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34,452,779 | The victim, aged in his 30s, was stabbed outside Crash Manor in Plymouth, at 05:30 BST on Saturday.
A youth from the city was arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm.
Devon and Cornwall Police said a number of people witnessed the attack, and they appealed to those featured in CCTV footage to come forward.
The victim was treated at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, for a number of "superficial puncture wounds", police said. | A 16-year-old boy arrested over a stabbing during a fight outside a nightclub has been released on bail. |
14,921,805 | Judge Collin Lamont ruled that Mr Malema's signature song, Shoot the Boer, incited hatred.
The song, popularised during the anti-apartheid struggle, refers to Afrikaners and farmers.
Mr Malema said he would push for reform to the court system, which he said had not changed since the apartheid era.
"If not being transformed means it's racist, then so be it," said Mr Malema, youth leader of the African National Congress (ANC).
"Once again we find ourselves subjected to white minority approval. Apartheid is being brought through the back door."
He said he wanted liberation songs to be protected by law.
"These were the songs of resistance and they will never die," he said.
A group that campaigns mainly for Afrikaner rights, AfriForum, took legal action to ban Mr Malema from singing Shoot the Boer.
On Monday, Judge Lamont said that in post-apartheid South Africa, all citizens are called to treat each other equally and urged the ANC to find new customs which did not bring disunity.
The ANC said it would appeal against the ruling.
The court's verdict is likely to increase Mr Malema's popularity among black South Africans, making it more difficult for the ANC to discipline him, analysts say.
He is presently appearing before an ANC inquiry on charges of bringing the party into disrepute.
It follows Mr Malema's call for regime change in neighbouring Botswana.
He accused the government in Gaborone of being a "puppet" of Western powers.
Mr Malema says the inquiry shows he is the victim of a political witch-hunt because of his opposition to President Jacob Zuma.
He helped propel Mr Zuma to power in 2009, but now appears to have fallen out with him.
The ANC is due to choose its leadership next year, with its president likely to become South Africa's leader after the 2014 elections.
Mr Malema wants South Africa to nationalise its rich mines and seize white-owned land.
He has praised President Robert Mugabe's land reform in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
He is also being investigated by state prosecutors on allegations of fraud and corruption, which he denies. | South Africa's firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has accused the courts of being "racist" after he was convicted of hate speech on Monday. |
34,910,839 | Back-to-back defeats by Molde have left Ronny Deila's team bottom of Group A going into Thursday's game against Ajax in Glasgow.
"We have to have the belief that we can win and still go through in the group," said Australian midfielder Rogic, 22.
"We go into every game thinking we are going to get a positive result, especially at home."
After opening the group with draws away at Ajax and at home to Fenerbahce, Celtic's challenge has stalled with two losses to the Norwegians.
But victory this week combined with a win in Turkey in the final round of group games would be enough to send Celtic into the last 32 of the competition.
"It's a big opportunity," Rogic said of Thursday's meeting with the Dutch side.
"Obviously we're disappointed about the last couple of results but we've been working hard to make sure we are best prepared as we can be to get the result we need.
"We know the importance of the match. We're all in this together and are a united squad.
"We work closely and extremely hard with the coaches and the manager, so we're working together to get the result we need."
The Scottish champions' preparations for the match have been disrupted by injuries and suspensions. Nir Bitton and Stefan Johansen are both banned, while forward Kris Commons is an injury doubt.
"They are important players for us so any team that loses key players could possibly feel it," added Rogic.
"But, at the same time, we have a good squad and there is competition for places, so I'm sure whoever plays will be ready." | Celtic's Tom Rogic says they must play Ajax with the conviction they can reach the Europa League knockout stages. |
30,176,197 | The female anglerfish, which appeared in the animated film Finding Nemo, has a distinctive illuminated rod hanging from its head.
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) spotted the fish at a depth of 600m.
"Deep-sea anglerfish are strange and elusive creatures," said Bruce Robson from the organisation.
"[They] are very rarely observed in their natural habitat.
"Fewer than half a dozen have ever been captured on film or video by deep diving research vehicles."
The fish is named Melanocetus and the example in the film is thought to be 9cm in length.
In the video narrated by Mr Robson, he described how the light attached to the fish is used to attract prey.
