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Two security officers were slightly injured as they tackled the man, but no one else was hurt.
The attack came in the early hours of US Independence Day and shortly before dawn prayers marking the start of the daily Ramadan fast.
Militants attacked the Jeddah consulate in 2004, leaving nine people dead.
The US State Department said it was aware of Monday's blast, adding that it "can confirm that all personnel under chief of mission authority are accounted for at this time".
Security guards became suspicious of a man in the car park of the Dr Suleiman Faqeeh hospital around 02:15 (23:15 GMT Sunday), interior ministry spokesman Maj-Gen Mansour al-Turki said in a statement.
The hospital is opposite the US consulate.
As the guards approached the man, "he blew himself up with a suicide belt inside the hospital parking," the statement said.
The US embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a warning after the attack, urging Americans to "remain aware of their surroundings, and take extra precautions when travelling throughout the country".
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A suspected suicide bomber has died after detonating a device near the US consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the interior ministry says.
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Khan was accused with seven others of killing a gazelle and two protected antelopes in Rajasthan in 1998.
Khan, 50, is one of Bollywood's biggest stars, appearing in more than 80 films.
Last month Khan created an uproar when he told reporters that work on his latest Bollywood film was so gruelling that he felt like a "raped woman".
The actor had challenged a verdict by a lower court that convicted and sentenced him to one and five years in jail respectively for the two cases of poaching.
High Court Judge Nirmaljit Kaur cleared Khan in both cases, ruling that the pellets recovered from the animals were not fired from his gun.
"The honourable high court has not agreed to the prosecution evidence or its documents in both the cases. Definitely, it's a good thing that an innocent man has received justice," the actor's lawyer Hastimal Saraswat told NDTV news channel.
The actor was not present for the ruling.
He was charged with killing two black bucks, a protected antelope species, during a hunting trip in 1998.
The original case was filed by the local Bishnoi community, who revere and worship the black bucks.
Last year Khan was acquitted after being charged with running over and killing a homeless man in a driving accident. The government has challenged his acquittal in the Supreme Court.
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A court in India has acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan of shooting and killing endangered animals two decades ago.
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Brian Sandoval said the California-based company will use the plant to make cheaper and more efficient batteries for future cars.
Correspondents say the factory will be a key part of Tesla's ambitions of taking on major automobile companies.
The "gigafactory" is predicted to bring nearly $100bn into Nevada's economy.
Mr Sandoval said that he hoped that target could be reached within the next 20 years, simultaneously reducing Tesla's battery costs by 30%.
Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the land and buildings, while Panasonic will make and supply the lithium-ion battery cells.
The plant is to be located in an industrial park in Storey County, about 25km (15 miles) east of Reno, an area that currently has a population of around 4,000.
Nevada fended off competition from Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and California as the site for the factory, which is expected to create 6,500 jobs with another 16,000 more indirectly.
Mr Sandoval said that the plant will become the "world's largest and most advanced battery factory".
He described the selection of Nevada as a "historic day" for the state.
Tesla chief executive and co-founder Elon Musk said that while Nevada's offer to his company "was not the biggest incentive package", the state had proved it "can do things quickly" and "get things done".
Yoshihiko Yamada of Panasonic said in July that the factory would help the electric vehicle market grow.
Sales of zero-emission electric vehicles currently make up less than 1% of the world's car market.
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The governor of the US state of Nevada has said that the Tesla electric car maker has chosen his state ahead of rivals for a $5bn battery factory.
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The victim died at the scene after a collision between the van he was driving and a car on the A96 near Pitcaple, Inverurie.
The incident took place at about 15:30. The other injured male driver involved in the crash was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
Police have appealed for witnesses and the road has been closed.
The incident involving a white Honda Jazz and a red Renault Master van happened about half a mile from Pitcaple.
Sgt Rob Warnock, of Police Scotland, said: "Our thoughts are with the families at this sad time.
"The road is likely to remain closed for some time and we would urge people to seek alternative routes."
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A man has died and another was seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash on a rural road in Aberdeenshire.
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The 2nd Century piece, depicting Buddha's footprints alongside religious symbols, was taken from the Swat Valley and eventually smuggled into the US.
A Japanese antiques dealer who brought it to the US from Tokyo pleaded guilty to possessing stolen property in April.
The sculpture was expected to reach $1m (£700,00) at auction, but the sale was intercepted by New York auhotirites.
New York prosecutors returned the sculpture to Pakistan's Deputy Chief of Mission Rizwan Saeed Sheikh at a ceremony on Wednesday.
Mr Sheikh said it was "an important element of the cultural history of Pakistan", and would likely be kept in New York for the short term and possibly put on display.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R Vance Jr said the piece was "so much more than a piece of property".
"It's an ancient piece that speaks to the history and culture of Pakistan that should be celebrated and protected," he told the Associated Press.
Antiquities dealer Tatsuzo Kaku had said he was in part motivated by a desire to protect Pakistan's artefacts, but this was dismissed by other experts, who said there were good structures in place in Pakistan for doing this.
Kazu paid a $5,000 fine and a sentence of time-served and left the country voluntarily.
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The US has returned an ancient Buddhist stone sculpture to Pakistan, from where it was stolen in the 1980s.
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Chemistry teacher Susan McKay, 58, and her husband Owen, 73, grew the drug in the seven-bed Tall Trees, Llandyrnog.
They were given suspended jail terms along with their son Michael after they admitted conspiring to supply cannabis.
At Mold Crown Court on Friday, Ms McKay was told to repay £33,500, Mr McKay £22,000 and their son £2,000 within three months or face a jail term.
Ms McKay, who has since been struck off as a senior teacher at a Wrexham high school, decided to grow the drug to help solve family money problems and her son agreed to help.
Three "growing zones" were set up in their guest house with the yield said to be worth up to £96,000.
Michael McKay, an Olympic boxing hopeful, had been stopped by police near Ruthin for driving without lights on his way to his parents' house.
Police detected the smell of cannabis and found 162g of cannabis worth about £1,620 after searching his car.
Inside the house, police found three bedrooms which were devoted to growing cannabis and one bathroom which was being used as a drying room.
Owen McKay pleaded guilty on the basis he turned a blind eye.
Mrs McKay and Michael McKay, 27, from Huntington, Cheshire, were both given a 20-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, while Owen McKay was given a five-month term, suspended for 12 months.
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A family who turned their Denbighshire B&B into a cannabis factory have been ordered to pay back more than £55,000.
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Kostadin Kostov, 42, is accused of murdering 38-year-old Gergana Prodanova, who was last seen in Exeter.
She was reported missing on 8 August by work colleagues when she failed to turn up for work.
Kostov is due to appear at Exeter Magistrates Court on Monday. Police said inquiries were ongoing and extensive searches were continuing in the Mount Pleasant area of Exeter.
Devon and Cornwall Police said following the disappearance and the subsequent launch of a murder investigation a team of search officers are continuing their efforts to trace Gergana Prodanova.
The force said around 30 officers are conducting house-to-house enquiries, as well as using the police helicopter, drone, and support from specially trained dogs.
Officers said around 2,000 properties in the Mount Pleasant area of Exeter have been visited by police.
Det Supt Paul Burgan said: "Her family in Bulgaria need to know what has happened to her, especially her three children.
"While we have a huge team searching for Gergana we also need the public to help and this is a plea for our community to search their outbuildings for any sign of Gergana."
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A man has been charged with the murder of a Bulgarian woman in Devon.
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The incident happened at about 20:45 on Saturday on the B7015 Stoneyburn to Livingston road in West Calder, near its junction with Happy Valley Road.
The 24-year-old woman was walking home with her boyfriend when she was hit by the small white car.
The woman was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment to a number of injuries.
The road was closed for about two and a half hours for a police investigation.
Insp Richard Latto, of Police Scotland, said: "Fortunately, the woman was not left with any life-threatening injuries and we are now eager to trace the driver, who may not even be aware they were involved in a collision.
"If you are the driver of a small white car which was on the B7015 at about 20:45 on Saturday evening then please contact police immediately.
"In addition, anyone with any further information relevant to this inquiry should also get in touch."
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A woman suffered a broken foot after being knocked down in a hit-and-run in West Lothian.
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The charges relate to incidents at supermarkets in Burnage, Hattersley and Irlam on 28 November.
A 42-year-old man from Manchester and a 28-year-old man from Pendleton have been accused of assault by beating.
A man aged 45, from Hyde, has been charged with a public order offence for using threatening or abusive language.
The three men will appear before Manchester and Tameside magistrates between 10 December to 15 December.
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Three men have been charged after "Black Friday" sales resulted in disorder at seven Tesco stores in Greater Manchester.
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A typical budget washing machine is weighted by 25kg of concrete to stop it moving while on a spin cycle.
The new invention is a sealable plastic container that is filled with water - but only once the machine is in place.
The team at Nottingham Trent University says the change makes machines easier - and cheaper - to transport.
By replacing the concrete with empty containers, the weight of the machine is cut by a third.
If the change became standard, it would cut the weight of trucks carrying the machines which would in turn cut emissions.
The research suggests that with around 3.5 million washing machines sold annually in the UK, the new device could save around 44,625 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
The idea was devised by product design company Tochi Tech Ltd, which works with the university to find innovative solutions to manufacturing common appliances.
It was tested by an undergraduate on a project, Dylan Knight, 22.
He told BBC News: "Everyone thinks the idea must have been thought of before. No one can really believe it. But I promise you it definitely works."
Mr Knight said the average cheaper washing machine has two concrete blocks - one under the drum at the front and one on top.
For the test, he replaced the one on top with a water-filled container as proof of concept.
As concrete is denser than water, the containers need to be bigger than the blocks, to make up the weight difference.
The firm is in discussions with manufacturers, who will want to ensure there is no downside to this ingenious re-think of a familiar product - and maybe to ask why no-one thought of it before.
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A simple device to cut the weight of washing machines could save fuel, cut carbon emissions, and reduce back injuries, according to researchers.
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The Swedish furniture giant is spending £4m to improve junctions and access to a new outlet planned for Pincents Lane Retail Park in Reading.
The work includes widening Pincents Lane and replacing the existing roundabout on the A4 with a new traffic-light controlled junction.
The retailer is awaiting final agreement after plans were scaled down.
A £10m three-level store was approved in 2012 but the furniture company reduced its proposal to two storeys last year to reflect the "ever-changing retail environment".
There are not expected to be any issues over the approval of the new scheme, as a smaller store should mean fewer customers and cars travelling to the site.
Some residents and businesses had objected to the original plans because of traffic congestion fears.
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Drivers are facing 40 weeks of delays as work starts ahead of the building of a new Ikea store in Berkshire.
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However, it has accepted a change which would see Hawick lose the famous battle site of Hornshole.
The move is one community leaders have said they would continue to oppose.
While not accepting some details of the boundary plans, the council has conceded the number of councillors should fall - from 34 to 32.
There has been considerable debate of plans for Hawick which would see two three-member wards replaced with one four-member ward.
The council has accepted those proposals in principle with parts of the hinterland shorn off into an enlarged Jedburgh ward.
Moves to include Newcastleton in that area have been opposed with the recommendation that it remains part of Hawick.
A similar argument to put Denholm in the Hawick ward was defeated.
Despite opposition from all of the Hawick councillors, and two motions of alternative proposals from Watson McAteer and Ron Smith, both asking for the historic battle site of Hornshole to stay within the Hawick boundary, councillors voted their initial plans through by 26 votes to five.
Community leaders have said they will continue to fight the loss of Hornshole - the site of a battle commemorated with a monument in the town.
In 1514 a group of Hawick youths defeated an English raiding party and captured their standard at Hornshole.
Hawick historian Ian Landles pointed out that the site was just outside the proposed Hawick ward - so a small "corridor" could include the site - without taking in any houses.
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Scottish Borders Council will oppose some recommendations made by the Local Government Boundary Commission over changes to its wards.
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22 February 2016 Last updated at 14:28 GMT
Radio One's Nick Grimshaw has also quit as a judge.
It's all change at the popular ITV show.
Ricky explains what's going on...
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Olly Murs and Caroline Flack have said they won't be presenting this year's X Factor.
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The trouble was sparked by the arrest of a man whose wife was told by police on Thursday to remove an Islamic face-covering veil, banned in public.
He has been accused of trying to strangle the officer.
Up to 300 people attacked a police station in Trappes on Friday night where the man was being held.
One leading Muslim group disputed the authorities' version of events, blaming police "provocation".
The suspect, described as a Muslim convert aged 21, was later released on Saturday pending an appearance in court, French media say.
The ban on wearing the full face veil in public was introduced in April 2011 with the threat of a financial penalty for not observing it.
Reinforcements from the CRS riot police were drafted in and Interior Minister Manuel Valls said they would remain in place until calm was restored. Thirty riot police vehicles were seen outside the Trappes police station.
In the latest violence which erupted in Trappes and several neighbouring areas, bus-shelters and cars were torched and fireworks directed at police, who responded with tear gas and baton charges.
The worst of the trouble took place in the early hours of Sunday. In one reported incident, a car was driven at police but no-one was hurt.
"It's beginning to spread to surrounding areas - Elancourt and Guyancourt," David Callu of the SGP police officers' union told BFM-TV news channel.
Four people were arrested and 20 cars burned, Mr Valls said in a statement.
Tensions in France's high-immigration city suburbs continue to fester, the BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports.
Although there has been no sustained unrest since the 2005 riots, sporadic violence is far from rare, he adds.
In 2005, a state of emergency was imposed when a wave of rioting spread across France, sparked by the deaths of two teenagers in a Paris suburb.
