Vaccinated Americans could be let into Europe this summer, while UK talking to member states such as Greece

Laura Booth became malnourished after she was admitted to Sheffield hospital for eye operation in 2016The death of a young disabled woman following a routine eye operation was partly caused by malnutrition as a result of neglect, a coroner has ruled.Laura Booth, 21, was admitted to the Royal Hallamshire hospital in Sheffield in September 2016 for a routine eye operation. She died the next month, on 19 October. Continue reading...

Continuing UK’s nuclear deterrent would probably require help of an allied country, defence expert says

Bereaved families call PM’s alleged comment ‘a punch in the stomach to all those grieving’

Dozens of high-profile actors feature on website making fun of Germany’s coronavirus restrictions

With $55 toothpaste and whitening treatments road-tested on TikTok, looking after your teeth is becoming fashionable. It’s even been rebranded as ‘oralcare’

Overblown musical pomposity to some, the guitar solo is seen as a benchmark of brilliance to many. But which is best?

Move by prosecutor comes ahead of expected ruling to outlaw opposition movement as ‘extremist’

Filled with product placement and advertising, the band’s newly reissued 1967 album put the pop in pop art, by showing how closely music was entwined with capitalThese days, we think of the period between 1965 and 1967 as one of white-hot musical progress, a dizzying three-year period during which innovation followed innovation, a succession of totemic albums and singles were released and pop music changed irrevocably. But, as Jon Savage’s superb book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded made clear, not everyone at the time was impressed with how things were going. Savage’s research revealed a succession of contemporary naysayers, devoted to “ringing the death knell” as he put it: 1966 – The Year Pop Went Flat was noted music journalist Maureen Cleave’s assessment of 12 months that had seen the release of Revolver, Blonde on Blonde, Reach Out (I’ll Be There), Eight Miles High, It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World and 19th Nervous Breakdown.The most striking contemporary quote of all might be one that didn’t appear in Savage’s book. “People aren’t jiving in the listening boxes in record shops any more, like we did to a Cliff Richard ‘newie’,” it lamented, before qualifying: “I like some of the new sounds, purely as sound, that are coming out of pop music.” Continue reading...

Top doctor says leaks continue to happen because federal experts ‘deny’ virus is airborne; Facebook removes MP Craig Kelly’s page, saying he repeatedly breached its misinformation policy. Follow the latest updates, live

The mobile library services are an education lifeline for students in Balochistan, where schools have closed during the pandemic

The Coliseo Gallistico de Santo Domingo returns to hosting rooster fights after a year of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic with an audience capacity of 20 percent. Continue reading...

Angie Thomas talks about exploring violence and black fatherhood in her latest young adult novel – and why she’s hoping it won’t be bannedAngie Thomas does not hesitate when I ask whether her new novel will be banned somewhere. “Absolutely, I’m expecting it,” she replies. “Adults don’t like talking about teenage sex, they don’t want to get uncomfortable.” She has good reason to think so: The Hate U Give, her bestselling debut, was pulled from schools in the city of Katy, Texas. “The initial objection focused on swearing and the discussion of sexual acts and drugs. In her new young adult novel, Concrete Rose, drugs and violence are more than discussed: the book follows 17-year-old Maverick Carter, a self-described “drug-dealing, gangbanging, high school flunkout … who got two kids by two different girls”.Readers of The Hate U Give will recognise Maverick as Starr Carter’s father, and Concrete Rose – Thomas’s third novel – is effectively its prequel. Once again, the reader is transported to the fictional US city of Garden Heights and the pacey, highly readable story of “Mav”, whose world is turned upside down when he becomes a father. How can he escape the gang he’s affiliated with, when the only routes out are prison or death? Continue reading...

An impromptu dance masterclass became an instant highlight, but Steven Soderbergh’s directorial shakeup delivered a ceremony with few highs and frequent depressionsIn a skewiff ceremony of overlong speeches, quiet applause and a downsized red carpet, one moment effortlessly stole the show: Glenn Close doing the dance to the 1988 funk hit Da Butt. Continue reading...

