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- CDC: people who test positive for Covid with no symptoms should isolate just five days
- Ghislaine Maxwell: jury weighs charges as judge warns Covid could derail trial
- Invisible and unheard: how female veterans suffering trauma are let down by US healthcare
- Russian court orders closure of country’s oldest human rights group
- Polish opposition says government use of spyware is ‘crisis for democracy’
- Georgia debunks Trump claim that 5,000 dead people voted in 2020
- Gunman kills four people and injures officer in Denver area
- Western US states hit by record freeze and heavy snow
- ‘Slap in the face’: American Red Cross workers describe exploitative work conditions
- Egyptian pharaoh’s mummified body gives up its secrets after 3,500 years
- China berates US after ‘close encounters’ with Elon Musk satellites
- Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database
- Covid pills are ‘very promising’ – but what are the challenges in using them?
- The View seeks conservative to replace McCain – and angers ‘Never Trumpers’
- Old dads learn new tricks from Australian children’s cartoon Bluey
- ‘People fear what they don’t understand’: Rachel Levine, pioneering trans official, on protecting Americans’ health
- Reporting on US gun violence in 2021 revealed how the toll is spread unequally
- ‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green
- Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman review – vigilant, truthful
- Apps promised a sexual revolution but they have just made dating weird | Rachel Connolly
- My winter of love: We both hated the cold – so we spent the day in bed, drinking piña coladas
- German court rules disabled people must be protected in Covid triage cases
- No new Covid restrictions in England before new year, Boris Johnson says
- Covid live news: Omicron accounts for 58.6% of all infections in US; Wales reports 12,378 cases in past 48 hours
- The true meaning of 6 January: we must answer Trump’s neofascism with hope | Robert Reich
- Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice | Amy Westervelt
- In our war of words, full stops are dying but the exclamation mark is doing fine | Simon Horobin
- Australia has been forced to face the truth about the gender-based violence lurking behind its ‘safe and happy’ facade | Chanel Contos
- Some Covid masks are better than others. I know – I’m the Mask Nerd | Aaron Collins
- Surging Miami Dolphins hold off depleted Saints for seventh straight win
- NBA changes Covid protocols, allowing vaccinated players to return sooner
- Southampton v Spurs, Watford v West Ham and more: Premier League – live!
- ‘Other surfers respect me’: the 92-year-old still riding waves in New Zealand
- Ferran Torres completes €55m move to Barcelona from Manchester City
- Cavani salvages draw for Manchester United as Newcastle show new fight
- World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin is latest top skier to test positive for Covid
- David Squires on … the A to Z of football in 2021
- Revisited: An Al-Qaida recruit-turned-spy and the road to 9/11 podcast
- A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us
- Van Gogh’s self-portraits and colossal venues: 2022’s best art and architecture
- Britney Spears reveals conservatorship has left her scared of music business
- Post your questions for Elvis Costello
- Hotel Poseidon review – soggy zombified hell in a Belgian hotel encrusted with grot
- Gabriels: the gospel-soul trio set to be 2022’s word-of-mouth hit
- The Waifs: We’d stripped to our undies and started on the vodka when Bob Dylan called us onstage
- Autobibliography by Rob Doyle review – charmingly provocative
- I moved to the coast for a better life – now I’m back in London where I belong | Laura Barton
- Nigel Slater’s recipe for smoked salmon pudding
- Why feeding your pets insects could become all the buzz
- From downward spiral to dream job: my 18 months of tumult and transformation
- Escape your comfort zone: I am terrified of driving – but behind the wheel I find new confidence
- Crews find second apparent 1887 time capsule under Robert E Lee statue
- Sumatran orangutan at New Orleans zoo gives birth to healthy male infant
- LAPD releases video in police killing of 14-year-old girl in clothing store
- Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at age 80
- Joe Biden says US Covid surge should be ‘a source of concern but not panic’
- Sarah Weddington: tributes paid to lawyer who argued and won Roe v Wade
- Israeli airstrike sets port of Latakia ablaze, says Syrian media
- India bans Mother Teresa charity from receiving funds from abroad
- Myanmar massacre: two Save the Children staff among dead
- Stripe the bitey squirrel meets a sad end after terrorising Welsh town
- US and Russia to hold talks amid Ukraine tensions
- Polish court revives ‘highly flawed’ hydroelectric dam plan for Vistula River
- Campaigners force Shell to halt oil exploration on South African coast
- 12,000 Afghan refugees to start new year stuck in UK hotels
- Iran nuclear deal: eighth round of talks begins in Vienna
- Howling, crouching, horrifying – why are Francis Bacon’s animals so nightmarish?
- ‘Not if … but when’: Sinn Féin on path to power in Ireland
- Was 2021 the worst year ever for games?
