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Trump sparks outrage after calling for army to handle enemies on election day
Democrats condemn ex-president for saying armed forces should turn against ‘enemy within’ when voters go to pollsDonald Trump has provoked an angry backlash from Democrats after calling for the US armed forces to be turned against his political adversaries when voters go to the polls at next month’s presidential election.In comments that added further fuel to fears of an authoritarian crackdown if he recaptures the White House, the Republican nominee said the military or national guard should be deployed against opponents that he called “the enemy within” when the election takes place on 5 November. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 18:11:37
Canadian police accuse Indian diplomats of ‘criminal’ activities including homicides
Accusations made hours after both countries expel senior diplomats in escalating row over killing of Sikh activistCanadian police accused Indian diplomats and consular staff of “clandestine” and “criminal” activities in the country on Monday night, hours after senior diplomats were expelled from both countries in an escalating geopolitical row.Speaking to reporters at a hastily organised press conference, the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP) said the force had evidence of “agents” acting on behalf of the Indian government engaging in extortion, intimidation, coercion and harassment. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:33:47
Israeli airstrike kills more than 20 in Christian town in northern Lebanon
Hezbollah fires rockets at Tel Aviv in apparent response, while Israeli attacks on Gaza include a hospital courtyardMiddle East crisis – live updatesMore than 20 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Christian town in northern Lebanon, prompting Hezbollah to fire rockets at Tel Aviv, as Israel’s multifront war continues to escalate.It was also a particularly bloody 24 hours in the Gaza Strip. Four people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a hospital courtyard in central Gaza, another strike on a nearby school used as a shelter killed at least 20 people, and a drone strike killed five children playing on the street in al-Shati camp in Gaza City, according to local health authorities. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:12:12
New cervical cancer treatment regime ‘cuts risk of dying from disease by 40%’
Process tested in patients over 10-year period involves short course of chemotherapy before chemoradiationDoctors are hailing a “remarkable” new treatment regime for cervical cancer that reduces the risk of dying by 40%, in the biggest advance against the disease in 25 years.Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, with about 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization. In the UK, there are about 3,200 cases and 800 deaths each year. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 22:30:40
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers to become eligible to live in UK after new information found
Estimated 500 rejected cases expected to be overturned after fresh evidence they were employed by the UK government in AfghanistanAn estimated 500 elite Afghan soldiers who fought alongside the British are expected to become eligible to come to the UK after a previous decision rejecting their applications was overturned.Fresh information has been discovered in about a quarter of the 2,000 rejected cases proving that the at-risk veterans were paid and employed by the UK government in Afghanistan, despite previous claims that no such evidence existed. A review had been launched by the Conservatives in February. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 18:40:21
Woman pleads guilty over attempt to smuggle turtles by kayak into Canada
Wan Yee Ng was arrested in June with a bag of 29 turtles as she prepared to paddle across Lake Wallace, affidavit saysA woman who wanted to smuggle turtles across a lake and into Canada by hiding the creatures using socks in a duffle bag has pleaded guilty to a smuggling charge.Wan Yee Ng was arrested in June in Vermont as she was about to enter an inflatable kayak with the bag of 29 eastern box turtles and paddle across Lake Wallace to the border with Canada, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 17:44:14
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hit with six new lawsuits alleging rape and sexual assault
Anonymous accusers are part of what lawyer says is group of more than 100 alleged victims suing music mogulThe disgraced entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with six new lawsuits on Monday that accused the rap impresario of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.The plaintiffs in the lawsuits, filed anonymously in federal court under New York’s Gender Motivated Violence Act, were identified only as two women – Jane Does – and four men, John Does. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 19:54:54
Only one-third of Europe’s surface water qualifies as good or better, study finds
Data compiled by EEA shows quality of water bodies falls far short of target first set for 2015 and since extended to 2027Only about one-third of Europe’s surface water is in good health or better, a report has found, despite an EU target first set for 2015 to bring all bodies of water up to good quality.About 37% of Europe’s surface waters qualified as having at least a good ecological status and 29% a good chemical status in 2021, according to data from 19 member countries compiled by the European Environment Agency (EEA). The original deadline for the EU target has been extended to 2027 but data suggests this is on track to be missed by a wide margin. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 22:01:39
Nasa’s Europa Clipper sets sail for Jupiter’s icy moon to study habitability
Craft lifts off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy with plans to peer under Europa’s crust where ocean may be near surfaceA Nasa spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there could support it. Another mission would be needed to flush out any microorganisms lurking there. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 17:11:42
British man dies in fall from Spanish bridge ‘while creating online content’
Unnamed 26-year-old fell while climbing 192-metre-high Castilla-La Mancha Bridge, authorities sayA 26-year-old British man has died after falling from a Spanish bridge while attempting to create social media content, according to local authorities.The man, who has yet to be named by police, fell while climbing the Castilla-La Mancha Bridge in the central city of Talavera de la Reina, the local mayor’s office said in a statement on Sunday. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 16:47:56
Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut
Metal replica conker found in pocket of David Jakins AKA King Conker, first-time winner after competing since 1977The World Conker Championships is investigating cheating allegations after the men’s winner was found to have a steel chestnut in his pocket.David Jakins won the annual title in Southwick, Northamptonshire, on Sunday for the first time after competing since 1977. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:26:58
US intervention points to growing concerns over Israel’s air defences
After Hezbollah drone strike, any tit-for-tat strikes with Iran could pose a bigger problem still for Israel’s defencesMiddle East crisis – live updatesAs Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah and Iran has escalated, it has begun to show a degree of vulnerability. A Hezbollah drone evaded Israel’s much vaunted air defences on Sunday and struck a military canteen when it was busy with soldiers eating dinner. Four were killed and 58 wounded, seven seriously, at a location 40 miles south of the Lebanese border.The drone that hit the canteen of the Golani base near Binyamina appears to have been part of a synchronised attack that allowed it to elude the country’s well organised air defences. Three drones flew from Lebanon over the Mediterranean, and though they were all initially spotted, and two shot down, the other was able to reach its target. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 17:53:55
North Korea has accused Seoul of flying drones over its capital – what is going on?