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Overshadowed by Syria, the lessons of Libya from the past decade have barely been cross examinedThe last days of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi 10 years ago conjure up competing images of defiance, defeat and death.In March 2011, in one of his last public appearances and with rebellion against his regime gathering around him, the soon-to-be-deposed leader arrived at the People’s Congress in Tripoli riding an electric golf cart. Continue reading...

Mauro Morandi has lived alone on Budelli since 1989 but will relocate after several eviction threats

Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of colour to win best director with her drama about van-dwellers as Hopkins and Frances McDormand won top acting honoursDuring an unusual Oscars ceremony, on-the-road drama Nomadland triumphed with a win for best picture, best actress and a historic victory for Chloé Zhao, becoming the first woman of colour to be named best director and only the second woman ever.The film, starring Frances McDormand as a woman living out of her van and interacting with real-life nomads, took home the top trophy near the end of a delayed night and a delayed season amid the pandemic. The ceremony played out in person but with safety precautions and a modest guest list. Continue reading...

At the 93rd Academy Awards, Anthony Hopkins wins best actor, Frances McDormand wins best actress – and Glenn Close does ‘the butt’Oscar winners 2021: the full list – updating live!Oscars 2021: predictions, timetable and what to expect4.21am BSTI’m really not sure what to make of that ceremony at all. On one hand, the Oscars obviously needed to be shaken up, and this year presented a perfect opportunity. But on the other, all the changes were bad and I didn’t enjoy any of it.Briefly, I missed the suffocating heft of the Oscars proper. I missed presenters doing bits, instead of just genuflecting aimlessly at the nominees. I missed having best picture at the end. I missed clips of the films. I missed a lot. But, hey, at least it was relatively short. That’s a big plus.4.16am BSTFor The Father. But he isn’t there, so there’s no speech and then it ends. Abruptly. A bit too abruptly? It’s finished now, and it ended with no dramatic flourish whatsoever. What a weird, weird night this is. Continue reading...

McDormand wins third best actress Academy award for her role in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland

The new government led by the son of late president Idriss Déby says it is pursuing rebels into Niger, but capital may still face assaultChad’s military transitional government has said it will not negotiate with the rebels blamed for killing the country’s president of three decades, raising the possibility that the armed fighters might press ahead with their threats to attack the capital N’djamena.A spokesman for the rebel group known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (Fact) said on Sunday that it was now joining forces with other armed groups who oppose the Mahmat Idriss Déby taking control of the country following the death of his father. Continue reading...

South Korean follows her Bafta win with an Academy Award for Minari, in which she played a ‘grandma’ living on a farm in ArkansasSouth Korean performer Youn Yuh-jung has won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Minari at the 93rd Academy Awards, which are taking place in Los Angeles.In Minari, Youn plays Soon-ja, “grandma” to young David, who comes from Korea to stay with the family on their farm in Arkansas. She brings with her the “minari” seeds that gives the film its title. Continue reading...

Film about a former resistance fighter travelling to visit the concentration camp where her brother died wins prize at the 93rd Academy Awards• Watch the Guardian’s Oscar winning film, ColetteColette, a film released by the Guardian, has won the Oscar for best documentary short at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Written and directed by Anthony Giacchino, and produced by Alice Doyard, Annie Small and Aaron Matthews, Colette tells the story of 90-year-old former French resistance member Colette Marin-Catherine, who visits the concentration camp where her brother was murdered during the war with a young history student, Lucie Fouble. Continue reading...

The country’s president has also erected a gold statue and dedicated an ode to the Alabai dog breedTurkmenistan marked a new holiday on Sunday dedicated to its national – and very large – Alabai dog breed, to which its longtime leader has already erected a gilded monument and written an ode.The new holiday took place on the same day as a festival celebrating the Akhal-Teke horse breed, which Turkmenistan also considers part of its national heritage. Continue reading...

