poly news update: 2016

Sunday, 1 May 2016

The best TV Redefining Juliet; Paul Merton's Secret Stations Undercover

Shakespeare’s famous tragedy of star-crossed lovers is traditionally played by what we might call conventional, leads. But how do our perceptions of the play change if Juliet is small, unusually tall, has cerebral palsy and uses a fine documentary follows rehearsals for creative director’s theatrical production celebrating diversity, where six different women play Juliet and also discuss their life experiences.

Sally Faulkner back in Australia without kids

The mother at the centre of the 60 Minutes child-snatch drama is set to reunite with her partner Brendan Pierce and their young child when she returns to her Brisbane home today.Ms Faulkner arrived in Sydney last night from Beirut and was expected to catch a connecting flight to Brisbane this morning.Ms Faulkner who had full custody of the children relinquished custodial rights under Australian law to her estranged husband Ali Elamine, so he would drop abduction charges against her that carried a maximum 20 year sentence.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of an impressive fort built more than two thousand years ago by Greeks in the center of old Jerusalem. The ruins are the first solid evidence of an era in which Hellenistic culture held sway in this ancient city.The citadel, until now known only from texts, was at the heart of a bloody rebellion that eventually led to the expulsion of the Greeks, an event still celebrated by Jews at Hanukkah. But the excavation in the shadow of the Temple Mount, called Haram esh-Sharif by Muslims, is stirring controversy in this politically charged land.

She now saysever since they met 30 years later in 2014, she told the New Day who broke the story exclusively.A BRITISH mum and her son who confessed to having mind-blowing” sex with each other have gone into hiding as cops say they could face 15 years in prison.Loving mum Kim West became pregnant with Ben Ford while studying in California but decided to put him up for adoption.

Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster

Marina Shkvyria watches for animal tracks as she walks toward an abandoned village in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area sealed to the public after a nuclear power plant exploded here 30 years ago, on April 26, 1986. Spotting one, she crouches and runs her finger over the toes of a wolf print in the loose sand.

At a campaign rally on the eve of the New York primary, Donald Trump read aloud an emotional testimonial on what he considers "New York values" and mistakenly said 7-Eleven instead of 9/11.

Taliban militants attacked an office of Afghanistan's main security agency with a suicide car bomb and gunfire today, killing several people and wounding over 200, in their first assault on the capital since declaring a spring offensive.President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms" in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred metres away from the scene of the blast in central Kabul.

President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she is indignant over a congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her and vowed to fight what she called the injustice. She again categorically ruled out resigning.In her first public appearance since the Chamber of Deputies voted 367-137 late Sunday to send the impeachment proceedings to the Senate for a possible trial, Brazil's first female president appeared shaken but delivered a message of defiance.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Ecuador's central coast Saturday

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Ecuador's central coast Saturday night, killing at least 233 people and injuring nearly 1,500. Buildings collapsed, and power was knocked out for millions. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers comb through the damage.

Before they are numbers, these people are human beings’: pope’s poignant visit to refugees in Lesbos

only lasted for five hours, started on the runway at the airport on the island, he moved to a similar concentration camp, he stopped at the port and back on the track ended. But when a lightning tour of Francisco de Lesbos was finished Saturday, almost nothing was as it was before.From the first moment stop the leader of the Catholic Church in the first line of the refugee crisis in Europe, it was heavy in symbolism, full of emotions, extraordinary in small or large scale. However, nothing was more acute than the form of its end, as Francis, with one gesture, sent a strong rebuke of Europe's political elite, dividing his plane back to Rome with 12 refugees, who, until then, was not held as prisoners on the island. Even the cleanest and appeared tearful as his plane took off.

The president of Colombia will present a plan for the complete and radical overhaul of global policy towards drug trafficking and organised crime at a special session of the general assembly.The most sensational element in Santos’s presentation is the announcement that his government will – as a result of a four-year peace process soon to bear fruit as a peace treaty – be implementing its own domestic struggle against narco-traffic alongside its bitter enemies, The group admits to having funded its war by what it calls “taxation” of narco-profits.Santos says: “Colombia is close to reaching an agreement to end the 60-year armed conflict with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias an agreement which is of special relevance to this discourse on the ‘war on drugs’.

