Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment
A clearer picture of events in parliament last night after President Yoon’s sudden martial law declaration can be seen in new CCTV footage.
Within the parliament building, staffers used sofas and fire extinguishers to block soldiers armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles from entering South Korea’s national assembly, CCTV footage released on Wednesday showed.
Continue reading...EPI blames patchy data for uncertainty over numbers and calls for national register to track those out of school
Incomplete records and patchy data mean there could be up to 300,000 children missing out on education in England, according to a thinktank that wants a national register to track those out of school.
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) said the 300,000 could not be accounted for, after taking the number of children registered with NHS GPs in England and subtracting the number of five- to 15-year-olds on school rolls or recorded as in home education.
Continue reading...Audience member who was at BBC live show claims MasterChef presenter was ‘disrespectful’ to interpreter
Gregg Wallace asked a British Sign Language interpreter to sign “big boobs” and “sexy bum” in front of a live audience at the BBC Good Food show, an attender has told the Guardian.
A MasterChef fan who was at the BBC Good Food Show at the NEC Arena in Birmingham in 2012 said Wallace had asked the interpreter if she had to sign everything he said before making the comments. The woman who was in the audience said she had been “appalled and aghast” at “sexist” behaviour by Wallace during the live event in front of about 400 people.
Continue reading...The competition’s youngest contestant scoops the award for animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community
Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner prize for her work animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community.
Kaur, 38, the youngest artist on this year’s shortlist, was nominated for her exhibition Alter Altar, at Tramway in Glasgow, which featured a range of sculptures and soundscapes.
Continue reading...Police confirm serial killer nurse is being interviewed about cases at a second centre, Liverpool Women’s hospital
Cheshire police have interviewed Lucy Letby in prison under caution over the alleged murders of more babies she cared for.
Letby, a former neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others, with two attempts on the life of one of her victims, in August 2023.
Continue reading...NAO blames failures in Boris Johnson plan on successive governments’ policies and ‘unrealistic timelines’
Boris Johnson’s plan to provide 20,000 new prison places by 2026 is due to be completed five years late and billions over budget, a “scathing” assessment by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found.
The National Audit Office said current plans for prison capacity were “insufficient to meet future demand” amid a projected shortage of 12,400 places by the end of 2027, with costs expected to be at least £4bn higher than initially estimated.
Continue reading...Bursts of intense movement such as climbing stairs can make big difference to health, finds UK Biobank research
Women who add four minutes a day of high-intensity routine activities such as climbing the stairs instead of taking a lift could halve their risk of heart attacks, a study suggests.
Less than five minutes of brief bouts of exertion in everyday life could have a significant effect on heart health, reducing the risk of serious cardiovascular events, researchers found. The results were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Continue reading...Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday
Journalists at the Guardian and the Observer are holding a 48-hour strike in protest at the proposed sale of the Observer newspaper to Tortoise Media.
The strike, the first at the Guardian in more than 50 years, is due to take place on Wednesday 4 December and Thursday 5 December.
Continue reading...Nelson and hip-hop star had a rocky relationship, widely known through song lyrics and two defamation lawsuits
Debbie Nelson, the mother of rapper Eminem, whose rocky relationship with her son was known widely through his hit song lyrics, has died. She was 69.
Eminem’s longtime representative Dennis Dennehy confirmed Nelson’s death in an email on Tuesday. He did not provide a cause of death, although Nelson had battled lung cancer.
Continue reading...Family of Elizabeth Pollard, 64, of Marguerite, Pennsylvania, say she has not been seen since Monday
Authorities fear a grandmother who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed up by a sinkhole that recently opened up in a western Pennsylvania village.
Crews lowered a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole in Marguerite on Tuesday morning but detected nothing. A second camera lowered into the hole showed what could have been a shoe.
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