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Although she opposes abortion, she said the measure was vague and would not withstand a legal challenge.
The state senate on Thursday backed the bill that would have punished doctors who terminate a pregnancy with up to three years in prison. They would also be barred from practicing medicine.
To override the veto, lawmakers require a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Abortion is legal in the US, and abortion rights activists have already described the bill as unconstitutional.
Two abortion clinics remain open in Oklahoma after the state recently enacted a number of new regulations affecting the facilities.
Ms Fallin, a rising star in conservative circles, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Anti-abortion groups said they hoped to use the bill to trigger a legal case that would overturn Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court verdict that made abortion legal in 1973.
Legislation similar to that in Oklahoma was enacted in Utah and Louisiana in 1991 - but the laws were later ruled unconstitutional.
In recent years, conservatives have sought to tighten restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors rather than seek an outright ban.
Abortion rights advocates say these measures are meant to restrict women's access to abortion.
The new laws are particularly widespread in conservative southern states.
This week, South Carolina's legislators passed a bill that would bar abortions after the 19 weeks of pregnancy. | Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has vetoed a bill that would make abortion a criminal offence in the US state. | 1.755322 | 2 |
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said the top two floors of the high rise block in Gorton were well alight when it arrived at the scene on Sunday evening.
The fire quickly spread through the timber framed building, it said, and nearby homes were evacuated and roads closed.
GMFRS said no-one was hurt and was investigating the cause of the fire.
Five fire engines attended the blaze at its height.
Incident commander Ben Levy said the fire service received more than 40 calls about the blaze.
"The fire involved a large timber frame building and upon arrival our crews found the top two floors well alight.
"Given the fact it's timber framed and open to the elements the fire spread quite quickly." | A huge blaze has engulfed a partly built block of flats in Manchester. | 0.910864 | 1 |
Tributes have been pouring in for the DJ. Here is a selection.
Gareth Williams sent in this photo via WhatsApp: "So sad to hear about Ed Stewart's death. Here I am on stage during a Radio 1 roadshow in Caswell Bay, the Gower in August 1976. I was taking part in a yes/no game which I was lucky enough to win! Ed gave me my radio debut that day. Thanks Ed!"
Ed was involved in several charities, including PHAB. Simon Haskew was at an awards ceremony at the House of Lords in May 2012 and took this photo of his friend Maxim Lowe.
Alfie Bedborough in Jersey has fond memories: "Always a main stay on Christmas Day with Junior Choice. Such a loss. 'Ello darling!"
Clint Ritchie Stark in Edinburgh says he was fantastic with children on his Saturday morning show: "I remember him at the children's ward at the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital. The kids just loved him. He was so kind to them."
"I will never forget his kindness," says Sharon Ward in Sheffield. "In 1982 he was going out to the Falklands to record his Christmas radio show. My husband was based out there. I was based at RAF Brize Norton. We had only been married 10 months. Ed very kindly took an anniversary card, Christmas card and a cake to him."
Ed's sister, Sue Mainwaring, who lives in Swanage, told us the news hadn't quite sunk in: "He was such a good brother. I have loved him for nearly 70 years. He has been there for me all my life. I went to some of his shows but I didn't get a Crackerjack pen! We had a lot of fun. I will miss him."
Dominic Dalton says he met Ed several times back in the 1980s when he worked for Radio Mercury but his son Tyler met him for the first time in August 2014 at Cranleigh Car Show. "He was still the loveable 'Stewpot' that I remembered from those meetings in the 80s and still happy to be stopped to have a picture taken. RIP Ed you have left me with some fond memories."
Barry Lester in Spain: "I had the pleasure of meeting him about 15 years ago in southern Spain while he was working with Spectrum FM. He was a gentle man with a big heart. He will be sadly missed by the people who loved his style and manners."
Compiled by Sherie Ryder | Former BBC Radio DJ and Crackerjack presenter, Ed "Stewpot" Stewart has died at the age of 74, a few days after having a stroke. | 0.851263 | 1 |
The 34-year-old defender has made 78 league appearances for Town since joining from Cardiff in September 2014.
Boss David Wagner said: "It is a great move to keep him here as a coach in the long-term, but I believe he still has a big part to play on the pitch.
"He is a 100% professional and has a winning mentality." | Huddersfield Town captain Mark Hudson has signed a three-year contract extension, which will eventually see him join the club's coaching staff. | 0.495684 | 0 |
Supt Andrew Carr, 47, currently suspended from his job at Wiltshire Police, appeared before magistrates earlier.
The 11 charges relate to his role as treasurer for the 7th Swindon Scouts and Orchid Vale PTA in Swindon between January 2014 and September 2015.
Mr Carr has been bailed to next appear at Bournemouth Crown Court on 26 May.
He was charged with four counts of fraud relating to the scouts and PTA where the proceeds of various fundraising events were not paid into bank accounts as required.
Another two counts of theft relate to falsifying documents for accounting purposes and five counts of forgery relate to writing out cheques in another person's name.
A 12th charge of forgery has since been withdrawn by the prosecution.
In October 2015 the matter was referred to the police watchdog, the IPCC and an independent investigation was undertaken by Dorset Police. | A police officer has been charged with a string of fraud, false accounting and forgery offences. | 0.314565 | 0 |
Perez, 28, joined the Gunners for £17.1m last summer after two seasons at Spanish side Deportivo.
He has made 21 appearances for Arsene Wenger's side in all competitions, scoring seven goals, but has not played since March.
"Arsenal know we want to go, that there are no opportunities here," said Rodrigo Fernandez Lovelle.
Lovelle said the uncapped Perez wanted to leave in order to get more playing time in an attempt to break into the Spain squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
He added his client was "angry and sad and upset" that Arsenal had given the number nine shirt to new record signing Alexandre Lacazette without Perez "being asked".
Deportivo's offer is believed to be in excess of the reported £7.9m La Liga rivals Sevilla paid to sign Nolito from Manchester City.
"Deportivo made an offer a week ago - it is a permanent deal and worth more than Nolito's move to Sevilla," said Lovelle.
"Of course [he was told he would play more]. Lucas signed for Arsenal and was the happiest person in the world and with all of his dreams to fulfil.
"Every time he played he did well, but after every time he got fewer and fewer opportunities."
Perez suffered a thigh injury in March but was fit again before the end of the season, with Wenger saying in May that he felt "a bit sorry" for him.
"He's a top quality striker but I couldn't give him the games he wants and deserves," said the Frenchman.
Perez joined Deportivo on an initial season-long loan from Greek side PAOK in 2014 before signing a permanent deal in 2015. | Deportivo La Coruna have made an offer to re-sign Arsenal striker Lucas Perez, says the Spaniard's agent. | 0.875129 | 1 |
The Argentina international, 25, has been heavily linked with Arsenal this summer, but has signed a reported five-year contract with the Serie A club.
A statement on Napoli's website said: "Napoli have made the signing of Gonzalo Higuain official."
Liverpool's 30-year-old goalkeeper Pepe Reina has also passed a medical as he prepares to link up with former Reds boss Rafael Benitez at Napoli on loan.
Benitez has been looking to replace Edinson Cavani, who has joined Paris St-Germain.
He said: "We have signed a player who comes from Real Madrid and we have signed a striker who has scored a hatful of goals and who will adapt very well to our system - an attacking system. We needed a player like this.
"We are all working together to ensure the players we want arrive. We have to sign players who will do well for Napoli for the next three or four years."
Higuain joined Real from River Plate in 2006 and scored 107 league goals in his seven seasons at the Bernabeu.
Napoli, last season's Serie A runners-up, have already signed Real Madrid striker Jose Callejon and defender Raul Albiol, in addition to winger Dries Mertens from PSV Eindhoven, this summer.
"Players who come from clubs like Real, PSV and Liverpool can only do us good," Benitez said. "For Napoli these signings represent a quantum leap." | Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain has completed his £34.5m move to Napoli. | 0.935368 | 1 |
The Dutchman achieved the perfect leg twice as he beat Ryan Murray 6-2 in a UK Open Qualifier third round in Wigan.
World number one Van Gerwen, 27, scored 180, 177 and 144 to win the fourth leg, before sealing victory with scores of 177, 180 and 144 in the eighth.
Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor is the only other player to achieve the feat in 2010.
Van Gerwen won his second PDC World Championship in January and followed that with his third successive Masters title. | Michael van Gerwen has become only the second player in history to throw two nine-dart finishes in one match. | 0.695606 | 1 |
Andre Spicer, a business school professor, had let his daughter set up a stall to sell refreshments outside Lovebox Festival, east London.
However, four council officials fined the pair for trading without a licence.
Tower Hamlets Council has since apologised for issuing the fixed penalty notice and cancelled the fine.
Mr Spicer said his daughter had received offers to set up lemonade stands at festivals and at Borough Market in Southwark.
The family tweeted: "We have been overwhelmed by the kind response from people across the world.
"Dozens of festivals, markets and businesses have offered us the opportunity to set up a lemonade stand.
"We hope they will extend this invitation to others who'd love to make a stand."
Borough Market tweeted the girl's father: "In all seriousness, would your daughter like to sell some lemonade at Borough Market? We'd love to make that happen for her."
LeeFest: Neverland has also invited the pair to sell lemonade at its August festival in Kent.
Mr Spicer told how his daughter had "burst into tears" after enforcement officers "began reading from a big script explaining that she did not have a trading licence".
He said: "My daughter clung to me screaming 'Daddy, Daddy, I've done a bad thing.' She's five.
"We were then issued a fine of £150. We packed up and walked home."
A council spokesman said: "We are very sorry that this has happened. We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense and to use their powers sensibly.
"This clearly did not happen." | A five-year-old girl who was fined £150 by a council for selling 50p cups of lemonade has received dozens of offers to set up stalls at other events. | 1.348249 | 1 |
Auckland Castle was saved last year by a £15m donation from businessman Jonathan Ruffer, after Church Commissioners tried to sell it.
It was then handed over to a new charitable trust, The Auckland Castle Trust, who have redeveloped the site into a heritage tourist attraction.
The revamp coincides with Durham County Council's redevelopment of the town.
Paintings by Spanish artist Francisco Zurbaran, which hung in the castle for 250 years, were also included in the deal.
The former home of the Bishops of Durham now has guided tours, a children's trail for younger visitors, a new tearoom and an exhibition of religious artwork.
Chief executive Rowena Hackwood, said: "We can't wait to welcome visitors from Country Durham and the wider region and to showcase some fantastic new features which kick-start our major development plans.
"Auckland Castle offers something for everyone and is not just a destination for art aficionados and lovers of history, culture and architecture."
Over the next five years, work will be carried out to give public access to new areas of the site and its grounds and the 17th Century walled garden and the 14th Century Scotland Wing will be restored. | A County Durham castle which is home to a collection of 17th Century religious paintings has reopened. | 1.915089 | 2 |
Emergency services were called to the Glenamuck Road in Carrickmines, County Dublin, at about 04:00 local time on Saturday.
Among those who died were a husband, wife and their five children. The children were all under 10 years old.
Police said one child who died was a six-month-old baby girl.
One of the children died in hospital.
It is understood that most, if not all, of the victims were members of two families.
Two adults injured in the blaze are being treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Dublin Fire Brigade said early indications suggest the blaze broke out at a pre-fabricated building and quickly spread.
Six fire appliances from several areas had been sent to the scene.
The fire service said paramedics had risked their lives to rescue children from the fire.
Police said there was nothing to suggest arson at this stage, but the area has been sealed off for a forensic examination.
One travellers' rights group said it was concerned that overcrowding at the site may have been a factor in the incident.
Another organisation, the Southside Traveller Action Group, said the families had been living on the site for about eight years.
In a statement, it said: "The traveller community in south Dublin [is] in a state of shock at the devastating loss of lives."
It is understood three generations of one family were living on the site.
Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said he gave sympathies on behalf of the Irish people to the friends and relatives of those who died.
"It's such an unspeakable tragedy to have an entire family wiped out in a horrific inferno," he added.
Irish President Michael D Higgins said the deaths in the blaze had been "a most dreadful tragedy".
"My thoughts at this time are with the families and friends of those who have lost their lives and those who have been injured," he added.
Independent parliamentarian Shane Ross, who lives close to where the fire happened, said there was a "numbness and silence" at the scene.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the deaths had been "horrific news to wake to". | Ten people, including a number of children, have died in a fire at a travellers' site in the Republic of Ireland. | 1.207255 | 1 |
Homes had to be evacuated and areas of Croydon, Whyteleafe and Woldingham near the A22 were under water when the Caterham Bourne flooded in February.
A "major incident" was declared in Kenley, Purley and South Croydon.
Sandbags and pumps had to be installed to divert flooding away from water treatment works in Godstone Road.
Tandridge District Council said it was working with Surrey County Council to submit a joint £4.2m funding bid to the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, with the county council providing £700,000 match funding.
The money will pay for new drainage from junction six of the M25 via Wapses Lodge to the Croydon border.
It will also pay for resurfacing the A22 between Oxted Road and Wapses Lodge and footpaths from Wapses Lodge to New Barn Lane.
During the floods four emergency reservoirs were built on fields in Woldingham to slow and divert the Caterham Bourne river.
Two permanent water storage areas have now been installed with control sluice gates and a third is planned between Stuart Road and Bug Hill subject to agreement with the landowner.
Woldingham Road has been resurfaced and a new flood relief pipe system installed under the road.
The councils will find out if their funding bid has been successful in February 2015.
