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- Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules
- FBI raid exposes Giuliani and signals widening criminal search, experts say
- American students jailed for life for murder of police officer in Rome
- More than 45,000 vie for one of 12 spots to help thin Grand Canyon bison herd
- In Fox interview, Caitlyn Jenner declares herself ‘outsider’ in California governor race
- SpaceX finally launches and successfully lands its futuristic Starship
- Liz Cheney warns Republicans ‘at turning point’ as she faces removal from leadership
- Global heating pace risks ‘unstoppable’ sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts
- Falling Chinese rocket to crash to Earth on weekend as US calls for ‘responsible space behaviours’
- Utah woman missing for five months found alive in tent in a canyon
- 200 years of US coverage: how the Guardian found its feet stateside
- Tracing our past: six timelines that tell the story of the Guardian
- Tweaked Moderna vaccine ‘neutralises Covid variants in trials’
- Coronavirus live news: WHO says US support for vaccine patent waiver ‘heroic’; India sees new case record
- ‘This is tragic’: fears for Latin America’s young people as Covid accelerates
- Between two worlds: a Chinese American story
- Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’
- ‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis
- ‘MI5 were tapping our phones’: UB40 on starting out, falling out and losing millions
- Game of Thrones prequel: what can we learn from the first images?
- Rock that body: how the Mugler catsuit is shaping pop
- How melting glaciers have accelerated a shift in Earth’s axis
- The inside story of how we reached the Facebook-Trump verdict | Alan Rusbridger
- That creaking sound? It’s the United Kingdom starting to break apart | George Monbiot
- To understand why Joe Biden has shifted left, look at the people working for him | Joel Wertheimer
- Why do people who work with their hands tend to make less money than those who use their heads? | Adrian Chiles
- A surprise defeat in one of India’s biggest states shows that Modi is not invincible | Amit Chaudhuri
- Boris shows he’s as adept at pedalling a bike as he is at peddling lies | John Crace
- At last, I will be able to help bereaved people say a proper farewell at funerals | Sandra Millar
- Philadelphia Union last US club in field as Champions League semi-final ties set
- Chelsea power past Real Madrid to set up all-English Champions League final
- Portland Thorns’ Olivia Moultrie, 15, files lawsuit for right to play in NWSL
- Baltimore Orioles’ John Means throws no-hitter facing minimum 27 batters
- Jarryd Hayne sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for rape of a woman in 2018
- How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge
- Brett Favre says his gut tells him Aaron Rodgers will not return to Packers
- ‘A money grab’: Rory McIlroy denounces Saudi-backed breakaway golf tour
- How Jewish parents used Guardian ads to save their children’s lives - podcast
- Matthew Bourne: dance isn’t ‘taken as seriously as I’d thought’
- Apples review – quirky Athenian amnesia mystery
- Levi’s launderette model and singer Nick Kamen dies aged 59
- A Michael Jordan slam dunk from above: Walter Iooss on his best photograph
- ‘I want people to understand what really happened’: did the Son of Sam serial killer act alone?
- ‘We go after them like pitbulls’ – the art detective who hunts stolen Picassos and lost Matisses
- Kim Kardashian named in ‘looted’ Roman statue forfeiture claim
- Steven Soderbergh: Oscars ending changed in case Chadwick Boseman won
- Cowboys review – Steve Zahn brings his A-game to warm Montana trans drama
- Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states
- Uber narrows loss as hunger for food delivery business grows during pandemic
- Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board
- Atlanta officer involved in shooting death of Rayshard Brooks is reinstated
- ‘You can be kicked out any time’: US immigrants’ lives upended by Covid
- US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds
- Model Tess Holliday reveals she’s recovering from anorexia
- Blackfeet tribe gives surplus vaccines to First Nations relatives in Canada
- Judge orders release of memo on Trump obstruction decision
- Peloton recalls treadmills in US over safety concerns after child dies
- G7 foreign ministers refrain from taking concrete action against China
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tasked with forming a government
- UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France
- Archaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa
- ‘No food and no fuel’: Colombia torn by protests and violent crackdown
- Napoleon is part of us, Macron tells France after row over anniversary
- Missing 16th-century Spanish armada cannon recovered by police
- Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear
- Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier
- Madrid’s president revels in ‘wake-up call’ victory as left routed
- Dogecoin’s record-breaking rise shoots ‘joke’ cryptocurrency to wider attention
- ‘Careful what you say’: Prince William and Kate launch YouTube channel
- ‘The process is shockingly void of communication’: how a graphic novel aims to illuminate IVF
- How to make croque monsieur – recipe
- 'Be careful what you say': William and Kate launch YouTube channel – video
- Senior cheerleaders and a roaring campaign: Wednesday’s best photos
- The world’s greatest sports stars shot by Walter Iooss Jr – in pictures
- Cities of dreams: a Dutch master reimagines the metropolis – in pictures
| Trump’s Facebook ban should not be lifted, network’s oversight board rules Posted: 05 May 2021 06:39 AM PDT
Donald Trump's Facebook account should not be reinstated, the social media giant's oversight board said on Wednesday, barring an imminent return to the platform. However, the board has punted the final decision over Trump's account back to Facebook itself, suggesting the platform make a decision in six months regarding what to do with Trump's account and whether it will be permanently deleted. Continue reading... |
| FBI raid exposes Giuliani and signals widening criminal search, experts say Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT High-profile nature of search highlights inquiry's seriousness and suggests officials may have new Ukraine-related leads to follow The extraordinary FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani's New York apartment and office has sparked debate about what criminal charges Giuliani may face, and signals a widening criminal investigation into his Ukraine drive to help Trump in 2020 by sullying Joe Biden, former prosecutors say. The high-profile nature of the raid meant it required senior Department of Justice signoff, and underscored the investigation's seriousness and progress. It also obtained several of Giuliani's electronic devices and thus may have harvested a rich trove of new evidence and leads for investigators to follow. Continue reading... |
| American students jailed for life for murder of police officer in Rome Posted: 05 May 2021 03:25 PM PDT Jury convicts Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, over knife killing committed in 2019 Two American students have been sentenced to life in prison by a Rome court for the murder of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega. After almost 13 hour of deliberation, a jury convicted Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, of murdering Cerciello Rega, who had only just returned to duty after his honeymoon when he was stabbed to death, aged 35, on a street in central Rome in July 2019. Continue reading... |
| More than 45,000 vie for one of 12 spots to help thin Grand Canyon bison herd Posted: 05 May 2021 04:19 PM PDT Skilled shooters are needed to kill the 2,000-pound animals that have been trampling archaeological and other resources More than 45,000 people are vying for one of a dozen spots to help thin a herd of bison at Grand Canyon national park. The odds aren't as good as drawing a state tag to hunt the massive animals beyond the boundaries of the Grand Canyon, but they're far better than getting struck by lightning or winning the Powerball. Continue reading... |
