Новости за 05.06.2015

Right at this very moment 621m Africans – two-thirds of the continent's population – live without electricity. And the numbers are rising. A kettle boiled twice a day in the United Kingdom uses five times as much electricity as someone in Mali uses in a year. Nigeria is one of the world’s biggest oil exporters but 93m Nigerians depend on firewood and charcoal for heat and light. On current trends, there is no chance that Africa will hit the global target of energy for all by 2030.

We are made to believe that once “on the property ladder” the sky’s the limit. But the truth is that once you're on the bottom rung, it's more likely you'll keep banging you head on the next one up, which keeps moving further and further out of reach.

Amy Schumer is everywhere. Having recently stolen Kirsten Wiig’s badge as America’s go to funny woman she has hit big time fame and exposure even on this side of the pond and recently cemented her reputation as irreverent purveyor of belly laughs at a London awards ceremony.

Casts of the Lion King and Aladdin have treated frustrated air passengers to an impromptu sing-off during a six-hour delay in the US.

1. Yvette Cooper is taking her Labour leadership campaign to Scotland today.

Buckets, as in bucket lists – those inventories of things we want to do before we die. Adam Barnard’s kaleidoscopic, darkly playful and witty piece muses on our human awareness that time is always running out in a series of some 30-odd, interconnected scenes that range from the absurdist and fantastical to sudden jabs of painfully direct feeling.

How many people have you slept with? It’s a question which can send a chill down many a spine for the very reason that there’s no ideal answer.  

Jo Pavey has advised Mo Farah to “run a mile” from his Oregon training group after it became immersed in doping allegations.

Bar a short comment denying any wrongdoing in the wake of the allegations against his coach and training partner, Mo Farah has remained silent in the wake of Wednesday’s Panorama investigation.