Owner of scooter that can go almost three times the speed limit faces prosecutionPolice in Oslo have seized a tuned electric scooter with a top speed of 36mph (58kph), nearly three times the legal limit.The scooter was seized during a control programme in Oslo in a joint operation with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration during which two electric scooters were stopped on suspicion of illegal speeding. Continue reading...

Opposition leader says Yoweri Museveni behind campaign of intimidation to stop him standingBobi Wine, the popular reggae star and prominent opposition leader in Uganda, has accused the country’s president, Yoweri Museveni, of seeking to block his candidature at next year’s elections through a series of “trumped up” legal challenges and a campaign of intimidation.Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, said he was calling on people all over the world to “keep their eyes” on Uganda because international attention was the only way to “stop human rights abuses and impunity in Uganda today”. Continue reading...

Prof George Williams doubts if the Morrison government can scrap Victoria’s belt and road initiative with BeijingThe Morrison government needs to overhaul its planned new foreign veto powers because the legislation contains “very serious” drafting problems and raises “fairly deep constitutional concerns”, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.The constitutional law expert, Prof George Williams, raised doubts about the federal government’s ability to scrap Victoria’s agreement with Beijing on the belt and road initiative, which is in Canberra’s sights. Continue reading...

Westminster Bridge leading to parliament in central London closed to trafficPolice have been called to a security incident at St Thomas’ hospital in central London, with nearby Westminster Bridge leading to parliament closed to traffic.The alert was being stood down, police said, and road closures in the area were being lifted. Continue reading...

One person has died and two others are in hospital after the workplace incident at the Bentley campus in south-east PerthA 23-year-old worker has died after he fell 20 metres when a roof collapsed on a building being constructed at Curtain University in Perth.Two other men in their 20s have been taken to Royal Perth hospital with multiple injuries following the workplace incident at the Bentley campus which occurred before 12.30pm local time on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Daniel Andrews says 10 ‘could be the new five’ as NSW announces seven new locally transmitted cases. Follow live

Rural women in Tamil Nadu are mostly excluded from land ownership, but collective farms can offer self-sufficiencyWhen all the shops closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, pulling together in small collectives was key to remaining self-sufficient for widow farmers in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu.“We had sufficient grains and vegetables at home, while others in the village were seeking government support,” says 46-year-old Poongani, one of the nine widowed Dalit women who form the Sivanthi Poo farming collective in the village of Thottampatti. Continue reading...

Boris Johnson faces doubt and frustration over new three-tier system that splits England into risk zones

Totally Under Control recounts the early days of the pandemic in the US, revealing in clinical detail a disastrous federal response to a preventable crisisIn May, as their city began to emerge from the paralyzing grip of coronavirus that killed over 33,000 residents, New York City-based film-makers Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger started retracing still-raw recent history on film. They tracked whistleblowers, and noted comparisons between the disastrous sprawl of coronavirus in the US and South Korea, which received their first positive coronavirus diagnoses on the same day: 20 January. Meetings were held by Zoom, interviews by remote camera draped by a shower curtain — a large, amorphous ghost, compliant with quickly adopted social distancing guidelines.Related: Totally Under Control review – shocking film on Trump's failure to handle Covid-19 Continue reading...

Scott Morrison says it’s ‘important not to get ahead of ourselves here’ while Anthony Albanese calls the reports ‘a huge concern’The Australian government is seeking assurances from China over the impact of reported curbs of coal imports, while calling on Beijing to end the freeze on ministerial talks as concerns grow about widening trade tensions.Related: China reportedly orders halt to imports of Australian coal Continue reading...

The actor’s latest project is about the joy of sex, as well as its capacity to exploit, control and kill. She discusses the pleasure of life after being written off by Hollywood and the beauty businessIsabella Rossellini is a busy woman. It is hard to know how the model, actor, writer, animal behaviourist and farmer finds so much time to talk about sex. But she does. In recent years, she has made numerous tiny films about the sex lives of animals under the umbrella titles Green Porno and Seduce Me. Now she hopes to take them to a larger audience – or, to be more accurate, she hopes to bring a larger audience to her farm.With theatre stymied by the pandemic, she is livestreaming a show from Mama Farm in Long Island, New York, where she lives with her sheep, goats, chickens, ducks and dogs. The show, called Sex & Consequences, is part circus, part animal cognition lecture and part penetration. Continue reading...