| In Fox interview, Caitlyn Jenner declares herself ‘outsider’ in California governor race Posted: 05 May 2021 07:10 PM PDT Jenner, who has no experience in elected office, sought to appeal to Trump Republicans in interview with Sean Hannity In her first major interview as a candidate for California governor, Caitlyn Jenner sought to appeal to Trump Republicans – telling Fox News' Sean Hannity she's an "outsider" looking to "disrupt" politics as usual. The former Olympian and reality TV star sat down with Hannity at her private airplane hangar in Malibu, a wealthy, celebrity enclave west of Los Angeles, to introduce herself as a candidate to replace Democrat Gavin Newsom in the forthcoming recall election. Continue reading... |
| SpaceX finally launches and successfully lands its futuristic Starship Posted: 05 May 2021 06:20 PM PDT Previous test flights of the rocketship, which Elon Musk plans to use for future missions to the moon and mars, ended in explosions SpaceX launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship on Wednesday, finally nailing a test flight of the rocketship that Elon Musk intends to use to land astronauts on the moon and send people to Mars. The previous four test flights ended in fiery explosions before, during or soon after touchdown at the south-eastern tip of Texas, near Brownsville. Continue reading... |
| Liz Cheney warns Republicans ‘at turning point’ as she faces removal from leadership Posted: 05 May 2021 04:34 PM PDT In op-ed, third-ranking House Republican says party must decide whether it will choose Trump or truth Liz Cheney, the third-most-powerful House Republican, has warned that her party is "at a turning point" as it prepares to try to remove her from leadership for rejecting Donald Trump's false claims about the election. Writing in a defiant op-ed, published by the Washington Post on Wednesday, the Wyoming Republican told her party that standing with Trump meant undermining the rule of law and risking continued violence. Continue reading... |
| Global heating pace risks ‘unstoppable’ sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts Posted: 05 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT World faces 'abrupt jump' in pace of ice loss around 2060 unless emissions reduced to meet Paris agreement goals, study warns The current pace of global heating risks unleashing "rapid and unstoppable" sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica's vast ice sheet, a new research paper has warned. Unless planet-heating emissions are swiftly reduced to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, the world faces a situation where there is an "abrupt jump" in the pace of Antarctic ice loss around 2060, the study states, fueling sea level rise and placing coastal cities in greater peril. Continue reading... |
| Falling Chinese rocket to crash to Earth on weekend as US calls for ‘responsible space behaviours’ Posted: 05 May 2021 05:10 PM PDT Communist party newspaper claims Long March 5B should easily burn up in atmosphere but expert warns pieces will reach Earth The White House has called for "responsible space behaviours" as a Chinese rocket, thought to be out of control, looks set to crash back to Earth on Saturday, US time. The US Space Command is tracking debris from the Long March 5B, which last week launched the main module of China's first permanent space station into orbit. The roughly 30-metre (100ft) long stage would be among the biggest space debris to fall to Earth. Continue reading... |
| Utah woman missing for five months found alive in tent in a canyon Posted: 05 May 2021 10:25 AM PDT
A Utah woman who disappeared in November was discovered alive in a tent at a campsite, having reportedly subsisted off of grass, moss and water from a nearby river for more than five months. The 47-year-old woman, who authorities did not identify, was first reported missing after US Forest Service employees preparing for seasonal canyon closures found her car abandoned in a trailhead parking lot about 50 miles (80km) south-east of Salt Lake City on 25 November. Continue reading... |
| 200 years of US coverage: how the Guardian found its feet stateside Posted: 05 May 2021 04:00 AM PDT After a patchy start, the Guardian has gone on to become a trusted news source for millions of Americans When George W Bush launched an illegal invasion of Iraq in a vain search for weapons of mass destruction, there was no shortage of cheerleaders in the US media. The Guardian's trenchant criticism of the war would have had little impact across the Atlantic were it not for the power of the internet to demolish national boundaries. As it was, Americans paid attention – in their millions. Continue reading... |
| Tracing our past: six timelines that tell the story of the Guardian Posted: 05 May 2021 06:00 AM PDT Track how the Guardian goes from a regional weekly to a global media organisation, as the world it is reporting on transforms immeasurably too  |
| Tweaked Moderna vaccine ‘neutralises Covid variants in trials’ Posted: 05 May 2021 01:05 PM PDT Limited data from small test trial shows positive results against South Africa and Brazil strains The first "tweaked" vaccine against the worrying coronavirus variants that emerged in South Africa and Brazil has successfully neutralised them in laboratory trials, the US company Moderna has said. The results of the small trial suggest that boosters against the variants will be feasible and could be rolled out this year to counter the threat from variants that have appeared around the world and are feared in some cases to be more transmissible or partially vaccine-resistant. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 12:26 AM PDT WHO chief hails US move as 'heroic'; experts say India peak may not be reached for weeks; Bolsonaro links pandemic to 'biological warfare' by China
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison's Facebook page is spending $2,000 Australian dollars on ads targeting the Indian community in Australia to explain the travel ban. The ban prevents Australians who have been in India in the previous 14 days from returning to Australia, with threats of fines and jail time if they return. The government says it was enacted in response to the high number of cases of Covid-19 in India but since it was announced, Morrison has been in damage control against accusations the policy is racist. Related: Scott Morrison targets Australian-Indian community with Facebook ads explaining travel ban
Overnight the US declared its support for a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines to boost their production and distribution around the world. "This is a global health crisis," Katherine Tai, the US trade representative, said in a written statement. "The extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. Related: US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines Continue reading... |
| ‘This is tragic’: fears for Latin America’s young people as Covid accelerates Posted: 05 May 2021 11:03 AM PDT
An increasing number of young lives are being extinguished as Covid-19 accelerates across Latin America and the Caribbean, the head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has warned. Dr Carissa F Etienne, the group's Dominican director, said she feared that with infections surging in countries including Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala and the Guyanas the next three months could bring further pain to a region already reeling from the 14-month pandemic. Latin America is home to 8% of the global population but last week suffered more than a third of all Covid deaths – a growing proportion of them young people. Continue reading... |