If so, work on the scheme will start next summer. | A funding bid for a £4.9m flood prevention scheme is being drawn up after areas of south London and Surrey were flooded earlier this year. | 1.600993 | 2 |
The Heed beat Eastleigh 2-1 on Tuesday to move up five places to sixth and to within a point of the play-off places.
"With 14 games to play you've got to make sure that for those games, and as many as possible, you play at your best," Aspin told BBC Newcastle.
"To be successful you have to be solid at the back. You won't get any success if you're conceding all the time."
Gateshead have lost just three National League matches since Aspin's appointment in November, but have a challenging set of league fixtures ahead.
Aspin's side face leaders Cheltenham and promotion rivals Tranmere and Forest Green Rovers in their next five games.
"We know that if you have an off day and make mistakes you get punished in this league and you've got to be on your game every week," he said.
"There's not going to be many chances this season where you can look at the league table and three points could put you in the top five." | Gateshead boss Neil Aspin has urged his side maintain their form as they push for a National League play-off spot. | 0.74928 | 1 |
Bingham admitted to breaking World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) rules on betting on matches involving other players.
The world number three is now awaiting the conclusion of the investigation before he discovers his penalty.
"This was just a case of me not being clear on the rules," said Bingham.
"I did not know I was not allowed to bet on other players' matches. I thought it was just my own I could not bet on, and I have never done that.
"I have nothing to hide on the matter and have co-operated fully with the investigation and I now await the outcome."
The WPBSA confirmed that there was "no suggestion of any match manipulation or corruption in this case".
Bingham was informed in December that allegations were being investigated by Nigel Mawer, the chairman of the WPBSA's disciplinary committee.
And in a follow-up meeting with Mawer in January, Bingham confirmed he had placed accumulator bets on the outcome of other matches, stating he did not know it was against the governing body's rules to do so.
A WPBSA statement said: "Following an investigation into an alleged breach of the WPBSA betting rules by Stuart Bingham, a decision has been taken today that there is a case to answer.
"The matter has now been referred to the WPBSA disciplinary committee where a formal hearing will take place at a venue and date to be confirmed."
It is unlikely that the hearing will take place before this year's World Championship, which gets under way on 15 April, due to the length of the WPBSA's disciplinary process.
Bingham, 40, won the world title in 2015 and claimed his first victory since that Sheffield triumph at last month's Welsh Open.
In January, Alfie Burden was given a six-month ban - suspended for a year - and fined £5,000 for placing bets totalling £25,000 on matches including his own. | Former world champion Stuart Bingham faces a disciplinary hearing after it was found he has "a case to answer" in relation to betting on snooker. | 0.874049 | 1 |
The three cows and calves in Bancroft were painted as skeletons overnight last week, The Parks Trust, the charity which maintains them, said.
The charity said it was going to cost £2,000 to repaint the sculptures and in the long-term believed they might have to be moved if the vandalism continued.
A spokeswoman said it had reported the recent damage to the police.
The cows were made in 1978 as a leaving present from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation - which oversaw the building of the "new town" - and The Parks Trust was put in charge of maintaining them.
Since they arrived they have been stolen, beheaded, painted pink and had pyjamas and "BSE" painted on them.
Bryony Serginson, The Parks Trust's head of community engagement, said: "We'd rather they stayed where they were - that's where they live and people see them and associate them with that particular park.
"But in the long term if they do continue to be vandalised, then we might have to consider that.
"We are taking it seriously as an act of vandalism. It's going to be costly to us to get the cows back into the proper state that they should be in.
"We want people to respect the pieces of art for what they are."
Ms Serginson said she did not think the cows were specifically targeted due to Halloween as the dinosaur sculpture on Peartree Bridge was also painted as a skeleton in July.
Milton Keynes resident Fiona Norrie said: "I don't know if I should be angry, because they've done a really good job. It's very detailed.
"We don't condone graffiti obviously, but it's pretty awesome. It's art." | Milton Keynes' famous concrete cows could be permanently moved after recent vandalism turned them into skeletons. | 1.947876 | 2 |
Only three days left until British voters head to the polls, and the outcome of the 2015 general election is still very much up in the air.
Just about a month ago, Campaignspotting took a break from the start of the long - oh, so long - US presidential race to spend a week observing the kickoff of the blessedly short UK campaign. Now we're back for the furious race to the finish line.
In the hours and days after Parliament was dissolved and the politicians hit the campaign trail, pundits and prognosticators described what they saw as the lay of the political landscape.
Labour and the Conservatives were neck and neck, but neither party appeared anywhere near garnering enough seats to obtain the majority necessary to form a government.
The Liberal Democrats, the darlings of the 2010 campaign and the coalition-forming key to Downing Street for David Cameron and the Tories, were on the ropes - staring at sizeable losses.
The UK Independence Party, fresh off impressive wins in elections to the European Parliament, were polling in the mid-teens but appeared destined to capture only a handful of seats.
Meanwhile Scottish voters, who had rejected independence in 2014, seemed more than willing to back Scottish National Party candidates en masse, turning a former bastion of Labour support into a free-agent faction.
Now, after debates, the interviews, the speeches, the billboard slogans and the door-to-door electioneering, it looks like ... almost nothing has been settled. If the polls are to be trusted, the fundamentals of this election are baked into the cake, as US political analysts like to say. A hung Parliament, where no one can form a governing majority, could be in store - and the possible political permutations arising from that outcome makes one's head spin.
Will anything shift the balance in the last days of the campaign? And, if not, what does the future hold?
In this last week of Campaignspotting, UK style, we're starting in Scotland, which could play kingmaker come next Friday.
Then we'll head toward London where, in back rooms after the votes have been cast, the next leader of the UK could emerge.
There's little time left and so much on the line. | This is it, the home stretch. | 1.195088 | 1 |
Gary Douglass, 20, tried to cut his own throat and also stabbed himself in the stomach in October 2013.
Two days after being discharged from hospital and while being held at Liverpool's Altcourse prison, his condition deteriorated.
Mr Douglass, who was facing an attempted murder charge, died on 12 October during emergency surgery.
The inquest heard Mr Douglass had Asperger's Syndrome and had a fascination with knives.
He was arrested on 2 October after a 19-year-old man was stabbed in Wrexham.
Mr Douglass was armed with two knives and had been seen threatening people in the town.
On Monday, his father, Christopher Douglass, told the inquest he was "very surprised" his son was released from hospital and into custody.
"He looked like he was in pain?" asked the coroner.
"Definitely," said Mr Douglass.
Christopher Douglass said he believed, but had no evidence to prove, police had put pressure on the hospital to release his son.
The inquest continues. | A Wrexham man who stabbed himself as police tried to arrest him later died while on remand, an inquest has heard. | 1.260361 | 1 |
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Street angels, or pastors, will be spending their evenings over the festive period helping everyone from revellers to the vulnerable and homeless.
In Cumbria and Tyneside, more people are needed to join their teams as the winter takes its toll on recruits.
Anne Connelly, founder of the Redcar Beacons, started the charity one month ago and said she "cares very much" about the community and wanted to help those in need. | They aim to provide a caring presence to everyone who ventures out on the streets in the North East and Cumbria over Christmas. | 1.075754 | 1 |
29 June 2016 Last updated at 09:06 BST
The two-minute test of the booster's motor was meant to give NASA more information, that should help them when they blast, off in 2018 with a deep-space Orion capsule.
The SLS and the Orion spacecraft are designed to fly astronauts to the moon, asteroids and eventually Mars. | NASA has tested a motor for a powerful rocket booster for it's new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). | 2.370429 | 2 |
The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) laid the new charges against the tourist attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
In November, the animal welfare agency laid five similar charges against Marineland.
The latest charges relate to elk, red deer, and fallow deer being kept at the amusement park and zoo.
The charges include permitting an animal to be in distress and for failing to provide proper standards of care for the animals in question.
The park has an estimated 650 elk and deer on site.
Last year, the OSPCA cited the adventure park for failing to provide appropriate care for a peacock, guinea hens and American black bears, including not providing enough food and water for the bears being kept at there.
The animal welfare agency's deputy chief, Jennifer Bluhm, said the investigation, which is ongoing, stems from a complaint received by the general public.
No animals have been removed from the park.
Marineland is due in court on 26 January to face the 11 animal cruelty charges. The maximum penalty for these charges include a $60,000 (US$45,300/£37,300) fine and two years in jail.
In a statement, Marineland said it "looks forward to the OSPCA laying out their case in court, where facts matter and there is an objective measure of reality that has not been seen in the basis of their charges or the supporting documentation".
The company also expressed concerns it was being targeted by "a band of discredited" animal rights activists. | Ontario's Marineland adventure park is facing six new charges animal cruelty charges. | 1.811851 | 2 |
Many lizards can detach their tails when attacked, but fish-scale geckos have large scales that tear away with ease.
The new species is a master of this art, say scientists, having the largest scales of any known gecko.
The reptile, named Geckolepis megalepis, is described in PeerJ.
The skin of fish-scale geckos is specially adapted to tearing. The large scales are attached only by a relatively narrow region that tears with ease.
In addition, beneath the scales there is a pre-formed splitting zone within the skin itself.
Although several other geckos are able to lose their skin like this if they are grasped firmly, fish-scale geckos are able to do so actively - and at the slightest touch.
They can also grow them back scar-free in a matter of weeks, while other geckos might take a long time to regenerate their scales.
But Geckolepis megalepis is remarkable for the huge size of its scales. The researchers hypothesise that larger scales tear more easily than smaller ones, because of their greater surface area relative to the attachment area, and larger friction surface.
"What's really remarkable though is that these scales - which are really dense and may even be bony, and must be quite energetically costly to produce - and the skin beneath them tear away with such ease, and can be regenerated quickly and without a scar," said lead author Mark Scherz, from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
The new species was discovered in the Tsingy cave formations of northern Madagascar. | A newly discovered species of gecko has tearaway skin that leaves predators with nothing but a mouthful of scales when attacked. | 3.199981 | 3 |
Nizami was appealing against last year's conviction for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
The 72-year-old is accused of helping the Pakistani army identify and kill pro-independence activists.
He was convicted on charges including genocide, murder, torture and rape.
Many of those killed during the nine-month Bangladeshi war of secession were teachers, engineers and journalists.
A war crimes tribunal - looking into abuses during the war - was set up in 2010, but critics have accused the government of using it to target political opponents.
Nizami, who served as a minister in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government from 2001-2006, is one of the most important figures to have been found guilty.
He is expected to be executed in the coming months unless he requests a review of the Supreme Court verdict, or is granted clemency by the president - which analysts say is unlikely. | Bangladesh's highest court has upheld the death sentence for Motiur Rahman Nizami, head of the country's largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. | 2.120325 | 2 |
He will take over from Mr Weale, who often favoured higher interest rates, on 9 August.
UK chancellor George Osborne said Mr Saunders would be "a strong addition".
Earlier this week the MPC voted to keep rates at their record low, where they have been for more than seven years.
Mr Saunders is currently the head of European economics at the US-based bank Citigroup, where he has worked for more than 25 years.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, said: "On behalf of the Bank of England, I am delighted to welcome Michael Saunders to the Monetary Policy Committee.
"He brings first-rate knowledge of the UK economy and a wealth of economic and financial experience."
He also thanked Martin Weale for his work on the MPC over the past six years, which have made him the longest serving member of the rate setting committee.
Mr Weale was known as a hawk on the MPC for being one of its few members to have voted for a rise in interest rates in recent years.
Economists will be keen to assess the position of Mr Saunders on interest rates.
In a research note for Citigroup earlier this year Mr Saunders forecast that the Bank would hold interest rates at 0.5% until the end of 2016.
After that he saw interest rates rising to 1% by the end of 2017, and to 2% by the end of 2018.
Mr Saunders also warned of a "widespread loss of momentum" in the UK's economy since the start of the year.
He said the existing drag from a sluggish world economy has been reinforced by uncertainty about the outcome of the UK's referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU).
Following the publication of the latest minutes of the MPC Mr Saunders said he suspected it "would be willing to go further into unconventional policy if that proved necessary" in the event of a "Brexit" from the EU. | Citigroup economist Michael Saunders is to replace Martin Weale as one of the nine members on the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the Treasury has said. | 1.517875 | 2 |
The magnitude-4.8 quake struck at a depth of 15.5km (9.6 miles) 35km north of the city of Lucca, officials said.
The tremor was felt as far away as Milan and Florence, Italian media say. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Italy is prone to earthquakes. In 2009 almost 300 people died in a quake in L'Aquila in the central Abruzzo region.
Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said the quake struck at 15:48 (14:48 GMT), with its epicentre in Garfagnana.
Several aftershocks of lower magnitude were felt across a large area.
Phone lines were down and power supplies were cut in the Garfagnana area, Italian news agency Ansa reports. As a precaution, schools were said to have been evacuated in the immediate vicinity and were to be checked for any damage.
In Milan, top floors of tall office blocks shook and the quake was also felt in the cities of Bologna and Modena.
In Lucca, people poured out into the streets, Ansa said.
Last May, two earthquakes in the same area left more than 20 people dead. The strongest tremor was magnitude-6 and caused significant damage.
Alessandro Amato of the INGV said the latest tremor "came out of nowhere", and described it as a classic earthquake for the area - "medium-strong" and "fairly shallow".
Italy is still trying to recover from the aftermath of the deadly earthquake in L'Aquila.
Six scientists and an ex-official were convicted of multiple manslaughter in October 2012 for giving a falsely reassuring statement.
The group, all members of the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Serious Risks, were accused of having provided "inaccurate, incomplete and contradictory" information about the danger of the tremors felt ahead of the 6 April 2009 quake.
