South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been banned from leaving the country, as opposition politicians accused his party of staging a “second coup” by refusing to impeach him over his botched declaration of martial law last week.

Bae Sang-up, an immigration services commissioner at the justice ministry, confirmed during a parliamentary hearing on Monday that Yoon was the subject of a travel ban.

Yoon’s attempt to end civilian rule last Tuesday lasted just six hours after lawmakers scuffled with soldiers in the parliament building before voting to lift the order.

“This is an unlawful, unconstitutional act of a second insurrection and a second coup,” said Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the opposition Democratic party, referring to a boycott of the impeachment vote by the ruling People Power party (PPP) and its desperate attempts to keep Yoon in office.

Under South Korea’s constitution, the president remains as head of the government and commander-in-chief of the army unless he or she is incapacitated or resigns.

Senior PPP politicians have claimed Yoon can continue as president while delegating his powers to the prime minister – an arrangement Park described as a “blatant constitutional violation with no legal basis”. Opposition parties have vowed to introduce another impeachment motion this week.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Monday that prosecutors had “booked” Yoon – a process that involves formally naming subjects of a criminal investigation. Police are reportedly considering placing an overseas travel ban on Yoon while they investigate his botched attempt to impose martial law.

On Saturday, Yoon apologised for his short-lived attempt to impose martial law and promised to face any legal or political consequences, hours before parliament was due to vote on his impeachment. Yoon said he was “very sorry” for the decision, which he said was born of desperation, and promised not to attempt to impose martial law a second time.

Three opposition parties filed a complaint against Yoon, his former defence minister Kim Yong-hyun and martial law commander Park An-su, accusing them of insurrection. The crime of leading an insurrection is punishable by death or life imprisonment.

Kim, who offered his resignation on Wednesday, was seen as a central figure in Tuesday’s brief martial law declaration. A senior military official and filings to impeach Yoon by opposition members said Kim had made the proposal to Yoon.

The sabotaging of Saturday night’s vote in the national assembly has led to political gridlock and uncertainty over who is in day-to-day control of South Korea – Asia’s fourth-biggest economy and a key US ally.

The leader of the PPP, Han Dong-hoon, said at the weekend that Yoon would not be involved in foreign and other state affairs, with control of the administration shifting to the prime minister, Han Duck-soo.

Han said Yoon’s televised apology was effectively a promise to leave office early.

But Woo Won-shik, the national assembly speaker and Democratic party MP, said delegating presidential authority to the prime minister and the ruling party without first impeaching Yoon was unconstitutional.

On Monday, the defence ministry created further confusion when it said that Yoon was still commander-in-chief of the South Korean military.

Han Duck-soo said the government would do its best to “maintain trust with our allies” – a reference to the US and Japan – while experts warned that continued uncertainty could threaten regional stability.

“Leaders in Russia, China, and especially North Korea, are likely watching the political turmoil in South Korea with glee, sensing a geopolitical advantage,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korea will probably take a wait-and-see approach toward these events, but it cannot be ruled out that Pyongyang will attempt to exploit divisions in Seoul.”

In an effort to reassure the public, multiple military leaders, including the acting defence minister, have said they would defy any orders to impose another round of martial law.

The former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has described a threat by President-elect Donald Trump to imprison her alongside others involved in an investigation of his supporters’ 2021 US Capitol attack an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic”.

Cheney was responding to comments made by Trump during an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday in which he said members of the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack “should go to jail” – but said he would not direct the attorney general or FBI he appoints during his second presidency to pursue the matter.

During that interview, Trump said: “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with [Bennie] Thompson and the people on the … committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps.

“They deleted and destroyed all evidence”, Trump alleged without evidentiary support, adding that those responsible were Cheney and Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat. “For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.”

In a statement containing her response and obtained by the New York Times, Cheney said Trump had “lied about the Jan. 6 … committee” and that there was “no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis” to go after the panel’s members.

“There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis for what Donald Trump is suggesting – a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee – and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct,” Cheney added.

She added that Trump “attempted to overturn” the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Joe Biden so that he could remain in the Oval Office by mobilizing an “angry mob”.

“This was the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation’s history,” said Cheney, the daughter of the former US vice-president Dick Cheney. “Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”

The exchange comes as Biden is reportedly considering offering sweeping pardons to those who could become targets of Trump’s promised “retribution” against his political enemies.

