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Rediscovered song, which has a ‘cheerful energy’, was likely written by a teenage sailor or shore whaler in New Zealand in the 1830sEven from “the back of nowhere, far from any city” – not to mention the sea – John Archer caught wind of the sea shanty revival before anyone else.From his home in landlocked Ōhakune, Archer had noticed a sharp uptick in visitors...

Post claimed women in Xinjiang had been ‘emancipated’ as a result of China’s claimed efforts to eradicate extremismTwitter has removed a post by China’s US embassy claiming that Uighur women have been “emancipated” from extremism and were no longer “baby-making machines”. The post linked to an article denying allegations of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang.Twitter said the post had “violated the Twitter rules” but did...

Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing nine people he befriended online after they expressed suicidal thoughtsA court in Japan has sentenced to death a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” for the 2017 murders of nine people whom he befriended online after they had expressed suicidal thoughtsTakahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted strangling and dismembering his victims, eight of whom were women, over the course of three months....

In case that has shocked country and led to new Twitter rules, Takahiro Shiraishi assaulted and strangled victimsA 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a Tokyo court to all charges related to killing and dismembering eight young women and one man in 2017, in a case that has shocked the country.Takahiro Shiraishi told the court he had contacted women via Twitter and other social...

Crooked willow that stands in a New Zealand lake has been photographed by sightseers from around the worldA famous willow tree that symbolises hope and endurance has been attacked with a saw in the New Zealand tourist town of Wanaka.The crooked willow tree that stands in a lake has been photographed hundreds of thousands of times by sightseers and is a major tourist attraction...

Creators of HKmap.Live accused Apple of ‘political decision to suppress freedom’ in Hong KongApple has pulled an app that tracked the movements of Hong Kong police through crowdsourced data, after it became the latest company to be put under pressure by China this week.The creators of HKmap.Live said the app was pulled after Apple found it was in violation of local laws and company...