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- Up to 100 Ukraine troops could be dying in Donbas each day, says Zelenskiy
- ‘Warmongering, lies and hatred’: Russian diplomat in Geneva resigns over Ukraine invasion
- Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 90 of the invasion
- War in Ukraine could cause recession in weaker economies, IMF boss warns
- Biden’s Taiwan vow creates confusion not clarity – and raises China tensions
- Supreme court guts lifeline for prisoners who claim wrongful convictions
- Sharp cut in methane now could help avoid worst of climate crisis
- California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back
- New York subpoenas Trump’s longtime assistant in business dealings inquiry
- Jittery New Yorkers call on mayor to act on subway safety after fatal shooting
- Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems
- Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software workers vote to form industry’s first union
- Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
- Iran vows to avenge killing as it buries Revolutionary Guard colonel
- Covid can cause ongoing damage to heart, lungs and kidneys, study finds
- ‘One-sided’: unionists react with scorn as US delegation arrives in Ireland
- Surgeon casts doubt on Johnny Depp’s account of how he severed finger
- Several people injured at California rodeo as bull jumps fence into crowd
- From bored goldfish to sexist dogs: 13 common pet problems - solved!
- ‘They will often give you a wee nip’: rangers count puffins on Farne Islands
- ‘I didn’t want to make public my suffering’: Janine Mikosza on reinventing the trauma memoir
- Nigel Slater’s recipes for puddings to celebrate the jubilee
- Australia has shown how quickly the right can crumble. Boris Johnson, be warned | Gaby Hinsliff
- Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s sky blue wash will define this era | Barney Ronay
- Naomi Osaka may skip Wimbledon ‘exhibition’ after ranking points removal
- Emma Raducanu fights back to sink Linda Noskova at French Open
- Todd Boehly purchase of Chelsea set to be completed this week
- Mercedes are back in F1 title fight, declares upbeat Wolff after car upgrades
- Deadly Indian heatwave made 30 times more likely by climate crisis
- Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment
- Sinking Maldives plans to reclaim land from the ocean
- Decision to Leave review – Tang Wei stuns in Park Chan-wook black-widow noir
- Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 47th season
- Duran Duran on making Rio: ‘We’re still trying to work out what it means’
- Cathal Coughlan, frontman with Irish indie bands Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, dies aged 61
- Girls’ School: Taiwanese queer gem is hopelessly devoted to teenage passions
- ‘My adolescence in Hollywood is a running joke’ – Penn Badgley on teen crushes and terrifying low self-esteem
- John Oliver on Subway franchisees: ‘Dream turned into a nightmare’
- Thomasina Miers’ recipe for spring clafoutis with asparagus, herbs, spinach and goat’s cheese | The new flexitarian
- Redrawn Arizona congressional map drains Native American voting power
- ‘You are a jackass’: video of Rudy Giuliani rant at Israel parade goes viral
- Zuckerberg sued by DC attorney general over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
- Southern Baptist leaders ‘stonewalled’ sex abuse victims, scathing report says
- Johnson faces fresh claims he lied to MPs as new Partygate photos emerge
- ‘This is a generational moment’: civil rights group for black Britons launches
- Kim Jong-un buries mentor amid North Korea Covid crisis
- Sole survivor of 2009 Comoros plane crash recalls terrifying ordeal
- Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Office complicit in forcing her to confess
- Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat
- Germany to relax visa rules for Russian workers despite spy warning
- What is monkeypox and should you be worried?
- I went wild swimming in a chilly river and haven’t had a panic attack since
- Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light
- Rudy Giuliani calls Democrat a 'jackass' during pro-Israel parade – video
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges tougher sanctions against Russia in Davos speech – video
- Joe Biden says US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China – video
- Feminist collective deploys banner and smoke bombs on Cannes red carpet – video
- Monkeypox: 'Everybody should be concerned,' says Joe Biden – video
- Ukraine's first lady: 'Nobody takes my husband away from me' – video
- The annual Farne Islands puffin count returns – in pictures
| Up to 100 Ukraine troops could be dying in Donbas each day, says Zelenskiy Posted: 23 May 2022 07:14 AM PDT President gives insight into country's casualties, as Luhansk governor says Russia using 'scorched-earth' tactics Ukraine's president has given an insight into the level of losses being suffered by Ukrainian forces in the Donbas, saying between 50 to 100 Ukrainians could be dying every day. While Ukraine and its allies have made much of Russian losses since the war began, the issue of Ukrainian casualties has been something of a black hole. Continue reading... |
| ‘Warmongering, lies and hatred’: Russian diplomat in Geneva resigns over Ukraine invasion Posted: 23 May 2022 09:16 AM PDT Boris Bondarev issues public statement saying: 'Never have I been so ashamed of my country' A veteran Russian diplomat in Geneva has resigned over his country's invasion of Ukraine in a rare political protest from within the Russian foreign policy establishment. Boris Bondarev, a counsellor at the Russian permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva, wrote in a public statement: "Never have I been so ashamed of my country." Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 90 of the invasion Posted: 23 May 2022 05:26 PM PDT A veteran Russian diplomat has resigned over his country's invasion of Ukraine as a Kyiv court sentences a Russian soldier to life in prison Continue reading... |
