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A new book of black and white images, taken over three decades, showcases Raúl Cañibano’s love for his native country Continue reading...

From atmospheric Berlin to Joyce’s Trieste, via Marseille’s markets and a wellbeing walk in Copenhagen, city strolls reward the curious ramblerThe art of flâneur-ing might be French and its most famous practitioners Parisians, but other European cultures have walking traditions, from the Italian passeggiata and Spanish paseo – social promenades to take the air as dusk falls – to German wanderlust: hiking with desire. Nothing opens up a city like a long ramble on foot. It’s the only way to make a place your own and unearth discoveries not listed in guidebooks or apps. Continue reading...

Hans Grundberg must recognise more than two factions involved in conflict, says pro-independence groupThe new UN special envoy to Yemen has been urged to broaden negotiations to end the country’s seven-year civil war and include the pro-independence Southern Transitional Council and other factions.Speaking to the Guardian from Aden, the head of the STC foreign affairs directorate, Mohammed al-Ghaithi, said the UN must recognise that outdated security council resolutions were restricting their efforts. Continue reading...

As well as measures to cut emissions and improve flood defences, the body is calling for action from governmentOnce seen as a sleeping green giant, the National Trust is now at the cutting edge of action on the climate crisis. Faced with large sections of the coastline it owns being undermined and overwhelmed by the sea, it is creating salt marshes and allowing sand dunes to migrate inland.Many of its rangers go about on electric bikes and use battery-powered tools rather than diesel or petrol, thus cutting pollution and giving visitors a quieter time. It is all part of the ambition to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Continue reading...

Former senior figures call for ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ to overhaul forces in England and WalesSystematic underfunding of the police in England and Wales during 10 years of austerity “severely diminished” officers’ ability to recognise and target criminals who attack women and girls, according to former senior police figures.They called for a “Stephen Lawrence moment” of transformation in the service and a full judge-led inquiry to restore faith in policing. Continue reading...

Fresh from winning gold in Tokyo, the diver answers readers’ questions on everything from gay role models to his passion for knitting and the secrets of his successTom Daley, Britain’s most decorated diver, grew up in the spotlight. He was 14 when he made a splash at his first Olympics, in 2008, and at 15 he became a world champion. This year in Tokyo, at his fourth Games, he finally won a longed-for gold, with his synchronised diving partner, Matty Lee. In 2013, Daley came out – a rarity among professional sportspeople – and he has become a campaigner for LGBTQ+ rights. Now 27, he is married to the screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, with whom he has a three-year-old son.In a new autobiography, he describes struggles with injury, debilitating anxiety and coping with the death of his father, his biggest champion. Here, one of Britain’s best-loved athletes gamely answers questions from our writer and Guardian readers on all of the above, as well as his other great passion: knitting. Continue reading...

Almost since it first emerged on the streets of the Bronx, audiences have expected hip-hop to express a revolutionary purpose. But perhaps this music shouldn’t have to take a political standHalfway through side one of A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, the 1991 debut album by the hip-hop duo Black Sheep, some protesters interrupt the music. “Yo, man,” one guy says. “Why don’t you be kicking some records about, y’know, the upliftment of the Blacks?” Another asks why Black Sheep is silent about “the eating of the dolphins”. Someone else mentions “the hole in the ho zone”, turning environmental degradation into a dirty joke – perhaps unwittingly.In response to all these demands for instruction, the guys from Black Sheep can only chuckle. Something about hip-hop makes listeners greedy for more words, better words. But Black Sheep made a brilliant album. What more could anyone want? Continue reading...

Prime minister Scott Morrison has flagged changes to social media in Australia, saying people should be responsible for what they say online. "Social media has become a coward’s palace where people can go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s lives, and say the most foul and offensive things to people, and do so with impunity," he said. "They should have to identify who they are, and you know, the companies, if they’re not going to say who they are, well, they’re not a platform any more, they’re a publisher."► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

Even if her appeal against sexual harassment verdict is unsuccessful, Xianzi is proud that more women now feel they can share their experiencesSitting inside a Beijing courthouse late at night last month, Zhou Xiaoxuan and her lawyers came to a quick decision. Their years-long effort to seek justice for her alleged sexual harassment by one of the country’s most popular celebrities was clearly not going to go their way. In a short statement the court ruled she had tendered insufficient evidence.On Weibo she wrote to her supporters with a list of criticisms of the judgment and process. “Failure is not shameful, and I am honoured to have stood with you together in the past three years … Thank you very much, everyone, I will definitely appeal.” Continue reading...