Pyongyang has reacted to an apparent flyover with furious rhetoric, ordering artillery units at its border with South Korea to ‘get fully ready to open fire’. What happened and how worrying is it?North Korea has accused South Korea of sending drones over its capital, Pyongyang, to drop leaflets critical of leader Kim Jong-un. We look at the reasons behind the North’s reaction, from readying artillery units to fire across the border and preparing to blow up roads linking the two countries. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 04:45:51
The California community caught between a powerful megachurch and far-right extremists
Shasta residents voted out an anti-establishment leader in favor of a business owner who attends the enormously popular yet controversial Bethel churchThis is the third in a series of three stories on the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election in Shasta county, a region of 180,000 people in northern California that has emerged as a center of the election denial movement and hotbed for far-right politics. Read the first and second story.For years, an extremist far-right movement has worked to transform one of California’s most conservative regions. Since gaining a majority on Shasta county’s governing body, they have managed to spark an exodus of government workers, attempted to do away with the voting system and fought the state over policies pertaining to Covid-19 and the second amendment. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:00:00
Want to understand Donald Trump? Then watch macho 80s action movies
From Sly Stallone at the White House to Hulk Hogan at the RNC, Donald Trump has made no secret of his affinity for hyper-masculine men. But will the US fall for his action movie-inspired strongman shtick one more time?There’s a real possibility that Donald Trump sees no distinction between the terms “strongman” and “strong man”. At the presidential debate last month, Kamala Harris said world leaders were “laughing” at Trump. In response, Trump brought up his endorsement from the autocratic Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán: “One of the most respected men – they call him a strong man. He’s a tough person, smart.”Two months before that debate, the Republican national convention played host to a strong man – or, at least, to a man who exemplified a certain 80s-kitsch version of strength. Hulk Hogan, the former standard-bearer of the then World Wrestling Federation (WWF), rose to fame as a human cartoon character, a pumped-up avatar for American determination and supremacy. During his time in the spotlight, Hogan did battle against stereotypes of America’s enemies – the proudly Iranian Iron Sheik, the proudly Russian Nikolai Volkoff and Sgt Slaughter, a former US marine who had turned against his own country to sympathise with Saddam Hussein. On this night, Hulk Hogan was at the RNC to throw his support behind the third presidential campaign of Trump, a figure who has tapped into a potent vein of nostalgia for a mythologised 1980s, an era characterised by muscular action movie heroes, wrestlers, and unapologetic displays of machismo. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 23:00:41
‘More important than going to the moon’: Bill Nighy, James Norton and Thomasin McKenzie on their film about the birth of IVF
Accused of ‘playing God’, a trio of British medics persevered – and changed the lives of millions worldwide. The makers and stars of Joy explain why there were ‘many tears’ during filming‘It’s just so weird, having children,” says Bill Nighy. “The whole thing is like science fiction. Human beings make decisions and have ideas and choose their partner and it’s all so reckless and marvellous. It’s such an extraordinary thing to attempt. Maybe it’s just my age, but I just think of all the energy involved to have and raise children, you know?” I hear him gliding down the street, phone in hand, offering some sort of gorgeous apology to a cafe door. “And then there’s this human being who turns out to be somebody quite independently of whoever might have been involved in their creation. They’re this completely other thing. And they’re also, in the case of my grandchildren, edible.”Nighy is a highly covetable grandfather. His date to the Oscars two years ago was a stained Sylvanian bunny (“My granddaughter’s schedule intensified,” he explained, “and I was charged with rabbit-sitting responsibilities”). This year he has lent his voice to no fewer than five children’s animations. And now he’s playing the real-life gynaecologist who pioneered IVF. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 15:14:31
Terrifier 3: this low-budget film makes audiences vomit. Why is it No 1 at the US box office?
How did a $2m horror sequel trump $200m movie Joker: Folie à Deux this weekend? By shocking viewers – and steering clear of songsName: Terrifier 3.Age: Three days old. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 14:05:11
A red-lipped batfish: is there anything creepier? | Helen Sullivan
We’ve all been there. We’ve all felt like a badly made-up, odd-limbed, irritable floor-dwelling messAs you contemplate the wonders of evolution, and how a creature can be born with something weird and new, and that thing can either help it get ahead or not hurt its chances, and it can then reproduce and make another one like it, spare a thought for the red-lipped batfish.A real animal, it has the kind of mouth that, as a kid, you may have made from Babybel cheese wax, to go with your red wax fake nails. It has a beard of white whiskers. It has fins that bend backwards, like a person’s arms at yoga when they are about to do upward dog. Before your eyes, it sprouts a new limb from its nostril. Its nose – technically a snout – is long, at the top of its head, and hook-shaped. It cannot swim, only crawl. Its crawl is more like a waddle. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 14:00:11
‘It was a deflating experience’: the novelists who nearly gave up
With earnings having dropped by 60%, it is harder than ever to keep going as a writer – even if your work gets rave reviewsThe 2022 publication of A Hunger, Ross Raisin’s fourth novel, was his “lowest moment”, the 45-year-old author says. “It was a deflating experience.”The book received positive reviews, but then Raisin found out it wouldn’t be stocked in a large high-street book chain, and literary festivals claimed they “didn’t have space” to programme him. “I had to work hard not to succumb to a negativity that in turn thwarts creativity,” he says. It made him consider giving up writing altogether. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 15:35:55
A new start after 60: I went to art school at 66 – and now I’ve sold hundreds of paintings
Carol Douglas wanted to study art as a teenager, but her parents didn’t see the point and she spent decades regretting what might have been. She now has an exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture ParkIn 2017, when Carol Douglas got the news she would be going to art school aged 66, she couldn’t have been happier. “I felt I had been given the biggest gift on the planet,” she says.Throughout her adult life, Douglas had regretted giving up art at school when she was 16. “Art is for Saturday mornings,” her parents told her, and she listened, dropping the subject for Latin and then pursuing a sociology degree. “Ever since then, I had a general underlying feeling that I hadn’t done something I should have done and I never would,” she says. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 05:55:14
‘We were cheeky outlaws getting away with it’: the total euphoria of Liverpool’s 90s club scene
From abandoned factories to snooker halls, pre-superclub promoters dodged police to put on some of the UK’s wildest nights. Former ravers recall how they supercharged the city‘The acid house scene in Liverpool in 1988 was really tiny,” remembers Sonia Martelli. “You could recognise each other because we were all wearing smily face T-shirts and we’d be at the same night.”And once that one acid house night had ended – Daisy, run by James Barton, Andy Carroll and Mike Knowler at the State – there were even fewer options for ravers to keep going. “People would break into disused warehouses or old supermarkets in Toxteth,” recalls Martelli, one half of the DJ duo Girls on Top. “There was another place we called the Scrappy, which was a rave in a scrap yard.” Another party was held in the abandoned Tate & Lyle sugar refinery: it was such a vast space that when the police turned up it would take them so long to reach the ravers at the other end of the building, they had enough time to pack up their PA into nearby trucks and scatter. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 10:16:26
The big idea: why it’s OK not to love your job
We’re constantly told that passion is what makes work fulfilling. But can being head over heels have its downsides?A few years ago, I went to a retirement event for someone who, in his late 80s at the time, had spent more than 60 years as a professor at New York University. He had been embedded in every aspect of academic life, from mentoring and research to fundraising. Over the years he had managed to teach 100,000 students the university’s Introduction to Psychology course. Ted is one of those institutional pillars who can tell you what the place was like in 1965. These days, most people don’t last more than four years in one job.I walked into Ted’s party thinking it would be full of students and teachers, but I was wrong. There were guests from his theatre days, people who hung out at his favourite piano bar, as well as the “techno music” people. Ted had a smorgasbord of identities he had fostered in the city, some related to his career as a scholar, but most not. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 11:30:43