| War in Ukraine could cause recession in weaker economies, IMF boss warns Posted: 23 May 2022 10:48 AM PDT Speaking at Davos, Kristalina Georgieva said anxiety about food prices was 'hitting the roof' globally The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the war in Ukraine has darkened the outlook for the global economy and could result in recession for more vulnerable countries. Kristalina Georgieva predicted that 2022 would be a tough year and declined to rule out a global recession if conditions worsened markedly. Continue reading... |
| Biden’s Taiwan vow creates confusion not clarity – and raises China tensions Posted: 23 May 2022 10:54 AM PDT President's blunt response appears to undercut US 'strategic ambiguity' on Taiwan as White House forced to walk back remarks The somewhat routine press conference in Tokyo was winding down when the question came. "Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?" Many past American presidents would have deflected, demurred, declined to give a straight answer. Not Joe Biden. "Yes," he replied bluntly, adding: "That's the commitment we made." Continue reading... |
| Supreme court guts lifeline for prisoners who claim wrongful convictions Posted: 23 May 2022 01:39 PM PDT Decision bars federal courts from hearing new evidence not presented in a state court as a result of ineffective legal counsel The US supreme court on Monday gutted constitutional protections that for years have provided a federal lifeline to innocent prisoners facing prolonged incarceration or even execution following wrongful convictions stemming from poor legal counsel given to them by the states. In a 6 to 3 ruling, the newly-dominant rightwing majority of the nation's highest court barred federal courts from hearing new evidence that was not previously presented in a state court as a result of the defendant's ineffective legal representation. Continue reading... |
| Sharp cut in methane now could help avoid worst of climate crisis Posted: 23 May 2022 12:00 PM PDT Focussing on carbon dioxide alone will not keep world within 1.5C limit of global heating, warn scientists Cutting methane sharply now is crucial, as focusing on carbon dioxide alone will not be enough to keep rising temperatures within livable limits, scientists have warned. CO2 is the greenhouse gas most responsible for heating the planet, with most of it coming from the burning of fossil fuels. As a result, it has been the major focus of international efforts to prevent climate breakdown. Continue reading... |
| California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back Posted: 23 May 2022 01:33 PM PDT Governor's warning comes amid drought after driest January-March period in at least a century California could face mandatory water restrictions if residents don't use less on their own as the drought drags on and the hotter summer months approach, the state's governor has said. Gavin Newsom threatened the possibly of statewide mandates in a meeting with representatives from major water agencies, including those that supply Los Angeles, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area, according to his office. The Democratic governor has avoided issuing sweeping mandatory cuts in water use and instead favored an approach that gives local water agencies power to set rules for water use in the cities and towns they supply. Continue reading... |
| New York subpoenas Trump’s longtime assistant in business dealings inquiry Posted: 23 May 2022 06:19 PM PDT Rhona Graff will be questioned about the former president's involvement in the Trump Organization's financial records The New York attorney general's office has subpoenaed Donald Trump's longtime executive assistant and plans to question her under oath next week as part of its civil investigation into the former president's business dealings. The subpoena for Rhona Graff was disclosed by a lawyer for the attorney general Letitia James' office in court papers opposing Trump's latest bid to rid himself of a contempt of court order for being slow to respond to a subpoena for documents and other evidence. Continue reading... |
| Jittery New Yorkers call on mayor to act on subway safety after fatal shooting Posted: 23 May 2022 12:56 PM PDT Eric Adams under renewed pressure to reassure city after man was shot and killed as he rode Q train over Manhattan Bridge The fledgling mayor of New York, Eric Adams, is facing renewed pressure to reassure jittery New Yorkers over the safety of the city's subway service after an apparently random shooting on a train crossing over the Manhattan Bridge killed a rider. Daniel Enriquez, 48, a Goldman Sachs investment researcher, was shot once in the chest at about 11.42am on Sunday as he rode a Q-line train over the East River from his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, into Manhattan, to have brunch. Continue reading... |
| Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems Posted: 23 May 2022 02:12 PM PDT Stores remain low on supplies but flight brings enough to fill half a million bottles for children with allergies Store shelves across the US remain short of baby formula after a military plane carrying enough to fill half a million baby bottles arrived in the US on Sunday but its contents were rushed to health system outlets to feed babies with specific allergies. The first of several such flights from Europe, aimed at relieving a nationwide shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their infants, was packed with specialty hypoallergenic formula to be distributed through channels such as hospitals, doctors' officers and pharmacies, for babies intolerant of the protein in cow's milk. Continue reading... |
| Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software workers vote to form industry’s first union Posted: 23 May 2022 01:54 PM PDT The vote marks a victory for labor advocates in an industry mired with allegations of abuse and poor working conditions Workers in a division of video game company Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a major US gaming firm. A small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard's Raven Software, which develops the popular Call of Duty game franchise, voted 19-3 in favor of unionizing on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating Posted: 23 May 2022 12:00 PM PDT Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student – and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being paid a government salary to serve as a student leader. On Monday, though, he was detained and sent to jail after a judge ordered a six-month investigation into allegations his tenure as a state-paid student leader constituted a crime. Continue reading... |
