" from America. Related: Glazers intend to stay and turn Manchester United into $10bn business Continue reading... |
| Michail Antonio double boosts West Ham’s top-four hopes with Burnley win Posted: 03 May 2021 02:12 PM PDT Two goals by the returning Michail Antonio reinvigorated West Ham's Champions League aspirations by guiding them to within three points of fourth-placed Chelsea. Antonio was forced off against Wolves four weeks ago with a hamstring strain and his absence coincided with consecutive defeats against Newcastle and Chelsea that left the Hammers playing catch-up. Continue reading... |
| Boxer Felix Verdejo could face death penalty over alleged killing of pregnant woman Posted: 03 May 2021 11:56 AM PDT
A federal judge ordered Puerto Rican boxer Felix Verdejo held without bail after he was charged in the death of a 27-year-old women believed to be pregnant with his child. Keishla Rodriguez's body was found in a lagoon on Saturday. Verdejo is charged with kidnapping and carjacking resulting in the death of Rodriguez and with intentionally killing an unborn child. He did not make any comments during Monday's hearing. Continue reading... |
| The NFL champion and the caregiver: Chanda and OJ Brigance fight onward Posted: 03 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT A new book by Chanda Minor-Brigance, the wife of Super Bowl winner OJ Brigance, celebrates the importance of the caregiver Seven years after OJ Brigance played on the Baltimore Ravens' Super Bowl-winning team during the 2000 season, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Knowing that the disease would take his mobility, he and his wife, Chanda Minor-Brigance, had to figure out how to adjust to a new normal. "When OJ was first diagnosed, we knew nothing about ALS," Minor-Brigance said. "How you prepare for something like that – a life-changing thing – I don't know. But we were not prepared." Continue reading... |
| Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen salute mutual respect after latest battle Posted: 03 May 2021 06:31 AM PDT
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have both saluted the hard but fair racing that has characterised their close rivalry so far in a highly competitive Formula One season. The two drivers once more went head to head at the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday with Hamilton coming out on top and after they had battled wheel to wheel both drivers expressed a mutual respect and trust for each other that has come to define their racing relationship. At the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Hamilton and Verstappen raced hard with each other for the third race in succession this season. With Hamilton in second place behind his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, Verstappen made a superb restart after a safety car period, jumping Hamilton and passing him round the outside through turn one. Then when the Dutch driver made a small error several laps later Hamilton pounced, similarly sweeping past his rival through turn one and making it stick by holding his line through turn three. Both moves were hard, elbows-out racing but fair and acknowledged as such by both drivers. Continue reading... |
| America’s gun debate – why we’re getting it so wrong | podcast Posted: 03 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT Abené Clayton, a reporter on the Guardian's Guns and Lies in America project, examines why the debate on guns in the US does not treat shooting victims and their families equitably, and the impact that can have on communities Abené Clayton, is the lead reporter on the Guardian's Guns and Lies in America series, a project investigating the initiatives that are saving lives amid the US's gun violence crisis. She talks to Anushka Asthana about why the focus on "mass shootings" obscures the violence that really drives America's gun violence crisis. Less than 3% of America's gun homicide victims die in what are generally considered "mass shootings". But none of the community shootings last year prompted national debates over what we should do to prevent this kind of violence, and rarely do people dig into the reasons behind a community shooting or the motivation of the shooter – if they're ever arrested. The mass shooting debate is not just biased, it is actively harmful and racist, she says. Inaccurate and reductive euphemisms such as "Black on Black crime", "inner-city violence" or "gang violence" still frequently warp descriptions of the daily experiences of communities of colour. Rarely are stories of grieving Black and brown families and their deceased loved ones granted the same carefulness in language as high-profile mass shootings. Continue reading... |
