New Zealand gunman sent manifesto to PM minutes before attack
Jacinda Ardern says there was not enough time to prevent the carnage after the gunman emailed her and dozens of others.
The accused shooter in the New Zealand mosque attacks sent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern his 74-page diatribe against foreign "invaders" minutes before he launched the assault that killed at least 50 worshippers.
Ardern said her office and others were emailed the alleged gunman's so-called manifesto nine minutes before the attacks began, but there wasn't enough time to take action to stop the massacre.
France’s gilets jaunes target luxury shops and restaurant in protests
Masked demonstrators clash with police in Paris as they smash Le Fouquet’s restaurant
Kim Willsher and agencies in Paris
An 18th weekend of gilets jaunes protests erupted once more into violence and looting as masked demonstrators smashed their way into luxury stores on the Champs-Élysées and destroyed one of the street’s most celebrated restaurants.
Demonstrators fought running battles with police who responded with water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets.
The Hugo Boss and Nespresso stores were among those targeted as well as the chic Le Fouquet’s restaurant, popular with the wealthy and powerful.
The climate strike is a source for hope – but new research shows it might be too late
In the short to medium term, there are dark questions about the political future. In the long term, the chances for human survival are very slim
The end of the world is no longer a fanciful hypothesis. It is the most plausible scenario. In the last week, the UN Environment assembly announced its finding that, even if the Paris Agreement targets were met, global temperatures would rise by three to five degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Worse, even if all carbon emissions stopped immediately, the Arctic would be 5 degrees warmer at the end of the century than in the period between 1986 and 2005. The Arctic, that “Ice Temple of the polar regions” as the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen dubbed it, is particularly sensitive to global heating. As the Cambridge polar researcher Peter Wadhams has shown, the “Arctic death spiral” is well underway. This ice will soon disappear, beginning with an ice-free September any year now.
Venezuela's Guaido starts domestic tour to stir support
Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader Juan Guaido began a tour of his country Saturday aimed at sparking a citizen's movement to pry President Nicolas Maduro from power.
As Guaido, 35, kicked off his "operation freedom" in the northern city of Valencia, the pro-Maduro military staged the latest in a series of exercises.
The drill focused on defending hydroelectric infrastructure from attack -- a reaction to a weeklong national blackout that Maduro blamed on US "sabotage" but experts said was more likely the result of years of neglect.
Guaido, the head of the opposition-ruled National Assembly whose claim to be caretaker president is recognized by the US, Canada and much of Latin America and Europe, vowed he would "very soon" take up office in Miraflores, the presidential palace.
Aerospace TurbulenceBoeing's Unsuccessful Attempt to Avert a Crisis
Boeing has been the undisputed leader in the aviation market in recent years, with Airbus struggling to keep up. But the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft could invert the industry's pecking order.
Dennis Muilenburg and Donald Trump are said to have a close and trusting relationship. The Boeing CEO has boasted of his close rapport with the 45th president in front of TV cameras. Indeed, the Boeing CEO and the 45th U.S. president -- a known aviation enthusiast who once owned his own airline -- have spoken several times since Trump's election. "He cares about business," Muilenburg has said about Trump. "We sit with him at the table."
But on the morning of Tuesday, March 12, having the president's ear wasn't enough to fend off an order from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ban all Boeing 737 Max 8s from U.S. airspace.
Hated and hunted
The perilous life of the computer virus
cracker making powerful enemies online
Fabian is world renowned for destroying ransomware - the viruses sent out by criminal gangs to extort money.
Because of this, he lives a reclusive existence, always having to be one step ahead of the cyber criminals.
He has moved to an unknown location since this interview was carried out.
Words by cyber-security reporter Joe Tidy
Illustrations by Aart-Jan Venema
Illustrations by Aart-Jan Venema
For the photographer from Yorkshire, UK, it was nothing short of a disaster.
Late one night he was putting the finishing touches to his latest set of wedding photographs due for delivery to his excited newly-wed clients. Then everything on his computer screen changed. Not just the folder of pictures, but his entire body of work, emails and invoices were gone.
For the school head teacher in Texas, US, it didn’t hit home how serious it was until she remembered what her computer contained.
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