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28,474,790 | Experts said the measure would protect vulnerable people, boost public health and improve community life.
The Welsh government has already proposed a minimum alcohol price of 50p per unit.
It could become law as part of a Public Health Bill for Wales planned for early 2015.
The report follows a request by Health Minister Mark Drakeford in January that the Advisory Panel on Substance Misuse look at the idea of minimum pricing.
Panel chair Kyrie James said: "Alcohol health and social harm problems are preventable.
"Expert evidence and research confirms cheaper drinks are favoured by those who drink hazardously or harmfully, and a minimum unit price would have a disproportionate targeting effect on problematic drinking, reducing alcohol problems and achieving health and other benefits for individuals and our communities as a whole."
She added that the panel felt a minimum unit price would be "an effective mechanism through which alcohol-related harm can be addressed".
Mr Drakeford, who unveiled proposals for a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol in April in a white paper outlining ideas for public health legislation, welcomed the panel's report.
"There is indisputable evidence that the price of alcohol matters," he said.
"It is no coincidence that as the affordability of alcohol has improved substantially so has alcohol-related death and disease.
"A minimum unit price will make a strong contribution to preventing alcohol overuse and misuse and reducing alcohol-associated illnesses. The panel's report supports this view.
"We will now develop our proposals further with a view to introducing the Public Health Bill in early 2015."
Plans for minimum pricing have now been referred to the European Court of Justice. | Plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol in Wales have been backed by a panel advising ministers on substance misuse. |
26,638,464 | The Daily Telegraph claims it has seen documents which apparently show that the former Fifa vice president and head of Asian football, Mohammed Bin Hammam, paid his fellow former Fifa vice president Jack Warner and his family more than £1m.
Although the payments are said to relate to legal and other expenses over a six-year period from 2005, the Telegraph says a company called Jamad, owned by Warner, invoiced Bin Hammam's company, Kemco, for £750,000 just two weeks after Qatar were surprisingly awarded the finals in December 2010.
While that will arouse fresh suspicions, it's not clear the payments are in any way linked to the World Cup vote. In fact some believe Warner, the former head of the North American and Caribbean Football Confederation (Concacaf), didn't even vote for Qatar.
Although the head of the Dominican FA, Patrick John, claimed in July 2011 that Warner didn't follow through with his pledge to back fellow Concacaf country America, others say Warner repeatedly told 2022 candidates that he was committed to voting for the United States.
A look at the voting numbers would appear to back that up. In the final round, Qatar beat USA by 14 votes to eight. It is hard to see how America could have got to that number without the support of Warner and the two other Concacaf representatives on the Fifa executive committee - namely American Chuck Blazer and Rafael Salguero of Guatemala.
Sadly, the truth is that we will never know for sure. The ballot for the World Cup is held in secret, a fiercely-guarded tradition that is unlikely to change even after all the controversy of the last three years.
And given that lamentable lack of transparency, it's hardly beyond the realms of imagination to suppose that Warner might have promised one thing to one bid and then done quite the opposite.
But if Warner didn't vote for Qatar, what was all that money from Bin Hammam for?
But if Warner didn't vote for Qatar, what was all that money from Bin Hammam for?
The easiest conclusion to draw is that it was in some way linked to Bin Hammam's doomed bid to unseat Fifa President Sepp Blatter during that now infamous election in Zurich in May 2011.
Bin Hammam never contested that election as he had already pulled out amid corruption allegations. He was eventually banned from football for life for offering bribes to Caribbean football officials at a meeting in Trinidad.
Warner helped set up that meeting and was subsequently forced to resign after 28 years at the top of world football, having been described as an accomplice to corruption.
Is it possible that Bin Hammam was already paying Warner for his support in the upcoming Presidential election?
Or maybe the two men had separate and perfectly legitimate business dealings, none of which were connected with Fifa or football. Remember these two men had been close allies for well over a decade. Both have wide business interests outside the game.
Warner has told the Press Association that the Telegraph's story was part of a "witch hunt" against Qatar. The Qatari's supreme committee for the 2022 World Cup, meanwhile, have distanced themselves from the latest claims to dog their hosting of the tournament, saying they adhered to Fifa's strict bidding regulations. Bin Hammam could not be reached for comment.
Nevertheless the Telegraph's excellent investigation has yet again raised serious questions about the conduct of senior Fifa officials. And while the governing body may claim that they are now cleaning up their act, Simon Johnson, the former chief operating officer of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid, is right when he says that the world governing body's ethics committee should now investigate the newspaper's claims.
Because regardless of the full story behind these payments, it can hardly look good if one Fifa executive committee member from a country bidding to stage the World Cup is paying another Fifa executive committee member more than £1m when that official can so obviously influence the outcome of that bid.
It only adds to the pressure on Fifa and their chief investigator Michael Garcia to come up with a new system for choosing the host for football's biggest and most prestigious prize. | Once again Fifa's handling of the selection process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is under scrutiny. |
35,683,434 | The normally impassive Pellegrini was, by his understated standards, positively buoyant after the Capital One Cup win at Wembley, secured on penalties against Liverpool after the game ended 1-1 after extra time.
This was a victory of great significance for Pellegrini, not simply in the context of his forthcoming replacement by Guardiola, but also in the light of his selection policies in the past week.
The Chilean can feel vindicated by success - with a League Cup won and City still in contention for the Premier League and Champions League.
The Manchester City manager has faced a week of big decisions - and emerged triumphant after his selection policies came under fierce scrutiny.
When Pellegrini, who has a history of fielding strong sides in domestic cup competitions, selected an almost unrecognisable side in the 5-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat at Chelsea last Sunday, it increased the pressure on the subsequent big games.
It would not have sat easily but he felt the greater good was served by that selection before a vital last-16 Champions League game and this Wembley showpiece. And so it proved.
On Sunday night, the usually stone-faced Chilean was smiling as he celebrated his latest trophy, which came hard on the heels of almost guaranteeing a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 3-1 win over Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine.
City have a trophy secured, will surely progress in the Champions League and cannot be written off in the league title pursuit, nine points behind leaders Leicester City with a game in hand.
It means a week that started with the misery, and the selection questions of that FA Cup defeat, ends in triumph.
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Robbie Savage said: "The result vindicated the Chelsea selection decision - the result in Kiev plus playing 120 minutes in this final. With Liverpool at Anfield to come on Wednesday, I think this shows Pellegrini got it right."
And the embrace the 62-year-old shared with City chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak demonstrated the esteem in which Pellegrini is still held at the club, despite the fact his tenure is coming to a close.
Perhaps more importantly to this quiet, dignified man, this was a Wembley win based on his personal principles and determination to keep his word to a player he trusts implicitly.
Plenty - including myself - suggested Pellegrini had to ditch his League Cup strategy and drop 34-year-old goalkeeper Willy Caballero, a player he brought to City after they worked together at Malaga, in favour of first choice Joe Hart.
Caballero's shaky performance at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup offered Pellegrini an inviting get-out clause to depart from his policy, but he said: "I would prefer to lose this final than my word and I had given my word to Willy. My word is more important than football."
After Caballero's brilliant extra-time save from Liverpool substitute Divock Origi and his three penalty saves from Lucas, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana, Pellegrini was a winner in principle and on the pitch.
Now the platform has been set for an even more successful farewell.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says his side will "strike back" and that "only silly idiots stay on the floor and wait for the next defeat".
Defeat will hurt and the German will not buy suggestions that this was something of a free hit because no-one expects him to collect trophies in a season that is largely about transition after succeeding Brendan Rodgers.
Klopp's mind does not work like that - but this was a Liverpool display that will have crystallised some issues.
What does he do about Simon Mignolet, a goalkeeper who pulled off a succession of superb saves and yet was responsible for the dreadful error that gifted City their goal when Fernandinho's routine shot squirmed under his body in the second half?
Klopp has faith in Mignolet - a new five-year contract confirms that - but he surely has to consider an upgrade to a keeper who will offer Liverpool more consistency. This may seem harsh after the saves he made - but Mignolet still costs too many goals.
Left-back Alberto Moreno arrived with a big reputation when he signed from Sevilla for £12m in 2014, but he has gone backwards at an alarming rate and now looks out of his depth. This is a priority for Klopp and it is time for 21-year-old Australian Brad Smith, who has impressed when given the opportunity this season, to get a run.
Liverpool lack players of the highest class in defence and midfield. There are too many serviceable players who come in at a rating of 6/10 and too few edging towards 8-9/10.
Daniel Sturridge is one player in that higher bracket but has never proved his long-term fitness can be trusted - and what of £32.5m striker Christian Benteke?
When Liverpool needed a goal on Sunday, it was 20-year-old Origi who got the call from Klopp, not the expensive summer signing. Benteke's days at Anfield are surely numbered. Klopp's options with his substitutes were limited by the early replacement of Mamadou Sakho after a clash of heads with Emre Can, but this was not a good message for the Belgium striker.
Klopp is an outstanding, charismatic manager with proven credentials at Borussia Dortmund and his task is to move Liverpool forward with that higher echelon of player, with the support of owners Fenway Sports Group.
At present, he simply has too many average players under his control.
It was appropriate that Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany lifted the League Cup after a peerless central defensive performance that underlined his class and worth to his club.
The 29-year-old Belgium international has been troubled by injuries this season and his presence gives City an authority, power, leadership and solidity that is absent when he is missing.
In all games in 2015-16, City have won 10 out of 15 when Kompany has played and 15 out of 27 when he has been out. They have lost two out of 15 with him and nine out of 27 without.
Here, he strode about Wembley in a defensive masterclass, showing elegance and also power on occasions when he outmuscled Sturridge.
It was a display that confirmed what City fans, and most others, already know. The club's chances of adding to the trophy they won on Sunday will increase immeasurably if they can keep their captain fit.
And an added note - Kompany displayed his class as a man as well as a player as Yaya Toure's penalty slipped low past Mignolet to give City victory.
As his team-mates ran to celebrate with Toure and heroic keeper Caballero, Kompany's first thoughts were for the beaten Liverpool players - and he made a point of consoling before joining the celebrations. | Manuel Pellegrini may be leaving Manchester City in three months - but he will be leaving as a winner before Pep Guardiola takes his place at the Etihad. |
41,011,128 | Sigmar Gabriel said the behaviour of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had emboldened "certain people to try and upset and harass my wife".
German media quoted Mr Gabriel as saying voicemail threats had targeted his wife Anke, a dentist.
Germany accuses Mr Erdogan of flouting justice by ordering mass arrests.
A particularly thorny issue in their relations is Turkey's detention of several German citizens under sweeping Turkish state-of-emergency measures.
The German ambassador to Ankara is expected to visit one of them shortly - Die Welt correspondent Deniz Yücel, at Silivri prison west of Istanbul.
During six months of detention, Yücel has had one previous visit from the ambassador. A German human rights activist, Peter Steudtner, is also in Silivri prison. Both have been accused of terrorism-related offences.
In Turkish law, "terrorism" is a label used to prosecute alleged supporters of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Fethullah Gulen network. The "Gulenists" - followers of a US-based cleric - were behind the abortive July 2016 coup attempt, according to Mr Erdogan.
Turkey accuses Germany of sheltering PKK and pro-Gulen activists, and on Friday Mr Erdogan called Germany's ruling politicians "enemies of Turkey".
Mr Erdogan made a stinging personal attack on Mr Gabriel on Saturday. In an address to his AK Party, he said: "Now they have a foreign minister who does not know his limits. Who are you to talk to the President of Turkey?... He is trying to give us a lesson. What is your background in politics? How old are you?"
Germany and Turkey are major trade partners and Nato allies, with traditionally close ties. About three million ethnic Turks live in Germany.
Political tensions are heightened by Germany's 24 September general election.
Mr Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party is firmly entrenched in power. He has urged the estimated 1.2 million Turkish-German voters to reject Germany's main parties.
In another case vexing the German government, Chancellor Angel Merkel criticised Turkey for ordering the arrest of Dogan Akhanli, a Turkish-German writer, while he was on holiday in Spain.
He was held on Saturday under an Interpol red notice, then released on condition that he remain in Madrid. Previously jailed in Turkey, Akhanli emigrated to Germany in 1991, where he was granted political asylum.
He angered the Turkish authorities by writing about the Ottoman Turks' atrocities against Armenians during World War One.
Mrs Merkel said the Erdogan government "must not misuse international organisations such as Interpol". Spain is awaiting a Turkish extradition request for Akhanli - something that Germany aims to block.
The Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz, added his voice to the German criticism, condemning "the constant interference by Erdogan in the internal affairs of other states".
More than 100,000 Turks in Austria are eligible to vote, and Austria will hold a parliamentary election on 15 October. | Germany's foreign minister has blamed the Turkish president for "threats" made against his wife - a new twist in a bitter row between the two countries. |
39,755,516 | Like Labour and the Conservatives, they managed just one seat. Alistair Carmichael won Orkney and Shetland by 817 votes (more about him in a minute).
The party is hopeful it can do better this time with its pro-Europe, anti-independence message.
There are three key seats the party's strategists will be focusing on (all with female candidates as the party tries to shake off the idea it's dominated by men - all of its MSPs are male).
Firstly Edinburgh West. This was the seat won by Michelle Thomson for the SNP last time around - before she withdrew from the party whip amid controversy over property deals. She's not standing this time.
The Lib Dems have chosen Christine Jardine as their candidate. The party won the equivalent seat at Holyrood last year and thinks it has a strong ground campaign.
They think they can win anti-independence votes from Labour and the Conservatives which may be enough to win them the seat (the Conservatives are standing Sandy Batho, it's expected the SNP will announce their candidate this weekend).
Another target is East Dunbartonshire where former junior minister Jo Swinson is trying to win her seat back from the SNP. Last time John Nicolson won by more than 2,000 votes.
The Lib Dems are hopeful here too; party strategists think Ms Swinson has "star power" and say donations have been flooding in.
But SNP insiders think her record could be a weakness, given that she was a prominent MP during the coalition years. Residents in the constituency can expect to hear a lot on that from the Nationalists in the next six weeks.
One other seat they'll be concentrating on is North East Fife. The Lib Dems won the equivalent Scottish Parliament seat (ish, Westminster and Holyrood seats differ in size and scope) last year.
Before 2015, they had held it since the 1980s. They've identified this as one to watch this time and have chosen councillor Elizabeth Riches to stand. But the incumbent SNP MP Stephen Gethins has a high-profile as the party's Europe spokesman. He's thought to be confident of keeping this one on 8 June.
Finally, the seat they held last time, Orkney and Shetland.
After the 2015 result there was a high-profile row over Mr Carmichael's future. It was revealed he'd backed the leaking of a document which suggested Nicola Sturgeon wanted David Cameron to be PM (a claim she furiously denied, and which there is no evidence for).
He faced calls to resign and was taken to a special election court by campaigners. Judges say he told a blatant lie about when he knew about the memo in a TV interview, but ruled it wasn't proven beyond reasonable doubt he'd committed an illegal practice.
The Lib Dem team are confident they can win it though. They argue attacks on Mr Carmichael were "overcooked" and point to the increased majorities enjoyed by local MSPs at Holyrood elections last year.
As noted in this blog though, the SNP say they will be fighting hard to win this and other seats they didn't take last time.
* We will have a full list of candidates online after the close of nominations. | The Liberal Democrats were nearly wiped out in Scotland in 2015. |
39,929,701 | Speaking in Berlin on the first full day of his presidency, he was joined by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
She said the pair had a "joint conviction" that they needed to "deepen the European Union".
Both said they would work together more closely on defence, eurozone reform and reducing bureaucracy.
Mrs Merkel said the EU depended on France being strong, and that she and Mr Macron had a "joint conviction that we are not only going to deal with the British exit from the European Union, but we also need to deepen the EU".
She also made her most positive comments yet about eurozone reforms mooted by Mr Macron, saying it may be possible to change EU treaties as would be required to enact them.
"From the German point of view, it's possible to change the treaty if it makes sense," she said. "I would be ready to do this, but first we will work on what we want to reform."
There was a warm welcome for the new French president both from Angela Merkel and - unusually - a crowd singing and dancing outside the chancellory.
In part that's because Berlin is overwhelmingly relieved that it's not Marine Le Pen walking up the red carpet. But it's also because, in Mr Macron, Angela Merkel has a counterpart with whom she shares a desire to reshape the European Union following Britain's departure.
There is a genuine hope here that the French-German relationship, once so fundamental to the European Project, can be rekindled.
But some of Mr Macron's ideas about economic reform have raised eyebrows in Berlin - in an election year Angela Merkel won't risk anything which voters might perceive as a German bailout of struggling member states.
And, despite the smiles on Monday, Mr Macron has yet to prove himself. Berlin expects him to succeed where others have failed; deliver his election promise and kick start the French economy.
Mr Macron wants to create a common eurozone budget, parliament and finance minister.
He denied being in favour of making all countries that use the euro liable for other individual countries' existing debt.
In other developments: | France's new president, Emmanuel Macron, has called for a "historic reconstruction" of Europe, saying it is "the only reaction" to fight populism. |
34,944,499 | Leader Jeremy Corbyn is against air strikes - putting him at odds with more than half of his top team.
He faced warnings of resignations after he wrote to Labour MPs rejecting David Cameron's case for military action.
But Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and others who disagree with him say they will not be resigning.
Mr Watson hinted a free vote - allowing the shadow cabinet and Labour MPs to follow their conscience - might be the best way out of the situation.
Asked if he would resign if there was not a free vote, Mr Watson said: "No, of course not. I'm the deputy leader of the party with a mandate. But I don't think that situation is going to occur."
Mr Watson said he agreed with Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn's view that the prime minister had made a "compelling case" for military action and that the UK faced an "imminent security threat".
In his letter to Labour MPs, Mr Corbyn rejected Mr Cameron's claim that attacking IS in Syria would make the UK safer and said the prime minister did not have a "coherent strategy" for defeating IS.
Mr Watson said he had not known Mr Corbyn would send a letter expressing his own views to Labour MPs, following Thursday's shadow cabinet meeting, but added that he was within his rights to do so as leader.
He said the shadow cabinet would form a view collectively on Monday after seeking clarifications from David Cameron on the issue of 70,000 ground troops being available to support the action.
Mr Cameron has said he will hold a Commons vote on joining air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria when he is confident he can win it - and that depends on persuading enough Labour MPs to back his case to offset any Conservative rebellion.
Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet ally Diane Abbott has urged the front bench to get behind their leader in any vote.
"Jeremy appoints the shadow cabinet - not the other way round. You cannot have a shadow cabinet voting down the leader of the Labour Party who has just been elected with the biggest mandate in history."
Meanwhile, Labour MP Paul Flynn, who is opposed to air strikes in Syria, says he has told his leader he will have to resign if he becomes a "liability" to the party and Mr Corbyn "understands that".
The MP told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that Labour was in a "terrible mess" and the divisions seen over issues like Syria "can't go on".
But he urged colleagues not to try and depose Mr Corbyn, saying this would cause a "rift" and possibly a split in the party.
They must rally round their leader for the time being, Mr Flynn said, suggesting Mr Corbyn will have take a decision about his own future closer to the next general election.
Labour MP John Spellar, a member of the defence select committee, said Mr Corbyn's behaviour over the Syria vote debate had been "unacceptable".
And he urged shadow cabinet members considering resignation to stand their ground, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "If anyone should resign after this incident, it should be Jeremy Corbyn."
Another ex-minister, Fiona Mactaggart, said Mr Corbyn's leadership was "weak" and "unsustainable", although she was also unconvinced about the case for bombing Syria. | Senior shadow cabinet members are seeking to defuse a row over UK air strikes in Syria that threatens to split the Labour Party. |
35,232,945 | Both Matthews, 24, and fellow lock Twomey, 23, came through the south-west London club's youth academy.
Matthews has made 102 appearances for Quins since his debut in 2009, while Twomey has played 37 times after first featuring in 2011.
"The club is fortunate to have two players of Charlie and Sam's ability," director of rugby Conor O'Shea said.
"I am sure they will learn and thrive from the presence of (Australia lock) James Horwill and these two young men will be the cornerstone of this club for years to come."
