From Amazon rainforests to the Arctic Circle, indigenous peoples are leveraging ancestral knowhow to protect habitats that have sustained them for hundreds and even thousands of years, according to a landmark UN assessment of biodiversity released Monday.

But these "guardians of nature" are under siege, warns the first major UN scientific report to fully consider indigenous knowledge and management practices.

Whether it is logging, agribusiness and cattle ranching in the tropics, or climate change warming the poles twice as fast as the global average, an unrelenting economic juggernaut fuelled by coal, oil and gas is ravaging the natural world, the grim report found.

A million of Earth's estimated eight million species are at risk of extinction, and an area of tropical forest five times the size of England has been destroyed since 2014.
"Indigenous peoples and local communities are facing growing resource extraction, commodity production, along with mining, transport and energy infrastructure," with dire impacts on livelihoods and health, the report concluded.

Fifty-three nonbinary emoji are coming to Android Q, Google confirmed Wednesday.

The designs launched Tuesday on Pixel smartphones as a beta release. They'll come to Android Q, the next version of Google's mobile operating system, later in the year.

In the interview with Fast Company, designer Jennifer Daniel said gender is complicated: "It is an impossible task to communicate gender in a single image. It's a construct. It lives dynamically on a spectrum."

In images of the emoji sent from Google, captions note that some emoji, like the judge, only needed a new hairstyle. Others needed more work on clothing, like the vampire. The nonbinary vampire wears a chain instead of a bowtie or necklace.

"All of [the emoji] will force us to look each other in the eye and thin deeply about gender," one caption reads.

The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo of two men carrying more jihadi flags while they burn the stars and stripes.

It wasn't produced by extremists; it was created by Facebook. In a clever bit of self-promotion, the social media giant takes a year of a user's content and auto-generates a celebratory video. In this case, the user called himself "Abdel-Rahim Moussa, the Caliphate."

"Thanks for being here, from Facebook," the video concludes in a cartoon bubble before flashing the company's famous "thumbs up."

Facebook likes to give the impression it's staying ahead of extremists by taking down their posts, often before users even see them. But a confidential whistleblower's complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained by The Associated Press alleges the social media company has exaggerated its success. Even worse, it shows that the company is inadvertently making use of propaganda by militant groups to auto-generate videos and pages that could be used for networking by extremists.

Detectives say a 35-year-old Florida woman confessed to putting her newborn baby girl in a plastic bag and throwing her into a trash bin outside an apartment complex.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's spokeswoman Therese Barbera said in a news release that Rafaelle Alessandra Carbalho Sousa was arrested late Thursday and will appear in court on Friday. She's charged with attempted felony murder and child abuse.

Officials say two people heard the baby crying and found her in the trash bin on Wednesday. She was taken to a hospital and is expected to be fine.

A man has been convicted of murder in the strangulation of a model in one of Philadelphia's affluent suburbs.

Jonathan Harris told reporters that he believed "justice was served" as he was led out of the courtroom late Thursday. The verdict carries a mandatory life sentence.

By the time I hit the button to cancel my TYT membership last year, Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian's Russiagate coverage could only be described as Rachel Maddow lite.

Uygur aggressively pushed the Trump-Russia narrative, bought into insane conspiracy theories, parroted nothing-burger "bombshells" from mainstream reporting, and just generally did his fair share to ramp up Russia paranoia for two years.

"He did a deal with the Russians!" Cenk bellowed in March 2017, all but promising his huge viewership that Trump would be dragged out of the White House by cops before the end of that year.

Fast-forward to 2019.

Police investigating the killing of journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by paramilitary gunfire in Northern Ireland last month, have made four arrests.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland says males 15, 18, 38 and 51 years old were arrested in Londonderry, also known as Derry, on Thursday under terrorism legislation, in connection with violence in the city the night McKee died.

McKee, 29, was watching rioting on April 18 when she was killed. Hours before her death, she tweeted a photo of the riot with the words: "Derry tonight. Absolute madness."

Police told Reuters they did not believe McKee was working at the time of the attack.

Dissident paramilitary group the New IRA, which opposes Northern Ireland's peace process, says its members killed her by accident when firing at police.