Efforts to prosecute Trump over the Capitol attack have been abandoned after he defeated Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 5 November White House election. But Cheney – a former Harris campaign surrogate – said material collected by the special counsel Jack Smith should be preserved and “as much of that information as possible should be disclosed in the special counsel’s upcoming report”.

Fresh from its sweep at the European Film awards on Saturday, Jacques Audiard’s daring crime musical Emilia Pérez has dominated the Golden Globe nominations in Hollywood, taking 10, including nods for best comedy or musical, best director, and for its leading performer, Karla Sofía Gascón.

Gascón plays a Mexican cartel kingpin in the film who transitions to a woman in order to fulfil her dream – and evade the local mafia. Should she win, Gascón will be the first trans actor to take a film Golden Globe; three years ago, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez triumphed for her role in TV show Pose.

Meanwhile Brady Corbet’s epic postwar drama The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who becomes an architect in the US, followed with seven nominations, including for Corbet, Brody and his co-star Felicity Jones.

Conclave, the papal thriller directed by Edward Berger was helped by nods for its script, direction and leading actor Ralph Fiennes to third place on the scorecard, with six, while daring body horror The Substance and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora both took five.

Fiennes and Brody are set to face off in the leading actor category against Daniel Craig, for his turn in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Sebastian Stan for Trump biopic The Apprentice and Colman Domingo for prison drama Sing Sing.

Hugh Grant is also in contention for his show-stopping role as a Mormon-baiter in horror film Heretic; Grant’s last major awards win was three decades ago, when the Globes named him best actor in a comedy or musical for Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Heretic is competing in the comedy or musical category this year, which means Grant is up against the likes of Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain, Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness, Gabriel LaBelle for Saturday Night and Stan again for A Different Man.

This is not the first time an actor has been nominated in both lead performance categories, although Kate Winslet did similar double duty in 2009, when she won both the leading actress in a drama gong for Revolutionary Road and the supporting actress prize for The Reader.

Winslet is also in contention for two awards this year, thanks to roles in Lee Miller biopic Lee and in HBO political satire The Regime. The TV categories were particularly kind to British and Irish stars, with Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Andrew Scott, Gary Oldman, Eddie Redmayne and Ewan McGregor attracting nods for their work in, respectively, Black Doves, The Penguin, Ripley, Slow Horses, The Day of the Jackal and A Gentleman in Moscow.

The migration of movie stars to streaming and the small screen was further evidenced by the presence of Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Jodie Foster, Javier Bardem and Jake Gyllenhaal on the TV shortlists. The Bear again led small screen nominations, with five, while Shōgun and Only Murders in the Building each trailed with four.

Selena Gomez’s nod for the latter – as well as being one of Emilia Perez’s two shots for supporting actress – takes the number of double nominees this year to three. Steve Martin’s fourth consecutive nomination for the same show marks his ninth Globes nod; he is yet to win.

Although Netflix was the studio with the most nominees this year across both film and TV, one of its small screen crown jewels – Baby Reindeer – took a slightly disappointing three nods, while its hit adaptation of the David Nicholls novel One Day was overlooked entirely.

Wicked, the musical adaptation currently storming the box office, received nominations for both its lead, Cynthia Erivo, and support Ariana Grande. It also found recognition in the still fairly new “cinematic and box office achievement” category, as did Gladiator II, whose supporting actor, Denzel Washington, proved to be that film’s only other nomination – and the actor’s 11th.

Washington also produced August Wilson adaptation The Piano Lesson, which had been hoped to secure nods for Malcolm Washington’s direction, as well as lead performances by John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler, but came away empty-handed.

As well as Gascón, Erivo faces competition from Amy Adams for Nightbitch, Anora’s Mikey Madison, Zendaya for Challengers and Demi Moore for The Substance. Moore’s comeback performance is mirrored in the dramatic categories by that of Pamela Anderson, who is nominated for The Last Showgirl, alongside Winslet, Angelina Jolie for Maria, Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl and Fernanda Torres for I’m Still Here.

But there was no love for Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance in Hard Truths or Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun. Also shut out were Steve McQueen’s Blitz and Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, while September 5 and Nickel Boys performed less well than expected, with just one nomination each – albeit for best drama.