Hezbollah stands at a crossroads – its next steps will determine Lebanon’s fate | Bilal Saab
Like Netanyahu, the militant group has chosen to ignore basic truths, and prioritised its own aims over the nation it claims to defendHow can Lebanon tackle its tangled, dysfunctional relationship with Hezbollah without returning to domestic sectarian conflict? Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, who has been accused by the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court of war crimes in Gaza, claims to have the answer: the Lebanese must “free” Lebanon from Hezbollah. “You have an opportunity to save Lebanon,” he said in a video address, “before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.”Netanyahu, who dismisses the accusations of the ICC, is openly threatening to inflict the same devastating military tactics used in Gaza upon the Lebanese population. If he really wanted to help the Lebanese deal with Hezbollah, he wouldn’t order his military to invade southern Lebanon and as a result breathe new life into the organisation. Netanyahu knows his history, yet he chooses to ignore it: Hezbollah was born in part to resist Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon, which began in 1982 and ended only in 2000. Give it that excuse again, and it will find a way to regroup by recruiting among a Shia community who won’t accept another Israeli occupation.Bilal Y Saab, an associate fellow with Chatham House, is the head of the US-Middle East practice of Trends Research & AdvisoryDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 11:38:26
What does JD Vance really believe? | Sidney Blumenthal
Vance’s great skill is advancement through mimicry – with Trump as his ultimate modelThe world is on fire, but in Washington DC topic A is Olivia Nuzzi. Her suspension as a writer for New York Magazine for sharing “demure” nude photographs of herself and other indiscreet communications with Robert F Kennedy Jr has engendered gales of hilarity to relieve the tension of the razor-thin close campaign.Nuzzi’s relationship in journalistic terms fits the supreme court’s ruling on presidential immunity of the distinction between Donald Trump’s “private” and “official” acts involving the January 6 insurrection. In the spirit of the court and The Scarlet Letter, the blond bombshell has received more punishment for sexting than the blond bomber has for attempting a coup. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 10:00:21
In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zee
The Dutch prison population has fallen by more than 40% – and awareness of the harms of harsh sentencing could explain whyYesterday, I went to the cinema in the Dome prison in Haarlem. This monumental building – a vast, panopticon-style facility first opened in 1901 – is one of more than 20 Dutch prisons that have closed in the past decade. Some of them have ended up serving significantly more enjoyable purposes, such as this cultural hub.The Dutch have seen their prison population decrease by more than 40% over the past 20 years. At the other end of the spectrum, Britain has the highest rate of incarceration in western Europe, and is struggling with an unprecedented prisons crisis. Britain’s minister of prisons, James Timpson, calls the Netherlands a source of inspiration.Renate van der Zee is a Dutch writer and journalist Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 05:00:16
Why is Halloween suddenly so big in Britain? | Zoe Williams
It used to mean a few kids throwing bedsheets over their heads in exchange for sweets. Nowadays, any gathering between September and Christmas is an excuse for fancy dressWhen a fella of 17 arrived at the house in a corset, some pointy ears, a lot of makeup and an alice band with a cat on it, it was only polite to ask what he was dressed as. He said he had come to the Halloween party as a sexy cat. Ah yes, that famous character from fiction, or maybe myth. Isn’t it tautologous, anyway? Aren’t all cats sexy? He was followed by another young fella in a tight black dress and a frilly apron. I didn’t even need to ask: a sexy maid.My sister insists that young men have always liked cross-dressing, drawing on extensive experience – OK, her husband, who was so committed that he once shaved his legs for Halloween. I think of it as very gen Z, a sign of their liberation from the constraints of sex and gender.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 16:41:15
Emily in Paris is moving to Rome. Take it from an Italian: this is what she’d really find there | Angelica Frey
Americans may think it’s all pasta and wise nonnas – but the Netflix star could easily wind up at a Lord of the Rings-themed neo-fascist rallyAmong the Instagram characters created by the Italian comedian Giorgia Fumo, the one that resonates the most with me is a millennial travel influencer called Emily, who “explains” Italy in her videos, letting her audience in on gems such as: “Did you know that Europe is not a country – it’s mind-blowing – but Italy, listen to me, is a country! Italians walk to places! They walk to enjoy fresh air! Do you know Italians cook their own meals, like, every day? In Italy nobody works because everyone is rich and everyone just has these huge family mansions in Tuscany or Napoli?”If Fumo’s satirical creation sounds like too much of an exaggeration, consider that her inspirational source materials include a Las Vegas-based creator called Ciaoamberc, who in one earnest post that amassed 3.6m views said: “Do you ever notice how everybody in Italy does not have a therapist like everybody in the United States does? […] We used to live in communities, we’d talk to people every day. There are people in Italy who sit down for an hour to have an espresso. We don’t do any of that.” Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 12:30:03
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to break with Biden on the Gaza catastrophe | Moira Donegan
Biden’s approach to Israel has been disastrous, both morally and strategically – and it could cost Harris dearlyIn an appearance this week on the daytime talkshow The View, Kamala Harris was asked how her presidency would differ from Joe Biden’s. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said. The comment was seized on by the Trump campaign, who have used it in an attempt to seize upon Biden’s unpopularity and blame Harris for the issues that seem to most enrage and terrify their supporters, among them high consumer prices and immigration. But the comment also rankled some members of Harris’s own base: namely, the young, progressive and non-white voters who have been distraught over the suffering inflicted by Israel in its US-backed war on Gaza.If Harris can’t think of any way she would differ from Biden, these voters may have some suggestions for her. The Biden approach to Israel, after all, has been disastrous on multiple fronts. It has been a moral catastrophe, with Israel’s wildly disproportionate campaign of indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza leading to famine, plague and tens of thousands of deaths. It has been an electoral liability, alienating Muslim and Arab American voters in the crucial swing state of Michigan and depressing turnout among the young voters whom Democrats have long relied on and which were a crucial part of Biden’s 2020 victory.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 10:07:19
Guardiola the dream long shot for FA as it looks past Carsley for England job
FA reached out to Manchester City manager in summerTuchel believed to have reservations about the roleThe Football Association has identified Pep Guardiola as its dream target but is not hopeful of securing a deal for the Manchester City manager, with Lee Carsley no longer under consideration to become England’s permanent head coach.The FA included Guardiola on its shortlist at the beginning of a process to find a successor to Gareth Southgate and is understood to have contacted him at the start of the season to gauge his interest. Representatives of other candidates believe Guardiola is the top choice by far. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 18:17:15
Kolo Muani double gives France victory over Belgium despite Tchouaméni red
No Kylian Mbappé, no problem? Perhaps it is not quite that simple for France, who started this match as a confused rabble but straightened out sufficiently to maintain their hold over a lively Belgium. The controversy over his non-appearance will rumble on, as will the wider concerns around player workload that cast a shadow over this Nations League tie, and more clinical opposition might have darkened the mood further.In the event two goals from Randal Kolo Muani, one a penalty, sandwiched a reply from Loïs Openda and ensured one more point will take France to the quarter-finals. Belgium’s run of 43 years without a competitive win over their neighbours has been extended but they contributed positively to a night that sparked plenty of thought about this fixture’s place in the world. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:43:50
America’s Cup: New Zealand take 4-0 lead but Ainslie backs British recovery