• Wednesday's BATF raid found thousands of firearms and one man was arrested at the home of Cynthia Beck
• Beck is the former mistress of billionaire Gordon Getty, 85, who is the fourth child of oil tycoon J Paul Getty
• Composer Getty fathered three daughters with Beck behind his wife Ann's back and was exposed in 1999
• The billionaire Gettys suffer a 'curse' of drug addiction, illness and tragic death, including Gordon Getty's 47-year-old son Andrew Getty, who was found dead in his Hollywood home in 2015 with drugs in his system
• The LAPD say they are still working through the huge weapon and ammunition haul, which ranges from modern firearms to antique Civil War rifles plus shotguns, handguns and even weapon-making equipment
• Girard Damien Saenz, 57, was arrested at the scene by the LA County Sheriff before posting $50,000 bail
• Beck and Saenz are longtime companions who own several properties together, according to public records

The Bel Air mansion where federal agents found more than 1,000 guns thought to be worth several million dollars belongs to the former mistress of oil fortune heir Gordon Getty, with whom she had a secret family.

According to court records, the $7million, five-bedroom property comprising 8,200 sq-ft belongs to Getty's former mistress Cynthia Beck, whose 14-year-long secret relationship with the wealthy scion was exposed in 1999.

Getty, whose $2billion fortune makes him one of the world's wealthiest men, conducted the illicit affair with Beck behind his wife Ann's back and fathered three daughters - Alexandra, Nicolette and Kendalle - in the process.

One man was arrested at the scene, 57-year-old Girard Damien Saenz, who was taken to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department before being released on $50,000 bond Wednesday morning. Beck and Saenz are long time companions who own several properties together, according to public records.
LAPD officials say they are still working through the enormous weapon and ammunition haul, which ranges from modern firearms to antique Civil War rifles as well as shotguns, handguns and even weapon manufacturing equipment.

Saenz faces unlawful transportation, giving, lending or selling assault weapon charges and more federal charges could be added as officers continue to process the huge cache of weapons.

Authorities discovered the hoard while serving a search warrant at the home in the 100 block of North Beverly Glen Boulevard at 4am on Wednesday.

Girard Damien Saenz, 57, was arrested at the scene by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He was released on $50,000 bond on Wednesday morning

Among the thousands of firearms are modern automated rifles plus pistols and Civil War-era antique weaponry.

'I had never seen so many weapons in my career of 31 years,' said LAPD Lt Chris Ramirez. 'That's such a big arsenal in a residence like this, in this type of neighborhood. It's astounding.'

The officer added that it is not illegal for someone to own a large collection of firearms, however, he said it is illegal to sell weapons from one's home without adhering to the strictly regulated state and federal processes.

Miss Beck, who is in her sixties, does not live in the mansion where the thousands of assault rifles were seized - which is thought to be part of a large property portfolio purchased for her by Getty during their relationship.

She is believed to lead a reclusive life in Europe and very few photos of her exist.

'Nicolette, Kendalle and Alexandra are my children,' Getty wrote in a press when the scandal broke in 1999. 'Their mother is Cynthia Beck, and I love them very much.'

Getty also had four children with wife Ann, including meth-addled son Andrew who was found dead aged 47 on the toilet of his Hollywood mansion in 2015.


Friends of the famous family described Beck at the time as a 'lovely woman' but not a socialite. 'She is a nice lady and lives in the L.A. area' her daughters' lawyer Stephen Burgin said.

Neighbors were shocked when they heard of the seizure: 'I would never, ever think anybody would be wanting to pack so much in this neighborhood. It scares the wits out of you,' Rabbi Chaim Mentz told ABC. 'What does my next door neighbor have? What does your next door neighbor have?'

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) raided the property following an anonymous tip-off about the cache of weapons, specifically that someone was 'conducting illegal firearms transaction outside the scope of the federal firearm license that the individual possess,' ATF spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun said in a statement.

Colbrun added that authorities have 'no reason to believe the public is in any danger.'

Los Angeles Police Deapartment spokesman Officer Mike Lopez said authorities were waned of illegal gun manufacture and sale at a house on North Beverly Glen Boulevard.

'Obviously it's a lot,' Lopez said on Wednesday. 'They're going to be there a long time. Possibly even tomorrow.'

'ATF and LAPD have no reason to believe the public is in any danger,' a statement from the agency said.


Another home on North Bunker Hill Avenue in Los Angeles was also searched as part of the investigation, law enforcement sources said.