| Between two worlds: a Chinese American story Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT I've long nursed vague plans of moving back to China for a few years, to solidify my place there. But with each year that passes in the US, such a move gets harder and harder to make My grandfather died on 25 August 2020, Chinese Valentine's Day. I believe it was peaceful. He had been in hospital in a vegetative state for several months, and had been declining from dementia for three years. He was 95; he had always said he would live to be 100. Fifth-three days before he died, my grandmother died. She was eating a sweet rice ball at the dinner table and her heart suddenly stopped. Mid-bite, she simply stopped moving. Froze, like a buffering video clip. By the time they got her to the hospital it was too late. She had been in good health. No one had been expecting that she would pass away. Continue reading... |
| Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’ Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The former secretary of state warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online – and says big tech's wings must be clipped Her bid for the White House was engulfed by a tidal wave of fabricated news and false conspiracy theories. Now Hillary Clinton is calling for a "global reckoning" with disinformation that includes reining in the power of big tech. The former secretary of state and first lady warns that the breakdown of a shared truth, and the divisiveness that surely follows, poses a danger to democracy at a moment when China is sell the conceit that autocracy works. Continue reading... |
| ‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT In 1938, there was a surge of classified ads in this newspaper as parents – including my grandparents – scrambled to get their children out of the Reich. What became of the families? On Wednesday 3 August 1938, a short advertisement appeared on the second page of the Manchester Guardian, under the title "Tuition". "I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family," the advert said, under the name Borger, giving the address of an apartment on Hintzerstrasse, in Vienna's third district. Continue reading... |
| ‘MI5 were tapping our phones’: UB40 on starting out, falling out and losing millions Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Brummie reggae stars are back, but in two rival groups. They talk about clocking up 39 hits, partying hard and the bitter split UB40 are remembering the days when they were dangerous. "MI5 were tapping our phones, watching our houses, all sorts," says drummer Jimmy Brown. "We thought, 'Haven't they got criminals to catch?' We were just a bunch of potheads, smoking weed and playing music. We weren't planning the revolution, but if the revolution happened, we knew what side we were going to be on." The band are back this year – in duplicate. In contrast to the longstanding and bitter rift that divides the two factions, more of which later, the Brummie eight-piece once presented a united, staunchly uncompromising front. For those who remember UB40 primarily for lilting lite-reggae covers of Red Red Wine and (I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You, the fact that they were considered a grave threat to national security might seem absurd. Look closer at the origins story of the band, however, and the concerns of the spooks – later confirmed by MI5 whistleblower David Shayler – make a certain kind of sense. Continue reading... |
| Game of Thrones prequel: what can we learn from the first images? Posted: 05 May 2021 12:20 PM PDT The first stills from House of the Dragon, the new series within George RR Martin's fantasy universe, promise more of the same but also a tease of something new Game of Thrones currently has a bit of an image problem. The sense that George RR Martin will never actually complete his saga has taken all the fun out of reading the books, and the dismal Crayola scribble of a final season has obliterated the reputation of the TV series. Related: Game of Thrones at 10: can a deluge of publicity preserve its legacy? Continue reading... |
| Rock that body: how the Mugler catsuit is shaping pop Posted: 05 May 2021 10:11 PM PDT From Billie Eilish to Beyoncé, the Mugler outfit has become the natural successor to Madonna's bustier Pop music has a new uniform. The feline, figure-hugging Mugler bodysuit, with its generous cutouts, has become ubiquitous with the biggest female singers. Billie Eilish wore one for her recent Vogue cover shoot, Beyoncé was in one on the cover of the same magazine's December issue, as was Dua Lipa at the MTV Europe music awards, while Miley Cyrus wore hers accessorised with silver jewellery at the I Heart Festival and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion wore versions in, respectively, lime green and purple for one of the many costume changes in the WAP video. "The bodysuit and what it represents is powerful," says Casey Cadwallader, who has been the creative director at Mugler since 2017. "People see how relevant it is – being really open-minded, embracing diversity, embracing different expressions of gender." Continue reading... |
| How melting glaciers have accelerated a shift in Earth’s axis Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The redistribution of water has caused the planet to lean and wobble, resulting in the poles moving The axis of the Earth has shifted and moved the locations of the north and south poles. The poles have always wandered very gradually on the globe but in 1995 the north pole turned away from Canada towards Russia and accelerated over the next 15 years, 17 times faster than the previous 15 years. The distribution of water over the planet is a big driving force behind this shift, by changing the way mass is distributed around the world. The Earth spins around on its axis like a spinning top, and if its weight is shifted around on the globe it starts to lean and wobble, changing the axis and poles. Continue reading... |
| The inside story of how we reached the Facebook-Trump verdict | Alan Rusbridger Posted: 05 May 2021 10:46 AM PDT I am a member of Facebook's oversight board. Here's why we decided to continue his suspension from Facebook As so often is the case, Donald Trump gets to the heart of the problem. On 6 January, he was the president of the United States: probably the most powerful man in the world. He should be free to speak his mind, and voters should be free to listen. But he was also a habitual liar who, by the end of his term, had edged into repudiating the very democracy that had elevated him. And then came his inflammatory words on that day, uttered even as rioters were breaking their way into the heart of US democracy. His words had a veneer of restraint – "We have to have peace, so go home." But his statements were laced with lies, along with praise for the mob who terrorised lawmakers as they sought to confirm Biden as Trump's successor – "We love you, you're very special … great patriots … remember this day for ever." Continue reading... |
| That creaking sound? It’s the United Kingdom starting to break apart | George Monbiot Posted: 05 May 2021 06:20 AM PDT Westminster's self-serving rule is bolstering the cause of independence across the union. Democracy will be the winner Any residual argument for Scotland to stay within the United Kingdom meets its counter-argument in Boris Johnson. Westminster politics has always been the preserve of a remote enclave, on average massively richer and more privileged than those they claim to represent, especially in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But now that they're dominated by a prehensile ogre grabbing all that his donors will give him while queues at the foodbanks lengthen, why should anyone north of the border consent to be ruled by his insouciant decree? We have never been closer and never further away. Remote technologies open up our living rooms to each other, but what we see behind the doors are different worlds: flaking plaster in one, £800-a-roll wallpaper in another. In Westminster, a hereditary elite treated the pandemic less as a crisis than as an opportunity to enrich its friends. By granting unadvertised, untendered contracts to favoured companies for essential goods and services, many of which were either substandard or never arrived, it actively encouraged the sort of profiteering during a national emergency portrayed in The Third Man. A number of Harry Limes have become exceedingly rich as a result. Continue reading... |