"When a fish or a squid swims up, it is quickly inhaled by the angler's huge mouth and trapped by its long sharp teeth," said Mr Robson.
He explained that males of the species were much smaller and lacked the illumination and pole.
The fish in the video has a broken tooth.
"We have no idea whether it will be replaced by another when it falls off," said Mr Robson. "So far, as we know, there is no tooth fairy in the deep ocean."
The anglerfish had a role in Finding Nemo when she tried to entice Dory and Marlin with her light.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Rare film has been captured of the anglerfish, or black seadevil, off the coast of California. |
37,024,197 | The regime included controlling the legs of a virtual avatar via a skull cap, and learning to manipulate the exoskeleton in the same way.
Researchers believe the treatment is reawakening the brain's control over surviving nerves in the spine.
The work appears in Scientific Reports.
The eight subjects had been paralysed for three to 13 years before the rehabilitation programme began. Chronic cases of paralysis such as these are the most resistant to treatment.
"If you're clinically diagnosed as having a complete lesion, if after 18 months you don't show any improvement, the chance of regaining any motor or sensory capability below the level of the lesion goes down to zero," said Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University in the US, who led the study at the AASDAP Neurorehabilitation Laboratory in Sâo Paulo, Brazil.
But when he and his team conducted neurological tests, every three months during the year of training, they saw improvements in the patients' muscle control - as well as in their sense of touch.
"If you touched them with a pin, or a brush… they would feel something that they didn't experience before," Prof Nicolelis told Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
"They also experienced a significant visceral improvement. This translated into better bowel and bladder functions - which are very critical for these patients."
As well as intensive use of the non-invasive "brain-machine interface", the training incorporated two more established physiotherapy techniques based on assisted walking in a harness.
Other spinal repair experts said it was unclear which part of the training was responsible for the improvement, but that the degree of recovery was impressive compared with many other rehabilitation strategies.
"It clearly shows that there's a lot of untapped neuroplasticity potential within even a chronic spinal cord injury patient," said Dr Mark Bacon, chief executive and scientific director of the UK charity Spinal Research.
"But there's no control group - so you don't really know which combination of elements that they've applied… might be the major contributor."
With just eight patients and no comparison with other treatments, the study is not a clinical trial.
In fact, the researchers themselves were not expecting to see the patients improve in this way. When the study began, their aim was not to restore spinal cord function but to test whether paralysed people could learn to walk again with the aid of a brain-controlled exoskeleton.
This remarkable system, pioneered by Prof Nicolelis and featured at the 2014 World Cup opening ceremony, involves robotic leg supports that are controlled by brain waves, recorded using a non-invasive cap.
Information from electronic sensors on those robotic legs - such as when they touch the ground - is then fed back to the person, via vibrating pads worn in their sleeves.
"We use the arms of these patients as transducers, for the brain to perceive signals coming from the feet," said Prof Nicolelis.
"If you adjust these parameters just right, what you produce is some sort of phantom limb sensation. They patients have a feeling that they're walking by themselves."
He argues that this retraining of the brain is central to the patients' unexpected neurological progress, outside the exoskeleton.
"In virtually every one of these patients, the brain had erased the notion of having legs. You're paralysed, you're not moving, the legs are not providing feedback signals.
"By using a brain-machine interface in a virtual environment, we were able to see this concept gradually re-emerging into the brain."
The team intended to use that re-awakened control to drive the robotic legs - but within 12 months they saw such improvement in basic clinical scores that four of the eight patients were upgraded to a diagnosis of only partial paraplegia.
"When I saw this, I couldn't believe it," said Prof Nicolelis.
He believes the improvement arises from not only increased effort by the brain to control the legs, but a "rekindling" of the few remaining nerve connections in the patients' damaged spines.
As those few fibres start to send messages again, Prof Nicolelis speculated that there may even be some fresh sprouting of nerves.
But the only evidence his team has to work with is the patients' clinical improvement.
That improvement, he added, has continued since the 12 months covered by the paper, which were back in 2014. These more recent results are not yet published.
Dr Bacon from Spinal Research commented that although the results were difficult to interpret, they were promising.
"They've taken chronic, what would be considered neurologically stable patients - so the expectation would be that they wouldn't change with time - and they've recorded some sensory and motor changes in each of those patients, which is pretty impressive," he said.
