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Campus steps up security around protest site after four vandals caught on cameraThe University of Queensland has promised to take action after a pro-Hong Kong Lennon wall on its campus was torn down on Monday night by four masked men.The colourful protest wall – similar to those around Hong Kong and the rest of the world – had attracted hundreds of notes calling for democracy and solidarity with Hong Kong, and opposing the totalitarianism of the Chinese government. Continue reading...

Foreign secretary’s comments come on visit to North America as London pushes for US dealBrexit will bring “a huge series of upsides” for the UK in international trade, Dominic Raab has promised at the start of a symbolically important trip to North America, during which he will press the White House about the need for a rapid deal.The foreign secretary is expected to meet the US vice-president, Mike Pence, in Washington late on Tuesday, and to hold talks with his counterpart, Mike Pompeo, on Wednesday. He will then travel to Mexico. Continue reading...

Curfew and comms blackout led residents to suspect Delhi was about to strip region of autonomy

Helicopter and sniffer dogs join hunt for teenager who disappeared from nature resortPolice in Malaysia have deployed a helicopter and sniffer dogs in an expanded search for a 15-year-old British girl who disappeared from her bedroom at a nature resort over the weekend.The district police chief, Mohamad Nor Marzukee Besar, said the operation to find Nora Quoirin, involving more than 150 people, resumed on Tuesday morning, with a helicopter, sniffer dogs and villagers helping in an expanded search through the dense jungle. An earlier mission ending at 3am local time on Tuesday found no further clues. Continue reading...

Boy, 17, appears in court after six-year-old critically injured at London galleryA teenager has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a six-year-old boy who was allegedly thrown from the viewing platform at the Tate Modern, in central London.The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, appeared at Bromley magistrates court on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...

Trade war rhetoric ratchets up as Beijing responds to US claim of being ‘a currency manipulator’China stepped up the trade war rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing the US of “deliberately destroying international order” with “unilateralism and protectionism”.A day after Washington branded China a currency manipulator in a rapidly escalating trade dispute, China’s central bank said it “deeply regretted” the move by the US and said such behaviour “seriously undermined international rules” and damaged the global economy. Continue reading...

Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence Continue reading...

Economists say a reluctant Canberra may need to spend cash to get Australia moving as ASX200 index falls for fifth day in a rowAn escalating trade war between the US and China has pushed the Australian stock market down for the fifth day in a row, with the benchmark ASX200 index dropping more than 2.4% on Tuesday.Economists played down the damage to superannuation savings of the drop in a market that just last week reached a new high not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. Continue reading...

Mohammad Aljaleel looked after homeless cats during the aerial bombardment of Aleppo. He has since set up a dedicated sanctuary and veterinary clinic for stray felines Continue reading...

Man who jury found not guilty of murdering woman in her bed could be retried under Queensland’s double-jeopardy laws

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The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. By Caroline FraserWhen I was a baby, my grandfather delighted me by playing a game. He made a fist sandwich, fingers laced together and hidden in his palms, showing me his thumbs closed upon them. Slowly, he would say, “Here’s the church, and here’s the steeple,” raising his index fingers together to form a peak. Then, throwing his thumbs apart, he flipped his interlaced fingers over, wriggling them and crying out, “Open the doors and see all the people!”My grandfather was a Christian Scientist. His mother had been a Scientist. His only child, my father, was a Scientist. I was raised to be a Scientist. Continue reading...

Promising student Carliton Maina was shot by the police in Nairobi. His mother believes he was murdered. As part of The Guardian's special focus on Kibera, we met residents of Africa's largest slum to explore their deep distrust of the police and find out what Maina's, and other recent deaths, can tell us about the dramatic rise in extrajudicial killings across Kenya.

Busola Dakolo investigated by police after publicly acusing star pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo

Suspect, 17, arrested on Sunday after boy left seriously hurt by fall from viewing platformA 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was allegedly thrown from the viewing platform at Tate Modern.The teenager was arrested on Sunday afternoon by police responding to reports that a young boy had been thrown from the 10th floor of the London art gallery’s Blavatnik extension. Continue reading...

Flying shrapnel from military base leaves one soldier dead and at least seven injuredThousands have been evacuated from a Siberian town after an ammunition depot on a military base caught fire, triggering huge explosions that have sent deadly shrapnel flying for miles around.One soldier was killed and at least seven other people have been injured, including several with shrapnel wounds, according to Russian state media reports. Continue reading...

