| schema:articleBody
| - Duty Editor: Huw Griffith Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + Hackers target Myanmar government websites + Australia slams 'heavy handed' Facebook move + United Nations urges global vaccine effort + NASA Rover set to touch down on Mars + Osaka knocks off Williams in Aus Open semis Myanmar-politics-military YANGON Hackers attacked Myanmar government websites to protest against the military coup, as the junta presses on with its attempts to stymie nationwide opposition with internet blockades and troop deployments. 650 words 0800 GMT. Picture. Video. Australia-US-IT-media-Facebook,WRAP BRISBANE Australia slams Facebook as "heavy-handed" for imposing a news blackout over a law that would force the company to pay for content, warning the ban showed the immense power of internet giants. 600 words by 0700 by Holly Robinson. File picture. Health-virus,WRAP UNITED NATIONS UN chief Antonio Guterres says the world "urgently needs a global vaccination plan" to stop wealthy countries leaving poorer nations behind in the coronavirus fightback. 750 words moved by Philippe Rater. Picture. Video. Graphic. US-Mars-space WASHINGTON Seven months in space, a mission that was decades in the making and cost billions of dollars, all to answer the question: was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existed there billions of years ago. 750 words 0530 GMT by Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg. Picture. Graphic Also moving: US-Mars-space,POINTS Tennis-AUS-Open-Osaka,2ndlead MELBOURNE, Australia Japanese star Naomi Osaka ends Serena Williams' bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with a straight-sets win in the Australian Open semi-finals. 500 words moved by Martin Parry. Picture Also moving: Tennis-AUS-Open-Serena-Slams,FACTS -- ENVIRONMENT -- Environment-pollution-health-virus KUALA LUMPUR Serious pollution caused around 160,000 premature deaths in the world's five most populous cities last year, even as air quality improved in some places due to coronavirus lockdowns, an environmental group says. 350 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-France-cinema,FOCUS ROMORANTIN, France The coronavirus pandemic might not seem like the obvious time to build new movie theatres, but in cine-mad France, it will take more than a virus to dampen passions for the big screen. 550 words moved by Francois Becker. Video Health-virus-Canada-skating,VIDEOESSAY MONTREAL With health authorities restricting public gatherings and other social activities, more Canadians than ever are embracing an old winter tradition -- the backyard ice rink. 500 words 0200 GMT by Anne-Sophie Thill. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-celebrity-podcast,FOCUS WASHINGTON Cooped up like many of us, movie stars, politicians and reality show types eager to hold onto their fans are turning to podcasts to get through the pandemic, converting their homes -- even a bathroom in one case -- into makeshift recording studios. 750 words moved by Daxia Rojas. File picture -- AMERICAS -- US-weather,WRAP HOUSTON, Texas Nearly two million people are without power in Texas, the oil and gas capital of the United States, with some facing water shortages as an unusual winter storm pummels the southeastern part of country. 700 words 0600 GMT by Francois Picard with Chris Lefkow in Washington. Picture. Video Also moved: US-energy-electricty-Texas,Q&A Cuba-agriculture-tourism-health-pandemic,FOCUS VINALES, Cuba A year ago, Carlos Millo was renting rooms to foreigners in the picturesque Cuban town of Vinales. Now, with the pandemic driving tourists away, Millo and other townsfolk have resorted to growing their own food to survive. 800 words moved by Leticia Pineda. Picture. Video US-politics-Trump-Biden,FOCUS WASHINGTON Insisting that he won the US election and brawling with his own party's top senator, Donald Trump was back to demanding national attention this week. President Joe Biden just yawned. 550 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture US-radio-Limbaugh,OBIT WASHINGTON Rush Limbaugh, the firebrand radio host and relentless provocateur with a finger on the pulse of America's conservative middle class, has died after battling lung cancer. He was 70. 650 words moved by Joshua Melvin. File picture -- EUROPE -- Spain-politics-Montero,PROFILE MADRID A protester-turned-politician and partner of the ponytailed leader of the radical leftwing Podemos, Equality Minister Irene Montero is an outspoken feminist and young mover-and-shaker in Spain's leftwing government. 650 words 0730 GMT by Marie Giffard. Pictures by Pierre-Philippe Marcou. Video by Noemi Gragera Britain-royals-health-Philip,WRAP LONDON Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, remains in a London hospital as a "precautionary measure", according to Buckingham Palace, with sources saying it is not due to coronavirus. 650 words moved by Callum Paton and Anna Malpas. Picture. Video. Live video. Spain-politics-rights-music,WRAP MADRID Scores of protesters clashed with police in Madrid and Barcelona as hundreds rallied in the capital over the jailing of a Spanish rapper for tweets insulting police and the monarchy. 500 words moved. File picture. Picture Russia-politics-Navalny-court,WRAP MOSCOW Europe's rights court tells Russia to release jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny out of concern for his life, but Moscow swiftly rejects the call. 700 words moved by Anastasia Clark with Antoine Pollez in Strasbourg. Picture Also moved: Russia-politics-Navalny,CHRONO -- MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA -- Iran-nuclear-politics-diplomacy,WRAP PARIS Top diplomats from European powers and the United States hold talks to see how to revive the 2015 deal on Iran's nuclear drive, days ahead of a deadline set by Tehran that could hinder the efforts by limiting inspections. 700 words 0600 GMT by Stuart Williams Israel-housing-politics,FOCUS TEL AVIV, Israel Ten years since protests against the cost of living rocked Israel, affordable housing remains just as scarce, even prompting some city-dwellers to seek cheaper living on a rural kibbutz. 650 words moved by Alexandra Vardi. Picture Science-Egypt-archaeology CAIRO A high-tech study offers new clues into the killing of a pharaoh who ruled Egypt over three millennia ago. 300 words moved. Picture -- AFRICA -- Nigeria-unrest-students-kidnapping,WRAP KANO, Nigeria Gunmen believed to members of a criminal gang storm a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, in the country's latest mass abduction. 750 words moved by Aminu Abubakar. Picture. Video. Graphic CAfrica-unrest-ICC-trial,SCENE BANGUI Wearing suits on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the two men look like harmless office workers. But in the Central African Republic, the horrors wrought by the militias they are accused of leading remain vivid in the minds of their victims. 700 words moved by Camille Laffont. File picture. Graphic -- BUSINESS, ECONOMY & TECH -- Asia-economy-semiconductors-technology,FOCUS KUALA LUMPUR Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages caused by a "perfect storm" of coronavirus-driven demand, supply chain disruptions and trade war stockpiling, experts warn. 750 words moved by Sam Reeves. File picture -- SCIENCE -- Science-paleontology-mammoth-genome PARIS Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for more than a million years have yielded the oldest DNA ever sequenced, shining a genetic searchlight into the deep past. 700 words moved by Kelly Macnamara. Picture -- SPORT -- Tennis-AUS-Open-fans,SCENE MELBOURNE, Australia Excited fans drift back to the Australian Open after a snap five-day lockdown in Melbourne was eased, determined to create some atmosphere over the final days of a tournament severely disrupted by the coronavirus. 550 words moved. Picture. Video afp
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)