- Flames over Syrian port after reported Israeli airstrike – video
- 1887 time capsule apparently found under Robert E Lee statue pedestal – video
- South African president Ramaphosa pays tribute to Desmond Tutu in address to the nation – video
- Queen's Christmas speech: 'It can be hard after losing a loved one' – video
- Nothing but net: Third grade teacher makes full court shot – video
- Kolkata children and a sleepy bear: Tuesday’s best photos
- Floods, vaccines, an earthquake: Australia’s best photographs from 2021
- The politics of 2021 – in pictures
| CDC: people who test positive for Covid with no symptoms should isolate just five days Posted: 28 Dec 2021 06:59 AM PST Authorities change guidelines based on 'what we know about the spread' and protection from vaccination, as expert warns US 'being hit by a viral hurricane' US health authorities have halved, to five days, the recommended isolation time for people with asymptomatic Covid. The US is facing a huge surge in Covid cases, fueled by the Omicron variant, which contributed to travel chaos over Christmas and stoked worries about damage to the economy and education. Continue reading... |
| Ghislaine Maxwell: jury weighs charges as judge warns Covid could derail trial Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:46 AM PST Judge Alison Nathan says they face 'a high and escalating risk that jurors and trial participants may need to quarantine' As jury deliberations in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial resumed in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, the judge told lawyers jurors should prepare to deliberate later in the day – because the surge in Covid-19 cases threatens to derail proceedings. "We now face a high and escalating risk that jurors and trial participants may need to quarantine," Judge Alison Nathan said, "thus disrupting trial, putting at risk our ability to complete this trial." Continue reading... |
| Invisible and unheard: how female veterans suffering trauma are let down by US healthcare Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST Women suffer PTSD at twice the rate of men yet their symptoms and stories are often overlooked For Felicia Merkel, the PTSD trigger is any loud sound – an overhead speaker, a slammed car door – transporting her back to the blistering heat of Afghanistan. For Liz Hensel, it is looking into her daughter's chestnut brown eyes, their color reminding her of those of a young Afghan girl named Medina, who lost her mother and leg at the trauma hospital in Kandahar. For Jen Burch, the intrusive memory is of the man who assaulted her before she deployed. More than a decade has passed since these three women were deployed to Afghanistan. It's now almost four months since the US military withdrew from Kabul on 30 August. Still, specific memories consume them. Three hundred thousand female veterans served in the 19-year war, and as media coverage dwindles and the nation slowly forgets, Felicia, Liz and Jen continue to remember. Continue reading... |
| Russian court orders closure of country’s oldest human rights group Posted: 28 Dec 2021 05:44 AM PST Supreme court ruling on Memorial is watershed moment in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on independent thought Russia's supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country's oldest human rights group, in a watershed moment in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on independent thought. The court ruled Memorial must be closed under Russia's controversial "foreign agent" legislation, which has targeted dozens of NGOs and media outlets seen as critical of the government. Continue reading... |
| Polish opposition says government use of spyware is ‘crisis for democracy’ Posted: 28 Dec 2021 08:19 AM PST Opposition leader Donald Tusk calls for inquiry after watchdog says rivals were targeted by Pegasus spyware Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk said on Tuesday reports that the government spied on its opponents represented the country's biggest "crisis for democracy" since the end of communism. A cybersecurity watchdog last week said the Pegasus spyware had been used to target prominent opposition figures, with Polish media dubbing the scandal a "Polish Watergate". Continue reading... |
| Georgia debunks Trump claim that 5,000 dead people voted in 2020 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:03 AM PST State officials confirm four cases, and all involved family members submitting votes for the deceased Donald Trump has claimed 5,000 dead people voted in 2020 in Georgia, a key state he lost to Joe Biden on his way to national defeat. He was off by 4,996. Continue reading... |
| Gunman kills four people and injures officer in Denver area Posted: 28 Dec 2021 08:21 AM PST Suspect also died after being shot, but it was not immediately clear if police officers had shot him At least four people were killed and three injured, including a police officer, after a series of shootings across the Denver area. Police did not immediately name the suspected gunman, who was also killed, and said the motive for the shootings on Monday, across several locations in and around Colorado's capital, was unclear. Continue reading... |
| Western US states hit by record freeze and heavy snow Posted: 28 Dec 2021 03:56 AM PST Severe weather brings record low temperatures in Seattle and huge snowfalls in California and Nevada Severe weather sweeping parts of the US continues to bring record-breaking cold temperatures to the Pacific north-west and heavy snow to mountains in northern California and Nevada. Emergency warming shelters were opened throughout Oregon and western Washington as temperatures plunged into the teens (below zero in centigrade) and forecasters said an Arctic blast would last for several days. Continue reading... |
| ‘Slap in the face’: American Red Cross workers describe exploitative work conditions Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST Nearly minimum wage pay, chronic understaffing and proposed healthcare cuts leave employees disgruntled Workers at the American Red Cross charity are speaking out about what they say is low pay, chronic understaffing, poor working conditions throughout the pandemic and proposed cuts to their healthcare. "The morale is at an all time low in my 23 years of history here," said Darryl Ford, a collection technician at American Red Cross in Warner Robins, Georgia, and president of local union branch USW L254. Continue reading... |
| Egyptian pharaoh’s mummified body gives up its secrets after 3,500 years Posted: 27 Dec 2021 09:00 PM PST Amenhotep I 'unwrapped' digitally by Cairo scientists, revealing details from his grave jewellery to his teeth With his narrow chin, small nose and curly hair he physically resembles his father, said radiologist Sahar Saleem. Perhaps surprisingly for someone who lived about 3,500 years ago, he also has strikingly good teeth. Saleem is talking about the mummified body of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, a warrior king who has been something of an enigma in that he is one of the few royal mummies not to be unwrapped in modern times. Continue reading... |
| China berates US after ‘close encounters’ with Elon Musk satellites Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:35 AM PST Beijing urges US to act responsibly after two near misses that it says posed serious threat to astronauts' lives China has accused the US of ignoring international treaty obligations and engaging in irresponsible and unsafe conduct in outer space after two near misses between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. Zhao Lijian, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Tuesday that China "urges the US to act responsibly" after incidents involving SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which he said had posed a serious threat to the lives and safety of astronauts. Continue reading... |
| Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database Posted: 27 May 2021 06:13 AM PDT A normal day in the US involves a mass shooting. Here, we track the incidents since 2014 Continue reading... |