Harlequins have not disclosed the length of the pair's new deals at the Twickenham Stoop. | Harlequins forwards Charlie Matthews and Sam Twomey have signed new contracts with the Premiership club. |
29,551,380 | The software is installed on tablets attached to the back of each seat at the Teatreneu club.
Each laugh is charged at 0.30 euros (23p) with a cap of 24 euros (£18). Takings are up so far.
The project was developed to combat falling audience numbers.
Partnering with advertising agency The Cyranos McCann, the experiment was a reaction to increased government taxes on theatre tickets, which in turn led to drastic drops in audience numbers.
The results of the experiment have so far proved positive with overall ticket prices up by 6 euros, according to the theatre.
The system is now being copied in other theatres around Spain.
The comedy club has also launched a mobile app as a method of payment, as well as its first pay-per-laugh season ticket.
James Woroniecki, director of London's 99 Club, said: "Sounds fun, just so long as all the facial recognition data doesn't get forwarded to the NSA [US National Security Agency].
"It'd be a big technical challenge - as people laugh so often at the 99 we'd have to install a cash machine by every seat." | A comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with charging users per laugh, using facial-recognition technology to track how much they enjoyed the show. |
37,064,654 | Moelfre RNLI lifeboat station raised the alarm at 13:20 BST on Friday after a crew saw the incident unfold in Moelfre Bay.
The three men struggled to swim to safety while their boat continued under its own power.
"We saw their boat circling close to them and imagined the worst," said Moelfre lifeboat helm Vince Jones.
"Fortunately, by the time we had launched, the strong winds had blown it clear of them," he added.
Two of the men were rescued by a local fishing boat, while the third man, aged 60, was found exhausted and clinging to a buoy without a lifejacket.
They were all taken on board the inshore lifeboat and brought back to the lifeboat station
Mr Jones said: "The three men thrown in the water are lucky to be alive and completely uninjured.
"The boat's engine had an emergency kill cord but it had somehow come detached from the person driving the boat when it capsized. Someone was watching over these guys today." | Three men are "lucky to be alive" after they were thrown from their fishing boat off Anglesey. |
34,546,723 | The man - who was among a group of about 50 people said to be from Afghanistan - was shot near the town of Sredets in south-eastern Bulgaria.
Officials say he was killed by the ricochet of a bullet fired as a warning to the migrants.
The UN's refugee agency says that the incident is the first of its kind in the migrant crisis.
UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov said the agency was "deeply shocked" by the incident and called on the Bulgarian authorities to commission an independent investigation into the death.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov left the EU migration talks on hearing reports of violence at the border.
"Our border patrol of border guards and police in the area stumbled on 50 offenders, who illegally entered the country," Bulgarian interior ministry official Georgi Kostov told national radio.
He said a warning shot was fired after the migrants resisted arrest.
The surviving migrants - aged between 20 and 30 - have been detained, he said. | An Afghan migrant has been shot dead by a Bulgarian border guard after entering the country from Turkey. |
39,380,041 | Some 70,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh in the last six months, and the UN has gathered accounts of gang rapes and mass killings.
A Burmese official said the move was "not acceptable" as Myanmar was carrying out its own investigation.
China and India did not back the decision, however.
The two countries said they would "disassociate" themselves from the UN probe.
The UN resolution, which was brought by the EU and adopted by consensus, decides "to dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission", with a view to "ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims".
The Rohingya say they are being targeted amid a military crackdown on insurgents in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. The campaign was launched after nine border policemen were killed in an attack in October.
Last month, the UN published a a damning report compiled after interviews with more than 200 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Nearly half of those interviewed by the UN said a family member had been killed. Of 101 women interviewed, 52 said they had been raped or experienced sexual violence from the security forces.
The report included accounts of an eight-month old and a five-year-old being slaughtered with knives as their mothers were raped.
The new investigation is at a lower level than the Commission of Inquiry which United Nations special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, had been seeking. She has accused Myanmar's security forces of committing crimes against humanity.
The team of investigators is expected to give an update in September and to publish a full report in a year's time.
The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says the country may still block the investigation.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate and former democracy activist leading the new civilian government, will have to choose between upsetting the powerful Burmese army or defying the wishes of the increasingly concerned international community, he says.
A spokesman for her party recently said the abuse allegations were "exaggerated" and an "internal" not "international" issue.
The Rohingya say they are descendants of Arab traders and other groups who have been in the region for generations, but Myanmar's government denies them citizenship and sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
About one million Rohingya are estimated to live in western Rakhine state, where an outbreak of communal violence in 2012 saw more than 100,000 people displaced.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya remain in camps where conditions are poor and travel is restricted. | The United Nations human rights council is to investigate alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar's army against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. |
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The last time I played my second-round opponent Robin Haase was at the US Open in New York last August, and it was one of my toughest matches as I suffered with terrible cramps.
I came through in four sets but could have gone out of the tournament, not necessarily through me being the worse player but because I missed something in my preparation and became very dehydrated.
You have a match like that and it's a bit of an eye-opener.
I had always eaten well and tried to drink the right things but this was about being more meticulous; actually getting the correct information and just sticking to it.
I take that side of things more seriously now, for sure. My diet is pretty well managed during events.
It would be hard to take if I went out of a Slam because I hadn't drunk enough beforehand, or hadn't checked the weather and the humidity so I knew how much I was supposed to be taking on board.
The margins are very small at this level and I train very hard - I wouldn't want to put in all the preparation and then blow it because of a small detail.
I'm sure good preparation played its part on Tuesday for my first-round match against Mikhail Kukushkin, because I haven't played too many matches on Centre Court when the temperature reached 41 degrees.
I spent just over two hours out there. My recovery might change a little bit depending on circumstances and how a match went.
I could spend more time with the physio after a longer match because in that situation you come off court and things actually hurt! You need that extra time.
I do an ice bath after every single match throughout the year, whether it has lasted one hour or four hours, because I just feel like it helps me.
After Tuesday's match I came off court and went on the bike, and was given water and a sports drink by my fitness coach Matt Little. I probably drank about a litre or so in the 30 to 40 minutes after I came off.
I then had a shower, drank a protein shake and ate some pasta and chicken. Then it was about 45 minutes with physio Shane Annun for a massage and a stretch, and then an ice bath.
Normally during Wimbledon I would use my ice bath at home but they have them on site at the All England Club this year, so I did eight minutes at eight degrees Celsius.
The Spanish player Pablo Andujar was in the 12-degree one next to me, and there was a bit of chat. Ice baths can be competitive too! He was saying that he's Mediterranean and so doesn't like the cold, whereas apparently I'm used to it.
I can go colder but that's not always intentional. We check the temperature with a little thermometer and I normally go between 10 and 12 degrees.
This is the first time I've been at a tournament with both my coaches, Amelie Mauresmo and Jonas Bjorkman, and that means the tennis side of my preparation is well covered.
The three of us sat down and chatted about what to expect in my first match after my practice session.
Normally I'll have some video sent to me and various statistics, which I'll look at myself, and when I watch the videos I'll message Amelie and Jonas and point out things I saw that are maybe different from what we spoke about.
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During the week at Queen's Club, Jonas went out and watched a couple of the guys that I might be playing, but nowadays I do a lot of it on video and with statistical analysis.
Sometimes going out onto the court can help though because you can't always see exactly what's happening on the video.
It will be the fifth time I've played Haase on Thursday, so hopefully there won't be too many surprises.
Andy Murray was speaking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery. You can follow Murray on Twitter,Facebook and Instagram. | I don't know how many chances I'm going to have to win more Grand Slams and to blow one because I hadn't prepared properly would be a huge regret. |
32,635,037 | Re-entry was over the Pacific, it said, and only a few fragments were expected to hit the sea.
The unmanned cargo ship was launched from Kazakhstan on 28 April, but control was lost soon afterwards.
The Progress M-27M was carrying more than three tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station.
Russian space agency Roscosmos said: "The Progress M-27M spacecraft ceased to exist at 05:04 Moscow time (02:04 GMT) on 8 May 2015. It entered the atmosphere... over the central part of the Pacific Ocean."
Progress was to deliver food, water, fuel, oxygen and clothing to the crew of six people on the ISS, which orbits about 420km (250 miles) above Earth.
But after a communications failure, it began spiralling out of control.
Since then, it has been slowly descending, and orbiting Earth in a pattern that takes it over the eastern United States, Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia.
The capsules were designed to burn up in the atmosphere after delivering their cargo.
A special commission has been set up in Russia to investigate why Progress was lost.
In 2011, one of its predecessors was destroyed when it crashed soon after take-off in Siberia.
Even after Progress' loss, the astronauts have enough supplies to keep them going until the next expected delivery on 19 June.
A Roscosmos spokesman told Reuters that the loss was valued at 2.59 billion roubles ($50.7m; £32.9m). | The Russian space agency says that its out-of-control spacecraft has burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. |
33,731,808 | Brown joined City after his contract at Cheltenham Town, who were relegated from League Two in May, came to an end.
"There was a lot of chopping and changing last year. Four managers and 44 players is a lot to deal with," the centre-back told BBC Sport.
"There seems to be a definite stability here with the manager, who's been here for a number of years," he added.
Brown was a virtual ever-present in the Cheltenham side last season as they finished four points from safety and were relegated to the National League after 16 years in the Football League.
But he feels that he could be fighting at the opposite end of the League Two table with Exeter this season:
"Everyone really gets on and there's a good bond there, and that's me saying that and I'm new coming into it.
"That bodes well for the season as out on the pitch everyone will be fighting for each other.
"We've got the quality there to match so I don't see why we can't be challenging for good things." | Troy Brown says his decision to move to Exeter City was influenced by the stability at the League Two club. |
40,714,395 | In a recent update, it had listed Paint as a feature that would be either removed or no longer developed.
Paint, renowned for its simplicity, has been part of the Windows operating system since its launch in 1985.
Microsoft suggested it would not remain on Windows 10 by default but did say it would be available for free on the Windows Store.
Its successor, Paint 3D, will be part of the Windows 10 package.
There had been an outpouring of support for the program on social media, following the publication of the list on 24 July.
"If there's anything we learned, it's that after 32 years, MS Paint has a lot of fans," Microsoft wrote in a blog.
"It's been amazing to see so much love for our trusty old app."
There does not appear to have been a similar reprieve for other features on the list of casualties.
These included the Outlook Express email client, now replaced by Mail. | Microsoft has confirmed that it will continue to offer its graphics program Paint. |
39,384,898 | Movistar's Valverde left his rivals behind with a superb burst on the steep climb to the finish in Tortosa.
Team Sky's Froome, the Tour de France champion, beat Contador to the line for second place and trails Valverde by 21 seconds with two stages remaining.
Welshman Geraint Thomas of Team Sky came in 14th and lies seventh overall.
American Tejay van Garderen, the leader going into Friday's stage, dropped to sixth place overall.
Valverde broke clear in the final two kilometres of the 182km mountain stage from Valls to Lo Port to finish 13 seconds ahead of Froome and Spaniard Contador.
The 2009 winner also won stage three on Wednesday, after he and his Movistar team-mates were each penalised one minute penalty for illegal pushing during Tuesday's team time trial.
Stage Five result:
1. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) 4hrs 14mins 52secs
2. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +13secs
3. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek) Same time
4. Marc Soler (Spa/Movistar) +25secs
5. Adam Yates (GB/Orica) +32secs
6. Daniel Martin (Ire/Quick-Step) +46secs
7. David Gaudu (Fra/FDJ) +58secs
8. Hugh Carthy (GB Cannondale) +1min 04secs
9. Jakob Fuglsang (Den/Astana) +1min 11secs
10. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) Same time
General classification:
1. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) 17hrs 44mins 27secs
2. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +21sec
3. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek) +47secs
4. Marc Soler (Spa/Movistar) +1min
5. Adam Yates (GB/Orica) +1 min 15secs
6. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +1min 18secs
7. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +1min 34secs
8. Samuel Sanchez (Spa/BMC Racing) +1min 59secs
9. Daniel Martin (Ire/Quick-Step) +2mins 13secs
10. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) +2mins 40secs | Spain's Alejandro Valverde won a thrilling fifth stage ahead of rivals Chris Froome and Alberto Contador to take the lead at the Volta a Catalunya. |
36,923,244 | Wildcats academy-graduate Johnstone has scored 16 tries in 21 games in all competitions this season.
The 20-year-old's existing contract had been set to expire at the end of the 2018 season.
"Tom has had a fantastic year, is still learning and hopefully will become a much better player over the next four years," head coach Chris Chester said. | Wakefield winger Tom Johnstone has signed a new contract to stay with the Super League club until 2020. |
36,124,329 | Ebru Umar wrote a column for the Dutch Metro newspaper criticising President Erdogan's clampdown on dissent.
Since 2014, prosecutors have launched cases against more than 1,800 journalists for insulting Mr Erdogan.
Last week, Germany allowed the prosecution of a prominent TV satirist for insulting Mr Erdogan to proceed.
Jan Boehmermann had read a crude poem on TV, aimed at testing German law.
Germany and the Netherlands have old lese-majeste laws against insulting the head of a friendly state. Both governments have said they will change their laws so that lese-majeste is no longer an offence.
Ms Umar was in southern Turkey on holiday when she was arrested. On Saturday night, she tweeted (in Dutch) that police were at her door.
She was taken to the nearby resort of Kusadasi for questioning and was later released but not allowed to leave Turkey.
Last week, the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam had urged Turks in the Netherlands to report insults to Turkey or its president.
The consulate later withdrew its call after it was criticised by Dutch MPs and Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Mr Rutte said (in Dutch) he had been in contact with Ms Umar since her arrest.
Ms Umar was detained as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and an EU delegation were in Turkey for talks about the implementation of an agreement on migration.
Under the deal, Turkey will take back some migrants who have crossed illegally into the EU. In return, the EU will liberalise visa rules for Turkish nationals.
Press freedom 'a major concern' | A Dutch-Turkish journalist has been detained in Turkey after posting tweets critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, her newspaper said. |
39,103,078 | On a visit to the UK today to meet the chancellor and the foreign secretary to discuss trade, Arun Jaitley said there was "great enthusiasm" for a deal.
But he made it clear that any talks would have to run "in parallel" with current Indian negotiations with the European Union (EU).
The EU and India launched free trade talks in 2007 but progress has been slow.
I asked Mr Jaitley if he thought a trade deal with Britain would be easier than executing a trade deal with the 27 members of the EU.
"Both will move [in] parallel," Mr Jaitley answered.
"Both will move separately, each one will have its own dynamics and as far as the UK and India are concerned we are today at a stage where unless article 50 is invoked - and thereafter the Brexit negotiations are completed and the UK is eligible to negotiate agreements - there can be a formal dialogue and agreement only at that stage.
"So there is a waiting period. But I do understand there is a great enthusiasm in both countries and in the governments of both countries to move forward," he added.
India is central to the British government's plan to show that it can secure free trade deals with non-EU countries, particularly countries like India with strong historic ties, rapid growth and over a billion consumers.
Theresa May visited the country last autumn, her first trip to a non-EU nation following the referendum result.
But any expansion of trade with India, as my colleague, the BBC's South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reported is not a given.
Disputes over access for the UK financial services sector to the jealously guarded Indian market, as well as immigration between the two countries, are likely to be major sticking points.
Mr Jaitley said the economic relationship between India and UK was "extremely important".
"It works both ways, because the British invest a lot in India, Indians invest a lot in Britain," he said.
"There is a huge amount of movement of persons as far as the two countries are concerned.
"Both in manufacturing and in services I think there is already a relationship that exists, and therefore that is a relationship that will have to be carried forward and expanded further," he added.
One of the most difficult issues between Britain and India has been immigration, with Indian business leaders and universities complaining that visa restrictions in the UK have limited the number of Indian immigrants coming to Britain.
Although not directly linking the issue to free trade, Mr Jaitley said that Indian immigration has been economically beneficial to Britain.
"We certainly would be putting forward a point of view on this," Mr Jaitley told me.
"But historically, Indians move to Britain, both for education and for work, and have contributed a lot as far as the economy here is concerned.
"Our students in particular that used to come to the United Kingdom have contributed to, if not subsidised, the education system here, and I think it is evident to everyone that this number numerically has been coming down, so it is a concern to us.
"It should also be a concern to the United Kingdom," he warned.
On domestic issues, Mr Jaitley said the abrupt withdrawal of high denomination rupee notes was the only avenue open to the government, despite the short-term chaos that ensued.
He said there was "no other way" it could be done.
"The shadow economy was extremely large, the ratio of high denomination currency was very high and consequently its impact on corruption, tax evasion, on fuelling other crimes like terror - these are all the vices that came up," said Mr Jaitley.
"Therefore instead of giving an opportunity to the evaders to manage [the withdrawal] - because tax evasion creates an unfair advantage in favour of the evader as against the citizens of the country - it had to be done abruptly.
"Obviously there was a temporary period of 10-15 days where there were long queues [at banks as Indians sort to deposit cash or convert the notes they held to new denominations].
"[But] the queues shortened and I think eventually this was, in terms of remonetisation, one of the smoothest exercises of currency replacement, hugely welcomed by the people because it was the right cause," the minister said. | India's finance minister has said that a free trade deal with Britain will take a "long time" and that no negotiations will start until the Brexit process has been completed. |
40,592,546 | The focus at this weekend's British Grand Prix is all on Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, and the latest twist in their fascinating battle - as indeed it has been for much of the season.
It's what F1 was hoping for - two world champions in different teams slugging it out, the races decided by small details, uncertainty at every grand prix.
But this season might not be as simple as that. Valtteri Bottas' victory in Austria on Sunday put him just 15 points behind his Mercedes team-mate, who is 20 behind Vettel, and suddenly all the talk in the paddock was about the quiet Finn as a title contender.
On paper, he genuinely is.
Bottas has won two races, while Hamilton and Vettel both have three victories. Hamilton has five pole positions to Bottas' two, but the Finn's average qualifying position is 2.3 and Hamilton's 3.1. And on average qualifying lap time, there is nothing to choose between them - Bottas is actually ahead of the man regarded as the fastest driver in the world by 0.026secs after nine races.
On the weekends on which Mercedes struggled with tyres - Russia and Monaco - Bottas delivered more effectively than Hamilton.
Bottas has even had a retirement - with an engine failure in Spain - which cost him third place, or 15 points. Without that, he and Hamilton would be level.
No wonder a somewhat downcast Hamilton said after the race in Austria: "When you look a the results, he has had a DNF as well so he has generally had a better season so far. But there was never a point that he wasn't in the fight."
What Bottas has achieved with Mercedes this year is highly impressive in any circumstances, especially as the 27-year-old only joined Mercedes in January after Nico Rosberg's retirement as world champion. And one imagines it will be enough to secure him a new contract at the end of the season.
As for whether he is a realistic title contender, though, there is an opposing argument.
First of all, Hamilton has been unlucky.
Had his head restraint not come loose during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, he would have won that race, Bottas would have been third not second and Vettel fifth not fourth.
And had Hamilton's gearbox not needed to be changed for Austria, he would have finished at least third, not fourth.
All of which would have made the current gap to Bottas 36, and the two main contenders dead level.
Then there's the underlying performance of the two Mercedes drivers.
Yes, there is nothing to choose between them in qualifying - and Hamilton has had three below-par Saturday afternoons in Russia, Monaco and Austria.
But that has not generally been the case in races.
Only in one race - Bottas' superb victory in Russia - has he been unquestionably faster than Hamilton. In Monaco, it was impossible to tell, as Hamilton spent the race in traffic after qualifying 14th.
In all the others, Hamilton has been demonstrably faster. Even in Austria, which Bottas won impressively, Hamilton was 14.4 seconds down on his team-mate by the time he had cleared the Force India of Sergio Perez and Romain Grosjean's Haas but only 7.4secs behind at the finish.
At the same time, while Bottas has scored more points than either Hamilton or Vettel in the last four races, he has beaten Vettel only twice on merit - in his two victories. The other two times - Canada and Azerbaijan - came after Vettel hit trouble when he was ahead. If that ratio continues, Bottas simply can't overhaul Vettel in the championship.