| Iran vows to avenge killing as it buries Revolutionary Guard colonel Posted: 23 May 2022 10:22 AM PDT Finger of blame pointed at Israel after Hassan Sayad Khodayari shot dead in Tehran An Iranian colonel shot dead in Tehran by assailants on motorcycles has been buried as officials vowed to avenge an assassination that they continue to lay at the feet of Israel. The murder of Col Hassan Sayad Khodayari is the highest-profile killing of an Iranian official since the violent death of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020 and appears to fit a pattern of assassinations that began more than a decade ago. Continue reading... |
| Covid can cause ongoing damage to heart, lungs and kidneys, study finds Posted: 23 May 2022 08:00 AM PDT One in eight Covid hospital patients have heart inflammation up to two months later, researchers find Damage to the body's organs including the lungs and kidneys is common in people who were admitted to hospital with Covid, with one in eight found to have heart inflammation, researchers have revealed. As the pandemic evolved, it became clear that some people who had Covid were being left with ongoing symptoms – a condition that has been called long Covid. Continue reading... |
| ‘One-sided’: unionists react with scorn as US delegation arrives in Ireland Posted: 23 May 2022 10:30 AM PDT Cross-party group aiming to shore up support for NI protocol is welcomed in Dublin, but DUP meeting expected to be frosty Unionists have responded with scorn and scepticism to a US congressional delegation that is attempting to shore up support for the Northern Ireland protocol. The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) led accusations on Monday that the nine-strong delegation, which includes Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives and Senate, was partisan and out of touch. Continue reading... |
| Surgeon casts doubt on Johnny Depp’s account of how he severed finger Posted: 23 May 2022 03:15 PM PDT Richard Moore says he is sceptical of claim that Depp injured finger during Amber Heard fight, as defamation trial enters final week The defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard entered its fifth and final week of testimony on Monday, with a witness for Heard testifying that Depp could not have lost the tip of his finger during a domestic fight in the way he had recounted. The serious injury to his middle finger, which occurred during a March 2015 row in Australia between Depp and Heard during their brief marriage, has been one of several key points of dispute in the civil case. Continue reading... |
| Several people injured at California rodeo as bull jumps fence into crowd Posted: 23 May 2022 09:51 AM PDT Bull at Redding rodeo in northern California runs through crowd of spectators and across parking lot before being captured Several people were injured when a bull jumped a fence and escaped an arena during a popular northern California rodeo, authorities said. The escape occurred on Friday during the final section of the Redding Rodeo's bull riding event, the Redding Rodeo Association said on Facebook. Continue reading... |
| From bored goldfish to sexist dogs: 13 common pet problems - solved! Posted: 23 May 2022 05:00 AM PDT Does your rabbit chew the table legs? Are your gerbils constantly squabbling? Our crack squad of animal behaviourists are here to help Remember last summer, when it emerged that a scruffy blond resident of No 10 couldn't get a grip on his amorous urges? Well, here's hoping Dilyn, the Johnsons' jack russell cross, has since undergone some training. As many of the 3.2 million UK families who acquired a pet during the pandemic are discovering, our animals' behaviour doesn't always reflect well on us, particularly if we forgot to learn a few key details – like how to look after them properly. Now we're paying: dog trainers and animal behaviourists are reporting overwhelming surges in interest. But whether your house rabbit is undermining your housekeeping efforts or the pekingese is staging post-pandemic protests – don't panic. Our panel of experts – from aquatic vets to dog therapists – is here to help. Continue reading... |
| ‘They will often give you a wee nip’: rangers count puffins on Farne Islands Posted: 23 May 2022 10:12 AM PDT Annual survey is important for understanding health of the Atlantic puffin's breeding colonies It may well be one of the least hi-tech nature counts in the UK, and involves rangers sticking their arms blindly down a hole knowing there will be one of five outcomes: they will feel either a puffin egg, a puffling, excrement, nothing at all – or the annoyed reaction of a puffin as a giant hand suddenly enters its home. "They will quite often give you a wee nip," said Harriet Reid, an area ranger at the National Trust, smiling. "I can show you a couple of scars … it does hurt. But I'm used to it." Continue reading... |
| ‘I didn’t want to make public my suffering’: Janine Mikosza on reinventing the trauma memoir Posted: 23 May 2022 10:30 AM PDT Having lived in 14 houses before she was 18, Mikosza's Homesickness is a dialogue between two versions of herself, as she interrogates her past – and tests her memory It's a profoundly strange experience to interview Janine Mikosza immediately after reading her debut, Homesickness. The book is a meditation on the nature of memory, truth and reckoning with past trauma – and it's presented as one long conversation in which she interrogates herself. Continue reading... |