Taking control
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James Fawcett, of the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, also said the study was noteworthy.
"There's a lot of interest at the moment in how to make rehabilitation work better," he told the BBC. "Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't."
In this case, the regime worked better than most walking-based rehabilitation efforts; but more work was required, Prof Fawcett said, to unpick exactly what had happened.
"Some patients do get better anyway. And when you treat them very intensively, there's a huge placebo effect.
"This is a basket of manipulations. But in a sense, they all fit together.
"It's an important step forward."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | In a surprise result, eight paraplegic people have regained some sensation and movement after a one-year training programme that was supposed to teach them to walk inside a robotic exoskeleton. |
40,157,987 | The club were only formed in 2010 as a successor to the liquidated Ilkeston Town, but had a troubled 2016-17 season as they fought financial difficulties
The Robins were temporarily suspended by the league before the season started for not paying creditors and players have not been paid since December.
BBC Radio Derby reports chairman Nigel Harrop plans to appeal.
Shortly before Monday's hearing in Liverpool, Harrop had announced he had struck a takeover agreement with All Eight Sports Management.
However, his plea for more time to settle a debt owed to Hire Intelligence, an office equipment hire firm, was rejected by District Judge Smedley.
It is the second time in seven years the Derbyshire town's football club has been wound-up.
Ilkeston Town, then a Conference North club, folded in 2010 owing £50,000 to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The new club, Ilkeston FC, were admitted into the Northern Premier League Division One South for the 2011-12 season, playing at the same 3,029-capacity New Manor Ground as their predecessors.
They immediately won promotion to the Premier Division, with a play-off final win over Leek Town, and received a financial boost in 2014 when Che Adams - now at Birmingham City - was sold to Sheffield United.
However, debts mounted and the club was relegated in April after a season marred by protests against Harrop's ownership. | Northern Premier League club Ilkeston have been wound-up in the High Court over a £14,438 debt. |
39,191,898 | We still have episodes of high particulates in London - there was one a few weeks ago compounded by high levels of wood burning.
The focus now though is nitrogen dioxide (NO2) mainly from diesel engines and how that can be reduced.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan estimates thousands of Londoners every year have their lives shortened by pollution.
Ironically, London is probably at the forefront of anti-pollution policy.
We have had a low emission zone for many years and have tried green walls and dust suppressants for example, with limited success. But the capital still breaches pollution limits.
The current mayor is introducing a toxicity charge for central London and expanding an ultra low emission zone.
9,400
Premature deaths a year in London linked to air pollution
500,000 aged under 19 who live in areas that breach EU limits
443 schools that have unsafe pollution levels
86 of these are secondary
2025 year London is expected to meet EU limits
Pollution is also now very prominent in the minds' of the public - for one thing, it receives a lot more publicity than it used to.
The response to a recent mayoral consultation on pollution was the highest ever.
Environmental lawyers like ClientEarth and campaigners like Clean Air for London are organised and efficient at highlighting the problem.
And while many ideas are touted to reduce pollution, the real solution, clean air campaigners will tell you, is to reduce emissions and even ban diesels.
But something interesting is happening in the wider court of public opinion. Changes are happening in the vehicle market.
Is the drip, drip of health warnings, and talk of policy initiatives - like the ultra low emission zone, and stories like the VW emissions scandal, having an effect?
Yesterday, it was announced the sales of diesel cars dropped 9.2% compared to a year ago. That was combined with a record 48.9% increase in electric cars and other alternatively-fuelled vehicles.
And while this is not a pollution solution, drivers' behaviour is changing and it seems diesel is in decline. | When I started first reporting on pollution in London, many moons ago, the real concern was particulate matter - the tiny particles mainly from traffic - that can cause health problems. |
40,762,908 | The scam involves transferring stolen money through children's bank accounts to hide it from the authorities.
According to The Times, the Met Police wrote to parents warning that pupils were being approached outside school gates and on social media.
Det Ch Insp Gary Miles said the Met wanted to "make parents aware so they can discuss this with their children".
In a statement, he added: "Children are getting accounts at a younger and younger age - 13-year-olds now have access to money that they didn't have before."
According to fraud prevention service Cifas, the number of so-called "misuse of facility" frauds involving people under 21 has almost doubled in the last year.
It said there were 4,222 cases in the first half of 2017, compared to 2,143 in the same period last year.