Hamilton has beaten Vettel only three times - but was nip and tuck with him for the win in Australia and Bahrain, and would have done in Baku were it not for the head rest issue. In other words, Hamilton has been much more of a consistent threat to the German on raw race pace.
Perhaps this was what Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff had in mind when he said after Austria: "For Lewis, it was actually the best outcome today that Valtteri wins the race rather than Sebastian. We are not even half time and we start counting points.
"In my opinion, Lewis had all the bad luck that you can have. We have let him down with the head rest and the gearbox and now it is about time to fight back and hopefully that is going to happen at Silverstone."
Bottas himself says he has never had any doubt that he can be a title contender this year.
"For me, since the day I signed with Mercedes, what else can you put as a target?" he says. "It has always been the target. But I don't want to shout about it too much. It is still early days in the championship and more than 50% to go so a massive amount of points to get and with this team I am developing so much every single race.
"It is still a long year ahead and for sure we will be in the championship fight.
"I don't want to think about it too much, because it doesn't help anything to start thinking about it because the fact is to win the title you need to make the most out of every race weekend.
"By making a thing about winning titles it doesn't change anything, you need to go race by race, session by session, lap by lap. But I know in theory with the points and everything we will be in the fight and that is good to know."
It all adds up to a potentially interesting - for which read difficult - situation for Mercedes.
Vettel's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen is a de facto number two; may even be a contractual one, if the rumours are to be believed. Raikkonen is already 88 points behind Vettel and will act as a rear-gunner for him for the rest of the season, even if Ferrari are not ready to admit it yet. They used him strategically in that way in Austria only last weekend.
But Mercedes say they are not yet ready to adopt that policy, and are for now letting the drivers race freely. Wolff says he will handle the situation "like we have handled it in the past, with the difference that dynamics between the drivers are completely different".
That is a reference to the sometimes poisonous atmosphere between Hamilton and Rosberg over the previous three seasons, when the German would use political games behind the scenes to try to destabilise his team-mate - sometimes successfully.
There seems little chance of that happening with Bottas, who is a straightforward, apolitical character. Trying to mess with a rival's head appears not to be something that would even occur to him - he simply goes about his business in his own quiet way.
Of course, having an ultra-stable, impervious team-mate can bring its own issues for the other driver in a team, but at least Hamilton knows it will almost certainly stay cordial and uncomplicated internally at Mercedes.
Eventually, if the championship becomes a mathematical impossibility for Bottas - or close to it - he will be asked to support Hamilton and will probably do it uncomplainingly, just as he did when letting him by in Bahrain this year.
Until then, if Hamilton wants to get his title challenge back on track and ensure it really does become a two-horse fight with Vettel, the onus is on him to do it himself. | Is there an interloper in the Formula 1 title fight? |
40,004,316 | Owens has an ankle problem and Ball has not recovered from a shoulder injury.
Head coach Wayne Pivac had hoped both players would be fit for the final, but says neither will recover in time to take on the Irish province.
Pivac said 2017 British and Irish Lions squad member Owens "won't be right in time" and Ball's "shoulder is still problematic".
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Owens has been released to prepare for the Lions tour to New Zealand while Pivac says Ball's injury is being dealt with by Scarlets' and Wales' medics.
Ball is in the Wales squad that will play tour Tests against Tonga and Samoa in June.
"Our medical team is in discussions with Wales at the moment [about Ball] and they will sort out what they do going forward," said Pivac.
"But he won't be right in time this weekend."
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Scarlets could also be without wing Steffan Evans after he was sent off in their 25-17 Pro12 semi-final win over Irish side Leinster for a tip tackle.
Pivac said Evans was "a broken man" after being sent off and hopes the dismissal will be deemed sufficient punishment at his disciplinary hearing on Wednesday.
"He was devastated. Some people take that sort of incident on the chin," added Pivac, who had no complaints over the sending-off.
We believe that we can go all the way and we're definitely not here to just make up the numbers
"He was a broken man. He felt at the time he was sent off he might have cost the team an entire season's work.
"For a young player to feel like that it's an uncomfortable position to be in.
"He took it very hard and was probably the most relieved man in Dublin on Friday night.
"Personally I would like to think the sending-off is sufficient because I know what he has been through on Friday night."
Pivac vowed Scarlets "will leave no stone unturned" at the disciplinary hearing.
"Technically it was adjudged 100% right by the referee," added Pivac.
"It's black and white these days - if you go over the horizontal, it's just then looking at what part of the body the player lands on.
"There is only millimetres in it, but his head hit the ground so it's a straight red card and we had no arguments.
"Our focus is representing Steff and making sure he gets the most help possible because we want him for the final." | Wales hooker Ken Owens and lock Jake Ball will miss Scarlets' Pro12 final against Munster in Dublin on Saturday. |
18,823,096 | The Reds have refused to disclose how much they have paid for Italy forward Borini, although the fee is reported to be £11m.
Borini, 21, worked with Rodgers at the Chelsea academy and on loan at Swansea in March 2011.
"I've got the trust of the manager. I'm proud to be here," said Borini.
The former Bologna player will wear the number 29 shirt.
Borini scored six goals in 12 appearances for Swansea before the forward joined Parma on a free transfer after his contract expired at Chelsea. He then moved to Roma.
"Liverpool is a top club which has won a lot of trophies in the past - and will do so in the future we hope as well," Borini told Liverpool's official website.
"I used to play 4-3-3 with the manager and he is very good to play football for. It is great to play football for him because you can have fun and you can get results.
"I could see at Swansea the people loved him because the football was attractive. People like to see football played like this."
Rodgers believes Liverpool fans will enjoy watching Borini in action.
"He's one of the few young players in the full Italian squad," said the Liverpool manager.
"I'd anticipate that over the next two or three years he'll really progress and I'm sure do very well for Liverpool.
"Fabio fits the model of what we're trying to do in building not only for now, but also for the future.
"He's a big talent, 21 years of age, he scores goals, and his passion, focus and concentration is a very important part of his game - and a big part of what you want from a player."
Liverpool already have forwards Luis Suarez and Craig Bellamy, and Rodgers admitted he would consider allowing England striker Andy Carroll to leave the club on loan.
Rodgers, who saw midfielder Maxi Rodriguez join Newell's Old Boys on Friday, is looking to make at least one more signing before the start of the season. | Fabio Borini has completed his move to Liverpool from Roma and become the first signing of Brendan Rodgers's Anfield reign. |
37,140,481 | Everton had efforts from Romelu Lukaku and Ashley Williams cleared off the line before they got a penalty when Williams was tripped by Phil Bardsley.
Shay Given pushed Leighton Baines' spot-kick on to a post but the ball then rebounded off Given's head and in.
Stoke's Marko Arnautovic hit the crossbar, but Everton held on to win.
England manager Sam Allardyce was at Goodison Park and is set to name his first squad since replacing Roy Hodgson for the World Cup qualifier in Slovakia on 4 September.
Allardyce would have been hugely impressed with Everton midfielder Ross Barkley, who produced a man-of-the-match performance.
Barkley, who was in Hodgson's Euro 2016 squad but did not feature in any matches, helped drive Everton forward in a game they dominated.
The 22-year-old midfielder was booked inside the opening 10 minutes, but that did not stop him producing an energetic box-to-box performance that saw him denied three times by Given.
Stoke defender Ryan Shawcross, who won one England cap in 2012, did not do much wrong, nor did Everton defenders Baines and Phil Jagielka.
Mason Holgate, 19, was only making his third Premier League appearance and the England Under-20 international looks a bright prospect for Everton.
He was brave in defence and also attacked when possible, including one link-up with Romelu Lukaku where the Belgian was denied by an excellent Shawcross block.
Stoke have finished in the top 10 in the past three seasons but have now only scored twice in three league games and are bottom of the table.
They can feel hard done by with the penalty decision, which saw Williams fall over after clashing with Bardsley as the pair rushed towards the near post as a corner was being taken from the right.
Nevertheless, it was still a deserved victory for the hosts, who move up to second, with only a fine performance from Given denying them further goals.
However, Stoke could have gained a point when, only minutes after falling behind, Arnautovic's shot deflected off Everton goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs on to the bar.
Stoke opted to pick Peter Crouch after the former England striker scored a hat-trick in their 4-0 win over Stevenage in the second round of the EFL Cup on Tuesday. The forward failed to create any chances, but did produce an overhead kick to clear Williams' header off the goalline.
Ruud Gullit: "He's working hard but looks off-sync. He gets in the right positions and I think it's just a matter of time."
Alan Shearer: "You have to stay strong and have the belief that something will go for you. You have to try to not lose confidence and it will change for him, it is just a matter of time."
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Everton manager Ronald Koeman: "If you don't score the second and kill the game then it is always difficult in the last few minutes.
"Today we were not really clinical in the box. We had some good opportunities and need to be more aggressive, but the performance was good, it is a good start to the season and we can build on that.
"Two wins and one draw is very positive, but we can do much better and we need to improve in several aspects."
On the penalty that Everton were awarded, he added: "It is so difficult to analyse that situation. There are enough reasons for Mark Hughes to be angry. If everyone whistles for these situations you would accept it, but one referee does and another one doesn't."
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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: "We are disappointed with the award of the penalty. I feared at the start of the season that some teams would not get a fair crack at the whip and that is happening to us. It is a very harsh decision in my view and that is two dubious penalties against us.
"I don't know what the referee has seen in terms of a clash. Ashley Williams is slightly ahead of Phil (Bardsley), ran across his path, there is a clash of legs, he goes down and we are penalised. All we are asking for is consistency.
"We are going to have to consider zonal marking as it is too damaging for us."
The international break means it will be two weeks before these sides are next in action. Stoke will be aiming for their first league win of the season when they host Tottenham on Saturday, 10 September, before Everton travel to Sunderland on Monday, 12 September.
Match ends, Everton 1, Stoke City 0.
Second Half ends, Everton 1, Stoke City 0.
Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Phil Bardsley (Stoke City).
Attempt saved. Leighton Baines (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Mason Holgate (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Allen (Stoke City).
Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jonathan Walters (Stoke City).
Attempt missed. Arouna Koné (Everton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.
Substitution, Everton. Tom Davies replaces Yannick Bolasie.
Gareth Barry (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Bojan (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Yannick Bolasie (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Leighton Baines.
Hand ball by Yannick Bolasie (Everton).
Substitution, Everton. Ramiro Funes Mori replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Whelan with a headed pass.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Mason Holgate.
Attempt missed. Yannick Bolasie (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gareth Barry following a corner.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Substitution, Stoke City. Bojan replaces Giannelli Imbula.
Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Mame Biram Diouf.
Attempt missed. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Glenn Whelan.
Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Everton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye with a headed pass.
Foul by Idrissa Gueye (Everton).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Everton. Ashley Williams tries a through ball, but Romelu Lukaku is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Gareth Barry.
Substitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Kevin Mirallas.
Offside, Stoke City. Joe Allen tries a through ball, but Marko Arnautovic is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Joe Allen (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Shawcross with a headed pass.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Mason Holgate.
Attempt blocked. Glenn Whelan (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Stoke City. Jonathan Walters replaces Peter Crouch.
Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Yannick Bolasie.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Foul by Leighton Baines (Everton).
Phil Bardsley (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Yannick Bolasie (Everton). | Ronald Koeman maintained his unbeaten start as Everton manager as his team defeated a Stoke side that remain without a league win this season. |
23,187,320 | In September 2012 the UK Border Agency awarded the services company a contract worth up to £40m to find more than 150,000 missing people.
By the end of March, Capita told UKBA 8,328 of them had left the UK and it had managed to contact a further 5,250.
The government said it was "pleased" with progress made so far.
The existence of the "migration refusal pool" - those refused leave to stay longer in the UK but whose departure from the country had not been confirmed - was revealed in July last year.
The chief inspector of immigration, John Vine, said it stood at more than 150,000 at the time.
UKBA says Capita had sorted through the records of 79,336 people by the end of March this year.
The figures are disclosed in UKBA'a final annual report, which comes after it was split it into two bodies - UK Visas and Immigration and an Immigration Enforcement command.
Capita's payment-by-results deal is worth up to £40m, but the target it faces has not been revealed.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We are pleased with the progress that Capita is making on migration refusal pool cases. Their work ensures we can focus on tackling immigration abuse.
"Allowing people with no right to be in the country to stay here indefinitely undermines the immigration system. Any individuals with no right to be in the UK are expected to return home." | More than 8,000 people previously thought to have illegally overstayed their visa have, in fact, left the UK, Capita has revealed. |
40,913,337 | The one vehicle collision happened on Saturday afternoon.
The road was closed between Sandyknowes and Greencastle and emergency services are at the scene.
The closure caused long delays in both directions. | The M2 has reopened following a crash. |
35,129,703 | The EIS union is angry about a management restructuring in secondary schools.
Members voted in favour of action by 88% to 12% in a statutory ballot.
The union will decide what action to take in the new year. A spokesman said the ballot provided a mandate for strike but options such as a work-to-contract would also be considered.
The row is over a plan by the council to cut the number of heads of departments in some schools.
More departments would be grouped together as "faculties" under one head.
Principal teachers who do not secure one of the new positions would have their pay protected for three years but could lose money in the longer term if they do not find another promoted post.
EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan said: "This is an overwhelming ballot result which gives a clear mandate for a programme of industrial action in protest at West Dunbartonshire's plans for management restructuring it its secondary schools.
"The high turnout and the fact that almost 90% of teachers voting in the ballot backed industrial action demonstrate the depth of opposition to the council's plans.
"It is time for West Dunbartonshire council to rethink its proposals and to listen to the views of the teachers in its secondary schools."
Michael Dolan, EIS local association secretary for West Dunbartonshire, added: "We believe that the council's proposed restructuring of management positions in its five secondary schools will have a serious detrimental impact on learning and teaching.
"Teachers do not want to take industrial action, but we feel our hand has been forced by these proposals which will damage the service we provide for pupils across West Dunbartonshire secondary schools."
A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said it respected the ballot result and would work with teachers and trade union representatives to reach a resolution.
She added: "We are committed to protecting teacher numbers in West Dunbartonshire and will support our staff in every way possible with the national issue around workload.
"We know that our teachers care just as much as we do about providing a first-class education to the young people of this area.
"We remain hopeful that our on-going discussions can reassure teaching staff and find a solution that avoids industrial action and its impact on young people." | Schools in West Dunbartonshire could be hit by industrial action in the New Year. |
37,116,113 | The allegations are based on leaked messages between Jamie Bryson, Sinn Féin's Daithí McKay and another Twitter user, also believed to be in Sinn Féin.
The messages were exchanged before Mr Bryson appeared at Stormont's National Management Agency (Nama) inquiry.
Sinn Féin has denied knowledge of the communications.
The Stormont Finance Committee inquiry, chaired then by Mr McKay, was set up last year due to political controversy over the multi-million pound sale of Nama's Northern Ireland property portfolio.
It followed an allegation made in the Dáil (Irish parliament) that a politician or political party in Northern Ireland stood to profit from the loan sale.
Last September, Mr Bryson used a meeting of the Stormont Finance Committee to name former DUP leader Peter Robinson as the individual he referred to as "Person A" in relation to the scandal.
The then first minister of Northern Ireland strongly denied he had sought to benefit in any way from the multi-million pound property deal.
It is now claimed that Mr McKay and another Sinn Féin member advised Mr Bryson about his evidence before the hearing.
The leaked social media messages were obtained by the Irish News and the BBC's Nolan Show.
They show that on 17 September 2015, Mr McKay sent a direct message to Mr Bryson, telling him to follow a Twitter account in the name of Thomas O'Hara, who is understood to be a fellow Sinn Féin member.
The following day, a direct Twitter message from Mr O'Hara to Mr Bryson said: "You may only get 10-15 seconds on this before Daithi as chair has to pull you on it so squeeze your best points on this into 1-2 lines and come straight to the point."
Another message from him said: "Keep it short if you can, when it's said it's said and its privileged. Will be a great finisher."
Mr McKay has not responded to the BBC so far, but in a statement Sinn Féin said its "position has always been about getting to the truth about the sale of the Nama portfolio".
"Sinn Féin have only been made aware of these allegations today (Thursday) and if they are true, then this contact would be wholly inappropriate.
"If such contact did occur it was without the knowledge, involvement or sanction of Sinn Féin."
The DUP's Peter Weir told the Nolan Show that Mr McKay's position could now be untenable.
"If the allegations which are carried today are shown to be correct and accurate, I think it's the most scandalous breach of the position of a committee chair that I've seen," Mr Weir said.
"The actions have been highly inappropriate and indeed, run a coach and horses through the processes of the assembly."
Mr Bryson told the BBC that allegations he had been coached by Sinn Féin before giving evidence were "absolute nonsense".
"I can categorically state that the source of my information did not come from Sinn Féin," the blogger said.
He said he stood by the testimony he gave to the Stormont inquiry and added he would not co-operate with any investigation into how the information was leaked.
"I won't be co-operating with any investigation into who I talked to, who my sources are. They can throw me in jail first," said Mr Bryson. | Police should investigate allegations Sinn Féin "coached" a loyalist blogger before he gave evidence to a Stormont inquiry, the DUP has said. |
39,167,110 | President Trump tweeted early on Saturday: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!"
He went on to say that a court had earlier denied a wiretap request.
The US president has given no details to back up the claim - or suggested which court order he was referring to.
Media reports in the last few weeks have suggested the FBI had sought a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance court (Fisa) last summer in order to monitor members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials.
The warrant was first turned down but then approved in October, according to the media reports.
There has been no official confirmation and it is also not clear if this evolved into a full investigation.
There has been no comment from ex-President Barack Obama.
Mr Trump called the alleged tapping "a new low" and said "This is Nixon/Watergate" - referring to the most notorious political scandal of 1972, which led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon after a web of political spying, sabotage and bribery was exposed by the media.
He also called it McCarthyism - the persecution for US Communists and their allies led by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.
Mr Trump has been reeling from accusations of links between his campaign team and Russia, following an intelligence report that Moscow was involved in hacking in order to get Mr Trump elected.
In the latest twist, his Attorney-General Jeff Sessions has been forced to remove himself from an investigation into the Russian role.
This followed revelations that he had met the Russian ambassador during the campaign, despite denying this at his confirmation hearings.
Mr Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign after four weeks in office for misleading the White House over his contacts with the Russian envoy during the election campaign. Sanctions against Russia were allegedly discussed.
Referring to contacts with Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, Mr Trump tweeted: "Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone." | US President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor of wire-tapping his phone a month before he was elected. |
17,844,198 | Riot police used clubs and tear gas to evict the farmers who protested on Tuesday in Van Giang district of Hung Yen province near the capital.
Villagers had camped in the area to try to keep the authorities and private developers away from the site.
Land rights disputes in Vietnam are becoming increasingly violent.
Around 2,000 police and security officers were deployed to repossess the area.
"They threw stun grenades and came towards the field... then 100 bulldozers were sent in to clear crops," a local resident, who identified himself only as Kien, told the BBC Vietnamese service.
A private company, Vihajico, has been trying for years to build a satellite city called EcoPark, covering 500 hectares of land in the area.
More than 4,000 families will lose their farmland as a result of the development, AP news agency reports.
Residents have been offered 36 million Vietnamese dong ($1,700; £1,000) as compensation for every 360 sq m plot of land.
However, some locals have said that the compensation is inadequate, and accuse officials of corruption.
Land rights are a contentious issue in Vietnam, where the Communist government owns all land and usage rights are unclear.
In January, fish farmer Doan Van Vuon made headlines after he used homemade mines and shotguns in an attempt to stop police from seizing his land. | Vietnamese police have detained 20 people after hundreds of farmers protested on a disputed plot of land near Hanoi, state media report. |
17,398,605 | Situated along the route of the Great Silk Road, it has fallen within the orbit of a number of cultural influences and empires.
After independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia quickly became drawn into a bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over the mostly Armenian-speaking region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
One of the earliest Christian civilisations, its first churches were founded in the fourth century. In later centuries, it frequently oscillated between Byzantine, Persian, Mongol or Turkish control, as well as periods of independence.