HE Saudi Arabian government has threatened to sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets should the US Congress pass a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the New York Times reports.The newspaper reported that Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir told US politicians last month that “Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $US750 billion ($A975 billion) in Treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

MONICA Lewinsky has described the public humiliation she suffered after her affair with President Bill Clinton was exposed as “excruciating”, and said it brought her “very close” to attempting suicide.Now she’s a respected and perceptive anti-bullying advocate. She gives talks at Facebook, and at business conferences, on how to make the internet more compassionate, She helps out at anti-bullying organisations like Bystander Revolution, a site that offers video advice on what to do if you’re afraid to go to school, or if you’re a victim of cyber-bullying.

FACEBOOK insisted Friday that it is not “unfriending” Donald Trump by working against the billionaire’s presidential bid.Facebook workers used an internal company poll to ask CEO Mark Zuckerberg whether the social-media giant should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017,

Royal tour too focused on Kate's fashion

Following Prince William and Catherine's tour of India and Bhutan felt like "turning the pages of a picture book", a royal expert says.Ingrid Seward, the editor of Majesty magazine, said she felt the visit had lacked substance but understood why it had to be so tightly controlled.The royal couple have spent the last seven days taking in the sights as they travelled around India and Bhutan, including the Taj Mahal and Kaziranga National Park.it was the 'what Kate wore tour', and I think that's unavoidable really because she gives such a wonderful display,

At least 41 people have been killed by the powerful earthquake that struck western Ecuador on Saturday and the toll will likely rise further, the country's Vice President Jorge Glas said.

Sadly the information we currently have is that 41 citizens have lost their lives in this emergency... This death toll will unfortunately rise in the coming hours," Glas said in televised comments,There is considerable (structural) damage in the area near the epicenter as well as points as far away as Guayaquil,

A woman and her friend are facing charges after they left her infant in a hot car outside a strip club where she was auditioning.reports 24-year-old Kelsey McMurtry was auditioning at club in downtown Nashville Thursday while her daughter sat in a locked car with the windows up. A passerby saw her and called police.

US Air Force Plane Intercepted By Russian Jet In 'Unsafe' Manner

US Air Force reconnaissance plane was intercepted by a Russian SU-27 jet in an "unsafe and unprofessional" manner while in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon said on Saturday.The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory," Laura Seal, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said of Thursday's incident.

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck southern Japan barely 24 hours after a smaller,Police on Saturday were reported as saying that at least six people had been killed. Authorities said hundreds of calls had come in from residents reporting people trapped inside houses and buildings on the island of Kyushu.

When a similar series of suicide attempts happened in 2012, French Canadian photographer noticed something missing from the media coverage.There was nothing that made me understand who these people were, nothing that made me understand what was life in this community,” he says. “The media was just focused on news. So I wanted to go to figure out what is it like to live in that kind of place—which is located so near to Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, but we know nothing about them.

The story of Mowgli, a boy living among animals in the Indian forest, remains as vivid and appealing today as it was when Rudyard Kipling included it in The Jungle Book, a series of short fables published in 1894. Mowgli’s adventures have been retold time and again in animated films, television shows, plays, and now a But while the universal tale of friendship, belonging, and community remains steadfast, the state of the animals Kipling featured has not. Even a century ago, the author was concerned with the human impact on nature, and many of the animals he described are now threatened with extinction. Here’s what you should know about the real-life versions ofThe Jungle Book .

When people think of biodiversity, they think of big things like lions on the African savanna and polar bears in the Arctic,a biologist at the San Antonio Zoo. “But in fact, the bulk of biodiversity is really small.Fenolio is the author of a new photo book called that features tiny, bizarre creatures found in places where the sun never shines. He has taken photos of animals that live everywhere from deep-sea trenches to the subterranean networks beneath termite mounds.

It's a gator-eat-gator world at least in Florida, was videotaped this week chowing down on a smaller member of its own species.The grisly encounter was Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland on April 13. The larger gator was 11 to 12 feet (3.3 to 3.7 meters) long, Figueroa estimated.Although he has never seen such cannibalistic behavior in person, it is not unheard of in alligators,a professor at the University of Iowa who studies crocodilians.