| Star Wars: the Bad Batch review – badass clones strike back Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Following on from the long-running animation Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this new Disney+ series boasts mutant renegades and action-packed fight scenes. May the fourth be with you! Happy Star Wars Day! What started out as a throwaway joke by a Twitter wag – earning several retweets and a handful of likes for being the first Star Wars nut to say "May the fourth be with you" on 4 May – has snowballed in the past few years and is now a fixture on the calendar, in the Disney marketing department at least. With no new Star Wars movie on the horizon – a root and branch inquiry into what went wrong with 2019's The Rise of Skywalker is hopefully ongoing – Disney+ instead marks Star Wars Day 2021 with the fanboy substitute that is a new cartoon series. Star Wars: the Bad Batch (Disney+) follows on from the long-running animated adventure Star Wars: The Clone Wars, giving a group of characters who were prominent in the final season their own show, and is set in the period between the films Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. For members of the general public considering whether to watch a sequel to a cartoon spin-off from a movie franchise, the questions are: can I watch it without being fully across all the relevant galactic folklore, and is it worth it anyway? Yes, you can, and yes, it is – barely. Not knowing who, say, Saw Gerrera or Caleb Dume are, and thus not yelping with recognition when they appear, is not a problem. Getting used to the pretensions and dramatic stiffness of these animations, which never seem quite sure how old the ideal viewer is, might be more of a barrier. Continue reading... |
| Under the Pavement Lies the Strand: Berliners build a feminist future Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential Grischa Huber, the magnetic German star who died this year aged 76, became a feminist icon in European cinema with one of her first features. She was an established stage performer by the time she was cast by director Helma Sanders-Brahms as a politically engaged theatre actor in the film Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand (1975). It was released with an awkward English title, Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, which failed to translate the final word as "beach". The original refers to a slogan popular during the 1968 protests in France: "Sous les pavés, la plage!" Literally, this was a reference to the sand beneath dislodged stones thrown in riots; metaphorically, it implied utopia unspoilt by modern society. Huber's character, also named Grischa, is appearing in a Greek drama about how the ancient rule of women has been abolished by men. A striking shot captures the actresses joined in a silent scream; Sanders-Brahms will go on to explore how women in the 1970s are still being silenced, but are uniting to redefine their roles in society. Continue reading... |
| We Still Say Grace review – religious horror strays from the path of credibility Posted: 03 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT An isolated family of women, ruled over by wrathful father Bruce Davison, encounter temptation in a wildly unconvincing tale Nothing else in this schlocky horror-thriller comes anywhere close to matching its cheerfully grotesque opening. Harold, a white-bearded Bible-quoting hellfire fanatic (played by Bruce Davison), is presiding over a last supper; his wife and teenage daughters look terrified. After they've finished, he tells them that the wine was poisoned – they should prepare to meet their maker. Except it turns out not to be true. The whole thing is a sick test of the women's submissiveness to him, their lord and master (though there is nothing godly about the way he squeezes his daughter's knee). It is the last genuine moment of actual tension in this silly, derivative and wildly unconvincing film. Harold and his family live cut off from the modern world on a farm 30 miles from their closest neighbour. They dress in simple homemade clothes like the Amish and, crucially for the plot, don't have a phone, a car or even a horse). Harold's wife Betty (Arianne Zucker) and his eldest daughter Sarah (Rita Volk) are true believers, but the script is thunderingly uncurious about how they might be identifying with him as their abuser. Daughter number two, Maggie (Holly Taylor), reads books so we know she's going to be trouble. When a trio of young guys knock at the door – their car has broken down – Maggie sees her chance to escape. Continue reading... |