| Nigel Slater’s recipes for puddings to celebrate the jubilee Posted: 23 May 2022 12:00 AM PDT Orange custard tart, gooseberry fool and meringue roulade – summer sweet treats worthy of the long bank holiday weekend A jubilee celebration with cake, an indulgent creamy dessert or a slice of shimmering tart. A sugar-crusted meringue perhaps or even a piece of thick, sweet toast soaked with purple juice and carrying a colourful cargo of warm, sharp fruits. There may be a chocolate cake with layers of coffee-infused frosting, and the tart may be one of citrus-flavoured custard and marinated berries. My celebration may come mid-afternoon with a pot of green tea or tall glasses of something cold and sparkling, or better still in the middle of the morning with the day ahead of us. Continue reading... |
| Australia has shown how quickly the right can crumble. Boris Johnson, be warned | Gaby Hinsliff Posted: 23 May 2022 08:47 AM PDT The ousting of shameless culture warrior Scott Morrison, and his defeat in wealthy heartlands, should send a shiver down Tory spines Populists can be beaten. There was a time not long ago when few could type that sentence with confidence, so the outcome of Australia's recent elections will leave many progressives battling with the still unfamiliar sensation of victory. Scott Morrison, the now ousted rightwing prime minister dubbed Australia's first "post-truth" leader, was never quite a Trumpian. But he was a shameless culture warrior presiding over a bungled Covid response and ensuing recession, plus a clumsy response to high-profile sexual misconduct allegations against parliamentary colleagues. He dragged his feet on the climate crisis even as apocalyptic floods, fires and droughts were convincing Australians that something had to change, and holidayed in Hawaii as wildfires raged at home. His opponent, Labor's Anthony Albanese, was not exactly overburdened with charisma and the progressive vote eventually split between Labor, the Greens and the so-called teal independents, an exasperated army of mainly female candidates pledging to clean up politics and tackle the climate. But the cautious Albanese and his mantra of "safe change" – nothing too big or scarily radical – still made it over the line, having seemingly learned from a previous Labor defeat blamed on an over-ambitious manifesto. If any of this sounds uncannily familiar to British readers, then it's easy to see why Keir Starmer's Labour party (and indeed the Greens) might suddenly have their tails up. Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading... |
| Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s sky blue wash will define this era | Barney Ronay Posted: 23 May 2022 01:00 PM PDT The manager has become central to Manchester City's approach of setting about elite sport like a political project It seemed fitting that Manchester City should come storming back from the brink the way they did, Ilkay Gündogan soaring like a small, technically adept avenging phoenix to bullet his header very carefully into the top corner of the Aston Villa net. This is how they do this stuff around here. Not with more heat, more blood, more chaos; but with cleaner lines, greater clarity, a red mist of extreme precision. Within six minutes of that opening act Pep Guardiola's champions had completed the most beautifully orderly emergency comeback in English footballing history. And there is something genuinely fearless about being able to play football this way, to become more not less yourself when the pulse is pounding, time running short, the world closing in at your back. Continue reading... |
| Naomi Osaka may skip Wimbledon ‘exhibition’ after ranking points removal Posted: 23 May 2022 03:52 PM PDT
Naomi Osaka says she is leaning towards not competing at Wimbledon in light of the WTA's decision to remove ranking points from the tournament in response to the All England Club's ban of Russian and Belarusian players due to the invasion of Ukraine. Speaking after her 5-7, 4-6 defeat in the French Open first round by the 27th seed, Amanda Anisimova, Osaka likened a Wimbledon without points to an exhibition and felt she would struggle for motivation. Continue reading... |
| Emma Raducanu fights back to sink Linda Noskova at French Open Posted: 23 May 2022 12:20 PM PDT
Throughout the past 11 months as she has made her first journey around the WTA tour, every time Emma Raducanu has stepped on to a tennis court she has had to battle against the greater experience of her opponents as well as the quality of their games. Her sparse competitive record has meant that even opponents around the same age as her marched on to the court far more mentally and physically prepared for the fight to come. But on a damp, rainy evening on Court Simonne-Mathieu, Raducanu faced a completely different scenario. For the first time in her career at the highest level, even on her French Open debut, she was both the elder and more experienced player on the court. Continue reading... |
| Todd Boehly purchase of Chelsea set to be completed this week Posted: 23 May 2022 08:38 AM PDT
The sale of Chelsea looks increasingly likely to be completed this week with the government optimistic that Roman Abramovich's £1.6bn loan to the club will not go to the Russian or his family. There had been fears that a takeover by Todd Boehly's consortium would fall through because of delays caused by the debt owed by Chelsea's parent company, Fordstam Ltd, to Camberley International Investments, a Jersey-based company with suspected links to Abramovich. Whitehall insiders last week voiced concerns over the club going out of business if the deadline for a deal to be completed was not met. Continue reading... |
| Mercedes are back in F1 title fight, declares upbeat Wolff after car upgrades Posted: 23 May 2022 03:52 AM PDT
Lewis Hamilton's performance at the Spanish Grand Prix has given Mercedes belief that they can join the Formula One world championship fight this season. The team principal, Toto Wolff, heralded Hamilton's charge from 19th to a fifth-place finish as indicative that they finally have a car poised to join Red Bull and Ferrari at the front of the grid and a tilt at the title. Max Verstappen won for Red Bull in Barcelona and has taken a six-point lead in the title race after Ferrari's Charles Leclerc failed to finish due to a power unit failure. Behind him however this was by a country mile the best performance Mercedes have returned all season. Continue reading... |