The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, waged on and off for a century, has flared anew and civilians once again suffer the consequencesOver the road from the 8-metre-deep crater left by a medium-range missile, Sergei Hovhnnesyan and three of his neighbours are hunkering down in the basement storage space of their local grocery shop in Stepanakert, a mountain town in the heart of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Continue reading...

Boyband member RM told award ceremony they would always remember sacrifices of US and South Korea in warK-pop phenomenon BTS is facing a barrage of criticism in China after the South Korean boyband cited their country’s solidarity with the US stemming from the Korean war.The band’s leader, RM, sparked outrage on social media in China when he cited the “history of pain” shared between South Korea and the US, who fought alongside each other in the 1950-53 conflict. Continue reading...

Charities warn that seven months of the pandemic has set the country back decades on child exploitationOver 70 children were crammed into a bus, heading from Bihar to a sweatshop in the Indian city of Rajasthan, when the authorities pulled it over. Among the faces half hidden behind colourful masks was 12-year-old Deepak Kumar.Before the coronavirus pandemic, Kumar had been enrolled in grade four at the school in his small district of Gaya in the impoverished Indian state of Bihar. But when Covid-19 hit and the country went into lockdown, the school gates shut across India and have not opened since. With his parents, both daily wage labourers, unable to make money and put food on the table, last month Kumar was sent out to find work. Continue reading...

The former AFL boss admitted he read from notes when giving evidence about potential money laundering at Crown, but denied other evidence was based on notesCrown Resorts director and former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou has been accused of being dishonest in evidence he has given to an inquiry into the casino empire after denying reading from notes despite video evidence suggesting he was doing so.Demetriou has admitted that he had written notes in front of him when giving evidence on Monday, and reading from the notes when he gave an answer about potential money laundering at Crown. Continue reading...

Māori remain at the bottom rung for most outcomes, including health, education, and housing – we need politicians who will fight for changeAs New Zealanders head to the voting booths this week, the chance of a comeback for the only Indigenous-focused Māori party are hanging by a thread.In 2017, Te Ururoa Flavell, who had been minister of Māori development for three years, lost his seat in the general elections, which saw him and the Māori party exit parliament stage right. Continue reading...

Government has struggled to control outbreaks in the capital while charter flights carrying foreign workers run risk of spreading virus

Paul Milgrom could not be roused in the middle of the night when news broke, so his fellow winner, Bob Wilson, had to go and wake him upWhen the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that the American economists Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson had won the Nobel prize for economics, both men were fast asleep in their beds in Stanford, California.Eventually the committee managed to get hold of Wilson to tell him the news. But Milgrom was asleep and nobody could contact him. So it was up to Wilson – who happens to be Milgrom’s neighbour – to go to the home of his former student in his pyjamas to relate the happy tidings, that he had won the prize worth US$1m. Continue reading...

Gennady Kazakevich accuses protesters of anarchy and threatens use of ‘lethal weapons’Security forces in Belarus could fire on protesters if they deem it necessary, a minister has warned, as EU foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions personally targeting President Alexander Lukashenko.Gennady Kazakevich, the first deputy interior minister, said in a video statement: “We will not leave the streets, and law enforcement officers and internal troops if necessary will use riot control equipment and lethal weapons.” Continue reading...

Opposition leader, who has been on the brink of power several times, claims to have enough support to lead, but doubts persistMalaysia’s opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, will at last be granted an audience with the king on Tuesday, a meeting his supporters hope could lead to the culmination of his decades-long quest to lead the country.Anwar stated last month that he had majority support from lawmakers required to form a new government, but an earlier meeting was postponed because the king was in poor health. Continue reading...

Report reveals country has failed to fully regulate trade despite promises to crack down

Japanese tourist waited almost seven months to enter Inca citadel while trapped in country during coronavirus pandemicPeru has opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak.Jesse Takayama’s entry into the ruins came thanks to a special request he submitted while stranded since mid-March in the town of Aguas Calientes, on the slopes of the mountains near the site, said the minister of culture, Alejandro Neyra, on Monday. Continue reading...