Population 3.1m
Area 29,743 sq km (11,484 sq miles)
Major languages Armenian, Russian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 71 years (men), 77 years (women)
Main exports Diamonds, machinery, foodstuffs
President: Serge Sarkisian
Serge Sarkisian became president following elections in 2008 and won a second term in early 2013.
He was a Soviet soldier and later worked in the defence committee of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He was then appointed Armenia's minister of defence. He had a spell as minister of national security and head of the presidential staff before returning to the defence ministry.
In 2009, he signed a historic deal to re-establish diplomatic ties with Turkey. However, the thaw in relations proved to be short-lived, and ratification of the agreement was suspended after only a few months, on account of pressure from nationalists on both sides.
Television is Armenia's dominant medium. Some 25 private stations operate alongside two public networks. The main Russian networks are widely available.
Few Armenians rely on newspapers as their main news source. Print runs are small - usually a few thousand copies - and most titles are owned by wealthy individuals or political parties.
A media law prohibits censorship. However, libel and defamation can be punished by prison terms and journalists have been sentenced under relevant laws.
Some key events in Armenia's history:
1915 - 1917 - Between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians are massacred or deported from their homeland in Anatolia to present-day Syria. Armenia considers the killings genocide, a charge Turkey does not accept.
1918 - Independent Armenia emerges from defeat of Ottoman Empire in World War I.
1922 - Armenia is incorporated into the Soviet Union.
1989 - Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh begins. In 1994 a Russian-brokered ceasefire but no peace deal is reached and intermittent fighting continues.
1991 - Armenia secedes from the Soviet Union.
2009 - Armenia and Turkey agree on a provisional roadmap for normalising diplomatic ties, but subsequently fail to ratify the deal.
2015 - Armenia officially joins the Russian-led Eurasian Customs Union, having decided against signing a EU Association Agreement. | A landlocked country with Turkey to the west and Georgia to the north, Armenia boasts a history longer than most other European countries. |
33,714,722 | Coinciding with the Year of Food and Drink, a Scottish government-led celebration, dairy products will be the focus of events in August.
The trail is designed to allow visitors and locals to travel around Scotland's best ice cream sellers.
Leaflets have been produced to highlight more than 100 businesses. The trail has been launched at The Milk Barn in Falkirk.
The government estimates that Scotland generates over £2.5m every day through food and drink tourism.
Scotland's Food Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "I'm delighted to hear that Scotland's Ice Cream Trail has been launched - our dairy produce is among the best in the world and it extends to so much more than milk.
"It's great that this has been launched during the Year of Food and Drink and couldn't have been timed better for the start of Delicious Dairy Month in August."
Suzannah Reid, from The Milk Barn, added: "We're delighted to be part of Scotland's Ice Cream Trail and look forward to welcoming lots of new visitors as a result.
"Our ice cream is made using milk from our very own herd of cows, which are milked just yards away every morning, to make a wonderful and diverse range of flavours which delight our many customers." | Scotland's inaugural "ice cream trail" has been launched. |
39,106,033 | The striker, who has been linked with most of Europe's top clubs, volleyed in a fourth-minute opener after Bernardo Silva's shot was deflected in the air.
Valere Germain chested down the ball and fired home their second and Mbappe headed in a wonderful Silva cross.
Fabinho scored a penalty to complete a comfortable win for Monaco, who are chasing a first title since 2000.
France Under-19 international Mbappe, 18, looked disappointed to be substituted after 68 minutes, moments after going close to completing his hat-trick. He has now scored 15 goals this season.
The principality side are three points above Paris St-Germain and Nice, who both won on Saturday.
Match ends, Monaco 4, Nantes 0.
Second Half ends, Monaco 4, Nantes 0.
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Léo Dubois.
Attempt saved. Irvin Cardona (Monaco) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.
Yacine Bammou (Nantes) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yacine Bammou (Nantes).
Foul by Yacine Bammou (Nantes).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Monaco. Irvin Cardona replaces Valère Germain.
Hand ball by Nabil Dirar (Monaco).
Corner, Monaco. Conceded by Diego Carlos.
Substitution, Monaco. Nabil Dirar replaces Bernardo Silva.
Offside, Monaco. Bernardo Silva tries a through ball, but Benjamin Mendy is caught offside.
Hand ball by Amine Harit (Nantes).
Attempt missed. Yacine Bammou (Nantes) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Léo Dubois.
Attempt blocked. Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Valentin Rongier.
Substitution, Monaco. João Moutinho replaces Kylian Mbappe.
Attempt missed. Valentin Rongier (Nantes) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Djibril Sidibe (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Amine Harit (Nantes) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Djibril Sidibe (Monaco).
Foul by Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes).
Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Kylian Mbappe (Monaco) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jules Iloki (Nantes) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Yacine Bammou with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Monaco) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tiemoué Bakayoko.
Substitution, Nantes. Jules Iloki replaces Emiliano Sala.
Substitution, Nantes. Yacine Bammou replaces Felipe Pardo.
Attempt missed. Léo Dubois (Nantes) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Kamil Glik (Monaco).
Goal! Monaco 4, Nantes 0. Fabinho (Monaco) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Koffi Djidji (Nantes) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Monaco. Thomas Lemar draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Amine Harit (Nantes).
Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emiliano Sala (Nantes).
Fabinho (Monaco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Emiliano Sala (Nantes) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Prejuce Nakoulma (Nantes). | Teenager Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Monaco beat Nantes to move three points clear at the top of Ligue 1 again. |
34,103,302 | Prof Martin Green told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the government should do more to recruit men into front-line adult social care roles.
He claimed that as an increasing number of men are living longer, more men are needed for their personal care.
The Department of Health said it would always encourage more people of either gender to become carers.
"We have an ageing population and a lot of people who receive care into old age now are men," said Prof Green.
"The majority of carers are women. When it comes to personal care in particular, some men prefer this to be done by a male rather than female."
Care England says it is the largest representative body for independent care providers in England.
Its members include single care homes, small local groups, national providers and not-for-profit voluntary organisations and associations, providing services for older people and those with long term conditions, learning disabilities or mental health problems.
Prof Green said that "entrenched societal perceptions" stop men from considering care work.
"The problem is people always see caring roles as being female roles. We need to make society understand that everyone has the potential to be carer," he said.
Government statistics show 84% of carers across the sector in England are women, and just 16% are men. This figure has remained static since 2012.
"The government could be much more systematic in their approach," he continued.
"They could make sure that every school understands that care career paths are for men as well as women, they could portray more men in government information on care roles, and they should put more emphasis on reaching out to men when they advertise care role vacancies.
"This is about every arm of government working to change the perception that care roles are just for women.
"More importantly, it's about every citizen examining their own pre-conceived notions of who delivers care."
Eighty-year-old Jonathan Ryan has severe mobility problems and lives in West Hall residential home in Surrey.
He told Today he wished there were more males caring for him: "From a personal point of view - having showers and baths and personal washing and things, I would much rather be washed and bathed by a fellow male. It makes me feel awkward. I would much prefer a male, I must admit."
For Mr Ryan, it's not just a matter of personal preference - he also said he feels in safer hands with men.
After a recent serious fall, Mr Ryan said that it was the sheer strength of a big male carer that meant he was lifted out of an awkward position.
"He literally dragged me gently out but firmly and then he got behind me correctly and lifted me up."
One of the largest not-for-profit care home providers in the UK, Anchor, says the lack of male carers is storing up problems for the future; they have started a recruitment drive in schools and colleges to attract more men into the role.
Research by social care focused charity Skills for Care says men are often put off from becoming carers because of the perception that it is a career with unpleasant routine tasks.
Other factors include a negative view of the sector's wages and salaries, conditions of service, and opportunities to progress.
Mark Hand works as a carer. He says that his job "raises a few eyebrows" but his gender does not stop him or his female colleagues from doing their jobs effectively.
"It sometimes takes a bit of time to break down barriers when you're working with a woman as a man and vice-versa," he said.
"But as long as you show plenty of compassion, dignity and you treat them with respect then those barriers do come down and they are quite happy for you to look after them."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We would encourage more people, including men, to join the social care workforce.
"There are a wide range of opportunities for both men and women and we have published guidance on how care companies can attract more men to the profession.
"Hundreds of thousands of care workers will benefit when we introduce the National Living Wage, which will also help encourage more people to join the sector." | More male care workers are needed to look after older people, the chief executive of Care England has said. |
39,795,911 | The 28-year-old, who was born in Peterborough, scored 42 goals in 43 games for the Whites this season.
Miller is out of contract in the summer and will join the League One side on a three-year deal when it expires.
"He has been the top player in the National League, has scored over 40 goals and is a winner," Posh boss Grant McCann told the club's website.
McCann added: "He knows where the back of the net is and I am looking forward to working with him."
Miller completed a medical on Wednesday and will link up with his new team-mates for pre-season training at the end of June.
The former Spalding United, Stamford and Boston United player has previous Football League experience with Luton, prior to joining Dover.
Posh director of football Barry Fry said: "We tried to buy Ricky in January, but Jim [Parmenter], the chairman and owner of Dover, and Chris [Kinnear], the manager, never returned my calls.
"But I admire that greatly because Dover had great ambition to get promoted.
"Ricky has done brilliantly to score the amount of goals he has and hopefully he will come here and hit the ground running."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Peterborough United have signed National League player of the year Ricky Miller from Dover Athletic. |
11,513,583 | Project contractor Hochtief began the construction of six supports for the £37m Twin Sails Bridge last week.
It will span Backwater Channel in Holes Bay between Hamworthy and Poole town centre.
The first open day will be held at Hamworthy Library in Blandford Road between 1400 and 1900 BST on Wednesday.
The second one will be held at the Dolphin Shopping Centre between 0900 and 1700 GMT on 4 November.
The bridge is scheduled to open in early 2012.
Jim Bright, the Borough of Poole's strategic director, said: "We are aware that residents have questions relating to the construction of the Twin Sails Bridge and the impact of regeneration in their local community.
"By holding these open days we hope residents will take the opportunity of raising any questions or concerns they may have." | Residents are being invited to attend the first in a series of open days about a new landmark bridge in Poole Harbour in Dorset. |
35,805,132 | Labour deputy leader Tom Watson called for a probe and for Mr Gove to "confirm or deny" having been the source.
Commons Leader Chris Grayling said the press watchdog was investigating and no further action was needed.
Mr Gove has said he does not know "how the Sun got all its information".
The Sun says it is standing by its front page from last week, which was headlined "Queen backs Brexit".
It referred to an exchange between the monarch and former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in 2011, which it called a "bust-up" and said left no doubt about the Queen's "passionate feelings over Europe".
Buckingham Palace has complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation about the report, insisting the Queen is "politically neutral".
Asking an urgent question in the Commons on Monday, Mr Watson said ministers who met the Queen as members of the Privy Council swore an oath not to reveal what was said at their meetings.
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Any member of the Privy Council who turned out to have been the source of the story "should be removed from office if he won't honourably resign himself", he said.
Mr Watson said the three other ministers at the meeting where the exchange was said to have taken place had denied being the source, adding that Mr Gove's response had been "hardly categoric".
On Saturday, Mr Gove told reporters: "I don't know how the Sun got all its information and I don't think it's really worth my adding anything to what's already been said."
A source close to him later told the BBC: "Michael did not brief this story."
Before Mr Watson asked his urgent question in the Commons, Speaker John Bercow reminded MPs they were not able to discuss the Queen's views.
Mr Grayling, who like Mr Gove wants to quit the EU, is also Privy Council lord president.
Responding to Mr Watson, he said there was no need for further action as the press watchdog was already investigating and the story had been denied by Mr Clegg, Mr Grayling's predecessor as Privy Council lord president.
Mr Clegg has said he could not remember any such incident and called the story "nonsense".
"You can't be found guilty of an offence when an offence has not taken place," Mr Grayling said.
He also answered "yes" when asked whether Mr Gove was supported by the prime minister and cabinet. | A minister has dismissed calls for a government investigation into whether Justice Secretary Michael Gove was the source of the Sun's story claiming the Queen wants the UK to leave the EU. |
34,957,807 | Prior to that, Pendleton's mount Minella Theatre had been jumping well in the Black Forest Club Members race.
The three-mile race was won by favourite Jepeck.
Pendleton, 35, who was unseated in her third competitive ride at Newbury last month, is aiming to ride over jumps at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
She retired from cycling in 2012 after adding gold in the keirin in London to the sprint title she won at the Beijing Games in 2008.
Trainer Alan Hill said the ground "was a little soft" for Minella Theatre, but that Pendleton had ridden him "sensibly" and would look to compete again within weeks.
"The most important thing was that we got her good race experience," said Hill. "The horse jumped well, she rode him well and now we've got that first ride under her belt." | Olympic cycling champion-turned-jockey Victoria Pendleton pulled up with two fences to clear in her first point-to-point race at Black Forest Lodge. |
40,903,993 | Sait Mboob, 18, was attacked at about 20:40 BST on Tuesday during a reported fight on Crosshill Road.
A tribute from his family said: "Sait was everybody's best friend, especially his mum's."
A man, 32, has been held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, alongside a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on Thursday.
Mr Mboob died from his wounds in hospital after he and three teenagers were stabbed.
His family added: "He was a mummy's boy who was loved and adored by his mother.
"He was intelligent and talented."
Two youths, aged 17 and 18, have been released from hospital, while the other teenager, aged 17, continues to be treated but remains in a stable condition, police said.
Greater Manchester Police said they were "keeping an open mind as to motive, but a line of enquiry is whether the offenders have links to street criminality".
Supt Dave Pester added: "We are exploring all avenues and part of our enquiry is to determine what the motive was."
He appealed for anyone with information to contact police "as you might be able to help us to get justice for his family". | A second person has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 18-year-old was stabbed to death in Manchester. |
36,913,000 | In that attack, gigabytes of files including emails and other documents that revealed the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were taken.
Technical evidence has now come to light suggesting Guccifer 2.0 has links with Russia, compounding theories that the hack was state-sponsored.
What's the evidence on both sides?
We do not know the identity of the real person behind this hacker alias. It is a pseudonym adopted by someone who claims responsibility for the recent hack attack on the DNC - the organisation that oversees the running of the US Democratic party.
Whoever is behind Guccifer 2.0 is not thought to be connected to the original Guccifer, who is currently in a US jail awaiting sentencing on hacking and fraud charges.
Guccifer 2.0 also claims to be Romanian and, via a blog, has said they have been working alone. Many people are sceptical about these claims and others made on that blog.
Guccifer was the alias adopted by Marcel Lehel Lazar who, from 2013 onwards, targeted high-profile Americans, many of them politicians, and sought to hack into their personal email and social media accounts.
In January 2014, Lazar was arrested in Romania on hacking offences and was given a four-year jail term. In March 2016, he was extradited to the US to face trial on a variety of hacking and fraud charges.
In May 2016, while in jail, he told Fox News that he had repeatedly broken into a private email server set up by Hillary Clinton that handled her electronic correspondence.
Ms Clinton has denied the server was hacked and the US State Department said it could find no evidence supporting Lazar's claim.
Lazar said the Guccifer name comes from simply combining the Italian fashion brand Gucci with the name the Bible gives to the devil, Lucifer, before he was cast out.
For three main reasons:
Yes. The person claiming to be the hacker has openly mocked the different analyses and repeated their assertion that they are Romanian and have no backing from the Russian state.
However, in interviews with the media, Guccifer 2.0 did not seem to speak Romanian well.
A closer look at their responses using linguistic analysis tools suggested they were using a sentence structure heavily influenced by Russian rather than Romanian which draws its roots from Latin in the same was as the French and English languages.
No. Attribution, the experts say, is always difficult. Translated, this means nobody knows who to blame. One of the first lessons that any competent hacker or hacktivist learns is how to cover their tracks and how to use proxies, encryption and other techniques to obscure who they are and from where they are operating.
Yes. It is entirely possible that an individual broke into an organisation and stole a lot of information. It happens all the time. Tools to carry out hacks and videos educating people about how to use them are easy to find online.
But as repeated breaches have shown, sometimes it does not take technical ability to get into a supposedly secure network - anyone stubborn enough to keep trying commonly used passwords might eventually succeed.
However, the DNC hack does not share some of the characteristics of other hacktivist attacks. Politically motivated hackers tend to release documents as soon as they get hold of them because they want to embarrass the target. By contrast, state-sponsored hackers are much more likely to lurk inside a network for months and slowly steal data over time.
Russia and China are both well known for running large-scale cyber-espionage operations. Information taken in these attacks is often used to help diplomatic and commercial negotiations and to further their own ends. | A lone hacker calling themselves Guccifer 2.0 has claimed responsibility for a damaging hacking attack on the US Democratic Party. |
38,340,286 | York Minster dismissed its 30 volunteer bell-ringers in October due to "safeguarding issues".
The York Press has reported that bell-ringers in Leeds have opted to stand by their colleagues and refused York's offer.
The Dean and Chapter have not responded to the BBC's request for comment.
A source close to the sacked bell-ringers told the BBC they would be willing to return for the Christmas period should the Minster have "a change of heart".
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The Minster says it has always intended to recruit a new team of volunteers by Easter 2017 and has previously said all the dismissed bell-ringers were welcome to apply.
Chris Mew, president of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers, confirmed ringers elsewhere had been approached by the Minster.
He said: "It is, however, a pity that some of the former ringers could not have been suitably passed through the latest processes for volunteers including, where appropriate, [criminal record] checks, since this could have been achieved between October and December."
Mr Mew added that ringers approached by the Minster to stand in at Christmas would have to "follow their own consciences".
The Dean of York, The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, initially said the team had been dismissed because of health and safety issues, and a wish to bring it into line with other volunteer groups.
It later emerged that there were also safeguarding issues relating to a member of the team. | The bells of York Minster could remain silent this Christmas after bell-ringers elsewhere reportedly rejected an invitation to ring them. |
40,044,654 | Mr King, 72, from Bayswater, west London, is accused of carrying out the offences between between 1970 and 1986.
He was charged by Surrey Police as part of Operation Ravine, which has been looking into allegations linked to the Walton Hop Disco in Walton-on-Thames.
Mr King has been released on bail and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 26 June. | Former music mogul Jonathan King has been charged with 18 sexual offences relating to nine boys aged 14 to 16. |
20,537,967 | Head coach Steve Hansen revealed all but two members of his squad have suffered with diarrhoea and vomiting.
But Hansen said it would not affect selection for the match and confirmed Dan Carter will start at outside-half after recovering from an ankle injury.
"Hopefully we've been smart enough to keep energy tanks full," said Hansen.
The majority of the New Zealand team succumbed to severe food poisoning 48 hours before the 1995 World Cup final. The All Blacks went on to lose the final 15-12 to South Africa.
The New Zealander admitted it had been a difficult week but did not anticipate anyone would require a fitness test.
All Blacks number eight Kieran Read said the players had a "guided tour of the bathrooms" on Wednesday before adding that he now felt "a lot better".
"Hopefully it's a 24 hour thing. It's just something you have to handle and we'll be alright for Saturday," said Read.
Hansen has made three changes to the New Zealand team hoping to defeat England and extend their unbeaten run to 21 games.
Carter returns to fly-half after missing the 33-10 victory over Wales on Saturday because of injury, while hooker Keven Mealamu replaces the suspended Andrew Hore and Brodie Retallick is picked ahead of Luke Romano in the second row.
Former Wales coach Hansen said he was not taking a gamble on star man Carter, saying: "He's telling us that he's right to play, his actions are telling us he's right to play, so we'll play him."
Hansen also admitted he was embarrassed by Hore's behaviour after the player was banned for five weeks for striking Wales lock Bradley Davies, and could understand why some believed the hooker's suspension was too lenient.
Hore's ban will run until Sunday, 24 February, which means he will miss Saturday's Test and three Super Rugby pre-season matches for the Highlanders.
"He admits himself the intent was to do something else but he got it drastically wrong," said Hansen of the strike which left Davies needing to be taken to hospital with concussion.
"It's not us that set the rules, it's the IRB [International Rugby Board]. Do we agree with it? Probably not but it's there."