| Deadly Indian heatwave made 30 times more likely by climate crisis Posted: 23 May 2022 11:00 AM PDT Soaring temperatures in subcontinent, which have caused widespread suffering, would be extraordinarily rare without global heating The heatwave scorching India and Pakistan has been made 30 times more likely by the climate crisis, according to scientists. Extreme temperatures and low rainfall since mid-March have caused widespread suffering, including deaths, crop losses, forest fires, and cuts to power and water supplies. The study is the latest to show the already severe impacts of global heating on millions of people, even though the global average temperature has risen only 1.2C above pre-industrial levels to date. If it rises to 2C, heatwaves as intense as the current one would be expected as often as every five years in India and Pakistan, the scientists estimated. Continue reading... |
| Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment Posted: 23 May 2022 06:26 AM PDT Caroline Dennett tells staff in video she made decision because of 'double-talk on climate' A senior safety consultant has quit working with Shell after 11 years, accusing the fossil fuel producer in a bombshell public video of causing "extreme harms" to the environment. Caroline Dennett claimed Shell had a "disregard for climate change risks" and urged others in the oil and gas industry to "walk away while there's still time". Continue reading... |
| Sinking Maldives plans to reclaim land from the ocean Posted: 22 May 2022 11:30 PM PDT Vulnerable island nation split over project to dredge millions of tonnes of sand to create land for resorts and industry on Unesco reserve A controversial project to reclaim land on an atoll threatened by rising sea levels has been announced in the Maldives, with hopes that it may boost tourism balanced against fears that it could "choke the ecosystem". The low-lying island nation, one of the world's most vulnerable to climate change, has commissioned a major shore protection and land reclamation scheme using sand dredged from a lagoon, despite concerns about the impact on this Unesco biosphere reserve. Continue reading... |
| Decision to Leave review – Tang Wei stuns in Park Chan-wook black-widow noir Posted: 23 May 2022 11:18 AM PDT Park's tale of a married detective torn between infidelity and moral duty keeps the viewer off-balance at every turn Korean director Park Chan-wook was once the master of gonzo revenge violence but with the adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel The Handmaiden in 2016 he pivoted with flair to the elegantly designed suspense thriller. And it is in this spirit that he's back in Cannes with this sensational black-widow noir romance, featuring a glorious leading turn from the Chinese star Tang Wei, who has bettered her iconic performance in Ang Lee's 2007 spy drama Lust, Caution. She is effortlessly charismatic and (that overworked word) mesmeric; sexual but reserved, strong, capable, intimidatingly smart but bearing a poignant and unacknowledged emotional wound. And the intelligence and live-wire energy she brings to her relationship with the film's leading man, Park Hae-il, is a marvel. The tension and the intrigue, the grandstanding emotional confrontations, the ingenious use of mobile phone technology (which so often stymies modern-day thrillers), the stylish set pieces, including a fantastic rooftop chase, and the deliciously manipulative plot twists are very Hitchcockian in their way. But the style is not pastiche, which is the way that idea usually arises; this is the kind of Hitchcockian film made by someone who hasn't necessarily seen a Hitchcock film before. Continue reading... |
| Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 47th season Posted: 23 May 2022 07:24 AM PDT A patchy season still managed some standout sketches including Cecily Strong's memorable abortion skit and turns from Jason Sudeikis and Willem Dafoe The 47th season of Saturday Night Live proved one of the most important in recent memory. Not only did it feature the largest cast in the show's history, it also introduced a number of promising new talents who we can expect to rise to prominence over the coming years. This past week's finale also featured farewell performances from several of the show's biggest names: Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney. As a whole, it was not one of the stronger seasons. After a lukewarm start, we got a few good episodes in the middle of its run, but the back half of the season vacillated between instantly forgettable and outright terrible. Continue reading... |
| Duran Duran on making Rio: ‘We’re still trying to work out what it means’ Posted: 23 May 2022 06:33 AM PDT 'We've taken a lot of punishment over the years – some of it deserved – but that track is here to stay. No one will ever be able to take it away from us' I was obsessed with writing songs to begin a gig with. I'd say: "We've got to have an opener!" I'd been working on this groove with Roger Taylor, our drummer. It just wouldn't go away. We played it at every soundcheck, every rehearsal, trying to make it work. And then we landed on this vibe and I knew we'd cracked it. That was Rio. Continue reading... |
| Cathal Coughlan, frontman with Irish indie bands Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, dies aged 61 Posted: 23 May 2022 08:28 AM PDT Singer celebrated for versatile, sometimes confrontational songcraft had suffered a long illness Cathal Coughlan, frontman with acclaimed indie bands Fatima Mansions and Microdisney, has died aged 61. His family announced the news, saying he "slipped away peacefully in hospital after a long illness". Born in Cork, Coughlan first formed Microdisney with guitarist Sean O'Hagan in 1980, relocating to London in 1983. Playing variously smooth and jangling indie-pop, there was only the briefest brush with mainstream success when the single Town to Town came close to the UK Top 40, but they became much admired in the UK and Ireland indie scenes and recorded numerous sessions for John Peel. "I probably saw popular music as an easy route to cultural mobility, wherein a person with my then-fitful attention span and limited tolerance for the 'wider picture' of learning could live a creative life," he later reflected. Continue reading... |