| Covid pills are ‘very promising’ – but what are the challenges in using them? Posted: 28 Dec 2021 06:40 AM PST Paxlovid and molnupiravir were authorized by the US FDA last week, but supplies of Paxlovid are limited while molnupiravir is less effective than hoped An effective and widely available treatment for Covid would be a major breakthrough for managing the pandemic, but two antivirals recently authorized in the US come with some significant caveats, including low supply and use only among those at high risk for severe illness and death. Paxlovid from Pfizer and molnupiravir from Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics were authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week. The pills could be a game-changer for the most vulnerable, because they can be taken at home twice a day for five days to prevent hospitalization and death. For those considered at high risk of serious illness, Paxlovid was found to be 89% effective when taken within the first three days of symptoms and 88% effective in the first five days. Continue reading... |
| The View seeks conservative to replace McCain – and angers ‘Never Trumpers’ Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST Executives reportedly won't consider anyone who denies the 2020 election results but want a host with 'credibility with mainstream Republicans' Producers searching for a replacement for Meghan McCain as a co-host of ABC's The View ran into criticism on Monday, over their reported preference for a conservative who does not support Donald Trump's lie about electoral fraud or attempts to overturn the last election – but is not a "Never Trumper" either. One critic said the news was "scary for a lot of reasons beyond leaving The View short-staffed". Continue reading... |
| Old dads learn new tricks from Australian children’s cartoon Bluey Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST Online fans admire equal parenting and innovative play practised by canine protagonist's father, Bandit A bright blue anthropomorphic dog may not have been the hero that dads had asked for – but he was the one they clearly needed. After years of being depicted as affable morons in children's media – from Peppa Pig's daddy to the accident-prone father in the interminable Biff, Chip and Kipper books – a new community of dads has formed around the children's animated show Bluey, and more particularly Bluey's father, Bandit. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST Dr Levine discusses why debates over trans rights are so toxic, and how the climate crisis will widen health disparities This year has been excruciating for many Americans who have been battered by Covid, extreme weather disasters and political discord, but for one individual 2021 will be remembered for having propelled her into national prominence. Rachel Levine has shattered not one but two major glass ceilings this year. In March, she became the first openly transgender person to win confirmation in the US Senate after Joe Biden nominated her as assistant secretary of health. Continue reading... |
| Reporting on US gun violence in 2021 revealed how the toll is spread unequally Posted: 28 Dec 2021 03:00 AM PST Shootings, and the grief and trauma that follow, are concentrated in lower-income, mostly Black and Latino communities When I ask parents, siblings and children what they want Guardian readers to know about their family member lost to gun violence, each one emphatically tells me their relative didn't deserve what happened to them. They tell me their loved ones adored animals, loved kids – that they were just special. The people I speak with, especially parents, want the world to know their sons and daughters weren't stereotypes. This desire for posthumous exoneration isn't anything new, but the pleas sounded especially urgent in 2021. Continue reading... |
| ‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green Posted: 20 Mar 2021 05:00 AM PDT In China, scientists have turned vast swathes of arid land into a lush oasis. Now a team of maverick engineers want to do the same to the Sinai
Flying into Egypt in early February to make the most important presentation of his life, Ties van der Hoeven prepared by listening to the podcast 13 Minutes To The Moon – the story of how Nasa accomplished the lunar landings. The mission he was discussing with the Egyptian government was more earthbound in nature, but every bit as ambitious. It could even represent a giant leap for mankind. Van der Hoeven is a co-founder of the Weather Makers, a Dutch firm of "holistic engineers" with a plan to regreen the Sinai peninsula – the small triangle of land that connects Egypt to Asia. Within a couple of decades, the Weather Makers believe, the Sinai could be transformed from a hot, dry, barren desert into a green haven teeming with life: forests, wetlands, farming land, wild flora and fauna. A regreened Sinai would alter local weather patterns and even change the direction of the winds, bringing more rain, the Weather Makers believe – hence their name. Continue reading... |
| Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman review – vigilant, truthful Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:00 PM PST The young poet who electrified Joe Biden's inauguration has produced an impressive, if uneven, first collection From the moment Amanda Gorman started to speak at President Biden's inauguration, on 20 January, the effect was spellbinding. A graceful young woman in a brilliant yellow suit, speaking to millions – she seemed like sunshine itself, bathing the audience in her light. That performance of her poem, The Hill We Climb, had star quality – and her words, pressing for national unity and reconciliation, soared. The sentiments might not have been out of the ordinary but their delivery was. "The new dawn blooms as we free it./For there is always light,/ If only we're brave enough to see it./If only we're brave enough to be it." Gorman is brave enough to be it. And to be able to perform at a political gathering and at once lift up and move an audience in this way is rare – the legacy of Martin Luther King needs no labouring. She is now celebrated as a US national youth poet laureate and could even be described as the country's dazzling new secular preacher. For, as her poem Cordage, or Atonement, puts it: "Poetry is its own prayer,/The closest words come to will." Continue reading... |
| Apps promised a sexual revolution but they have just made dating weird | Rachel Connolly Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:00 AM PST A new book suggests that, for single people, technology has made dating a strange, isolated experience One feature of online dating that makes it a recurring pub-discussion topic among my friends is the propensity for the people involved to do strange things. A whole new spectrum of dating behaviour has evolved on "the apps". Habits that, while now common, are still odd things to do. Someone might seem very interested but then "ghost" or "orbit" (which means they stop replying to messages but still engage with your social media content, liking your posts and photos); or tell obvious but seemingly unnecessary lies; another person might read "the riot act" on a first date, sternly laying down their terms for how the relationship should progress; and there are endless stories about dates reacting bizarrely, even menacingly, if rejected. Continue reading... |
| My winter of love: We both hated the cold – so we spent the day in bed, drinking piña coladas Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST We talked about the warm places we loved, about Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, and the summer to come. But it is hard for a relationship to carry between seasons It was not a long love affair; we barely made it to spring. But all through autumn and into winter, we spent every other night together. I am not good at this season. I loathe the cold, the blanched land, the flatness of a winter sky. I have to look hard for its joys and hold on to them: rook caw, sharp light on rosehip, the morning frost crowning the blackthorn. Continue reading... |