At a meeting a few days before the deadly quake, they had told officials in L'Aquila that, while a major earthquake was not impossible, it was not likely.
On the night of the quake, many people are said to have remained in their homes and died because of the advice, while others who had decided to remain outside in the street survived. | An earthquake has shaken parts of northern Italy, forcing some residents onto the streets. | 2.160703 | 2 |
There is an arrest warrant for Mr Mallya and Delhi says it is considering seeking his deportation from the UK.
The flamboyant businessman is known as India's Richard Branson for his investment in aviation, Formula 1, Indian cricket and the drinks industry.
His debts were triggered by the failure of his Kingfisher Airlines in 2013.
Authorities have given the businessman one week to answer why his passport should not be impounded or revoked.
He is believed to have some $1.4bn (£1bn) of unpaid debts after the collapse of the airline and is thought be in the UK.
Mr Mallya has dismissed allegations that he left India because of the outstanding debt and also criticised his "media trial" over the issue.
In March, he was blocked from receiving $75m severance pay from British drinks giant Diageo.
The heavily indebted businessman was due to receive the money after being ousted from the firm in February.
But a consortium of banks and creditors had demanded the money should be used to settle some of Mr Mallya's outstanding debt to them.
Earlier this month a consortium of 17 banks, led by the State Bank of India, rejected a proposal by Vijay Mallya to pay 40bn Indian rupees ($600m; £416.4m) by September, to settle his loans. The group said the offer was inadequate and subject to too many conditions.
Following the rejection, the Supreme Court in New Delhi then asked the businessman to make a full disclosure of his assets. | India has revoked the passport of business tycoon Vijay Mallya accused of hiding in Britain over huge debts from his defunct Kingfisher Airlines. | 1.463774 | 1 |
O'Donnell has agreed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the Robins.
The 27-year-old has made four appearances for the Championship club since joining in January as cover for injured City number one Frank Fielding.
O'Donnell featured in 12 games in all competitions for League One side Wigan, having arrived on a free transfer from Walsall in July.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bristol City have signed on-loan Wigan goalkeeper Richard O'Donnell to a permanent deal for an undisclosed fee. | 0.700301 | 1 |
The 21-year-old has a back injury and was not included as the initial squad of 28 was trimmed to a final 23 by manager Aidy Boothroyd.
Chelsea's Izzy Brown and Manchester City's Patrick Roberts are also out because of injuries.
Keeper Joe Wildsmith (Sheffield Wednesday) and defender Sam McQueen (Southampton) were omitted.
However, Wildsmith and McQueen are both on standby.
The tournament starts on Friday, 16 June when England face Sweden in their opening game of a group which also includes Poland and Slovakia.
Goalkeepers: Angus Gunn (Manchester City), Jonathan Mitchell (Derby County), Jordan Pickford (Sunderland).
Defenders: Calum Chambers (Arsenal), Ben Chilwell (Leicester City), Kortney Hause (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Rob Holding (Arsenal), Mason Holgate (Everton), Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Alfie Mawson (Swansea City), Jack Stephens (Southampton), Matt Targett (Southampton).
Midfielders: Lewis Baker (Chelsea), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Will Hughes (Derby County), John Swift (Reading), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
Forwards: Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Demarai Gray (Leicester City), Jacob Murphy (Norwich City), Nathan Redmond (Southampton), Cauley Woodrow (Fulham). | Chelsea midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek is out of England's Under-21 squad for the European Championships in Poland. | 0.945668 | 1 |
Marie Laurie, 57, from Easterhouse, had just got into the taxi with her husband when it was struck by a Vauxhall Astra on Edinburgh Road at 01:30 on Sunday.
She died at the scene. Her husband is in a serious condition in hospital.
Mrs Laurie's family told the BBC they were angry she had lost her life in those circumstances.
Her sister Alison said: "We're angry. It might sound really bad but someone can walk away with a cut and my sister is not coming back."
She said her sister had just got in to the taxi with her 52-year-old husband Jamie when the crash happened.
"Jamie had not even got time to sit down. He said he looked up and saw headlights coming and then woke up after it."
Mrs Laurie's niece Michelle said the family had been enjoying "an amazing day" and described their disbelief at losing her aunt.
"She was happy. We're just so glad that we got to spend that day with her," she said.
"She was proud of her son, happy to see her all her family together. It's just been so hard because we were all together up dancing, having dinner, drinking champagne and then to be woken to be told she's not here.
"You're waiting on her walking in, to sit and grieve with us, as if it's somebody else. It happens to other people's family, it doesn't happen to our family. You read it in the paper, see it on the soaps."
Police said previously that the green Vauxhall Astra drove off from Springhill Industrial Estate shortly before the crash after it did not respond to attempts by officers in a police van to pull it over.
The crash happened as the van, with blue lights flashing, pursued the car on Edinburgh Road.
The man driving the taxi, aged 50, suffered minor injuries, as did the 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall and his 16-year-old female passenger.
The 20-year-old car driver has since been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with alleged road traffic offences.
The force also said that the matter had been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner for consideration as is "standard procedure" in such cases. | The family of a woman who died on the way home from her son's wedding after a car chased by police hit her taxi have spoken about their anger and disbelief. | 0.800165 | 1 |
The cash-strapped National League club is currently up for sale, but despite their financial problems Phillips says a new stadium is the best way forward.
"We're looking ahead to a new ground. It's not absolutely concrete yet, but it's very, very likely that we'll be in in about three years," Phillips said.
"When we get to that stage we'll become a self-sustaining club. It's just in the meantime we need financing."
The Gulls first mooted moving to a new ground on the outskirts of the town in February, and have been at their current Plainmoor home for the past 105 years.
Torbay Council own Plainmoor, which ultimately proved to be the stumbling block as a takeover bid for the club faltered last week.
Phillips says a developer would build the ground and give it to the Gulls, but benefit from developing other businesses on land adjacent to the new stadium.
And Phillips says a ground with a synthetic pitch, which could be hired out to other users, would allow the club to be financially viable.
"You have 3G pitches, various sports going on, it's going to be open to all the community, not just Torquay United," he told BBC Sport.
"Torquay United would be the holders of that ground, we'll make money and everyone will get benefits from that.
"I know the council are very keen on this happening, so that's the future, and it's a great future, we just have to survive the next few years." | Torquay United could be in a new ground by 2019, says chairman David Phillips. | 1.140262 | 1 |
"Serious shortfalls" were identified at Tameside General Hospital when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited.
Staff lacked understanding of mental health laws and found one patient who had been unlawfully detained for "several days", the CQC said.
The NHS trust said it was working hard to make improvements.
Interim chief executive Karen James said issues raised by the inspection, including the safeguarding of vulnerable adults, additional training and staff shortages, were being addressed.
The CQC said a number of wards and the medical assessment and admissions unit did not have enough staff, leaving medics rushing to complete tasks.
Elsewhere in the hospital, some patients were not being treated in a dignified way, the inspection found.
The six-day inspection took place in January.
Tameside was one of a number of hospitals investigated for having a high mortality rate in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced Tameside and 10 other trusts had been put in special measures due to "fundamental breaches of care".
Malcolm Bower-Brown, the CQC's regional director for the north, said changes were needed to ensure patients received the care they were entitled to.
"Although we were pleased to find improvement in some areas since our last inspection, our inspectors found a number of serious shortfalls against national standards," he said.
"We will return shortly to check that the necessary changes have been made and can be sustained for the future."
The trust said it took the report's findings seriously. | A hospital placed in special measures last year has failed to meet eight of the 11 national safety standards during an unannounced inspection. | 1.294191 | 1 |
The weapons, which included 45 AK-47 guns, were found at the cargo terminal at Rio de Janeiro's Galeao International Airport.
Four people have been arrested, police said.
It is one of the largest seizures of such weapons in Brazilian history, local media reported.
Authorities put the rifles on show, and released an X-ray image that showed the wrapped guns concealed inside the containers of pool heating systems.
It is believed the guns could have been sold in Brazil for up to $1.5m (£1.1m) in total. Detectives are investigating an exporter in Miami, Globo newspaper reported without identifying them.
Security forces in Brazil are struggling to stop powerful automatic weapons falling into the hands of drugs gangs and militia groups which control poorer areas of major cities. | Police in Brazil have seized 60 assault rifles that had been smuggled from the US city of Miami in a shipment of swimming pool heaters. | 1.020664 | 1 |
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Gareth Furlong gave Wales the lead in the first period before securing a second goal from a penalty stroke.
Rupert Shipperley finished a strong team goal to take Wales 3-0 up as they dominated the game.
Wales will now face either Ireland in Saturday's semi-finals with the hope of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in India.
Co-captain Luke Hawker says they squad have developed over the course of the eight-day tournament.
"It is probably the first time this week we've put a 70 minute display together on both sides of the ball.
"Really pleasing to come away with the three goals and the victory but equally as pleasing to keep a clean sheet. That's something we pride ourselves on.
"We keep pushing ourselves. Keep asking a bit more. Every time we go back to the video and review the game just gone.
"Both our rest days were down here on the training ground and fine tuning really. It's great to see that transferring into on field performances"
A top-two finish in the eight-team tournament would lift Wales in the rankings and give them a chance of a first World Cup appearance.
Their victory against Italy puts them just one win away from the final, which would enable them to qualify for the World League Semi Finals tournament to be played this summer, which acts as a World Cup qualifier.
Wales could also qualify for the 2018 Commonwealth Games if they are ranked in the top 10 eligible nations by the end of the season.
"For us this is a victory in a sense. The tournament and coming here and getting to semi-final is great for us as a group," Hawker continued.
"We are not the sort of squad who will rest on our laurels. The hard work's done. I think we can play with a bit of freedom and go on and see if we can get that cherry at the end." | Wales men's hockey team are through to the semi-finals of the World League 2 tournament with a 3-0 win over Italy. | 0.946471 | 1 |
The bridge connecting Llanfair Clydogau, near Lampeter, has been closed after part of it gave way at the weekend.
It has left residents with an eight-mile (13km) detour - a 25-minute journey - to the shop and post office.
Residents said it had caused "havoc" in the village. Ceredigion council said reopening the bridge was a "priority".
Frustrated resident Colin Adams said: "The shops are on this side, but the majority of people live on the other side of the village. They can't get across."
Community councillor Alan Leech said it was a "major problem" for the village.
"We want action very quickly indeed because the inconvenience to people is substantial," he said.
"And of course there are cost implications for ordinary people here because everyone wishing to get to the shop is having to drive round a detour...which is wasteful of time, wasteful of fuel."
"What we want to know is, what is the county council going to do about this and how quickly is it going to be put right?"
Ceredigion council said engineers had inspected the bridge, which is listed, and it would liaise with conservation body Cadw on when it could reopen. | A village in Ceredigion has been "split in two" following a partial collapse of a historical bridge. | 0.980332 | 1 |
Brooks Newmark told the BBC: "I have no-one to blame but myself. I have hurt those I care about most."
The MP for Braintree in Essex is reported to have sent an explicit image of himself to an undercover reporter from the Sunday Mirror.
In a resignation statement, he asked for his privacy to be respected.
In his comments to BBC political correspondent Chris Mason, Mr Newmark added: "I am so, so sorry. But I just need time with my family".
The Sunday Mirror said its reporter had been posing as a young female activist.
Mr Newmark's announcement on Saturday came on the eve of the Conservative party conference and hours after fellow Tory MP Mark Reckless said he was quitting the party to join UKIP.
In his resignation statement, the 56-year-old said: "I have decided to resign as minister for civil society having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper.
"I would like to appeal for the privacy of my family to be respected at this time.
"I remain a loyal supporter of this government as its long-term economic plan continues to deliver for the British people."
Mr Newmark, who has been the MP for Braintree since 2005 and became minister for civil society in July, is married and has five children.
Rob Wilson, Conservative MP for Reading East, has been appointed as Mr Newmark's replacement at the Cabinet Office.
Speaking on Sky News, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Mr Newmark had "done the right thing" in resigning from ministerial office.
Asked whether he thought Mr Newmark had been entrapped, Mr Fallon said he was unable to comment as he "hadn't seen the details".
Another MP, Nadine Dorries, told Sky his resignation was only a "distraction" to the start of the Conservative Party conference.
She said Mr Newmark had been "stupid... he's let himself down and his family down, but I don't think it's that big a deal". | The Conservative MP who stepped down as minister for civil society over a newspaper story about his private life has said he has been "a complete fool". | 1.128037 | 1 |
Former Barnsley player McCourt, 22, joins the Spireites on a two-year deal.
He made 32 appearances in all competitions last season after joining Northampton on a free from Barnsley.
"He's technically a good player as well as being very aggressive and a tough tackler," Chesterfield manager Gary Caldwell said. "Jak gives us something we don't have in midfield."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Midfielder Jak McCourt has joined League Two Chesterfield following his release by Northampton Town. | 0.679996 | 1 |
A 9-0 hammering on Saturday relegated New Mills from the eighth-tier Northern Premier League Division One North.
The Derbyshire club, who have a goal difference of -115, have not won a match all season and only managed two draws.
Their league record reads; Played 35, lost 33, drawn two, scored 21 and conceded 136.
Bottom of the league on two points, they are 26 points from safety with seven games left.
And Aston Villa fans thought they had it bad...
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for the Six Nations, your football team and more. | For a team dubbed "the worst in England", it was a fitting way to go out. | 0.938422 | 1 |
Benigno Aquino told the New York Times that the world must learn a lesson from 1938, when the UK and France allowed Hitler his claims to Czech territory.
China claims parts of the South China Sea which the Philippines disputes.