They compete against Conclave, The Brutalist and two Chalamet films – A Complete Unknown and Dune: Part Two. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi smash otherwise went rather under appreciated by Globes voters, who offered it just one other nomination, for best score. Meanwhile Wicked, Anora, Challengers, A Real Pain, The Substance and Emilia Pérez vie for best musical or comedy.

Two innovations announced on Monday suggest the Globes are further attempting to position themselves as credible rivals to the Oscars. For the first time, the organisers are planning a pre-awards luncheon to celebrate their first-time nominees – which this year include Brody, Plemons, Anderson, Zoe Saldana, Seth Meyers, Richard Gadd, Kathryn Hahn and Glen Powell.

They will also host a standalone ceremony for the recipients of their lifetime achievement awards, with video highlights of Viola Davis and Ted Danson picking up their Cecil B DeMille and Carol Burnett honours then played during the main ceremony. This mirrors the Academy Awards’ strategy with their annual Governors awards, which in 2024 recognised Richard Curtis and Quincy Jones.

Last year’s Globes were the first since the widely discredited Hollywood Foreign Press Association disbanded in 2023, and featured a much wider and more diverse pool of voters than in previous years. Oppenheimer took five awards, while Barbie, The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall and Poor Things all trailed with two, while host Jo Koy won some of the worst reviews of any awards ceremony host in recent memory.

This year’s host, comedian Nikki Glaser (whose standup special is also nominated), will preside over the 5 January ceremony, a month and a half before the Baftas on 16 February, which will again be hosted by David Tennant. The Oscars follow a fortnight later, with Conan O’Brien taking over emcee duties from Jimmy Kimmel.

Film

Best film – drama
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Best film – musical or comedy
Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked

Best female actor in a film – drama
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Kate Winslet, Lee

Best male actor in a film – drama
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best female actor in a film – musical or comedy
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Zendaya, Challengers

Best male actor in a film – musical or comedy
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell, Hit Man
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best film – animated
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best film – non-English languageAll We Imagine As Light
Emilia Pérez
The Girl With the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio

Best female actor in a supporting role in a film
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best male actor in a supporting role in a film
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II

Best director – film
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Edward Berger, Conclave
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine As Light

Best screenplay – film
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Peter Straughan, Conclave

Best original score – film
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot

Best original song – film
Beautiful That Way, The Last Showgirl
Compress/Repress, Challengers
El Mal, Emilia Pérez
Forbidden Road, Better Man
Kiss the Sky, The Wild Robot
Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez

Cinematic and box office achievement
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator II
Inside Out 2
Twisters
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Cecil B DeMille award
Viola Davis

Television

Best television series – drama
The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr and Mrs Smith
Shōgun
Slow Horses
Squid Game

Best television series – musical or comedy
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
The Gentlemen
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building

Best television limited series, anthology series or television film
Baby Reindeer
Disclaimer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Best female actor in a television series – drama
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr and Mrs Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Best male actor in a television series – drama
Donald Glover, Mr and Mrs Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal
Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Billy Bob Thornton, Landman

Best female actor in a television series – musical or comedy
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Jean Smart, Hacks

Best male actor in a television series – musical or comedy
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best female actor in a television limited series, anthology series or television film
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs the Swans
Kate Winslet, The Regime

Best male actor in television limited series, anthology series or television film
Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott, Ripley

Best supporting female actor on television
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country

Best supporting male actor on television
Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Diego Luna, La Maquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

Best standup comedy on television
Jamie Foxx, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was
Nikki Glaser, Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
Seth Meyers, Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking
Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler: Love You
Ali Wong, Ali Wong: Single Lady
Ramy Youssef, Ramy Youssef: More Feelings

Carol Burnett award
Ted Danson

An amended lawsuit filed in federal court on Sunday alleges that rap moguls Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl during a party in 2000.

Jay-Z denied the allegations on social media and lambasted the lawsuit, calling it part of a “blackmail attempt” by the plaintiff’s lawyer. In a statement posted by his label, Roc Nation, he said he was heartbroken for his family, and for having to explain the nature of the allegations to his and Beyoncé’s oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, 12. Lawyers for Jay-Z did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.