Tulle, bandeaus … and a terrific turn by the men. A selection of the best looks from the red carpet at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles

People in Perth and the Peel region required to stay home for three days after coronavirus spread from hotel quarantine to community. For what reasons can you leave home? Is mask-wearing compulsory? Is travelling permitted? Here’s what you can and can’t do over the Anzac Day long weekend

Alcohol-fuelled Danish film directed by Thomas Vinterberg takes the top prize for non-English language film at the Academy Awards

Car was reversing erratically in pedestrianised city square in capital, Tirana, before dramatic leap through open windowA man has made a running jump, feet-first, through the open window of a moving car in Albania’s capital to stop the driver spinning erratically through the city’s Skanderbeg Square.Footage captured by dozens of cameras set up to report on the country’s general election shows the car’s wheels screeching as it reverses in circles around the pedestrianised square. Continue reading...

Letter from four former secretaries of state says Brexit’s damage to peace process must be addressedNorthern Ireland is in a dangerous political vacuum and could “fall over” unless the UK government acts swiftly, according to a cross-party group of former cabinet ministers with experience in the region.Boris Johnson needs to show more urgency and focus to ameliorate Brexit’s damage to the peace process, the group tells the prime minister in an open letter published on Monday. Continue reading...

Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, reportedly did not survive after diving into the river around midnight on SaturdayA young man who died after jumping into the River Thames to rescue a woman who fell from London Bridge has been hailed as a hero.Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, did not survive after diving into the river around midnight on Saturday. Continue reading...

Italy’s package to help business and those hit the hardest by unemployment; US and UK lead efforts to help India’s crisis

Washington reverses vaccine export ban while Downing Street dispatches ventilators and oxygen

Fares, 14, was allegedly stabbed and hit with metal poles during argument in Newham, east LondonA 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of the teenager Fares Maatou in east London.Fares, 14, was allegedly stabbed and hit with metal poles during an argument outside a shop on Barking Road in Newham on Friday afternoon. Continue reading...

Over two decades as a GP I’ve witnessed the decline of mental health services. Don’t get me started on psychiatristsI am a GP who has worked in the Hunter region since 1999. This may be longer than you anticipated, but it is so rare to be given an opportunity to tell the truth as I see it that I thought I would make the most of it.First of all, I want to talk about the general level of service as I have observed it. Continue reading...

Metropolitan Police Federation chair to urgently raise matter with hierarchy after eight officers injured

Elbaz redefined the party dress, showing how glamour could be sensual rather than overtly sexy

Elbaz worked at Guy Laroche and Yves Saint Laurent before joining Lanvin as creative director in 2001

Fifteen people have emerged from a cave in south-west France after 40 days underground in an experiment to see how the absence of clocks, daylight and external communications would affect their sense of time

The 93rd Academy Awards have finally arrived – here’s what you need to know, when you need to know it by and who (we think) will win the key prizesTwo months late, the Oscars have finally arrived. Covid has wreaked its havoc in the film industry just like everywhere else, with cinema closing, shoots shut down, and cancellations everywhere you look. The awards ceremonies’ troubles appear trifling by comparison, but they are emblematic of what a bizarre year it has been.The nominations themselves, though filled with excellent and interesting films, will always have a “year of the asterisk” feeling: with so many blockbuster and awards-bait films put off until cinemas can properly reopen, there’s a sneaking sensation that the line-up is not all it could have been. Maybe the near-total absence of significant commercial success in Hollywood is going to have a subliminal effect; it certainly looks like it will ensure the TV audience will be the lowest ever. Continue reading...

Analysis: Urgent supplies are needed to stem the rampant spread of infections in country of 1.4bn

Carmen Mazarrasa builds exquisite doll’s houses where she can control everything – except when the mice decide to move in…At moments of unrest I open Instagram and scroll impatiently until I see what I need to see, and then I exhale, a gleeful loosening. What I am looking for is something recognisable – a plant, a pencil, a chair, a bowl of dumplings – shrunk to a fraction of its size. How to describe the pleasure, the sweet, squealy pleasure of studying a miniature iPhone, suitable only for a busy mouse, or smoked salmon bagel that would fit on the head of a pin, or a set of tools balanced on a fingernail? My favourites are the miniatures that are truly banal – a plug extension lead on @DailyMini recently thrilled me, as did a rack of postcards showing scenes from holidays appropriate only for ants. In those moments of tightening stress, when the world feels far too large, I have plenty to choose from.The world of tiny things is growing. Artists sculpting miniature objects have found new audiences on Instagram and clients on Etsy – a recent purchase of mine on eBay was a gutted fish on a plate, at 1/12th its real size. I am also watching a pack of crumpets. Once the stuff of elderly hobbyists, over the past decade miniature making among millennials has seen a boom. The queen of the miniacs is Carmen Mazarrasa, whose tiny rooms, filled with covetable things, make the viewer feel wobbly, both at the scale and their desire. Because it’s not just that the rooms of rugs or ceramics or beds look real, it’s that they look like rooms you might see in Architectural Digest, filled with artful paintings and replicas of iconic chairs. Continue reading...