Cifas has previously reported that young people are increasingly tempted by fraudsters who offer a small cash fee in return for transferring money through their bank accounts.
Allowing a bank account to be used in this way carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison and could affect credit ratings, police said.
A force spokesman said: "The Met would always remind people not to allow anyone access to their bank accounts and that requests for money transfers should be declined unless you are certain you know where and from whom it has come." | Children are being targeted by criminals to act as money mules, police have warned. |
40,082,169 | A total of 339 motorists were penalised for the offence by Police Scotland in the four weeks after tougher punishments took effect on 1 March.
They were among almost 6,000 drivers caught using a phone at the wheel by police forces across Britain.
Penalties for the offence doubled to six points and a £200 fine.
The changes mean new drivers risk losing their licence for sending a single text.
The figures emerged in response to a series of freedom of information (FOI) requests by the Press Association.
Campaigners claimed the "worrying" findings suggest many drivers are ignoring repeated warnings about the dangers of using phones at the wheel despite a string of publicity campaigns and the risk of harsher sanctions.
It found that police recorded 5,977 instances of the practice between 1 and 28 March in England, Scotland and Wales.
The actual figure is likely to be higher as seven forces did not provide figures and some cases may not have been logged at the time FOI responses were issued.
The Metropolitan Police registered the highest number at 2,037, while Police Scotland recorded the third highest total.
The RAC Foundation described the increased penalties as "a start", but warned the figures for March suggest "the key message still isn't sinking in".
Steve Gooding, director of the motoring research charity, said: "Driving is a safety-critical activity that requires our full attention. Hands need to be on the wheel and eyes looking out of the windscreen, not down at the phone screen."
Brake spokesman Jack Kushner described the number of drivers "selfishly using their mobile phones behind the wheel" as concerning.
"Driver distraction is a growing menace and it's worrying that drivers don't seem to be getting the message," he said.
The charity wants the £200 fine to be "significantly increased" to deter offenders.
Police say they want to make using a mobile while driving as "socially unacceptable" as drink-driving.
Anthony Bangham, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said: "Drivers need to understand that this is not a minor offence and you will be prosecuted under new, tougher penalties."
He said forces were committed to tackling the behaviour, adding: "Encouraging results from recent campaigns show how effective new tactics and innovative approaches can be." | An average of 12 drivers a day were caught using their mobile phones illegally in Scotland, in the wake of a major crackdown on the practice. |
35,277,673 | The Commons Work and Pensions Committee said details sent out about when people will get state pensions and how much they are worth were "inadequate" and "confusing".
It warns this particularly applies to women, whose pension age is changing.
The DWP said it was working hard to help people understand the issues.
The state pension age will reach 66 by October 2020, with women's pension age being raised to match that of men's.
Previously, women's state pension age was 60, with men's set later at 65.
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has prepared an interim report on the New State Pension (NSP), which replaces the basic and additional state pensions from April.
MPs said they had done this because the situation was too urgent to wait for the full inquiry to be completed.
The report said there were "widespread concerns" that women had been unaware of increases in their state pension age dating back to 1995.
One woman told the MPs she had been sent a letter by the Pension Service in 2005 that did not mention her retirement age.
In 2012, two years before her 60th birthday, which she thought was her pension age, she received another letter saying she was not entitled to draw that until she turned 66.
The report said: "At a crucial time of reform to the state pension and the state pension age, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) statements are insufficiently clear.
"This lack of clarity increases the chances that people misunderstand the value of their state pension or the age from which they will receive it. In turn, this increases the chances that they will not best plan for retirement."
The committee said statements should be fitted on to a single page, with key messages highlighted in boxes for greater ease of understanding.
They should list the current value of the state pension built up alongside the age at which people will be eligible to receive the income, and how they can build up retirement funds.
The committee's chairman, Frank Field, said: "Successive governments have bungled the fundamental duty to tell women of these major changes to when they can expect their state pension.
"Retirement expectations have been smashed as some women have only been told a couple of years before the date they expected to retire that no such retirement pension is now available."
A DWP spokesman said: "We are committed to ensuring that the public understands the positive changes being made to the state pension. We've already done a huge amount - including TV, radio and print advertising - and this activity will continue over the coming months and years."
They added that the DWP was working closely with the select committee on its current inquiry.