| Girls’ School: Taiwanese queer gem is hopelessly devoted to teenage passions Posted: 23 May 2022 05:13 AM PDT Lee Mi-Mi's intoxicating film, which sits in a rich cinematic tradition of all-girls' schools, with their homoerotic tensions, as social microcosms, earns a rare screening this week Love is a many-splendoured thing in Lee Mi-Mi's Girls' School, a Taiwanese gem from 1982 beautifully restored just in time for its 40th anniversary. Screened in the UK at BFI Southbank as part of Queer East, an LGBTQ+ film festival showcasing lesser-known treasures from east and south-east Asian cinema, Girls' School is a time capsule of social attitudes towards homosexuality in 1980s Taiwan at the meeting point between commercial and arthouse film-making. As a site of surveillance, tempestuous impulses and healing camaraderie, all-girls' schools can double as a microcosm for society and have a psychological intensity that has fascinated generations of film-makers. Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) views such places as a source of horror and mystery while The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), adapted from Muriel Spark's stage play of her novel, dissects the complex patriarchal forces that control young women's education. Girls' schools are also ripe for explorations of homoeroticism and burgeoning sexuality. In Mädchen in Uniform (1931) and Jacqueline Audry's Olivia (1951), lesbianism emerges as the transformative pull that soothes the loneliness of girlhood. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 May 2022 07:54 AM PDT The millennial pin-up made his name as Gossip Girl's 'lonely boy' and a book-selling serial killer in You – but in his first podcast, Podcrushed, he's proving he's as full of self-doubt as the rest of us Even when he's laid up in bed with Covid, Penn Badgley looks far too good for ordinary humans to relate to. "I'm pleading with people to believe that I'm like them," he deadpans from under a duvet, fully aware of his pin-up status for fellow woke millennials. The actor, who is surprisingly charming as he speaks from his sickbed via Zoom, says that, despite swapping school for Hollywood at the age of 14, he was never exempt from the universal awkwardness, anxiety and heartbreak of adolescence. In fact, it's only now that Badgley feels he can revisit those turbulent years – and he has decided to do it for his first ever podcast. Podcrushed is a series in which Badgley starts each episode by reading out a listener-submitted story about their most poignant middle-school memory; the first is from a girl who pretended to have a heart attack in front of a crush rather than be forced to speak to him. Along with his friends and co-hosts – the super likable Sophie Ansari and Nava Kavelin ("We met when Penn was friends with my roommate, and I'd just have to act like it was normal that Penn Badgely was sitting in my kitchen") – they reflect on their own experiences of excruciating crushes and low self-esteem. With celebrity guests, such as Badgley's former co-stars Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) and Victoria Pedretti (You) thrown into the mix, it's frothy but thoughtful – and satisfyingly nostalgic. Continue reading... |
| John Oliver on Subway franchisees: ‘Dream turned into a nightmare’ Posted: 23 May 2022 08:29 AM PDT The Last Week Tonight criticised the company for its punishing practices that leave franchisees trapped and at a financial loss John Oliver took aim at Subway's franchise rules and regulations, warning against the company's increasingly criticised practices. The Last Week Tonight host called the sandwich store "Dad's attempt at dinner" before explaining that it has been in the news a lot lately and "rarely for anything good". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 May 2022 05:00 AM PDT Shake out the picnic rug for this savoury clafoutis with seasonal asparagus, herbs, spinach and goat's cheese Is it picnic time yet? I long to sit on a picnic blanket at the merest suggestion of sun. Shaking out one's feathers and escaping from the confines of home is the best tonic after a long winter. Find a new walk nearby, revel in a view and feast on some food made for the outdoors. Yes. UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Continue reading... |
| Redrawn Arizona congressional map drains Native American voting power Posted: 23 May 2022 05:00 AM PDT Tribal areas have been swept into a new majority Republican district where GOP candidates ignore Native issues For Native Americans in Arizona, the recently redistricted US House map will mean a loss of political power once protected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, leaving the state's solidly Democratic tribal areas with the prospect of a fringe-Republican congressional representative. Democrats supported by Indigenous voters won every election for the past ten years in a district drawn expressly to empower Native American voters by a redistricting commission that relied on input from the area's various tribes in 2011. Continue reading... |
| ‘You are a jackass’: video of Rudy Giuliani rant at Israel parade goes viral Posted: 23 May 2022 06:00 AM PDT Former Trump lawyer hurls profanities at parade attender in New York City days after reportedly testifying with January 6 panel With a reporter's cellphone recording him, Donald Trump's sometime lawyer Rudy Giuliani hurled profanities at a pro-Israel parade attender in New York City and said, "You are probably as demented as Biden." The video of the former New York mayor's verbal clash had racked up more than 440,000 views on Monday morning, just three days after he reportedly met for hours with the US House committee investigating the deadly Capitol riots on 6 January 2021. Continue reading... |