The spat is the latest in a war of words between China and its neighbours.
Mr Aquino called on the world to do more to support his country against China's claims to its nearby seas.
"At what point do you say: 'Enough is enough'? Well, the world has to say it. Remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II," Mr Aquino said.
The Sudetenland was part of what was then called Czechoslovakia before the UK and France agreed to allow Hitler to take it.
The comments quickly drew the ire of China's official state news agency Xinhua, which published an article calling Mr Aquino "ignorant".
The remarks "exposed his true colours as an amateurish politician, who was ignorant both of history and reality", the article said.
China claims ownership of large parts of the South China Sea, including the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal, which lie off the coast of the Philippines.
China says its claim stems from 2,000 years of historical convention, but the Philippines and Vietnam, among others, dispute this.
The remarks are the latest in a war of words between China and the other countries in the region with which it has territorial disputes.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused controversy at the economic forum in Davos last month, when he said that China and Japan were "in a similar situation" to Germany and Britain just before the outbreak of World War I.
He said that strong trade ties did not in themselves preclude the outbreak of war.
Mr Abe went on to criticise China's annual double-digit increase in military spending, saying it was a major source of instability in the region.
In response, Xinhua referred to Mr Abe as the "disgraced Japanese prime minister". | China's state news agency has branded Philippine President Benigno Aquino a "disgrace" for his comments warning the world not to appease China like Europe once appeased Nazi Germany. | 2.68909 | 3 |
The original bus was on its way to Norfolk when it was engulfed in flames on the A11 near Cambridge in July.
Eunice Jokrassett, landlady of The Crown, and other villagers in Smallburgh, Norfolk, had been fundraising for the bus since February.
It was to be turned into a library, and taken to Ms Jokrassett's home country, the Ivory Coast.
An anonymous businessman, who heard the £6,000 bus had gone up in flames, stepped in and donated a replacement vehicle.
The bus will be packed up with books and school equipment that had been collected by local people.
In September, it will begin its two-week journey to the Ivory Coast.
Once there, it will travel to schools in and around Abidjan.
"It's like an English resource centre, and will allow the children to learn about England, there are loads of books on board for children to learn the English language", said Ms Jokrassett.
In November, she and 20 people from Smallburgh will fly to the Ivory Coast to see the bus in use.
The original bus was destroyed after a blaze started in the engine compartment, the fire service said. | A double-decker bus has been donated to a pub to replace its vehicle that was destroyed in a fire. | 1.740507 | 2 |
Dale lost 1-0 to the relegation-threatened Shrews, leaving them ninth in League One, six points adrift of the play-offs with four games left.
Hill's team have now won just five of their 20 away games this season, compared to 12 of 19 at Spotland.
"The players have got to prove to me and the supporters that they can do it away from home," he said.
He continued to BBC Radio Manchester: "I'm dealing with players that, characteristically, support a losing mentality - especially away from home."
With the defeat effectively ending Dale's hopes of reaching the play-offs, Hill criticised his players for their approach to the match and called for improvement against Bury on Thursday evening.
"We've got four games left, players out of contract at the end of the season and we're going into a game against Bury where there's local bragging rights," he said.
"Players have got to come to me and say 'I want to play because I want to give everything. I'm not waiting until next season.' But unfortunately at this time I've got too many waiters.
"I've supported a lot of players in renewing contracts. They're playing for their futures, definitely, but I'm managing for my future. I don't want a sterile environment, I want a winning environment." | Rochdale boss Keith Hill has accused his side of having a "losing mentality" after being beaten by Shrewsbury. | 0.748554 | 1 |
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Wales are third in Group D, four points behind Serbia and the Republic of Ireland with five games left.
Despite that gap, Williams does not believe Wales' qualifying hopes will be over if they fail to beat Serbia.
"I don't think so. We're still in a good position halfway through," said the Everton defender.
"I live for them [games like these]. As a team, we live for these nights.
"It doesn't always come off. I think we've seen that before in the past. But of late, this is the kind of game we love, when you're up against it in a different country, you're working hard and you're backing your mates up. Once you get in that groove, it's difficult to beat.
"We're very resilient and we're a gritty team. This is another opportunity for us to go out there and show our togetherness, put in a big shift and hopefully get the result we want."
The odds are stacked against Wales, who have travelled to Belgrade without a raft of first-team players.
Their talismanic forward Gareth Bale is the most notable absentee, suspended after a yellow card against the Republic of Ireland in March.
Left-back Neil Taylor is also banned, while forwards Hal Robson-Kanu and Ben Woodburn, midfielder Andy King and defender James Collins are injured.
Despite starting their campaign with victory over Moldova, Wales' bid to reach the 2018 World Cup has stalled following four successive draws against Austria, Georgia, Serbia and the Republic of Ireland.
Defeat in Belgrade in Sunday - coupled with an Irish win over Austria - would effectively end Welsh hopes of reaching next year's tournament in Russia.
Williams, however, is not entertaining such thoughts.
"It is a big game against a tough team, it's one we're preparing to win but, if we don't, we carry on because there are still games to go," the 33-year-old added.
"While there are points available, we'll try our best to go and get them.
"It will be tough. We're not planning for that [defeat]. We're playing to win but we do understand it will be a difficult game. For the last nine days, we've been working to win." | Captain Ashley Williams says Wales will thrive under the pressure of facing their World Cup qualifying group leaders Serbia in Belgrade on Sunday. | 1.010298 | 1 |
Firstsite gallery in Colchester, Essex, is set to lose £500,000 this financial year despite two injections of funding.
Interim director Anthony Roberts admitted the gallery "hadn't really found its voice" since opening in 2011.
Among ideas being considered to draw in crowds are plans to display works such as Rodin's The Kiss.
Firstsite was one of two projects across England to be placed under a special funding agreement by Arts Council England earlier this year.
Managers must show an improvement in visitor numbers or face losing funding altogether.
"It's a big challenge," Mr Roberts said. "Despite the really hard work, it hasn't really managed to connect. And no-one's particularly to blame for that - it's a misfiring of energy and work."
But he said, since he had taken on the interim post in April, visitor numbers had increased by 25% between May and June.
'The Golden Banana'
Documents obtained by BBC Essex using a Freedom of Information request show since 2009, the East of England has received the lowest amount of Arts Council funding of anywhere in England.
The documents also revealed ideas considered during an emergency planning workshop to make the gallery more appealing.
Changing the gallery's name was mooted as a possibility, but Mr Roberts said he personally had "very warm feelings" towards its current moniker.
"I'm working my very hardest to rattle the turnstiles, to bring people in, to put a smile on people's faces, to make Colchester proud and happy and comfortable in this beautiful international building," he said. | A £28m art gallery plagued by falling visitor numbers is considering displaying world-famous art to boost attendance. | 1.432442 | 1 |
Meschede, 24, has targeted a place in the second-string England Lions team since joining Glamorgan from Somerset.
But Derrick feels the South Africa-born player, who was on loan with the Welsh county in 2015, can aim higher.
"He could be the next guy from Glamorgan that actually plays for England in any sort of cricket. I liked what I saw last year," said Derrick.
Meschede played in all but one of Glamorgan's matches while on loan last season, across all three formats, scoring 655 runs in first-class cricket and claiming 43 wickets.
He hit the headlines by claiming the wicket of Kevin Pietersen on the former England batsman's county comeback.
But Derrick, who left as Glamorgan coach in November, 2006, believes the Welsh county did not make the most of Meschede's talents.
Fast bowler Simon Jones was Glamorgan's last England player, memorably helping them to win the 2005 Ashes series against Australia.
But Alex Wharf was the last Glamorgan player to play international limited-overs cricket and Derrick sees Meschede as filling a similar role for England.
"Glamorgan started a couple of games with him opening up in T20 stuff," said Derrick.
"But I would have persevered with that and I think looking back to someone like when Wharfy got into that England side and he batted at three and bowled a heavy ball.
"And someone like Meschede can probably look to follow that.
"So I think that's a very, very good signing for Glamorgan and if I was a betting man I think he would be the one I would be looking at to push on for England honours in the next couple of years." | Former Glamorgan coach John Derrick has tipped all-rounder Craig Meschede to be the county's next England player. | 0.707163 | 1 |
11 August 2015 Last updated at 18:57 BST
Queen Nefertiti is thought to have been the mother of Tutankhamun, an important ancient Egyptian King.
She is famous for her beauty, and her powerful reign.
But despite her importance in ancient Egyptian history it's always been a mystery where she was finally buried.
Now, Dr Nicholas Reeves, a leading expert on ancient Egypt, thinks he might have found a hidden doorway which leads to her tomb.
He looked at scans of the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, to find secret doorways, hidden beneath the plaster.
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered almost 100 years ago, but archaeologists have always wondered why it was so small, for such an important king.
Now, they think it could have been added on to the side of his mother's tomb, which could be far grander.
We won't know for sure, unless Egyptian authorities choose to break through to mystery doorway and have a look.
Egyptologist, Dr Joyce Tyldesley, told Leah how important the discovery could be. | A mystery which has puzzled archaeologists for years might finally have been solved - an expert from Arizona University thinks he may have found Queen Nefertiti's tomb. | 2.906353 | 3 |
1 February 2017 Last updated at 16:10 GMT
The PSNI has revealed it will be issuing notices to badly parked cars.
Diane Marks explained the safety issues that pavement parking can cause. | A guide dog owner has warned of the dangers of pavement parking, as a campaign is launched to urge NI drivers to consider the needs of those with disabilities. | 0.999941 | 1 |
It was the very first time UU has entered a team on the quiz and with an average age of 50 they were some of the oldest competitors to take part.
They may have suffered a loss, but at only five points behind their rivals, they can hold their heads up high.
Team member, Matthew Milliken, a PHD student, said it was "tremendous fun".
The UU team was made up of members drawn from the four campuses in Belfast, Coleraine, Jordanstown and Londonderry.
As well as Matthew, from Comber, County Down, it consisted of Cathal McDaid from Buncrana, County Donegal, Kate Ritchie from Waringstown, County Down, and captain Ian Jack from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.
Matthew told BBC's Good Morning Ulster that the team hadn't set their sights too high.
"We set ourselves a target of not being the lowest ever score, but we exceeded that ambition."
They even got a tweet today from University Challenge legend Bobby Seagull who said it was the highest losing score in the last six years.
Monkman v Seagull: The greatest face-off of all time?
Why do University Challenge contestants go viral?
The team were able to have a joke with the famously stern presenter, Jeremy Paxman.
"In the picture round, the picture came up on the screen in front of us. It was a round on actors who had played a part on Broadway and gone on to win an Oscar for the film," Matthew said.
"The picture was Yul Brynner and I do have a pretty similar hairstyle to him. I buzzed in with the right answer.
"Jeremy Paxman, looked across at me, raised an eyebrow knowingly and I removed my glasses and wiped my baldy head.
"As I said to my daughter, 'Your daddy's a meme' ".
Matthew added that the university had never made an attempt to get on the show before.
"It would be really easy for it [to be] populated with Oxbridge students. There are so many colleges and phenomenally intelligent young people over there.
"We're a bunch of folk who have, perhaps struggled a bit to come through this stage of education. I proudly boast that I scrapped two A Levels and went to the poly.
"I wasn't one of these kids who grew up watching the programme. It was a much more recent advent in my world."
However, it's not all over for the team, as they will still have the opportunity to compete in the play-offs.
We have everything crossed for you. | If you tuned into University Challenge on Monday, you'll know that a team from Ulster University (UU) lost narrowly to Edinburgh University. | 1.26308 | 1 |
The detailed 3D models feature buildings, proposed constructions, hills, trees and weather cycles, all of which can interfere with 5G signals.
Researchers will be able to test towers in various locations and instantly see how well they might perform.
One analyst said the tool would help networks provide better coverage.
Next-generation 5G networks will offer consumers faster connections and increased bandwidth for activities such as video streaming.
But Ordnance Survey says the higher frequency signals have a shorter range than current 3G and 4G signals, and are more susceptible to interference from "even raindrops and leaves".
The planning tool will use Ordnance Survey's mapping data and high-resolution aerial images to produce its 3D models, while weather data will be provided by the Met Office.
"The character of 5G means the location of cell towers is more sensitive - so it will be very important to fully understand the topography of each area," said Ben Wood, analyst at CCS Insight.
"The better the tools networks have to help site cell towers correctly, the more likely we'll get high quality coverage from the get-go."
Ordnance Survey said its maps were so detailed, they even included vegetation cycles to determine how trees might affect 5G coverage during different seasons.
Parts of Bournemouth have already been modelled using the experimental tool, which Ordnance Survey hopes will be rolled out across the UK.
"It will be a useful tool for companies deploying 5G networks," said Mr Wood. "But there is no alternative to spending the money to install a lot of cell sites." | Next-generation smartphones could avoid signal drop-outs thanks to new data-rich maps being produced by Ordnance Survey. | 3.069191 | 3 |
Aaron Whitman, 26, of West Bergholt, Essex, faces five charges, including inciting an underage girl to have sex.
He is also accused of misconduct in a public office while working for Essex County Council.
He appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court where he did not enter a plea.
The charges date back to between July 2013 and September 2014, when he worked as a business administrator for the council.
He was bailed to appear at Ipswich Crown Court in January. | A former council worker accused of using his position to gain contact details for a 15-year-old girl before propositioning her for sex has appeared in court. | 0.03885 | 0 |
The 33-year-old Portugal international has agreed a one-year contract.
The ex-Genoa and Braga man "will provide experienced cover and competition for Thibaut Courtois and Asmir Begovic", Chelsea said.