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Crowds of youths have thrown stones at French police and set fire to cars in a second night of disturbances in the Paris suburb of Trappes.
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The road in Charlemont Rise, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, was named after Cersei Lannister and her brother Jaime, who are in a relationship.
It has now been renamed Precinct Road.
Developers in the suburb had given streets names like Snow, Stannis and Greyjoy, in honour of the series.
One road was named Lannaster Road, a reference to the sibling couple.
"I even changed the spelling to make it not as obvious," said project manager of the new development, Gary Smith.
But he said residents "objected to that fact that it had a reference to Âincest... it's a fictional series."
City of Greater Geelong administrator Laurinda Gardner said road names should not "be detrimental to the preservation of longstanding community values".
Mr Smith says he took inspiration from the programme after struggling to think of original street names for the suburb.
He said: "You've got to think outside the box; we were getting so many names rejected. That's why we went for Game of Thrones."
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An Australian street name taken from the hit TV series Game of Thrones has been rejected after a resident complained that it was named after an incestuous couple.
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The saffrons never trailed in Newry with a ninth minute Eoghan Campbell goal and a Neil McManus penalty putting them 2-3 to 0-3 ahead after 19 minutes.
Carlow battled hard but two Deaglan Murphy points helped Antrim to a four-point lead, 2-5 to 0-7, at the break.
Donegal beat Tyrone 4-25 to 1-11 to win the Division 3A title at Celtic Park.
Antrim had been in Division 2A for the last two seasons and Saturday's result is a massive boost to hurling in the county.
The management team, headed up by Sambo McNaughton and Dominic McKinley, saw their players make a strong start to the second half with early scores from Paddy Burke and Murphy opening up a six-point gap.
Conor Johnston, McManus and Ciaran Clarke also added to Antrim's second half tally.
Although Carlow cut the gap to two points with four minutes remaining, Antrim held out for a deserved win with Neil McManus nailing three frees.
Donegal led throughout against Tyrone in the Division 3A decider.
Tipperary native Davin Flynn fired 2-8 from play, including two first half goals, which helped Donegal to a 2-8 to 0-0 lead after 19 minutes.
Damien Casey claimed Tyrone's first score in the 20th minute, with Stephen Gillespie netting in injury-time, on the way to a 3-11 to 0-4 interval lead.
Ronan McDermott netted Donegal's fourth goal inside four minutes of the restart.
Referee Rory McGann issued one red card, and seven yellow cards to Tyrone players during this game, with Mike O'Gorman dismissed 20 minutes from the end.
Casey netted for Tyrone in the 61st minute, but Donegal finished with six of the final seven points.
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Antrim will play Division 1B League Hurling next season, after beating Carlow 2-12 to 0-15 in the Division 2A final at Pairc Esler on Saturday.
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The 35-year-old-man was pronounced dead on Sunday night on the northbound carriageway close to junction 1 in Waterlooville around 23:30 BST.
The driver of the car - a blue VW Polo - was uninjured and is helping officers with their enquiries, Hampshire Police said.
An investigation into the exact circumstances of the incident is under way.
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A pedestrian was killed when he was struck by a car on the A3 in Hampshire.
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Experts warned that GPs were "less attuned" to drinking problems among elderly people.
Analysis of health records in London found that heavier drinkers tended to be male and relatively affluent.
For older people, the report said, drinking more than the recommended amount carried an additional risk of confusion and falls.
National guidelines advise no more than 14 units of alcohol a week for women and 21 units a week for men.
Researchers used anonymised GP data from 27,991 people aged over 65 living in London.
Of the 9,248 people who reported drinking alcohol, 21% drank more than the safe recommended limits, they report in BMJ Open.
Despite making up just under half of those included in the study, men accounted for 60% of the drinkers and 65% of the unsafe drinkers, the team from King's College, London, found.
Among the 5% drinking the most alcohol, men were consuming more than 49 units a week - more than a bottle of whisky - and women 23 units a week.
The researchers also found that the problem of unsafe drinking was far more common among the white British and Irish population, than those from Caribbean, African or Asian ethnic groups.
Study author Dr Mark Ashworth, a primary care researcher and GP, said the rates of unsafe drinking in elderly people were higher than those reported for the general population.
"Very few GPs are switched on to the idea that their older patients could be drinking at these levels - we all look out for it in younger patients, but we are less attuned to it in the elderly.
"What is uncertain from this study is whether people are drinking alone, or with friends at home, or down the pub."
He added that alcohol misuse services were not set up to deal with older patients.
Prof Mark Bellis, alcohol spokesman for the Faculty of Public Health said alcohol products should carry clear health warnings.
"It's easy for people to slip into a routine of drinking half a bottle of wine a night without knowing it increases their risks of health problems such as cancer and can take years off their life span.
"Having this information is especially important for older drinkers so that they can make informed decisions about their alcohol consumption at a time of life when risks of ill health often increase."
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One in five people over 65 who drink is consuming an "unsafe" level of alcohol, say researchers.
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The Swiss, 19, was forced to withdraw from the second round at this year's Wimbledon with a wrist injury.
"Although I have recovered from the wrist injury I am behind in my training schedule," she wrote on social media.
On Tuesday, Bencic's compatriot Roger Federer, the men's world number three, pulled out of Rio with a knee injury that has ended his 2016 season.
The US Open begins in New York on 29 August.
Also out of the Olympics - which start on August 5 - are Maria Sharapova, who is serving a doping suspension, fellow former world number one Victoria Azarenka, who is pregnant, world number five Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova, who is ranked 17th.
In the men's tournament, Wimbledon runner-up and world number seven Milos Raonic and Tomas Berdych, ranked eighth, will also not compete.
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World number 16 Belinda Bencic has pulled out of next month's Olympic Games in Rio to focus on the US Open.
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Food sales helped drive the 1.3% increase on a like-for-like basis, which excludes new store openings, compared to July 2016.
Total sales were up 0.7% compared to the same period the previous year, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium-KPMG monitor.
Adjusted for deflation, measured at 0.4%, overall July sales grew by 1.2%.
Food sales were up 4.2% year on year, while non-food sales fell by 2%.
David Lonsdale, Scottish Retail Consortium director, said: "Retail sales in Scotland witnessed a welcome resumption to growth last month, turning in a creditable performance driven by grocery sales and a better showing from non-food categories.
"Adjusted for shop price inflation, which has continued to fall, this was the best performance for three months and the second strongest this year."
He credited the food sales performance in part to inflation arising from food commodity prices and the exchange rate, but said non-food categories continue to "struggle", excepting high demand for back-to-school clothing, footwear and gaming consoles.
He added: "Looking forward, retailers will be questioning whether even this modest level of sales growth might prove fleeting, given mounting concerns about overall inflation and the impact on increasingly cash-strapped consumers."
Craig Cavin, head of retail in Scotland for KPMG, added: "As is becoming a common theme, food sales contributed most to the overall growth of Scottish retail sales in July, whilst non-food sales once again contracted.
"However, there were signs that the tide was beginning to turn for non-food sales - no doubt bringing with it a much needed sense of optimism for the industry."
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Retail sales in Scotland bounced back in July after a decline the previous month.
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He has signed a four-year contract having won his appeal against the refusal of a work permit.
And Wanyama told Celtic's website: "It has always been a dream of mine to play for a club like Celtic.
"After reading the club's history, I have chosen 67 as my squad number to show appreciation to the 1967 squad."
Wanyama's work permit application was initially automatically refused because Kenya is ranked outside the top 75 in the world, currently standing at 130 on Fifa's latest list.
But a Scottish Football Association committee, which heard a plea from Celtic manager Neil Lennon via a conference call from Australia on Friday, gave the go-ahead for his permit to be finalised by the UK Border Agency.
It's fantastic news that Victor has now signed for Celtic. He will be an important addition to the squad
And he completed his medical on Saturday before returning to Belgium to obtain the relevant entry visa.
Wanyama is looking forward to meeting up with his new team-mates on their return from pre-season training in Australia and has already been briefed about the importance of the club's European Cup triumph in 1967.
"My ambition at Celtic is to win many trophies like the Lisbon Lions," he said.
Wanyama becomes Lennon's third summer signing, the manager having previously stated that his new arrival, who can play in midfield, had been signed predominately as a central defender.
"It's fantastic news that Victor has now signed for Celtic," added Lennon.
"He will be an important addition to the squad and I look forward to him joining up with the boys on our return from Australia."
Wanyama first moved to Europe from his native Kenya when he joined Swedish club Helsingborg in 2007.
He moved on to Germinal the following year and has been capped 11 times - including all six of Kenya's World Cup 2010 qualifiers.
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Celtic have confirmed the signing of 20-year-old Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama from Belgian club Germinal Beerschot for an undisclosed fee.
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Police said they were called to Bentley Avenue in Jaywick at 06:40 GMT, where the man's body was found.
They believe he may have been assaulted on New Year's Eve. His death is being treated as suspicious.
A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned by police in Colchester.
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Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead at a house in an Essex seaside village.
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Spy Booth depicted 1950s-style spies "snooping" on a man in a phone box. It appeared in 2014, three miles from government listening post GCHQ.
A pile of rubble now lies on the ground below the wall of the house it was on.
The piece gained listed status last year after Cheltenham Borough Council granted it retrospective planning permission.
A social media post on Saturday appeared to show the mural being cut down behind a tarpaulin, with the sound of machinery audible.
Local people had campaigned to save the artwork, on the corner of Fairview Road and Hewlett Road, after an apparent attempt to remove it for it to be sold in July 2014.
It was later defaced with spray paint and has been vandalised several times since.
In January this year the Grade II-listed house was put for for sale.
A Gloucestershire Police spokeswoman said the force had had no reports of a crime being committed.
Looking behind the tarpaulin and scaffolding which had already been erected around the Banksy, all that can be seen now is a bare brick wall and a pile of rubble.
But has the Banksy artwork actually been destroyed?
Bits of the rubble definitely have plaster on them, but there do not appear to be many pieces with paint on them.
So could Spy Booth have in fact been taken away and saved?
A post on Twitter from a local resident suggests it is not the last we have seen of the mural.
"It'll be back. Plans have been made," the post says.
Or perhaps that simply means it will be repainted one day?
All attempts I have made today to contact the house owner have failed.
Until we find out exactly what has happened to Spy Booth, it will remain a mystery.
Steve Jordan, leader of Cheltenham Borough Council, said work had been taking place to repair plasterwork on the wall of the house after the council had issued an enforcement notice.
But he said he was unaware the Banksy had vanished.
"It is protected by a listing. I will have a look at what the situation is, certainly," he said.
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A Banksy artwork painted on the side of a listed building in Cheltenham has been removed.
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Spurs sit second in the Premier League, with a number of teams said to be interested in their top players.
But Pochettino says he has a close relationship with chairman Daniel Levy, who has assured him the club will not sell as they "don't need the money".
"The players that we want to keep, we will keep," he said.
Defenders Kyle Walker and Danny Rose and midfielders Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli are among those to have recently been linked with moves away from White Hart Lane.
"I think because we are doing good things, the clubs with a lot of potential are focused on our players, on our talented players," added the 45-year-old Argentine.
"But the good thing is we have the plan to try to improve and we will deliver it when we finish the season.
"For our fans, it is so clear that all the decisions we take are for the reason to try to improve the team, to try to be more competitive next season."
Former Spain midfielder Xavi said this week that 21-year-old Alli is the kind of talent his previous manager at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, would be keen to sign for Manchester City.
"I don't know what Xavi said - is he working for Manchester City now? He wants to help Guardiola," added former Espanyol boss Pochettino.
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Tottenham will keep their best players this summer and only sell those who are no longer wanted by the club, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.
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The arrests were part of a cross-border operation which involved officers from Scotland, Merseyside and the UK's National Crime Agency.
The intelligence-led investigation focused on the importation and distribution of Class A and B drugs across central Scotland.
Seven of the men were arrested in the west of Scotland.
The men, aged, 23, 28, 31, 39, 45, 47, and 53, were detained in Paisley, Johnstone, Lanarkshire and Hamilton.
A further man aged 45 was arrested in the Lincolnshire area.
It brought the total number of people arrested since the start of the operation to 20. A total of £7m worth of drugs - mainly cocaine and amphetamine - have also been recovered.
Police Scotland said the latest arrests were culmination of work which will, in effect, bring down an entire organised crime group concerned in the distribution of millions of pounds of drugs.
Det Ch Supt John Cuddihy, the force's head of organised crime and counter terrorism, said: "Police Scotland remains absolutely determined to rid our communities of serious and organised criminal gangs and we will continue to relentlessly target those involved in the sale and supply of controlled drugs.
"Hundreds of kilograms of amphetamine have already been seized and significant amounts of class A and class B drugs have been taken off the streets of the west of Scotland."
He added: "In total 20 people have been arrested since the start of this operation which undoubtedly has had a significant impact not only on an organised crime group and its ability to function but on the availability of these drugs in our communities."
All eight men are expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Monday.
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Police have arrested eight men believed to be part of a major organised crime group.
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IS closed in on the site in May having previously demolished ancient sites in Iraq that pre-date Islam, including Hatra and Nimrud.
Last week, it emerged that Khaled al-Asaad, the archaeologist who looked after Palmyra's ruins for 40 years, had been beheaded by IS.
Syria's director of antiquities Maamoun Abdul Karim said he had refused to say where treasures had been hidden to save them from destruction.
Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. Millions have visited the site and have contacted the BBC to tell us how much it means to them.
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With Islamic State (IS) militants destroying Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, the world's eyes are again focused on what may happen to the Unesco world heritage site.