More information on the state pension is available here. | Millions of people may be planning their retirement based on wrong information thanks to government "bungling" MPs have warned. |
40,344,391 | The party's vote share in Wales fell by 11.6% from 2015 in the 8 June poll.
At the last general election UKIP came third in the overall vote - but this year it came fifth.
Mr Hamilton, who is AM for Mid and West Wales, said UKIP would show the rest of the UK what the party was for through its work in the Welsh assembly.
"What we need to do is, what we didn't manage to achieve in the general election, to show people what UKIP's purpose is in a post-Brexit Britain," said Mr Hamilton at a press conference.
"I think one of the main reasons why our vote collapsed in the general election, apart from the Brexit argument that the prime minister needed to have the maximum vote in order to get the Brexit negotiations through, is that we failed to articulate what UKIP's overriding purpose in British politics is to the future," he said.
"That's what we're going to focus our attention on here in Wales because after 2019, UKIP, like other parties, won't have any MEPs.
"Although we've got two members of the London Assembly, it will be through the National Assembly for Wales that UKIP is able to show the rest of the UK what UKIP is for." | UKIP failed to articulate its purpose in a post-Brexit Britain at the general election, assembly group leader Neil Hamilton has said. |
32,618,159 | Sir Elton spoke at a Senate hearing that is considering funding for the US's global Aids programme.
"The Aids epidemic is not over and America's continued leadership is critical," he said on Wednesday.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy invited the singer to speak.
The subject of the Senate committee's hearing was the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, also known as Pepfar.
"We cannot afford to let the window close if our efforts flag," Sir Elton told the senators, while wearing his signature pink sunglasses.
"Drug resistance will surface, transmission rates will rise and this disease which knows no boundaries will once again become a ruthless pandemic with disastrous and far-reaching consequences.
"This is the most powerful legislative body in the world and this Congress indeed has the power to end Aids."
And when asked by Sen Graham about what his worst fear was going forward, the British musician replied: "The worst fear is stigma, to be honest with you."
He mentioned Africa as an example, saying that "draconian laws" were forcing gay men with HIV to go underground "and the disease is spread even further".
"But getting people to feel unashamed... because they may have a sexual orientation that the leader of the government may not approve of, is incredibly important," Sir Elton said.
The fight against Aids amounts to 1% of the US budget, Sir Elton told the BBC's Katty Kay.
The programme was launched by President George Bush in 2003, and has been strengthened by his successor Barack Obama.
For fiscal year 2016, $6.542bn (£4.28bn) has been requested for the programme. | Sir Elton John has told a US Senate panel that Aids could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight against the virus. |
36,553,594 | Iran and Kuwait are the most affected countries, largely because of sand and dust blowing in from Syria and Iraq.
Mismanagement of land and water amid conflicts in the region has been a key factor, as well as climate change.
Meteorologists say sand and dust storms are also happening in new places like some parts of Central Asia.
"In the Middle East there has been a significant increase in the frequency and the intensity of sand and dust storms in the past 15 years or so," said Enric Terradellas a meteorologist with the World Meteorology Organisation's sand and dust storm prediction centre for the region.
"One of the main sources of sand and dust storms is Iraq, where the flow of rivers has decreased because of a race in dam constructions in upstream countries.
"That has led to the disappearance of marshes and drying up of lakes both in Iraq and Iran, and the sediments left behind are very important sources of dust in the region."
Deserts have always been the source of sand storms in the region, but scientists say unsustainable mining, oil extraction and agriculture as well as intensive military conflicts are worsening the situation.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has predicted that Iraq could witness 300 dust events in a year within 10 years, up from around 120 per year now.
Iranian health department officials have said 14 provinces are affected today by dust storms, including Tehran.
"The air is so polluted here and I have developed breathing problem," Jasem, a businessman in Ahvaz in southwest Iran told the BBC, coughing over the phone.
"Coughing is usual thing for me now and we need to keep the windows closed and use the air-conditioner all the time."
Iman, a university lecturer in south-eastern Iran, said going out was becoming increasingly difficult.
"We can feel the sand coming in from the west of the country and we don't let our kids play outside the house."
Scientists said data from Syria was not easily available, but that there were enough grounds to believe that it is another major source of sand and dust.