"All the colleagues I have always say the dream is to come to the Premier League, where there are the best clubs and the best players," Eduardo added.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Chelsea have signed goalkeeper Eduardo from Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb for an undisclosed fee. | 0.58992 | 1 |
King Rollo Films, the makers of children's TV programmes Spot, Maisy, Mama Mirabelle, Humf and Poppy Cat, wants to develop a new series on Skye.
It has teamed up with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and XpoNorth to offer the workshops.
The training will be held on Skye in December and January.
Gaelic language college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI will host the workshops.
The organisers of creative industries festival XpoNorth said the training would "equip talented artists and train up a new workforce for the Highlands and Islands".
In March, King Rollo Films announced its plans to write, animate and produce a new television series on Skye.
HIE has been helping the Bafta award-winning company to find writers and artists to work on it. | Free training workshops have been offered to artists as part of an effort to create a new workforce of animators in the Highlands and Islands. | 1.280679 | 1 |
The warning by the National Audit Office comes just two months after a BBC investigation highlighted increasing delays answering 999 calls.
The NAO said rising demand, recruitment problems and wider NHS pressures meant crews were failing to hit targets.
It comes as NHS bosses are looking at relaxing the eight-minute target for calls where it may not be necessary.
In November the BBC revealed ambulances were increasingly being delayed outside A&E units as hospital staff were too busy to take on the patients being brought in.
And the investigation found just one of the 13 services in the UK was meeting its key target - the eight-minute goal to reach the most life-threatening cases.
This NAO review just looked at performance in England. It too highlighted these problems and urged NHS bosses to review what was happening.
It pointed to the discrepancy between the rise in demand - 30% over four years - compared to the rise in budget - 16% over the same period.
NAO head Amyas Morse said action was needed as ambulances were a "vital" part of the service.
Christina McAnea, of Unison, which represents ambulance staff, said: "There's simply not enough money to cope."
NHS England said steps were being taken. Ambulances have been given longer to assess calls before a response needs to be sent - about a quarter of crews are called back before they reach the scene because call handlers have to make quick decisions about who needs an emergency response.
Three ambulance services - South Western, Yorkshire and West Midlands - are piloting a scheme which is seeing some urgent calls, such as strokes and fits, re-categorised as not needing an eight-minute response. Evidence suggests such quick responses are not necessary in these cases.
Prof Keith Willett, of NHS England, said: "These trials are designed to makes sure ambulances focus on the right priority - getting to the most urgent patients in the quickest possible time and improving the service to all patients who dial 999." | Ambulance crews are finding it "increasingly difficult to cope", an audit of the service in England says. | 1.570616 | 2 |
Adrian Zielinski, who had moved up to -94kg after winning gold in the -85kg in London, failed a drugs test at the Polish Championships in July.
The Polish Weightlifting Federation said the 27-year-old has a legal right to have his B sample tested.
His 25-year-old brother Tomasz was sent home from Brazil on Tuesday.
Nandrolone is an anabolic steroid which can help athletes to train harder and aids recovery time.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping panel in Rio has already heard Tomasz Zielinski's case and banned him from the Games. The International Weightlifting Federation will now decide on any sanction.
His is the third case to be heard by the specially-convened anti-doping panel since the Games started.
It banned Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova after she tested positive for blood booster EPO, and China's teenage swimmer Chen Xinyi has accepted a provisional suspension while a positive drug test is investigated.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Polish Olympic champion Adrian Zielinski has joined brother Tomasz in being sent home from Rio 2016 after testing positive for nandrolone. | 1.166065 | 1 |
David Whitehouse, from administrators Duff and Phelps, faces the same charges while Mr Green, 62, is also accused of fraud.
An angry crowd of fans shouted abuse as police escorted them from Glasgow Sheriff Court.
All three have been granted bail to return to court at a later date.
The three men were arrested on Tuesday after a police investigation into the sale of Rangers assets in 2012.
Another accountant, 51-year-old Paul Clark, who ran the club while it was in administration, has also been arrested.
Rangers was sold to Craig Whyte by its former owner Sir David Murray in 2011 for a nominal sum of £1.
But it entered administration in February 2012 after running out of cash.
Mr Whitehouse, 50, who worked at Duff and Phelps, was appointed as joint administrator, along with colleague Mr Clark.
When an agreement with creditors could not be struck to allow the club to exit administration, a sale of Rangers' assets to a consortium led by Mr Green was concluded.
He was at the helm when Rangers were allowed to join the Third Division but stepped down in 2013 following allegations that he was working in conjunction with Mr Whyte, 44.
Charles Green was shielded by police officers when he left by the front door of the court at around 15:30 BST on Wednesday.
A group of around 20 supporters shouted and tried to jostle the former Sheffield United chief executive.
Mr Whitehouse left the court to equally angry scenes around 20 minutes later.
Craig Whyte, 44, then made his exit just before 19:00 and was met by another angry crowd.
The trio have been charged under Section 28 of the Criminal Justice Licensing Act 2010, which covers serious organised crime offences. They have also been charged with conspiracy.
In addition Mr Green has been charged with fraud and also an offence under Section 190 of the Companies Act 2006.
They made no plea or declaration. | Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte and ex-chief executive Charles Green have been charged with conspiracy and involvement in serious organised crime. | 0.933309 | 1 |
Penarth Road in Grangetown shut at its junction with Corporation Road and Clare Road following a collision between the two vehicles.
The mail van then crashed into a nearby building. The two people in the police car were taken to hospital.
The road was shut for nearly six hours while recovery operations took place.
South Wales Police said the two people were treated for injuries which were not life-threatening. The collision happened shortly after 03.30 BST.
Buses were diverted along Avondale Road and Clare Road at the One Stop shop to avoid the closure.
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a Royal Mail vehicle was involved in a road traffic accident this morning at 3.40am near the junction with Clare Road and Penarth Road, Cardiff.
"The male driver was shaken up, but thankfully not seriously injured." | A main road into Cardiff has reopened after closing when a police car and a Royal Mail van were involved in an accident in the early hours of Monday. | 0.950056 | 1 |
The 19-year-old, who joined Everton from Cheltenham in 2011, helped the Toffees win the Premier League Under-18 title last season and is now a regular in their under-21 side.
Shakers boss David Flitcroft told the club website: "Courtney is a player we have watched for a while now.
"He has pace, power and wants to run in from behind and hurt other sides." | League Two side Bury have signed teenage forward Courtney Duffus on loan from Everton until January. | 0.515097 | 1 |
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Flip the cards to see if the player has been linked with your team - and how much they might cost.
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The visitors resumed on 274-8 and Barry McCarthy (39) and Paul Coughlin (73 not out) took their ninth-wicket stand to 90, before Durham were all out for 301.
Derbyshire had a first-innings lead of 67 but they slumped to 31-3 in their second, before Alex Hughes (108 not out) saw them to 214 all out.
Needing 282 to win, Durham closed on 36-0 with Michael Richardson on 29.
Derbyshire were frustrated in the morning session as Durham's tail pushed the visitors' total past 300 after being 205-8 on day two.
In reply, Hughes was one of only three Derbyshire players to reach double figures, with Luis Reece making 37 and first-innings centurion Matt Critchley scoring 28. | Durham require another 246 runs to beat Derbyshire in an intriguing Division Two encounter at Chesterfield. | 0.750864 | 1 |
The radio and radar station set up at Aird Uig, Gallan Head, 60 years ago was part of Nato's early warning system against Soviet submarines and aircraft.
Gallan Head Community Trust bought the site from the Ministry of Defence with help of grant funding.
It is working on turning parts of the site into a space observatory.
A marine research centre is also planned at what is to be called The Cetus Observatory.
The trust said: "Cetus will be a ground-breaking, multi-purpose space for observing the dark skies, changeable weather, listening to and spotting whales and getting absorbed in every aspect of nature and science.
"The observatory will hold an internet operated robotic telescope, a small radio telescope, a small radar, a solar telescope, a planetarium, a space exhibition, giant wide field binoculars for viewing cetaceans and birdlife, nature webcams, a café, educational facilities, and a small shop.
It added: "Outside the centre there will be a circular path around the headland, in some places leading to observation shelters, excellent for daytime marine life spotting walks or night-time star gazing." | A ceilidh and a torchlight procession are to be held on Saturday to mark a year since a community buyout of a Cold War surveillance station on Lewis. | 2.743578 | 3 |
Jamel Boyce, 17, was left critically ill after being stabbed in the chest and leg in Clapham, south-west London, on 14 October.
His mother Pansy said it was "impossible" to describe the pain her family was suffering.
But she hoped the image would show the devastating impact of knife crime.
Detectives said the "minor scuffle" with four males may have appeared trivial to onlookers, but the teenager collapsed soon afterwards.
Jamel, a business student, was at a McDonald's in Clapham High Street when there was a dispute with the people he was with at about 15:00 BST on 14 October.
Four hours later the teenager was attacked in a road around 200 yards from the restaurant.
Bystanders gave him first aid before the arrival of paramedics who took him to hospital.
Mrs Boyce said: "It breaks my heart to release this picture of Jamel but it shows plainly the devastating impact that carrying and using a knife can have.
"I would hate for any other mother or family to go through what we are going through right now.
"If you know what happened, and who did this to my son, please look into your conscience and speak to police." | The parents of a boy left fighting for his life after being stabbed have released a picture of him in intensive care in a bid to find his attackers. | 1.360147 | 1 |
The layoffs will be announced in the coming weeks, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal.
A memo from BlackRock's president Rob Kapito and chief operating officer Rob Goldstein said the job cuts have not been finalised.
BlackRock declined to comment.
The last time BlackRock cut a significant number of jobs was in 2013 but the firm ended the year with a higher headcount.
The new round of layoffs comes following months of volatility in the financial markets, which has negatively impacted the income made by traditional banks and other investment houses.
Rivals like Franklin Resources, AllianceBernstein and State Street are also shedding jobs as part of their cost-cutting efforts.
BlackRock has 13,000 employees globally and manages around $4.6tn in assets. | The world's largest money manager BlackRock reportedly plans to cut 400 jobs, or about 3% of its workforce, in its biggest round of layoffs to date. | 1.093573 | 1 |
The 15-year-old was aiming to add the under-21 title to the under-18 title he had already won at the championships.
He had beaten fellow Welshman, 18-year-old Tyler Rees in the semi-final.
Page is now in the senior men's event in Cyprus with a game against Bulgaria's Viktor Iliev on Monday.
In February Page reached the third round of the Welsh Open in Cardiff before losing to Judd Trump. | Welsh schoolboy Jackson Page lost 6-4 to Alexander Ursenbacher of Switzerland in the final of the under-21 event at snooker's European Championships in Cyprus. | 0.573699 | 1 |
Toyota's production lines will be closed until the end of Wednesday while John Deere suspended work indefinitely.
Renault also said its car deliveries in China may fall in August and September after the blast burned 1,500 of its imported cars.
And Volkswagen said 2,700 of its cars were damaged.
Evacuation advisories have been issued for the area around the blast site.
The site is likely to have housed hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic chemicals.
Toyota said more than 50 of its staff were injured.
At least 114 people died in the explosions, officials said on Sunday, and more than 700 have needed hospital treatment.
The blasts on Wednesday came during holidays for Toyota workers, so there has been no impact on production so far at its three lines near the affected area, the Japanese carmaker said in a statement.
"However, due to ongoing evacuation advisories, none of the three lines at Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co Ltd" will be in operation between 17 and 19 August, Toyota said.
US company John Deere also suspended operations near Tianjin after some of its workers were injured and several buildings were damaged.
The maker of tractors and agricultural machinery said it was halting work indefinitely.
A small number of employees were injured, and windows and doors at some of the company's plant had been blown out, a spokesman said.
The full scope of the damage is not yet established as the evacuation has blocked staff from returning to assess the plant.
The John Deere plant in Tianjin primarily manufactures agricultural and construction equipment as well as engines for the Asian market. | Toyota and John Deere have said they will halt work at plants near China's port of Tianjin where huge explosions last week killed more than 100 people. | 1.352036 | 1 |
Paying tribute to a directing great
The British film-maker, who died on Wednesday, never recovered after suffering from a fall, said family friend and BBC correspondent Peter Bowes.
London-born Neame also worked as a cinematographer on films including Blithe Spirit and In Which We Serve.
He directed The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Dame Maggie Smith.
She won the best actress Oscar in 1969 for her portrayal of the inspirational teacher of six young girls.
Neame also co-wrote screenplays including Great Expectations and Brief Encounter.
Classic disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, released in 1972 and co-directed with Irwin Allen, starred Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters and was mauled by critics.
Speaking to the BBC in 2006, he said he was surprised by its enduring appeal adding that he "never believed that it was more than just an average picture".
He was also critical of modern film-making saying movies had "become too frenetic, partly because the stories are not good enough".
"So they try to make up for their lack of good characterisation and storytelling by quick cutting and frenetic use of the camera," he added.
"And I think that's a pity." | Poseidon Adventure director Ronald "Ronnie" Neame has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 99. | 1.324177 | 1 |
The 21-year-old, who has been on trial with the Lions this summer, has agreed a two-year contract at The Den.
Smith scored 13 goals as Folkestone won the Ryman League South Division last season and becomes Millwall's fifth signing of the transfer window.
"Harry has the attributes to be a very good footballer but he has a lot to improve on," boss Neil Harris said.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Millwall have signed striker Harry Smith from Folkestone Invicta for an undisclosed fee. | 0.543653 | 1 |
It happened on the North Road at about 18:25 local time on Sunday.