New Zealand continue dominance in first-to-seven seriesEmirates Team hope to win trophy for third time in a rowA fast start and a close-run first leg will give the British crew hope they are still in this contest but at 4-0 down it is looking increasingly likely that the America’s Cup is New Zealand’s to keep.After a good start the Ineos Britannia crew took the lead, and the boats were neck and neck throughout the first leg. At one stage the New Zealand boat passed so close to the Britannia that the captain, Ben Ainslie, called for a penalty but the appeal was rejected. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:51:15
Europe’s leagues and Fifpro accuse Fifa of ‘abusive and anti-competitive’ acts
La Liga president called complaint ‘important step’No intention to challenge body as global regulatorThe La Liga president, Javier Tebas, hailed “one of the most important days in football” after Europe’s domestic leagues joined forces with the global players’ union to file a formal complaint against Fifa’s imposition of the sport’s match calendar.European Leagues, Fifpro and La Liga accused Fifa of “abusive and anti-competitive” conduct by expanding the schedule in a manner they believe endangers players and domestic competitions, pointing to the enlarged 2026 World Cup and the controversial new-look Club World Cup that will take place next summer. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 19:14:00
Wilson edges Wales to victory over Montenegro to extend Bellamy run
Four games, five goals, two wins, two draws, two clean sheets. Craig Bellamy’s Wales vision is anything but painting by numbers but the hard facts offer plenty of promise. Harry Wilson’s third goal in his past three games for his country, this one from the penalty spot, earned victory and led to the Fulham midfielder becoming the first Welshman since Gareth Bale at Euro 2016 to achieve the feat. Wilson is becoming a key player having been involved in eight goals in his past nine Wales appearances (five goals, three assists).Joe Allen, 685 days after last pulling on a Wales shirt for a miserable defeat by England in Qatar, entered in the second half to a warm ovation after reversing his decision to retire from duty. Not that it was a sentimental move from Bellamy, who sought to prevent another second half spiralling out of control. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 20:58:42
Women’s T20 World Cup: what we have learned so far from early stages in UAE
Australia are putting up a mighty defence, the heat at Sharjah has proven to be game changing and England have found themselves in an unlikely Group of Death Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:35:36
Dean Henderson’s road in England has been marked by loss and resilience
Years of injuries, stiff competition and personal heartbreak after the loss of his father and then his former teammate George Baldock has not deterred the Crystal Palace keeperDean Henderson had to have feared that the moment would never come, especially during the tough times and there have been plenty of those. When it finally did, in England’s 3-1 victory against Finland on Sunday, it was emotional and for so many reasons.The Crystal Palace goalkeeper found out on Saturday that he was in the starting XI for the Nations League tie in Helsinki, 1,431 days after he won his first England cap as a half-time substitute in the 3-0 friendly win against Republic of Ireland at Wembley. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:30:38
Eagles coach Sirianni admits he needs more ‘wisdom’ after trash-talking own fans
Philly fans launched into chants of ‘Fire Nick’Coach received backlash for actions on SundayPhiladelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni apologized on Monday for gesturing and jawing at the home crowd in the final moments of a win during which restless fans booed a listless performance and “Fire Nick!” chants broke out at Lincoln Financial Field.Sirianni – a habitual trash-talker – put a finger to his right ear and chirped at fans in the front rows at the Linc on Sunday. Later, flanked by his three young children, Sirianni defended his actions, saying he was simply “excited” to get a victory. The fourth-year coach added the Eagles “don’t necessarily like it” when fans boo at home games. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:37:50
‘Wavy’ jet stream to bring warm weather to north-west Europe
Warm air from south to deliver above-average temperatures – but heavy rain expected to followNorth-west Europe is forecast to experience a burst of autumn warmth this week, thanks to warm air from southern Europe spreading northwards. This brief episode of warmer-than-average conditions will be driven by an amplified, or “wavy”, jet stream, which will allow warm air to push farther north.Daytime temperatures across much of France are forecast to reach the mid-20s on Tuesday and Wednesday, with some areas in the south-west potentially exceeding this. Meanwhile, the Benelux area and south-east England are expected to reach the low-20s by midweek. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 14:05:16
Fears for future of ski tourism as resorts adapt to thawing snow season
While some embrace technological innovations, others are forced to close as global heating causes lack of snowfallSitting at his window in Västerås, central Sweden, Thomas Ohlander is wondering when the winter season might start for his outdoor adventure business, Do The North. “To schedule a trip we have to be sure of snow,” he says, “And that start date is going backwards at a crazy speed.”Each year, Ohlander’s local ice-skating club has recorded the first date on which its members managed to get out on the frozen lakes. In 1988, that date was 4 November; this year the prediction is 4 December. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 04:00:16
Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century
More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decadesDramatic pictures have emerged of the first floods in the Sahara in half a century.Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas of south-east Morocco and caused a deluge, officials of the country’s meteorology agency said in early October. In Tagounite, a village about 450km(280 miles) south of the capital, Rabat, more than 100mm (3.9 inches) was recorded in a 24-hour period. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 11:32:32
‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow RepublicansMeteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge of conspiracy theories that they were controlling the weather, abuse and even death threats, amid what they say is an unprecedented surge in misinformation as two major hurricanes have hit the US.A series of falsehoods and threats have swirled in the two weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through six states causing several hundred deaths, followed by Milton crashing into Florida on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 10:00:53
UK believes Putin personally authorised Salisbury novichok attack, inquiry told
Dawn Sturgess inquiry hears from Foreign Office and from Sergei Skripal, who said Russia thought he was still working for the westThe UK government believes that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, authorised the Salisbury novichok poisonings, which could have killed thousands of people, an inquiry has been told.A senior Foreign Office (FCDO) official has given a statement to the inquiry spelling out that the British government has concluded the nerve agent attack was so sensitive that Putin himself must have given it the go-ahead. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:56:33
Far-right leader who burned copies of Qur’an goes on trial in Sweden
Rasmus Paludan is accused of incitement against an ethnic group and insult in relation to gatherings in 2022A far-right Danish-Swedish politician who burned copies of the Qur’an in Sweden has gone on trial charged with incitement against an ethnic group.Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Danish political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), is the first person to go on trial in Sweden in relation to Qur’an burnings. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:55:54
Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, study suggests
Some participants were able to discriminate order of smells at intervals 10 times shorter than previously thoughtThe human sense of smell is nothing to turn one’s nose up at, research suggests, with scientists revealing we are far more sensitive to the order of odours captured by a sniff than previously thought.Charles Darwin is among those who have cast aspersions on our sense of smell, suggesting it to be “of extremely slight service” to humans, while scientists have long thought our olfactory abilities rather sluggish. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 15:00:09
Anti-Zionist beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal finds
Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination lawsThe belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision.In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated against when he was dismissed by the University of Bristol over allegations of making antisemitic remarks, in a decision the Union of Jewish Students said set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 12:58:52
Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers grows despite western sanctions