Combs denied all allegations against him, including this one, in October. He is in jail on federal sex trafficking charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

The lawsuit was filed originally in October in the Southern District of New York and at that time did not name Jay-Z as a defendant, though the amended lawsuit says that Jay-Z was identified as “Celebrity A” on the original complaint.

The lawsuit alleges that the unnamed girl was drugged and raped by both Jay-Z and Combs at a party hosted by Combs after the MTV music awards in 2000, which were held in New York.

She said that Jay-Z and Combs took turns raping her at the party, and that she drank a drink that made her feel “woozy and lightheaded”. She escaped, she said, by hitting Combs in the neck as he assaulted her, then ran to a petrol station and was collected by her father.

Tony Buzbee, the Texas lawyer representing the girl who filed Sunday’s lawsuit, has filed at least 20 civil lawsuits against Combs accusing him of sexual misconduct, and has used Instagram, a phone hotline and a news conference to find clients.

All of his suits have initially been filed by anonymous plaintiffs. A judge will determine whether the plaintiff in this suit can proceed without revealing her identity.

In his statement, Jay-Z said: “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case. This lawyer, who I have done a bit of research on, seems to have a pattern of these type of theatrics!”

In an email to Reuters, Buzbee said the Jay-Z lawsuit “speaks for itself”.

“This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court,” Buzbee wrote.

Buzbee, in his amended lawsuit, says his law firm had previously sent Jay-Z a letter seeking to mediate a settlement.

Jay-Z, the lawsuit says, responded to that letter by filing a lawsuit against Buzbee, and by “orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment” against Buzbee and other lawyers in his firm, which the lawyer said was an intimidation tactic meant to silence his client.

In a post on social media, Buzbee said the alleged rape victim he was representing “never demanded a penny” from Jay-Z, writing that “she only sought a confidential mediation”.

Buzbee last week filed a lawsuit against the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, whose lawyers represent Combs and Jay-Z, accusing the firm’s legal team of harassing his colleagues, his clients and his family.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters.

Jay-Z’s statement concluded by expressing his support to “true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit”.

He said Buzbee had made “a terrible error in judgement” in assuming all celebrities were the same. “I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honour.

“We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look forward to showing you just how different I am.”

Combs was recently denied bail for a third time by a judge in New York City who described him as a “serious risk” for witness tampering. Prosecutors have previously accused Combs of trying to contact prospective witnesses from jail and to create “narratives” to influence public opinion and potential jurors for his impending sex trafficking trial.

An amended lawsuit filed in federal court on Sunday alleges that rap moguls Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a 13-year-old girl during a party in 2000.

Jay-Z denied the allegations on social media and lambasted the lawsuit, calling it part of a “blackmail attempt” by the plaintiff’s lawyer. In a statement posted by his label, Roc Nation, he said he was heartbroken for his family, and for having to explain the nature of the allegations to his and Beyoncé’s oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, 12. Lawyers for Jay-Z did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.

Combs denied all allegations against him, including this one, in October. He is in jail on federal sex trafficking charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

The lawsuit was filed originally in October in the Southern District of New York and at that time did not name Jay-Z as a defendant, though the amended lawsuit says that Jay-Z was identified as “Celebrity A” on the original complaint.

The lawsuit alleges that the unnamed girl was drugged and raped by both Jay-Z and Combs at a party hosted by Combs after the MTV music awards in 2000, which were held in New York.

She said that Jay-Z and Combs took turns raping her at the party, and that she drank a drink that made her feel “woozy and lightheaded”. She escaped, she said, by hitting Combs in the neck as he assaulted her, then ran to a petrol station and was collected by her father.

Tony Buzbee, the Texas lawyer representing the girl who filed Sunday’s lawsuit, has filed at least 20 civil lawsuits against Combs accusing him of sexual misconduct, and has used Instagram, a phone hotline and a news conference to find clients.

All of his suits have initially been filed by anonymous plaintiffs. A judge will determine whether the plaintiff in this suit can proceed without revealing her identity.

In his statement, Jay-Z said: “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case. This lawyer, who I have done a bit of research on, seems to have a pattern of these type of theatrics!”

In an email to Reuters, Buzbee said the Jay-Z lawsuit “speaks for itself”.

“This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court,” Buzbee wrote.