The child was taken to the Children's University Hospital in Temple Street in a serious condition and was pronounced dead during the early hours of Monday.
A 24-year-old man who was arrested a short time after the collision remains in custody. He is being questioned at Blanchardstown Garda (police) station. | A two-year-old girl has died after she was struck by a car that failed to stop at the scene in Dublin's Phoenix Park. | 0.180605 | 0 |
The 24-year-old forward moved to Easter Road on loan from Dundee in January 2015, making the move permanent in the following summer.
Boyle scored nine goals this season as Hibs won the Championship and promotion to the Premiership.
"He can play in a variety of positions and always gives 100%, and his pace is a great asset to have," said manager Neil Lennon.
"His game isn't just about pace, he can also score goals, lay on assists and is able to help us transition from defence to attack."
The news comes the day after Hibs confirmed that defender Liam Fontaine is staying on for another season.
The 31-year-old former Bristol City centre-back has been at the club since 2014 and has played 98 games, including last year's Scottish Cup final triumph. | Martin Boyle has signed a new two-year contract extension at Hibernian. | 0.862874 | 1 |
The Belfast game will be used as preparation for a 2018 World Cup qualifier away against Azerbaijan eight days later.
"The players will need a game at that time as some of their seasons will have finished as early as the end of April," said NI manager MIchael O'Neill.
"We'll use it sensibly and get as many of the squad on the pitch as possible."
Northern Ireland beat Azerbaijan 4-0 in their last qualifier in November and sit second in Group C.
O'Neill revealed that preparations for the trip to Azerbaijan will include two training camps in Britain before the game against the All Whites, followed by an overseas training camp.
He added: "I wanted a home game following our first two camps and it will come at a good time for us. It's not too close to the Azerbaijan game and it will help to keep the players sharp."
It is also a warm-up game for New Zealand as they prepare for the Confederations Cup in Russia, where they will face the hosts, Portugal and Mexico in the group stage.
New Zealand captain Winston Reid, who plays at centre-back for West Ham, is one of their best known players along with Chris Wood, the striker currently topping the scoring charts for Leeds United. | Northern Ireland will take on New Zealand in a friendly encounter at Windsor Park on 2 June. | 1.010399 | 1 |
The prosperity index was compiled by the Legatum Institute and is based on data from 170 locations across the country.
According to the organisation, prosperity was measured by average incomes and happiness levels.
The Black Country borough of Sandwell was ranked second-last in terms of prosperity.
In addition, Blackpool, Liverpool and East Derbyshire were ranked in the bottom five.
With the exception of the Outer Hebrides, the top five most prosperous areas in Britain are in London, according to the index.
The findings are based on local GDP figures from 2011 and the Office for National Statistics well-being data from 2013-14.
Sian Hansen, executive director at the Legatum Institute, said: "The data shows that Wolverhampton is the least prosperous part of the UK because its citizens report the lowest levels of satisfaction with their lives.
"Some of the most prosperous areas of the country are those where, regardless of their income, people have the opportunity to lead healthy, fulfilling and prosperous lives."
Wolverhampton residents and workers were split about the study's findings.
"I think it's a bit harsh to be bottom," said 23-year-old Shane Parker, from Coseley.
"It's not as bad as some people think, there are places in Birmingham that are much worse.
Angela Scrivens, 42, from Bilston, said: "I think the town itself is quite dull, but the people can be quite happy.
"It's gone through a rough patch lately, but the town centre is being done up, and hopefully that will bring in more jobs and people."
Sharon Kiteley, 47, from Dudley, said: "Whenever I've looked around I've always seen happy smiling faces, so I can't believe it's come last.
Responding to the findings, the leader of the City of Wolverhampton Council, Councillor Roger Lawrence, said: "Whilst it's fair to say that Wolverhampton took a battering during the recession, we're now seeing some really positive signs of recovery.
"The data used is from 2011 and 2013-14. Wolverhampton's come a long way since then and as we approach 2016 there's a lot going on in our city." | Wolverhampton is the least prosperous area in the UK, according to findings from an international think-tank. | 1.786415 | 2 |
The Agni-V missile was launched from a site off the east coast on Monday.
It has a range of more than 5,000km (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets in China within striking distance.
President Pranab Mukherjee tweeted that the launch "will enhance our strategic and deterrence capabilities".
India launches long-range missile
India conducted the first test launch of the Agni V in 2012, the second in 2013 and the third one in 2015, PTI news agency reported.
The Agni-V is 17.5m (57ft) tall and solid-fuelled. It has three stages and a launch weight of 50 tonnes.
The missiles are among India's most sophisticated weapons. Agni means "fire" in Hindi and Sanskrit. | India has successfully conducted a fourth test launch of its nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile. | 2.142415 | 2 |
Pope Francis has promised to visit Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August 2018.
Michael D Higgins held a 15-minute audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday, then met the secretary of state of the Vatican.
Afterwards, he said "there is a better prospect and more scope" for a papal visit to Northern Ireland.
Mr Higgins said that during the longer meeting with secretary of state Cardinal Petro Parolin there was the opportunity to discuss "the changed circumstances of the last papal visit and the different circumstances now".
He added: "I have to say as well that, in all of that, in that second longer meeting, we were able to discuss specifically the importance of the Brexit negotiations in relation to the peace process.
"I think there was general agreement that circumstances were quite different now, and therefore the difficulties that might have been anticipated years ago, these circumstances were changed."
When pressed if Pope Francis and Cardinal Parolin both felt that circumstances had changed, President Higgins said: "Yes, there is agreement that circumstances have changed and that there is a better prospect and more scope."
Last year, the late Martin McGuinness, then Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, said he believed Pope Francis would cross the border and visit Northern Ireland in August 2018.
He told journalists: "I've been around a long time and I know how these things work."
A spokesman for First Minister Arlene Foster said if the Pope visited Northern Ireland as a head of state, she would meet him.
However, the Irish Catholic press office refused to confirm the visit would take place at the time.
According to a statement, President Higgins and the Pope also discussed migration, climate change, global poverty and the forthcoming Brexit negotiations during Monday's meeting.
The president and his wife presented Pope Francis with a climate bell designed by the Irish artist Vivienne Roche.
In return, the Pope Francis presented the president and his wife with medallions with an inscription of Isaiah, in which the Old Testament prophet refers to the desert becoming a fertile field, and the field then becoming a forest. | Ireland's president has raised the prospect of Pope Francis visiting Northern Ireland next year. | 1.632395 | 2 |
Scenes for The Gael King have already been shot in Airth, near Falkirk, and other locations in Scotland.
It is being made by Fellowship Film, which involves brothers Philip and Matthew Todd and their cousins John Walkinshaw and Tom Walkinshaw.
The feature's plot centres on a fictional king, Alpin Mac Eachdach.
Matthew Todd said: "Alpin, King of Dalriata, must overcome the impossible to save his brother, unite his kingdom and defeat the great evil that has arisen in Dorcha Forest.
"The film is set and being produced entirely in Scotland.
"We have one production office in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. The primary location base is in Airth, but the film will include some of Scotland's finest countryside."
Family-run Fellowship Film are among independent film-makers who have been invited to pitch their productions to industry professionals at EIFF's Works in Progress event on Sunday.
Mr Todd said: "We are at a very interesting moment in the project where the director and producer have recently returned from the Cannes Film Market where we received a very positive response to the film.
"Even more exciting is that we were accepted into the Edinburgh International Film Festival Works in Progress event.
"We are holding out for an international distribution deal and have big plans for The Gael King."
The film-maker added: "Meanwhile, we have a film to finish.
"The last block of filming will be pick-ups and an epic prologue where we will digitally recreate the real and ancient fortress of Dunadd."
Dunadd was constructed 2,000 years ago on Moine Mhor, a large bog at the southern end of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll.
The fort was a power base for Gaelic kings in the 500s to 800s AD. | A micro-budget Scottish fantasy is to be pitched to film professionals at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this weekend. | 1.2809 | 1 |
Tries for Ben Currie and Kevin Penny gave the hosts an early lead.
Craig Hall and Anthony Tupou touched down for Wakefield either side of a Kurt Gidley try for Wire.
But two tries from Chris Sandow and one from Currie secured a home win, despite Jonny Molloy's late try for Wildcats.
A difficult night for Wakefield began before kick-off, with full-back Ben Jones-Bishop suffering an injury in the warm-up.
Both sides struggled to create chances with ball in hand, but a string of Wakefield errors allowed the hosts to control field position throughout the first half.
Warrington dominated the game in all areas after the interval as they earned their third successive win, but their celebrations were dampened when highly impressive half-back Gidley was taken off after taking a blow to the head.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
"The results are okay but we know there is a lot more to come.
"A few players were off their game and we haven't quite hit the straps yet.
"We lacked some tempo but Wakefield played very well. They are a huge improvement on last year and I'm not saying that because my elder brother is their coach."
Wakefield head coach Brian Smith:
"We self inflicted at times and there was some very loose passing at the start and end of the game.
"But we competed very hard and if anyone looks at the scoreline they will think it lopsided but it wasn't.
"I have to give a big rap to my younger brother with Warrington having the makings of a very good team.
"If they are not up there or thereabouts at the end of the season I will be very surprised."
Warrington: Russell; Penny, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Gidley, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, King, Julien, Cox.
Wakefield: Hall; Lyne, Arundel, Walton, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Howarth, England, Molloy, Ashurst, Simon.
Replacements: Sio, Tupou, Arona, Annakin.
Referee: Richard Silverwood | Tony Smith's Warrington maintained their perfect start to the season and went top of Super League by beating Wakefield, who are coached by his older brother Brian. | 0.799628 | 1 |
It is one of very few manuscripts from the head of the team that cracked the Germans' Enigma code.
The handwritten notes, dating from 1942 when he worked at Bletchley Park, were entrusted to mathematician Robin Gandy after Turing's death.
The notebook was sold at Bonhams for $1,025,000 (£700,850) to an unnamed buyer.
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Mr Gandy deposited Turing's papers at the Archive Centre at King's College in Cambridge in 1977.
But Mr Gandy retained the 56-page notebook because of a deeply personal message written in the blank centre pages of the notebook which he wanted to keep private.
The notes remained hidden among personal effects until after his death.
Scholar Andrew Hodges, said: "Alan Turing was parsimonious with his words and everything from his pen has special value.
"This notebook shines extra light on how, even when he was enmeshed in great world events, he remained committed to free-thinking work in pure mathematics."
Turing killed himself in 1954 after hormone treatment to "cure" his homosexuality which he was undergoing as an alternative to imprisonment.
The story of his life was told in the 2014 Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game. | A scientific notebook compiled by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1m in New York. | 2.419208 | 2 |
The Church of Scotland is closing Loch Broom Church at Clachan and its kirk session expects the building to be offered for sale in January next year.
A community group, Friends of Clachan Lochbroom, hopes to be able to takeover the church and turn it into a community facility.
The final service will be held on 20 November.
The church was built in 1817 on a site of religious importance going back to the 13th Century.
People in the local community believe the site could be even older and may have been the location of early Christian worship.
Friends of Clachan Lochbroom has a Facebook page to raise interest in keeping the church as a community asset.
The kirk is the only historic public building at the head of Loch Broom, and is the largest for many miles.
The group said it was close to the Highlands' North Coast 500 tourist route. | A service later this month will mark the end of hundreds of years of worship at a site in Wester Ross. | 1.707268 | 2 |
Bath were beaten by Saracens in Saturday's final at Twickenham.
However, McDonald says their success this season has strengthened his belief they are close to ending a 19-year wait for an English rugby title.
"We absolutely want to win titles, clearly it's been longer than any of us would have liked," said McDonald.
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"We think we are good enough and I don't think that weight of expectation is a burden on us. If anything it inspires us to be able to start thinking about the future."
Their appearance in Saturday's final was their first since 2004 and in an interview with BBC Points West, McDonald said he is convinced the squad can improve on this season.
"Next season we will be challenging," he added.
"I think the squad we've got and the investment in additional players means we're in good stead to compete in both those competitions and that's what we want to do. We feel we are ready to win a trophy and bring a trophy back to Bath.
"We are all disappointed because we think we are good enough to win, our supporters want to see us win and it has been a long time since we have won a title.
"Let's not take away from a fantastic season and everything we have put in place for next season. It's a young team. We will be back stronger next season and we have a really good platform for the seasons ahead."
McDonald also says there will be some investment in the squad over the summer.
"We've got some key positions to strengthen," he said. "The nine and 10 positions.
"Many of the squad are young and they are starting to play together for the club but also for the country which is fantastic experience and the World Cup is going to be phenomenal for the guys.
"So it's both adding to the talent we've got as well as building on the brilliant foundation - as well as some of the guys coming through the academy, so the omens are good." | Bath Rugby managing director Tarquin McDonald says the club are ready to win a trophy after their Premiership final disappointment. | 0.861899 | 1 |
The dramatic folk re-enactment of Hindu god Ram's victory over the 10-headed demon king Ravana celebrates the triumph of good over evil.
The head of the former royal family of Varanasi selects the children to play Ram, his wife Sita and his three brothers, and the actors are handed over to a teacher to be trained for their performances.
Photographer Saibal Das went backstage to meet the children who play god. | For two months every year, five children in Ramnagar town in the northern Indian city of Varanasi don greasepaint and are dressed in silken robes to perform in the Ramlila festival, based on the Hindu religious epic Ramayana. | 1.034967 | 1 |
Manchester Passion play fundraiser Alex Stewart-Clark wanted to charge participants £750 for the spectacle in Cathedral Gardens.