Poorly maintained and uninsured vessels transporting up to 70% of country’s seaborne oil, says reportRussia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers is expanding, according to research, transporting up to 70% of the country’s seaborne oil despite western efforts to curb Moscow’s wartime energy revenues.The volume of Russian oil being transported by poorly maintained and underinsured tankers has almost doubled in a year to 4.1m barrels a day by June, according to a report published on Monday by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 15:28:45
Donald Trump pens 1am screed against controversial biopic The Apprentice
Former president calls film about his rise in real estate in 1970s and 80s a ‘politically disgusting hatchet job’Donald Trump railed against a just released biopic about his life in a social media screed early on Monday, calling it a “cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job” meant to thwart his presidential candidacy.The Apprentice portrays how Trump created his real estate empire under the tutelage of Roy Cohn, a notoriously cutthroat attorney and power-broker in 1970s and 1980s New York City, Intelligencer notes. Trump is played by the Marvel actor Sebastian Stan and Cohn by the Succession star Jeremy Strong. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 15:20:51
Ka, Brooklyn rapper and New York firefighter, dies aged 52
Kaseem Ryan, a member of Natural Elements and an FDNY captain, died unexpectedly, according to Instagram postKa, a Brooklyn rapper, producer and firefighter, died unexpectedly on Saturday at age 52, according to a post on his Instagram account.Kaseem Ryan was a member of the group Natural Elements and also served in the New York City fire department (FDNY). He collaborated with artists Roc Marciano and GZA and earned praise from artists such as Erykah Badu and Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, BET reported. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 21:35:46
Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth
British-born Simon Johnson and James A Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu share £810,000 prize Three US-based professors, including two UK-born academics, have been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics, for showing how the political and economic systems introduced by colonisers can determine whether a country is rich or poor today.The explanation put forward by Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu, Sheffield-born Simon Johnson and Briton James A Robinson suggests that inclusive institutions set up for the long-term benefit of European migrants ended up resulting in more prosperous societies in the long term. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 16:43:45
Lilly Ledbetter, equal pay champion who inspired Fair Pay Act, dies aged 86
Ledbetter sued employer Goodyear in 1998 after finding out she was paid $6,500 less than lowest-paid male supervisorLilly Ledbetter, an equal pay advocate whose lawsuit against her employer inspired the Fair Pay Act of 2009, died Saturday in Alabama at age 86.Ledbetter died of respiratory failure, according to a statement from her family provided to the Alabama news organization Al.com. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 20:31:56
Italy sends first asylum seekers to Albania under controversial pact
Men from countries deemed safe are transferred to Albania to have asylum claims processed The first people to be intercepted at sea by the Italian navy under a controversial migration deal with Albania are on their way to the Balkan nation to have their asylum claims processed.As part of the pact signed off on by Italy’s far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, a navy ship set off on Monday “with some irregular migrants onboard”, the interior ministry confirmed. The ministry did not provide a precise figure. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 19:00:14
‘A five-year-old could play this!’ How Razorlight made Golden Touch
‘I was living in flat with a bed, a record-player, a desk and a fridge for beer. I thought, “If I just sit and play three chords for eight hours, hopefully a good song will come”’I was working at Stamford Bridge, doing match-day security in the players’ tunnel, and walking the players to their cars after the game. I’d stand between the dressing room and the press area, so I got to hear the half-time talks and watch most of the Chelsea games. It was once every 10 days and still the greatest job I ever had. So when Mercury offered me half a million quid, I was kind of like: “Well, I mean, I dunno …” Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 14:15:12
Pulp Fiction at 30: Quentin Tarantino’s masterwork remains electric
The 1994 follow-up to Reservoir Dogs is a remarkable act of alchemy, winning over both arthouse and multiplex audiences like nothing else before itOpening Pulp Fiction with the literal two-part definition of “pulp” is a wink and a nudge on the writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s part, funny in retrospect when the first definition (“a soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter”) aptly describes the pieces of brain and skull that are accidentally splattered across the back of a 1974 Chevy Nova. Perhaps Tarantino felt some need to offer the audience a formal introduction to the type of low-down genre trash that had always existed outside the mainstream, in lurid dimestore paperbacks or filthy grindhouse theaters. This was not going to be a typical contender for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, let alone the actual winner.Yet there’s a swagger to Pulp Fiction that makes you believe Tarantino, a true moviemaking savant, could see the film’s future laid out in front of him – the Palme d’Or, the screenplay Oscar, the crossover into a genuine pop culture phenomenon. The transition from the opening scene, where a couple of outlaws resolve to rob an entire Los Angeles diner at breakfast, to the snarling surf rock of Dick Dale’s rendition of Misirlou over the credits feels like Kurt Cobain playing the riff to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Its electricity is that undeniable and surely Tarantino himself must have known it. The film radiates confidence. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 07:22:16
Michael Mosley: Just One Thing review – a wonderful tribute to the man who made us change for the better
Mosley was working on this TV version of his hit podcast packed with easy ways to boost your health when he died – and the results could not be more movingWhen Dr Michael Mosley died in June, while on holiday in Greece, he was working on Just One Thing, a television version of his hugely popular BBC podcast/radio series of the same name, which had been running since 2021. He filmed enough for just two episodes, and this look at the benefits of cold showers is the first. Each instalment of the podcast was a short slice of simplicity. In less than 15 minutes, usually, Mosley would examine the idea that one easy shift in habits could improve your health. From doing yoga to eating nuts, from dancing to scoffing (a small amount of) dark chocolate and drinking coffee, his warm approach to discussing body and mind made change seem easy, understandable and, crucially, possible.Here, he sticks to the Just One Thing format, but it’s longer and has visuals, so we get to see the effects of his single, simple change – what he refers to as a Just One Thing Challenge – on the volunteers who have signed up to try it out. First, he takes a classic early podcast episode about cold showers and uses single mother Jayne, from north Wales, as his guinea pig. Jayne explains that she is “permanently knackered” and that she is recovering from a year of colds and infections that saw her end up in hospital. The scare was, she explains, the “kick up the bum” she needed to pay more attention to her health.Michael Mosley: Just One Thing aired on BBC One and is on iPlayer now. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 20:00:37
‘Now I only do dick jokes when I want to’: how Texan standup Kemah Bob found freedom in Britain
Their Miss Fortunate show – which takes in bipolar disorder, financial ruin and a shocking scamming in Thailand – will ‘take the charge paddles to the chest’ of a comedy career that began with an eye-gougingKemah Bob arrives wearing a stylish ensemble: blue denim dress with lime green bag and sandals. The Texan acquired the outfit during the wild ride that is re-enacted in their new show, Miss Fortunate. In 2023, a bipolar episode led the comedian to uncontrolled spending on clothes, trinkets and holidays. One trip was to Thailand, a solo journey planned as an escape from burnout, that spiralled into a dark encounter with a would-be trafficker. The standup was spun a web of lies by someone who initially seemed like a fun travel companion. Shedding money along the way, Bob finally realised their passport was missing and that they were being scammed “when I was trying to live my Eat Pray Love fantasy”.Before performing Miss Fortunate at the Edinburgh fringe this summer, Bob was reluctant to reveal too much about it. Although they’ve been prominent on the UK comedy scene for nearly a decade, this year was Bob’s debut hour at the festival. “I worried that the mental health element would deter people,” the comedian says. A whistle-stop run through the subject matter – bipolar disorder, financial ruin, extortion – belies how light and mischievous Miss Fortunate is, with the charismatic and reflective standup delivering a handful of songs, and guiding us through their ups and downs. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 07:00:16