| Hear me out: why Coneheads isn’t a bad movie Posted: 03 May 2021 11:25 PM PDT Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defense of the 90s SNL skit turned critically lambasted comedy In the summer of 1993, the Coneheads movie arrived with high expectations. Its producers had good reason to believe it could ride the coat-tails of one of the top grossing movies of the previous year, Wayne's World, which pulled in over $180m worldwide. After all, both films translated beloved characters from the classic TV show Saturday Night Live to the widescreen world of Hollywood. More, SNL had enjoyed parallel success with its first attempt to move its franchise from small screen to big – The Blues Brothers. That 1980 film became one of the top-grossing hits of the year, going on to be recognized by the Library of Congress as a "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" work. Related: Hear me out: why Johnny Mnemonic isn't a bad movie Continue reading... |
| ‘I did the vocals in the nude’ – the Bangles on how they made Eternal Flame Posted: 03 May 2021 04:20 AM PDT 'It felt like skinny-dipping,' says singer Susanna Hoffs. 'I ended up doing it for most of the album' In 1988, it felt like the Bangles had been touring endlessly. Our second album, Different Light, with the singles Manic Monday and Walk Like an Egyptian, had been released two years earlier. Now, finally, we could take a break from living on buses together. Continue reading... |
| Three dead and dozens injured after boat capsizes near San Diego Posted: 03 May 2021 05:41 PM PDT
The US coast guard has ended its search for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of San Diego, leaving three people dead and dozens injured. Officials believe the boat, which had at least 30 people onboard, was being used to smuggle migrants into the US and the man who was captaining the vessel has been taken into custody. Continue reading... |
| ‘She doesn’t want the drama’: anger as Chicago mayor comes up short on police reform Posted: 03 May 2021 05:18 AM PDT Two years into office, Lori Lightfoot is accused of back-pedaling on reform while botching some high-profile cases involving police killing or misconduct On 20 May 2019, the freshly elected Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, delivered her inauguration speech to a jubilant audience. It was imbued with promises of fundamental change – tailored care for blighted neighborhoods, solutions to government corruption and endemic violent crime, an ambitious agenda for tackling deep-rooted faults in the city. Continue reading... |
| Los Angeles Times names ESPN’s Kevin Merida as new executive editor Posted: 03 May 2021 01:28 PM PDT The former Washington Post journalist replaces Norman Pearlstine and will be charged with promoting their digital news platform The Los Angeles Times on Monday said that Kevin Merida, who built ESPN's the Undefeated into a multimedia presence and spent a lengthy career in newspapers before that, will be its new executive editor. Merida, 64, is being challenged by the newspaper's owners, Patrick and Michele Soon-Shiong, to speed its transition into a digital news leader. Continue reading... |
| Baby born on plane that happened to be carrying doctor and neonatal nurses Posted: 03 May 2021 05:40 PM PDT Woman only 29 weeks pregnant delivers son on flight between Salt Lake City and Honolulu after appeal for a doctor on board A woman who went into labour prematurely on a plane was fortunate to have chosen a flight with some highly qualified fellow passengers. Lavinia "Lavi" Mounga was travelling from Salt Lake City to Hawaii on 28 April for a family holiday when she went into labour at 29 weeks with her son, Raymond. Continue reading... |
| Warren Buffett names Greg Abel as next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Posted: 03 May 2021 11:01 AM PDT Billionaire, 90, lets slip plan for vice-chairman to take over at $644bn investment group Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has confirmed that the vice-chairman of his Berkshire Hathaway investment conglomerate, Greg Abel, will succeed him as chief executive. The 90-year-old's succession plan was teased out of him – apparently by accident – by his longtime business partner, 97-year-old Charlie Munger, at the company's annual meeting over the weekend. Buffett, speaking to CNBC in an interview broadcast on Monday, confirmed the choice. Continue reading... |
| EPA moves to restrict powerful planet-heating gases in air conditioners and fridges Posted: 03 May 2021 09:32 AM PDT Environmental Protection Agency proposes rule to cut production and import of HFCs in the US by 85% over the next 15 years The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to restrict the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), extremely powerful planet-heating gases found in refrigerators and air conditioning units that are the target of an international push for phasing out. In the first move by Joe Biden's administration to directly cut a greenhouse gas, the EPA has proposed a rule to drastically reduce the production and import of HFCs in the US by 85% over the next 15 years. The step is a significant one as Biden seeks to cut total US emissions in half by the end of the decade. Continue reading... |