Getty, a music composer, assumed control of his father's $2 billion (£1.5 billion) trust in 1976.

Some believe the Getty family suffers from a curse, which has seen many misfortunes befall them. Gordon's son Andrew Rorke Getty aspired to be a movie director, laboring for 13 years on his only film the The Evil Within.

But before he could complete the film, he was found dead at his Hollywood Hills home in 2015 at the age of 47.

In 2003, Andrew was sued by a studio assistant, Ingrid Jacobs, for £500 in unpaid wages for his first and only film.

The court heard how Getty snorted cocaine, spent heavily on prostitutes and carried a gun - keeping an arsenal of assault rifles at his home and threatening the film crew with them.

'All of us lived in fear of his dark, violent moods,' said Ms Jacobs in court. 'He once screamed at me: 'I'm going to kick you in the kidneys so hard that you choke.'

'He had no worries about spending thousands a week on high-price prostitutes, but he was mean as hell with everyone else.'

Charity Thomson, the movie's assistant director, said she saw Getty snorting drugs while on the set. She described him as 'a spoilt rich kid who doesn't value his own life or that of anyone else'.

The coroner said his heavy use of methamphetamine had contributed to his death by bleeding from an intestinal ulcer.

Andrew was the second eldest of four sons of Gordon Getty, who himself was the fourth son of the family patriarch J. Paul Getty, yet still Gordon assumed control of the $4billion family trust when his father died in 1976.

J. Paul Getty married five times and produced six children, whom he treated with such disdain he never even bothered to attend their weddings.

He became the world's richest man when he struck oil in the Middle East in 1953. He reportedly showed affection for his youngest son, Timmy. But when he died aged 12 from a brain tumour, his father didn't go to his funeral.

His other sons fared little better. His eldest son and heir apparent, George, worked himself into an early grave trying to impress his father in the family business.

He became so despairing at his failure that he would stab himself in the arms with a letter opener. He turned to drink and drugs, and died in 1973 after overdosing on pills.

J. Paul Getty's second son, Ronald, was virtually disinherited after his mother Adolphine - Getty's third wife - dared to drag her feet over a divorce when the tycoon decided to move on to wife number four.

John Paul Junior, the third boy, has gone down in history as the prodigal son. After a first job earning $100 a month as a petrol pump attendant, he joined the family business, but took to drinking heavily.

He became a heroin addict soon after meeting his second wife, the Dutch actress and socialite Talitha Pol. They became darlings of the celebrity hippie set, partying with the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

When Talitha died of a heroin overdose in 1971, a devastated John Paul Junior holed himself up in his home in England. Unsurprisingly, he was cut off financially by his father, who intoned: 'No Getty can be a drug addict.'

The shortage of funds proved tragic in 1973 when John Paul Junior's oldest child, John Paul III, 16, was kidnapped in Rome by the Mafia.

When a $17million ransom demand arrived, his skinflint grandfather refused to help. It was only after one of the boy's ears was sent through the post that Getty coughed up and the hostage was released.

Traumatised by his ordeal, the young John Paul Getty III slipped into cocaine, heroin and alcohol addiction.

In 1981, he suffered catastrophic liver failure and a severe stroke, emerging from six weeks in a coma virtually blind and paralysed from the neck down. He could communicate by little more than a high-pitched scream. He died aged 54 in 2011.

A poll of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries found that just one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist
It is one of the best places in the world to be a woman, with a narrow gender pay gap, equal employment rights, universal nursery care, and some of the happiest female retirees on the planet.

So it comes as a surprise to find, in a global survey of attitudes towards gender, equal rights and the #MeToo movement, that Denmark is one of the least feminist countries in the developed world.

The poll, conducted by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries, found that just one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist, a third said that wolf whistling at women in the street was acceptable, and two in five had an unfavourable view of the #MeToo movement.

The hugely popular video game Mortal Kombat is notorious for extremely graphic in-game violence, setting the industry standard, but now one developer claims they were diagnosed with PTSD after working on the game.

Physics-defying gory finishing moves called 'fatalities', replete with gratuitous blood spatter and bone splintering attacks, have become a hallmark of the franchise since its first offering back in 1992.

Game developers have to spend countless hours perfecting the gruesome animations for the over-the-top finishing moves in almost equally excruciating detail, often spending days if not weeks perfecting the character's disembowelment.