The Guardian Australia - 2022-01-12

• Ambulance Victoria issues code red alert and NSW under ‘unpreceden­ted’ pressure from Omicron wave
• Australian Border Force investigat­ing whether Novak Djokovic made false travel claim
• Chicken out of stock: meat in short supply on Australian supermarke­t shelves and at KFC
• ‘It’s a big crisis’: Covid staff shortages in Australia more disruptive now than at height of Delta
• Qld Covid update: chief health officer urges immediate halt to ‘pox parties’ aimed at spreading virus
• Supply and delivery issues stalling Covid vaccine rollout for children 5-11, Australian GPs say
• Sinking feeling: San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is still leaning 3in every year
• Cloudy with a chance of soybeans: town wakes to find layer of legumes
• Roman town’s remains found below Northampto­nshire field on HS2 route
• ‘Bring your own booze’: newspapers lash PM over latest Downing Street party claim
• Tech platforms urged to make it easier for small businesses to have ‘damaging’ online fake reviews removed
• Second man dies in Queensland floods as hopes fade for missing teenager
• Novak Djokovic: Liberal MPs divided over whether Australian government should again cancel visa
• Labor preselects human rights law professor to run in federal seat of North Sydney
• Academics condemn government’s ‘shortsight­ed’ decision to veto research grants
• Because of the naive ‘Covid zero’ message many Australian­s can’t come to terms with catching Covid
• As the election nears, get ready for a lot of talk about how strong Australia’s economy is
• Omicron could infect 50% of Europeans in next two months, says WHO
• ‘We fought the good fight’: journalist­s in Hong Kong reel from assault on media
• Health minister admits public will be ‘angry’ over No 10 lockdown party
• Prosecutor­s willing to drop Ghislaine Maxwell perjury charge if no retrial
• Kazakhstan: Russian-led military bloc to start withdrawin­g troops, says president
• Joe Biden to back filibuster rule change to push voting rights bill
• David Sassoli, European parliament president, dies aged 65
• Ugandan writer charged over tweets critical of President Museveni
• Intel deletes mention of Xinjiang in letter after China backlash
• Chinese developer Shimao plans fire sale after downgrade and missed payment
• Wellcome Trust to spend £16bn on research with focus on Covid vaccines
• US-Russia talks over Ukraine ‘useful’ but no progress made
• Pacific faces ‘strategic surprise’, says US official, alluding to China
• Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first
• UK inmate gave birth to stillborn in prison toilets, inquiry finds
• Mike Pompeo says he lost over 90lb – but experts are skeptical about his fitness journey
• How the speed of climate change is unbalancin­g the insect world
• What is racial invisibili­ty, and how do white people benefit from it?
• Novak Djokovic has become the whipping boy for Australia’s Covid fear and frustratio­n
• My family benefited from slavery. Why can’t we accept white people still owe a huge debt?
• We study ocean temperatur­es. The Earth just broke a heat increase record
• In today’s New Zealand, it’s not about being just Māori or Pākehā - everyone must belong
• Why did I send emails to my 2-year-old daughter? Memories
• Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?
• How to win at Wordle using linguistic theory
• Australian food producers hit by Covid staff shortages welcome isolation rule changes
• Covid has undermined fight against global heating, says WEF
• Windfall tax: how the North Sea is churning out cash for oil and gas barons
• Heathrow demands end to Covid testing for vaccinated as 600,000 cancel flights
• UK retailers warn sales at risk from soaring cost of living in 2022
• Sunak to meet Tory MPs to head off unrest over cost of living crisis
• The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: businesses must pay
• The Guardian view on Joe Biden’s agenda: buried in a legislativ­e graveyard
• US hit by 20 separate billion-dollar climate disasters in 2021, NOAA report says
• Ignore reports of low-impact pollution events, Environmen­t Agency tells staff
• Protein from gorse bushes could feed millions of people, says expert
• Climate crisis: last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows
• Will Covid-19 become less dangerous as it evolves?
• Medieval warhorses no bigger than modernday ponies, study finds
• ‘Don’t plan it, just go!’: how to be spontaneou­s – and grab some unexpected fun
• Meet Mr Trash Wheel – and the other new devices that eat river plastic
• Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink antenna hits surprise problem
• A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
• Day of Djokovic mayhem creates more questions than answers
• Kylian Mbappé’s graphic yearning for Real Madrid lays bare PSG’s joyless state
• Ross Taylor’s final Test act seals New Zealand victory over Bangladesh
• Five questions for England to resolve for the fifth and final Ashes Test
• The Bulls are back: How Chicago went from Last Dance to Next Chance
• ‘Circus’ that could have been avoided: tennis world reacts to Djokovic decision
• McTominay header sends United through as Villa rue missed chances
• Liberty at last as Levante end 273-day wait to win a game in La Liga
• Does the future look bleak for recreation­al rugby union in England?
• ‘I’m not asking for crazy stuff’: Salah opens up on Liverpool contract talks

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