Thursday, January 14, 2021
Warning of 'ghastly future' for planet as leaders underestimate ecological threats
The world is on track for a "ghastly future," an international group of scientists has warned, with accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss threatening the survival of all of the planet's species unless world leaders face up to the challenge and act urgently.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene announces plan to impeach Joe Biden
A newly elected Republican congresswoman has said she will be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden on his first day in office.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who attracted notoriety for being the first QAnon conspiracist elected to Congress, made the announcement via Twitter.
Gavel comes down on final vote to impeach Donald Trump for second time
Nancy Pelosi signs article of impeachment
Nancy Pelosi signs the article of impeachment against President Donald Trump in an engrossment ceremony before transmission to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill, in Washington.
London Covid cases by borough revealed amid hopes capital’s second wave is peaking
Hopes strengthened today that the devastating Covid-19 second wave in London is peaking as 11 boroughs continued to show falls in the number of cases.
Bromley saw the biggest drop in confirmed cases in the week to January 8, of 18.3 per cent,
Joe Biden calls on Senate to multitask impeachment, other priorities
US President-elect Joe Biden has called on the Senate to multitask in coming weeks, conducting their impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump while "working on the other urgent business of the nation".
In a statement issued this afternoon,
Donald Trump rails against 'assault on free speech', doesn't mention impeachment
Donald Trump has made no mention of his impeachment in a video posted on the official White House Twitter account.
Instead the president railed against "the unprecedented assault on free speech" after his own accounts were banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Three children and their mother found dead at Tullamarine home in Melbourne's north-west
A mother and her three young children have been found dead at a home in Melbourne's north-west this afternoon, with police and neighbours rocked by the "tragic" incident.
Police arrived at the Tullamarine property about 12.20pm today to find a 42-year-old
Senior police officer posthumously awarded after dying while trying to save drowning woman
A senior NSW Police officer who died trying to save the life of another woman has been farewelled in her hometown.
Senior Constable Kelly Foster drowned at the Wollangambe Canyon at Mount Wilson on January 2. The young international student she was trying to save also died.
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