Most of the animals at the Santa Cruz Foundation in San Antonio, Colombia, have been rescued from traffickers and circuses. The multimillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-largest in the country after drugs, guns and human trafficking

Teenager arrested as boy, 6, remains in hospital in stable but critical condition

Campaign linked to Sziget festival criticised by senior member of ruling Fidesz partyAdvertisements by Coca-Cola relating to a popular music festival in Hungary that promote gay acceptance have prompted a boycott call from a senior member of the conservative ruling party.The posters are timed for the week-long Sziget festival – that takes the theme of “Love Revolution” and starts on Wednesday in Budapest – and show gay people and couples smiling with slogans such as “zero sugar, zero prejudice”. Continue reading...

PM’s spokesman declines to say if Commons vote against no deal would change anythingBrexit will take place on 31 October “whatever the circumstances”, Downing Street has said, refusing to say whether Boris Johnson would regard a vote in parliament against a no-deal departure as sufficient reason to change course.Quizzed repeatedly at a media briefing, the prime minister’s spokesman also declined to say whether the government would consider allowing no deal to happen if it were amid an election campaign, or if Johnson lost a no-confidence vote in the Commons. Continue reading...

Depending who you ask, Cosmo Park is an ingenious urban oasis or an ill-conceived dystopiaIt’s Thursday and the residents of Jakarta’s Cosmo Park are out jogging, watering their plants or walking their dogs along neat asphalt roads.Neighbourhood kids pedal their bikes under frangipani trees and peach-coloured bougainvillea to the pool and tennis court. Apartments, comfortable and modern, sit side by side, with barbecues and toys stacked outside. Continue reading...

Edita Ochieng and like-minded women are taking a stand against endemic sexual violence and police corruption in Kibera. Plus: Angelique Chrisafis on why climate protesters in France are stealing portraits of Emmanuel Macron. Warning: this podcast contains references to sexual abuseEdita Ochieng, like many women in Kibera, has been a victim of sexual violence. But with police corruption rife, she has banded together with several other women to bring perpetrators to justice as well as providing advice and counselling.Guardian reporter Tracy McVeigh and filmmaker Rod Austin spent time in Kenya’s largest slum with Ochieng and describe her extraordinary story to India Rakusen. Continue reading...

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Met police start murder investigation after overnight incident in TottenhamThe Metropolitan police have launched a murder investigation following the death of an 89-year-old woman in Tottenham.Police were called to an address in Waltheof Gardens at about 10.45am on Sunday where the elderly woman’s body was discovered. She had been assaulted and was pronounced dead at the scene. Continue reading...

Supporters of the far-right activist and anti-fascist counter-protesters were arrested for offences including assaultTwenty-four people have been arrested following a demonstration in support of the jailed Tommy Robinson and a counterprotest led by the anti-racist group Stand Up to Racism.Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sentenced to nine months in prison last month after he was found to have been in contempt of court. Continue reading...

Journalists say blame lies in ‘grey zone’ between organised crime and authoritiesJournalists in Mexico have said the new government is failing to protect them after three reporters were murdered in less than a week.Jorge Ruiz Vázquez, a reporter with the Gráfico de Xalapa newspaper, was the latest victim, shot dead late on Friday night in Actopan, in Veracruz state. He was supposed to have received protection from state security forces but this was missing on the night of the killing. Continue reading...

Artists ask to be paid in euros and dollars as pound continues to fall amid no-deal riskIncreasing numbers of artists are asking to be paid in dollars and euros instead of sterling because of Brexit uncertainty, the director of the Edinburgh international festival has said.The three-week arts festival opened on Friday and includes 293 performances by 2,600 artists from 40 countries. Speaking during its opening weekend, Fergus Linehan, who has been its director since 2015, said many performers had refused to be paid in sterling. Continue reading...

Greek Orthodox cleric claimed gay men recognisable from ‘particular odour’Police in Cyprus have opened an investigation into homophobic remarks made by a controversial bishop.At the request of the island’s attorney general, police will examine whether the Greek Orthodox cleric Neophytos, who only uses one name, violated hate speech laws after he claimed that homosexuality could be passed on when pregnant women had anal sex. Continue reading...

People queue for hours for petrol and cash, following evacuation of thousands of tourists and pilgrimsPeople across the Indian-administered side of Kashmir queued for hours outside petrol stations and cash machines on Sunday following a heightening of security measures that has prompted fears of unrest.