Tuesday: Could Gladys Berejiklian become the third premier of NSW unseated by Icac? Plus: women hurt most by Covid recessionGood morning, this is Tamara Howie bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Tuesday 13 October. Continue reading...

Rafał Gaweł’s prison sentence for fraud was retaliation by rightwing regime, Norway says

New rules should cut infection rates but are too late and open to abuse, say scientists

France may impose new lockdowns as Italy plans ban on private parties

Move comes after nationwide demonstrations sparked by series of sexual assaultsBangladesh will introduce the death penalty for rape cases, after several high-profile sexual assaults prompted a wave of protests across the country in recent weeks.Speaking to reporters on Monday, cabinet secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam confirmed that the cabinet had approved a bill ruling that anyone convicted of rape would be punished with death or “rigorous imprisonment” for life. Continue reading...

As far as polling booth drama goes, Aotearoa’s election has so far yielded none – but early voters are quite keen on the fragrant hand sanitiserThey arrive carrying their own pens. They stop for a dollop of pleasantly lemon-scented hand sanitiser as they enter and exit polling places. And they are turning up to vote ahead of election day in record numbers.As far as polling booth drama goes, New Zealand’s election has so far yielded none: just the calm, orderly process of 1.15 million people casting early votes – nearly double the number who had voted by this time in advance of the 2017 election. Continue reading...

Diners paid up to £360 to eat onboard in latest sign of public appetite for aircraft experienceDiners have rushed to pay up to £360 per head to eat a meal on a stationary plane, in the latest sign of public appetite to recreate the onboard experience without travelling.Singapore Airlines launched a waiting list after tickets rapidly sold out for two weekends of sittings onboard two stationary A380 superjumbos, with meals at seats and the chance to watch a movie, albeit no longer in-flight. Continue reading...

Family of Alexandra Greenway say she was passed ‘pillar to post’ and not given psychiatric supportThe family of a transgender woman who was found dead at her flat in Bristol have said at her inquest that she was passed from “pillar to post” in her efforts to seek help for her mental illness.Alexandra Greenway’s relatives told the inquest the 23-year-old recruitment consultant did not receive the psychiatric support she required before her death on 11 May last year. Continue reading...

Exclusive: global scholars on China call for agreement to resist interference in researchSome of the world’s leading scholars on China have called for a united international front in defence of university freedoms, amid claims of an increased Chinese threat to academic inquiry since the passing of Hong Kong’s national security law.Individual universities will be picked off unless there is a common agreement to resist Chinese state interference in academic research and teaching on China, a group of 100 academics including scholars in the US, UK, Australia and Germany say. Continue reading...

Carlo Acutis helped spread Catholic teaching online before his death aged 15 in 2006Pope Francis said the beatification of an Italian computer whiz-kid was a sign to young people that “true happiness comes from putting God first”.Carlo Acutis, who is on a path to sainthood after being beatified in the Umbrian town of Assisi, helped spread Roman Catholic teaching online before his death from leukaemia aged 15 in 2006. He is the youngest contemporary person to be beatified. Continue reading...

Culture secretary distanced himself from widely mocked poster amid job losses in artsA government-backed advert that encouraged people working in the arts to reskill by turning to a career in cybersecurity has been scrapped after the culture secretary described it as “crass”.

PM indicates that large parts of north could soon follow Liverpool into highest level of restrictions

Commission report into Ischgl outbreak identifies “momentous miscalculations” made by authorities

Western Australia wants zero community transmission before it opens up to other states. I’m increasingly aware this will never happen

Instead of pursuing cruel and unethical means of controlling immigration, the Home Office must focus on providing safe and legal routes to the UK, write Jewish campaigners for racial equality, while Richard Hargreaves describes Priti Patel’s proposals as indefensibleRecently Jewish people marked the start of Sukkot, a Jewish festival rooted in concepts of sanctuary and shelter. We have been disturbed at this time to read reports of deeply unethical Home Office plans for offshore asylum processing, and other measures that would cruelly create barriers to those seeking refuge in this country (Home Office may use nets to stop migrant boats crossing Channel, 11 October).Priti Patel was correct to acknowledge in her conference speech that the UK’s asylum system is broken, and that current delays to asylum applications are unacceptable. The present reality reveals the vital need for fairness and compassion. Asylum seekers fleeing to the UK from conflict and war have found themselves housed in army barracks on arrival. Continue reading...