New Zealand: I Dagg; C Jane, C Smith, M Nonu, J Savea; D Carter, A Smith; T Woodcock, K Mealamu, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, L Messam, R McCaw (capt), K Read. Replacements: D Coles, W Crockett, C Faumuina, L Romano, V Vito, P Weepu, A Cruden, B Smith. | New Zealand's preparations for Saturday's Test against England have been disrupted because of a sickness bug which has swept through the squad. |
36,167,685 | Paul, who has been selling the paper on East Gate Street in Gloucester for the last two years, said the pair gave him a £10 paper hand tissue as a prank.
He said: "They were laughing at me. They thought it was funny."
Dave Kinghorn, from Gloucester City Mission, said: "It's disappointing that someone would find it funny especially when lots of people are struggling."
The women, according to Paul, not only pretended to give him a £10 note but also set it alight in front of him.
On Facebook, their actions have been described as "disgusting" and "just plain nasty".
Hannah Ford asked: "How could anybody do this to another human being and think it's funny?"
Debbie Morris posted that they "must be really sick to think it's funny to do that to a vulnerable man".
However, Mr Kinghorn said the incident was "not uncommon".
"We hear stories from guys out rough sleeping or selling the Big Issue that people are rude to them, spit at them, laugh at them and call them names," he said.
"It's not really an easy time for a lot of people so for someone to think that that's a funny thing to do is really disappointing."
The Big Issue currently has about 2,000 sellers across the country.
Official vendors buy copies of the magazine for £1.25 and sell them for £2.50 - using the revenue as a means to earn a living. | Two women who allegedly gave a Big Issue seller a novelty £10 note have been condemned by a homeless charity. |
36,895,889 | New England manager Sam Allardyce said a lack of mid-season break means there is an "enormous demand" on the players.
However, Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn says a winter break is not feasible until the end of the current television deal in 2019.
But Scudamore told Sky Sports there is "a willingness to make it happen".
He added: "Sam is very consistent, he has been calling for a winter break for a long time and we are not against it. We are in discussions but I don't know how close or far we are. I don't want to compromise those discussions.
"Even if the bodies come up with a solution, we will have to road test that with the clubs and fans but there is no timescale on it. If it was easy it would have been done already."
Glenn says although the FA favour a mid-season break similar to the top divisions in Scotland, France, Italy, Spain and Germany, it is not possible until the £5.14bn TV deal ends in three years' time.
"There is a consensus that it would be a good thing to do," he said. "It would help the Premier League and us at international level if we could achieve that.
"We can do our bit about fixture congestion and that's why from the quarter-finals of the FA Cup this season we are not going to have replays."
The Premier League has announced the introduction of Premier League 2, which replaces the current Under-21 league and will incorporate under-23 players, from the 2016-17 season.
Teams will be able to name three over-age outfield players and one over-age goalkeeper for each match.
The league will be split into two divisions, with teams being able to participate in the Premier League Cup, the Premier League International Cup and EFL Trophy.
The draw for the EFL Trophy - which consists of League One and League Two clubs, plus 16 category one academy sides - will be made on Wednesday. | Discussions are ongoing for the introduction of a winter break to English football, says Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore. |
32,277,286 | At least six people died and 30 others were injured in an explosion outside a police station in El-Arish.
Elsewhere, seven soldiers lost their lives and two were wounded in an attack on an armoured vehicle, near the northern town of Sheikh Zuweid.
Militants from the Sinai Province group, affiliated to Islamic State, have said they carried out the attacks.
A statement on a Twitter page attributed to the group read: "An armoured personnel carrier for the army of the apostates was destroyed... killing and wounding all aboard."
Sinai has become increasingly lawless since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011. Insurgents have intensified attacks since his Islamist successor Mohammed Morsi was ousted in 2013.
North Sinai has been under a state of emergency and a curfew since October, when an attack on a checkpoint killed dozens of soldiers.
Major military operations in the region have so far failed to quell the violence.
In El-Arish, residents said the neighbourhood shook as a bomb was detonated outside the police barracks, killing one civilian and five police officers.
In a statement on its Facebook page (in Arabic), the Egyptian interior ministry said a suicide bomber driving a pick-up truck was behind the attack.
"Forces opened fire at the vehicle, which consequently exploded," it added.
The three-storey building was badly damaged and security forces have been searching the rubble for further casualties.
Homes in the area were also destroyed, as doors were ripped off and windows shattered.
The Sinai Province group was known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis until it pledged allegiance to Islamic State in November.
It says it is seeking revenge for a police crackdown on Morsi supporters.
Since then it has carried out numerous deadly attacks on the peninsula, killing hundreds of police officers and soldiers, as well as civilians.
Sunday's attacks bring April's death toll to at least 41. | At least 13 people have been killed in separate bomb attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security forces have said. |
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Muamba was discharged from hospital on Monday having collapsed during an FA Cup tie with Spurs on 17 March.
"Knowing Fabrice and how much of a battler he is, it wouldn't surprise me if he comes back," said Coyle.
"God willing, if he ever comes back to play then of course, that will be a huge boost to everybody."
I understand, because of the interest in Fabrice, that everybody thinks he's released from hospital so that's it, he's singing and dancing down the street
The 24-year-old collapsed after 41 minutes of the FA Cup quarter-final tie and was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and 15 defibrillator shocks before he arrived at the intensive care unit of the London Chest Hospital.
He is now spending time at home with his fiance and son as he continues his recovery, but Dr Richard Cooke, a consultant cardiologist at London Bridge Hospital, told the Manchester Evening News Muamba might be back within six months.
"It would seem highly likely that he would have had a defibrillator put in," Cooke said.
"There are some footballers who do play with them and have had a similar history, so as long as he makes a full neurological recovery, from a heart perspective there is no reason why he couldn't resume his professional football career.
"I understand he has made a surprisingly good recovery and all being well, I would not be surprised if he was back playing football in six months."
The Bolton boss spoke to Muamba on the phone after training on Thursday.
"You can always tell from the sound of somebody's voice and he sounded in a good place," said Coyle. "It was great to hear from him and he sounded terrific.
"That's a huge boost given where he's come from - we've all seen the sad events in Italy," he added, in reference to the death of 25-year-old Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini from a heart attack while playing at Pescara on 14 April.
But the Trotters boss was keen to stress that the Bolton midfielder would need time.
"I understand, because of the interest, that everybody thinks he's released from hospital so that's it, he's singing and dancing down the street. But people have got to understand there's room for continued improvement.
"His little lad hadn't been able to see him for a period so it's important we give them that time to be together."
Coyle also said he would leave it to Muamba to decide whether he wanted to visit his Bolton team-mates before the end of the season, as they fight to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
"That would be Fabrice and his family's decision. He'll not come under any pressure from us," Coyle said.
"Once he feels he's up to it then all good and well. If it's next season, great." | Bolton manager Owen Coyle says it would not surprise him if Fabrice Muamba played football again, but stressed the midfielder will need time. |
20,838,553 | On the wall behind his counter, a sign announces that besides the real - Brazil's legal tender - he accepts the "bem", an alternative currency from a local community development bank, Banco Bem.
The bank was founded in 2005 by an association of seamstresses who decided to lend their profits to a group of furniture makers so that they too could start their own collective.
There are some 100 similar microfinance banks in Brazil, as well as many barter initiatives that also involve social currencies. The banks' aim is to promote the principles of a "solidarity-based economy" which, in their view, is fairer and more sustainable than the dominant capitalist model.
Their clients can pay with colourful bills called, for example, palm-trees (palmas), chestnuts (castanhas), sunflowers (girassois), and kisses (beijos).
Even Cidade de Deus, the Rio de Janeiro's favela made famous through Fernando Meirelles's film City of God, has its own money, the CDD.
Like Cidade de Deus, Sao Benedito used to be extremely violent and drug trafficking was rife. But like several Rio slums, it has now been heavily occupied by the police and local people say they feel much safer.
Sao Benedito residents also say life has improved in recent years thanks to the social policies of the governments of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his successor, Dilma Rousseff - and thanks to local projects like Banco Bem.
"Through Banco Bem, they started to encourage me, to help me, to support me," Mr Rodrigues da Silva, a former bricklayer, said.
He has taken out two loans from the bank, the first one to build his shop and the second one to enlarge it.
"Trade has grown a lot recently. Many more people are coming to spend their money here and a lot of them are paying with bens," he added, with a big smile.
Banco Bem was inspired by Banco Palmas, Brazil's first community bank founded 15 years ago in the north-eastern city of Fortaleza.
"The goal of having a social currency is to encourage people to use that money within their community and contribute to the development of the local economy," Banco Bem's manager Leonora Mol, a psychologist with a long history in social work, told the BBC.
Source: National Secretariat of Solidarity Economy, Brazil
"Our lending system is very straightforward. The neighbours decide who should get the loans. We ask them a very simple question: if this money were yours would you lend it to this person?," she explained.
The bank is now encouraging small retailers to get together so that they can negotiate better prices with the big suppliers and supermarkets.
Banco Bem is also helping to transform areas which were used as rubbish dumps into attractive social spaces, like parks and open-air theatres.
Across a bridge from Vitoria, in Vila Velha, another community bank has also declared a war on rubbish.
Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
Twice a week there is a constant flow of people - mostly women - with wheelbarrows full of refuse they have collected in the area.
Next to the bank's entrance there is a small store where people can use their green bills to buy food or cleaning materials at very low prices. Alternatively, they can pay with them in other local shops.
"We started when we realised that we had to do something before rubbish completely destroyed our environment," the bank's manager, Joao Manoel Ribeiro dos Santos, also a former bricklayer, said.
"We have a river, the Aribiri, where people used to fish - you could even see the fish from the bridge - and children swam. Plastic put an end to all that. During the rainy season we began to have floods; water would even get in through the windows."
Although the river is still far from recovery, local people are proud of what they have achieved so far.
"This is the third wheelbarrow full of bottles that my mother and I have brought in today. My mother collects them. It helps us financially but you should also see how clean our streets are now," a young woman said.
Brazil's community banks now have the government's support, mostly through the National Secretariat of Solidarity Economy (Senaes) in the Labour and Employment Ministry.
"The Central Bank used to have reservations about our social currencies but it has recognised the importance of our work and has accepted them, in part thanks to Senaes, which was established by Lula," Mr Ribeiro dos Santos said.
He sees a fundamental change in the way Brazilian society now works.
"We've lost our fear of negotiating with the government. Before, you couldn't even approach the local authorities, let alone the Central Bank," he explained.
"We have gained confidence in what we can achieve with few resources but with lots of good will, step by step."
According to Ms Mol, one of their most important next steps is to adopt a common system for the 11 community banks in Espirito Santo to have a better idea of the different ways their money is being spent.
"But hopefully in a few years' time there will be no need for our alternative currencies, as most people will be buying locally and helping their communities to grow," she said. | Shopkeeper Heraldo Rodrigues da Silva, 55, owns a small store in Sao Benedito, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Vitoria, the capital of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo. |
34,561,070 | The London Irish flanker will start the match as one of two opensides in the Scots' back-row, alongside John Hardie.
"If you don't have self belief and genuinely believe you can win, there is no point in going out," said the 29-year-old.
"We are very aware of how good we can be and on our day we can beat anyone."
Scotland head coach Vern Cotter has said his team will "have a real go" at the Wallabies and that his players have "got things that we can throw at them and upset them."
Cowan was controversially left out of the initial World Cup squad, then called-up following injuries - "from the couch to the Cup," he joked.
And, while not keen to divulge what Cotter was alluding to, the flanker did point to parts of the Scots' game he thinks will be key.
"You could be surprised with any facet of the game with us," he said. "We haven't had a lot of strike power the last few games and against Samoa our lineout wasn't what it could have been.
"If we can get that working then we can get ourselves in the game more."
The 29-year-old also stressed the importance of routine and level-headedness pre-match.
"I'm very aware this is the biggest game, probably, of my life and career," he said.
"But, at the same time, I've got jobs to do and processes I need to go through before the game and I need to stay on task with that.
"This could be the pinnacle, definitely, of a lot of people's careers.
"It's something we've spoken about, milestones we all want to reach, so we're all on the same page with that."
For the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Blair Cowan says Scotland are determined to upset the odds against Australia in Sunday's World Cup quarter-final at Twickenham. |
36,489,275 | Such is the way of things in modern Formula 1, with the new street race in Baku in Azerbaijan joining the calendar two years after Sochi in Russia.
For Azerbaijan - dripping with oil wealth - the new European Grand Prix follows last year's European Games.
Note the similarity in the titles - it's about positioning a country considered to be on the border of two continents as very much part of Europe, for financial and geopolitical reasons.
"The primary objective is to promote our city from different points: from the touristic point of view, investment," says race organiser Aria Rahimov, who is also the son of the country's sports minister. "This is a great opportunity to do so."
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This is the modern trend for expanding the calendar, a policy described by F1 board member Sir Martin Sorrell on the sport's official website as pursuing "fast-growth markets".
Or following the money, to put it another way. In this case, a reputed $70m (£49.3m) per race.
In another au point observation, Sir Martin added: "If you run a country and want to put it on the global map, you don't have so many choices."
It is a policy that leaves little wriggle room for races in the traditional markets that house much of F1's fanbase - as can be seen from the struggles faced by Germany and Italy in keeping their historic races on the calendar.
But F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has little time for sentiment or tradition. And nor, it seems, for the wider concerns many have about the locations of some of these new races.
Azerbaijan is far from the first country to be introduced to the F1 calendar whose government has been accused of authoritarianism and human rights violations, and it won't be the last. Ecclestone, as ever, shrugs this topic off.
"I think everybody seems to be happy," he said when questioned last year about the concerns of the likes of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Azerbaijan. "There doesn't seem to be any big problem there."
One could argue all day about the rights and wrongs of entwining sport with politics, but F1 is far from the only sport to make questionable judgements about where to host its events - as the furore over the Qatar World Cup in 2022 proves. They're all, at the end of the day, following the money.
And a race is happening, whatever individuals might think about it.
So what might it be like?
The track is laid out on the seafront of the nation's historic capital, and cars will blast past many of its landmarks, including Government House, constructed when the country was part of the Soviet Union.
The most evocative part promises to be Turns Eight, Nine and 10, where the track narrows dramatically to pass the old city walls and the 12th century Maiden Tower, the brickwork protected for the weekend from what seem already to be the almost inevitable collisions.
Much of the first part of the 3.7-mile lap is composed of right-angled corners; it opens out from the old city into a series of long sweepers, which may or may not be taken flat-out, and a very fast stretch of straight as the cars return along the waterfront. Here, cars will top 200mph. On a street circuit…
The long, long fast section that marks the end of the lap is likely to play to the strengths of Mercedes and leave Red Bull and Ferrari fighting for second best.
But whatever the competitive order, those who have already been say it should make for a spectacular event in what they say is a "cool" and interesting city.
Andrew Benson, chief F1 writer | Another new grand prix, another country seeking to present a more alluring face to the world. |
35,777,116 | Nine uncapped players have been chosen for this month's friendly double-header against the Czech Republic and Denmark.
"These guys have done a fantastic job for us," he said of those who have served him in recent campaigns.
"If the younger guys don't come up to standard I don't have a problem going with the same guys again."
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Strachan, speaking at Hampden, insists results in Prague on 24 March and in Glasgow five days later matter greatly but admits he wants to test some new faces in international matches.
To that end, he has named two separate squads with Jamie Murphy, John McGinn, Kieran Tierney, Liam Cooper, Kenny McLean, Oliver Burke, Scott Bain, Kevin McDonald and Tony Watt in line to earn their first caps.
Gordon Greer, Charlie Mulgrew, Steven Whittaker, Ikechi Anya and Steven Fletcher feature in both squads.
Asked if fans should be excited at the emerging talent, the manager replied: "Only time will tell. They are being given the opportunity. If they excite the clubs, then they'll excite us.
"There are different levels of progression; some are late developers.
"Are there superstars in there? I don't know. I don't think so."
Strachan says he has been impressed by Hibs midfielder McGinn, referring to "his drive, his strength, his ability, his humility, his team-work".
And he is looking to make use of Blackburn Rovers' Watt's attacking runs.
"Tony is physically strong and he can make goals," he continued.
"If you look at Scotland, we score goals after eight or nine passes - that's hard work.
"You can throw a ball up to Tony and, at his best, he can beat two people and stick it in the back of the net."
Those players who caught the manager's eye have evidently satisfied his basic criteria for making the squad.
"You have to be able to pass the ball and control it," he asserted.
"Good players make that look simple. Anybody can put in a good shift.
"Can they work in a system? Can they work with other players? Can they give themselves up for the team?
"Can we have players who can beat people?" | Scotland manager Gordon Strachan says the young players must prove themselves or he will go with more experienced players for the World Cup qualifiers. |
33,115,803 | At Lewes Crown Court, Robert Coles, 74, from Eastbourne in East Sussex, admitted two indecent assaults against a boy in Portslade in the 1970s.
For one attack he was given a 16-month jail term to run consecutively to the prison term he is already serving.
No separate penalty was given on the other attack. | A retired Church of England priest already serving an eight-year jail term for sex attacks on boys has admitted two further offences. |
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Dredge reached his first US Open after finishing joint fifth in the qualifying event at Walton Heath.
The 43-year-old tees off in Thursday's first round at Erin Hills in Wisconsin in the same group as Jeunghun Wang and Thomas Aiken
"It's something I've wanted to come and play in," Dredge said.
"All the other guys have said it's a great tournament to come and play in.
"When I was playing some good stuff and in and out of the top 50 in the world rankings, I just missed out on this tournament over a three to five year spell.
"I was delighted and really chuffed to qualify and been really looking forward to coming here." | Welshman Bradley Dredge says he intends to "enjoy the week" at the US Open, which he describes as a "special tournament." |
37,945,422 | The forward, 27, has scored one goal in seven league appearances since moving to Gander Green Lane in the summer.
After spending time in the youth ranks at Fulham, Hudson-Odoi has since had spells at Hereford, Histon, Metropolitan Police and Wealdstone.
He could make his debut for the Stones, who are 16th in the table, at Southport on Saturday. | Maidstone United have signed Bradley Hudson-Odoi from National League rivals Sutton United on a one-month loan deal. |
38,094,096 | HM Inspectorate of Constabulary found 75% of cases were dealt with "inadequately" or needing improvement.
It said there was an "indefensible" lack of leadership in child protection, with no single officer in charge.
The Met apologised for any failures but the home secretary described the report as "profoundly concerning".
The force's assistant commissioner Martin Hewitt said the safety of youngsters was a priority but added that child protection "often involves complex social problems which cannot be solved by police alone".
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) inspectors discovered 277 of 384 cases investigated had been poorly handled.
Of those, 38 were referred back to the Met because inspectors believed the children involved may still be at risk.
HM Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said "far too many of the cases we looked at fell well short of expected standards".
The force was found to be the only one investigated not to have a chief officer in charge of child protection, in spite of it being the largest police service in the country.
Information about victims and offenders was kept on "isolated" IT systems and not shared between boroughs, while some staff - including borough child sexual exploitation officers - had been given no training in child sexual exploitation.
Mr Parr told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the previous mayor had set the priorities for the Met to tackle crimes such as burglary, criminal damage, theft and violence, which meant it had taken its "eye of the ball" when it came to child protection.
As a result, child protection investigations were "inconsistent" and caused issues such as a backlog of visits to registered sex offenders who were thought to be a very high risk to children.
In a statement, the Met said it already had "more than 1,300 officers" who were "dedicated to protecting vulnerable young people".
It said it had re-examined the cases highlighted by HMIC and had identified "no further harm to children and no further offenders".
With regards to accusations it had focused too much on other areas of policing, the force said "children are disproportionately victims" in those crimes.
However, it said it had "worked closely" with HMIC since the inspection and would use the report as "a launch pad" to change its approach to child protection.
Assistant Commissioner Hewitt told the Today programme: "We had already identified that we needed to change in the way that we managed child protection and we were - as the report acknowledges - we are in the process of a range of activities to change our response to child protection.
"But what this report gives us is some very clear issues that we need to look at and we need to address as we continue in that process of change."
HMIC has made several recommendations, including a London-wide oversight of child protection.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "The findings of this report are profoundly concerning. They raise serious issues that must be urgently addressed.