Possible lost Caravaggio painting found in attic in France

A 400-YEAR-OLD picture that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio has been found in an attic in southern France.Eric Turquin, the French expert who retrieved the painting two years ago, said it is in an exceptional state of conservation and estimated its value at 120 million euros (about $135 million), even though he acknowledged experts disagree about its authenticity.

Nearly a year after a catastrophic earthquake in Nepal killed thousands, the government has begun distributing reconstruction money to victims.Altogether, 641 families from the especially hard-hit Dolakha district have received the first instalment of 50,000 rupees ($A990) out of a promised 200,000 rupees, a member of Nepal's National Reconstruction Authority told DPA on Tuesday.

The written apology comes after a handful of students from the University of New South Wales were captured on camera chanting about wishing women were “holes in the road” and wanting to “cream them by the dozen” on Friday.The video sparked outrage and saw more than 100 demonstrators turn out on the lawns of UNSW and form a large ‘R’ to demand ‘respect’ yesterday.An apology letter signed “Philip Baxter College Residents”, has since been issued.

A couple who picked up a smelly rubbery rock on the beach are celebrating after discovering it was a lump of whale vomit — worth a potential $100,000.Gary and Angela Williams were strolling along Middleton Sands beach near Morecambe Bay in Lancashire when they smelled rotting fish.They followed the stench and spotted an unusual looking ‘rock’ near the water’s edge which looked like a piece of ambergris or ‘whale vomit’they once saw in a newspaper.

AMSTERDAM’S Schiphol Airport was partially evacuated and military police have arrested a man after a report of a “suspicious situation”.Spokesman Alfred Ellwanger says the man was arrested Tuesday night and an operation is ongoing to search an area where buses stop outside the airport’s main terminal.

Nationwide statistics indicate around 33 per cent of children and young people aged 10 — 24 who seek help from homelessness services are recorded as experiencing domestic and family violence.However, new research has indicated more than half of homeless youth have experienced family violence.

Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.Milner and Hawking are spearheading the "Breakthrough Starshot" team of scientists working on the bold research program to create a fleet of super-compact, ultra-light space vehicles,

Priyadarshini Chatterjee was announced as the winner of FBB Femina Miss India World by actor Shah Rukh Khan during a star-studded ceremony in Mumbai on April 9.The ceremony was attended by several celebrities from the Hindi Film industry.Priyadarshini will represent India at the Miss World 2016 pageant. Bangalore's Sushruthi Krishna, was the 1st runner up and Lucknow'sPankhuri Gidwani, was the 2nd runner up.

Pakistan's army chief on Tuesday accused India of seeking to undermine his country's $46 billion project to build an economic corridor to transport goods from China's western regions through the Pakistani deepwater port of Gwadar.Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, speaking at a development conference on the impact of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the significance of a Pakistan-China economic alliance had "raised eyebrows" in the region.In this context, I must highlight that India, our immediate neighbour, has openly challenged this development initiative," he told the conference in Gwadar.

There is a line in the statement of Telangana drought story - women moving in a straight line

Nalgonda: Aruna is four months pregnant ... The 22-year-old woman suddenly had a miscarriage last year, and he was advised not to take any kind of weight, but Nalgonda dry, barren lands, its heat scorched by the first rays of the sun coming out every morning as well as Aruna well out of the house for about 15 minutes on foot to reach ... there he is, standing patiently in a long queue of women, in which large numbers Aruna are older than about 20 kg load ... then two large pots balanced on their heads, she returns home,

Facebook users will soon be able to buy tickets directly as the social networking giant expands further into e-commerce, company officials said on Tuesday.Facebook will in the coming weeks connect to ticketing leaders Ticketmaster and Eventbrite, which will offer an option to buy tickets for selected US events listed on the networking site.Eventbrite said it would provide a two-dimensional barcode -- that would be integrated withinthe Facebook mobile app, letting buyers enter events without the hassle of going to other sites, let alone printing tickets.

A python found late last week in Malaysia could turn out to be the largest snake ever documented Guinness World Records to date lists a 25.2-foot (7.68-meter) reticulated python named Medusa as thelongest snske in captivity.

some good news for tigers. Driven largely by conservation successes in India, Russia, and Nepal, the global population of tigers in the wild has shown a significant increase in the past few years, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports in a new survey. The report comes as national leaders meet in India to discuss next steps for saving the iconic ,

The 225 groups representing American farmers, ranchers and food companies are ramping up pressure on the US Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.If passed, the TPP will prevent Australia and other nations from stealing export markets.In a letter to US Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan and other congressional leaders, the groups said the TPP will help level the playing field for exports.