Allegation about oil contracts was made by the Serious Fraud Office in a court documentFour senior managers at a multinational oil firm have been accused in a court document of taking part in a scheme to pay multimillion-pound bribes to land contracts.The accusation has been made by the Serious Fraud Office, which is investigating suspected corruption and money laundering involving the multinational Petrofac. Continue reading...

Daughters say death of Kerry Robertson, 61, was a ‘beautiful, positive experience’A woman with cancer has become the first person to end her life under voluntary assisted dying laws in the Australian state of Victoria.Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a nursing home in Bendigo on 15 July. She was the first person to be granted the permit, having visited her specialist the day legislation came into effect on 19 June. Continue reading...

Referendum campaigners urge supporters to ditch party loyalties and employ ‘hard-headed’ tactical votingThe campaign leading the push for a second EU referendum has drawn up a hit list of 100 marginal seats in which it will tell Remain supporters to vote tactically at an early general election. The aim is to boost the number of MPs who favour putting the Brexit issue back to the people.The People’s Vote campaign is planning to blitz marginals across England, Scotland and Wales before a widely expected early poll, urging Remainers to ditch their traditional party loyalties where necessary in order to help install pro-referendum MPs or defeat MPs or candidates who oppose a second public vote. Continue reading...

Protesters light a fire on the steps outside a police station in Hong Kong as anti-government discontent continues. Police said a large group of protesters had marked the police station, in one of Kowloon's shopping districts, with paint and damaged a vehicle inside. The police said officers had told demonstrators 'to stop their illegal act at once and disperse peacefully'. Riot police could be seen outside the police stations in Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok.Hong Kong police fire teargas in clashes with protesters Continue reading...

Songs in the Key of Cree, Deer Woman and Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools, three shows by Canada’s Indigenous artists, are presented at the Edinburgh festivalThis summer, Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls revealed “staggering” rates of violence and lay the blame at “persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses” . For decades, Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing and, for decades, the problem has been ignored.The scandal is shocking in its own terms, but for many of those affected, it stands for an even broader malaise. They see the abuse as an expression of colonialism and link it not only to the excesses of capitalism but also the resultant climate emergency; all are about taking what doesn’t belong to you. Continue reading...

Foreign minister says Iran has been withdrawing in stages since US pulled out last yearIran will take another step to reduce its compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Saturday, according to parliamentary news agency Icana.Iran has repeatedly said it will reduce its commitment to the nuclear accord in stages and may even withdraw from the pact altogether unless the remaining signatories find ways to shield its economy from US sanctions. Washington pulled out of the deal last year. Continue reading...

Crown Resorts takes extraordinary steps to deny crime link claims, but faces five separate inquiries and calls for a royal commissionIt is an action of last resort when handling an extreme corporate public relations crisis: if your world is exploding around your ears take out a full-page advertisement in the daily newspapers to protest your innocence.Crown Resorts, the powerful and highly recognisable proprietor of the largest casino complex in the southern hemisphere and product of Australia’s second-most powerful business dynasty, the Packer family, reached for the PR nuclear button last Thursday. Continue reading...

US rapper had been in detention since 3 July over alleged brawl in Swedish capitalA Swedish court has freed A$AP Rocky and two co-defendants until 14 August, when the verdicts in their trial for assault will be announced.The platinum-selling US rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and two members of his entourage have been in detention since 3 July in connection with a street brawl in central Stockholm on 30 June. Continue reading...

Prime minister faces losing control of parliament after Lib Dem byelection winBoris Johnson faced a grave threat to his control of parliament on Friday as he was warned that Conservative rebels could cross the House of Commons to foil Brexit in the aftermath of a byelection that reduced his working majority to just one MP.Overnight, the Liberal Democrats’ Jane Dodds won a crucial byelection in Brecon and Radnorshire by a margin of 1,425, overturning the Tories’ previous majority of more than 8,000. Continue reading...

Suffolk singer’s Divide tour has generated over $736m (£607m), and still has 12 dates left to runEd Sheeran’s Divide Tour has been named the highest-grossing tour of all time, breaking a record set by U2 that had stood for eight years.Coming off the back of the chart-topping album of the same name, the Divide tour began in March 2017, and will have encompassed 255 shows when it finishes with four homecoming gigs in Ipswich later this month. So far it has grossed $736m (£607m), breaking U2’s record of $735m, with 12 dates still left to play. Continue reading...