"I have spoken to the mayor of London and sought his assurance that immediate action will be taken to overhaul the force's approach to child protection."
She added: "Every child has the right to feel safe and protected, and to trust that they can turn to the police for help.
"It is critical that the Met learns from its mistakes and gets this right going forward."
Current London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: "This deeply troubling report has found that, too often, children in our city have been let down when they are most in need.
"This is simply unacceptable and things must change."
He sais he has set out a plan to improve the service, including "a new independent group of child protection experts".
Inspectors will carry out another inspection of the force to check on improvements within 12 months. | Children in London are being put at risk because of "serious failings" in the way the Met Police deals with child sexual abuse, inspectors have found. |
36,883,076 | The user data from the popular mobile game's discussion forum were allegedly targeted by a hacker on 14 July.
Tech site ZDNet has reported the leaked data includes email addresses, IP addresses and usernames.
However, users' passwords have been protected by hashes and salts - well-known cryptographic techniques.
Elex, the Chinese firm behind Clash of Kings and the official forums, confirmed that an "unauthorised party" had gained access to forum data.
"Elex apologise for this unwarranted criminal intrusion into its fans' confidential information," it said, adding that it was possible that hackers could decode users' passwords.
"Elex recommend anyone with a Clash of Kings Forum account, to change their password immediately as a security precaution."
The firm added that the site's software had now been updated to prevent similar attacks and that there was no impact on Clash of Kings game account or payment information.
There has been a string of forum breaches in recent months, including Darkode - a forum used by hackers.
Those who manage to steal user data often plan to sell it on, according to Ryan Wilk, director at cyber security firm NuData Security.
"Hackers are making a living by selling this data on the Dark Web, they do it because they can pay the bills doing it," he said. | Details about 1.6 million users on the Clash of Kings online forum have been hacked, claims a breach notification site. |
35,219,439 | Andrejs Trofimovics, 25, was found dead in a flat in Cleveland Road, in the Springbourne area of the town, on Friday. He had been stabbed.
Vladislav Pomozov, 45, has been charged with murder and with the attempted murder of a second man, aged 46, who sustained serious injuries.
He will appear before Bournemouth magistrates later.
Mr Trofimovics, from Latvia, who was formally identified on Sunday, died from a single stab wound, a post-mortem test concluded.
Det Insp Mark Samuel appealed for witnesses to contact Dorset Police on 101. | A man has been charged with murder following the death of a man at a flat in Bournemouth. |
39,277,649 | An average of 5.8 million viewers watched the conclusion of the psychological thriller, which revealed who killed Kay and the truth about Paula, played by Vicky McClure.
But critics and viewers alike were split over whether the ending was satisfactory.
Although some thought it was a masterpiece, others felt it left more questions than answers.
Metro was in the first camp, calling it a "stellar triumph, keeping us gripped from start to finish", adding it was "a satisfying conclusion - even if the concluding scenes were a little too rushed".
The Daily Mail agreed in its four-star review, although it admitted: "The story wasn't so much odd as stark raving bonkers. Whole pages of the script deserved their own straitjackets."
The Telegraph's Ed Power wasn't happy at all: "The Replacement settled for being just another overheated pot-boiler rather than something deeper and more unnerving."
And iNews complained the conclusion "faltered at the last hurdle", saying: "It's just a shame that the eventual pay-off proved so underwhelmingly conventional."
On Twitter, fans were also split: | The finale of BBC drama The Replacement was a bit like the Marmite of TV - you either loved it or hated it. |
33,945,098 | So far we've only had theories and mock designs, rather than any actual evidence something was happening.
But now we have something firm: The Guardian newspaper has got hold of correspondence between Apple engineer Frank Fearon and officials from a car testing facility GoMentum Station.
"We would ... like to get an understanding of timing and availability for the space, and how we would need to coordinate around other parties who would be using [it]," the newspaper quotes Fearon as writing. The note was sent in May.
GoMentum Station is in Concord, a city a good 30 minutes' drive north east from San Francisco.
It's a facility specifically set up to test driverless car technology. There's 20 miles or so of road which recreates some real-world scenarios. This video from Honda gives you a good insight into the place.
So what does it tell us about Apple's car ambitions?
Not much - but it does at least offer, for the first time, some concrete evidence that plans are in motion.
Until now, we'd only known that Apple had hired a couple of car industry experts into its ranks, apparently working on something called "Project Titan" - although this has never been confirmed by Apple.
So the letters from Fearon - himself an autonomous vehicle expert - to GoMentum Station at least lends some credibility to the rumours.
"We are hoping to see a presentation on the ... testing grounds with a layout, photos, and a description of how the various areas of the grounds could be used," the letter reads.
GoMentum are, naturally, under a strict non-disclosure agreement about the project, but they did confirm to the Guardian that Apple are "interested".
And why wouldn't they be? Apple's vice-president Jeff Williams said earlier in the year that the car is the "ultimate mobile device" - a space you'd assume Apple would be desperate to be in.
The question is the extent of what they are building. Are they, as some have said, intending on creating an entire Apple-made car?
Or are they perhaps content with providing sophisticated software for already-established car makers to use in their vehicles?
Car makers are understandably keeping a close eye on things. Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne told the BBC earlier this year that Apple's pursuit of the car market would be highly disruptive.
Whatever the approach, it's safe to say we won't find out much more until Apple is absolutely ready. GoMentum, in keeping with its military roots, has armed guards stationed at the facility 24 hours a day.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter: @DaveLeeBBC | The persistent rumours about Apple building some kind of car have felt at times like they were powered purely by Apple fans desperate for something new and exciting, |
17,692,025 | UK, US and Australian scientists used satellite technology to trace and count the iconic birds, finding them to number almost 600,000.
Their census technique relies in the first instance on locating individual colonies, which is done by looking for big brown patches of guano (penguin poo) on the white ice.
High resolution imagery is then used to work out the number of birds present.
It is expected that the satellite mapping approach will provide the means to monitor the long-term health of the emperor population.
Climate modelling has suggested their numbers could fall in the decades ahead if warming around Antarctica erodes the sea ice on which the animals nest and launch their forays for seafood.
"If we want to understand whether emperor penguins are endangered by climate change, we have to know first how many birds there are currently and have a methodology to monitor them year on year," said Peter Fretwell from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"This study gives us that baseline population, which is quite surprising because it's twice as many as we thought, but it also gives us the ability to follow their progress to see if that population is changing over time," he told BBC News.
The scientists have reported their work in the journal PLoS One.
Their survey identified 44 key penguin colonies on the White Continent, including seven that had not previously been recognised.
Although finding a great splurge of penguin poo on the ice is a fairly straightforward - if laborious - process, counting individual birds in a group huddle is not, even in the highest resolution satellite pictures.
This means the team therefore had to calibrate their analysis of the colonies by using ground counts and aerial photography at some select sites.
Fretwell and colleagues totted 595,000 penguins, which is almost double the previous estimates of 270,000-350,000 emperors. The count is thought to be the first comprehensive census of a species taken from space.
Co-author Michelle LaRue from the University of Minnesota said the monitoring method provided "an enormous step forward in Antarctic ecology".
"We can conduct research safely and efficiently with little environmental impact," she explained.
"The implications for this study are far-reaching. We now have a cost-effective way to apply our methods to other poorly understood species in the Antarctic."
The extent of sea ice in the Antarctic has been relatively stable in recent years (unlike in the Arctic), although this picture hides some fairly large regional variations.
Nonetheless, computer modelling suggests a warming of the climate around Antarctica could result in the loss of more northern ice floes later this century.
If that happens, it might present problems for some emperor colonies if the seasonal ice starts to break up before fledglings have had a chance to acquire their full adult, waterproof plumage.
And given that the krill (tiny crustaceans) that penguins feed on are also dependent on the ice for their own existence (they feed on algae on the ice) - some colonies affected by eroded floes could face a double-whammy of high fledgling mortality and restricted food resources. But this can all now be tested by the methodology outlined in the PLoS paper.
"The emperor penguin has evolved into a very narrow ecological niche; it's an animal that breeds in the coldest environment in the world," explained Peter Fretwell.
"It currently has an advantage in that environment because there are no predators and no competition for its food.
"If Antarctica warms so that predators and competitors can move in, then their ecological niche no longer exists; and that spells bad news for the emperor penguin." | Nearly twice as many emperor penguins inhabit Antarctica as was thought. |
34,389,296 | Mary Dangerfield, Coulson's agent and friend, told The Hollywood Reporter the family had not yet made the cause of death public.
"We are all deeply sad - she meant so much to so many," Dangerfield said.
Lynch said in a statement: "Today, I lost one of my dearest friends, Catherine Coulson."
He added: "Catherine was solid gold. She was always there for her friends - she was filled with love for all people, for her family, for her work. She was a tireless worker."
The director praised her "great sense of humour", and said she was "a spiritual person - a long-time meditator. She was the Log Lady".
Coulson appeared in Lynch's 1974 short film The Amputee and was assistant director on his 1977 debut feature film Eraserhead, before playing the Log Lady on both series of Twin Peaks and in the prequel film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
It was on the set of Eraserhead that Coulson and Lynch began to discuss the idea of a woman who carried around a log.
She once described her character as the "only normal person on the show," but added that she's "had some trauma and bonded with this Ponderosa pine".
Lynch, whose credits also include Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, created the cult drama with Mark Frost in the early 1990s.
Revolving around the murder of teenage schoolgirl Laura Palmer, the show was a precursor of dense, cinematic TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire.
It won three Golden Globe awards in 1991, including best TV series and best actor for Kyle MacLachlan.
Lynch will direct a Twin Peaks sequel series which will air on US TV network Showtime next year. | US actress Catherine Coulson, best known for playing the Log Lady on David Lynch's Twin Peaks, has died at the age of 71. |
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Thistle's 1-0 win over Motherwell on Saturday means they will be in the top half of the table when it splits in two after this weekend's games.
"We see this as a chance not only to finish sixth but catch those teams above us," said striker Doolan.
"And, with the kind of form we're in, there's no reason why we can't."
Thistle's run of eight league games unbeaten ensured their first top-six finish since the league split was introduced and their highest finish since 1981.
"It's been unbelievable," said Doolan, whose side are only three points behind Hearts and eight adrift of St Johnstone with six games remaining.
"It has been a great season so far and to have the top six wrapped up with a game to spare is even better.
"Now we've made the top six, if we can catch Hearts then that's a massive achievement, but we need to try to keep that consistency now."
Doolan had competed with Ade Azeez for a regular starting place in the first two thirds of the season, but the Scot has been a starter since two goals as a second-half substitute against Hamilton Academical in February.
The 30-year-old has gone on to score five more to take his season's total to 13 and his personal tally since joining the club from juniors Auchinleck Talbot in 2009 to 102.
However, rather than link the recent run with his own place in the team, Doolan points to a change in tactics by manager Alan Archibald.
"We were playing a lot of high crosses into the box, which didn't really suit us and, as a small striker, it's not really the kind of ball I would want to be on the end of," he told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"But, since the turn of the year, we've practiced a lot on working the ball into the box in different ways and trying to cut teams open instead of getting the ball wide for crosses."
Thistle were a point below Inverness Caledonian Thistle at the foot of the table in December.
"Yes, we were in a terrible position at that point, but within the club, within the dressing-room, we knew we had the quality to get us out that situation," said Doolan.
An approach for Archibald from Shrewsbury Town failed in October and Doolan believes the players took inspiration from the manager's loyalty.
"The manager leads by example at times, especially when it comes to contracts," added the striker.
"When he commits his future to the club, sometimes that encourages players to follow suit and I think that had a big bearing on the stability of the club.
"Off the pitch, we are very stable and, on the pitch, we are improving year upon year and the manger's got a lot to do with that." | Kris Doolan says Partick Thistle have adjusted their target to catching fifth-top Hearts after clinching a top-six Scottish Premiership finish. |
31,409,916 | Four Costa Rican companies that have volunteered their help say they possess the skills to create a prosthesis for the injured bird.
They say they will use 3D printing to create the first prosthesis of this kind in the region.
In the US, prosthetic beaks have been created for an eagle and a penguin.
The male toucan, named Grecia after the area where it was found, was taken to an animal rescue centre in January.
Pictures of its mutilated beak caused outrage after they were circulated in Costa Rican newspapers and on social media.
A campaign to provide the bird with a prosthetic beak quickly raised thousands of dollars and a number of local companies offered their help.
Four of them, Elementos 3d, Ewa!corps, Publicidad Web and Grupo Sommerus, said on Tuesday that they were confident they could design a suitable prosthetic for Grecia and fit it.
Toucans use their beaks to eat and also to regulate their body temperature.
Veterinarian Carmen Soto, who looks after Grecia at the Zoo Ave rescue centre, said the toucan was recovering well and had even started eating on its own.
"The quantity he manages to eat on his own is very small, so we have to help him," she said.
Designer Nelson Martinez said the priority was to create a prosthesis which would help Grecia eat.
He told newspaper La Nacion that he and his team had been studying toucan beaks to come up with a suitable design for Grecia.
He said they were working on a model that would have "a fixed part and a moveable part so it can be cleaned or replaced as the toucan is still growing".
Ms Soto said Grecia's wound was scarring well and that within the month it would be possible to scan its stump.
This will be key to ensure the prosthesis fits Grecia and will also influence how it is fitted.
"We couldn't use any type of adhesive with chemical components as it could compromise the structure of the beak," Mr Martinez said.
The team is studying if it could be fixed with screws instead.
Ms Soto warned that the prosthesis would have to be both lightweight and hard-wearing to ensure it would not come off or be damaged.
The team said it was planning to create models of Grecia's stump to be able to experiment with different fittings.
Karley Fu, of Grupo Sommerus, told La Nacion that another unknown was whether Grecia would accept the prosthesis. | A toucan in Costa Rica which lost the upper part of its beak after being attacked by youths looks set to be fitted with a prosthetic replacement. |
11,701,725 | Vice-Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said the prize was highly politicised and "a challenge to China's judicial system".
Diplomats in Oslo said China's embassy had sent letters implicitly warning them not to attend the prize-giving.
Liu was jailed in December for subversion after calling for sweeping political reform in China.
China angrily condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the dissident. It has said the award was tantamount to "encouraging crime".
"The choice before some European countries and others is clear and simple: do they want to be part of the political game to challenge China's judicial system or do they want to develop a true friendly relationship with the Chinese government and people?" Cui Tiankai said.
"What image do they want to leave for ordinary Chinese people? So, in my view, they are facing such a choice. They have to make the choice according to their own judgement," Mr Cui said.
"If they make the wrong choice, they have to bear the consequences."
A commentary published in Friday in the People's Daily, the Communist
Party's flagship newspaper, described the prize as a Western political tool used to attack a rising China.
The newspaper said the Nobel Prize has become wrapped up in ideology since the end of the Cold War and had become "a tool for Western countries to impose peaceful evolution on powers which do not meet their standards".
Ambassadors in the city normally attend the ceremony, to be held on 10 December in Oslo City Hall.
"We have received a letter which explains the Chinese position and which asks us not to do anything which could destabilise China," Olof Huldtgren, the deputy head of mission at the Swedish embassy in Oslo, told AFP.
Mr Huldtgren said the letter did not explicitly warn against attending the ceremony, but that "the message is clear".
A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London acknowledged the Chinese "have raised the issue with us". But the spokesman stressed: "It is the normal practice of the British ambassador to Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The ambassador intends to attend this year."
The Dutch foreign ministry said it had "taken note of China's concerns", but had told Beijing that the ambassador would be attending.
It is not known who will pick up Mr Liu's Nobel prize on his behalf. | China has warned that there will be "consequences" if governments show support for jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo at the award ceremony. |
40,868,035 | He scored three goals in nine appearances for the Spitfires during a previous loan spell last season and spent three months on loan at Braintree Town earlier in the campaign.
The 20-year-old returns to Eastleigh on loan until January.
Matthews joined the squad for Eastleigh's National League home match against Sutton on Tuesday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | National League club Eastleigh have re-signed Bournemouth midfielder Sam Matthews for a second loan spell. |
38,652,846 | Cikos, 28, started his second spell in Dingwall at the start of the season, having been loaned to County by Slovan Bratislava in 2014.
However, he made only seven appearances this season and last featured in November.
"We'd like to wish Erik well with the next stage of his career," manager Jim McIntyre told the Staggies' official website.
"An exciting opportunity came up for Erik that allows him to pursue more first-team football and we didn't want to stand in his way."
Capped twice at senior level, Cikos has played for three clubs in his homeland and also had loan spell with Wisla Krakow in Poland. | Slovakia defender Erik Cikos has left Ross County by mutual consent. |
36,854,916 | The firm said the fault stemmed from Telehouse North, an exchange in London's Docklands.
Telehouse North confirmed that its network had been affected by a tripped circuit breaker but that engineers were now on site.
BT said that connectivity returned to normal by 13:45 BST, though some larger businesses may still have problems.
There were reports of other organisations experiencing connectivity trouble, including HMRC.
On Wednesday, many customers found they were unable to visit certain websites and access some internet banking services.
Those difficulties were blamed on a separate power cut at the Equinix Telecity Harbour Exchange.
A spokesman for Linx - a partner of Equinix - confirmed that its systems were unaffected today.
Telehouse North said the tripped circuit breaker at its facility had impacted "a specific and limited group of customers".
"The problem has been investigated and the solution identified," a spokesman added. "Our engineers are working with our customers on the resolution right now."
Other organisations suffered connectivity problems.
HMRC tweeted a statement saying that customers might have difficulties accessing their systems due to "a national IT supplier having UK-wide broadband infrastructure problems".
And AIB said "technical issues" had affected internet, tablet and mobile banking.
However, it was not clear that these faults were caused by the Telehouse North power failure.
In today's statement, BT said that the latest power failure was "substantial" but had affected "less than five percent" of customers' internet usage.
"BT took immediate action to minimise these issues by redirecting traffic," it said.
Security expert Alan Woodward at the University of Surrey told the BBC the issues were a "concern".
"If this level of disruption can be caused by a power problem on one floor of one building housing part of the infrastructure in the UK, you really have to ask how resilient is this piece of critical national infrastructure," he said.
"Security doesn't just mean protecting against attackers, it means reliability too." | BT and Plusnet users were unable to access some websites again, after problems with the service yesterday. |
23,565,387 | The date was announced after he visited the governor-general, a formality preceding an election announcement.
The head of the centre-left party faces stiff competition from conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott, who is favourite to win.
The economy, asylum seekers and climate change are among the key issues.
"It's on. A few moments ago I saw the governor-general and asked that she dissolve this parliament and call the federal election for 7 September," Mr Rudd said in an email to Labor supporters.
Mr Rudd returned to lead Australia's government three years after he was toppled in a similar Labor leadership contest by Ms Gillard.
Since taking office on 26 June, Mr Rudd has changed several key policy positions and opinion polls suggest his party is narrowing the conservative opposition's lead.
"This election will be about who the Australian people trust to best lead them through the difficult new economic challenges which now lie ahead," Mr Rudd said, speaking at a press conference after the announcement.
"New challenges have been brought about by the end of the China resources boom," he added, referring to Australia's declining finances due to a dwindling mining sector.
By Jon DonnisonBBC News, Sydney
Kevin Rudd didn't have to call the election so soon. Constitutionally, the deadline for doing so was not for a few more months. But right now the Prime Minister clearly feels he has some momentum so the sooner the better.
It follows a remarkable few months in Australian politics. Not long ago the election result looked a foregone conclusion with most predicting the governing Labour Party and its minority government would be wiped out. But that was before Mr Rudd stepped up to wrestle control of the party and the country from his long time rival Julia Gillard. Now the race looks much closer.
While the electoral maths suggest Tony Abbott and his conservative opposition coalition still remain favourites to come out on top, opinion polls show as an individual Kevin Rudd is more well liked by the electorate than Mr Abbott.
Mr Rudd is seen as a strong campaigner. Ever since he came back to power he has seemed to be setting the agenda more than his rival with several major policy announcements
Opposition leader Mr Abbott welcomed the election date, telling reporters "it's really about who is more fair dinkum", using an Australian phrase to mean honesty or fairness.