‘People are complex’: Maria Bakalova on Donald Trump – and playing Ivana in The Apprentice
Her breakout role in the Borat sequel grabbed attention after a scene with Rudy Giuliani on a bed. Now she’s playing Trump’s ex-wife in a controversial biopic – but insists it’s not a political filmThe week Maria Bakalova was asked to consider playing Ivana Trump for the new film The Apprentice, she was in New York filming something else. With the meeting scheduled for her one day off, she spent the evening before trying to channel Donald Trump’s first wife. The film is set in the 70s and 80s, so she spent hours wading through photos of Ivana in that era. “A lot of makeup, a lot of hair,” she says. Bakalova laughs as she remembers spending the evening experimenting with a mushroom-like hairstyle and “heavy eyeliner with a lot of powder, like inches”, although she didn’t have an Ivana-esque wardrobe – “Am I gen Z or a millennial?” asks the 28-year-old. Either way, “We wear a lot of baggy clothes”, so she chose her most skintight outfit.She met the director Ali Abbasi in the middle of the day, feeling a little clownish in her Ivana cosplay. They spoke for a couple of hours, “about people growing up in post-communist countries – because [Ivana] was from Czechoslovakia, and I was born and raised in Bulgaria – which shapes your inner world, your thoughts. We talked a lot about the similarities of our stories.” Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 04:00:13
Watch extracts from the Booker shortlist, read by Tanya Reynolds, Will Poulter and Jason Isaacs
Ahead of the prize ceremony on 12 November these short films showcase each of the shortlisted works• ‘I was on the way to a funeral when the idea came to me’: 2024’s Booker-shortlisted authors on the moment inspiration struckThe winner of the 2024 Booker prize will be announced on 12 November. Ahead of finding out who has won the UK’s most prestigious award for long-form fiction, watch extracts from each book, read by actors including Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds and Harry Potter’s Jason Isaacs.*** Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 13:18:03
Why pickles and ice-cream? The science of strangely specific pregnancy cravings
Salty or sweet, nutritional or not – there may be hankerings for unexpected foods when pregnant, but beware the old adage of eating for twoFish burgers. Pineapple iced doughnuts. Spicy beef wonton soup. Vanilla marshmallows. Anchovies. KFC potato and gravy. Cookie dough ice-cream. Lemons. Talcum powder. Ice. Dirt.These seemingly random – yet strangely specific – sweet, salty, spicy, cold and just out-there freaky tastes are some of the things craved during pregnancies. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 14:00:11
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pumpkin, lentil and barley soup | A kitchen in Rome
The ultimate autumnal soup, made with ancient grains and new season squashBarley and, in no particular order, emmer and einkorn, wheat, rice, sorghum, peanuts, squash, cassava, lentils, chickpeas, bitter vetch and flax are the so-called founder crops that formed the basis of early agricultural economies in the various centres of domestication all over the planet. My first thought when I read this list of ingredients was: “What a fantastic soup!” And my second was: “What is bitter vetch?” The answer is it’s an ancient legume in the expansive Vicia genus that’s related to broad beans, although physically closer to the lentil and, taste-wise, nearer to a pea, only bitter. So, if you do make the founder crop soup, remember to parboil the bitter vetch several times, changing the water in between, before adding it to the soup. A small, portable oil press is also helpful, if you want to go all the way and turn flax seeds into oil, but remember to warm it gently.Alternatively, this week’s recipe is a pared-down version – an abridged founder crop soup, if you like – that is also extremely delicious and exactly what I wanted to eat this week, when the wind brought the rain through the double doors and across the kitchen. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 10:00:20
How do I know if a perfume is going to suit me? | The beauty Q&A
Got a beauty dilemma? Our expert is here to offer advice. This week, a reader is searching for their signature scentThe scents I love rarely elicit much response. I’ve often wondered if that’s because my favourites just don’t suit me. Perfumer Caterina Catalani, now at the helm of Floris London, reminds me it’s not about external olfactory validation: “Scent is deeply personal, and the best fragrance is one that resonates with you.”That’s easy to say, but the perfume aisles (in store, online and on social media) can be overwhelming. “While some may gravitate toward a single fragrance, I believe in the power of variety – your fragrances should reflect different aspects of your personality and mood, and evoke memories,” Catalani says. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 07:00:17
Did you solve it? The enigma of Randall Munroe
The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set the following two puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.The first is by Randall Munroe, cartoonist of the webcomic xkcd and author of the bestselling book What If? Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 16:00:11
Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for miso salmon noodles – recipe | Quick and easy
From stove to table in 15 minutes: baked miso and sesame salmon on broccoli, sesame and ginger noodlesThis flavour-packed dinner takes just minutes to put together. The salmon then looks after itself for 15 minutes in the oven with a miso-sesame glaze, and it’s just a quick stir-fry for the garlic, ginger, broccoli and noodles. We have variations of this on repeat at home for a quick dinner; thick straight-to-wok udon are my favourite here, but by all means use with watever you like, cooked according to the packet instructions. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 12:00:44
‘They are ruining my life’: how the shadowy world of debt collection can wreck your finances
A stranger’s bill can be passed, in your name, down a chain of companies until it reaches the courts without you knowing anything about it. The result can be catastrophicJames Barnett and his partner were preparing to buy their first property together. On the advice of their mortgage broker, Barnett checked his credit record before applying for a loan. That’s when he discovered a county court judgment (CCJ) had been filed against him for a debt he knew nothing about.“The case concerned an unpaid Thames Water bill for an address I had never lived at,” he says. “This catastrophic mistake has wrecked my credit score, cost me the property purchase I have been saving my whole adult life for, and left me financially paralysed.” Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 08:00:18
Tell us: what does Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literature mean to you?
The Nobel commitee praised Han Kang’s ‘intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’The 2024 Nobel prize in literature was awarded on Thursday to South Korean novelist Han Kang, whose works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons.The Nobel commitee praised Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 09:54:36
Tell us: how have you been affected by Hurricane Milton?
If you have been impacted by the storm, we would like to hear from you. Share your experiencesThousands have been evacuating the western coast of Florida as Hurricane Milton approaches after passing the Mexican city of Mérida before swerving north towards the US. With the hurricane expecting to make landfall on Wednesday, the mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, has warned residents bluntly: “If you choose to stay … you are going to die.”Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula was swept by winds of nearly 155 mph (250km/h) as the category 4 storm heads towards Florida’s dangerously exposed Tampa Bay. The storm passed the Mexican city of Mérida, home to 1.2 million people, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Mexican officials have been bussing people out of low-lying coastal areas. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-08 17:26:04
Tell us: have you won an unusual award or competition?
We would like to hear from winners of obscure trophies, awards and competitionsFollowing Hannah Willow’s victory at the first tree hugging competition in Glasgow, we would like to hear from other winners of unusual trophies, awards or competitions. Do you have an obscure achievement to brag about? Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-09 15:25:12
Living in Lebanon: how have you been affected by the recent violence?
We would like to hear from people living in Lebanon and those who are part of the diaspora on the situation in the regionUK nationals in Lebanon: have you been affected by the strikes?The Israeli military has told the residents of over 20 villages in southern Lebanon including al-Bas, Majdal Salm and Touli to evacuate immediately.Spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote in a post on X that civilians must head north of the Awali river, which meets the coast about 50km (30 miles) from the border with Israel, if they want to escape Israeli attacks. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-09-23 15:33:52
Where do Harris and Trump stand on the key election issues?