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Harmer finished with match figures of 14-172, as the county champions lost their last five wickets for 10 runs.
Nick Compton's 120 off 303 balls had helped Middlesex recover from 51-3, putting on 153 with Paul Stirling (55).
But they slumped from 252-5 to 262 all out as Division One leaders Essex won by an innings and 34 runs.
South Africa international Harmer, who returned career-best figures of 14-128 in last week's win over Warwickshire, has now taken 47 wickets in eight matches this season.
Middlesex began the day on 27-0, still needing another 273 runs to avoid an innings defeat, and got off to the worst possible start when Nick Gubbins (16) was caught by Alastair Cook.
Harmer next saw off Stevie Eskinazi (12) who was caught by Varun Chopra at leg slip, diving forward with one hand after Cook had parried the ball at slip, while Dawid Malan soon followed for one.
Compton steadied the ship and completed his first century of the season from 232 balls, but was trapped leg before to become Harmer's 11th wicket of the game and Middlesex subsided.
They lost their last four wickets in 27 balls, sending Essex 29 points clear at the top of the Division One table.
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Spinner Simon Harmer took a career-best 9-95 as Essex beat Middlesex with just moments of a dramatic final evening at Chelmsford remaining.
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The Icelandic-born actor, 68, died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Maine, US, his agent said.
The 1974 film depicts how five friends visiting their grandfather's country house are hunted by Leatherface and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
Hansen's character is "one of the most iconic evil figures in the history of cinema," said agent Mike Eisenstadt.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper, went on to become a classic slasher film, which features a psychopath murdering several victims.
Six sequels were made, most recently in 2013 with Texas Chainsaw 3D.
Fans on Twitter rushed to pay their respects, and Grvyrd Shift Sisters tweeted: "I've gotten a chance to hear Gunnar Hansen talk at horror cons a few times. So funny, witty, and engaging."
The British Film Institute added: "We're sad to hear that Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface, has passed away."
Reykjavik-born Hansen moved to the US when he studied English and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Texas,
His agent said that Hansen published his book, Chain Saw Confidential, in 2013, detailing behind-the-scenes information on how the film was made. In it he revealed that the inspirations behind the film had included the fairytale Hansel and Gretel.
Hansen, a keen naturalist, also published Islands at the Edge of Time in 1993, depicting his journey along America's barrier islands from Texas to North Carolina.
He is survived by his partner of 13 years, Betty Tower.
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Gunnar Hansen, the actor who played terrifying villain Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died.
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Lorenzo Gallucci, 60, also known as Spud, was hit at just after midnight on Sunday at Splash swimming pool in his home town of Rushden, Northamptonshire.
He died later in the day at the University Hospital in Coventry.
A 25-year-old man from London, who was arrested shortly after the incident, has been bailed.
A statement from Mr Gallucci's family said: "Dad was a much loved character in the area and was well-known socially.
"He was a best friend to many and a drinking buddy to the rest.
"We loved him and would like anyone out there who saw anything to come forward and help the police with their investigation."
Officers are keen to speak to people who were around the Splash car park at the time Mr Gallucci was hit and also those drinking in the nearby band club during the night.
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A man who died after being struck by a vehicle at a swimming pool car park was a "much loved character" and a "best friend to many", his family has said.
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Up to 100 residents and 30 business owners affected by the blast in Bebington, Wirral are being offered help from a team of advisers at New Ferry village hall.
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 others injured in the explosion on Saturday evening.
The site remains a crime scene as police investigate the cause.
Christine Pickup was at home with her three grandchildren at the time of the explosion. They escaped with cuts and bruises.
She went to the hub earlier to find out when she can get back into her home.
"I walked out in my pyjamas and a phone in my hand," she said.
"Friends have put clothes on my back. I couldn't get any money because it's all in my purse. I've had to cancel all my cards. I've just got nothing - it's like losing your identity.
"The advice will help but I don't think I'll get part of my life back."
There are dozens of people who have come here for advice and there is a mix of feelings.
Some are upset, confused and lost. They want to know when they can go home to get their belongings and when their homes will be boarded up to help prevent their possessions from being stolen.
Most are dazed because they are missing the comfort of their own homes and been sleeping on floors in temporary accommodation.
People don't know how long they will need to make contingency plans. It's making the whole situation more difficult.
This hub is trying to point people in the right direction and get a better understanding of what they need.
Thirty businesses in New Ferry and Port Sunlight have been unable to trade because of collapsed or damaged buildings, according to New Ferry's Residents' Association.
Insurance adviser Brian Telfer said he had been encouraging people "to be very clear and to explain the seriousness of the situation so they can get you a representative out as soon as possible".
The drop-in facility on Grove Road will be open between 10:00 and 16:00 BST until Friday 31 March.
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A community hub has opened giving support to people affected by a suspected gas explosion on Merseyside.
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Chile beat Argentina on penalties last year to win a first major trophy.
The 100th anniversary of football's oldest international championship sees hosts USA drawn with Colombia, Costa Rica and Paraguay.
Uruguay, the tournament's most successful team, play Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, while 2007 winners Brazil face Ecuador, Haiti and Peru.
The 2016 Copa America has been expanded by four teams and is being staged outside the South American Football Confederation for the first time.
The tournament starts on 3 June when USA play Colombia in Santa Clara, California.
The final is on 26 June at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Holders Chile have been drawn in the same group as Argentina, Bolivia and Panama at the 2016 Copa America.
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A company based in Solva has developed new mobile phone technology to record the animal's position.
The app is free and can be used in remote areas without wi-fi.
Its inventor told Abigail Neal how mapping these sightings could help protect the birds.
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Technology pioneered in Pembrokeshire is being used to track endangered birds of prey in Africa.
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The victim was found injured at Seagull House on Rutland Avenue, Crumlin, when police were called to the scene at about 16:00 local time.
The man, who was in his 20s, was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.
The teenagers were arrested on Saturday night and remain in custody.
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A man and a woman, both aged 18, have been arrested following the death of a man who was stabbed in a block of flats in Dublin on Saturday afternoon.
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Carl Askew, 47, was given a 32-week sentence, suspended for two years, after his tanker crashed into a crane driven by Michael Coleman, 50.
Mr Coleman's partner Wendy Ann Randal told Cardiff Crown Court she did not "bear malice to the driver".
Askew, of Gloucester, admitted causing death by careless driving.
Judge David Wynn Morgan said "it would be a hard hearted court" if it did not take into account the wishes of the victim's partner.
The court heard that Mr Coleman, of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, had been driving his crane between Junction 32 and 33 on the M4 motorway on 2 November.
The vehicle was restricted to travelling at just 30mph (48km/h) and had been displaying the correct warning lights when the tanker collided with the rear of his vehicle at a speed of up to 56mph (90km/h).
The crane was forced off the road by the impact and overturned on an embankment.
Mr Coleman suffered traumatic head injuries and died at the scene.
Askew told police after the collision that he had sneezed at the moment of impact but could give no explanation as to why he had not seen the crane beforehand.
He said: "Before I could brake, the impact happened."
Mr Coleman's partner of 14 years told the court in a victim impact statement, which the judge described as "astonishing", that the couple had recently been on a holiday together which left her with "wonderful happy memories".
She said: "Since the accident, I feel lost without Mike, he was my everything.
"I know the driver didn't set out to kill Mike. It has left a massive desolation in myself and my children. I do get depressed, but I look at my family, remember and smile."
The court was told that Mr Coleman did not know at the time of his death that his daughter was pregnant and that he was to become a grandfather.
She asked in her statement for the court to consider not imposing an immediate custodial sentence.
In addition to the 32-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, he was disqualified from driving for five years and must carry out 250 hours of community work.
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A tanker driver who caused the death of a man in a crash on the M4 has been spared an immediate prison sentence after a plea from the victim's partner.
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The New York-based judge upheld the US government's contention that Mr Modi was entitled to immunity as a sitting head of government.
A rights group filed the civil suit against Mr Modi in September on the eve of his maiden visit to the US.
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the religious riots.
The riots were sparked by a fire on a train at Godhra in Gujarat that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims.
Mr Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat at the time of the riots, came under intense criticism for his handling of the riots. Human rights groups say he failed to take measures to prevent retribution against Muslims
Mr Modi has denied any wrongdoing and Indian courts have cleared him of all charges.
In September, The American Justice Centre filed a lawsuit against Mr Modi, which claimed that he did nothing to stop the riots.
The 28-page complaint also charged the prime minister with "committing crimes against humanity, extra-judicial killings, torture and inflicting mental and physical trauma on the victims, mostly from the Muslim community".
Judge Analisa Torres's dismissal of the lawsuit comes ahead of a planned visit to Delhi by US President Barack Obama to attend India's Republic Day celebrations on 26 January at Mr Modi's invitation.
The US and European countries boycotted Mr Modi for more than a decade after the riots, but have largely embraced him after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide election win last year.
Mr Modi visited the US in September and held talks with Mr Obama, where the two leaders called for a "new agenda" between the two countries.
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A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit charging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with crimes against humanity during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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The woman, who had been using the smartphone app Periscope, reportedly jumped under a train at a station about 25 miles (40 km) south of Paris on Tuesday.
The video is no longer available on Periscope, which is owned by Twitter.
Twitter said it did not comment "on individual accounts".
According to French newspapers, the young woman died in Egly, Essone at about 15:30 GMT on 10 May.
Previously, she had filmed herself in her flat discussing how she intended to make a video to "send a message", warning younger viewers not to continue to watch what would be a "shocking" act, it was reported.
During the filming, the young woman claimed to have been raped and named her attacker, according to the reports.
The death is currently being investigated and the data on the young woman's phone is being looked at, said local prosecutor Eric Lallement.
It is not the first time that Periscope has been linked to inappropriate content.
In April, a woman from Ohio was charged with streaming the rape of a teenage girl via the app. She denied the charge.
Other incidents include:
Periscope has strict guidelines about content that is allowed and also provides a link to allow users to report issues.
It does not monitor the feeds around the clock, although it has previously said that it was able to respond "within minutes".
Samaritans
The Samaritans helpline is available 24 hours a day for anyone in the UK struggling to cope. It provides a safe place to talk where calls are completely confidential.
Phone for free: 116 123
Email: [email protected]
Visit the Samaritans website
Survivors' Trust
The Survivors' Trust provide support and signposting for women, men and children who are survivors of rape, sexual violence or childhood sexual abuse.
Phone: 0808 801 0818
SOS Amitie
In France, SOS Amitie offers a similar service to the Samaritans.
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An investigation into the death of a 19-year-old French woman who reportedly live-streamed herself taking her own life has opened in France.
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John Atkinson, from Norton in North Yorkshire, faces charges of criminal damage with intent to endanger life and attempted grievous bodily harm.
He was also charged with dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and having no insurance.
The 26-year-old was remanded to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on 17 July.
More on this and other local stories from across Lincolnshire
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A man has appeared in court over an incident in which a car crashed into a row of holiday flats at Butlin's in Skegness.
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The Australian Grand Prix was brought forward to 20 March, forcing teams to re-think their production schedules.
But Sauber will stick with their initial plan, which means they will run a modified version of their 2015 car at Barcelona from 22-25 February.
The 2016 car - the C35 - will appear for the first time at the second test at the same track from 1-4 March.
The pre-season schedule has been cut from three four-day tests to two this year as part of an effort to control costs.
The 2016 season was originally due to start on 3 April but was brought forward because of the need to cram a record 21 races into the calendar.
Sauber will retain the same driver line-up as in 2015, with Brazilian Felipe Nasr partnering Swede Marcus Ericsson.
Meanwhile, McLaren have become the first team to announce the date for the public unveiling of their new car.
The Honda-powered MP4-31, which will be driven by Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, will be unveiled online on 21 February.
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Swiss Formula 1 team Sauber will not run their 2016 car until the second and final pre-season test.
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The 30-year-old, who played Premier League football with Cardiff and West Ham, worked under Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes at Bristol City in 2011.
He joins the Pittodrie outfit after leaving League One side MK Dons.
"I'm delighted he's joined. I was keen to add more goal threat and Nicky will give us that," McInnes told the Aberdeen website.
"He's a player I know well, I worked with him for a short spell at Bristol City before he was sold - I wanted to keep him then and I've always monitored his career.
"He's had a few injuries but he's still only 30. When I worked with him he was a fantastic finisher, a great boy as well, and we're hoping he'll enjoy the platform and profile we give him as a club, and try to get him back to what he does best, scoring goals."
Maynard started his career as a youth at Crewe, earning a move to Bristol in 2008.
After four years at Ashton Gate he was bought by West Ham for almost £2m, but failed to make the grade there and soon joined Cardiff City.
Maynard went on loan to Wigan before sealing a permanent move to MK Dons, for whom he netted twice last season.
Aberdeen, who have been linked with a move for Shaun Maloney, have lost forwards Jonny Hayes and Niall McGinn this summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Aberdeen have signed former MK Dons striker Nicky Maynard on a one-year deal.
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The pool will have a see-through bottom so that people using it can peer down to the ground as they swim.
It will be 35 metres up in the air and will link two blocks of flats near Battersea, in London.
Nicknamed "Sky Pool", it has been described as a world first.
These pictures are artists impressions of what the pool bridge will look like when it's completed in the summer of 2019.
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Plans to build a 25 metre swimming pool, that will join two 10 storey tower blocks, have been announced.
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Steven Mullaney (78) hit 12 boundaries and two sixes in an aggressive start before England's Alex Hales went for 36 on his return to county cricket.
However Brooks (4-74) and England's Adil Rashid (3-29) stifled the middle order as Notts lost wickets regularly.