| German court rules disabled people must be protected in Covid triage cases Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:52 AM PST Country's highest court calls for legally binding guidelines if hospitals are forced to choose which patients need treatment Germany's highest court has ruled that disabled people must be protected by legally binding guidelines in case hospitals are forced to introduce a triage system as the country braces itself for a new, more infectious wave of coronavirus. The constitutional court announced its decision on Tuesday, ordering legislators to create a legal framework which would prevent disabled people from being unfairly treated. Continue reading... |
| No new Covid restrictions in England before new year, Boris Johnson says Posted: 27 Dec 2021 12:56 PM PST No extra curbs for New Year's Eve, with prime minister to put emphasis on personal responsibility
Boris Johnson will not introduce further Covid restrictions in England before 2022, giving mass events the go-ahead and leaving nightclubs open for New Year's Eve – in contrast with all other UK nations. Scientists criticised the decision, which came as England recorded its highest number of Covid infections. They said it was the moment of "the greatest divergence between scientific advice and legislation" seen since the start of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2021 08:26 AM PST Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data highlights spread of new variant; Wales warns it is quickly catching up with rates in England
Stock markets have continued to gain ground despite the surge of Omicron around the world. Asian markets lifted on Tuesday with the Nikkei in Japan up nearly 1%, Shanghai up 0.2%, Seoul up 0.1% and Sydney's ASX200 is up 0.44%. Continue reading... |
| The true meaning of 6 January: we must answer Trump’s neofascism with hope | Robert Reich Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST As the first anniversary of the Capitol attack nears, all decent Americans must commit to deprogram this Republican cult. Doing so will mean paying attention to those we left behind 6 January will be the first anniversary one of the most shameful days in American history. On that date in 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by thousands of armed loyalists to Donald Trump, some intent on killing members of Congress. About 140 officers were injured. Five people died. Even now, almost a year later, Americans remain confused and divided about the significance of what occurred. Let me offer four basic truths: Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2021 12:00 AM PST The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement The biggest success of the fossil fuel industry's decades-long campaign to push doubt about climate science is that it forced the conversation about the climate crisis to centre on science. It's not that we didn't need scientific research into climate change, or that we don't need plenty more of it. Or even that we don't need to do a better job of explaining basic science to people, across the board (hello, Covid). But at this moment, "believe science" is too high a bar for something that demands urgent action. Believing science requires understanding it in the first place. In the US, the world's second biggest carbon polluter, fewer than 40% of the population are college educated and in many states, schools in the public system don't have climate science on the curriculum. So where should this belief – strong enough to push for large-scale social and behavioural change – be rooted exactly? Amy Westervelt is a climate journalist and the founder and executive producer of the Critical Frequency podcast network Continue reading... |
| In our war of words, full stops are dying but the exclamation mark is doing fine | Simon Horobin Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST Punctuation has always been controversial, but right now, amid fierce political debate, matters seem especially polarised Punctuation is so 1990s. The comma is disappearing, the full stop has come to a full stop, and the semicolon has been repurposed as a pair of winking eyes. While the exclamation mark remains in rude health, the fate of the apostrophe seems especially bleak. Even the Apostrophe Protection Society has given up the fight, calling an end to its activities in 2019 and declaring a victory for "ignorance and laziness". Debates over the correct use of punctuation have raged since English printers began to adopt the fancy new marks to supplement the simple virgule of medieval scribes (the ancestor of today's forward slash), used singularly to serve a range of functions. The recent release of a large electronic corpus of written English from the past 30 years by Lancaster University allows us to track this rapid shift to a plainer prose. Short messages typed in haste dispense with old-fashioned commas and stuffy semicolons in favour of more informal dashes. Text messages now often sent as individual sentences mean the full stop has become surplus to requirement; including one is seen to signal a deliberate desire to be blunt or convey hostility, similar to adding the word "period" in speech: "That's enough – period." Simon Horobin is a professor in the Department of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2021 08:30 AM PST Brittany Higgins, Grace Tame and thousands of women across the country are demanding a better future, sometimes at great personal cost At university we were given a task to explain how the readings we did that week on sexual coercion in the education system were applicable to the contexts we came from. A woman from a low income country went first, and described how "virginity testing" (where fingers are used to test if the hymen is still intact) was part of childhood schooling in her country. It was my turn directly after and I was slightly lost for words. "Uhh … I grew up in a privileged area of Australia so nothing like that happened to me in my schooling … but when I was doing the readings on sexual coercion, I realised I and people I knew experienced the behaviour described pretty much every weekend." Continue reading... |
| Some Covid masks are better than others. I know – I’m the Mask Nerd | Aaron Collins Posted: 27 Dec 2021 06:00 AM PST Cloth or surgical masks just don't cut it – respirators are far more effective, and they're comfortable too
As a mechanical engineer with a background in aerosol science, I often wondered why months into the pandemic we were still using cloth masks. People used similar coverings during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919, more than 100 years ago. I knew better mask technology existed, and people needed to know about it. So I embarked on a year-long mission to test, document, and review the best masks I could find. This eventually entailed building a mini aerosol laboratory in my bathroom, with scientific instruments capable of measuring particles 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. I have a public database for my results. And a Youtube channel. Over time I began to be known as the Mask Nerd. Continue reading... |
| Surging Miami Dolphins hold off depleted Saints for seventh straight win Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:01 PM PST
A Dolphins defense that intercepted Saints rookie Ian Book twice and sacked him eight times was probably enough to push Miami's winning streak to seven games. Miami also got a big lift from rookie sensation Jaylen Waddle to outclass New Orleans on both sides of the ball. Continue reading... |
| NBA changes Covid protocols, allowing vaccinated players to return sooner Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:31 AM PST
NBA players who test positive for Covid-19 now have a quicker path to return to play, after the league completed a significant update to its health and safety protocols on Monday. The biggest change: Isolation periods for players who test positive may now be significantly shortened – down to six days from what has been the customary 10 – provided those players are asymptomatic and meet other testing standards. Teams were told of the new protocols Monday in a memo sent by the league, a copy of which was obtained by the Associated Press. Continue reading... |