From abortion to the economy, the Democrat and Republican have widely diverging visions for the countryKamala Harris and Donald Trump offer two starkly different visions for the country with much at stake – from pocketbook economic issues and reproductive rights to the strength of the country’s global alliances and existential questions about the future of American democracy and the planet.As they compete for the White House, both candidates have laid out their plans in speeches, campaign ads and media interviews. Most of it amounts to a wish list, sketched out in broad strokes and lacking concrete details about how they would be implemented or paid for. A number of Trump’s proposals raise legal questions, while some of Harris’s would probably require Democratic control of Congress. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 11:00:42
‘I’m terrified I’ll be executed’: Trump win could bring spree of death row killings
The ex-president has allegedly floated hangings and televised killings, and called for the deaths of drug dealersIf Donald Trump wins the election, he is expected to pursue a spree of executions that could fast-track the cases of people on federal death row, and threaten the life of a man with a longstanding innocence claim.Advocates for people on death row fear a second Trump term could be worse than his first, which saw an unprecedented 13 federal executions. Under Trump, more people incarcerated in the federal system were put to death than under the previous 10 presidents combined, a staggering number that raised grave human rights concerns. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 12:00:44
‘We’re a powerhouse’: the Māori canoe and haka leading New Zealand into America’s Cup battle
As New Zealand goes head to head with the old colonial power, Great Britain, a waka is leading the team out of Barcelona harbourAs New Zealand goes head to head with Great Britain in its defence of the America’s Cup, the Kiwis have a secret weapon, a Māori waka (canoe) that will lead them into the contest.The race began on 12 October and is due to end a week later. Each race day, the waka will lead Team New Zealand out of Barcelona harbour as a “Māori guard of honour”, says Graham Tipene, coordinator of the waka that is crewed almost entirely by members of the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei iwi (tribe). Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-13 23:18:38
‘We fear Gaza will be forgotten’: Palestinians despair as focus shifts to Lebanon
People and aid workers in the strip say ‘no one is talking about’ the bloodshed there and ceasefire hopes are recedingAs Israeli bombs began to fall across Lebanon, the scenes of bloodshed and chaos were grimly familiar to the people of Gaza. Mai al-Afifa, 24, was teaching a workshop about how to identify unexploded ordnance in a school turned shelter in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah on Thursday when an Israeli missile hit the next building in the compound. Twenty-eight people were killed and 54 injured, according to medics at the scene.Through the smoke and rubble dust Afifa saw the body parts of two women and a male aid worker as she stumbled to safety. The Israeli military said it had used a precise strike to target Hamas fighters using the school as a command centre. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-13 14:10:48
Melania by Melania Trump review – a blame-dodging masterclass
Ex-first lady strategically avoids many key subjects in memoir seemingly at odds with Republican partyMelania Trump’s eponymously titled memoir is a 180-page exercise in buck-passing and blame-dodging. The former US first lady blames staffers for plagiarizing Michelle Obama; repeatedly stresses her love for her husband despite professing to abhor lying liars who lie; and declares abortion a fundamental right, without pausing to consider Donald Trump’s role in attacking it via the US supreme court.Melania is by no means an exhaustive read, but it does leave the reader asking why she has chosen to bare her soul just weeks before the election. Or whether Kamala Harris might more accurately channel her policy preferences than her husband, the Republican nominee yet again.Melania is published in the US by Skyhorse Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-13 10:00:51
Inside the media blitz: three days on the campaign trail with Kamala Harris
The Democratic nominee launched an intense interview campaign, with a story to tell in her quest for the presidencyThe View, America’s most popular daytime talkshow, was on commercial break. Kamala Harris sat writing absence notes for students who were missing class to attend the live broadcast. “Is it just today, right?” the vice-president laughed.She handed over the letters written on notepaper headed “The Vice President”. One said: “Dear teacher, please excuse Dani from class today. She was hanging out with us. Best and thank you for being an educator. Kamala.” Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 10:54:17
The anonymous, anything-goes forum at the heart of the Pelicot rape case
Before it was shut down this year, the illicit and unmoderated chat site Coco had been implicated in killings, child sexual abuse and homophobic attacksThe trial of a 71-year-old man has gripped France and horrified the world after he admitted to repeatedly drugging his wife and, over the course of decades, soliciting dozens of men online to rape her while she was unconscious. Dominique Pelicot’s confessions as well as the public bravery of his wife Gisèle have forced a nationwide reckoning over sexual assault and the double lives people lead through the internet.As a court in Avignon has heard Pelicot’s case and allegations against 50 other defendants over the last several weeks, a pattern has emerged of men who lived publicly upstanding lives while allegedly engaging in abhorrent acts online and in private. As the men accused of mass rape have taken the stand, they have detailed how Pelicot found them and coordinated his abuse on an illicit chat forum called Coco. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 16:00:30
‘It doesn’t start with fame. Find your passion’: how Aldo Kane became TV’s go-to danger man
A former Royal Marines sniper and oil rig worker, Aldo Kane has spent 20 years in some of the world’s most extreme places. Now he finds himself in very unfamiliar territory – in front of a TV camera…There aren’t many people who could casually drop “When I was standing on the summit of Everest” into a conversation without it coming across as a massive flex. Somehow, though, Aldo Kane pulls it off in a manner that almost passes you by, as if it’s just – oh, you know – one of those things you do at work. Then again, maybe the reason he owns it so easily is that climbing Everest is probably one of the easier things he’s done.Kane, you see, is the go-to adventure safety guy for anyone in the TV business. So you might need to get a film crew into (and out of) an active volcano; or maybe there’s this remote uncharted river in New Guinea and a famous naturalist looking for help to get there. Or perhaps you’re James Cameron, the latest Avatar movie has wrapped and you need safety provision for a documentary (someone to restrain the odd shark with his bare hands while keeping a bunch of marine biologists alive in the world’s most hostile watery environments). Kane is that guy: the explorer’s explorer. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-13 10:00:52
Oceanographer Dawn Wright: ‘When we reached the bottom, we saw a beer bottle’
The US scientist on being the first Black woman to descend to Earth’s deepest point, ignoring career advice – and what really happened to the Titan submersibleThe American oceanographer Dawn Wright is the first Black person and only the 27th human to have been to the deepest spot on the planet. Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, is 10.9km (6.8 miles) below sea level – deeper than Mount Everest (8.8km [5.5 miles]) is tall. Wright’s summer 2022 descent is documented in a new book, Mapping the Deep, written with her input. The dive was undertaken in a two-person submersible called Limiting Factor owned (since sold) by Caladan Oceanic, an ocean expedition company founded by investor turned deep sea explorer Victor Vescovo, who was also the craft’s pilot. Wright, 63, who also goes by the moniker “Deepsea Dawn”, is the chief scientist of Esri, a multinational that makes geographic information system (GIS) software for mapping and spatial analytics.Sending people to the deep ocean can be dangerous because of the extreme underwater pressure. Last year, OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded on a journey to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five passengers on board. Why not just leave it to robots? Most of the exploration in the ocean is done by robots – it’s just more efficient, especially for mapping. But occasionally, it is important for a human to go down. It can be the way to get the best understanding of how a particular part of the Earth is working or solve a scientific mystery. In the case of Challenger Deep it is an iconic place and we had a scientific mission. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 15:00:28
US election extra: the state of the race – podcast
As the polls tighten, Chris Michael joins Lucy Hough to discuss the state of the race, in the first instalment of a daily series of short updates on the election Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 16:26:23
England win but what does the future hold for Lee Carsley? – Football Weekly podcast
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay, George Elek and Stephen Kountourou to discuss Harry Kane and Greece’s 100% recordRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; a pretty conventional win for England in Finland. The experimentation of Thursday is something of a distant memory as Lee Carsley picks two central midfielders and Harry Kane, but what does the future look like for both Lee Carsley and the Bayern Munich striker? Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 11:15:09
Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at school in China – podcast