| Zuckerberg sued by DC attorney general over Cambridge Analytica data scandal Posted: 23 May 2022 10:13 AM PDT Karl Racine accuses Facebook co-founder of direct knowledge of policies that allowed firm to gather data of millions of Americans Washington DC's attorney general has sued Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold the Facebook co-founder personally responsible for his alleged role in allowing the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica to harvest the personal data of millions of Americans during the 2016 election cycle. The suit, filed in the capital by the District of Columbia attorney general, Karl Racine, alleges that Zuckerberg directly participated in policies that allowed Cambridge Analytica to gather the personal data of US voters without their knowledge in an attempt to help Donald Trump's election campaign. Continue reading... |
| Southern Baptist leaders ‘stonewalled’ sex abuse victims, scathing report says Posted: 23 May 2022 09:30 AM PDT Survivors who reported abuse to executive committee were 'ignored' as leaders were 'singularly focused on avoiding liability' Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations, according to a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday. These survivors, and other concerned southern baptists, repeatedly shared allegations with the SBC's executive committee, "only to be met, time and time again, with resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility from some" leaders, said the report. Continue reading... |
| Johnson faces fresh claims he lied to MPs as new Partygate photos emerge Posted: 23 May 2022 12:10 PM PDT Images obtained by ITV News reveal table strewn with bottles at leaving do for a senior aide in November 2020 Boris Johnson is facing fresh claims of lying to MPs after photos emerged of him toasting a senior aide at a Downing Street leaving drinks event during a national Covid lockdown. The Metropolitan police later fined staffers for attending the event on 13 November 2020 – but did not sanction Johnson, who is clearly seen raising a glass in a room full of alcohol. Continue reading... |
| ‘This is a generational moment’: civil rights group for black Britons launches Posted: 23 May 2022 04:01 PM PDT Black Equity Organisation, whose trustees include David Lammy and Dame Vivian Hunt, aims to dismantle systemic racism in UK A national civil rights group to advance justice and equity for black people in Britain has been created by some of the country's most influential black figures. The first of its kind, the Black Equity Organisation (BEO) aims to dismantle systemic racism nearly two years after George Floyd was choked to death by a US police officer in 2020. The killing spurred large protests around the world – including in the UK, where the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was toppled into Bristol harbour. Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un buries mentor amid North Korea Covid crisis Posted: 22 May 2022 10:26 PM PDT State media photos show Kim carrying Hyon Chol-hae's coffin and throwing earth into his grave as country battles 'fever' cases amid Covid outbreak Kim Jong-un attended the funeral for a top North Korean official, state media reported on Monday, helping carry his coffin, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim attended the funeral on Sunday of Hyon Chol-hae, a Korean People's Army marshal who reportedly played a key role in grooming him as the country's next leader before Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, died in late 2011. Continue reading... |
| Sole survivor of 2009 Comoros plane crash recalls terrifying ordeal Posted: 23 May 2022 08:23 AM PDT Bahia Bakari, who was 12 at the time, tells French court of the moments leading up to crash in which 152 died A woman who was 12 when she became the sole survivor of the 2009 Yemenia Airways crash in the Comoros islands that killed all 152 others on board has described the terrifying moments leading up to her plunge into the ocean and subsequent rescue as part of the French trial against the airline. Bahia Bakari, 25, has sat through several hearings with her father but had not testified or spoken to journalists attending the trial, which opened this month. Continue reading... |
| Zaghari-Ratcliffe says Foreign Office complicit in forcing her to confess Posted: 23 May 2022 01:01 PM PDT UK accused of agreeing to Iran's 'unlawful' request that she sign false statement as condition of her release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has accused the UK Foreign Office of being complicit in forcing her to sign a letter of false confession to the Iranian government as part of the last-minute terms of her release in March. She signed the letter at Tehran airport as she waited to find out whether she would be allowed to leave Iran after six years in detention. Continue reading... |
| Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat Posted: 23 May 2022 05:50 AM PDT Maria Zakharova says idea book is about totalitarianism is 'one of the biggest global fakes', in claim disputed by Russian translator George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four was written to describe the dangers of western liberalism – not totalitarianism - a top Moscow diplomat has claimed. "For many years we believed that Orwell described the horrors of totalitarianism. This is one of the biggest global fakes … Orwell wrote about the end of liberalism. He depicted how liberalism would lead humanity to a dead end," Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia's foreign ministry, said during a public talk in Ekaterinburg on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Germany to relax visa rules for Russian workers despite spy warning Posted: 23 May 2022 06:37 AM PDT Process to be eased to exempt applicants with special expertise from case-by-case assessment Germany is to relax visa requirements for skilled workers from Russia, just as the country's domestic intelligence agency warned of a heightened risk that Russian nationals working for German firms could be recruited for industrial espionage. The chancellor Olaf Scholz's government is streamlining the visa application process by exempting Russian workers with specialised expertise in areas such as IT and communication technology from case-by-case assessments through the federal employment department. Continue reading... |
| What is monkeypox and should you be worried? Posted: 23 May 2022 04:33 AM PDT With cases being identified around the world, experts are looking for the source of the infections and how it is being spread With monkeypox being detected in countries from the US to Australia and France to the UK, we take a look at the situation and whether it is cause for concern. Continue reading... |