| Southampton v Spurs, Watford v West Ham and more: Premier League – live! Posted: 28 Dec 2021 08:26 AM PST
Some more detail on that Ferran Torres move. No Conor Gallagher for Crystal Palace, which is a blow, while Wilfried Zaha is suspended after his silliness against Spurs. Marc Guehi is back, though, in place of James Tomkins. Dean Smith has made six changes from the team that lost 5-0 to Arsenal though he probably wanted to make more than that. Continue reading... |
| ‘Other surfers respect me’: the 92-year-old still riding waves in New Zealand Posted: 27 Dec 2021 03:02 PM PST Nancy Meherne is determined to keep surfing as long as she can 'do a little jump' to get on the waves Nancy Meherne lives a simple life by the sea, gardening and riding the soft, mellow waves at Scarborough Beach just a couple of blocks from her house. The 92-year-old's now pumice-like board was made in New Zealand in the 1970s by a factory that churned out gumboots and other rubber and foam products. Continue reading... |
| Ferran Torres completes €55m move to Barcelona from Manchester City Posted: 28 Dec 2021 06:09 AM PST
Ferran Torres has completed his transfer from Manchester City to Barcelona in a deal worth an initial €55m plus add-ons. The Spain forward has signed a five-year contract at the Camp Nou that includes a buyout clause of €1bn. The overall fee could rise to €65m depending on the player's achievements. Continue reading... |
| Cavani salvages draw for Manchester United as Newcastle show new fight Posted: 27 Dec 2021 02:10 PM PST For much of the evening Ralf Rangnick's grimace suggested that Manchester United's manager was suffering from severe toothache. Instead of following the supposed script and pressing Newcastle into submission, Rangnick's disjointed team were frequently pulled apart by Allan Saint-Maximin's attacking manoeuvres and Joelinton's midfield excellence. Although Edinson Cavani stepped off the bench to rescue a point for United, the period between Saint-Maximin's seventh minute opener and the Uruguayan's 71st minute equaliser possibly ranked among Rangnick's least comfortable technical area interludes. Continue reading... |
| World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin is latest top skier to test positive for Covid Posted: 27 Dec 2021 08:53 AM PST
Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin is the latest elite skier to test positive for Covid-19 with the Beijing Games less than six weeks away. "I wanted to let you all know that I'm doing well, but unfortunately I had a positive COVID test," the American wrote on her social media accounts Monday. "I'm following protocol and isolating." Continue reading... |
| David Squires on … the A to Z of football in 2021 Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:03 AM PST Our cartoonist recalls moments from the past year in football and files them in alphabetic order because he's good like that
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| Revisited: An Al-Qaida recruit-turned-spy and the road to 9/11 podcast Posted: 27 Dec 2021 07:00 PM PST Few terrorist organisations survive for more than a few years. Al-Qaida was different. Jason Burke, who has spent much of his career reporting on the group, and former member Aimen Dean reflect on how it was able to carry out the September 11 attacks barely a decade after it was formed – and its struggle to survive the fallout from its 'catastrophic success' This week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from 2021. This episode was first broadcast on 9 September. To many people, the sight of two airliners hitting the twin towers in New York prompted an immediate question: who did this? To Jason Burke and Aimen Dean, the answer was obvious. Burke had already reported extensively on the terrorist network, travelling in Afghanistan as he sought to understand its motivations and command structure. Dean knew first hand what Osama bin Laden's agenda was: he had met the terrorist leader twice, and trained as a bomb-maker in Afghanistan before turning and becoming a spy for MI6. Continue reading... |
| A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us Posted: 28 Dec 2021 01:00 AM PST Dickens's novella has become a festive staple but it was intended as a polemic about the treatment of the poor 'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea," begins Charles Dickens in the preface to the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. It is a story so inescapable in British culture that nearly everyone knows about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learning the value of compassion and kindness after being visited by three ghosts in the early hours of Christmas morning. As well as the popular film adaptations that unfailingly appear on TV over the festive season, stage productions this year include a Jack Thorne adaptation starring Stephen Mangan at the Old Vic, a Mark Gatiss version at the Nottingham Playhouse and an adaptation at the Sherman theatre in Cardiff set in Wales and with a gender-swapped Scrooge. Continue reading... |
| Van Gogh’s self-portraits and colossal venues: 2022’s best art and architecture Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST It's Happy New Ear for the impressionist, Manchester and Folkestone's shiny new mega-venues open and Stonehenge gets the blockbuster treatment Continue reading... |
| Britney Spears reveals conservatorship has left her scared of music business Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:15 AM PST Singer also says not releasing new music is a way of hitting back at those who took advantage of her Britney Spears has said the years she spent under conservatorship have left her scared of the entertainment industry. The singer revealed her reasons for not being ready to return to the music business after her conservatorship was terminated in November in an Instagram post. Continue reading... |
| Post your questions for Elvis Costello Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST As he releases new album The Boy Named If, the veteran songwriter will answer your questions on his decades-spanning career Next month marks the return of one of the UK's most enduring and versatile singer-songwriters: Elvis Costello, whose new album with his band The Imposters, The Boy Named If, is out on 14 January. Alongside the release, he'll answer Guardian readers' questions, which you can post in the comments section below. Initially rooted in the righteous anger of the punk scene and the populism of pub rock, Costello has been a fount of strident, melodious songwriting since his breakthrough in 1977. Oliver's Army, Pump It Up and I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea are defining moments in the new-wave era, while ballads such as Alison remain equally celebrated. Continue reading... |
| Hotel Poseidon review Рsoggy zombified hell in a Belgian hotel encrusted with grot Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:00 AM PST Admirably uncompromising depiction of what may or may not be its hero's subconscious is intensely realised but not all that much fun to watch By turns fetid and febrile, pyretic and putrid, and all things hot and sticky, this unique avant garde work is the result of a collaboration between writer-director Stefan Lernous and his colleagues at Abattoir Ferm̩, a theatre company based in the Belgian Flemish-speaking city of Mechelen. It has a plot, of sorts: there's a guy named Dave (Tom Vermeir, caked like everyone else in the film with white make-up that makes him look like a zombie) who looks after his family's supposedly empty hotel, an elaborate set full of rooms encrusted with mould, grot and dead stuff, all of it in the process of mulching down into one sludgy, semi-organic mass. Perhaps the title is a clue that this is all taking place in some para-aquatic terrain, which would explain the abundance of tridents and fishtanks and other watery kit. Anyway, Dave is not entirely alone; this soggy hell has other people in it. There is an unseen neighbour who is watching some extremely noisy porn with whom Dave communicates via shouts. A young woman named Nora (Anneke Sluiters) who insists on renting a room; another husky-voiced woman (Ruth Becquart) in fleshy pantyhouse who complains that she's bored with "fingerbanging" herself all day. Dave's angry shouty mother (Tania Van der Sanden) is on hand, and Dave's dead Aunt Lucy (Dirk Lavryssen) who seems to have died on a sofa some time ago, her altered state only noticed when Nora takes a closer look. Later, there are wild parties, autopsies in the kitchen, and a whole lifetime for Dave lived inside a glass case with a pretty strawberry blonde and a football team's worth of ginger kids. Continue reading... |