A late cameo from Stuart Broad (36) helped the home side reach 261 all out before bad light halted play early.
Yorkshire struggled to make early inroads after Mullaney raced to 78 from just 80 balls but, having edged Steve Patterson to slip, Notts struggled to build on his start.
Hales, rested from Nottinghamshire's opening two games, needed to impress in the wake of England rivals Sam Robson, Adam Lyth and Moeen Ali all making hundreds.
He started in lively fashion, hitting eight boundaries from 53 deliveries before chipping Brooks to Joe Root at extra cover.
Michael Lumb (49) was the only member of the middle-order to get to grips with the Yorkshire bowlers before being trapped lbw by Brooks.
It was left to the tail, with Broad hitting seven boundaries before being run out by Brooks, to help Notts rescue their innings.
Nottinghamshire batsman Steven Mullaney told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"Myself and Alex Hales got us off to a bit of a flyer and gave us a decent platform but then we lost Alex, Greg Smith and myself before lunch, which was disappointing.
"We've probably given them six or seven of the wickets but we will find out how good that score is tomorrow when we have a bowl on it.
"They have been champions for the past two years for a reason but it could still be a good score if we bowl well."
Yorkshire head coach Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I'm incredibly satisfied with that, from where we were after the first hour.
"Andrew Gale said a few things at lunch - not ranting or raving, just quiet authority, and the guys were well aware of where we had gone wrong.
"Steve Patterson played a big part in getting things back. He's a very important performer for us who just gets the job done."
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Jack Brooks led Yorkshire's fightback with four wickets as Nottinghamshire's middle order struggled at Trent Bridge.
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A window of a property on Aubrey Street was smashed when a group of people threw a bin at it at about 1:45 GMT on Sunday.
The five adults inside the house were not injured.
Police have asked for anyone with information on the attack to contact them on the non-emergency number 101.
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An attack on a house in Londonderry is being treated as a sectarian hate crime, police have said.
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World number 164 Constant Lestienne committed the offences between February 2012 and June 2015.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said none of the matches involved Lestienne, who is yet to win an ATP title.
Half of the 24-year-old's ban is suspended "on condition of no further offences", the TIU said.
His fine will also be halved if he "gives assistance" - which can include with anti-corruption education for other players - to the TIU.
The TIU was set up in September 2008 to combat betting-related corruption in tennis.
It is a joint venture between the International Tennis Federation (ITF), WTA, ATP and the Grand Slam Board, which oversees the sport's four majors.
The ITF, meanwhile, has announced world number 79 Varvara Lepchenko "bore no fault or negligence" after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium.
The heart drug was put on the prohibited list by the World Anti-Doping Agency in January, but studies showed it takes longer to be cleared from the system than first thought.
The ITF accepted Lepchenko's argument that she had stopped taking the drug prior to it being banned.
Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova is the most high-profile athlete to have been banned for testing positive for meldonium.
In June, the Russian was suspended for two years, though she has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with a verdict is expected in early October.
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A French tennis player has been suspended for seven months and fined $10,000 (£7,698) after being found guilty of betting on 220 matches.
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The USNS Invincible changed direction when the other vessels came within 600 yards (550m) before stopping.
Three British Royal Navy vessels, accompanying the American ship at the time, were also forced to move.
A US official told reporters the Iranian vessel had tried to position itself between them.
The Iranian ships are believed to belong to the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a navy official told the Associated Press news agency that such incidents had been happening on a regular basis.
The navy considers them "unprofessional and dangerous", and had fired warning shots in previous incidents, he added.
The Invincible, a tracking ship, is fitted with considerable radar equipment and other scientific instruments.
Such ships are usually deployed to monitor missile launches and provide important data back to the command centre. For friendly launches, such data helps with accuracy and future weapon design.
But the system can also be used to track foreign missile launches and tests.
In February, Iran once again tested a medium-range ballistic missile, in apparent violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution.
That test led to sanctions from the United States and a strongly-worded warning from President Donald Trump.
"Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!" he tweeted.
The swift sanctions were widely seen as a warning to Iran that the new administration would not accept any further missile tests.
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A US Navy ship was forced to change course when fast-moving Iranian vessels approached it in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials say.
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Martin McGartland was shot as he sat in his car in Duchess Street, Whitley Bay, on 17 June 1999.
Five people have been arrested but no one has ever been charged.
Northumbria Police said its main line of inquiry continued to be that he may have been shot by someone with Irish Republican sympathies.
Mr McGartland survived despite being shot several times at close range and was given a new identity.
Det Ch Supt Chris Thomson said: "Although this was an unsuccessful attack, it was a cold-blooded, calculated assassination attempt."
He added: "Mr McGartland's history as an agent for the then Royal Ulster Constabulary and his supplying of information about the Provisional IRA is a matter of public knowledge, documented in his own books on the subject.
"Our main line of inquiry, therefore, continues to be that Mr McGartland may have been shot by a person or people with Irish Republican sympathies for reasons closely linked to his former life in Northern Ireland."
Northumbria Police said it was continuing to use DNA recovered from the scene to eliminate people from the investigation.
Other lines of inquiry concern a van abandoned at the scene which had been bought only two days before the attack and a message left on a telephone answering machine a few days earlier asking about a van for sale.
Police said two semi-automatic pistols and some ammunition were found in the Gateshead area within months of the attack and one was forensically linked to the shooting.
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Police have renewed their appeal for information 11 years after the attempted murder of a former IRA informer on Tyneside.
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Claudia Martins, 33, gave birth alone in the bath at her sister's flat in Knowle, Bristol, having allegedly kept the pregnancy a secret.
At Bristol Crown Court, Ms Martins denied a single charge of murder on 12 September 2014.
Police found the baby's body in a suitcase after Ms Martins had initially denied she had been pregnant.
Paramedics were initially called after family and friends found Ms Martins in the bath with "a lot of blood".
She was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary where she repeatedly told medical staff she had not given birth or been pregnant.
Two days later, police were called to the flat and found the body of a newborn baby inside a small black suitcase.
Ms Martins, a Portuguese national who is described as having an extremely low IQ, was arrested and admitted that she had given birth, but said the baby was stillborn.
A post-mortem examination found a wad of toilet paper inside the girl's mouth, which experts claim was "deliberately inserted".
Prosecuting, Adam Vaitilingam QC, said two police officers were called to the flat Ms Martins shared with her sister, Vilma Marshall, on 15 September last year.
They were shown to the bathroom of the flat, where they saw and opened a suitcase.
"Inside, wrapped in towels and in a black plastic bag, they found the body of a newborn baby girl," he said.
"The baby had been born three days earlier to the defendant, Claudia Martins.
"It is the prosecution's case that she killed the baby as soon as it was born and that she hid the body in the suitcase.
"It is the defence case that she never knew she was pregnant and when she gave birth it was stillborn and that she hid it in the suitcase out of a mixture of shock and panic."
The jury heard Ms Martins is originally from Mozambique but moved to Portugal before settling in Bristol in 2011.
The case continues.
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A mother murdered her newborn girl by filling her mouth with toilet paper before hiding the body, a court heard.
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) slipped 0.1% last month, the first decline since January.
But in the 12 months to August, the CPI rose 0.2% after a similar gain in July.
Federal Reserve officials who are meeting to discuss interest rates, have previously said they view low energy costs and a rising dollar as temporary.
A decision is due on Thursday.
Last month they indicated that seven years of zero interest rates would end, but it is uncertain whether a rise will happen this month or early next year.
Whenever the rise occurs, the Fed has said it will be gradual.
Michael Montgomery, US Economist at IHS Global Insight said he predicted there wouldn't be a rise in September.
"This CPI report will not change minds about policy but all the other factors driving the economy are putting scant upward pressure on prices and the major driver (energy) is not under control."
The so-called core CPI, which strips out volatile fuel and food costs, rose 0.1% for a second month.
The relatively robust nature of the US economy has been supportive of a rate rise but that is against a background of weak commodity prices, uneasy financial markets and the slowing down of China and emerging markets.
David Folkert-Landau, Deutsche Bank's research chief said there was a "compelling case" for raising interest rates given the improved labour market, and the temporary nature of low energy prices.
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US consumer prices fell in August as petrol prices dropped and a strong dollar curbed the cost of goods, the US Department of Labor has said.
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The man sustained head injuries after being struck by a southbound Ford Kuga on the A73 at Sherifflats Road, Thankerton, at about 11:10 on Thursday.
He was taken by air ambulance to South Glasgow University Hospital.
The 71-year-old car driver was unhurt. The A73 at Sherifflats Road was closed for six hours after the incident. Police have appealed for witnesses.
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A 40-year-old man has been seriously injured after being hit by a car while crossing the road in South Lanarkshire.
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The 35-year-old retired in October, 2016 after joining Merthyr in 2015 and helping them reach the Welsh Premiership.
Powell played for Newport, Cardiff Blues, Newport Gwent Dragons, Scarlets, Leicester, Sale, Wasps and Beziers during his career.
He made 23 Wales appearances and was an uncapped Lion to South Africa in 2009.
Powell said on Twitter that he "can't wait" to begin his role at the Welsh National League Division One East club.
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Former Wales and British and Irish Lions back-rower Andy Powell has become an assistant coach at Brecon RFC.
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The former Scottish first minister, now SNP MP, made the remark during a heated exchange in the Commons on Wednesday.
Mr Salmond had accused Ms Soubry of "demented" behaviour as she barracked him during the debate.
In a later tweet, she said his comments showed a "19th century attitude" to women, claiming he believed they should be "seen not heard".
The clash between the Conservative minister and former SNP leader came as MPs debated the upcoming appointments to Commons select committees.
Ms Soubry had suggested Mr Salmond should "move on" with his speech instead of detailing the Barnett formula, which determines regions' spending.
It prompted him to reply: "She should be setting an example to her new members, not cavorting about like some demented junior minister. Behave yourself, woman."
Responding to the exchange the following day, Ms Soubry tweeted: "Alex Salmond seems to think women should be seen not heard. His attitude belongs firmly in the 19th century.
"Salmond can dish it out but he can't take it!" she added.
It is not the first time the pair have clashed. Prior to the election they both appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, when Ms Soubry claimed the possibility of the senior SNP MP playing a role in government was "absolutely terrifying".
She said Mr Salmond's plans filled her with "absolute horror".
An SNP spokeswoman said: "There is no place for sexism in the House of Commons - and this was not an example of it. This was a boisterous but good-natured exchange and the remark was not intended to cause any offence."
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Alex Salmond has been rebuked by Small Business Minister Anna Soubry after he told her to "behave yourself, woman".
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Four "terrorists" opened fire on the guards after being spotted crossing the border near Judayyidat Arar in Northern Borders province at dawn, a spokesman told the official SPA news agency.
Two of the assailants were shot dead, while the others detonated explosive belts they were wearing, he added.
No group has claimed responsibility.
However, Saudi Arabia has joined the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS) and its warplanes jets are conducting air strikes on the jihadist group's positions in Syria, along with three other Arab states.
The Saudi interior ministry reported initially that only two border guards and two assailants died in Monday's attack. However, it later raised the death toll to seven.
The ministry's spokesman told SPA that the guards had been patrolling the Saudi frontier at around 04:30 (01:30 GMT) when they intercepted the four men trying to enter from Iraq.
"The terrorists opened fire and the patrol responded accordingly. As a result, one of the terrorists was killed while another terrorist detonated an explosive belt he was wearing when the patrol tried to convince him to surrender himself," the spokesman said.
The two others tried to flee into Wadi Arar, but were surrounded.
"The patrol called on them to surrender, but one of them blew himself up while the other was killed by security men," the spokesman added.
After searching the scene, the guards reportedly recovered automatic weapons, pistols, hand grenades and explosive belts, as well as money.
The ministry spokesman said the commander of the border force in the area, Brig Gen Oudah al-Balawi, was among the guards who were killed.
Saudi Arabia's heavily-defended 1,200km (745-mile) border with Iraq has come under mortar fire on previous occasions, but more direct assaults are rare.
The kingdom deployed thousands of extra troops along the frontier in July after IS seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
In November, Saudis living nearby were asked to relocate for at least a year to allow a 20km (12-mile) buffer zone to be created.
Judayyidat Arar is close to the border with Iraq's western province of Anbar, parts of which are controlled by IS and its Sunni Arab allies.
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Three Saudi border guards have been killed and three others wounded in attack near the kingdom's frontier with Iraq, the interior ministry has said.
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About 500,000 people are expected to flock to the city's docks for the four-day maritime festival.
This year, Belfast is the home port for the start of the Tall Ships Races. About 50 vessels will be on show from 15 different countries until Sunday.
Northern Ireland's Enterprise Minister Jonathan Bell said the event, the biggest of its kind in the city, will boost the economy by about £5m.
He added: "Just as importantly... in the long term, hosting the race offers another excellent opportunity to promote Belfast and Northern Ireland on a global scale."
Belfast previously hosted The Tall Ships event in 2009.
The ships will go on to visit six ports in five countries over the course of the competition.
There are two main sites in Belfast - on the River Lagan beside the Titanic Quarter and at Pollock Dock near Duncrue Street.
Traffic congestion is expected and visitors need to plan ahead.
Special transport and traffic arrangements will be in place to deal with the thousands of expected visitors.
Phillip Woods from Translink is advising people use buses, trains, and special park and ride facilities.
"Plan your journey be aware of the event sites and be aware of what you want to do when you get to the event. Leave plenty of time for your journey. We do expect quite a lot of congestion around the site," he said.
Translink have published details online of special transport services being laid on for the event.
There are special shuttle buses available and for those travelling by car, two dedicated park and ride facilities will be available.