| To understand why Joe Biden has shifted left, look at the people working for him | Joel Wertheimer Posted: 05 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The president's radical domestic plans have been shaped by a new generation of staffers moving through the West Wing In president Joe Biden's first address to Congress last week, he celebrated the $1.9tn relief plan that passed within the first days of his presidency and proposed an ambitious $4tn plan for family care, green infrastructure, education and jobs that Democrats might have been surprised to hear from even Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. To understand how Biden, the 78-year-old self-proclaimed moderate, came to push such an ambitious and progressive domestic policy agenda, you can start by looking at the young lanyard-wearing staffers who populate the West Wing and Old Executive Office Building. Policy decisions in Washington are made by the principals – the president, the senators and the cabinet secretaries – but their decisions are significantly constrained by the information they receive. I served as associate staff secretary to President Obama from 2015 until the end of his term, building his briefing book and ensuring the appropriate staff edited and commented on the memos he received, and I saw how this information shaped the president's choices. The president's staff give the president a policy menu of memos, data and updates on government programmes. Extending the menu analogy, presidential decision-making looks a lot more like choosing from a few items on the prix fixe than dictating a specific meal to a private chef. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Whether it's putting up scaffolding or playing with Lego, I have no manual skills whatsoever There are jobs that use the head, those that need a heart and those for which you have to use your hands. The trouble is that you will normally be far more amply rewarded for one than for the other two put together. Jobs using your head will usually bring home more bacon than those using your heart or hands. The relative pay packets of most people working with their hands must have been shrinking since the iron age. Apart, possibly, from cooking, I'm not blessed with "hand" skills. I was crap at Lego and never moved on from that. I tell a lie. I had a go at being a scaffolder when I left school, and was hopeless at that, too, which could have had far graver consequences for myself and others than playing Lego. So, I'm not blowing my own trumpet when I say it's a crying shame that most jobs using hands don't pay more. It seems so unfair. I looked on, slack-jawed in admiration, the other day as a plumber took apart my oil-fired boiler, reassembled it and, lo, there was heat. It's the same with sparks, chippies and builders of all shapes and sizes. I observe them at work knowing you could leave me with the same materials and the best tools until the end of time, and I would contrive to create nothing of any use or value. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 May 2021 02:02 AM PDT Amid the calamitous second Covid wave, the ruling BJP party tried and failed to win the coveted West Bengal elections In the months leading up to the assembly elections in West Bengal, I began to realise that there was every chance that the state where I live, once a left stronghold, would soon be under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). The realisation came from talking to ordinary, working-class Bengalis. K, a man in his late 30s who had come to work for us, said tersely but firmly that he'd be voting BJP. The reason? "You need to throw out parties in power from time to time. It's good for them." He was invoking the Kerala model – in Kerala, voters periodically alternate between putting one of the two main parties in power. Electorates in all states – in fact, the whole country – would probably go Kerala's way if they had a viable opposition to turn to. From K, I learned firsthand what I knew in theory: that the term "anti-incumbency" doesn't capture the ground-level resentment people begin to feel towards parties that have been in power for too long. The resentment in a state like Bengal isn't aimed so much at the party's principal figureheads; it's a reaction against the intolerable nature of a politics of local patronage and fiefdoms. Everywhere you go in West Bengal, you're in a terrain where every inch – footpath, tea stall, shop, roadside "club" (that key political, social and sporting institution), festive celebration – is politicised. The ruling dispensation manifests itself through all-powerful, low-level functionaries who govern through bullying. K and others I spoke to thought it was time to teach these people a lesson. For them, a vote for the leading Hindu nationalist party wasn't about temples and Islam. Continue reading... |
| Boris shows he’s as adept at pedalling a bike as he is at peddling lies | John Crace Posted: 05 May 2021 09:14 AM PDT Prime minister hits the local election campaign trail, where he's more than happy to take voters for a ride Life was sweet for Boris Johnson on the last day of the local elections campaign. He'd yet again wriggled out of doing any broadcast interviews – he'd sent out Nadhim Zahawi, his latest fall guy, for the second time inside a week to take the hit on any stray questions about £840-a-roll wallpaper – and the morning found him going for a gentle bike ride along the canal with the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street. True, the conversation hadn't got off to the best of starts with Andy pointing out that he had once been boss of John Lewis and what the hell was wrong with John Lewis furniture? But Boris had soon won him over by blaming Carrie for the Downing Street décor and that he'd have been quite happy with John Lewis furniture. Hell, he'd had to sleep on a John Lewis sofa often enough in the past when kicked out of the bedroom after yet another affair had been rumbled. Continue reading... |
| At last, I will be able to help bereaved people say a proper farewell at funerals | Sandra Millar Posted: 05 May 2021 07:27 AM PDT Restrictions on attendance numbers will be lifted this month, but technology has enabled many to watch online As I stood outside the cemetery chapel, waiting for the bearers to begin the journey inside, I felt more than a little invested. The woman whose funeral I was about to lead was almost the same age as me. I knew, from talking to her family on Zoom in the days beforehand, that her life had touched many people over the years. Friends, neighbours and colleagues should have been gathered there to show respect and support others grieving. Stories and memories should have been told, hugs and handshakes given. Instead, about 25 people gathered inside the church. The March snow showers began to fall outside. This was another funeral in the year of Covid-19. Related: Limit of 30 mourners at funerals in England to be lifted this month Continue reading... |
| Philadelphia Union last US club in field as Champions League semi-final ties set Posted: 05 May 2021 09:52 PM PDT