Our twins spent two years at primary school in Chengdu. Their lessons featured alarming cautionary tales and stories of Chinese superiority, but there was fun and irreverence, too. By Peter Hessler Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 06:00:17
How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s favourite far-right leader – podcast
She’s the far-right prime minister with whom leaders across Europe seem to love being photographed. What’s her appeal and what does she really want? With Alexander StilleFrom Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, every European leader seems keen to have their picture taken with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Yet she is the country’s first far right prime minister since the second world war and when she was elected she was talked of as a danger to Europe.Alexander Stille, a former editor of Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and now a professor of journalism at Columbia University, has been watching her rise. He looks at the influences that have shaped her – from her romance novelist mother to her time in the government of a previous controversial Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. And, most surprisingly of all, JRR Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings books. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 02:00:10
Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine – podcast
‘It’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital, so quickly, for so little’: Marina Hyde reflects on Keir Starmer’s first 100 days. When Al Pacino bagged the lead role in The Godfather, he couldn’t believe his luck: in an extract from his new book, he recalls the making of the film that changed his life … Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 04:00:15
A night to forget for England as Greece make history: Football Weekly Extra - podcast
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Pien Meulensteen and John Brewin as England lose 2-1 to a superior Greece sideRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Greece get the ball in England’s net five times on a night to forget for Lee Carsley. How much will this hurt his chances of the job and can the experiment of England playing without a recognised striker already be deemed a failure? Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 09:34:17
One man on his grief for Gaza – podcast
Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq on losing 21 family members in an Israeli airstrike In the early hours of 22 October 2023, London-based journalist Ahmed Alnaouq messaged his family’s WhatsApp group to see how they were doing. No one responded.“Usually when I sleep, I go into deep, deep, deep sleep. But on that particular night, I woke up suddenly at 4 or 5am. I don’t remember exactly, but it was still dawn and I was having a panic attack. My heart was beating very fast. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 07:51:38
Bodycam video shows dramatic rescues from Milton flood waters – video
Families and their pets have been rescued by emergency services after Hurricane Milton brought widespread flooding across parts of Florida. Farm animals, such as pigs, donkeys and goats have also been helped to safety. Millions of Floridians began a long and difficult recovery after the state's second major hurricane in two weeks Biden says Hurricane Milton caused staggering $50bn in estimated damage‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 03:35:37
Search for survivors continues in Beirut after deadly Israeli strikes – video
Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut killed 22 people and wounded some 117 others, as well as further escalating Israel’s bloody conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Rescuers searched for survivors in the smouldering remains of an apartment complex. The Guardian has confirmed that a US-made munition was used in the strike. US-made munition used in Israeli strike on central Beirut, shrapnel showsSearch for survivors continues after deadly Beirut strikesUN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on their bases deliberately Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 01:14:23
‘We’ve been dehumanised’: how the US immigration debate became so toxic - video
With border crossings reaching record highs in recent years, US immigration has returned as the election’s most toxic issue. As Donald Trump continues to push a policy of mass deportation, and Kamala Harris responds by shifting further to the right, what happens to the people caught in the middle trying to seek a better life? The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Arizona’s southern border with Mexico to investigate Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-10 11:00:17
My life behind the lens: one year reporting from the war in Gaza – video
Majdi Fathi is a freelance photojournalist living and working from al-Aqsa hospital, the only functioning facility in central Gaza. Along with many other journalists based there, he evacuated from northern Gaza and now works in incredibly difficult conditions, with dwindling food, water and electricity, and the constant threat of missile strikes from Israel.He documented his past year living and reporting from the war, travelling all around the Gaza Strip, and also looking after his young family, in a conflict that has claimed the lives of over 40,000 people according to local authorities. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-07 08:27:30
Can Kamala Harris defeat Trump’s election lies in battleground Georgia? – video
In a new series of Anywhere but Washington, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to the crucial swing state of Georgia, where election deniers and rightwing conspiracy theorists are facing a new generation of Gen Z candidates and voters who could tip the race in favor of the Democrats Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-03 11:30:06
7 October attack one year on: Inside an Israeli kibbutz terrorised by Hamas – video
Before Hamas’s rampage through southern Israel on 7 October, the kibbutz of Nir Oz was home to 400 people. It was a lively community that had historically enjoyed good relationships with the population in neighbouring Gaza.Situated just 1.2 miles (2km) east of the Gaza Strip, Nir Oz suffered some of the worst violence on 7 October with a quarter of its population killed or kidnapped and, unlike other kibbutzim, the Israeli army did not arrive until after Hamas fighters and later waves of looters had already left. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan visited Nir Oz to see what was left of the kibbutz almost a year after the attacks that reignited violence across the Middle East Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-04 09:51:24
Back from the dead: could AI end grief? – video
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed. The Guardian visited him and one of his clients to attempt to understand his aims, how realistic they may become as the technology develops – and what it says about humanity if we are to be so easily replicated digitally Continue reading...
Published: 2024-09-24 14:10:21
Books, baboons and a dance music festival: photos of the day – Monday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 12:32:48
‘It looked like something out of Star Trek – I expected it to go at warp speed’: the incredible marine life of the Azores – in pictures
The mid-Atlantic archipelago of nine islands, the tips of drowned volcanoes, is a remarkable place for marine mammals. The clear, deep waters provide the perfect habitat for cetaceans, and 28 species of whale and dolphin have been documented there. The Dutch scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk spent a week in September capturing the diversity of Azorean wildlifePhotographs by Jeroen Hoekendijk Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 06:00:17
The world twins festival in Nigeria – in pictures
Nigeria’s ‘twins capital of the world’ Igbo-Ora holds its annual festival to celebrate the town’s unusually high incidence of multiple births Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-14 06:00:17
Photographer Eliza Hatch captures a more inclusive night for skaters – in pictures
Frustrated by the often laddish atmosphere in skateparks, skate enthusiast Milo Turnley set about organising a night for trans skateboarders, roller skaters and wheelchair users. Founded in August 2023, Transkaters takes place on the second Friday of each month at Baysixty6 in west London, where photographer Eliza Hatch took these portraits of those in attendance. “As a skater myself, it immediately caught my attention – skate nights that cater to women, queer people or any marginalised group are few and far between,” says Hatch. “Trans people are a minority who experience an overwhelming amount of harassment and abuse, and who deserve to be able to participate in sports without fear or risk to personal safety. At Transkaters, the atmosphere is incredibly warm, supportive and joyful, and I wanted to highlight that.”See more at instagram.com/elizahatch Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 16:00:29
‘Children like these are in a battle for their livelihood’: Ziaul Huque’s best phone picture
What the Bangladeshi photographer saw at a city’s garbage dumpThe word Ziaul Huque uses to describe the recent deadly violence against student protesters in his country of Bangladesh is “despicable”.“In the end, the government could not survive by resorting to violence,” says Huque, who was once a university student himself. “History has repeatedly shown that no government can survive for long against a radical movement of students.” How quickly that political change can translate into solutions for the country’s many social and environmental problems remains to be seen, though. Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-12 09:00:21
The week around the world in 20 pictures
Hurrican Milton, the Middle East crisis, forest fires in Brasília and the Northern Lights: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading...
Published: 2024-10-11 18:50:32