Several roads in the city centre and port areas will be closed or restricted for the duration of the four-day event.
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The Tall Ships festival has opened in Belfast.
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Lucas Walker was playing when he was swept away last month.
His mother, 37-year-old Julie Walker, tried to save him, but both died. His brother Samuel, 13, also tried to help.
A newspaper death notice said a celebration of their lives was being held at Aberdeen Crematorium on Friday morning.
The notice said: "They were a much loved mother and brother, a dear daughter, sister, auntie, niece and cousin. Lucas was a very dearly loved son, grandson, brother and nephew.
"Julie and Lucas will be so sorely missed."
Relatives earlier said in a statement that they were "devastated" by the tragedy.
They thanked rescuers for their efforts.
Lucas' brother was also pulled from the water, along with a man and a woman who had also tried to save the pair.
Safety measures at the beach are being assessed as part of an inquiry.
Lucas was a pupil at Bramble Brae School in Aberdeen.
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The funeral of a six-year-old boy and his mother who died after getting into difficulties at Aberdeen beach has been held.
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Shakir Ullah, 35, is a director of Digital Circle Ltd, and Irfan Ali, 32, runs a company called Simply Peach.
In the first such case in Northern Ireland, they both pleaded guilty to five charges of facilitating unlawful entry to the UK.
The charges stemmed from Home Office raids on their stalls in 19 shopping centres in Northern Ireland.
Eleven illegal workers were discovered during the raids almost two years ago.
They were subsequently removed to the countries they had come from; in this case, Pakistan or India, while a prosecution was begun against their employers.
Both men, who are originally from Pakistan, run a number of businesses based in Manchester.
Carolyne Lindsay, of Immigration Enforcement's crime team, said: "This case reinforces the message about our commitment to tackling those responsible for bringing illegal immigrants to the UK.
"Not only did Ullah and Ali knowingly try to flout immigration laws, they also preyed on vulnerable people desperate to reach the UK."
That was a message echoed by the prosecution after the two men pleaded guilty.
A defence lawyer, however, said the pair did not accept that they had exploited any of the workers.
He said they had all applied for the jobs and been paid fairly, and there was no suggestion of people trafficking.
The judge accepted that this was the case and both men were spared jail, with suspended sentences of 18 months for Ali and three years for Ullah.
Assets have also been seized from the men's companies under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
This includes some £140,000 which is currently frozen.
A separate team of Home Office financial investigators will pursue this money and other assets through civil courts.
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Two men who employed illegal workers on their mobile phone accessory stalls have been given suspended sentences.
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NIE Networks has restored supply to 10,000 customers but about 3,000 remain without power.
The worst affected areas are counties Tyrone, Londonderry and Antrim. The strongest wind recorded was 85mph.
A number of roads across Northern Ireland are also closed due to fallen trees and flooding.
NIE Networks emergency crews and engineers are working to restore power to the remaining customers and the firm has opened its main incident centre in Craigavon, County Armagh, to co-ordinate its response.
The firm's communications manager, Julia Carson, said: "We have been in regular contact with the Met Office and had mobilised NIE Networks emergency crews, engineers and call handlers in preparation for any damage the severe weather may cause
She also advised the public: "Put safety first and if you do see any trees down across power lines or broken electricity poles, keep away and call NIE Networks immediately."
Electricity customers who have lost supply in Northern Ireland should call NIE Networks' customer helpline on 03457 643 643 or report the fault online using their website: nienetworks.co.uk
Storm Gertrude has brought gusts of wind of over 80mph in exposed coastal areas of Northern Ireland - the highest gust recorded so far was 85mph at Orlock Head on the County Down coast.
Winds will reduce by mid morning but it will remain windy throughout the day with a mix of sunshine showers.
The Met Office's amber wind warning expires at 10:00 GMT but a yellow wind warning remains in force until 18:00 GMT with gusts to around 60mph possible.
Colder air will sweep across Northern Ireland later and showers will turn to sleet and snow. A yellow warning has been issued for wind and snow on Friday night, valid from midnight to 15:00 GMT on Saturday.
Storm Gertrude has also caused damage in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland overnight.
The Irish state broadcaster RTÉ said more than 5,000 homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland were without power on Friday morning after severe winds.
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About 13,000 electricity customers lost supply in Northern Ireland overnight after gales brought down trees and damaged a number of power lines.
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The 60-year-old nephew of King Salman is one of the world's richest people.
He said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1997.
The money would be used to "foster cultural understanding", "empower women", and "provide vital disaster relief", among other things, he said.
Mr Gates praised the decision, calling it an "inspiration to all of us working in philanthropy around the world".
Prince Alwaleed is at number 34 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.
The money will go to the prince's charitable organisation, Alwaleed Philanthropies, to which he has already donated $3.5bn.
The prince, who does not hold an official government position, is chairman of investment firm Kingdom Holding Company.
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The company owns stakes in hotels The Four Seasons, Fairmont and Raffles, as well as News Corp, Citigroup, Twitter and Apple.
The prince will be donating his personal wealth. "This is very much separate from my ownership in Kingdom Holding," he said at the announcement.
"Philanthropy is a personal responsibility, which I embarked upon more than three decades ago and is an intrinsic part of my Islamic faith," he added in a statement.
He said he hoped the gift would "help build bridges to foster cultural understanding, develop communities, empower women, enable youth, provide vital disaster relief and create a more tolerant and accepting world".
Prince Alwaleed's announcement comes during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are encouraged to give charity and help the needy.
He said the donation would take place over several years and would be overseen by a board of trustees, which he will head.
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Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has said he will donate his $32bn (£20bn; €29bn) personal fortune to charity.
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The project was intended to show how Afghanistan's natural gas reserves could be used as an alternative to expensive petroleum imports.
However, it cost more than 140 times that of a similar project in neighbouring Pakistan.
The report called the spending "gratuitous and extreme".
The highly critical report was published by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a group overseeing the use of the approximately $110bn the US has spent in Afghanistan since 2002.
"It's an outrageous waste of money that raises suspicions that there is something more there than just stupidity. There may be fraud. There may be corruption," said John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
The station, which was built in the city of Sheberghan, was meant to be the first ever natural gas filling station in Afghanistan.
It was meant to determine whether Afghanistan had an economic interest in developing a natural gas industry.
The station was constructed at the behest of a US military task force originally created to help spur economic development in Iraq after the US invasion that was later replicated in Afghanistan in 2009.
The cost of $43m is far larger than the estimated cost of building natural gas stations in other countries - which ranges from $200,000 to $500,000.
By comparison, a similar project in Pakistan was estimated to cost only $306,000.
The report acknowledged that building the facility in war-torn Afghanistan would incur additional costs not seen elsewhere.
However it said the US military was "unable to provide an explanation for the high cost of the project or to answer any other questions concerning its planning, implementation, or outcome".
In a email to the BBC, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Joe Sowers said that the US military had fully co-operated with the investigation.
According to Afghan government documents obtained by the oversight group, a business license granted to a company operating the filling station expired in 2014, and has not been renewed.
Mr Sopko said he intended to continue investigating to see whether any conduct was "criminal in nature".
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The US Department of Defense has spent $43m (£28m) on a vehicle fuelling station in Afghanistan, according to a recently published oversight report.
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Roth took over at the museum in 2011 and left last year, having overseen blockbuster shows based on Alexander McQueen and David Bowie.
V&A chairman Nicholas Coleridge said he raised the museum "to new heights".
"Martin will be remembered as a man of prodigious energy, a director with a global reputation," he said.
Under Roth, the V&A was named 2016 Art Fund museum of the year and achieved record visitor numbers.
"He was a born frontman who enjoyed the warm glow of the spotlight, as do most museum directors.
"He put his natural showmanship to good use by raising the V&A's profile and status in the UK and abroad."
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Roth also oversaw the V&A's move towards a presence at the Venice Biennale and helped found the V&A Research Institute, as well as being closely involved in the expansion of the museum in Dundee and Shekou, China.
Coleridge said Roth was "a committed Europhile and cultural ambassador with a philosophical turn of mind, as well as a devoted husband and father", adding: "We will greatly miss Martin, and are profoundly grateful for his considerable contribution to the V&A."
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But the German-born director voiced his concerns about the future after the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
In July last year, he told the BBC the referendum result had worried him, saying it "feels like skiing in very thick fog".
He added that he had received letters from potential funders "asking if we can put things on hold".
Former Labour MP Tristram Hunt quit his seat in Stoke to become the Roth's successor at the V&A earlier this year.
He tweeted: "@V_and_A is hugely saddened by death of Martin Roth - his was a prodigious internationalism & contemporary ambition."
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Tributes have been paid to Martin Roth, the former head of London's Victoria & Albert museum, after his death at the age of 62.
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Griffiths hit the net either side of half-time as Celtic beat Dundee United 4-1 at Tannadice to move six points clear at the top of the Premiership.
In recent years, the club have cashed in on the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama, but Deila says Griffiths is going no-where.
"He's vital for us," said Deila.
"He works so hard and is an unbelievable finisher. He's also creating space for the others, for Tom Rogic and for Kris Commons and Stuart Armstrong."
Griffiths got Celtic underway with the opener when he took advantage of a slip by United defender Gavin Gunning before Jozo Simunovic headed in a second.
Simon Murray briefly got the hosts back in the game, but after Griffiths scored a third, Kris Commons volleyed in a sublime fourth.
"To score four goals away is always difficult," Deila told BBC Scotland. "We could have scored more but lost the ball too much.
"There was so much space and they really wanted to go forward.
"Confidence is very important. Winning games gives you confidence so we should be confident. We saw a lot of good play today."
Dundee United manager Mixu Paatelainen saw some positives from his side and urged them to build on that ahead of a crucial home meeting with Kilmarnock next weekend.
Already 11 points adrift at the bottom of the Premiership, United cannot afford to slip further behind.
"I thought the attitude was excellent and we did create a couple of openings," said the Finn.
"Celtic defended well, but on a couple of occasions we got behind them and worried them, but I felt we gave the ball away far too easy.
"We should have been more patient on the ball. We were too anxious.
"Next week is a massive game. That's what I told the players in the dressing-room.
"We put our sights now on next weekend, make sure that everybody is ready and give Kilmarnock a good game.
"They'll come here and be direct and be very dangerous, they've got plenty of power up front and it won't be easy.
"But, if we are patient, we take our positions right and we take care with our passes, we can worry them."
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Celtic manager Ronny Deila refuses to put a price on Leigh Griffiths' head after the Scotland striker scored his 50th and 51st goals for the club.
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12 July 2017 Last updated at 07:06 BST
Can you spot him?
Yes, it's the 130th anniversary of the first Sherlock Holmes book, so it's a pretty good choice.
Sherlock is famous for solving complicated crimes, and now visitors to Maze can put their own detective skills to the test.
They will have to find their way through the maze and collect clues as they go.
Elementary!
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This is the award-winning Wistow Maze in Leicestershire and this year a very special character is taking over.
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that Slovenia should have direct access to international waters in the north Adriatic Sea using a corridor crossing Croatian waters.
The ruling was hailed by Slovenia but Croatia said it would ignore it.
The dispute between the two members of the European Union goes back to the break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Croatia and Slovenia are also embroiled in an equally longstanding land border dispute, which involves tiny stretches of territory.
The disagreements between them were an obstacle to Croatia's accession to the EU for years.
Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar described Thursday's ruling as "historic", arguing that the judgement was "definitive and must be applied on both countries".
Mr Cerar said he would be soon be contacting his Croatian counterpart to "begin dialogue on implementing the decision".
But Croatian Prime Minister Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said that the ruling was "not obliging" to his country "in any way" and there would be no intention to implement it.
Croatia withdrew from the arbitration proceedings in 2015, questioning the impartiality of the court after it transpired that a Slovenian official had been in communication with the Slovenian member of the tribunal.
The official concerned was sacked and the tribunal was reconstituted, with a Norwegian and a Swiss judge replacing the Slovenian and the Croatian members, the EUobserver website reported.
The ruling said that Slovenia should be granted "a junction area" within international waters adjoining the Slovenian town of Piran, allowing "freedom of communication" to civilian and military shipping travelling to Slovenia.
"The Tribunal determines that the junction between the Slovenian territorial sea and the 'High Sea' is an area in which ships and aircraft enjoy essentially the same rights of access to and from Slovenia as they enjoy on the high seas," it said in its ruling.
Croatia for its part has dismissed Slovenia's claims as an "entirely spurious resource grab under the guise of a maritime access corridor".
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An international arbitration court has handed Slovenia victory in a long-running maritime dispute with Croatia.
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Tyne Amateur Rowing Club (ARC), which dates back to 1852, has built new facilities with help from a bequest from former member John Dalkin.
Honorary vice-president Ian Boyd said they had built a "state of the art rowing club which is was one of the finest in the country" in a year.
It has "excellent" storage facilities for boats and training, he said.
The club's rowers have competed at the highest levels of the sport.
Former Tyne ARC junior Will Fletcher is due to make his Olympic debut at Rio 2016 after being selected for the lightweight men's double scull.
The Duchess of Northumberland, who opened the facility in Newcastle, said rowing on the Tyne was part of the area's history.
"A lot of people who were involved in heavy industry would do this as a sideline," she said.
"It's really wonderful to see that we're not sweeping that history under the carpet, that actually we're recognising it and it's flourishing."
The building in Newburn also has facilities for local charities including the Percy Hedley Foundation, Norcare, Veterans at Ease and Visually Impaired North East.
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One of the country's oldest sporting clubs has officially opened its new £1m boathouse.
