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The temperature is approaching 42 degrees celsius here in Adelaide today. Young honey eaters have been searching for water to keep them going....
SALAMANCA (ANP/AFP) - Bij een gewapende aanval op een voetbalveld in de Mexicaanse stad Salamanca zijn zondag zeker 11 mensen omgekomen. Twaalf anderen liepen schotwonden op, melden lokale autoriteiten.
Zaterdagavond werden in de stad in de centraal-Mexicaanse staat Guanajuato vier zakken met menselijke resten gevonden. De burgemeester laat weten dat er een onderzoek is gestart naar de incidenten.
Guanajuato heeft een goed lopende industrie met autofabrieken en meerdere toeristische attracties. Maar de staat scoort ook hoog in de officiële moordstatistieken van het land, vanwege de strijd tussen verschillende bendes.
Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit
Spider monkeys share tips about where to find food by changing their social groups in a “clever system for sharing insider knowledge”, research has shown.
They were observed to frequently switch subgroups of three or more individuals in a way that enabled them to share information about the location of fruit trees and timing of when they would ripen.
Continue reading...Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father explains why he backs a different approach
Ian Russell describes his life as being split into two parts: before and after 20 November 2017, the day his youngest daughter, Molly, took her own life as a result of depression and negative social media content. “Our life before Molly’s death was very ordinary. Unremarkable,” he says. He was a television producer and director, married with three daughters. “We lived in an ordinary London suburb, in an ordinary semi-detached house, the children went to ordinary schools.” The weekend before Molly’s death, they had a celebration for all three girls’ birthdays, which are in November. One was turning 21, another 18 and Molly was soon to be 15. “And I remember being in the kitchen of a house full of friends and family and thinking, ‘This is so good. I’ve never been so happy,’” he says. “That was on a Saturday night and the following Tuesday morning, everything was different.”
The second part of Russell’s life has been not only grief and trauma, but also a commitment to discovering and exposing the truth about the online content that contributed to Molly’s death, and campaigning to prevent others falling prey to the same harms. Both elements lasted far longer than he anticipated. It took nearly five years to get enough information out of social media companies for an inquest to conclude that Molly died “from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content”. As for the campaigning, the Molly Rose Foundation provides support, conducts research and raises awareness of online harms, and Russell has been an omnipresent spokesperson on these issues.
Continue reading...Like the fearful Sicilian aristocracy in the 1958 epic novel, Europe clings to the status quo. But managed decline is not the only option
Just past the quarter-mark of the century, Europe appears to be at a turning point. For decades its share of global GDP has been shrinking and its geopolitical influence eroding. At a certain point, relative decline can turn into absolute decline. That moment may be approaching.
The US, Russia and China are openly engaged in a “scramble for Europe”. Moscow seeks to reassert hegemony in the east. Beijing wants Europe’s industry; Washington demands obedience – and Greenland. Germans have grown anxious about the future. A disoriented France can’t fix its budget. Desperate for growth, Brussels dismantles climate legislation it passed only a few years ago while bending over backwards to appease Donald Trump. Little remains of European dignity – a sense of déclassement is beginning to take hold.
Joseph de Weck is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Continue reading...When André Ricciardi found out he had cancer, he asked a friend to film his final years. André Is an Idiot, the result, mixes in stop-motion puppetry to create an astonishing record of an extraordinary life
When André Ricciardi turned 50, his best friend Lee made an unusual proposition: how about they go and get a colonoscopy together? The pair had reached the qualifying age for men in the US to access the health check, and Lee had visions of them farting merrily on adjacent toilets while the medication flushed out their bowels, then chatting on hospital beds as tiny cameras travelled through their anal passages. André was always up for ridiculous stuff, but on this occasion he surprised Lee: he said no.
“I was 100% shocked,” says Lee today. “I actually got jealous because I assumed he must have organised to go with somebody else!” But André had not made other colonoscopy plans. He just thought it was a crazy idea and for once, he was being sensible. That turned out to be the stupidest thing he’d ever done. Eighteen months later, perturbed by blood in his stools, André did go for a colonoscopy. It turned out he had stage 4 cancer.
Continue reading...The British papers are in agreement that Keir Starmer faces a likely backlash from unhappy Labour MPs and members
The decision by Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) to block Andy Burnham from standing in a parliamentary byelection prompted a wave of headlines about Keir Starmer’s leadership and potential rifts in the party.
“Labour faces risk of party civil war after PM blocks Burnham’s return” is how the Guardian framed the vote to reject Burnham’s request to seek selection in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Burnham said he was “disappointed” by the NEC’s decision, and hit out at “the way the Labour party is being run”.
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Op de A20 is ter hoogte van de Blankenburgverbinding bij Vlaardingen zondagavond een automobilist de macht over het stuur verloren. Richting Rotterdam raakte de auto door nog onbekende oorzaak de vangrail aan de linkerkant.
Het is een bewolkte en koude dag vandaag met vanochtend eerst lichte vorst en vanmiddag slechts een temperatuur van 2 graden boven het vriespunt. Wel blijft het droog op deze maandag en is het rustig weer met weinig wind.
An ongoing personal series of sports icons illustrations....