Judge calls Louise Porton ‘evil’ after murders of three-year-old and 17-month-old girlsA mother who murdered her two young daughters 18 days apart after they “got in the way” of her living the life she wanted has been jailed for at least 32 years.Louise Porton, 23, killed Lexi Draper, three, and 17-month old Scarlett Vaughan last year. Both deaths were consistent with deliberate airway obstruction, and doctors could not find “any natural reason why either, let alone both, should have died”, prosecutors said. Continue reading...

Stella Nyanzi vows to persist with criticism of Yoweri Museveni after being found guilty of cyber harassmentStella Nyanzi, the Ugandan women’s rights activist and staunch government critic who once called head of state Yoweri Museveni “a pair of buttocks”, has been found guilty of cyber harassment against the president.Nyanzi, a former researcher at Makerere University, was arrested on 2 November after posting a poem on Facebook that the state deemed abusive towards Museveni and his late mother. Continue reading...

British student died following her fall from airplane shortly after takeoffA British student who died after falling from an airplane flying over Madagascar opened the door of the aircraft herself, according to local police.Alana Cutland, who was described as a “bright, independent young woman”, was on a research trip on the island. Officers there told the BBC and the Sun newspaper she fell shortly after the Cessna C168 on which she was travelling took off. Continue reading...

It’s neat, easy – and a staggering £2bn global market. But as plastic grass takes over our cities, some say that it’s green only in colourIf your attention during the Women’s World Cup was on the pitch rather than the players, you might have noticed that the matches were all played on real grass. That was a hard-won change, made after the US team complained to Fifa that they sustained more injuries on artificial turf.In private gardens, however, the opposite trend is happening: British gardens are being dug up and replaced with plastic grass. But this isn’t the flaky, fading stuff on which oranges were once displayed at the greengrocer. Today’s artificial grass is nearly identical to the real thing. Continue reading...

Emmanuelle Welch was a journalist before becoming a PI. Now she tracks down embezzlers and the occasional lost teddy bearI’m often asked how I chose the life of a private investigator. In my case it was an accident. PIs tend to be former law enforcement, but not always. I’m French and worked as a journalist before I made the leap.I used to live in Los Angeles. A men’s magazine asked me to do an article where I would track down people the magazine had written about years earlier and see how they were doing. It was incredibly difficult. I decided I wanted to get better at finding people. A local PI agency offered a course and I did several months of training. Soon I started doing legwork for local investigators. They liked that I was willing to drive miles to interview people and could write a good report. Eventually I opened my own shop. Continue reading...

China’s claim it has freed 90% of people in Xinjiang detention camps has been met with anger and scepticismWhen news broke that senior officials in China were saying 90% of Uighurs detained in Xinjiang’s notorious detention centres had been released, Nurgul Sawut’s phone started going crazy.“My Whatsapp, my Signal, my Facebook, everyone was tagging me in their posts,” said Sawut, a Uighur community leader based in Canberra. “Everyone started reacting. They were saying: ‘If 90%, where are my relatives, where are my family and friends?’ We’re not seeing any of those people in the community, who are you releasing?” Continue reading...

PM set out to prove his pledge to the ‘awesome foursome’ but not everything went to planBoris Johnson pledged his commitment to the “awesome foursome” of the UK when he was elected Conservative leader, and has since embarked on a whistlestop tour taking in the north of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But how successful were the trips? Visits that involved keeping the prime minister away from booing protesters and, in some cases, journalists? Have they allayed fears that Johnson’s hardline Brexit strategy and the continuation of the union could be mutually exclusive? Continue reading...

Wuppertal’s Schwebebahn was closed for almost nine months for repairsThe world’s oldest electric suspension railway has reopened in the western German city of Wuppertal after the longest closure in its history for extensive repairs.Commuters and train buffs greeted the hanging train, or the Schwebebahn, which had been shut down for almost nine months, with cheers and applause as it left its depot in Oberbarmen just after dawn. Continue reading...

John ‘Kenny’ Collins will serve three more years for failing to comply with confiscation orderThe Hatton Garden heist ringleader John “Kenny” Collins has been sent back to jail after failing to pay back millions of pounds stolen in the raid.Collins, 78, was released at the end of last year after serving half of his seven-year sentence for the £13.7m raid. Continue reading...

In Permanent Record, the former spy will recount how his mass surveillance work eventually led him to make the biggest leak in historyAfter multiple books and films about his decision to leak the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history, whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to tell his side of the story in a memoir, Permanent Record.Related: Edward Snowden: 'The people are still powerless, but now they're aware' Continue reading...