Federico Vinas scored twice as Club América easily handled the Portland Timbers in the second leg of their Concacaf Champions League quarter-final tie at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, emerging with a 4-2 aggregate victory. The Liga MX side will square off in the semi-finals with the Philadelphia Union, who capped a 4-1 aggregate victory over Atlanta United on Tuesday. The two-leg semi-finals will be contested in mid-August and mid-September. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea power past Real Madrid to set up all-English Champions League final Posted: 05 May 2021 01:53 PM PDT Up until the 85th minute, the fear had nagged away at Chelsea. It was not based on anything much that Real Madrid had shown on the field across the two legs of this Champions League semi-final – apart from perhaps the latent menace of Karim Benzema. Rather it took in the aura of the 13-times champions, their reputation as the ultimate survivors. While they had a pulse, a puncher's chance at the equaliser for 1-1 and extra time, they could not be ruled out. Chelsea had done everything to add to Timo Werner's goal midway through the first half except put the ball in the net. If they had enjoyed the better of the first leg in Madrid last Tuesday, this was on another level, particularly in the second half. Continue reading... |
| Portland Thorns’ Olivia Moultrie, 15, files lawsuit for right to play in NWSL Posted: 05 May 2021 10:34 PM PDT
A 15-year-old has sued in federal court for the right to play in the National Women's Soccer League, which doesn't allow players under 18. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Portland, Oregon, on behalf of Olivia Moultrie alleges the league's age rule violates antitrust law and also hinders her career development and chances of reaching the US national team. Continue reading... |
| Baltimore Orioles’ John Means throws no-hitter facing minimum 27 batters Posted: 05 May 2021 03:12 PM PDT
John Means threw the major leagues' third no-hitter this season and came within a wild pitch on a third strike of a perfect game, pitching the Baltimore Orioles to a 6-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday afternoon. Means struck out 12, matching a career high, and walked none. Seattle's lone runner was Sam Haggerty after he struck out swinging on a curveball in the dirt on a 1-2 count with one outs in the third inning that bounced away from catcher Pedro Severino. Continue reading... |
| Jarryd Hayne sentenced to five years and nine months in prison for rape of a woman in 2018 Posted: 05 May 2021 10:27 PM PDT Former NRL player to spend at least three years and eight months in jail following conviction in March Two-time NRL player of the year Jarryd Hayne will spend at least three years and eight months in prison for the rape of a woman in 2018. Hayne on Thursday was sentenced to a total five years and nine months following March's conviction for two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. Newcastle district court judge Helen Syme said the 33-year-old had to be jailed because non-consensual sexual intercourse was an extreme form of violence which the community expected courts to take very seriously. The judge noted he only stopped attacking the victim when she started to bleed, not when she was telling him no and stop. Continue reading... |
| How a cheating scandal brought down the Michael Jordan of bridge Posted: 05 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Lotan Fisher was a star at tables across the world. A new documentary explores how one of his rivals started an online detective case into his methods Israel's Lotan Fisher was once considered the greatest bridge player in the world, the card game's very own Michael Jordan. Yet in 2015 he became the focus of a cheating scandal that resulted in bans imposed by numerous bridge bodies. The story is the subject of a new documentary, Dirty Tricks, that gives a rare look into the exclusive world of elite-level competitive bridge. "For me, it just sounded so quirky and strange to make a film about a bridge scandal," the documentary's director, Daniel Sivan, tells the Guardian over Zoom. "It's not a cool sport, not a spectator sport." Continue reading... |
| Brett Favre says his gut tells him Aaron Rodgers will not return to Packers Posted: 05 May 2021 10:20 AM PDT
Brett Favre believes his successor as the franchise quarterback of the Packers will not be in Green Bay much longer. Reports emerged last week that Aaron Rodgers does not want to return to the team he has led since taking over from Favre in 2008. There has long been a feeling that the Packers have not done enough to support the reigning NFL MVP, who has only been to one Super Bowl despite being one of the league's most dominant players for more than a decade. Continue reading... |
| ‘A money grab’: Rory McIlroy denounces Saudi-backed breakaway golf tour Posted: 05 May 2021 11:14 AM PDT
Rory McIlroy has led the backlash against a breakaway golf tour that has shot back to prominence two weeks after football's European Super League's stunning collapse. McIlroy likened the scheme to a "money grab" while Amnesty International again castigated Saudi Arabia's "sportswashing" attempts. Saudi Arabia hopes to entice the world's best players away from the PGA and European tours, with combined financial incentives that run into billions, but there is rising and audible resistance. "I'm very much against it," McIlroy said. "I don't see why anyone would be for it." Continue reading... |
| How Jewish parents used Guardian ads to save their children’s lives - podcast Posted: 05 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT This month is 200 years since the Guardian was first established in Manchester. For the Guardian's world affairs editor, Julian Borger, a part of that history is deeply personal. In 1938, there was a surge of classified ads in the Guardian as parents – including his grandparents – scrambled to get their children out of the Reich. What became of the families? On Wednesday 3 August 1938, a short advertisement appeared on the second page of the Manchester Guardian, under the title "Tuition". "I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family," the advert said, under the name Borger, giving the address of an apartment on Hintzerstrasse, in Vienna's third district. Continue reading... |
| Matthew Bourne: dance isn’t ‘taken as seriously as I’d thought’ Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Freelance performers 'forgotten' during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry Sir Matthew Bourne, one of Britain's most successful dance figures, has said the government response to the pandemic made him realise it does not respect his industry as much as he'd imagined. The choreographer – who is acclaimed for innovative versions of classics such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet – said that dance and theatre's internationally admired freelance talents had become "forgotten people" during lockdown. Continue reading... |
| Apples review – quirky Athenian amnesia mystery Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Christos Nikou's black comedy about a plague of forgetfulness is intriguingly absurd but not as memorable as it thinks it is Here is an enigmatically quirky Greek film about identity and memory, much talked about and talked up on the festival circuit. It's the work of debut feature film-maker Christos Nikou, who cut his teeth as second assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos's pioneeringly weird Dogtooth in 2009 – that seductive film whose bizarre stylings ushered in an entire Greek new wave of cine-absurdism. This is a movie in that recognisable style, and I incidentally think the Greek auteurs really have brought absurdism back in ways not seen the first wave of Beckett, Ionescu and NF Simpson in the theatre.  |
| Levi’s launderette model and singer Nick Kamen dies aged 59 Posted: 05 May 2021 08:07 AM PDT Kamen, who appeared in seminal 1985 Levi's 501 ad, died on Tuesday after a long illness, it is understood Nick Kamen, who sprang to fame as a Levi's model and later became a singer-songwriter, has died at the age of 59, a friend of his family has confirmed. Kamen died on Tuesday night after a long illness, it is understood. Continue reading... |
