Iowa caucus: Chaos at key vote as results delayed
Results from voting in Iowa, the first round in the contest to pick a Democratic candidate to face President Donald Trump, have been plunged into chaos by apparent technology issues.
The state's Democratic party said the holdup was a "reporting issue", adding that it expected to "have numbers to report later today [Tuesday]".
On Monday, voters flocked to more than 1,600 schools, libraries and churches.
Despite the absence of results, several candidates are claiming victory.
Man who fought London Bridge attacker decries longer jail terms
Former prisoner John Crilly says lengthier sentences do not deter would-be terrorists
Longer prison sentences are no deterrent and only delay rehabilitation, a former prisoner who tackled the London Bridge knifeman has said.
John Crilly, who seized a lecturn, chair and fire extinguisher to subdue Usman Khan, has criticised Boris Johnson’s pledge to increase jail terms. He said excessively punitive policies made it harder to release inmates and “add to the burden on society”. His comments were made before the latest jihadist attack, in Streatham, south London, on Sunday.
Khan killed two prison reformers, Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, at a Learning Together conference on rehabilitation in Fishmonger’s Hall in the City of London on 29 November last year.
Nkosi Johnson: Who was the pioneering child campaigner?
Google are paying tribute to the late Nkosi Johnson with a doodle
Independent Staff
South African activist Nkosi Johnson was only 12 years old when he died. At the time, in 2001, he was the longest-surviving child born with HIV.
Born Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother, he was adopted by Johannesburg public relations officer Gail Johnson after his mother became unable to look after him.
Nkosi was thrust into the public eye in 1997 when he was refused entry to school because he was HIV-positive.
Skating rape accusations ‘only the tip of the iceberg’ for French sport
Stéphanie TROUILLARD|Benjamin DODMAN
French sport officials used to claim they had fewer sex abuse scandals than others because their flagging system worked better. With that belief now shattered, the government is promising forceful action to tackle a crisis roiling France’s ice skating federation.
When former sports minister Laura Flessel stated in late 2017, at the height of the #MeToo backlash, that “there is no code of silence in French sport”, her claim prompted dismay among experts in the field, who had long warned that widespread abuse was taking place under a veil of secrecy.
Just over two years later, the #MeToo wave has finally caught up with French sport, threatening to submerge the longtime head of France’s skating federation, nicknamed “the Unsinkable”.
The next US president: Wall Street's fear of the left
As the presidential primaries start in the United States, left leaning candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren lead the polls. Some billionaires and investors are getting nervous — and making grim prophecies.
Broadcaster CNBC is not usually a place of great emotions. But at the end of last year Leon Cooperman could no longer keep his composure. It only took a few minutes before the billionaire hedge fund manager burst into tears in an interview. "I care!" the 76-year-old sobbed into the microphone.
In the end he is mainly worried about his own bank account. For weeks, Cooperman has had a public feud with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. The investor is afraid that she may take power in the November presidential election.
This Chinese doctor tried to save lives, but was silenced. Now he has coronavirus
Updated 0928 GMT (1728 HKT) February 4, 2020
On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital.
Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a coronavirus -- a large family of viruses that includes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Memories of SARS run deep in China, where a pandemic in 2003 killed hundreds following a government cover up. "I only wanted to remind my university classmates to be careful," he said.
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