Buzbee, in his amended lawsuit, says his law firm had previously sent Jay-Z a letter seeking to mediate a settlement.

Jay-Z, the lawsuit says, responded to that letter by filing a lawsuit against Buzbee, and by “orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment” against Buzbee and other lawyers in his firm, which the lawyer said was an intimidation tactic meant to silence his client.

In a post on social media, Buzbee said the alleged rape victim he was representing “never demanded a penny” from Jay-Z, writing that “she only sought a confidential mediation”.

Buzbee last week filed a lawsuit against the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, whose lawyers represent Combs and Jay-Z, accusing the firm’s legal team of harassing his colleagues, his clients and his family.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters.

Jay-Z’s statement concluded by expressing his support to “true victims in the world, who have to watch how their life story is dressed in costume for profitability by this ambulance chaser in a cheap suit”.

He said Buzbee had made “a terrible error in judgement” in assuming all celebrities were the same. “I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honour.

“We protect children, you seem to exploit people for personal gain. Only your network of conspiracy theorists, fake physics, will believe the idiotic claims you have levied against me that, if not for the seriousness surrounding harm to kids, would be laughable. I look forward to showing you just how different I am.”

Combs was recently denied bail for a third time by a judge in New York City who described him as a “serious risk” for witness tampering. Prosecutors have previously accused Combs of trying to contact prospective witnesses from jail and to create “narratives” to influence public opinion and potential jurors for his impending sex trafficking trial.

New York police have again searched a Central Park lake for evidence – including the murder weapon – connected to the Midtown shooting death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.

As the search for the executive’s killer entered its sixth day on Monday, officials have said they are widening their search.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the New York police department and the US marshals had sent investigators to Atlanta to make inquiries and review surveillance footage from Greyhound bus stops on the route from Georgia.

Police have not named a suspect. But Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, hinted on Sunday that authorities may be getting closer to publicly identifying the man in photographs released to the public.

“The net is tightening and we’re going to bring this person to justice,” Adams said on Saturday.

“We don’t want to release that now. If you do, you are basically giving a tip to the person we are find … we’re seeking, and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all. Let him continue to believe he can hide behind the mask.”

Two additional images were also released of a masked man in the back of and outside a taxi he used to soon after Thompson was fatally shot outside a midtown hotel the morning of 4 December.

Only one photograph of the suspect without a mask has been made public: an image taken at a hostel soon before the murder when he apparently dropped the mask at the request of a front desk employee.

According to CBS, NYPD divers searched Central Park’s lake on Sunday after failing to recover anything from a similar underwater drag a day earlier. That came after a backpack containing a jacket and Monopoly money that is believed to be the Thompson murder suspect’s was found in the park.

The retired NYPD officer Tom Walsh told the outlet it made sense that police would continue searching the park for clues – and especially for the murder weapon – in the absence of concrete evidence.

“They found the backpack here in Central Park, so it only makes sense that that’s a good dumping ground for a gun,” Walsh said.

Though his survivors include a widow and two sons aged 16 and 19, Thompson’s death elicited a grim schadenfreude from many in the US who had been mistreated by the country’s rapacious health insurance industry. A private funeral for Thompson was planned for Monday, NBC New York reported.

A passenger on a domestic flight in Mexico on Sunday tried to divert an aircraft to the US by force, Volaris airlines said in a statement on social media.

The crew managed to detain the passenger, and all those aboard the Airbus A320 that had departed from León, Guanajuato, are safe, according to the company, which is one of the country’s main airlines.

The plane was diverted to Guadalajara in central Mexico, where the person – identified only as Mario – was handed over to authorities.

Other passengers later continued to their destination of Tijuana – on the border with the US and about an hour away from San Diego by car.

Volaris called on the passenger at the center of Sunday’s attempted hijacking to face the full weight of the law.

A statement from Mexico’s secretariat of civilian protection alleged that the passenger “assaulted a flight attendant and attempted to enter the cockpit to divert the flight”.

However, crew members were able to subdue the man – who was reportedly traveling with family – and issued an alert to conduct an emergency landing in Guadalajara.

A report from the flight operator said: “The aggressor told them a close relative had been kidnapped and, upon taking off from León, was threatened to be killed if he went to Tijuana.”

Guanajuato is one of the states hit hardest by drug cartel violence, which has grown to include crimes including extortion and kidnapping.