| ‘Our moment is now’: can Washington DC statehood finally become a reality? Posted: 03 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Activists hope that with Democrats controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, DC can finally join the union – but challenges remain Thousands of miles from the US capital, a group of progressive protesters recently marched to the office of their senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski, to demand that she support statehood for Washington DC. The protest was notable because of its setting of Anchorage, Alaska, and similar demonstrations have recently been popping up all across America. Progressives from Arizona to New York have taken pictures with 51-star flags to show their support for making DC the first new state to join the union since Hawaii in 1959. Continue reading... |
| Biden paid family leave plan aims to bring US into line with global peers Posted: 03 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT For Americans juggling work with family responsibilities, a right already enjoyed in other wealthy nations can't come too soon When Tameka Henry and her family members contracted coronavirus in December, she worried about whether they would recover. She worried about her 14-year-old daughter, who has asthma. She worried about her husband, who has a disability and requires her care. She also worried about the bills piling up as she took unpaid leave from her work. Continue reading... |
| Colombia braces for further unrest after police react violently to mass protests Posted: 03 May 2021 01:06 PM PDT At least 16 demonstrators and one officer dead after police fired at protesters and rammed crowds with motorcycles Colombia is bracing for further unrest after a weekend in which largely peaceful nationwide demonstrations were met with a violent police reaction which left at least 16 demonstrators and one police officer dead and hundreds injured. Videos shared on social media over the weekend showed police firing at protesters sometimes from close range, ramming crowds with motorcycles, and bashing demonstrators with their shields. Continue reading... |
| Boat accident in Bangladesh leaves at least 25 people dead Posted: 03 May 2021 03:22 AM PDT Speedboat carrying dozens of passengers crashed into vessel transporting sand in Padma River, say police At least 26 people were killed when a speedboat packed with passengers collided with a vessel transporting sand in the latest maritime disaster to hit Bangladesh. Police said the speedboat carrying about three dozen passengers from the town of Mawa rammed into the other vessel in the Padma River as it neared the main river station in the central rural town of Shibchar. Continue reading... |
| G7 nations to agree on global plan to help 40m girls into education Posted: 03 May 2021 05:17 AM PDT Talks between US secretary of state and Dominic Raab come as Britain cuts foreign aid to the sector The US secretary of state is to hold talks with his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, while the UK is on the back foot over plans to set new global targets to help girls' education at a time when London is drastically cutting aid to the sector. Antony Blinken's trip to London for the G7 meeting will include discussions with other foreign and development ministers on Tuesday and Wednesday. It is the first face-to-face meeting at G7 level for two years and foreign ministers from South Korea, Australia, India and South Africa will also be attending some of the talks. Continue reading... |
| Melting ice reveals first world war relics in Italian Alps Posted: 03 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Accelerating retreat of glaciers in Lombardy and Trentino Alto-Aldige reveals preserved history of 'White War' The soldiers dug the wooden barracks into a cave on the top of Mount Scorluzzo, a 3,095-metre (10154ft) peak overlooking the Stelvio pass. For the next three-and-a-half years, the cramped, humid space was home to about 20 men from the Austro-Hungarian army as they fought against Italian troops in what became known as the White War, a battle waged across treacherous and bitterly cold Alpine terrain during the first world war. Fought mainly in the Alps of the Lombardy region of Italy and the Dolomites in Trentino Alto-Adige, the White War was a period of history frozen in time until the 1990s, when global warming started to reveal an assortment of perfectly preserved relics – weapons, sledges, letters, diaries and, as the retreat of glaciers hastened, the bodies of soldiers. Continue reading... |
| Supply chain bottlenecks hit manufacturers as recovery drives demand – business live Posted: 03 May 2021 11:48 PM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