Liz Truss dismisses ‘stream of allegations’ but could not confirm where PM had got the moneyA senior minister has insisted Boris Johnson did pay for the refurbishment of his official Downing Street flat out of his own pocket but could not confirm where he had got the money.The international trade secretary, Liz Truss, insisted Johnson paid all costs personally, and dismissed a “stream of allegations about personal issues” in the light of an incendiary blogpost by Dominic Cummings on Friday night that levelled serious claims of impropriety against the prime minister. Continue reading...

When Kim Jones, visionary designer at Dior Men, saw the exuberant art of Ghana’s Amoako Boafo, a collaboration was soon on the cardsWhen the fashion designer Kim Jones left his role as men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton in 2018 after seven years he was literally catwalked out of the Grand Palais in Paris by Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. Dressed in LV monogrammed coats and boots, the supermodels – and part of Jones’s starry inner circle that also includes the Beckhams – took one hand each and gave him a suitably social media splashy send-off. On exiting Jones had more than proven his worth at Vuitton having turned it into one of the most influential menswear brands and brokering the smash-hit sell-out collaboration with Supreme – one of those fashion moments that people refer to as “gamechanging”. This intersection of haute fashion with streetwear can almost summarise an entire era of men’s fashion, one that Jones has been central to.This new collection is very much a portrait of an artist. I wanted it to be about Boafo’ Continue reading...

Negligence blamed for Saturday night blaze as prime minister dismisses key hospital officials

Prime minister under pressure within coalition to lift lockdown measures but death toll remains high

Canada’s supreme court decision on the Sinixt people could affirm hunting rights for tens of thousandsFor decades the Rick Desautel had been told by courts and governments that his people no longer exist in Canada.But Desautel and others in his community in Washington state have long argued that they are descendants of the Sinixt, an Indigenous people whose territory once spanned Canada and the United States. Continue reading...

The secondhand clothing market is growing fast – and not just for adults. Meet the parents changing the way we’ll dress our children in the futureErick Bouwer’s baby son Joshua was, to use a technical term, a whopper: 4.5kg, or almost 10lb in old money. “That was a big guy indeed, he’s 11 years old now and he still is,” says Bouwer, on the line from Amsterdam. Bouwer and his wife had nested assiduously before Joshua’s arrival, supplemented with presents from friends and family, but arriving home from hospital, they realised that none of the onesies and cute cardigans would fit their new arrival. Bouwer laughs, “We were, like, ‘OK, we’ve got a bunch of clothes here, but I hope we’ve still got the receipts.’”A decade on, Bouwer’s “personal frustration” became a business, Circos. All parents know there is a relentless churn with children’s clothes, especially when your kids are growing fast: leggings are worn once and come back with holes in both knees; jackets fit snugly for a month before having to be retired. Bouwer, then a pricing strategy consultant, dug deeper. He found that, on average, parents use 280 items of clothing for their child before his or her second birthday. Items are typically worn for around two or three months. After that, only 15% of clothing is donated or recycled. Most of the remainder ends up in landfill. Continue reading...

Janek Gazecki says Amalfi Beach Club is no more controversial than ‘a restaurant on the sand’ and entry would be freeThe man behind a proposed Italian-style beach club on Bondi beach says he is pushing forward with the controversial plan despite vigorous opposition from locals and politicians.The founder of the proposed Amalfi Beach Club, Janek Gazecki, said media reports had misrepresented his plan when it first hit headlines in October last year, which described it as an “exclusive” or “private” club, targeting “high net worth” individuals such as doctors, surgeons and models. Continue reading...