"People aren't tending the land in agricultural areas appropriately - which means planting crops and tending them in a way that is sustainable - because they are off either being refugees or involved in the fighting," said Nick Middleton of St Anne's College, Oxford, one of the reviewers of the UN study.
"So the former agricultural areas, I suspect, are more active as wind erosion sources now."
Meteorologists say some parts of Central Asia are also experiencing the storms.
"The Aral Sea is drying up and the dust problem is also increasing in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, for instance," said Alexander Baklanov, another sand and dust storm expert with the World Meteorology Organisation.
The dust and sand from Mongolia and the Gobi desert reach China, the Korean peninsula and Japan, where they have caused major health concerns.
Storms from the Sahara desert are also believed to be spreading lethal meningitis spores throughout central Africa.
"A dust storm consists of massive amount of particulates in the air and when people breathe it, these can get down their lungs and cause respiratory illness and heart disease and so on," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, a health and climate change expert with the World Health Organisation.
The WHO has said dust storms contribute to poor air quality that is blamed for the death of 7 million people every year. | The Middle East has been the worst hit by significant rise in sand and dust storms, with major impacts on human health, United Nations scientists say. |
38,268,013 | Johnson had eight birdies in a score one shot outside the course record, set by Dewi Claire Schreefel in 2012.
The world number 283 leads Florentyna Parker, with India's Aditi Ashok third as she chases a third win in a row.
The event has been shortened to three rounds after the death of caddie Maximilian Zechmann on Wednesday.
Zechmann, 56, was caddying for Anne-Lise Caudal when he collapsed on the 13th fairway during the first round, and later died in hospital.
Play was suspended and the event reduced to 54 holes.
Johnson, 29, won the most recent of her two Ladies' European Tour titles in 2011.
She produced four birdies either side of the turn to move ahead of compatriot Parker, who led after round one but went round in par on Friday. | England's Felicity Johnson shot an eight-under-par 64 to move into a two-shot lead going into the final round of the Dubai Ladies Masters. |
37,877,395 | The remarks, made on the station Radio Maria, were "offensive and scandalous", the Vatican said.
A Dominican friar said the quakes, including one in August that killed nearly 300, were caused by sins of man.
He said these included the approval of same-sex civil unions last May.
But the Vatican rejected the remarks as pagan, and said they had nothing to do with Catholic theology.
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"They are offensive statements for believers and scandalous for those who do not believe", said Monsignor Angelo Becciu, deputy secretary of state, who is close to Pope Francis.
Monsignor Becciu said Radio Maria, which has come under criticism in the past for comments seen as anti-Semitic, had to "moderate the tone of its language" and conform to the Church's message of mercy.
But the friar at the centre of the scandal stood by his description of the quakes as divine intervention.
"Just read the catechism," Father John Cavalcoli said, referring to Roman Catholic religious instruction.
Radio Maria has published a statement (in Italian) on its website, saying the offensive comments did not reflect the views of the station. | The Vatican has condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station after a broadcast said the recent earthquakes in Italy were "God's punishment" for gay civil unions. |
37,632,696 | The airport, which is waiting for an imminent decision on expansion, agreed to pay £9.40 an hour.
But the airport workers say this is paid only to directly employed staff and not those working through agencies.
They say low wages and long hours deny them "dignity" and the chance to spend time with their children.
The Airports Commission's official report into airport expansion set a number of conditions for Heathrow if it was given the go-ahead for another runway.
These included environmental and noise limits - but also said that Heathrow should adopt the London living wage.
But cleaners and other airport workers at Heathrow have written to chief executive John Holland-Kaye saying that in practice this has not been extended to all staff.
"We are the people that clean and work in your airport day in, day out. We quietly get on with our work to make sure passengers have a safe and comfortable journey," says the letter, signed by "Heathrow workers".
They say that directly employed staff are paid £9.40 per hour, but those who are employed through contractors might only receive £7.20.
This living wage refers to a voluntary rate of £8.25 an hour and £9.40 in London. The government's mandatory National Living Wage is £7.20 for workers over 25.
"We believe that not paying your cleaners and others the London living wage will be going against the Airports Commission's conditions," says the letter, which is supported by the Citizens UK community group.
"Our wages of £7.20 an hour are not enough in order to make ends meet in London. Rent is becoming increasingly expensive, transport costs too, and many of us have families to look after.