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In government papers newly released by the National Archives, it was suggested some players felt "revulsion" about competing along with Argentina.
But Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was warned withdrawal would be a propaganda "opportunity" for Argentina.
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland did go to Spain for the tournament.
Days after the Argentine invasion of the Falklands on 2 April 1982, a directive from sports minister Neil Macfarlane advised: "I urge no sporting contact with Argentina at representative, club or individual level on British soil. This policy applies equally to all sporting fixtures in Argentina."
In a letter to Mrs Thatcher the following month, Mr Macfarlane reported growing doubts about the UK teams' attendance at the World Cup, starting in June.
"Up until a week or 10 days ago I have taken the line that it was up to the Football Authorities to decide whether they should participate," he wrote.
"However, the loss of British life on HMS Sheffield and Sea Harriers has had a marked effect on some international footballers and some administrators. They feel revulsion at the prospect of playing in the same tournament as Argentina at this time."
He added that Fifa, international football's governing body, had made it clear that Argentina would not be pressured to withdraw from the tournament.
"In this case no other country would follow us in withdrawing from the World Cup," Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong wrote to Mrs Thatcher days later.
"Argentina would see British withdrawal not as putting any pressure on them but as an opportunity to make propaganda: the United Kingdom, not Argentina, would be the country set apart."
Despite the discussions between the politicians, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland did all go on to compete in the tournament, although none of them met Argentina on the pitch.
Scotland were eliminated in the first group stage, while England and Northern Ireland were both knocked out at the second group stage.
Argentina exited the tournament after finishing bottom of a second round group won by eventual winners Italy.
In August that year, after the end of the conflict, restrictions were lifted on sporting engagements with Argentina.
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The government considered pulling the home nations out of the football World Cup in 1982 during the Falklands War with Argentina, official papers show.
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The Irishman, who is 48 on Tuesday, oversaw a 16½-11½ win over the United States at Gleneagles in September.
While US skipper Tom Watson faced criticism, McGinley was praised for his organisation and management.
He will join up again with Ryder Cup player Rory McIlroy as Ireland golf team leader at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"I'm very, very honoured," said McGinley, before paying tribute to the Gleneagles crowd.
"I need to thank the people of Scotland. Your support was huge. I had 12 great players, 12 great personalities and a great backroom team and vice captains," the four-time winner of the Ryder Cup added.
"My plan as coach was to allow the vice-captains to follow each game. I had a plan and was getting the information fed in and was plotting the next move.
"We never had one hand on the cup. A lot of thought went in to the order. I did not think of myself as a cheerleader. I was managing the situation as best as possible," said the Irishman.
Just after Europe retained the Ryder Cup, McIlroy said: "I think I speak on behalf of all the 12 players and say he couldn't have done anything else. He was fantastic."
Lee Westwood, playing in his ninth Ryder Cup this year, said McGinley had laid down the blueprint for future European Ryder Cup captains, while Spaniard Sergio Garcia, a veteran of seven Ryder Cups, suggested he had modernised the role.
Speaking with BBC Radio 5 live afterwards, McGinley also paid tribute to the input of former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson:
"Alex Ferguson was great. I met him infrequently over 10 years and then met him in Manchester a year ago over some lunch with wine. He paid!
"We went to a nice place where he goes and spent a large number of hours. The reason why I chose him is because he went through many of the dynamics with Man United.
"They were a great team to watch and we had the same dynamics. That brings a lot of expectation. There are all things we've dealt with."
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Europe's Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley capped a triumphant 2014 by winning Coach of the Year at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
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The painting, on a wall of The Oxford pub in Totterdown, was one of street artist Andy Council's pieces inspired by dinosaurs.
When it was painted over, regulars from the pub began a crowd-funding campaign to have it repainted.
Mr Council is spending the weekend adding new designs to the pub's walls.
"When I heard it had been painted over I thought it was funny because it was an accident and you do come to expect it," he said.
Mr Council has also painted murals at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and has a model in the Bristol M Shed museum.
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A mural on the side of a Bristol pub - which was painted over by workmen - has been replaced with a new work.
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The bomb was planted at a bus stop near a market in the town of Matani, about 20km (12 miles) south of Peshawar, police commanders told news agencies.
Matani is close to Pakistan's lawless tribal regions and the Afghan border.
It is not clear who carried out the attack but Pakistan has been battling Islamist militants and its own version of the Taliban.
At least 10 people were wounded in the attack in Matani.
It is the latest violence in Pakistan since the US special forces raid last month that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in the north of the country.
It comes a day after reports that a top al-Qaeda operative, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a US drone strike in the tribal region of South Waziristan.
Since Bin Laden was killed, a paramilitary academy, a naval base, government buildings, a police station and a US consulate convoy have been attacked.
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At least six people have been killed in a bomb blast outside the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.
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If elected, it says it would introduce an environmental act to safeguard thousands of EU laws that will disappear when Britain leaves the bloc.
Co-leader Caroline Lucas said the party would also introduce locally owned energy firms and end plastic waste.
Launching its manifesto, she said the Green Party was the only one to put the environment at the heart of policies.
Stressing that the Greens were "different", she said: "We know that our prosperity depends on the natural world - it's the ultimate source of everything we make and use from food and materials to the sinks for our waste.
"Even a digital economy is hugely dependent on raw earth materials and huge amounts of energy.
"Building a successful economy is not at odds with protecting our environment - it's absolutely impossible to build a thriving economy without protecting our environment."
Under the plans, Greens would introduce:
Ms Lucas added: "The environment has been wilfully ignored by the political mainstream and our climate and our countryside will pay the price of an environment-free election.
"With 2016 the hottest year on record, and a climate-denier in the White House, the need for bold and dynamic action on climate change has never been more urgent."
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The Green Party has pledged new laws to protect Britain's nature, wildlife and countryside in the wake of Brexit.
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Caley Thistle have approaches Partick Thistle midfield trio Stuart Bannigan, Steven Lawless and Abdul Osman.
But the Inverness manager said: "We are finding it difficult to get one or two over the line and we are finding it difficult to keep who we want to keep.
"We are busy trying to bring someone to the club."
Caley Thistle lost midfielder Nick Ross to Dundee last summer, while their former strikers, Edward Ofere and Billy McKay, now line up for Dundee United, Ryan Christie was sold to Celtic, full-back Graeme Shinnie moved to Aberdeen, while midfielder Marley Watkins joined Barnsley.
"We are going to lose Vincent and Danny Williams and it's our job to replace that," said Hughes.
"Our budget will not be right up there, we will be in the bottom two in the league.
"We have to be very shrewd in the way we spend our money."
Hughes also expects to lose Miles Storey once the striker's loan spell from Swindon Town ends this summer.
"I've never heard anything, but what will happen, just from being in the game a long while, is that Miles Storey will probably move somewhere on the back of the season he has had here," said the Caley Thistle boss.
"And that will not be his choosing. It will probably be the agent trying to cash in.
"If Miles Storey wanted to come back here for roughly the same deal then we would jump at it."
The 22-year-old striker has scored 10 goals this term and is out of contract at the end of the season.
"I haven't thought about my future to be honest," said Storey.
"To be honest, I've just been counting myself as being here and trying to embed myself in the club. I've really enjoyed it up until now.
"I've just got to help Inverness these next three league games, then after the split we will see what happens."
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John Hughes admits he is struggling to find replacements for Danny Williams and James Vincent, who are to join Dundee from Inverness CT next season.
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Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje, George Kruis and Billy Vunipola (all Saracens), Jack Clifford (Harlequins) and Elliot Daly (Wasps) are on the 15-man list.
The last three winners are all English - Nick Abendanon, Steffon Armitage and Jonny Wilkinson.
Northampton's Wales wing George North, Toulon's Armitage, winner in 2014, and Racing 92's Dan Carter also feature.
Australia great George Smith and fellow Wasp Charles Piatau, Exeter number eight Thomas Waldrom and Leicester's Vereniki Goneva are the other nominees from the English Premiership.
Armitage's Toulon team-mate Guilhem Guirado and Racing 92's Argentine winger Juan Imhoff complete the list.
The winner will be announced during May's European finals weekend in Lyon.
Clermont Auvergne's Abendanon, who scored a try in a losing cause in the the 2015 European Champions Cup final, is the current holder of the award.
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Six of England's Grand Slam-winning squad are among the nominations for the 2016 European player of the year award.
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A carrot for Rudolph and a mince pie for Father Christmas are traditions that most British families associate with 24 December. Now so-called Christmas Eve boxes are gaining popularity, but do they add to the festive joy or simply pile on pressure for parents?
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is warning parents not to buy pink toys for girls this Christmas because they could be putting them off getting into science in the future. Not all of you agree, however. Women in science and engineering jobs have been sharing their experiences as children on our Facebook page.
This is an incredible story of love and science. Jessica Jenkins, 21, had cancer treatment that left her infertile. But her mum offered to be a surrogate. "In May this year we had an embryo defrosted and implanted into my mother's womb for her to be the little oven helping our Jelly Bean grow."
Now this is not something you hear talked about openly very often. But as part of the BBC's 100 Women season, we profiled French author Corinne Maier, who said her children had left her "exhausted and bankrupt". Her attack on "idealising parenthood" struck a chord with many mothers and fathers around the world. Here are some of the responses we received from other parents who regret having children.
Actor Tom Hardy is going to be reading a CBeebies Bedtime Story on New Year's Eve and we're not sure who is more excited - children or parents. The father-of-two is best known for his roles in Inception, The Dark Knight Rises and The Revenant. But now children across the country will be able to hear him read You Must Bring a Hat by Simon Philip and Kate Hindley.
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In case you missed them, here's a round-up of the most interesting parenting stories from the BBC this week.
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One of the lorries shed its load of spuds in the crash near Knutsford and police said it took three hours to clear the road.
"They filled the carriageway," said bee farmer Henry Baxendale, whose farm is close by. "I didn't see any injuries but there were a few bruised potatoes."
A police spokeswoman said: "One man tried to sweep them up but he failed."
Police and others chipped in to clear the crop that had blocked Chester Road near The Smoker Inn pub shortly after 10:00 BST.
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A potato spillage blocked roads after a smash involving two lorries in Cheshire.
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A record 54 countries will compete for 11 places in the finals with hosts Italy.
The nine group winners qualify for the finals with four second-placed sides going into the play-offs.
Wales are without an Under-21 manager following Geraint Williams' departure.
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Wales have been drawn against Portugal, Switzerland, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Liechtenstein in the 2019 Uefa Under-21 Championship qualifying group.
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Its 12.7ft (3.9m) diameter has won it a place in the Guinness World Records as the "most slender tower".
The structure, which is due to open this summer, stands 531ft (162m) high.
John Roberts, chief engineer and director of the British Airways i360, said the tower's height-to-width aspect ratio of 41.15-to-one beat those of The Shard and the BT Tower in London.
He said the Shard had an aspect ratio of six-to-one, and the BT Tower had an aspect ratio of eight-to-one.
The tower had used "groundbreaking engineering", he said.
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Architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, who also designed the London Eye, said the i360 built on the design, engineering, technology and innovation behind London's big wheel, taking it to "new heights".
Mr Roberts said the team had not set out to design the project with the aim of achieving a world record; they had just wanted to build a very slender tower.
He said people might think the main challenge was carrying the weight of the 94-tonne pod with 200 passengers on board weighing about 16 tonnes.
But he said: "Amazingly, that's not really the problem of designing the tower. The tower is all about one thing - making it stand up safely in extremely strong winds."
He said Storm Imogen recently brought windspeeds on Brighton beach of about 75mph, but the tower could withstand windspeeds of more than 100mph.
"There's absolutely no way this tower is going to fall over," he said.
The pod, made of 24 segments of handmade glass, will rise up to 137m (450ft) in front of the city's West Pier. It will give visitors views of up to 26 miles along the Sussex coast from Bexhill to Chichester.
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Brighton's tallest building - the i360 tower - has now also been declared the thinnest in the world.
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Mark Steinberg was responding to social media comments claiming Woods' condition had worsened on his return from a third back operation.
In December, Woods, 40, said he had "nothing to look forward to" in his recovery and admitted spending his time playing video games.
He has not played golf since September.
Steinberg added: "It's reprehensible that every few months someone makes something up and it's treated like a real story.
"Tiger continues to work on his rehabilitation and we will have an accurate update at the appropriate time."
Former world number one Woods' last major victory was at the US Open in 2008. His most recent PGA Tour victory was the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational in 2013.
He has not competed competitively since August 2015, when he tied for 10th at the Wyndham Championship.
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Tiger Woods' agent has dismissed reports the 14-time major winner has suffered a setback on his comeback from injury as "absolutely false".
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The jobs will be cut at the Aldermaston and Burghfield sites in Berkshire, according to the Prospect union.
AWE is responsible for making Britain's Trident nuclear warheads and it also stores nuclear waste from Royal Navy submarines.
The company said it was part of plans focused "on improving and streamlining ways of working".
As well as the two sites in Berkshire, AWE has facilities in Blacknest, Hampshire, and Coulport in Scotland.
It said in a statement: "While the company is committed to avoiding compulsory redundancies where possible, a reduction of roles in some areas and an increase in others is required to ensure long-term efficiencies while meeting overall programme requirements."
Trade union negotiator Richard Tabbner said Prospect would be meeting AWE bosses to discuss the redundancies.
"Prospect is both shocked and disappointed that the company has decided to announce job losses at a time when the regulatory body remains concerned about the shortage of skilled personnel within the company," he said.
"Prospect members within AWE are highly skilled and specialised in the work they undertake."