Biden administration announces plan after meeting between US national security adviser and China’s top diplomatThe US president, Joe Biden, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are planning to meet by video link before the end of the year, a senior US official said on Wednesday.There is an “agreement in principle” for the “virtual bilateral”, the official told reporters on condition of anonymity. Continue reading...

The UN estimates conflict has driven 400,000 into famine-like conditions in northern Ethiopia with up to seven million people in need of food assistanceEthiopia is facing an “immense humanitarian crisis” amid civil war and famine, United Nations secretary general António Guterres has warned.The UN chief made the comments during an emergency meeting of the security council on Wednesday, calling for Addis Ababa to grant “unhindered” aid access, a week after the country expelled seven UN officials. Continue reading...

As a committed supporter of international institutions and the world’s 13th largest economy, Australia has real cloutFor an emerging superpower prone to petulant outbursts and coercive retaliation, China’s initial response to the recent announcement of the new three-way security pact between Australia, the United States and Britain seemed surprisingly tepid.Hours after the trio unveiled their “forever partnership”, known as Aukus, China formally requested that it be allowed to join an 11-member Asia-Pacific trade grouping, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Continue reading...

Epidemiologist Michael Baker also recommended people get their second vaccine dose after three weeks rather than six

Collector’s daughter has promised to return more than 100 important sculptures acquired by her fatherCambodian officials have celebrated the return of five important ancient Khmer sculptures from the collection of Douglas Latchford, among more than 100 his daughter Julia promised to return after his death last year.Latchford, a businessman who lived between the UK and Thailand, was a world expert on Khmer antiquities and a prolific collector, but in 2019 he was indicted in the US on charges of smuggling and forging documents. He died in 2020 before reaching trial. Continue reading...

Pubs will reopen and home gatherings will be allowed – but only fully vaccinated people will enjoy the new freedoms

Campaigners say those still held offshore should be resettled in the US or New Zealand

Latest updates: UK also reports 143 further deaths; Swedish health authorities pause jabs over possible rare side effects

Jeymes Samuel’s gonzo revenge western, with a cast including Elba, Regina King, and Zazie Beetz is enjoyable, if face-splatteringly brutalThe London film festival saddles up for a gonzo revenge western which aims to reclaim the often erased African American side of this genre and history. It stars Regina King, Idris Elba and LaKeith Stanfield, and is created by the impressive hyphenate Jeymes Samuel, also known as singer-songwriter and film-maker The Bullitts, who also co-produces along with Tarantino veteran Lawrence Bender.Samuel has brought out short movies alongside his music releases in the past and now makes this headbangingly, face-splatteringly violent feature debut, featuring the gun-toting gangsters of the old west wearing old-timey hats of all shapes and sizes. This is a really cine-literate piece of work, with echoes of Sergio Leone, John Sturges and perhaps also Mario Van Peebles’s Posse. There are some terrific moments, although the pace and the drumbeat of violence, confrontation and standoff is maybe a bit uniform, and I would have liked a bit more witty or tender dialogue to go into the mix. But if it’s more style than substance, well it really is tremendous style, and the four-note punch that hammers out the title on the screen at the beginning – THE-HARDER-THEY-FALL – is inspired. Continue reading...

Patsy Stevenson says ‘likes’ were intimidation by officers who knew she was fearful of policeA campaigner whose photograph during her arrest became the defining image of the vigil for Sarah Everard has said she felt afraid after about 50 police officers and security guards then “liked” her profile on the Tinder dating app.Patsy Stevenson, 28, says she viewed the approaches as intimidatory by officers who knew she was fearful of the police after being bundled to the ground. Continue reading...