| I went wild swimming in a chilly river and haven’t had a panic attack since Posted: 23 May 2022 07:00 AM PDT Cold water immersion has been shown to transform the way the body responds to stress, as Tim Clare discovered after a decade of severe anxiety I was at my wits' end when I finally lowered myself into the River Wensum, in Norfolk, at the tail end of autumn 2019. My quest to find a cure for my severe anxiety and decades' worth of weekly – sometimes daily – panic attacks was going badly. I'd exhausted conventional treatments, so I decided to try something different. An anaesthetist, Mark Harper, had told me about research he had co-authored into cold outdoor swimming as a treatment for depression. In as little as six three-minute swims on consecutive days, in water of 10-14C (50-57.2F), I could transform the way my body responded to stress – or so the theory went. Immersion in very cold water induces something called the "cold shock response": a gasp reflex, constriction of blood vessels close to the surface of the skin as your body tries to conserve heat, raised heart rate and hyperventilation. However, repeated exposures diminish the intensity of this response. You adapt. Continue reading... |
| Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light Posted: 23 May 2022 07:00 AM PDT The impressionist painter lacks the glitzy kudos of peers such as Monet and Degas but is celebrated in this study, tied to an exhibition of his work The French impressionists have proved fertile territory for gallery-film specialists Exhibition on Screen, with offerings hat-tipping Monet, Degas, Renoir and their peers. This one extends the range slightly outside the usual suspects by taking as its subject the impressionists' Danish-French elder statesman Camille Pissarro, whose oeuvre is perhaps short on the world-conquering masterpieces of his fellows, but who nevertheless played a key role in establishing impressionism as a style, and as a movement. As its cue, the film takes the current Pissarro exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, so it's possible to watch it, then see the paintings – or vice versa. (It was jointly mounted with Basel's Kustmuseum, but audiences in Switzerland will have to settle for a virtual tour as the show closed there in January.) The film is the customary solidly informative mixture of biographical detail and curatorial insight, tracing Pissarro from his early years in what was then called the Danish West Indies to Paris, via Venezuela and – while the Franco-Prussian war was raging – Norwood in London. Continue reading... |
| Rudy Giuliani calls Democrat a 'jackass' during pro-Israel parade – video Posted: 23 May 2022 08:55 AM PDT Donald Trump's one-time lawyer Rudy Giuliani hurled profanities at a person attending a parade in New York City, calling him a jackass and saying: 'You are probably as demented as Biden.' The video of the former New York mayor's verbal clash had garnered more than 440,000 views on Monday morning, just two days after he reportedly met for hours with the US House committee investigating the deadly Capitol riots on 6 January 2021 Continue reading... |
| Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges tougher sanctions against Russia in Davos speech – video Posted: 23 May 2022 06:16 AM PDT In a keynote video address to the World Economic Forum, the Ukrainian president has called for 'maximum sanctions' against Russia, including a full oil embargo, exclusion of its banks from global systems, an 'abandonment' of its IT sector, and a complete cessation of trade.
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| Joe Biden says US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China – video Posted: 23 May 2022 01:28 AM PDT Joe Biden says the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China. 'That's the commitment we made,' the president says during a joint press conference with his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, adding that "America is committed to a One China policy but that does not mean China has the jurisdiction to use force to take Taiwan' |
| Feminist collective deploys banner and smoke bombs on Cannes red carpet – video Posted: 22 May 2022 12:39 PM PDT The Cannes film festival's red carpet was the scene of a staged protest, with members of the feminist movement Les Colleuses unfurling a long banner and holding up smoke flares. The banner featured the names of 129 women who have died in France as a result of domestic violence since the last film festival. It was a protest against femicide, the murder of women by men Continue reading... |
| Monkeypox: 'Everybody should be concerned,' says Joe Biden – video Posted: 22 May 2022 07:34 AM PDT The US president has said the recent cases of monkeypox identified in Europe and the US were something 'to be concerned about.' In his first public comments on the disease, the US president added: 'It is a concern in that if it were to spread it would be consequential.' Biden was asked about the disease as he spoke to reporters at Osan airbase in South Korea, where he visited troops before taking off for Japan to continue his first trip to Asia as president Continue reading... |
| Ukraine's first lady: 'Nobody takes my husband away from me' – video Posted: 22 May 2022 05:55 AM PDT Olena Zelenska has given a rare interview along with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, only their second public appearance together since Russia launched its invasion. She recounts the 'anxiety and stupor' she felt on 24 February, and says that even though she has barely seen her husband since then, 'no one, not even the war, could take him away' from her Continue reading... |
| The annual Farne Islands puffin count returns – in pictures Posted: 23 May 2022 10:51 AM PDT National Trust rangers return for first time since the pandemic began to carry out a census of the birds off the Northumberland coast. Photographer Christopher Thomond visits Continue reading... |
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