New York State is a closed primary state, so anyone who wants to vote in a presidential primary would have needed to state their new party affiliation before October 9 — a date that slipped by on the calendar for non-Republicans Eric and Ivanka Trump.Donald Trump Jr., however, is a registered Republican, so he’ll be able to vote for dad next week.

Top health officials have expressed heightened concern about the threat posed to the United States by the Zika virus, saying the mosquito that spreads it is now present in about 30 states and hundreds of thousands of infections could appear in Puerto Rico.At a White House briefing on Monday, they stepped up pressure on the Republican-led Congress to pass approximately $US1.9 billion ($A2.53 billion) in emergency funding for Zika preparedness that the Obama administration requested in February.

These Stunning Photos of Feathers Will Tickle Your Fancy

bold, and beautiful—bird feathers are

some of nature’s most fascinating works of art.Clark went around the world, from China to Austria, to chronicle the dazzling evolution of plumage. He mined feather collections to photograph hundreds of feathers in various colors and patterns.

Davis, a marine archaeologist specializing in ancient Greek and Roman shipwrecks, wasn’t used to encountering human remains. Ancient ships were typically open decked, so most doomed sailors floated away when their vessels sank; and in any case, skeletons rarely survive long in the ocean environment. According to Davis, out of 1,500 ancient shipwrecks, only a few have been found to contain human remains.

High in the misty mountains of Honduras, the world looks primeval, with glistening pine trees draped in moss and leafy bromeliads. This is ideal habitat for tree frogs, and some of the species hiding in the foliage are found nowhere else in the world.Unfortunately, a virulent fungus is also lurking in the region, and if it can't be stopped, these frogs may disappear forever.

New England’s stocks of cod and launched the United States’ first industries—have collapsed almost past the point of recovery, despite aggressive catch restrictions that should have allowed them to rebound.On Thursday, scientists speaking at Washington, D.C. disclosed why: The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99.9 percent of the rest of the oceans. It is happening so quickly that it has harmed cod’s ability to replace its numbers even though fishing had almost ceased.

Worldwide executions highest since 1989: Amnesty

The number of known executions worldwide went up by more than 50 percent last year to at least 1,634, the highest figure recorded since 1989, Amnesty International said Wednesday.The surge was largely fuelled by Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the London-based human rights organisation said in its annual report on death sentences and executions worldwide.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz scored a commanding victory over Donald Trump in Wisconsin's presidential primary Tuesday, putting the Republican frontrunner on notice that his march to the nomination is not a done deal.

At first glance, it may be hard to see how the ducks you feed, the pigeons you dodge, or the peacocks you admire have anything in common with the “terrible lizards” But many scientists now believe that modern birds are living dinosaurs. Specifically, a group of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods seems to have evaded the great 65 million years ago by developing feathers, bigger and more adaptable brains, and smaller, more airborne forms. It’s important that people understand dinosaurs are still among us,chair of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. “They’re represented by at least 13,000 species alive today.

A GUCCI advert featuring a “gaunt” model was irresponsible, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK has ruled.The ad on The Times website which appeared in December 2015 included stills at the end of a video of two models one sitting on a sofa, and another leaning against a wall wearing a long, printed dress.The regulator found the model standing up appeared “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt, and that the advert breached the rules on responsible advertising as set out in the code.

The newly uncovered recipe is no exception: Newton copied the strange text from manuscripts by the American-born George Starkey, a 17th-century alchemist better known under his romantic pen name Eireanus Philalethes ry involves repeatedly distilling mercury and then heating it with gold. This process eventually with delicate, branch-like growths.

The government doesn't want other countries to see New Zealand as a tax haven and has an open mind about changes that could be made to tighten up the system, Finance Minister Bill English says.The government is under pressure from opposition parties to close loopholes which they say make New Zealand a tax haven for foreigners who set up trusts there.

Young children are eating too many calories and too much salt and are missing out on key vitamins, experts have warned.High intake of protein and too many calories overall puts youngsters at risk of obesity, while too much salt could "set taste preference for the future" and put them at risk of high blood pressure and strokes in later life.

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