The striker tells of his parents’ remarkable journey, rejecting Ghana and playing a record 203 league games in a row“We were at home one day in Bilbao watching the television when something came on – I can’t remember exactly what – and I asked her again. My mum turned it off and said: ‘OK. The moment’s come for me to tell you. Sit down, I think you’re ready to hear the story of papa and me now. When she told me I was left cold. Hearing that leaves a deep impression. Wow. It’s like something in a film and my parents lived it.”Iñaki Williams stops and takes a breath. He was 20 that day, already playing for Athletic Club. Pushed into the public eye, he had been asked his story but couldn’t tell it properly because he didn’t know. Parts had been written wrong, but he didn’t really know that either. He too had asked, desperate to find out exactly where he was from. “It ate away at me,” he says. Until, at last, Maria told him. Continue reading...

From alleged abduction of daughters to hacking ex-wife’s phone, family affairs of Sheikh Mohammed over 20 years

Prof Sarah Gilbert says failure to provide jabs to poor countries risks more deaths and dangerous new variants of virus

Comments come as Biden and Xi agree to stick to Taiwan agreements amid rising tension in Indo-PacificChina will be ready to mount a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, the island’s defence minister has said, describing current tensions as the worst in 40 years.Speaking to the China Times on Wednesday, Chiu Kuo-cheng said China was capable now but would be completely prepared to launch an invasion in three years. Continue reading...

Gloucestershire force refers itself to IOPC after Matthew Boorman killed and two others injured in Walton CardiffThe only suspect in a “horrific” stabbing attack near Tewkesbury that left one man dead and another in a critical condition had been contacted by Gloucestershire police before the incident.The force named the victim as father-of-three Matthew Boorman, 43. He died at the scene in Walton Cardiff on Tuesday before passersby, including two off-duty police officers, could intervene. Continue reading...

The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced that a new vaccine against malaria will ‘change the course of public health history’ as its trial run concluded successfully in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.The vaccine RTS,S is expected to be used across sub-Saharan Africa and regions with high malaria transmission and has proved to prevent 30% of severe cases of malaria Continue reading...

Weather | The Archers | Conservative politicians | Lorry drivers | Lasting shoes and glassesI think several thousand of us have already factored in a dose of awe each day as prescribed by Prof Dacher Keltner (The wonder stuff: what I learned about happiness from a month of ‘awe walks’, 4 October). Some of the 270,000 of us who have joined the BBC Weather Watchers scheme and who go out every day looking for that picture which encapsulates today’s weather already feel it. Better still to get that top-up of joy (well, at least smugness) when the photo is chosen for the weather forecast.

Employees at the Westin in Leipzig investigated over claims made by Gil Ofarim in emotional videoGerman prosecutors have opened an investigation into employees at a hotel after a musician made accusations of antisemitism against them in a video posted on social media.The singer Gil Ofarim said in an emotional video published on Tuesday that two employees at the Westin hotel in Leipzig, in eastern Germany, had asked him to “put away” a Star of David pendant before he would be allowed to check in. Continue reading...

Far-right Brothers of Italy candidate is granddaughter of fascist dictator Benito MussoliniThe granddaughter of Benito Mussolini won the highest number of votes in elections for Rome’s city council as support for Brothers of Italy, the far-right party to which she belongs, edged up in northern cities held by the left.Rachele Mussolini secured more than 8,200 votes in the municipal elections on Sunday and Monday, an increase on the 657 received when she entered the council on her first mandate in 2016. Continue reading...

Russia rejects claim officers were secretly working as intelligence officers and warns of retaliationNato has expelled eight members of Russia’s mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers, and halved the size of Moscow’s team able to work at its headquarters.“We can confirm that we have withdrawn the accreditation of eight members of the Russian mission to Nato, who were undeclared Russian intelligence officers,” said an official, speaking under customary condition of anonymity. Continue reading...

Ministers planning to take Brazil, Mexico and South Africa off list but decision to axe PCR test requirement hangs in balance

Chef René Redzepi, famed for foraging techniques, claims first place for Copenhagen eateryCopenhagen has confirmed its reputation as the global dining destination of the moment after its top eateries finished first and second in the 2021 World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, widely considered the Oscars of gastronomy.The new Noma from the chef René Redzepi, famed for his foraging and fermenting techniques, was named best restaurant at a ceremony in Antwerp, Belgium, on Tuesday night. The old one topped the list in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014 and came second in 2019. Continue reading...