North-east England, south Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to be in tier 2, local leaders reveal ahead of Commons announcement

Alleged victims have had ‘justice denied’, barrister tells inquiry into child sexual abuseA “culture of deference” may have obstructed investigations into the late Lord Janner, a barrister representing more than a dozen of his alleged victims has told the child sexual abuse inquiry.Addressing the opening session of an inquiry into how the authorities dealt with multiple complaints about the former Labour MP and peer, the barrister Nick Stanage regretted that for his clients, “justice delayed” had been “justice denied”. Continue reading...

Fears for climbers who may have been in area of fire on slopes of Africa’s tallest mountain near Tanzanian border with KenyaA huge fire has broken on Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak and a key attraction for tourists in Kenya and Tanzania.According to Tanzanian national park authorities, the fire broke out on Sunday afternoon and is yet to be contained. Continue reading...

A pair of new compilations trace the roots of reggae’s sublime songcraft back to the influence of 1950s crooners, with their close harmonies and swooning romanceIn late 1961, a young teenager called James Chambers turned up unannounced at Beverley’s restaurant and ice cream parlour on Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica. In search of a sponsor, he told the owners, three Chinese-Jamaican brothers, that he had written a song for them. His audacity paid off and a few months later, Dearest Beverley was released as the B-side of a more topical and upbeat song called Hurricane Hattie, which became the first hit for the newly formed Beverley’s Records.The single was produced by the label’s owner, Leslie Kong, one of the brothers for whom Chambers had auditioned. Kong would go on to produce a series of classic early reggae songs like 007 (Shanty Town) by Desmond Dekker and Monkey Man by the Maytals; by the time Dearest Beverley was released, James Chambers had turned 14 and was calling himself Jimmy Cliff, soon to be one of reggae’s biggest stars. Continue reading...

Former police officer infiltrated New IRA’s high command over last eight years, it has emerged

Muhammadu Buhari has given a speech after the Nigerian government dissolved a controversial police unit alleged to have carried out extrajudicial killings. The announcement came after days of protests against police brutality. Outrage had been fuelled over the last week by the emergence online of graphic footage and shared experiences of abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, commonly called Sars Continue reading...

Former Blue Peter presenter in court over alleged attack in December 2008

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, became emotional during a speech at a military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' party. Kim removed his glasses and wiped away tears in an indication, analysts say, of mounting pressure on his regime. He said his 'efforts and devotion' had not been enough to help all North Koreans

Rights campaigners voice concerns as Cuba and Pakistan also expected to be elected

Actor who began as a glamour model went on to appear in the James Bond film before taking numerous roles in 1960s and 70s TV

Ahmed Fadol Adam was with Abdulfatah Hamdallah when dinghy capsized in ChannelThe survivor who was with Abdulfatah Hamdallah, the Sudanese refugee who drowned in the Channel in August, has made it safely to the UK after taking the same route.Ahmed Fadol Adam, 21, who said he spent five years enslaved in Libya, travelled with 11 other Sudanese refugees and one Chadian on an inflatable dinghy on 29 September. It was his fifth attempt to reach the UK. Continue reading...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded

Danish film-maker Mads Brügger’s latest documentary is an absurdly brave look at Kim Jong-un’s regime that has all the intrigue of a spy thrillerPhysically, Ulrich Larsen doesn’t stand out. Polite, unassuming, his unmemorable 44-year-old face is how I imagine an efit template might be, what you start with before you add distinguishing features. You get to decide who he is. Perfect for blending in. Or infiltrating the world’s most secretive regime perhaps, which, as it happens, is what he did. Larsen is “the Mole”.Jim Latrache-Qvortrup is the opposite. Forty-eight, big, bold, bearded, inked, with an expensive-looking set of teeth and an explosive laugh. Ex-military? Better still, he joined the French Foreign Legion at 19. Crime? Tick; he spent eight years in jail for drug dealing. International arms dealer, buying stinger missiles from North Korea for anyone who will have them? Actually no, but he does a very good job of pretending to be one, hardly has to act at all in fact. Latrache-Qvortrup is “Mr James”. Continue reading...