However, the offer was withdrawn after the play's committee raised fears over blasphemy and health and safety.
The Passion, a dramatisation of Jesus' final days, will be held on Saturday.
Mr Stewart-Clark, 56, a volunteer for the Passion Trust, said he believed the plan could have raised vital funds, but he respected the committee's decision.
"The idea was, on the Friday when the stage was being set up, to give something tangible for people to pay for.
"It could be £25 to have dinner with Pontius Pilate, £200 to have dinner with Jesus, or in this case £750 to be 'crucified', but people didn't embrace it.
"The idea wasn't to replace Jesus but to empathise with him. The cross was meant to be a humiliating execution. It would be embarrassing to be up there."
He added: "You have a brainwave, you try it. I thought it was a good idea, but it came from a practical business idea, not a spiritual, theological head. So I have to listen to the powers that be."
Thousands of people are expected to attend the Manchester Passion which involves a gospel choir, 120 cast members and is marshalled by 80 stewards and other volunteers.
Event co-creator Nakib Narat, a playwright from Chorlton said: "Alex is a really kind, decent man and a sincere Christian man.
"It is one of those odd things people think is a brilliant idea but it seemed to detract from the message of the Passion play, which is about love one another and forgive one another.
"It seemed too commercial. At £750 it is a mad amount of money.
"It costs about £60,000 to put on this family event and make Manchester proud.
"Alex is brilliant at raising funds but it just wasn't the right idea and it was pulled within a few days." | A fundraising event which involved lifting members of the public on to a cross for a "full crucifixion experience" has been cancelled. | 1.341959 | 1 |
The 26-year-old tested positive for cocaine after the Super League win at Widnes on 14 July and was suspended by his club and Rugby Football League.
Scotland head coach Steve McCormack has added two players to his squad.
New Zealand Warriors' James Bell and South Sydney Rabbitohs' Campbell Graham replace Walker.
Scotland Rugby League chairman Keith Hogg said: "We totally support the RFL anti-doping regulations and the action undertaken by Wakefield Trinity.
"We will be withdrawing Adam Walker from our extended World Cup squad."
Bell and Graham made their debuts in the National Rugby League, the top tier for clubs in Australasia, last week and they join a 37-man squad for the World Cup in Australia later this year.
McCormack said: "We are always watching a number of Scottish qualified players at clubs in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
"We've known about them since last year and have been really pleased to see the progress that James and Campbell have been making.
"It was great to see them make their NRL debuts within a few days of each other." | Scotland have dropped Adam Walker from their provisional squad for this year's World Cup after the Wakefield Trinity prop failed a drugs test. | 0.913275 | 1 |
In an interview with the Observer, Anne Longfield criticised the ways social media giants use to draw children into spending more time.
She said parents should be proactive in stopping their children from bingeing on the internet in the summer holidays.
Ms Longfield has launched a campaign to help parents with the issue.
She said: "It's something that every parent will talk about especially during school holidays; that children are in danger of seeing social media like sweeties, and their online time like junk food.
"None of us as parents would want our children to eat junk food all the time.
"For those same reasons we shouldn't want our children to do the same with their online time."
Use talk to tame online habits
US changes toddler screen time advice
The commissioner added: "When phones, social media and games make us feel worried, stressed and out of control, it means we haven't got the balance right.
"With your diet, you know that, because you don't feel that good. It's the same with social media."
Last year, industry watchdog Ofcom said the internet overtook television as the most popular media pastime for children in the UK.
Children aged five to 15 are spending 15 hours a week on the internet.
Ms Longfield said children should be helped to understand that sites encourage them to continue their use based on what they have previously been doing online.
A study earlier this year of screen time and mental wellbeing among teenagers suggested that moderate use of devices may be beneficial.
The research, which appeared in the journal Psychological Science, was based self-reported data from 120,000 15-year-olds in England. | Parents must intervene to stop their children overusing social media and consuming time online "like junk food", the children's commissioner has said. | 2.322472 | 2 |
At Zhang's 36th birthday party, Wang Feng sent her a white drone carrying a diamond ring before getting on one knee to ask her to marry him.
She said "yes" amid tears and applause from a crowd of onlookers at the event.
Zhang is best known for her role in the hit martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The day after the proposal, Zhang posted a picture of fireworks on a social media account with the words "I do".
Her partner is a popular rock star in China and has been married twice before.
With Mandarin dialogue, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a huge crossover success in the West.
Zhang has starred in almost 30 films, including the Grandmaster, Memoirs of a Geisha and House of Flying Daggers. | Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is to wed after her musician boyfriend used a drone to propose to her, Chinese media report. | 0.681954 | 1 |
Bailey Gwynne, 16, was fatally injured during an incident at Cults Academy in Aberdeen on 28 October.
The time of death was recorded as 15:20 in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, about two hours after the alarm was first raised.
A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder.
The accused, who was remanded after appearing in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, is also charged with having a blade or point on school premises.
A private funeral is to be held for Bailey. | A teenager who was stabbed at an Aberdeen school died of an injury to his chest, his death certificate has revealed. | 0.404905 | 0 |
Most of them had finished competing by the time the outfits arrived.
"We are disappointed and embarrassed. We've been wearing kits from the World Athletics Championships," one athlete, requesting anonymity, told the BBC.
Nigeria's men's football team has its own sponsored kit - but it has been hit by funding problems and players only arrived hours before their first match.
The team plays for bronze on Saturday against Honduras.
Africa's most populous country has so far won no medals at Rio, with only three more days of competition left to go.
The BBC spoke to two athletes who confirmed that they had only received their sports and ceremonial kits on Thursday.
An unnamed Athletics Federation of Nigeria official told Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper that he had never experienced anything like this in all his years in sport.
"Money meant for the Games was held tightly by [sport] ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal," the official is quoted as saying.
The government had budgeted 600m naira ($1.7m; £1.3m) for the Olympics, the Vanguard reported in July.
But payment problems appear to have dogged Nigerian Olympians.
Japanese plastic surgeon, Katsuya Takasu, is donating $200,000 to the football team after hearing about its financial difficulties.
The players were held up in the US city of Atlanta because of problems paying for their flight and only landed in Brazil just hours before their opening 5-4 win over Japan.
Mr Takasu has also promised each player a $10,000 bonus if they win bronze. | Nigerian athletes in Rio received their Olympic kits only on day 13 of the Games, the BBC has learned. | 1.389664 | 1 |
The 35-year-old skippered the Bears to One-Day Cup victory in September 2016, but less than 12 months on the county are bottom of the Division One Championship table.
Bell, who last played for England in November 2015, was was recently left out of the Bears' T20 side.
"This is the right time for me to stand down," Bell said.
"As a senior player, I will support the team in all ways possible and I believe that our squad has very exciting times ahead.
"It's been an absolute honour to lead my home county over the last 18 months and my decision to stand down is something that I have thought long and hard about over a period of weeks."
Bell is to be replaced by former England batsman Jonathan Trott as captain of Warwickshire's Championship side.
The county's sports director Ashley Giles said Bell made a "brave" decision to focus on batting.
"Having him focused solely on scoring runs for Warwickshire and Birmingham Bears is a huge asset to the club," Giles said.
Warwickshire, who won limited-overs silverware in Bell's first season as captain, are in Division One relegation trouble, having lost five of their nine matches - four of them by an innings.
Bell, the most capped international in Warwickshire history, having played 118 Tests, 161 one-day internationals and eight T20 matches, has scored 345 runs from 14 innings, at an average of 24.64. He has not made a Championship century since April 2016.
In the T20 Blast, he has hit 251 runs in 12 matches at a strike rate of 117.29, but he was dropped down the order after a run of poor scores at opener.
Having not batted at all in the Bears' penultimate game, he was left out altogether for the final group game on Friday, which the Bears won against Lancashire at Old Trafford to secure a place in the quarter-finals.
New Zealand international Grant Elliott captained the side and will be expected to so again for this Friday's last-eight tie against Surrey at The Oval.
Bell, who was part of the Birmingham Bears T20 Blast title-winning side in 2014, also won the Big Bash in Australia last winter with Perth Scorchers. | Ian Bell has stepped down as captain of Warwickshire in all formats of the game to focus on batting. | 0.990316 | 1 |
At the top of the table Hermes-Monkstown made it seven wins in a row to start the season as they beat Ulster Elks 5-0 and they increased their lead to four points as second place UCD were held to a 1-1 draw by Cork Harlequins.
The other two games between Loreto and Railway Union and the Ulster derby at Deramore Park where Belfast Harlequins were due to face Pegasus were called off because of frozen pitches.
It was a game of few chances between Ards and Pembroke at Londonderry Park but the deadlock was broken six minutes before half-time when Ellen Robinson pinched the ball just outside the circle and then produced a very composed finish to give the home side the lead.
They doubled their advantage in the third quarter when Tamara McLeod and Chloe Brown combined at a short corner with Brown scoring on the reverse stick.
Ards had other opportunities to put the game out of reach but Pembroke had the better of the final quarter and Caroline Hill's goal meant an edgy ten minutes for Ards to hold out to secure their fourth straight win and leave the Dublin club rooted at the bottom without a point.
A four-goal blitz in a ten minute spell of the third quarter saw Hermes-Monkstown continue their dominance of the women's club game.
Ulster Elks goalkeeper Rebecca Davidson pulled off a number of superb saves in a first half where she was only beaten once by the league's leading scorer Anna O'Flanagan.
She could do nothing however as the international trio of O'Flanagan, Chloe Watkins and Nikki Evans put the Ulster side to the sword after the interval with O'Flanagan completing a hat-trick.
The battle between second and third finished 1-1 between UCD and Cork Harlequins. | Ards moved up to fourth place in the women's Irish Hockey League by beating bottom club Pembroke Wanderers 2-1. | 0.86251 | 1 |
A female employee at the environmental think-tank The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri) had accused him last year of harassment.
Accusations by a second employee last month caused widespread outrage.
Mr Pachauri, who has denied the allegations against him, stepped down from the UN panel last year.
In February, he was forced to go on indefinite leave by Teri after the latest accusations.
On Tuesday, charges running into more than 1,400 pages were filed in the court of metropolitan magistrate Shivani Chauhan in Delhi, the Press Trust of India reported.
Mr Pachauri has been accused of sexual harassment, stalking and criminal intimidation, the agency said.
The charges relate to accusations made by the first woman. The magistrate has said she will hear the case on 23 April.
Mr Pachauri collected the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 on behalf of the IPCC for its work in the scientific assessment of the risks and causes of climate change.
The IPCC shared the award with former US vice-president and environmental campaigner, Al Gore. | The former head of the UN climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, has been formally charged in an Indian court in a case of sexual harassment. | 1.925028 | 2 |
The bigger-than-expected shortfall was for the April-to-December period.
However, shares of Sharp surged about 26% ahead of its earnings release on reports it has entered into exclusive takeover talks with Taiwan's Foxconn.
The century-old company also has a competing offer from the state-backed investment fund Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ).
There has been speculation that the Japanese government is keen to keep the company in local hands, given its proprietary technology.
Sharp, a major producer of display screens for smartphones, tablets and televisions, said it plans to make a decision within the month.
In 2012, Sharp nearly entered bankruptcy and has been saddled with heavy debts that required two major bailouts in the last four years.
A large part of this is due to its loss-making display panel business, which has struggled to compete against South Korean producers and cheaper Chinese rivals.
Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles most of the world's iPhones, initially offered about $5.3bn to take over Sharp before raising this to $5.9bn. | Japanese electronics firm Sharp posted a net loss of $918m (£630m) even as it considers multiple bailout offers. | 1.257985 | 1 |
Officers said they were "treating this kind of behaviour extremely seriously".
"Two males have had to be reported for indecent exposure as they thought it was a good idea to take all their clothes off to go for a swim - not a good idea," an officer wrote on the PSNI Holywood Facebook page.
"There are young children in these areas too."
They added: "You could end up with a criminal record and placed on the sex offenders register.
"Please enjoy the weather but be sensible."
Police in the North Down town also warned that they were on the lookout for people bringing alcohol to the beach, with officers patrolling the platform at Helen's Bay railway station. | Police in County Down have warned skinny dippers that they could be placed on the sex offenders register. | 0.754162 | 1 |
Avast carried out the check to coincide with the first day of the Mobile World Congress trade show in the city.
In addition, it said it had found more than 470,000 other types of vulnerable smart devices.
The firm warned that unsuspecting owners could be spied upon as a consequence.
"If webcams are set to livestream for example, hackers or anyone can connect making it easy for cybercriminals to spy on... oblivious school pupils, workers or citizens nearby," said the firm's chief executive Vince Steckler in a statement.
"[But] what is far more likely is the possibility of a cyber-crook hijacking an insecure webcam, coffee machine or smart TV to turn it into a bot which, as part of a wider botnet, could be used in co-ordinated attacks on servers to take down major websites."
Avast used the connected-objects search engine Shodan to identify the devices.
It said to qualify they needed to either:
It carried out the study to help promote its own security tools.
But another independent expert said he thought the public needed to be aware of the threat.
"This research underlines just how easy it is to locate potentially vulnerable 'smart' devices and how they might be compromised," said Ken Munro, from the cybersecurity testing specialists Pen Test Partners.
"That's not to say that all internet-connected devices can be easily compromised; for example some more recent kettles, coffee machines and fridges are much harder to hack than earlier models.
"But consumers should exercise caution with smart devices. Ask yourself first if you actually need that device, then think about what data it might collect about you and expose.