Latest updates and reaction to PM’s policy-lite Tory conference speech

IOPC is investigating potential errors in force’s dealings with Jake Davison, who killed five people in AugustThe investigation into the Plymouth mass shooting has placed one police staff worker under investigation for gross misconduct, meaning they could be sacked if allegations are upheld.Jake Davison, 22, shot dead his mother, a three-year-old girl and three other people on 12 August. He used a gun he had held a licence for since 2017, which had been taken away after he got into a fight in September 2020, only to be returned by police weeks before the killings. Continue reading...

‘The people of New Bern liked the fact my ancestor founded their town. But the atmosphere changed when they realised I was there to show reality, not promote a touristy vision’The guy on the left is Frank Palombo, the former chief of police of New Bern in North Carolina, a town I have spent the last 15 years photographing. In 2006, an organisation called Swiss Roots invited me to document New Bern as part of their mission to promote a positive image of Switzerland – my country – in the US.They approached me partly because my ancestor is the settler Christopher von Graffenried, who founded New Bern in 1710 after conflict with a Native American tribe known as the Tuscarora. I knew nothing about him and, initially, neither the project nor my family history interested me. But a month later, I changed my mind – it was a chance to find out whether Swiss-held prejudices about George Bush’s America were true. Continue reading...

Hospital staff assumed Joyce Echaquan was an opioid addict. She was dying of a rare heart conditionAn Indigenous woman who was taunted by nursing staff as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital would probably be alive today if she were white, a coroner has concluded.The death of Joyce Echaquan was an “undeniable” example of systematic racism in the province, the Québec coroner Géhane Kamel told reporters on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Within our own means, we are doing everything possible to assist, writes Janet K Museveni, the minister for educationYour article (‘I’ll never go back’: Uganda’s schools at risk as teachers find new work during Covid, 30 September) correctly states that during the Covid lockdowns in Uganda the government has continued to pay state school teachers’ salaries, but goes on to claim that “promises to assist private school teachers have gone unfulfilled”.

Greens and liberals say they are willing to enter formal coalition talks with Scholz’s Social Democratic partyOlaf Scholz has come a step closer to succeeding Angela Merkel as German chancellor after the Greens and liberals announced their readiness to enter formal coalition talks with his Social Democratic party.Scholz, who is also the serving finance minister, welcomed the agreement, triggered by an invitation from the Greens to the Free Democrats (FDP), for the three parties to start talks on Thursday. It makes the prospect of a centre-left government replacing the centre-right which has been in power after 16 years more likely than at any time since 26 September election. Continue reading...

With violent gangsters, a gentrification storyline and a hairdressing competition, this movie can’t figure out what it wants to beHere is a frantically overdone film that’s all over the place. The script feels weirdly undeveloped, as if it can’t figure out which of two different kinds of film it wants to be: gonzo violent black comedy or big-hearted romp about hairdressers saving their community from developers.The setting is the fictional north Dublin district of Piglinstown. It’s a bit rough, but local businesses are the beating heart of the neighbourhood, including the Deadly Cuts hair salon, run by the fearless Michelle (Angeline Ball). Like everyone else, she is bullied by odious gangster Deano (Ian Lloyd Anderson) demanding ruinous protection money or the place gets smashed up. When this horrible individual swaggers into the salon one afternoon, a chaotic confrontation leads to violence and then a bizarre Ortonesque plan to dispose of the body in a convenient incinerator. Then the hairdressers use Deano’s phone to text all the other gangsters to leave the area alone. (There are apparently no worries about mopping up the blood.) Continue reading...

Pontiff issues condemnation as adviser calls for inquiry into sexual abuse of children by clergy in ItalyPope Francis has said he is “shamed” by the Catholic church’s failure to deal with paedophile priests in France, as one of his closest advisers pushed for an inquiry into the sexual abuse of children by clergy in Italy.A landmark report on Tuesday found that at least 330,000 children were sexually abused by clergy and lay members of church institutions in France over the past 70 years. Continue reading...

Some travellers held on planes while others faced long queues, less than two weeks after similar failuresPassengers arriving at Heathrow have been delayed for several hours because of a problem with self-service passport gates.Some travellers at Terminal 5 posted pictures of long queues on social media on Wednesday morning, while others were being held on planes because of the congestion. Continue reading...