AWE Management Limited is a consortium of Serco Group plc, the Lockheed Martin Corporation and Jacobs Engineering Group.
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Up to 500 jobs will be lost at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), the company has announced.
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Net income for the three months to the end of September fell to $468m (£291m) from $3.8bn in the same period of 2011.
Citigroup took a $4.7bn hit from reducing the value of its stake in the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) joint venture, which it is selling.
But the results were still ahead of analysts' expectations and the bank's shares rose 5.5% in New York.
Citigroup reported improved revenues from mortgages in North America.
Excluding one-off items, Citigroup's net income came in at $3.3bn.
The profitability of the bank's loans, excluding credit losses, rose as Citi cut its funding costs by taking in more low-cost deposits.
Deposits rose 11% to $945bn at the end of September from a year earlier.
Analyst Todd Hagerman from brokerage Sterne Agee said Citi now had enough capital to make a case to regulators that it should be allowed to pay 15 cents a share in its quarterly dividend next year, up from its current, nominal one cent.
In September, Citigroup announced that it had agreed a price to sell its 49% stake in MSSB to Morgan Stanley.
As a result, it said that it would reduce the value it attributed to the holding by about 40%.
The joint venture was established in 2009 as a way for Citi to shrink its balance sheet during the financial crisis by transferring its Smith Barney brokerage to Morgan Stanley.
Announcing its results, Citi said it had increased its "buffer" against risk so that it now held 8.6% of assets in almost risk-free form.
Citigroup's chief executive, Vikram Pandit, said that the uncertain economy meant the bank was taking a cautious approach to business: "We are managing risk very carefully, given global economic conditions, so we can continue to grow our businesses safely and soundly."
In August, Citigroup paid $590m to shareholders who had accused the bank of hiding the scale of its exposure to sub-prime mortgages.
Citi denied the allegation but said it wanted to avoid further legal costs.
The payout is one of the biggest settlements connected to the global financial crisis which began four years ago.
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Citigroup's three-month profits have dropped after the bank wrote down the value of its stake in a brokerage.
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Thomas, 28, is a key member of the Team Sky side trying to guide Chris Froome to a second successive Tour title.
Froome has already been sent for an X-ray after a crash during the fourth stage of the Tour de France.
"On the cobbles it's sketchy anyway. If it does rain it could end somebody's race quite easily," said Thomas.
"You train all year for this and for it to end like that would be devastating for whoever it was.
"So hopefully it stays dry and everyone stays out of trouble."
Froome touched wheels in the peloton and fell just five kilometres into the 163.5km fourth stage between Le Touquet-Paris-Place and Lille Metropole.
The 29-year-old suffered a grazed left hip and wrist injury, before quickly getting back on his bike and rejoining the peloton, after receiving medical attention from the race doctor.
He is in seventh place overall, two seconds behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali after stage four was won by Marcel Kittel.
Wednesday's stage begins in the Belgian city of Ypres and ends 155.5km away in Arenberg-Porte du Hainaut.
Thomas helped Froome to the Tour title in 2013 in spite of suffering a fractured pelvis in a fall during the opening stage.
And the Welshman, who came second the last time he was involved in a race over cobbles, says it will be "stressful" supporting his team-mate.
"When you've got to look after somebody it's totally different to racing for it yourself," said Thomas.
"You can take a few risks, but you've always got to think of the guy behind you.
"But I think it's definitely a challenge - it's the same for everyone.
"So we'll just take it on and hopefully all will be well."
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Five-time Tour de France rider Geraint Thomas has warned his fellow cyclists that wet weather may turn the cobbled fifth stage into a dangerous race.
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The authority has already announced 2,000 posts - 12% of its workforce - will go in an attempt to save £126m by 2019.
The Labour/SNP coalition says those savings are based on the council tax freeze being lifted.
If that happens, the authority plans a 3% rise for three years from 2017.
The council has also warned it may have to make further job cuts, and will vote next week on whether to backtrack on a pledge to rule out compulsory redundancies.
The Scottish government said local authority had been treated fairly and protected from the worst of the UK cuts. It said the council had received an additional £7m.
Bill Cook, Edinburgh city council's deputy finance leader, said: "Our budget figures assume that the council tax will be lifted in years two, three and four of the budget period.
"Our assumption is that there will not be a council tax freeze otherwise that £126m figure goes up, quite significantly."
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Edinburgh City Council has warned it may have to make more job cuts unless it is allowed to increase the council tax.
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The 49-year-old was attacked at about 06:10 GMT on Thursday on Hylton Avenue.
Members of the public tried to intervene to help the man who had "significant" head injuries. Police said he remains in a critical condition in James Cook University Hospital.
Three men, aged 29, 30 and 51, have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of assault.
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A man is "critically ill" in hospital after being seriously assaulted on Christmas Day in Skelton.
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Waberi's stance goes against the Council for East and Central African Football Associations (Cecafa) whose members, at an extraordinary meeting on 4 February in Gabon, agreed to give current President Issa Hayatou their support.
The Caf presidential elections will take place on 16 March in Ethiopia.
"We as Djibouti are in for change at Caf and our vote will go for Ahmad. We voted for change during the Fifa elections to bring in Gianni Infantino and we are also in for change now," Waberi told BBC Sport on Saturday.
When asked about the other 10 members of the Cecafa region, Waberi said he was confident "the majority are also backing a change."
Waberi is also contesting to become a Caf executive member from the Central East Zone.
Last Saturday, the Uganda FA President Moses Magogo - during Fifa President Gianni Infantino's visit to the country - said that his executive committee was yet to meet to pick which candidate to vote for.
Since then, Magogo has said they have met and have decided to keep their vote secret.
The Cecafa region has 11 members; Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ahmad, the Madagascar FA President, already has support from the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) and from the Nigeria FA President, Amaju Pinnick, although other Nigerian FA members have criticised Pinnick's revelation.
Issa Hayatou, who has presided over African football since 1988, is seeking an eighth term.
The Cameroonian was re-elected unopposed during the last Caf presidential elections in 2013.
He had previously stated this term would be his last until a change of regulations altered his stance.
In 2015, Caf voted to change the statutes which previously stopped officials serving past the age of 70.
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The president of the Djibouti Football Association, Souleiman Hassan Waberi, says he intends to vote for Ahmad Ahmad in the Confederation of African Football (Caf) presidential election.
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The first official photo of the new Bake Off line-up was released, University Challenge came to its nail-biting conclusion, the new editor of British Vogue was revealed and Sesame Street's first autistic character made her debut.
Here's a round-up of some things you might have missed:
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It's been another busy week in the world of entertainment.
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Midlands Muslim groups also said their sense of safety was being undermined by the online terrorists, who they said did not represent Islam.
Det Ch Supt Sue Southern, from West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said: "There is a propaganda machine that sits supporting IS, pushing out messages...and drawing young people in particular, to what is being portrayed as this idealistic environment."
But Haroon Khan, of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association who helped to sell poppies for the British Legion, said Islam "categorically condemns" the acts of "young, radicalised youths".
Waseem Khan, of Green Lane Mosque, added: "Isis propaganda is very powerful, very slick production.
"The mosques really need to empower the youngsters, start talking about these issues."
BBC Midlands Today's special correspondent, Peter Wilson, reports.
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The head of counter-terrorism in the West Midlands has warned "vulnerable youngsters" are being targeted by Islamic State (IS) propaganda.
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The Craig Bellamy Foundation was set up in 2008 but closed in September 2016.
No accounts have been filed since March 2015.
Bellamy himself has appointed a legal team to examine any financial irregularities and his solicitor said the 37-year-old was "devastated".
A statement issued by Bellamy's legal representative, Robert Price of Bowden Jones solicitors, said: "These investigations are ongoing and we therefore cannot comment further at this stage on any specific allegation.
Mr Price said his legal team would "assist all government agencies in their investigations".
The Charity Commission said it was assessing the situation but has not yet opened a formal investigation.
"As part of our engagement, we are reminding trustees of their duty to file their outstanding financial accounts," a commission spokesman added.
"Trustees must account to the public and donors for their income and expenditure, and the failure to do so may give rise to concerns about the governance and administration of a charity."
The Charity Commission website states that no accounts for the foundation have been filed since 31 March 2015.
Bellamy was moved to start the charity after visiting Sierra Leone while a Liverpool player.
The academy offered five-year scholarships to children aged 11 to 13 in the West African country and created a youth football league, which at one point took in about 2,400 youngsters - boys and girls - in some 70 clubs.
The academy stayed open while the country was hit by the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
In a prestigious football career, Bellamy earned 78 caps for Wales and also played for the likes of West Ham, Manchester City and Newcastle.
He finished his playing career at his hometown club Cardiff City and is currently a coach in the Bluebirds' Academy.
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Concerns about former Welsh footballer Craig Bellamy's football academy in Sierra Leone are being looked into by the Charity Commission, the watchdog has confirmed.
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Jasim Khadijah was a rocket expert who controlled attacks, Col Steve Warren said.
Last month a US soldier died and several others were injured when a base used by US troops was shelled by IS.
It was the second US combat death since the US first struck the group in 2014.
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A militant from the so-called Islamic State (IS) believed to be responsible for a deadly attack on US troops in northern Iraq has been killed in a drone strike, the US military said.
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They left Budapest station on foot after a stand-off with police, defying official efforts to take them to reception centres and register them.
Earlier on Friday another group escaped along railway tracks in Bicske, to the west, from a train stopped by police.
European Union states are struggling to agree on how to deal with the crisis.
The surprise announcement by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff late on Friday night followed several days of chaotic scenes.
Janos Lazar said Hungary would offer buses to those walking along the main motorway to Vienna, as well as to migrants still at Budapest's Keleti railway station.
The buses would take people to Hegyeshalom, on the border with Austria.
Hungary had not yet had a response from the Austrian government so he did not know whether they would be allowed in to Austria, he added.
"We are taking this step so Hungary's transportation is not paralyzed during the next 24 hours," Mr Lazar said, according to the Associated Press.
It was unclear whether migrants would be happy to get on the buses, after several hundred were encouraged to get on a train on Thursday that did not then head to Austria.
The BBC's Matthew Price, walking with the migrants, said that as night fell, many continued to walk, but others - including a family with five children - appeared to stop for the night on the hard shoulder, or in adjacent fields.
Hungary has become a major transit nation for people fleeing the Middle East and Africa, seeking to reach north and west Europe.
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Hungary is to send buses to transport migrants to Austria's border after more than 1,000 began walking there earlier on Friday.
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The new work from Chazelle, who won the best director Oscar in February, will centre on the city's music scene.
The Eddy revolves around a club, its owner, and the house band, according to Hollywood Reporter.
It will be written by Harry Potter and The Cursed Child co-writer Jack Thorne, the man behind the script for Channel 4 drama National Treasure.
Grammy-winning songwriter Glen Ballard is attached to the project as an executive producer, as is Six Feet Under director Alan Poul.
Chazelle became the youngest winner of the best director Oscar when he won aged just 32 for La La Land.
His other film projects include teaming up with Ryan Gosling for a forthcoming biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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La La Land director Damien Chazelle is planning a TV musical drama set in Paris.
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Williams, 29, who spent two seasons with the Blues between 2011 and 2013, was a free agent after fellow Women's Super League (WSL) top-flight club Notts County folded in April.
She is the third ex-Notts County player to find a new club on the same day.
Liverpool signed one of her England team-mates, defender Amy Turner, while Wales international Angharad James has gone to Yeovil.
Leicester-born Williams was voted Players' Player of the Year at the FA Women's Football Awards in 2011.
She then scored an injury-time equaliser when Birmingham beat Chelsea on penalties to win the Women's FA Cup in 2012.
And she was part of the Blues team who narrowly missed out on the WSL title on the final day of the season in 2014, scoring 14 goals in as many games.
Williams, who started at home-town club Leicester City prior to joining Doncaster Belles, signed for Chelsea in 2014 before moving on in 2015 to Notts County.
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Birmingham City Ladies have re-signed England forward Rachel Williams.
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The shooting happened on Monday 9 May.
Paul Francis Magee, of Knutsford Drive in Belfast, appeared at Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday morning.
He is accused of attempted murder and possession of a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit attempted murder.
A detective told the court that the victim identified Mr Magee from his hospital bed just before going into surgery.
The detective also said that Mr Magee refused to answer the questions put to him.
The gun used in the attack has not been found.
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A 51-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with a paramilitary-style shooting in north Belfast.
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The 24-year-old from Jordanstown, who missed out of a full tour card, had six bogeys and two birdies at Rancho Mirage, California, on Thursday.
Meadow is nine shots behind leaders Ai Miyazato and of Japan and Spain's Azahara Munoz.
Leading amateur Leona Maguire, from Cavan, finished on three over.
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Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow carded an opening four-over-par 76 in the first major of the season on the LPGA Tour, the ANA Inspiration.
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Personal trainer Dave Sims, 36, from Southport, Merseyside, adapted the classic children's bike to complete the gruelling challenge.
He received a message of support from the Tour winner, Chris Froome, who said he was "pretty impressed".
The 1,600-mile (2,575km) circuit is the stage for one of the most gruelling events in the sporting calendar.
Mr Sims said it was a tough challenge and some modifications were required.
"If you've ever ridden any serious miles on a Chopper, which most people haven't, the seat was that wide that it caused serious chafing issues.
"I value my femur bone, so the seat post and the seat had to change. I've also got quite long legs and it is at the end of the day a children's bike, so I need a much longer seat post."
Mr Sims spent 117 hours on the Chopper and battled on despite suffering an injury.
"I damaged my Achilles on 9 July, ironically after the stage, going to get a pizza. It was my fault, so I damaged my Achilles and it just got worse and worse every day."