| A Michael Jordan slam dunk from above: Walter Iooss on his best photograph Posted: 05 May 2021 06:25 AM PDT 'We didn't know which kit he'd show up wearing – so we painted one part of the parking lot blue and another red' It all stemmed from a German sports drink. I'd done some advertising work for a brand called Isostar and they'd had this idea where you take a tennis player, put them on a red clay court and shoot them serving from above to capture the shadow. I thought, that is one hell of an idea, but I need the right vehicle to really do it justice. Shortly afterwards Sports Illustrated called asking me to go and shoot Michael Jordan for them. I thought – well, there's the vehicle! We'd never met but I knew he'd be perfect for it. Continue reading... |
| ‘I want people to understand what really happened’: did the Son of Sam serial killer act alone? Posted: 05 May 2021 07:10 AM PDT Netflix's The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness re-examines the infamous New York serial killer through the eyes of one man's obsession with the case The arrest of David Berkowitz on 10 August 1977 brought to an end the largest manhunt yet in the New York City police department's (NYPD) history and the city's notorious "summer of fear". The city was at the mercy of the so-called Son of Sam serial killer who terrorized the city with random shootings over the course of a year – six dead, seven wounded, all with a .44 caliber revolver and mostly while parked in dark "lover's lanes". The 24-year-old postal worker confessed to the string of brutal crimes furiously discussed in the press, which published taunting, deranged letters from the killer and metabolized widespread public anxiety and fear. News footage from the time, replayed in the new Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness, shows women in salons getting rid of the long brown hair believed to be preferred by the killer; Berkowitz's booking took place amid a flurry of press and a leering, raucous crowd. Continue reading... |
| ‘We go after them like pitbulls’ – the art detective who hunts stolen Picassos and lost Matisses Posted: 05 May 2021 04:18 AM PDT Christopher Marinello has spent three decades finding missing masterpieces, recovering half a billion dollars' worth of art. He talks about threats from mobsters, tricky negotiations – and bungling thieves One summer morning in 2008, Christopher Marinello was waiting on 72nd Street in Manhattan, New York. The traffic was busy, but after a few minutes he saw what he was waiting for: a gold Mercedes with blacked-out windows drew near. As it pulled up to the kerb, a man in the passenger seat held a large bin-liner out of the window. "Here you go," he said. Marinello took the bag and the car sped off. Inside was a rolled-up painting by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux, Le Rendez-vous d'Ephèse. Its estimated worth was $6m, and at that point it had been missing for 40 years. Marinello is one of a handful of people who track down stolen masterpieces for a living. Operating in the grey area between wealthy collectors, private investigators, and high-value thieves, he has spent three decades going after lost works by the likes of Warhol, Picasso and Van Gogh. In that time, he says he has recovered art worth more than half a billion dollars. When I call him, he answers, then abruptly hangs up. "I was just on my way to a police station to recover a stolen sculpture," he explains later, apologising. Continue reading... |
| Kim Kardashian named in ‘looted’ Roman statue forfeiture claim Posted: 05 May 2021 07:11 AM PDT Reality TV star named in US court papers over relic bought in her name and sought by Italian authorities The US government has named Kim Kardashian in a civil forfeiture claim for an ancient Roman statue seized at Los Angeles port in June 2016 that Italian officials think was originally looted from Italy. According to the court documents, the statue, known as Fragment of Myron's Samian Athena, was bought by Kardashian from a Belgian art dealer. It has been assessed to be an early to mid-Roman empire copy of a statue in the ancient Greek style. Continue reading... |
| Steven Soderbergh: Oscars ending changed in case Chadwick Boseman won Posted: 05 May 2021 03:39 AM PDT The producer of this year's ceremony has defended finishing with best actor rather than best film, leading to anticlimax after Anthony Hopkins triumphed Steven Soderbergh, the film-maker who co-produced this year's Oscars ceremony, has defended the controversial decision to switch round the running order, meaning the final prizes were best actress and best actor, with best film coming third from the end. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Soderbergh credited the decision to the likely narrative of the night, saying that he and fellow producers Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins first discussed the possibility back in January, months before the nominations. Continue reading... |
| Cowboys review – Steve Zahn brings his A-game to warm Montana trans drama Posted: 05 May 2021 03:00 AM PDT Roguish Troy is adored by his transgender son Joe – leaving ex-wife Sally the unglamorous job of care-giving There's a marvellous gentleness and warmth to this Montana-set drama from writer-director Anna Kerrigan. Its star, Steve Zahn, has been a mainstay of Hollywood-indie character acting these 30 years, and he brings his A-game to playing Troy, a roguish, big-hearted guy with a drinking problem, a bipolar disorder and a prison record. He was once married to Sally, played by Jillian Bell, and on the weekends, despite the lack of any court order enforcing it, Sally still lets him see their 10-year-old who absolutely adores him and hates the girly dresses and dolls that Sally keeps supplying and loves instead the Stetsons, denims and huge belt buckles that Troy has. Troy chuckles indulgently at these "tomboy" mannerisms, which triggers this outburst: "Tomboys are just another type of girl – and I'm not a girl." Continue reading... |
| Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states Posted: 05 May 2021 07:42 AM PDT Within days to a couple weeks at most the cicadas of Brood X will emerge in mass numbers from Indiana to Georgia to New York Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury find their quarry: a cicada nymph. And then another. And another. And four more. Continue reading... |
| Uber narrows loss as hunger for food delivery business grows during pandemic Posted: 05 May 2021 02:11 PM PDT Delivery bookings rose 166% from the same period last year, leading to better-than-expected earnings despite flat ride bookings Uber's thriving food delivery business, aided by a bump in home deliveries during lockdowns, helped the company counteract a slow quarter for ride-hailing bookings amid the pandemic. The company announced better-than-expected earnings in its first quarter of 2021, despite reporting its ride bookings were flat from the previous quarter and had decreased year over year. Continue reading... |
| Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Posted: 05 May 2021 08:39 AM PDT Analysis: Ruling stopped short of making final decision, deepening questions over the oversight board's effectiveness Facebook's oversight board on Wednesday ruled that Donald Trump's Facebook account should not be reinstated. But it stopped short of making a final decision, saying Facebook itself must decide what to do with the former president's account. The move has deepened questions over the oversight board's effectiveness. Trump has been exiled from the platform since January over posts in which he appeared to encourage the rioters who stormed the US Capitol. Trump petitioned Facebook to reinstate his account, and the social media giant punted a decision on his fate to the oversight board, which has now punted the decision right back to Facebook. Continue reading... |
| Atlanta officer involved in shooting death of Rayshard Brooks is reinstated Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 AM PDT
Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who was fired after the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, has been reinstated after appealing against his firing to the Atlanta Civil Service Board. The decision to reinstate Rolfe was delivered on Wednesday by the Atlanta Civil Service Board, which is the "official protector of the civil service system", according to the City of Atlanta's official website. Continue reading... |
| ‘You can be kicked out any time’: US immigrants’ lives upended by Covid Posted: 05 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Many foreign-born workers have lost their jobs to the pandemic – and strict new visa rules have raised the threat of removal When Swaraj lost his job amid the recession last year, it triggered a ticking time bomb. Suddenly, he had to either find a different employer to sponsor his visa or return to India, throwing away the life he had built during half a decade in the United States. "It's not right," said Swaraj, who asked the Guardian to only use his first name to protect his career. "If I lose my work status, I have to leave this country within 60 days. I felt like … that's not correct." Continue reading... |
| US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds Posted: 05 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Belief in importance of democracy high in 53 sampled countries but inequality and big tech companies seen as biggest threats The US faces an uphill task presenting itself as the chief guardian of global democracy, according to a new poll that shows the US is seen around the world as more of a threat to democracy than even Russia and China. The poll finds support for democracy remains high even though citizens in democratic countries rate their governments' handling of the Covid crisis less well than people in less democratic countries. Continue reading... |
| Model Tess Holliday reveals she’s recovering from anorexia Posted: 05 May 2021 09:57 AM PDT Holliday says she hopes her announcement helps to stop the idea that 'only very underweight people can have anorexia' Eating disorder campaigners have hailed a decision by the American plus-size model Tess Holliday to announce she is receiving treatment for anorexia, saying that it is helping to stop the idea that "only very underweight people can have anorexia". Holliday, who has 2.1 million followers on Instagram and has been featured on the pages of Vogue, recently wrote on Twitter: "I'm anorexic and in recovery … I'm the result of a culture that celebrates thinness and equates that to worth but I get to write my own narrative now. I'm finally able to care for a body that I've punished my entire life and I am finally free." Continue reading... |
| Blackfeet tribe gives surplus vaccines to First Nations relatives in Canada Posted: 05 May 2021 11:35 AM PDT Effort by illustrates the disparity with which the US and its northern neighbors are distributing doses The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana has provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others in Canada, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the US and its northern neighbor are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%. Among those who received the vaccine at the Piegan-Carway border crossing were Sherry Cross Child and Shane Little Bear, of Stand Off, about 30 miles (50km ) north of the border. Continue reading... |
| Judge orders release of memo on Trump obstruction decision Posted: 05 May 2021 06:33 AM PDT DoJ attorneys 'disingenuous' in attempts to keep document at conclusion of Mueller investigation secret, judge says A justice department memorandum explaining the decision not to charge Donald Trump with obstruction at the conclusion of the Mueller investigation must be made public, a federal judge has ruled. Attorneys for the department were "disingenuous" in their attempts to keep the document secret, district court judge Amy Berman Jackson said, according to CNN which reported the story on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Peloton recalls treadmills in US over safety concerns after child dies Posted: 05 May 2021 10:30 AM PDT Recall is a major reversal for company that insisted its treadmills were safe despite dozens of reported injuries The fitness company Peloton is recalling its two popular treadmills in the US over safety concerns after the death of a child and dozens of other injuries. Peloton has apologized for pushing back against federal safety officials who warned the public last month of the dangers of using them. The recall is a major reversal for a company that insisted its Tread and Tread+ treadmills were safe, despite reports by users. Continue reading... |
| G7 foreign ministers refrain from taking concrete action against China Posted: 05 May 2021 12:34 PM PDT Group condemns human rights abuses but individual countries are left free to decide what action to take Foreign ministers from the G7 group of wealthy countries have refrained from spelling out any concrete steps to confront China, amid concern among some members – especially Italy and Germany – over reprisals if their language was too threatening. Instead ministers bridged their gaps on how to confront China's rise by vowing only to improve their countries' resilience to China's "arbitrary, coercive economic policies and practices". Continue reading... |
| Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tasked with forming a government Posted: 05 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT President Reuven Rivlin chooses another candidate to build a government after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to meet deadline Israel's president has tasked the head of the opposition, Yair Lapid, with forming a government after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so, leaving the country's longest-serving leader facing a fresh challenge to his historic hold on power. Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party won the most seats in a March election and was given 28 days to build a majority coalition government. But that deadline passed on Tuesday, allowing Reuven Rivlin to choose another candidate. Continue reading... |
| UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France Posted: 05 May 2021 12:52 PM PDT Boris Johnson dispatches two gunboats to protect island from feared blockade Boris Johnson has dispatched two Royal Navy patrol boats to protect Jersey from a feared blockade by French fishing vessels, in an escalation of a dispute over post-Brexit access to waters around the Channel island. The move followed talks on Wednesday evening between the prime minister and the chief minister of the British crown dependency, John Le Fondré, who had warned Downing Street of imminent movements by French fishing boats to cut off the island's main port. Continue reading... |
| Archaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa Posted: 05 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT 'Quite spectacular' discovery shows three-year-old child was carefully laid to rest nearly 80,000 years ago Archaeologists have identified the oldest known human burial in Africa during field work that uncovered the remains of a child laid carefully to rest in a grave nearly 80,000 years ago. The arrangement of the bones shows the three-year-old – named Mtoto after the Swahili word for child – was placed with legs tucked to chest, and perhaps wrapped in a shroud with their head on a pillow, before being gently covered in soil. Continue reading... |
| ‘No food and no fuel’: Colombia torn by protests and violent crackdown Posted: 05 May 2021 06:29 PM PDT 23 protesters and one police officer killed after general strike over unpopular tax reform met with heavy-handed response Mass protests were held across Colombia on Wednesday after a night of unrest in the capital city, as street violence continued after more than a week of angry anti-government demonstrations. Twenty-three protesters and one police officer have been killed in the unrest that began with with a general strike over an unpopular tax reform but has grown into an outburst of rage over poverty exacerbated by the pandemic, human rights abuses and the authorities' heavy-handed response to protests. Continue reading... |