PM makes no mention of cost of living or supply chain issues in keynote address light on policy

Victorian premier insists he has behaved ‘appropriately at all times’ including in his dealings with the firefighters’ unionThe Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has rejected calls to stand down over reports the state’s anti-corruption body was probing his dealings with the firefighters’ union.The Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (Ibac) has been investigating the United Firefighters Union’s role in Victoria’s fire services reform since 2019. Continue reading...

Livanskiy’s operatic vocals and hazy beats put her at the forefront of Moscow’s underground club scene. Now she’s retreated from the city to the forest to nurture her imaginationYana Kedrina’s earliest exposure to music came in a wooden dacha in a pine-forested village 2,000 miles from Moscow. Kedrina’s grandmother, who built the summer cottage with her husband, would invite Kedrina and her seven sisters over to sing Russian folk songs and drink cherry leaf tea. The rustic surroundings and feelings of kinship nurtured in Kedrina an infatuation with her culture’s folklore and a devotion to community.“A large family, gathering to connect to its ancestral heritage, was an experience unique to a time that predated this individualism we live in now,” Kedrina says, speaking in Russian. Her grandmother never lived to see her blossom into an internationally recognised musician under the name Kedr Livanskiy (Russian for the Lebanese cedar tree). But Kedrina, 31, takes solace in the fact that her career has spiritually fulfilled her grandmother’s dream of travelling beyond her village in Russia’s Tomsk region. Continue reading...

Judgment condemns ‘sexist, horrific’ workplace culture faced by Rhona Malone in force’s firearms unitA female firearms officer was victimised by Police Scotland colleagues within a “horrific” workplace culture condemned as an “absolute boys’ club”, an employment tribunal has found.The damning judgment accepted evidence of a “sexist culture” in the armed response vehicles unit in the east of Scotland, after the former officer Rhona Malone brought the tribunal alleging sex discrimination and victimisation. Continue reading...

Survey also finds three-quarters are comfortable talking about their own deaths in marked cultural shiftFor several years Alison lay awake at night wishing her husband dead. Trapped in a miserable marriage, her preference was for a straightforward heart attack or massive stroke. But she also fantasised about a car crash or a fishbone getting stuck in his throat.“I thought death would be a good outcome,” she said. “I’d be free, yet everyone would feel sorry for me.” Eventually the couple went through an acrimonious divorce, but both remain in good health. Continue reading...

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2018: Beijing is buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to ‘tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide propaganda campaign of astonishing scope and ambition. By Louisa Lim and Julia Bergin

Brooke Castillo, the ‘queen’ of life coaching, has convinced her fans they can find meaning and money in the field – but is she selling them an unattainable fantasy?In November 2020, Olivia* was ready for her life to be transformed. She had just stepped away from her long career in business and paid $18,000 for a six-month program to become a life coach. “It was a big decision financially, but it felt right,” she said. “I wanted to start bringing the work I’d done on myself to see if I could help others.” The program, she believed, was the key to a career that would be both lucrative and emotionally satisfying.Throughout her life, Olivia had explored her inner world via spiritual retreats, therapy, and psychology books. But she’d been dismissive of life coaching, which she regarded as “bullshit” – until she heard about Brooke Castillo. Continue reading...

Spanish artist Pascual Sisto’s fable of a boy holding his family hostage is well made, but its twist is a tiresome cop-outSpanish artist and film-maker Pascual Sisto made his directing debut with this movie, written for the screen by Nicolás Giacobone, known for his script collaborations with Alejandro González Iñárritu: it was selected for the First Features section of the Covid-cancelled 2020 Cannes film festival. John and the Hole is well enough photographed and acted, but is really an oppressive and exasperatingly pointless piece of work, without consistency or the courage of its realist convictions.John (Charlie Shotwell), is a 13-year-old kid in a well-to-do American family (cue traditional tense family dinner scenes) whose main interest is tennis. He is clearly alienated from dad Brad (Michael C Hall), mum Anna (Jennifer Ehle) and elder sister Laurie (Taissa Farmiga). Moody, lonely John one day discovers a large, concrete-lined hole in neighbouring woodland, part of an abandoned construction site – so he drugs his family and puts them down there while they are out cold. Continue reading...

A lawyer for ex-cricketer’s de facto brother-in-law Marino Sotiropoulos tells Sydney court MacGill’s account seems to include exaggerations and inconsistencies