The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse contributed reporting

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after the Rev Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors – a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past.

Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple commune at age 14, said in a phone interview from the US that she had mixed feelings about the tour.

She was in Guyana’s capital the day Jones ordered hundreds of his followers to drink a poisoned grape-flavored drink that was given to children first. Her two sisters and two nephews were among the victims.

“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled.

Vilchez, 67, said Guyana had every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown.

“Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where people were manipulated into their deaths should be treated with respect,” she said.

Vilchez added that she hoped the tour operator would provide context and explain why so many people went to Guyana trusting they would find a better life.

The tour would ferry visitors to the far-flung village of Port Kaituma nestled in the lush jungles of northern Guyana. It’s a trip available only by boat, helicopter or plane; rivers instead of roads connect Guyana’s interior. Once there, it’s another 6 miles (9.7km) via a rough and overgrown dirt trail to the abandoned commune and former agricultural settlement.

Neville Bissember, a law professor at the University of Guyana, questioned the proposed tour, calling it a “ghoulish and bizarre” idea in a recently published letter.

“What part of Guyana’s nature and culture is represented in a place where death by mass suicide and other atrocities and human rights violations were perpetuated [sic] against a submissive group of American citizens, which had nothing to do with Guyana nor Guyanese?” he wrote.

Despite ongoing criticism, the tour has strong support from Guyana’s Tourism Authority, as well as its Tourism and Hospitality Association.

Oneidge Walrond, Guayana’s tourism minister, said that the government was backing the effort at Jonestown but was aware “of some level of push back” from certain sectors of society.

She said the government already had helped clear the area “to ensure a better product can be marketed”, adding that the tour might need cabinet approval.

“It certainly has my support,” she said. “It is possible. After all, we have seen what Rwanda has done with that awful tragedy as an example.”

Rose Sewcharran, director of Wonderlust Adventures, the private tour operator who plans to take visitors to Jonestown, said she was buoyed by the support.

“We think it is about time,” she said. “This happens all over the world. We have multiple examples of dark, morbid tourism around the world, including Auschwitz and the Holocaust museum.”

The November 1978 mass suicide-murder was synonymous with Guyana for decades until huge amounts of oil and gas were discovered off the country’s coast nearly a decade ago, making it one of the world’s largest offshore oil producers.

New roads, schools and hotels are being built across the capital, Georgetown, and beyond, and a country that rarely saw tourists is now hoping to attract more of them.

Until recently, successive governments shunned Jonestown, arguing that the country’s image was badly damaged by the mass murder-suicide, even though only a handful of local people died. The overwhelming majority of victims were Americans like Vilchez who flew to Guyana to follow Jones. Many endured beatings, forced labor, imprisonment and rehearsals for a mass suicide.

Those in favor of a tour include Gerry Gouveia, a pilot who also flew when Jonestown was active.

“The area should be reconstructed purely for tourists to get a first-hand understanding of its layout and what had happened,” he said. “We should reconstruct the home of Jim Jones, the main pavilion and other buildings that were there.”

Today, all that is left is bits of a cassava mill, pieces of the main pavilion and a rusted tractor that once hauled a flatbed trailer to take temple members to the Port Kaituma airfield.

Until now, most visitors to Jonestown have been reporters and family members of those who died.

Organizing an expedition on one’s own is daunting; the area is far from the capital and hard to access, and some consider the closest populated settlement dangerous.

“It’s still a very, very, very rough area,” said Fielding McGehee, co-director of The Jonestown Institute, a non-profit group. “I don’t see how this is going to be an economically feasible kind of project because of the vast amounts of money it would take to turn it into a viable place to visit.”

McGehee warned about relying on supposed witnesses who will be part of the tour. He said the memories and stories that have trickled down through generations might not be accurate.

“It’s almost like a game of telephone,” he said. “It does not help anyone understand what happened in Jonestown.”

About 200 people were killed in violence in Haiti’s capital over the weekend, many in a massacre in which a gang boss reportedly targeted Vodou practitioners.

The killings of at least 110 people were overseen by a “powerful gang leader” convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to the civil organisation the Committee for Peace and Development (CPD).