German carmakers are also being hit by supply problems - particularly for semiconductors. The IFO institute reports that conditions improved across Germany's Automotive Industry, sending its gauge of business conditions to a two-year high. "Carmakers have now overcome the slump they suffered due to the coronavirus" At the moment, the main issue is problems with intermediate products, which were reported by 60.4 percent of the companies. That figure compares to only 5.8 percent in July 2020; back in April 2020, it was as high as 42.0 percent. Several automotive plants have now announced they will introduce short-time work due to the shortage in silicon chips. Related: Jaguar Land Rover to suspend work at UK plants amid computer chip shortage Related: Mini will pause Oxford production line due to computer chip shortage
Overnight, lumber prices hit a new record high, highlighting the squeeze on raw materials. The spiraling demand for lumber - notably in the US - means a hefty bill for new home builders (as most new-build homes in America are wood framed). Ditto for those extending their homes, or even doing DIY jobs . They are feasting on a glut of cheap pine trees in the U.S. South while their finished products like lumber and plywood are flying off hardware-store shelves and being bid up by home builders. Lumber futures delivery later this month ended Monday at $1,575.60 per thousand board feet, a record and more than four times the typical price this time of year. Futures rose by the daily maximum allowed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange during nine of April's 21 trading sessions. The price of Lumber closed at another all-time high, more than quadrupling over the last year. pic.twitter.com/GDXqp2fB8c US Inflation Expectations hit 2.6%, their highest level since 2008. pic.twitter.com/yeVKsKqwXf Continue reading... |
| Queen and Boris Johnson lead tributes to Northern Ireland on centenary Posted: 03 May 2021 10:31 AM PDT Band parades and church services held, while 'united Ireland' banner is hung from Belfast tower block Northern Ireland has marked its centenary with low-key commemorations, reflecting a mixed mood of pride, resentment and post-Brexit uncertainty. The Queen and Boris Johnson led tributes to the region on its 100th birthday on Monday with carefully worded statements that praised its people while acknowledging a troubled history and polarised society. Continue reading... |
| State broadcaster in Italy under fire after ‘censoring’ rapper Posted: 03 May 2021 05:15 AM PDT Rai faces calls to apologise to Fedez over alleged attempt to silence his condemnation of homophobia The Italian state broadcaster, Rai, is under pressure to clarify accusations that it attempted to censor a rapper's condemnation of homophobia. Fedez blasted politicians with the far-right League party, who are blocking a parliamentary vote on an anti-homophobia law, during a concert televised on Rai 3 to mark Labour Day on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Hopes raised for two Americans jailed in Tehran being freed Posted: 03 May 2021 06:08 AM PDT Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi moved to cells where previously prisoners were held before release Two high profile American-Iranian dual nationals detained in Tehran have been moved to a new location inside Evin prison in a procedure that has previously led to the release of detainees, according to sources inside the jail. The moves could add credence to Iranian media reports at the weekend that a prisoner swap involving four unidentified detainees might be, or had been, imminent. Continue reading... |
| Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear Posted: 03 May 2021 02:10 AM PDT Global phenomenon known as river piracy demands urgent adaptation from ecosystems and people who rely on their flow As glaciers around the world recede rapidly owing to global warming, some communities are facing a new problem: the sudden disappearance of their rivers. River piracy, or stream capture, is when water from one river is diverted into another because of erosion or, in this case, glacier melt. Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer vows to clean up British politics after Tory sleaze rows Posted: 03 May 2021 02:30 PM PDT Labour leader plans to link reports of corruption and cronyism to effect on ordinary people as elections near The UK still has a system that allows power to be abused, Keir Starmer has said, pledging after weeks of stories about lobbying, cronyism and cash for Boris Johnson's flat renovations that the Labour party will "clean up our politics". In the final days before polls close for local, mayoral, Welsh and Scottish elections, the Labour leader will attempt to draw a close connection between the stories of Tory sleaze and their effect on ordinary people. Continue reading... |