| Gabriels: the gospel-soul trio set to be 2022’s word-of-mouth hit Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:30 AM PST Jacob Lusk was an American Idol contestant who had never found his true musical identity. Now, his astounding voice powers a trio who are steeped in the richness of Black musical history Jacob Lusk is getting a kick out of being the singer in Gabriels, the soulful, cinematic trio whose scant handful of London club shows this autumn were the buzziest gigs of the season. "This is the most authentic myself I've ever been," he says down the phone from his home in California. "I can do whatever I wanna do, wear whatever I wanna wear, be who I actually am. I'm embracing me, more than I ever have before." He is being embraced in return. At those shows, Gabriels were greeted with a fervour befitting Lusk's own roots in spiritual music. It felt like watching a first kiss, but between a band and an audience. "That's not a bad analogy. To be honest, it seemed more communal than anything. The audience gave us quite a bit of energy as well, so it felt more like a love fest than a show. 'Hey, we're all here together, let's have this moment together,' more than us presenting our wares." Continue reading... |
| The Waifs: We’d stripped to our undies and started on the vodka when Bob Dylan called us onstage Posted: 27 Dec 2021 08:30 AM PST When Vikki Thorn's band toured the US with their songwriting idol, life was a blur of beer and overnight buses – until they found themselves knockin' on heaven's door
It was 2003 and the Waifs were booked to open for Bob Dylan for 30 of his tour dates across the United States. After settling into the initial shows, my sister (and fellow Waifs singer) Donna Simpson and I were summoned to soundcheck by Larry Campbell, Dylan's guitarist, to rehearse some backing vocals on Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Sometimes Dylan invites guests onstage to join him in singing it, Larry said. Continue reading... |
| Autobibliography by Rob Doyle review – charmingly provocative Posted: 27 Dec 2021 01:00 AM PST The author and critic reveals his weakness for lugubrious writers in this mischievous, enthusiastic guide to his favourite books, interspersed with reflections on his druggy youth In 2019, when he was living in Berlin, the Irish author Rob Doyle wrote a short weekly column about his favourite books for the Irish Times. The series began with The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich's oral history of Soviet war widows, and ended, 51 books later, with The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller's Greek travel memoir of 1941. In between came, well, everything, from Virginia Woolf to Virginie Despentes, via Carl Jung, Philip K Dick and The Tibetan Book of the Dead, each introduced with unstuffy critical acuity and lapel-grabbing comic hyperbole: "Is it preposterous to suggest that Fyodor Dostoevsky prophesied the election of Donald Trump, Brexit and the seething hate-pits of social media?" Inserted between these snippets of high-grade consumer advice are longer, looser reflections written upon Doyle's return to Ireland early in 2020, a visit that became a long-term stay on account of you know what. Thus does the book morph into a Covid-era tour of Doyle's psyche, as he reflects while stuck at home on a roving youth spent in druggy squats and house shares in London and Paris, bumming around Asia and Latin America with the cash earned from sorting supermarket coupons on a Dublin industrial estate. |
| I moved to the coast for a better life – now I’m back in London where I belong | Laura Barton Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST Last spring, just when everyone else was fleeing the capital, I was returning, hungry for all its glorious chaos Most days I would walk along the coast road, past the bungalows facing the Channel, where the sea was implacably grey, and the gardens so neatly plotted that the space between each tulip, each daffodil, seemed to have been measured with graticule precision. Each day I would ask myself: "What am I doing here?" I had left London in the summer of 2014. Having flirted with the idea of moving to Los Angeles, instead I chose the Kent coast, then in the early flush of regeneration. I was looking for something that felt more like a community, close enough for creativity to mingle. Somewhere, perhaps, to finally feel settled. Laura Barton is a writer and broadcaster specialising in music Continue reading... |
| Nigel Slater’s recipe for smoked salmon pudding Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:00 AM PST A light but deliciously filling main dish This creamy pudding is as light as a soufflé, but substantial enough to be a main dish. Continue reading... |
| Why feeding your pets insects could become all the buzz Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:00 PM PST Owners worried about the climate cost of traditional pet food are switching to crickets, mealworms and black soldier flies First there was recycling, then cutting down on flights, now feeding your pets insects is the latest lifestyle choice to help tackle climate breakdown. Environmentally minded pet owners are choosing to feed their animals meals made out of crickets, mealworms and black soldier flies in an attempt to curb the huge carbon emissions produced by raising livestock for traditional, meat-based diets. Continue reading... |
| From downward spiral to dream job: my 18 months of tumult and transformation Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:00 AM PST My life seemed to fall apart in 2020. But having nothing to lose meant I was free to pursue my passion Continue reading... |
| Escape your comfort zone: I am terrified of driving – but behind the wheel I find new confidence Posted: 28 Dec 2021 01:00 AM PST After one too many rainy nights waiting for the bus, I decide to face my ultimate fear. Can I learn to drive, despite a disastrous attempt in my teens? It has been 10 years since I last stalled a car. I was 18 and drifting across several lanes of an A-road roundabout while my driving test examiner gripped his seat. It was my second attempt at taking the test and my brain had turned into sweaty spaghetti. As I casually cut in front of an HGV, the examiner gasped and demanded I take the next exit. I mirrored, signalled and manoeuvred, found a safe space to pull up, and promptly stalled metres from the curb. I failed – of course I did – and didn't get back in the driver's seat in a hurry. I finished school and went to university, always deferring the prospect of booking another test. Years passed, priorities shifted, and even though I kept telling myself that driving is a scourge on the environment, a decade of scrounging lifts from my friends and family has taken its toll. Continue reading... |
| Crews find second apparent 1887 time capsule under Robert E Lee statue Posted: 27 Dec 2021 04:28 PM PST Long-sought-after item could contain artifacts, Confederate memorabilia and even a rare photo of Abraham Lincoln Crews wrapping up the removal Monday of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen Robert E Lee in Richmond found what appeared to be a second and long-sought-after time capsule, Virginia governor Ralph Northam said. The governor tweeted photos of a box being removed from the site and said conservators were studying the artifact. Continue reading... |