If elected, he said his government would build a stronger economy and get the budget under control.
The latest figures show a slowing of economic growth, which was downgraded to 2.5% compared to a forecast of 2.75% in May.
Mr Abbott has vowed to give priority to scrapping mining and carbon taxes if his opposition Liberal Party wins the election.
He says both taxes - introduced by the Labor government in 2012 - are among the highest tax rates on carbon dioxide in the world and has made the industry uncompetitive.
Mr Rudd recently said he wanted to end the fixed prices on carbon emissions by 30 June 2014 and bring forward a European-style emissions trading scheme.
The Labor government currently holds 71 of the total 150 seats in parliament. The opposition coalition made up of centre-right parties has 72 seats; the Green party has one, and there are six independents.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he is proud of the level of support he enjoys in Australia after a national survey indicated that 26% of voters would vote for him or other candidates from his WikiLeaks Party in national elections.
The survey - run by the same company that Labor relies on for its own polling - questioned 1,000 voters and had a 3% margin of error.
"I'm obviously proud of that, but it's also something extremely interesting about the Australian people and about what is happening and the perceptions of what is happening in Canberra,'' Mr Assange said, in an interview with Australia's Ten Network.
Mr Assange has been holed up inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London for the past year to avoid extradition to Sweden.
He is one of three WikiLeaks Party Senate candidates in the state of Victoria. The party is expected to field seven candidates in total for the upper house Senate seats in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia states. | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called an election for 7 September, six weeks after defeating former PM Julia Gillard in a Labor party vote. |
40,823,582 | The cuts, which represent 9% of the firm's global workforce, will affect back office operations including human resources, technology and finance.
The job losses are part of £300m cost cutting plan announced in May.
In January, Pearson reported a slump in sales at its main business - selling books to US college students.
That contributed to a loss of £2.5bn in 2016, the biggest loss in the company's history.
Pearson has been hit as students have been switching from text books, which have high profit margins, to cheaper online alternatives.
Adding to that problem, the number of students enrolling at US colleges has been slowing.
Pearson has been trying to build a business in online educational products, but has been struggling to generate profits.
Analysts are not convinced that Pearson's fortunes will recover anytime soon.
"We continue to believe that another poor year in US higher education publishing will put strains on the business," analysts at Liberum said in a research note.
"We are sceptical of the view that digital will rise to the rescue with several problems here," they said.
Earlier this month, Pearson sold a 22% stake in Penguin Random House to Germany's Bertelsmann for $1bn (£776m).
The deal left Pearson with a 25% stake in the book publisher.
In 2015, Pearson sold the Financial Times to Japan's Nikkei for £844m. | Pearson plans to cut 3,000 jobs following a record loss last year for the seller of academic books and online teaching services. |
35,217,965 | The course had passed an inspection shortly before racing, but a decision was taken to abandon the rest of the card after a second check.
Jockey Andrew Thornton told At The Races: "We're all for racing, but unfortunately the water is as much as a foot deep in places.
"It's getting worse and the rain doesn't look like stopping."
Nicky Henderson-trained L'Ami Serge had earlier galloped through the desperately wet conditions on his debut over fences to win the At The Races App On iPhone Novices' Chase by 27 lengths from Doctor Harper. | Sunday afternoon's meeting at Plumpton has been called off after the third race following rain on the track. |
40,226,273 | 9 June 2017 Last updated at 16:33 BST
She will be working with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to form a new government, as her party - the Conservatives - did not win enough votes in the general election to form the next government on their own.
Click here to find out what happened throughout the day as the results of the election were confirmed.
Newsround takes a look back at some of the memorable moments from the last 24 hours. | After an incredibly busy 24 hours for UK politics, we have learnt that Theresa May will stay on as prime minister. |
34,550,822 | More than 20 firefighters helped tackle the blaze of polystyrene blocks at an industrial yard at 17:45 on Thursday.
The damage ran to a "low four-figure sum".
Police Scotland appealed for anyone with information about the wilful fireraising, or who saw anything suspicious, to contact them. | A fire at Peterhead harbour which sent a huge plume of smoke over the Aberdeenshire town was started deliberately, police have said. |
35,935,732 | The 24-year-old, who joined the club in October, suffered the injury in Monday's defeat by Wigan Warriors.
The former Bradford Bulls and London Broncos man had scored four tries in seven appearances this year.
James Webster's side are currently 11th in Super League after winning just one of their opening nine matches this season. | Hull KR centre Ryan Shaw has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury. |
12,152,964 | Nearly 8,000 houses were damaged by the latest wave of the floods caused by heavy rains and about 70,000 people are now being housed in emergency relief camps.
Authorities say at least 16 people were killed during the last two weeks.
The government says the military used helicopters to airdrop dry rations to flood-affected people in Batticaloa, one of the worst hit districts.
The WFP said in a statement that it is to provide food assistance worth 55m rupees ($0.5m or £0.32m) to 400,000 flood affected people in the east.
Sri Lanka Air Force helicopters already rescued 46 persons including a pregnant woman from Batticaloa district, the defence ministry said in a statement.
The government says that the army has deployed over 1,000 troops to help the flood relief effort, while the navy has dispatched boats to rescue people in the worst affected areas in central and eastern Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka's two monsoon seasons begin in May and December. | The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will provide emergency food assistance to flood affected people in Sri Lanka. |
35,048,140 | A small blast hit a public toilet on 23 November as the shrine opened for a festival. There were no injuries.
The suspect, 27, is alleged to have gone to Korea after the incident, but was arrested on his return to Japan.
The shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead including some convicted war criminals.
The souls of the dead are worshipped there rather than just remembered, making visits to it by conservative politicians like current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, particularly controversial with World War Two adversaries China and the two Koreas.
The visits are seen as a lack of remorse on Japan's part for its militaristic past.
Public broadcaster NHK said police approached the man at Tokyo's Haneda airport and arrested him on a charge of illegal entry into the shrine. The man denies the allegation according to NHK.
Japanese media had previously identified the suspect from CCTV footage from the shrine and the nearby area, where he is reported to have stayed.
The blast reportedly opened a hole in the ceiling and left behind the remains of batteries, wires and metal pipes that police believe contained explosives.
It is not the first time the shrine has been attacked.
In 2011, a Chinese man is suspected to have set fire to one of the gates of the shrine, although a court in South Korea - where he served time in jail for a 2012 attack on the Japanese embassy in Seoul - refused to extradite him to Japan.
And in 2013 a South Korean man was caught breaking in to the shrine carrying a bottle of paint thinners, which he was then reported to have thrown at the main hall. | Japanese police have arrested a South Korean man suspected of bombing Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, local media said. |
33,235,421 | The victim, aged in her early 20s, was raped in the early hours of Sunday in Hunnyhill, Newport, police said.
Officers said they were treating it as an "isolated incident".
The man, who was arrested on the island, has been released from custody. He faces no further action and has been eliminated from enquiries, police said.
The said detectives were continuing to pursue several lines of enquiry and were examining CCTV footage, and analysing potential forensic evidence. | A man arrested on suspicion of rape after a woman was attacked on the Isle of Wight has been released without charge. |
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32,136,809 | The men were among more than 300 officers convicted in 2012 of taking part in the "Sledgehammer" conspiracy.
They were freed last year when Turkey's highest court said the trial had been flawed.
The prosecutor told their retrial that key computer files in the trial were inadmissible as evidence.
Some of the evidence had been fabricated, according to expert reports.
The plot allegations arose from a war simulation seminar in 2003 involving top military men, including First Army commander Gen Cetin Dogan.
Gen Dogan and two other generals, Ozden Ornek and Ibrahim Firtina, were jailed for 20 years, accused of staging a dress rehearsal for a coup that involved bombing mosques and trying to trigger a war with Greece to justify a military takeover.
Gen Dogan insisted the seminar had been aimed at preventing a hypothetical crisis involving political unrest.
The army has a long history of intervening in politics, with three military coups between 1960 and 1980, and a campaign in 1997 that forced the resignation of Turkey's first Islamist-led government.
Mr Erdogan came to power in 2002 at the head of an Islamist-rooted government and became president last August.
The 2012 convictions were eventually overturned last June when Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the original trial had been flawed.
Prosecutor Ramazan Oksuz called for their acquittal at the high criminal court in Istanbul on Tuesday, arguing that the "digital data" was inadmissible as evidence and could not be linked to the suspects. | A Turkish court has cleared 236 military suspects accused in a retrial of plotting to remove former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2003. |
36,127,868 | The relegation-threatened Magpies came from 2-0 down to claim a crucial point against Liverpool at Anfield.
"We've not given [the fans] a lot to shout about, but they're sticking with us," Colback told BBC Newcastle.
"If the fans turn on you it can be difficult but they're there for us and we need to try and repay them with points and good performances."
The draw with Liverpool earned Newcastle's eighth away point of the season out of a possible 54, but the 26-year old - who scored the equaliser - said they did not lose hope despite their poor away form.
He continued: "It would have been easy to lose our heads at 2-0 down.
"With the away form this season, you kind of thought 'is it going to be another one of those days?'
"But we managed to show our character and get a point."
Rafael Benitez's side remain 18th, one point adrift of relegation rivals Norwich and Sunderland who both have a game in hand, but Colback said they will stay positive.
"I've probably been in a worse situation with Sunderland a few years ago and we managed to get out of it," he added.
"All you can really do is keep believing." | Newcastle United's Jack Colback says they must give something back to the fans for their continued support. |
37,946,055 | The loaded pistol was uncovered on Monday after officers in Brisbane, Queensland, discovered a second handgun in his car.
A body search revealed the biker had the handgun "secreted between his buttocks", Queensland Police said.
He was charged with weapons and drug offences.
Police also searched his inner-city apartment where they discovered a Taser, explosives and drugs.
The man is scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates' Court on 21 December.
Police allege he is connected to the outlaw Rebels gang. In Australia, motorcycle gang members are known as "bikies".
The Rebels are Australia's largest motorcycle gang and have been responsible for crimes including killings and dealing drugs.
Detective Superintendent Mick Niland said authorities were "relentlessly" targeting organised crime. | An Australian man linked to an outlaw biker gang has been arrested after police found a gun hidden in his bottom. |
36,264,183 | Father Gary Donegan said the threats were made against people accused by some individuals in their communities of "anti-social or criminal activity".
Two men have been shot dead in the city within the last month, while others have been injured in gun attacks.
"The people that perpetrate the crimes are coming out of the shadows to do these things," Fr Donegan said.
"And they disappear back in again."
On Monday night, takeaway deliver driver Dan Murray was murdered after being lured into a part of west Belfast by a bogus call, in what was a third shooting in the city in 24 hours.
Police have said it is too early to comment on a motive for the killing.
A post mortem examination is due to be carried out on Wednesday.
And last month, Michael McGibbon was killed in an alleyway shooting close to his north Belfast home.
Fr Donegan, of Holy Cross Church in Ardoyne, said he had been aware of 15 threats in the last few days.
He added: "That's on top of nine previous ones, and there was a mother who came to me whose son was out of the area she came from for 10 weeks.
"The people [making the threats] are saying these people are involved in either alleged anti-social or criminal activity.
"We have, in a civilised society, a way of dealing with that.
"Nothing justifies [murder], no matter what people have been involved in.
"If your way of dealing with alleged anti-social or criminal activity is to shoot the problem away, it's a very strange way of dealing in a civilised society."
Fr Donegan called for those responsible for the threats to speak publicly.
"What I've been saying is: 'Put somebody forward - what exactly do you actually stand for?'" | A north Belfast priest has said he is aware of 25 people who have been threatened with paramilitary violence. |
37,613,589 | Chasing 149, England were coasting at 107-4 before Nat Sciver holed out off Afy Fletcher.
Deandra Dottin took three wickets in an over, then trapped Amy Jones lbw to bowl out England for 110.
West Indies earlier scrapped to 148, captain Stafanie Taylor making 56 and Alex Hartley taking 4-31.
The third game of the five-match series is at Sabina Park on Friday at 15:30 BST.
It is the nature of the defeat that will be most disappointing to England, who now travel to Kingston level at 1-1.
Playing on the same slow surface on which they won the first ODI by five runs, the visitors were sensibly managing a pursuit of a reachable target.
But captain Heather Knight top-edged leg-spinner Fletcher to short fine leg for 26 with the score on 93, then Sciver patted a tame catch to cover to depart for 27.
Dottin blew away the tail and, in the blink of an eye, West Indies were celebrating victory.
England looked to have learned the lessons of the first ODI, when they slipped to 62-5 before being rescued by Danielle Wyatt.
Knight and Sciver in particular manoeuvred the ball well, ran hard and looked to have sucked the life out of the home side.
But, two poor shots later, followed by a dubious lbw decision in favour of Fletcher against Wyatt, and the England lower order were exposed.
Dottin, bowling a full length, trapped Katherine Brunt lbw, bowled Laura Marsh, then had Sophie Ecclestone caught behind for a golden duck.
The all-rounder could not complete a hat-trick, but still had the honour of pinning Jones to seal the win.
Defeat will be even harder to take for the tourists after another excellent bowling display on a stiflingly hot morning in Jamaica.
It was the spinners who once more did the bulk of the work for England, left-armer Hartley's straight line ripping through the home middle order.
Taylor, strong through the off side, stood firm, sharing stands of 47 with Dottin and 34 with Stacy-Ann King.
After King was brilliantly stumped off Brunt, it began a slump in which West Indies lost their last five wickets for 24 runs.
Still, they already had enough.
England spinner Laura Marsh, who took 1-23 from 10 overs, told BBC Sport: "Dottin came on and had a magnificent spell. It's unfortunate really. We played really well for the first half but credit goes to Dottin because she's won the game for them.
"We put ourselves in a brilliant position, the bowlers did a great job. We fancied chasing that score so we're pretty disappointed.
"She was bowling full and quick. We have to find a way to keep her out. We'll go back and look at how we got out and come back with a better plan." | An extraordinary England collapse of six wickets for three runs gave West Indies a 38-run win in the second one-day international in Montego Bay. |
38,165,757 | The plane had no fuel on impact, an official said, corroborating audio of the pilot asking to land because of a fuel shortage and electric failure.
The capital Bogota was mentioned on the flight plan as a possible refuelling stop, but the plane did not land there.
The plane plunged into a mountainside near Medellin late on Monday.
Only six of the 77 people on board the plane survived.
"Having been able to do an inspection of all of the remains and parts of the plane, we can affirm clearly that the aircraft did not have fuel at the moment of impact," civil aviation chief Alfredo Bocanegra told a news conference.
Freddy Bonilla, another aviation official, said regulations stipulated that aircraft must have 30 minutes of fuel in reserve to reach an alternative airport in an emergency, but "in this case the plane did not have" it.
"The engines are the electrical source... but without fuel, obviously the electrical source would have been completely lost," he added.
In a leaked tape, the pilot can be heard warning of a "total electric failure" and "lack of fuel". Just before the tape ends, he says he is flying at an altitude of 9,000ft (2,745m).
The plane was carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense, who had been due to play a cup final against Atletico Nacional in Medellin on Wednesday evening.
The team flew from Sao Paulo to Santa Cruz on a commercial flight, then switched to the chartered aircraft.
Brazil's O Globo reported that because of a delayed departure, a refuelling stop in Cobija - on the border between Brazil and Bolivia - was abandoned because the airport did not operate at night.
The pilot had the option to refuel in Bogota, but headed straight to Medellin.
"The pilot was the one who took the decision," Gustavo Vargas, a representative of Lamia, which operated the plane, was quoted as saying in Bolivian newspaper Pagina Siete. "He thought the fuel would last."
Approaching Medellin, the pilot asked for permission to land because of fuel problems, without making a formal distress call.
But another plane from airline VivaColombia had priority because it had already suffered a fuel leak, the co-pilot of another plane in the air at the time said.
The pilot of the crashed plane is heard asking urgently for directions to the airport before the audio recording ends.
Officials say the plane's "black boxes", which record flight details, will be sent to the UK to be opened by investigators. A full investigation into the crash is expected to take months.
There are some critical questions investigators need to answer.
If the plane did indeed run out of fuel, why didn't the crew fill up en route, as was reportedly planned?
And why wasn't it carrying the required 30-minute fuel reserve? Or maybe it was, and there was a fuel leak somewhere.
Also, why was the aircraft told to circle while another flight with a problem was given priority to land? Did the crew make it clear to the ground that they had a crisis on their hands?
Looking at the radar track, it appears to circle for around 13 minutes. Yet it was only around three or four minutes flying time from the airport.
Accidents normally come down to a series of problems and decisions that add up to catastrophe. There are often moments, with hindsight, where a tragedy could have been averted.
We still don't have an official explanation yet. So, there may be facts or problems yet to come out that put a totally different complexion on what happened.
On Wednesday night, when the match had been due to take place, tens of thousands of fans gathered at the Medellin stadium - and at Chapecoense's home ground in Chapeco - to pay tearful tributes.
Many wore white and carried candles as a mark of respect. Chapecoense lost 19 players in the crash. Twenty journalists were also killed.
Of the survivors, Chapecoense said that two players remained in a critical but stable condition, while the club's goalkeeper had had one leg amputated and might still lose his other foot.
An injured journalist also remained in critical condition, the club said. | Colombian authorities say evidence is growing that a plane carrying a Brazilian football team crashed because it ran out of fuel as it tried to land. |
40,326,614 | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust said it had reduced the number of beds from 50 to 16 across two wards at Louth Hospital.
It said the move was "a precautionary measure" and was not in response to the Grenfell Tower fire in west London.
Patients have been transferred to other community hospitals or care providers.
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Lisa Green, director of nursing and operations at the trust, said: "Following a scheduled fire safety inspection at County Hospital, Louth, we have been made aware that, due to the aging fabric of the building, some remedial works will be required."
"In light of the duty of care we have to our patients and staff, we have temporarily reduced the number of beds available on both Manby and Carlton wards and increased the number of staff to ensure any potential risk can be mitigated," she said.
The trust said it expected to review the decision later this week based on guidance from the fire service.
Its website states that Carlton ward is for the rehabilitation of local patients who have been moved from larger hospitals after the acute phase of their illness is over.
Manby Ward provides cardiac monitoring facilities for patients who require more intensive care and support.
NHS Property Services, which owns the hospital, said it was upgrading the fire detection and alarm system, improving fire exit signage, lighting and making improvements to escape routes and fire doors and walls.
A spokesman said: "NHS Property Services is already investing £1.1m in a fire safety and asbestos removal project at the hospital and further works are being commissioned as a priority." | A number of patients have been moved out of a hospital in Lincolnshire after fire inspectors identified issues with the "aging fabric of the building". |
39,655,929 | The shooting happened in Aitnamona Crescent shortly after 22:00 BST on Wednesday.
No-one was injured in the attack. The shots were fired through two of the living room windows.
Sinn Féin MP for west Belfast, Paul Maskey, said the shooting was "disgraceful" and that someone could have been killed.
The woman and the girl, who was her cousin, were upstairs watching a film when the shots were fired.
"It just sounded like someone was putting their fists to the windows, not like a gun," the woman told BBC's Evening Extra programme.
"Two minutes later, I heard another one and then another one. My wee cousin was squealing and shaking.
"All the neighbours were standing out in the garden asking if we were ok. I was just looking for my keys and shouting: "Get me out of the house".
"The child now won't leave her mummy's side. She won't come down to mine anymore. She is asking me if I'm ok.
"Five-year-olds shouldn't have to think of stuff like that and shouldn't have to see things like that".
The attack left four bullet holes in a living room window, next to a sofa, said Paul Maskey.
"If anyone had been in that living room they would have been seriously injured or killed," he added.
"It is quite clear the attackers did not care who their target was.
"No-one has explained to the family why this attack occurred on their property.
Police are carrying out a number of follow-up enquiries and have appealed for information. | A woman and a five-year-old girl have escaped injury in a gun attack on a house in west Belfast. |
34,927,034 | The Spaniard was handed a two-match ban by the SFA for the incident, and fined by the Highland club.
"With my poor behaviour, I let down the club, supporters and teammates," Lopez told the club's website.