| Vital soil organisms being harmed by pesticides, study shows Posted: 03 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT The tiny creatures are the 'unsung heroes' that keep soils healthy and underpin all life on land Pesticides are causing widespread damage to the tiny creatures that keep soils healthy and underpin all life on land, according to the first comprehensive review of the issue. The researchers found the measured impacts of farm chemicals on earthworms, beetles, springtails and other organisms were overwhelmingly negative. Other scientists said the findings were alarming, given the importance of these "unsung heroes". Continue reading... |
| Terrawatch: midge fossils offer insight into past climates Posted: 03 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT A study of fossilised insects suggests a correlation between their body size and the temperature Most of us want to run a mile when the midges arrive, but not so for Viktor Baranov, who whips out his microscope to measure the insects. As well as measuring modern midges, Baranov has been looking at fossilised midges, and found that their size can be used to understand the climate going back hundreds of millions of years ago. Baranov, a palaeontologist at Lüdwig Maximilians University in Munich, chose to measure the non-biting Diptera midge. It is already well known that warm-blooded animals become larger as the climate becomes colder – for example, polar bears are much bigger than bears living in the tropics – so Baranov and his colleagues decided to see if the so called "Bergman rule" would hold for insects too. Continue reading... |
| Fifty new outlets, 250 journalists: Canadian startup unveils plan to revive local news Posted: 03 May 2021 09:35 AM PDT As local papers close their doors, a morning newsletter defied the odds. Now its founder aims to push the model nationwide Local journalism has shed jobs faster than the coal industry, leaving swaths of North America as news deserts with little or no regular coverage. But the grim prospects for an industry in decline didn't deter the Canadian tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson, who in 2019 hired a reporter and launched a daily newsletter in his home town, Victoria. Continue reading... |
| How could a vote on the unification of Ireland play out? Posted: 03 May 2021 06:53 AM PDT How a referendum would be triggered and the options offered to voters are fraught with difficulty Brexit has shown the dangers of failing to plan fully for the consequences of referendums, so what would happen if we were to get one about unifying Ireland? There appears to be no chance of political leaders on both sides in Northern Ireland buying into the kind of pre-designed outcomes a referendum would require. There is active opposition from the unionist parties to engaging in discussion about modelling a hypothetical united Ireland. "Why would we talk about unification? That would be like discussing our own suicide," said one leading unionist politician. On the other side, Sinn Féin will not be advancing arguments for a permanent place in the UK. So the chances of both sides agreeing the terms of a vote appear slim to none. Continue reading... |
| Snake catcher wrangles stowaway tiger snake – video Posted: 03 May 2021 05:50 PM PDT Fisherman Bob Thatcher was a long 30-minute ride from shore when he spotted a one-metre-long tiger snake that was sharing his tiny tinnie. Tiger snakes are one of the world's most venomous snakes. Thatcher was hoping to catch some bream in Lake Wellington – one of the coastal waterways in Victoria's East Gippsland region. After spotting the stowaway, he rushed back to shore where Baden Peter of Gippsland Snake Catchers turned up to deal with the potentially deadly passenger Continue reading... |
| The Underground Railroad | Amazon Prime Video Posted: 03 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT "Nothing was given, all was earned. Hold on to what belongs to you." From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead comes the Amazon Original limited series "The Underground Railroad". Premiering May 14 on Prime Video. Continue reading... |
| Hospital staff in Toronto deal with Covid crisis – in pictures Posted: 03 May 2021 11:30 PM PDT Ontario is now the centre of the outbreak in Canada, led by more virulent variants. The latest surge in the number of cases was so big that authorities this week despatched the military and the Red Cross to help care for critical patients Continue reading... |
| Elvis never left: how Britain kept the king of rock’n’roll alive – in pictures Posted: 03 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Over five years, Gavan Goulder explored Britons' fascination with Elvis Presley – photographing fans and portrayals of the singer in the media. Now the images are collected in a book, Thank God for Elvis Continue reading... |
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