| Sumatran orangutan at New Orleans zoo gives birth to healthy male infant Posted: 27 Dec 2021 01:11 PM PST Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild mainly due to habitat destruction A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has given birth in New Orleans to a healthy male baby, the Audubon Zoo said on Monday – but a twin male died in the womb. Twelve-year-old Menari gave birth to the first baby without trouble on Christmas Eve and mothered him appropriately but had problems after that, the zoo said. Continue reading... |
| LAPD releases video in police killing of 14-year-old girl in clothing store Posted: 27 Dec 2021 12:00 PM PST The death of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was shopping with her mother for a holiday dress, raises concerns about police use of deadly force The Los Angeles police department has released body-camera footage and surveillance video of an incident in which an officer shot and killed a 14-year-old girl inside a department store while firing at another person. The footage from the Thursday morning incident shows that as soon as police encountered a man suspected of assault inside the store, an officer fired three bullets at him from a distance. One of the officer's bullets struck the girl when it bounced off the floor and into the dressing room where she was with her mother, police said on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at age 80 Posted: 27 Dec 2021 12:03 PM PST Founder of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, he discovered that habitat destruction, pollution and global heating were killing species worldwide Thomas E Lovejoy, a leading conservation biologist who was credited with popularizing the term "biological diversity", has died. He was 80. His death was announced by George Mason University, where he was director of the Institute for a Sustainable Earth, and the Amazon Biodiversity Center, which he founded. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden says US Covid surge should be ‘a source of concern but not panic’ Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:18 AM PST President says Americans with boosters are 'highly protected' as CDC reduces isolation time for those with asymptomatic cases Speaking to state governors on Monday, Joe Biden said the dramatic surge in US Covid cases caused by the Omicron variant "should be a source of concern but it should not be a source of panic". "If you're fully vaccinated and got your booster shot," Biden said, "you're highly protected. If you're unvaccinated, you're at a high risk of getting severely ill from Covid-19, being hospitalised and in some cases dying." Continue reading... |
| Sarah Weddington: tributes paid to lawyer who argued and won Roe v Wade Posted: 27 Dec 2021 07:00 AM PST 'Remarkable woman' Weddington hailed for role in 1973 case that established right to abortion Tributes were paid to Sarah Weddington after the attorney who argued and won the landmark Roe v Wade case at the supreme court, establishing the right to abortion, died aged 76. Susan Hays, a former student of Weddington's and a Democratic candidate for Texas agriculture commissioner, announced on Twitter that Weddington died on Sunday morning "after a series of health issues". Continue reading... |
| Israeli airstrike sets port of Latakia ablaze, says Syrian media Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:44 AM PST Second attack on cargo hub this month reported to have caused 'significant material damage' An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Latakia port before dawn on Tuesday, sparking a fire that lit up the Mediterranean seafront in the second such attack on the cargo hub this month, Syrian state media reported. Since the outbreak of Syria's civil war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out airstrikes on its neighbour, mostly targeting Syrian government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters. Continue reading... |
| India bans Mother Teresa charity from receiving funds from abroad Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:01 PM PST Licence application of Missionaries of Charity is rejected on Christmas day amid a wave of anti-Christian sentiment The Indian government has blocked Mother Teresa's charity from receiving funds from abroad, just days after it faced a police investigation for "hurting religious sentiments of Hindus" amid rising intolerance towards Christians in India. The Missionaries of Charity, which was started by Mother Teresa in 1950 and runs a network of shelters across India led by nuns to help the poor, was denied the licence to continue to receive funds from abroad, cutting the charity off from vital resources. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar massacre: two Save the Children staff among dead Posted: 28 Dec 2021 05:12 AM PST Charity says the two men, both new fathers, were killed in massacre of more than 30 people blamed on junta troops Save the Children has confirmed that two of its staff were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre blamed on junta troops that left the charred remains of dozens of people on a highway in eastern Myanmar. Anti-junta fighters said they found more than 30 bodies, including women and children, on a highway in Kayah state where pro-democracy rebels have been fighting the military. Continue reading... |
| Stripe the bitey squirrel meets a sad end after terrorising Welsh town Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:26 AM PST Creature named after a Gremlin bit more than a dozen people in Buckley before being caught and put down The tale of Stripe the squirrel began cheerfully enough with Corrine Reynolds, an animal lover in north Wales, feeding the creature titbits and watching its acrobatic adventures in her back garden. But the story took a distinctly unfestive twist when Stripe – named after the sharp-toothed creature in the Christmas horror comedy Gremlins – began nipping at Reynolds and other neighbours. Continue reading... |
| US and Russia to hold talks amid Ukraine tensions Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:11 AM PST Deal reached for talks on 10 January that are likely to be followed by discussions with Nato Russian and US officials will hold security talks in early January amid mounting tensions over Ukraine, officials from both countries have confirmed. The high-stakes discussions are expected to address Russia's military buildup on Ukraine's borders, while Moscow will press demands that Nato pledges not to admit Ukraine and roll back the alliance's post-cold war development. Continue reading... |
| Polish court revives ‘highly flawed’ hydroelectric dam plan for Vistula River Posted: 27 Dec 2021 10:30 PM PST Despite warnings that it would devastate rare wildlife habitats, the controversial project is back on the table
The construction of a €1bn (£850m) dam on the Vistula River is one step closer to getting the green light in Poland, despite warnings that it could devastate rare wildlife habitats. The Vistula runs more than 620 miles from the Carpathian mountains, passing through major cities before flowing into the Baltic sea. The state-owned company Polish Waters intends to build a dam over the river's main channel at Siarzewo, north west of Warsaw, with the primary aim of creating hydroelectric power as well as flood protection, water management and navigation. Continue reading... |
| Campaigners force Shell to halt oil exploration on South African coast Posted: 28 Dec 2021 05:20 AM PST Court instructs company to stop tests along Wild Coast after concerns raised about wildlife and lack of consultation Shell will be forced to halt oil exploration in vital whale breeding grounds along South Africa's eastern coastline after a local court blocked the controversial project. The court order calls for an immediate halt to Shell's seismic tests which involve blasting sound waves through the relatively untouched Wild Coast marine environment, which is home to whales, dolphins and seals. Continue reading... |