| Napoleon is part of us, Macron tells France after row over anniversary Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 AM PDT President seeks to strike balance as he marks 200 years since emperor's death by laying wreath at tomb Emmanuel Macron has marked the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, telling France the controversial former emperor "is part of us". The French president laid a wreath at Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides in Paris after giving an address at the Institute of France. Continue reading... |
| Missing 16th-century Spanish armada cannon recovered by police Posted: 05 May 2021 09:43 AM PDT Bronze cannon disappeared from seabed, where it had lain for 425 years, the day after it was discovered Spanish police have recovered a 16th-century bronze cannon that may have been carried on one of the warships in the ill-fated second Spanish armada, a fortnight after it went missing from the seabed where it had lain for more than 400 years. A group of shellfish catchers came across three cannon in the sea off the Galician town of Ribeira in north-west Spain while out looking for goose barnacles in mid-April. But when the regional authorities and the navy arrived to salvage the cannon the following day, they found only two. Continue reading... |
| Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear Posted: 05 May 2021 12:13 PM PDT Environmental groups say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein shot bear, named Arthur, in a protected area Environmental groups have accused a prince from Liechtenstein's royal family of shooting and killing the largest bear in Romania, in contravention of a ban on the trophy hunting of large carnivores. The Romanian NGO Agent Green and the Austrian NGO VGT alleged in a statement that the bear, who was called Arthur, was shot in March in a protected area of the Carpathian Mountains by Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein. Continue reading... |
| Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier Posted: 05 May 2021 01:15 AM PDT Revealed: EU chief negotiator's diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK's departure Britain's post-Brexit future was determined by "the quarrels, low blows, multiple betrayals and thwarted ambitions of a certain number of Tory MPs", the EU's chief negotiator has said in his long-awaited diaries. The UK's early problem, writes Michel Barnier in The Great Illusion, his 500-page account, was that they began by "talking to themselves. And they underestimate the legal complexity of this divorce, and many of its consequences." Continue reading... |
| Madrid’s president revels in ‘wake-up call’ victory as left routed Posted: 05 May 2021 04:45 AM PDT Conservative Isabel Díaz Ayuso vows to continue combative approach to dealings with Spanish government Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the conservative president of the Madrid region who inflicted a stinging defeat on her leftwing opponents in Tuesday's snap election, has vowed to carry on acting as a "counterweight" to Spain's Socialist-led coalition government. Although her People's party more than doubled its seat count and won more seats than the three leftwing parties combined, Ayuso fell just short of an absolute majority, meaning she will have to rely on the support of the far-right Vox party to form a new regional government. Continue reading... |
| Dogecoin’s record-breaking rise shoots ‘joke’ cryptocurrency to wider attention Posted: 05 May 2021 11:55 AM PDT Analysts say Elon Musk's turn as host of Saturday Night Live will raise its profile yet further It is perhaps the ultimate symbol of late capitalism: a digital currency that started as a joke, now worth more than the Ford motor company, BP or Tesco. Riding a wave of speculative interest despite Covid-19 triggering the worst global recession since the 1930s Great Depression, Dogecoin has been a huge hit with amateur investors. It is a cryptocurrency based on an internet meme – a humorous online phrase or photo, which on this occasion is a dog – and has shot to wider attention with a record-breaking rise in value in recent weeks. Continue reading... |
| ‘Careful what you say’: Prince William and Kate launch YouTube channel Posted: 05 May 2021 10:57 AM PDT Debut video includes clips of couple on royal engagements, with William joking: 'these guys are filming everything' The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have become YouTubers, launching their own channel on the global video-sharing site with a fast-edited promotional video showing them at work and play. Their YouTube debut post begins with the couple sitting on a sofa. Prince William jokes with Kate while pointing to the camera and people behind it, saying: "Be careful what you say now because these guys are filming everything." Continue reading... |
| ‘The process is shockingly void of communication’: how a graphic novel aims to illuminate IVF Posted: 05 May 2021 09:12 PM PDT Two-Week Wait is Luke and Kelly Jackson's response to the challenges of fertility treatment – beyond the medical facts A man stands in the doorway of a bathroom, brushing his teeth. His wife lies in bed, reading. "So… ummm… are we going to…?" she asks. He pauses for a moment, then enters the bedroom. They have a conversation about sex, ovulation, cycles. It's clinical, almost business-like. So begins Two-Week Wait, a graphic novel following a couple, Joanne and Conrad, on their journey towards parenthood. Based on the experiences of authors Kelly and Luke C Jackson, as well as people they interviewed, the book is a compelling, harrowing portrait of the difficulties faced by the one in 50 Australian couples trying to conceive. Continue reading... |
| How to make croque monsieur – recipe Posted: 05 May 2021 04:00 AM PDT There may not seem much to 'master' with what is in effect just a posh cheese and ham toastie, but a proper croque monsieur requires attention to detail Loyal as I am to the classic cheese toastie, sometimes the occasion demands something with a bit more je ne sais quoi, which is where the croque monsieur comes in. Though in truth it's not much more than a hot cheese and ham sandwich with a fancy name, it always conjures visions of busy brasseries – which is exactly where I'd like to be right now. Prep 15 min  |
| 'Be careful what you say': William and Kate launch YouTube channel – video Posted: 05 May 2021 10:40 AM PDT The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have launched their first official YouTube channel with a 25-second reel of clips taken from official royal engagements. The reel included a laughing Kate shearing sheep during a visit to a Lake District farm and William sitting with Sir David Attenborough to promote the duke's Earthshot environment prize, among other moments. The Cambridges already use Twitter and Instagram to promote their work Continue reading... |
| Senior cheerleaders and a roaring campaign: Wednesday’s best photos Posted: 05 May 2021 06:04 AM PDT |
| The world’s greatest sports stars shot by Walter Iooss Jr – in pictures Posted: 05 May 2021 09:48 AM PDT One of the greatest sports photographers of all time, Walter Iooss Jr got his first commission for Sports Illustrated at 17 and went on to capture award-winning images of the sporting world's biggest names, including Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant. His work is represented by The Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York Read: My best shot: Michael Jordan by Walter Iooss Jr Continue reading... |
| Cities of dreams: a Dutch master reimagines the metropolis – in pictures Posted: 05 May 2021 01:28 AM PDT Frank van der Salm has spent 25 years turning the way we see urban surfaces upside down – from twinkling nightscapes to eerie, empty interiors Continue reading... |
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