"So [organisers of the tour] Team Sky got in touch saying: 'Do you want to see our physio?' I am like, 'yes please', so they gave me some treatment and actually gave me a boost of confidence."
Mr Sims is donating the money raised to the military charity Help for Heroes.
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A man has raised more than £80,000 for charity by riding the Tour de France course on a Raleigh Chopper bike.
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Henriette Reker - an independent candidate supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party - was seriously injured along with an aide. Three others suffered minor injuries.
Local police said Ms Reker, 58, was "stable, but not out of the woods".
Police have arrested a 44-year-old German national and Cologne resident.
The attacker told police he stabbed Ms Reker "because of anti-foreigner motives," senior police investigator Norbert Wagner said.
The suspect appeared to have acted alone and had no police record, Mr Wagner added.
Ralf Jager, a regional interior minister, said: "The first signs speak for a politically motivated act."
The attacker will undergo a psychiatric examination to establish whether that was his primary motive or whether he had a health problem.
A spokesman for Ms Merkel said the chancellor "expressed her shock and condemned this act".
Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, called the attack "appalling and cowardly".
City officials said the election would go ahead as planned. Ms Reker has been the head of Cologne's social affairs and integration department since 2010.
Ms Merkel has come under fire from some in Germany over the large numbers of refugees and migrants being allowed into the country.
Germany has said it expects 800,000 people to seek asylum this year, but a leaked report suggested the number could be as high as 1.5 million.
Politically-motivated attacks are relatively rare in Germany. In 1990, then-Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was shot while out campaigning, an attack that left him using a wheelchair.
A few months earlier, Oskar Lafontaine, then a prominent member of Germany's main opposition party, was stabbed in the neck by a mentally disturbed woman.
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A leading candidate in Cologne's mayoral race has been stabbed in the neck by a man claiming to be angry over the country's refugee policies.
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Midfielder Byrne, 27, has attracted interest from former County boss Justin Edinburgh, who's pushing for promotion in League One with Gillingham.
Edinburgh confirmed to the BBC earlier this week that he considered moving for Byrne in the transfer window.
"It shows what a good player Byrney is. He's captain of this club for a reason," Feeney said.
"There are a few players who, I'm sure, there will be a fight to keep but we want to stay up first and cross that bridge when we come to it."
Feeney isn't taking the interest in the player personally, however.
"I'm disappointed Justin didn't want to sign me," laughed Feeney.
"Justin's a great lad, he was on my pro licence course.
"But that's football and it shows you Byrney's one of my best players."
Edinburgh signed Byrne from Barnet, who visit Rodney Parade this weekend.
Ex-Tottenham defender Edinburgh was Newport boss between 2011-15.
Feeney, who is Newport's third manager of the season, is now targeting more changes to his squad ahead of the re-opening of the loan window on Tuesday.
"There was one or two I was hopeful of getting before the [transfer] window so there could be stuff happening," he explained.
"We're speaking to potential loan players and those who may be unattached."
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Newport County manager Warren Feeney admits he could face a fight to keep his captain Mark Byrne at the club.
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Ahmed leads the way for the pioneers list, with other categories honouring icons, artists and leaders.
Oscar winners Viola Davis and John Legend are the respective cover stars for icons and artists.
Ed Sheeran and James Corden also made the list, with their tributes written by Taylor Swift and Sir Elton John.
Ahmed's tribute is written by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. The actor and musician contributed a rap to the Hamilton Mixtape and Miranda explains why he is a named as a pioneer.
"Riz Ahmed has been quietly pursuing every passion and opportunity for many years as an actor (The Road to Guantanamo, Four Lions, Nightcrawler), rapper (Post 9/11 Blues, Englistan) and activist (raising funds for Syrian refugee children, advocating representation at the House of Commons).
"To know him is to be inspired, engaged and ready to create alongside him. The year 2016 was when all the seeds he planted bore glorious fruit, and here's the best part: he's just getting started."
Riz tweeted his thanks to Time and Lin-Manuel for his "love" and "support", which he said he hopes to earn.
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins and Selma director Ava Duvernay have also made the list.
Meryl Streep has written about Viola Davis for the magazine, pointing out her "hard-won, midlife rise to the very top of her profession has not led her to forget the rough trip she took getting there".
"And that is why she embodies for all women, but especially for women of colour, the high-wire rewards of hard work and a dream, risk and faith."
Harry Belafonte has written the tribute to John Legend calling him a "wonderful artist" and "remarkable lyricist" and praised his activism.
"John uses his platform to push for meaningful social change, and the depth of his commitment is to be admired," he writes.
Other stars to make the list are Demi Lovato, Chance the Rapper, Emma Stone and Margot Robbie, whose tribute is written by Martin Scorsese.
Helen Mirren has written about Ryan Reynolds, Russell Crowe has written a tribute to Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones and Cate Blanchett has written about The People V OJ Simpson actress Sarah Paulson.
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Rogue One actor Riz Ahmed has been made a cover star for Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential figures in the world.
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Tiny Rebel brewery in Newport wanted Swedes to taste bottles of its "unique schizophrenic" Fubar pale ale.
But the export drive was blocked after a consumer protection agency said the label was contrary to guidelines.
Co-founder Bradley Cummings, 26, said: "Looks like Fubar won't be heading over to Sweden any time soon."
The firm, launched 18 months ago, has already seen exports of bottles and kegs to Denmark, Norway, Italy and Australia.
But hopes of adding Sweden to the list stopped with an email asking the firm to review the label on the bottles of beer.
It said: "In reviewing this label, we believe this may be contrary to the Consumer Agency's guidelines for advertising of alcoholic beverages to consumers.
"The overall impression including weapons and bullet holes are not expected to exercise special moderation."
Mr Cummings said he had not long returned from a business trip to Sweden to discuss exporting Fubar so the email rejection was a surprise.
He said: "It might have been our fault for not looking at the advertising laws. Every country is different and we do appreciate that.
"It would be boring if everything country was the same. They have a very different drinking culture over there."
Fubar was runner-up in the Welsh champion beer awards in Cardiff in June, which saw the brewery sweep the board.
Mr Cummings said the firm, started with partner Gareth Williams, 31, now employs six people and produces the equivalent of 640 casks of beer, in casks for the UK market and bottles and kegs for overseas, a month.
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A brewery's bid to export one its brands to Sweden has faltered because the beer's label features a hand grenade and bullet holes.
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The WRVS - formerly the Women's Royal Voluntary Service - has dropped the "W" to mark its 75th anniversary.
It helps more than 100,000 older people live independently and about 6,000 of its 40,000 volunteers are men.
Chief executive David McCullough said more volunteers than ever were needed to cope with an ageing population.
Originally founded as the Women's Voluntary Services in 1938, the charity was formed to help recruit women into the Air Raid Precautions movement, providing civilians with emergency rest centres, food and first aid.
Now relaunched as the Royal Voluntary Service, it organises social activities for older people, delivers meals on wheels and helps with essential tasks such as food shopping.
The relaunch comes as a poll of 500 people aged over 75 for the charity by PCP Market Research found that 26% believe they will need support to continue living independently in their homes.
Extrapolating from that survey, RVS says it could mean an estimated 1.3 million elderly people across Britain are in need of help.
Mr McCullough said: "We know that more older people than ever are going to need the support that our volunteers provide, which is why we are changing our name to make it clear we are not a charity that only supports women or just wants female volunteers.
"I'm really proud of the fact that since we were founded 75 years ago as the Women's Voluntary Services, we have inspired volunteers to meet the main social challenges of the time and today we're doing exactly the same.
"As the state contracts and the number of older people grow we are able to provide a solution through our volunteers who want to make a positive difference to the lives of the older people they support."
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A charity set up by women to help efforts on the home front during World War II has changed its name in an effort to attract more male volunteers.
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The Asylum maze has been part of Thorpe Park's annual Fright Nights for more than eight years.
Campaigners claim having actors chasing people around an asylum stigmatises mental illness.
Thorpe Park said the attraction was not offensive or a realistic portrayal of a mental health institution.
A petition organised by Katie Sutton, a mental health nursing student at the University of Salford, has attracted more than 900 signatures.
Miss Sutton said she first became aware of the maze through Twitter.
"Thorpe Park kept repeating to people that there weren't sufficient complaints. I thought if we can get actual forms of people bothered about it, then it might help."
She said the matter had been discussed in one of her university classes and "everyone in the room was absolutely horrified".
The charity Rethink Mental Illness has carried out a poll on Twitter to gauge people's views.
Paul Jenkins, its chief executive officer, said: "While some people clearly feel very strongly about this, opinion has been mixed.
"While of course there's nothing wrong with a bit of Halloween fun, explicit references to 'patients' crosses a line and reinforces damaging stereotypes about mental illness."
In September, supermarket chains Tesco and Asda withdrew two Halloween outfits after they were criticised for stigmatising people with mental health issues.
Asda dropped its "mental patient fancy dress costume", and Tesco later withdrew its "psycho ward" outfit.
In a statement, a Thorpe Park spokeswoman said the negative comments were not "universally representative".
"This is primarily a matter of context. The maze is not something you happen upon when out shopping," she said.
"This maze is also in its eighth year of operation and is an obviously extreme and simulated experience which draws on classic horror film content.
"It is not intended, nor is it deemed to be by those who have actually experienced it, to be in any way offensive or to be a realistic portrayal of a mental health or indeed any other institution."
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Calls to shut down a theme park Halloween attraction have been made in a petition whose organisers say it stigmatises mental illness.
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An army spokesman said they were taken by gunmen late on Monday from the Holiday Oceanview resort on Samal Island, near Davao City on Mindanao.
The attackers, who have not been identified by police, left by boat, Capt Alberto Caber told reporters.
He said it appeared the four were targeted rather than taken at random.
Since the 1990s the southern Philippines has seen sporadic incidents of kidnapping by Muslim militant groups, who hold hostages for ransom.
Philippine authorities have named the Canadian abductees as John Ridsel and Robert Hall.
The Norwegian, Kjartan Sekkingstad, was said to be the manager of the resort.
The Filipino woman has not been identified, but she is said to be the partner of one of the kidnapped Canadians.
Authorities also said two Japanese tourists had tried to intervene to prevent the kidnapping, which took place shortly before midnight.
The Associated Press quoted Capt Caber as saying a naval blockade was being set up around the island to stop kidnappers from reaching another island in the southwest known to house militant strongholds.
Philippine authorities signed a peace agreement with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, in 2014, but continue to battle smaller groups in the south.
The region where Samal is located has been largely peaceful in recent years. The last related incident on Samal took place in 2001 when Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf attempted to kidnap tourists at another resort.
The group is holding a number of foreign hostages in various remote camps.
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Two Canadians, a Norwegian and a local woman have been kidnapped from a tourist resort in the southern Philippines, the military has said.
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The France forward, voted Euro 2016's player of the tournament, also praised the impact Atletico boss Diego Simeone has had on his career amid reports the player could leave this summer.
Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United have been linked with a move for 25-year-old Griezmann.
But he told Fifa's website: "I feel great at the club and in Madrid."
He added: "On a personal level I'm very happy, and in football terms we're about to move to a new stadium, which is very important.
"Simeone has changed me. He's brought so many things to my game. I wouldn't have been regarded as one of the best players in the world if it weren't for him.
"We'll just have to see what the future brings, but for now I'm very happy here and I hope to win trophies with this club."
Griezmann joined Atletico in 2014 for a reported £24m from fellow Spanish club Real Sociedad, who signed him as a 14-year-old.
Speaking to French radio station RMC on Tuesday, Griezmann said that, if he were to leave Madrid, he would prefer to stay in Spain.
"Who knows how the season will finish? If it finishes badly, maybe I will ask myself the question, but then where would I go?" he said.
"In Spain, Barcelona have Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez, and a move to Real Madrid would be impossible because I play for Atletico.
"Germany is not a league that appeals to me, France, not right now, and as for England, I do watch the Premier League but I have doubts about the lifestyle. Rain, bad weather, I need to be happy off the pitch.
"I like the style of play in England and that the referees let the game flow and the grounds are always full, but the Spanish league is better suited to my style of play."
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Antoine Griezmann has distanced himself from a Premier League move by saying he is happy at Atletico Madrid.
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The husband-and-wife duo, Britain's first semi-finalists since 2008, were beaten 21-13 22-20 in Birmingham.
The Danes, seeded fifth, raced through the first game but the Adcocks showed more attacking intent in the second.
However, they squandered five game points at 20-15, with Pedersen winning seven straight points on her serve.
The Adcocks, who went out in the quarter-finals in both 2014 and 2015, contributed to their own demise with a series of unforced errors.
"We got off to a slow start and didn't impose our style on them," said Chris Adcock.
"But we found our groove and dominated the whole second set. To let five game points go to take it to a decider is really, really hard to take."
Gabby Adcock added: "They are really experienced at the end of games and can reel off points. We're just gutted we didn't take that second set."
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Britons Chris and Gabby Adcock lost to Danish pair Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen in the semi-finals of the All England Championships.
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6 November 2014 Last updated at 05:02 GMT
The singer's video for his track She Knows feat. Juicy J is full of semi-naked dancers, but he's told us it's not a typical "strip club video".
It's been two years since the singer released his last album and this time around Ne-Yo has taken inspiration from his fans - quite literally.
Some of the songs on Non Fiction were based on stories sent to him via social networks.
Ne-Yo was speaking to Newsbeat's Entertainment Reporter Nesta McGregor.
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US R&B star Ne-Yo reckons pole dancers should get the same recognition as elite athletes.
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