| 12,000 Afghan refugees to start new year stuck in UK hotels Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:00 PM PST Government struggling to persuade councils to find permanent homes for those who have arrived since August About 12,000 Afghan refugees will begin 2022 in UK hotels as the government struggles to persuade enough councils to find permanent homes for the new arrivals, the Guardian has learned. Of the 16,500 people airlifted from Afghanistan to the UK since August, "over 4,000 individuals have either moved into a settled home or are in the process of being moved or matched to a suitable home", according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Continue reading... |
| Iran nuclear deal: eighth round of talks begins in Vienna Posted: 27 Dec 2021 09:56 AM PST Tehran is keen to verify US sanctions have genuinely been lifted An eighth round of talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal has begun in Vienna, with Iran saying participants have been largely working from an acceptable common draft text and that its team was willing to stay as long as it takes to reach an agreement. The Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said he wanted the focus of the coming round of talks to be on how Tehran could verify US sanctions had genuinely been lifted. The landmark 2015 deal, from which Donald Trump withdrew the US, had lifted sanctions on Iran in return for controls on its civilian nuclear programme. Continue reading... |
| Howling, crouching, horrifying – why are Francis Bacon’s animals so nightmarish? Posted: 28 Dec 2021 06:00 AM PST Bacon was no sentimental painter of animals. As the Royal Academy's Man and Beast blockbuster will show, he used apes, dogs, bulls and owls to create his own personal mythology of the perverse Man and Beast, as the Royal Academy's winter blockbuster is subtitled, are the same thing when Francis Bacon is looking at them. They are both meat. The artist's painted world is a butcher's shop: slabs of beef hang vertically in his triptychs among umbrellas and swastikas, bisected beasts drained of blood, flattened into red and white fatty flesh. But the people in his paintings are just as beastly – and just as butchered. Bodies wrestle and kiss. Nudes are splayed on dirty mattresses. We are just biological stuff. Bacon would surely have seen the irony that the Royal Academy's survey of his art through the lens of his interest in animals has been delayed by a virus. For Bacon sees no hierarchy of organisms, no sacred specialness in the human species. When the exhibition finally opens at the end of January, it will unveil a truly Darwinian artist in whose eyes a pope and a chimpanzee are equally tragicomic. Continue reading... |
| ‘Not if … but when’: Sinn Féin on path to power in Ireland Posted: 27 Dec 2021 09:00 PM PST The party is riding high in polls and could complete a seismic shift in Irish politics in three years' time Just 30 years ago the IRA was bombing Downing Street, launching three mortar bombs at No 10 while John Major presided over a cabinet meeting. In 2021, Sinn Féin, the political party associated with the IRA for much of the Troubles, has moved into pole position to lead the Irish government in what could be the biggest shake-up of the state's politics since its foundation 100 years ago. Continue reading... |
| Was 2021 the worst year ever for games? Posted: 28 Dec 2021 04:48 AM PST In the third edition of our gaming newsletter: Covid-19's knock-on effects have delayed development so much that most games we thought we'd be playing now have drifted into next year Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian's brand new gaming newsletter. If you'd like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below – and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email. Welcome back to Pushing Buttons! I'm Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's video games editor. I have been a video games journalist for 16 years, and my extended family only recently stopped asking me when I was going to get a real job over Christmas dinner. I guess they've given up on me now. Continue reading... |
| Flames over Syrian port after reported Israeli airstrike – video Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:17 AM PST An Israeli airstrike hit Syria's Latakia port before dawn on Tuesday, sparking a massive fire in the second such attack on the cargo hub this month, Syrian state media reported. Since the outbreak of Syria's civil war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out airstrikes on its neighbour, mostly targeting Syrian government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters. But it is only the second time it has hit Latakia port, in the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite community. Asked about the strike, an Israeli army spokesperson said: 'We don't comment on reports in foreign media.' The Israeli military has, in the past, defended the strikes as a necessary measure to prevent its enemy Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstep Continue reading... |
| 1887 time capsule apparently found under Robert E Lee statue pedestal – video Posted: 28 Dec 2021 02:24 AM PST A long-sought 1887 time capsule appears to have been found under a pedestal that once held a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia. Media reports described a capsule with dozens of artefacts, perhaps including a rare photo of Abraham Lincoln. Crews dismantling the pedestal found another time capsule earlier this month, but it did not contain the expected trove of objects. The statue was removed in September after protests against the police killing of George Floyd Continue reading... |
| South African president Ramaphosa pays tribute to Desmond Tutu in address to the nation – video Posted: 26 Dec 2021 12:50 PM PST Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, paid tribute to the late archbishop Desmond Tutu in a televised address to the nation on Sunday. Calling him a leader with 'compassion, dignity, humility and grace', Ramaphosa highlighted Tutu's activist approach to peace and alleviating poverty. Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s and in recent years was hospitalised on several occasions because of infections associated with his treatment. He died peacefully in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to his relatives.
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| Queen's Christmas speech: 'It can be hard after losing a loved one' – video Posted: 25 Dec 2021 08:11 AM PST The Queen paid tribute to Prince Philip and encouraged the nation to see the joy in simple things in her yearly Christmas Day address. The monarch acknowledged the impact of the Covid Omicron variant, having cancelled her regular festive trip to Sandringham. Instead she was spending Christmas at Windsor Castle, joined by Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, in the Queen's first Christmas without the Duke of Edinburgh since his death. In the broadcast, recorded in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, the Queen said she had drawn great comfort from the 'warmth and affection' shown in the tributes to the duke's life Continue reading... |
| Nothing but net: Third grade teacher makes full court shot – video Posted: 24 Dec 2021 08:27 AM PST A group of students in Washington DC watch as their teacher, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, cooly makes a basketball shot from across the court. Fitzpatrick, known as 'Ms Fitz' to her students, had promised hot chocolates for all if she made the shot Continue reading... |
| Kolkata children and a sleepy bear: Tuesday’s best photos Posted: 28 Dec 2021 05:16 AM PST The Guardian's picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading... |
| Floods, vaccines, an earthquake: Australia’s best photographs from 2021 Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST It was a year we'll never forget, and 2021 brought us no shortage of memorable images. From mass protests to mouse plagues, here are some of the best pictures of the past 12 months Continue reading... |
| The politics of 2021 – in pictures Posted: 27 Dec 2021 11:00 PM PST Stefan Rousseau, the Press Association's chief political photographer, reflects on his year in pictures Continue reading... |
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