"This was very out of character for me and I assure everyone that it won't be repeated."
Inverness chairman Kenny Cameron said: "We believe Dani's actions were indefensible. However, we've taken into account his apology and sincere regret for his inappropriate behaviour.
"He has assured us he has learnt a salutary lesson with regard to his future conduct while with this club."
Lopez signed for Inverness in the summer and has scored once in nine senior appearances for the club.
"I would also like to extend my apology to St Johnstone FC," Lopez continued.
"In addition, I regret the stress caused to my family.
"As an experienced player in a relatively young squad, I should set a good example to others and on this occasion I failed to do so." | Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Dani Lopez has apologised for spitting at an opponent in an Under 20s match against St Johnstone. |
35,620,207 | Following a goalless first 45 minutes where neither side looked like scoring, the Blue Brazil took the lead when Ross Caldwell latched onto a long ball from Declan McDaid before drilling home.
Declan Byrne doubled the visitors' lead - converting from Dean Brett's pass - but they were pegged back by two quick-fire headed goals from Colin McMenamin.
However, Milne had the final say with his low strike near the end. | Substitute Lewis Milne scored late as Cowdenbeath beat Stenhousemuir. |
36,136,275 | The 14-time major championship winner has had three operations to fix back problems and last played a tournament in August 2015.
Woods' exempt status means he is free to play if he wishes, but his registration is no guarantee that he will compete at Oakmont on 16 June.
His agent Mark Steinberg told ESPN the paperwork was "simply procedural".
Woods also registered for last year's US Open before withdrawing with back trouble.
Earlier this month, Woods ruled himself out of contention for the Masters at Augusta.
"I've been hitting balls and training daily, but I'm not physically ready," he said at the time. | Tiger Woods has formally registered to play in the US Open, suggesting he is close to a return to competitive golf. |
21,695,654 | PM Najib Razak said they want the group "to unconditionally surrender".
The ceasefire offer by the group's leader based in Manila came after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the violence in Sabah.
Since fighting began, 60 people have died: 52 Filipinos and eight policemen.
Malaysian National Police Chief Ismail Omar was quoted as saying that at least 31 Filipinos have been killed this week.
"We want the militants to unconditionally surrender and hand over their weapons," Mr Razak told media during his first trip to the area since violence broke out.
He added that the military would continue to track them down "for as long as it takes to eliminate them" if they did not surrender.
In a statement released earlier, Mr Ban's office said he encouraged all sides to engage in dialogue to resolve the situation peacefully.
"The Secretary-General expresses concern about the impact this situation may have on the civilian population, including migrants in the region," said the statement.
"He urges all parties to facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance and act in full respect of international human rights norms and standards."
The Manila-based leader of the Filipino clan, Jamalul Kiram III - one of several men who claims the title of Sultan of Sulu - said earlier this week they they were prepared to "fight to the last man".
But on Thursday, Mr Kiram issued a statement following Mr Ban's comments and called for a ceasefire to the violence in Sabah at 12:30 local time (04:30 GMT).
"They will not take any action. They will remain in the place where they are now. They will not expand operations," his spokesman, Abraham Idjirani, told reporters in Manila.
"We hope Malaysia reciprocates the same call for a ceasefire," he added.
The group of some 200 Filipinos landed at a coastal village in the Lahad Datu district of Sabah, on Malaysian Borneo, saying that the territory was theirs.
Calling themselves the Royal Army of Sulu, the clan members said they were descendants of the Sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines, which ruled parts of northern Borneo for centuries, and demanded that the Malaysian government pay more money to lease their land.
Initial attempts by both the Philippines and Malaysian government to persuade them to leave failed, and late last week, clashes broke out between the clan and Malaysian police, leaving eight policemen and 19 clansmen dead.
On Tuesday Malaysian troops backed by fighter jets raided the area around Tanduo, where the clan were holed up. On Wednesday they then carried out extensive searches of the area, saying some of the Filipinos could be hiding among the local population.
The clan said on Wednesday that none of its members had been killed, but later in the day, Malaysian officials displayed what they said were photographs of 13 bodies they had found in a shallow grave in Tanduo.
It was not clear whether they had died during the assault or in last week's clashes.
Both the Malaysian and Philippines governments are coming under increasing public pressure to end the ongoing crisis.
A rally was held in the Philippines capital, Manila, on Wednesday night calling for a peaceful resolution and expressing concern for the safety of the many Filipinos who live and work in Sabah. | Malaysia has rejected a call for a ceasefire by a Philippine Muslim clan who launched an incursion into a village in Sabah last month, saying the land belongs to them. |
40,563,830 | Scores of people died when a huge fire engulfed the tower block on 14 June.
The Welsh Fire Safety Advisory Group will provide advice the Welsh Government on lessons to be learned from the disaster.
Members include representatives of councils, public and private sector bodies, residents and the fire service.
Group chairman Des Tidbury, Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor to the Welsh Government, said: "What we're going to be focused on is the safety of people living in high rise accommodation, giving them reassurance through timely and appropriate advice.
"Our role is to advise the cabinet secretary for communities and children, who will then make the necessary arrangements for that to be communicated to the relevant individuals."
Fire safety tests and checks are being carried out on high-rise blocks used for social housing in Wales after police said the Grenfell Tower's cladding and insulation failed safety tests.
Cladding from three tower blocks in Newport and four blocks of flats in Swansea had failed new Welsh Government safety tests. | A new fire safety group, set up in Wales following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, has met for the first time. |
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But the journey can be extremely dangerous and the boats are often not suitable for the numbers of people travelling on them.
Ricky's been finding out where these migrants come from and why they choose to make such a dangerous journey to get to Europe. | Thousands of migrants try to reach Europe by boat each year. |
32,840,727 | It was Myanmar's first such rescue. It has faced strong criticism for not doing enough to aid those stranded at sea and stem the migrant crisis.
Most stranded migrants are Rohingya fleeing persecution in Myanmar; others are economic migrants from Bangladesh.
More than 3,000 have landed in neighbouring Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, which have offered aid.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, said these migrants were rescued on Friday morning.
Photos posted on the information ministry's Facebook page showed scores of bare-chested men crammed in the hull of at least one boat.
The posts referred to the migrants as "Bengalis" - Myanmar's term for illegal Bangladeshi migrants - and said the boats were in Bangladeshi waters off Myanmar's Rakhine state, waiting for more to arrive in smaller vessels.
The government has promised humanitarian assistance to those who have suffered at sea.
But ministers have stressed that only verified Myanmar citizens will be allowed to stay. Myanmar insists that these latest stranded migrants are not.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Yangon said that for several weeks it was clear that at least five traffickers' boats were in limbo just off the Burmese coast, unwilling to cross the Andaman Sea - but equally reluctant to let their victims go for free.
The rescue came after Myanmar officials met Malaysian and Indonesian foreign ministers, and the US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Thursday to discuss the situation.
Malaysia also began searching for migrant boats on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that they would conduct rescue missions.
A US military spokesman told the Associated Press news agency that it was prepared to assist in patrols in the area.
Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to stop towing boats out to sea and will provide temporary shelter to those who have landed.
Thailand only said it would stop rejecting boats.
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You can message us on WhatsApp 07525 900971. | Myanmar has rescued two migrant boats holding more than 200 people in its waters near the border with Bangladesh. |
37,399,251 | The body of Sgt Joshua Wikston was discovered at his home close to the RAF station in Suffolk on Friday morning, the US Air Force said.
He was a member of the 48th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron.
Col Evan Pettus, a commander with 48th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force, said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with Staff Sgt Wikston's family, friends and fellow airmen."
He added: "The entire Liberty Wing feels the impact of Josh's loss. We will do everything we can to support his family through this difficult time, and to care for the members of our team who need assistance in the wake of his death."
The airman's death is being investigated by the US Air Force office of special investigations, a spokeswoman said. | A US airman found dead near RAF Lakenheath has been named. |
20,637,417 | The Australian, 27, suffered a heart attack after a Super League game against Leeds Rhinos at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium in May.
Purtell, who joined the Bulls from Penrith Panthers in 2011, underwent heart tests in London this week.
"I didn't know what to expect really and I was in shock when the specialist gave me the news," Purtell said.
"It didn't really sink in until I was on the train coming home but I am obviously delighted.
"I felt myself that I'd be OK because I have been doing some training and felt good, but I am not a medical person so it was pretty awesome to get that news from such an eminent specialist."
Purtell, who is 12 months into a three-year contract with the Bulls, felt unwell on the coach after the 37-22 defeat in Manchester and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
"Last year was a tough one for the Bulls but the boys all bonded together and stuck by me and the club has been absolutely tremendous throughout," he added.
"I am just looking forward now to getting back into full-time training and playing games with my mates. That's what I want to do most of all."
Bradford coach Francis Cummins said: "It's great for us because we have got one of our star players back.
"But for Adrian it's an amazing piece of news because we weren't even sure whether he would be able to live a normal life, let alone play again." | Bradford Bulls centre Adrian Purtell has been given the all-clear to resume his rugby league career. |
25,716,569 | Events from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the departure of troops from Flanders and France were recorded in official diaries of each military unit.
About 1.5 million diary pages are held by the National Archives and a fifth have been digitised so far.
The project is part of the government's World War One centenary programme.
Each unit in World War One was required to keep a diary of its day-to-day activities.
The first batch of 1,944 digitised diaries detail the experiences of three cavalry and seven infantry divisions in the initial wave of British army troops deployed in 1914.
Diaries from soldiers in the First Battalion South Wales Borderers portray the anxiety and terror of the opening days of the war in the battles of Marne and the Aisne.
They also reveal accounts of tug of war, rugby matches and farewell dinners to mark the end of the fighting.
A private war diary kept by one of the First Battalion's soldiers, Captain James Paterson, has also been digitised.
Captain Paterson died on 1 November, some six weeks after an entry said the scenes he witnessed were "beyond description".
"Trenches, bits of equipment, clothing (probably blood-stained), ammunition, tools, caps, etc, etc, everywhere. Poor fellows shot dead are lying in all directions. Some of ours," he said.
"Everywhere the same hard, grim, pitiless sign of battle and war. I have had a belly full of it."
Other entries record the experiences of the 4th Dragoon Guards who fought in the Battle of Mons, the first major action of the war for the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.
There are also diaries from soldiers of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers who saw action continuously between 1914 and 1918 and who included the last British soldier to die in the conflict, Private George Edwin Ellison, who was shot dead on 11 November 1918.
Some 25 volunteers scanned hundreds of boxes of diaries - which had been available for the public to view at the National Archives in Kew since the late 1960s - between January and December last year.
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The World War One Centenary
William Spencer, author and military records specialist at the National Archives, said it "creates opportunities for the public, history enthusiasts, family historians and researchers worldwide to explore the official records which may lead to some new discoveries and perspectives on this important period of history".
The National Archives, the Imperial War Museum and online research website Zooniverse are also launching Operation War Diary, a project aiming to encourage volunteers to uncover details from within the diaries.
Luke Smith, from the Imperial War Museum, said information that may not have previously been communicated through letters home or covered in traditional history books may be contained in the diaries.
The volunteers to the project will be given a segment of a unit war diary and asked to tag key details such as names, places and events.
The data will be used in the National Archives' catalogue descriptions for the diaries, making it easier for people to trace their army ancestors.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller said: "The National Archives' digitised First World War unit diaries will allow us to hear the voices of those that sacrificed their lives and is even more poignant now there are no living veterans who can speak directly about the events of the war."
Harry Patch, the last British survivor of the World War One trenches, died in 2009 aged 111.
The world's last known combat veteran of World War One, Claude Choules, died in Australia aged 110 in 2011. | Diaries from British soldiers describing life on the frontline during World War One are being published online by the National Archives. |
36,489,550 | The vote was called after Desborough Town Council increased its annual tax levy from £19.10 to £96.98 per year.
The council said the money was needed to build a "wonderful Desborough", but more than 200 residents backed calls for the no confidence poll.
Polling stations will open at 16:00 BST and close at 21:00
The poll will also asks voters if they would like more consultation on tax bills.
Polling stations will open at Loatlands Primary School, Desborough Leisure Centre and St Giles Church Community Centre.
Kevin O'Brien, who proposed the motion, said he would like the poll to lead to more consultation between the town council and Desborough's 10,700 residents.
But the council chair said the money was needed to be used for projects such as improving the car park in the town, making the council office chamber meet health and safety regulations and building a "multi-wheeled sports facility".
In a three-page statement posted online, council chairman Allan Matthews used quotes from Anne Frank, Barak Obama and Noel Coward to explain why the council needed the money.
One section read: "The town council has begun breaking out of its chrysalis. This is a Progressive Council (sic). This is a council determined to improve the town for everyone, not just a few."
The statement also said the council clerk's pay is not for the public to know.
It read: "Would you want details of your contract of employment picked over like bones from a carcass by total strangers?
"For the clerk to have been put in the position where he has had to justify his employment is tantamount to bullying."
Desborough Town Council's clerk is set to have his hours and pay increased from £16,728 a year to £26,761, for a 30 hour week, according to the council budget.
Analysis by BBC News found thousands of parish and town councils in England increased their share of the annual bill, raising £18.9m in extra funds. | A parish which increased its share of council tax by more than 400% is facing a "no confidence" poll from residents. |
12,414,932 | The plants and equipment were found in a raid by West Midlands Police.
A police spokesman said officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at a property in Wellington Road at around 1130 GMT on Tuesday.
Two men, aged 55 and 33, were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the production of cannabis, and bailed pending further inquiries.
He added officers had seized nine cannabis plants and hydroponics equipment as well as a number of computers, webcams and music mixing decks.
An address in Castlecroft Avenue, Castlecroft, was subsequently searched and hydroponics equipment found.
The radio equipment was handed over to enforcement officers from the Office of Communications (Ofcom) who will decide on any further action. | Recording equipment believed to be used for pirate radio and cannabis plants have been seized from a Bilston house. |
32,598,473 | Ambulance crews said 36 patients had been treated after the collision on the southbound carriageway in Derbyshire.
One person was pulled from a vehicle by firefighters after the crash between junctions 30 and 29 at about 12:25 BST.
There are not thought to be any serious injuries and the road has reopened. The coach driver went by air ambulance to the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Police said his injuries were not believed to be serious or life-threatening.
The crash happened between junction 30, near Barlborough and junction 29, near Chesterfield.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital said it had treated 10 people for minor injuries.
Three people were taken by ambulance to the hospital and a further seven "walking wounded" were taken by minibus. All were discharged shortly afterwards.
A further 19 people were taken to a "place of safety" and treated at the scene.
The coach belonged to a firm called National Holidays. | Dozens of people have been hurt in a crash involving a coach and lorry on the M1. |
36,839,274 | It will say some services – such as electricity – are increasingly protected from extreme rains but others - like telecoms - lag behind.
BBC News understands the study will say rainfall should be managed from the source of the river to the sea.
The review was prompted by December's floods in the North of England.
Its conclusions will be widely welcomed, but some critics warn the report masks the full problem by ignoring some types of flooding.
That is because it focuses on floods on rivers and at the coast, whereas some floods are caused by rainfall failing to drain away far from rivers or the sea.
Swenja Surminski, from the Grantham Climate institute, told BBC News: "This review is supposed to be comprehensive, but it creates a false sense of security that if you're away from a river or the coast you're home and dry and that's not the message we need to be sending."
A source close to the report said it was a valuable exercise in using computer models to stress-test infrastructure under extreme conditions. Further study was needed on other surface water flooding, the source added.
The review is said to conclude that decision-makers have not grasped the full magnitude of flood risks.
It will say core cities around the UK need better protection, and many hundreds of locally significant installations need to be improved.
In the short term, more barriers must be stockpiled to protect sub-stations, water works, hospitals, ambulance stations and telecoms centres.
In the longer term, important equipment, such as controls for electricity, need to be raised higher, away from potential flood waters. Power networks should be adapted so they can still supply energy even if one sub-station is inundated.
A source said: "It is clear that there is a very variable picture, with some infrastructure protected much better than others.
"The Cumbria floods were thought to be a bit of a freak at the time but we now realise that we can expect to see more really extreme events in different parts of the country.
"Often, the local flood records only go back 50 years, so they don't show the full range of what might happen. Natural variability in weather is much bigger than we thought.
"We haven’t found a fingerprint of climate change on recent flood events – but they are in line with what scientists say we should expect with increased warming."
The review will say river catchments in the UK should be managed in a holistic way, ensuring that improvements on one part of the river do not make flooding worse elsewhere.
It will hold up the example of Cumbria's flood partnership, where flood walls will boost protection for infrastructure; peatland will be restored to hold water upstream; water storage in reservoirs will be increased in the winter; farm management will be altered to catch rainfall by subsoil ploughing; and trees will be planted and river bends restored.
This approach has already been pioneered in other areas.
There is no mention of costs in the study. The Environment Agency has previously said its flood protection work was adequately funded to 2021, but funding in the past has yo-yoed depending on the government’s perception of urgency at the time.
A recent report by the government's official advisors, the Committee on Climate Change, warned that infrastructure was so closely inter-related that the UK could suffer a domino effect in which one piece of infrastructure could cause the collapse of another.
The review was due to be published this week, but has been postponed because the politician in charge, Oliver Letwin, lost his seat in Cabinet. It is expected to be published in late summer, along with the government's progress towards a 25-year environmental masterplan for the UK.
Follow Roger @rharrabin | Britain's roads, bridges, railways, hospitals, electricity, gas, water and internet remain at risk from floods, a government review will admit. |
35,854,735 | On Friday, Mr Duncan Smith said he was quitting as work and pensions secretary in protest at disability benefits cuts.
But Lady Altmann, who described her ex-boss as "exceptionally difficult" to work for, accused him of wanting "to do maximum damage to the party leadership" to help his campaign to leave the EU.
Sources close to Mr Duncan Smith insist his resignation was not about the EU.
Mr Duncan Smith is due to give his first interview since resigning on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show at 09:00 GMT. Stephen Crabb was appointed as Mr Duncan Smith's replacement on Saturday.
In his resignation letter, which many commentators have interpreted as an attack on Chancellor George Osborne, Mr Duncan Smith said the latest changes to benefits for the disabled were "not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers".
But Lady Altmann said she was "shocked" by the resignation saying her former boss had "championed the very package of reforms to disability benefits he now says is the reason he has resigned".
In a statement, Lady Altmann said: "This really seems to be about the European referendum campaign.
"He seems to want to do maximum damage to the party leadership in order to further his campaign to try to get Britain to leave the EU.
"As far as I could tell, he appeared to spend much of the last few months plotting over Europe and against the leadership of the party and it seemed to me he had been planning to find a reason to resign for a long time."
She also said she had found him "exceptionally difficult" to work for and said he had "often been obstructive to my efforts to resolve important pension policy issues".
But another of Mr Duncan Smith's junior ministers, employment minister Priti Patel, praised Mr Duncan Smith as a "great social reformer".
"Since coming to office in 2010, he has made a real difference to the life chances of people throughout the country by reforming the welfare system to ensure that work always pays," she said.
And Justice Secretary Michael Gove, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, called Mr Duncan Smith "an inspirational social reformer" who has been "guided throughout by a clear sense of noble moral purpose".
However, Mr Gove, who like Ms Patel and Mr Duncan Smith, is campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, wrote that a "united and resolute government" was needed.
He wrote that he also "hugely" admired Mr Osborne and said that "I can't - and won't - take issue with either of them in the areas they've championed and led".
In his Budget on Wednesday, Mr Osborne said the government would be spending an extra £1bn on the disability budget but changes to benefits announced a few days earlier had suggested the government would save £4.4bn on this by 2020-21.
They included changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIP), due to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in January 2017, that were expected to save £1.3bn a year, but sparked an outcry from opposition parties and some Tory MPs.
But on Friday, before Mr Duncan Smith resigned, a government source had said the planned changes would be "kicked into the long grass".
Replying to Mr Duncan Smith on Friday, David Cameron said he was "puzzled and disappointed" that Mr Duncan Smith had decided to go when they had agreed to have a rethink about the policies. | Iain Duncan Smith's resignation was really about the EU, pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said. |
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