"For example, baby monitors with video and two-way audio would obviously be more concerning than a simple audio-only device." | A leading security company says it has discovered 22,000 hackable internet-connected baby monitors and other types of webcam in Barcelona. | 2.14029 | 2 |
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The BBC's Chris Foxx asked Eun Jin Lim from Elrois, the company making it, whether people might find the idea strange. | An app that lets people speak to avatars of dead relatives and take selfies with them is being developed in South Korea. | -0.05519 | 0 |
Elephant and Castle roundabout in south London was the worst accident blackspot with 80 accidents involving cyclists between 2009 and 2013.
DfT figures analysed by insurers Aviva showed cycling accidents within the M25 reported to or attended by police.
Transport for London said any accident was "one too many".
In a statement, it said: ‎"While we don't recognise the interpretation of these figures, we entirely agree that any accident on London's roads is one too many.
"That is why we are investing nearly £1bn in upgrading the existing Cycle Superhighways with greater segregation, introducing major new segregated cycle routes and backstreet Quietways, and overhauling dozens of junctions on both our roads and on borough roads."
In March 2014, the London mayor's office announced a £4bn plan to revamp London's roads, including a new road layout, with more cycle lanes at Elephant and Castle roundabout.
Most accidents involving cyclists between 2009 and 2013
Central London's Trafalgar Square had the second highest number of motor accidents involving cyclists, with 46 recorded over the five-year period.
Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group leader Caroline Pidgeon said: "With such appalling figures as this it is simply shameful that year after year Transport for London have repeatedly spent just a fraction of their allocated budget on vital improvements to junctions and investing in cycling infrastructure."
There have been four cyclist deaths in London in 2015, all involving lorries, with the most recent being last week in Victoria when a mother-of-two died.
Earlier in February a three-fold increase in the number of fatalities on the capital's roads prompted Scotland Yard to reintroduce its highway safety operation.
Operation Safeway will see 600 officers deployed at 166 junctions during morning and evening rush hours for six weeks.
Officers will target road users committing traffic offences. | There were 22,988 accidents and 80 deaths involving cyclists in London over five years, according to Department for Transport (DfT) figures. | 1.295919 | 1 |
The Irish government has made clear it is only contingency work.
It said, at this stage, it does not envisage a return of customs officers along the border.
On Wednesday, Taoiseach (PM) Enda Kenny said he was confident the EU would not allow "one of the most divisive borders in the world" to be reimposed.
However, Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed to a parliamentary committee that contingency plans are being drawn up in the light of the Brexit vote.
Mairead McGuinness, vice president of the European Parliament and an MEP for the government Fine Gael party in Ireland, said planning had to take place.
"What the finance minister said very clearly is that, at a technical level, the officials are looking at contingency planning because of the outcome of the referendum in the United Kingdom, but there is no policy decision or drive to implement any of these technical issues," she said.
"The taoiseach, and indeed the finance minister, is very well aware that we have said that there will be no return to a hard border on the island of Ireland because of the political, economic, psychological implications of that.
"To some extent, had the concerns about Northern Ireland, and indeed of the island of Ireland, been taken into account properly in the UK referendum, we might, perhaps, not be in this very difficult and stark situation."
Both the British and Irish governments have made clear that they do not want a return to what they have repeatedly called the "borders of the past".
However, what Brexit actually means for the Irish border will only be decided in the negotiations to come between the UK and European negotiators.
During the Troubles, there were only 20 places to cross between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
But the success of the peace process has led to huge numbers of roads being reopened and there are now 260 crossing points. | Work has begun to identify places where customs checkpoints could be set up once again on the Irish border, in preparation for the UK leaving the EU. | 1.488819 | 1 |
"The Blade" is the first in a series of temporary art pieces marking Hull's year as UK City of Culture.
It was placed in Queen Victoria Square after being transported from the new Siemens turbine factory in east Hull.
The Hull Daily Mail reports that Hull 2017 organisers are now preparing a planning application.
More on this and other Hull stories
Hull City Council planning manager, Alex Codd, said: "Nationally, planning permission is not needed on a piece of land that is being used for an event that is to last up to 28 days.
"However, as the installation will be temporarily located in Queen Victoria Square for longer [than] this, we understand the Hull 2017 team are now preparing an application for planning permission, which will then go through our usual planning process."
City of Culture chief executive Martin Green said: "We worked closely with the council and because the artist wanted it to be a surprise we agreed that planning permission would go in after the installation.
"Thousands of people have visited Blade and it has achieved national and international headlines.
"This is a great example of Hull City Council and the Culture Company working together." | A 250ft-long (75m) wind turbine installed as a piece of artwork in Hull does not have planning permission, the city council has confirmed. | 1.432644 | 1 |
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Ayala was sent off for barging over Fernando Forestieri 30 yards from goal moments after Boro had gone 1-0 up.
The Spaniard, 26, claimed wrongful dismissal and said the punishment was excessive, but his appeal failed.
Ayala will now miss games with Watford, West Ham and Accrington Stanley. | Middlesbrough defender Daniel Ayala will serve a three-game ban after failing in an appeal against his red card in Sunday's FA Cup 3-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday. | 0.608042 | 1 |
The council started to provide portable urinals two years ago following complaints by local businesses.
The move was welcomed by many traders in Wind Street, which is popular with drinkers, but the problem has not gone away.
From Friday, police will start handing out fixed penalty notices.
"Urinating in public is a major irritation to authorities and businesses who are left to clean up their own doorways and streets after people under the influence of alcohol feel it is acceptable to treat the city centre like a toilet," Ch Insp Dean Thomas said.
"It is certainly not acceptable and I am pleased the police are able to work with the council in enforcing fixed penalty notices against those caught in the act."
The pilot operation between the council and police is aimed at ensuring the public knows urinating in the street will not be tolerated.
The council deploys portable urinals every weekend in the city centre at known problem areas and says they are well used.
But not everyone chooses to use them, prompting the latest move follow a warning two years ago that anyone caught would be fined or arrested.
Bruno Nunes, owner of Peppermint bar and Bambu Beach bar, welcomed the action.
"The impact of this action will be felt not only by those hit in the pocket, but the many others who will hear about the tough stance being taken," he said.
Council cabinet member June Burtonshaw said: "Public urination is a contentious issue that has been troubling authorities, organisations and businesses working together to create a cleaner, healthier and safer city centre.
"We've tried the soft approach, which has had some effect, but now it is time to get tough. Urinating in shop doorways, alleys, lanes or bushes is not acceptable.
"There are toilets provided in every night-time venue, as well as the additional portable urinals on the streets. If people still can't control their bladders, they could find themselves with a hefty fine."
Similar toilets are used in other UK cities including Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge and London.
Wind Street has come under fire in recent months being dubbed "an area of drunkenness and debauchery" and a "magnetic attraction" for drinkers.
In response, the council has introduced a policy curbing new pub and club licences in the city centre. | Revellers will receive £75 fines if they are caught urinating in streets and doorways instead of using open-air urinals in Swansea city centre. | 1.456426 | 1 |
They released a surprise single from their upcoming album on Friday, called Drag Me Down.
It's had more than double the combined sales of its closest contender, Little Mix's Black Magic, the Official Charts Company said.
The track has also been racking up an average of 3.11 million daily plays on Spotify.
It's the band's first single as a foursome and was released just two days after former member Zayn Malik announced a new record deal as a solo artist.
Music industry experts say Drag Me Down is currently making around £13,903 a day, which together with streaming plays means the track should bring home around £97,464 in its opening week. | Nothing is dragging One Direction down on their journey to the top of the UK Singles Chart. | 0.548322 | 1 |
Melinda Rose Woodward - known as Linda - died earlier this month after suffering from cancer.
The couple, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, were married for 59 years.
Sir Tom said: "So many beautiful and meaningful things were said and reading these genuine and lovely messages has lifted us all."
The couple started dating at 15 and used to meet at a phone box at the end of Sir Tom's street in Treforest.
They married when they were 16 in 1957 and later had the phone box moved to their home in Los Angeles.
Lady Woodward died in Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on 10 April.
Their son, Mark, is Sir Tom's manager.
Under the heading "A little note from Tom," on his website, Sir Tom said: "A heartfelt thank you to all who sent notes of their sympathy and support to me and my family over the last couple of weeks.
"So many beautiful and meaningful things were said and reading these genuine and lovely messages has lifted us all. See you soon."
The singer, who had his first number one hit in 1965 with It's Not Unusual, cancelled a series of concerts when his wife fell ill.
According to his website, his next scheduled tour date is at the Hampton Court Palace Festival in London on 8 June, followed by a number of performances in the UK, Norway and Spain. | Sir Tom Jones has thanked people for their support following the death of his wife. | 1.0241 | 1 |
Scarlets face Connacht in Galway on 30 January, with Wales' trip to follow on Sunday, 7 February
Williams sustained a foot injury during the Rugby World Cup in October and has not played since.
"He trained during the week with us and trained very well," said Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac.
"He's passed all the tests so far, so it's all looking good for him to get some game time next week."
Williams is expected to spend two days in the Wales training camp early this week before returning to Scarlets ahead of the Pro12 trip to Galway.
Pivac does not expect to have any other Wales squad players available to him as his team bids to stay top of the table.
The west Wales region finished without a win in the European Champions Cup for the third time after their 22-10 home defeat by Northampton.
Wales and former Scarlets wing George North scored the Saints' bonus point try.
But Pivac says they switched focus after the first couple of rounds.
"You could see early on in that competition that our focus was the Pro12, it was just unfortunate with what happened in the Rugby World Cup [injuries to Liam and Scott Williams] and then injuries we picked up ourselves.
"When you get to Europe, the depths of the squads vary and we don't quite have the depth that some of these sides have.
"The results speak for themselves really."
The Scarlets had 14 senior players on the injury list for the Northampton defeat, with every position apart from half-back affected.
They will now lose scrum-halves Gareth and Aled Davies, as well as front-rowers Ken Owens and Samson Lee, to Wales training duties.
Flanker John Barclay will also be absent on Scotland duty when the Six Nations kicks off. | Liam Williams is on track for a Scarlets comeback against Connacht eight days before Wales' Six Nations campaign starts against Ireland. | 0.984316 | 1 |
Rory McAllister fired the hosts ahead but recent Forfar signing Steven Craig soon levelled with a left-foot effort.
Andy Ryan pounced on a Graeme Smith error to put Forfar in front and Peterhead then had Steven Noble sent off for violent conduct.
However, Shane Sutherland equalised before the break and, in the second half, substitute Leighton McIntosh struck to give the home side victory. | Peterhead came from behind to beat Forfar Athletic in Scottish League One. | 0.159853 | 0 |
James Freeman, who joined the firm a year ago, apologised after criticism from callers to BBC Radio Bristol.
He said First was in the middle of a "massive rescheduling" of local services - with 58 new double deckers coming into service in the autumn.
Passengers on major Bristol routes were up 25% with a 10% rise in Bath.
Bus services were described as "diabolical" by one caller to a BBC Radio Bristol phone-in - who complained that his wife's bus - the 43 - had not turned up at all 17 times since December.
Others complained that buses were too packed to board, stopped in the wrong place and that drivers simply did not know the area.
Mr Freeman, managing director for Bristol and the West of England, said buses and drivers were having to be brought in from outside Bristol to cope with pressure on services - which had seen an "amazing" increase year on year.
New low-carbon buses had been ordered and new drivers were being recruited, he said.
The firm had too many single-decker buses - many of which were now being replaced by a new fleet of double deckers.
"I'm really, really sorry for all the problems, anybody who travels on those services will know they are not right," he said.
"They are a bit better at the moment because of the summer traffic but the fact is, they have not been right for a long time and we are reorganising them and rescheduling them."
First is the biggest bus company in the West of England, operating 567 vehicles and employing about 1,700 people across the region. | The boss of Bristol and Bath bus operator First has admitted the service on some of his routes has "not been right for a long time". | 1.08572 | 1 |
The winger went over before Rangi Chase extended the lead, and the hosts were 34-8 ahead at half-time lead thanks to Luke Dorn and Paul McShane's tries.
Jake Webster touched down on his return from injury and Luke Gale capped his excellent display with a late try.
Victory was Castleford's third in four games, but their play-off hopes are over after St Helens beat Hull FC.
Wakefield scored five tries through Tom Johnstone, who went over twice, Reece Lyne, Bill Tupou and Nick Scruton.
Chris Chester's side have lost six matches in a row and remain bottom of Super League.
On-loan former England forward Ben Harrison, who had been out since November after surgery on his wrist, knee and ankle, made his long-awaited return for Wakefield.
Castleford: Dorn; Hampshire, Minikin, Webster, Solomona; Chase, Gale; Patrick, Milner, Springer, Holmes, Savelio, Moors.
Replacements: McShane, Millington, Cook, Maher.
Wakefield: Hall; Lyne, Arundel, B Tupou, Johnstone; Miller Finn; Scruton, Moore, Arona, Molloy, A Tupou, Harrison.
Replacements: Sio, Simon, Yates, Anderson.
Referee: Gareth Hewer. | Denny Solomona scored a first-half hat-trick as Castleford ran in eight tries to beat neighbours Wakefield. | 0.695753 | 1 |
Pakistan, who won all nine of their group games, managed 309-1 from their 20 overs with Israr Hassan scoring an unbeaten 143, including 25 fours.
Fellow opener Badar Munir managed 103 off only 43 balls before retiring.
Pakistan restricted England to 162-7 - with Matthew Page making 41 - to set up a final against hosts India which takes place on Sunday, again in Bangalore. | England failed to reach the T20 Blind World Cup final following a 147-run defeat by Pakistan in Bangalore. | 0.580927 | 1 |
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