“He decided to cruelly punish all elderly people and Vodou practitioners who, in his imagination, would be capable of sending a bad spell on his son,” a statement from the Haiti-based group said. “The gang’s soldiers were responsible for identifying victims in their homes to take them to the chief’s stronghold to be executed.”

The UN rights commissioner, Volker Turk, said at least 184 people had died over the weekend. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people,” he told reporters in Geneva.

Both the CPD and UN said that the massacre took place in the capital’s western coastal neighbourhood of Cité Soleil.

Haiti has suffered from decades of instability but the situation escalated in February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in the capital, Port-au-Prince, to overthrow the then prime minister, Ariel Henry.

Gangs control 80% of the city and despite a Kenyan-led police support mission, backed by the US and UN, violence has continued to soar.

The CPD said that most of the victims of violence waged on Friday and Saturday were over 60, but that some young people who tried to rescue others were also among the casualties.

“Reliable sources within the community report that more than a hundred people were massacred, their bodies mutilated and burned in the street,” a statement said.

More than 700,000 people are internally displaced in Haiti, half of them children, according to October figures from the UN’s International Organization for Migration.

Vodou was brought to Haiti by enslaved people from Africa and is a mainstay of the country’s culture. It was banned during French colonial rule and recognised only as an official religion by the government in 2003.

While it incorporates elements of other religious beliefs, including Catholicism, Vodou has been historically attacked by other religions.

It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.

Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.

That’s 10 septillion years, a number that far exceeds the age of our known universe and has the scientists behind the latest quantum computing breakthrough reaching for a distinctly non-technical term: “mindboggling”.

The new chip, called Willow and made in the California beach town of Santa Barbara, is about the dimensions of an After Eight mint, and could supercharge the creation of new drugs by greatly speeding up the experimental phase of development.

Reports of its performance follow a flurry of results since 2021 that suggest we are only about five years away from quantum computing becoming powerful enough to start transforming humankind’s capabilities to research and develop new materials from drugs to batteries, one independent UK expert said. Governments around the world are pouring tens of billions of dollars into research.

Significantly, Willow is claimed to be far less prone to error than previous versions and could swell the potential of the already fast-developing field of artificial intelligence.

Quantum computing – which harnesses the discovery that matter can exist in multiple states at once – is predicted to have the power to carry out far bigger calculations than previously possible and so hasten the creation of nuclear fusion reactors and accelerate the impact of artificial intelligence, notably in medical science. For example, it could allow MRI scans to be read in atom-level detail, unlocking new caches of data about human bodies and disease for AI to process, Google said.

But there are also fears that without guardrails, the technology has the power to crack even the most sophisticated encryption, undermining computer security.

Google Quantum AI is one of numerous groups wrestling with how to harness the computing power of quantum mechanics including Microsoft, Harvard University and Quantinuum, a firm with UK links. A key problem is reducing the fragility of quantum chips as even microscopic material defects, cosmic rays and ionising radiation tend to knock them off course.

“Quantum processors are peeling away at a double exponential rate and will continue to vastly outperform classical computers as we scale up,” said Hartmut Neven, the founder of the firm, who said that the latest test results, published on Monday in Nature magazine, “cracks a key challenge in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years”.

He said the far greater speed of the new chip than classical computers “lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse”.

Simply put, if a quantum computer can be in many different states at once, it can get more done at the same time.

Dr Peter Leek, research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Quantum Institute and founder of Oxford Quantum Circuits, said: “It’s definitely thought-provoking to put it that way. What it really does is show that quantum computing technology is rapidly moving forward. It really is working.”

He described the Google results as a “shining example” of improvements in error correction, but he cautioned that the very fast processing results related to calculations that were “not of much real-world use”.

“I’m very optimistic,” he said. “I think we’re going to see a real acceleration over the next five years and then we’ll be able to say, look, this machine has calculated an interesting thing that I can explain to someone, and how it could be used in the real world.”

Asked about the risks of high-powered quantum computers wrecking current systems of encryption, Charina Chou, the director and chief operating officer of Google Quantum AI, said: “Security experts have been working on this, and they’ve had ample time over the last many years to really figure out what the right standards should be, what post-quantum encryption should look like.”

She added: “We’re working with a number of both large companies, as well as academics and startups in this space, right of physics, of chemistry, material science that seems very, very ripe for collaboration.”