"This means that some of us have to work several jobs in order to be able to feed our families. This puts a lot of pressure on our family life as it means we work very long days and have little time to spend with our children."
They argue that if the principle of the living wage is accepted, it is only fair that it should be paid to "all workers on its premises".
"Paying people a real living wage that is linked to the cost of living makes the difference between always struggling to make ends meet versus having enough to get by," said a spokeswoman for Citizens UK.
In response, a spokesman for Heathrow said: "Heathrow is one of the few companies in London that pays all of its 6,000 directly employed colleagues the London living wage or more.
"We recognise the importance of the London living wage and we are looking at how we can roll it out to our supply chain in the future." | Cleaners at Heathrow have complained to the airport's boss they are not getting a living wage for London, agreed as part of plans for a third runway. |
38,024,218 | Harrison has been preferred at openside flanker, with Nathan Hughes on the bench, while Billy Vunipola has proved his fitness to start at number eight.
Mike Brown and Jonny May are left out of the 23-man squad, with Goode, Rokoduguni and Elliot Daly making up an all-new back three.
Jonathan Joseph returns at centre.
Head coach Eddie Jones was due to name his side on Thursday, but delayed his decision due to injury concerns.
Saracens' Vunipola, 24, had been a doubt after suffering a knock in last weekend's win over South Africa.
"While we were satisfied with last week's result against South Africa, there was plenty to improve on," said Jones.
"We want a much more complete performance on Saturday. We want to be in total control of the game and tidy-up the things we didn't do well enough last weekend."
When England play Fiji on Saturday, the Rugby Football Union will reportedly bank up to £10m - giving Fiji £75,000 as a "goodwill gesture".
Fiji's players will only be paid £400 each for the match, which former England scrum-half Matt Dawson says is 'farcical'. England's players will get £22,000 each.
However, England boss Jones says his only concern is his team's performance.
"It's not my job to discuss rugby politics. I'm a coach, I coach England and I'm only worried about England," he said.
"I'm not an accountant. Why would I be worried about what they're getting paid?
"I know our players sacrifice a lot to play for England. They sacrifice time away from their families, so whatever the RFU decide to pay them is the right amount.
"But [Fijian pay] is a matter for the Fijian rugby union and I'm sure they are looking at it carefully, and doing everything they can to pay the players."
England: A Goode; S Rokoduguni, J Joseph, O Farrell, E Daly; G Ford, B Youngs; M Vunipola, D Hartley, D Cole, J Launchbury, C Lawes, C Robshaw , T Harrison, B Vunipola.
Replacements: J George, J Marler, K Sinckler, C Ewels, N Hughes, D Care, B Te'o, H Slade.
Fiji: M Talebula; B Masilevu, A Tikoirotuma, A Vulivuli, N Nadolo; J Matavesi, S Vularika; C Ma'afu, S Koto Vuli, M Saulo, A Ratuniyarawa, L Nakarawa, D Waqaniburotu, P Yato, A Qera.
Replacements: T Talemaitoga, P Ravai, L Atalifo, N Soqeta, N Dawai, E Radrodro, N Matawalu, K Murimurivalu. | Semesa Rokoduguni, Alex Goode and Teimana Harrison will all start for a new-look England side against Fiji at Twickenham on Saturday. |
38,039,721 | Joseph McMenemy's body was found at a flat in the town's Donaldson Street at about 23:55 on Tuesday.
Police launched a murder investigation following a post-mortem examination.
The man who has been arrested is expected to appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Monday. | A 23-year-old man has been arrested following what police described as the "violent" death of a man in Hamilton. |
30,693,233 | Los Angeles is the United States's second city but does not currently have an NFL team.
Kroenke owns the Rams NFL, who are currently based in St Louis but were located in Los Angeles until 1994.
The American plans to build an 80,000-seater stadium in the Inglewood suburb.
He is the majority shareholder of Arsenal, owning 66.94% of the club.
Inglewood Mayor James Butts said: "This proposal doesn't ask for nor will ever be offered any public funds, so what you have here is a developer, Stan Kroenke, who has invested in Inglewood and we are glad to have him here."
Kroenke has partnered with real estate firm in Stockbridge Capital Group, which owns the 238-acre Hollywood Park site in Inglewood.
"This is a perfect location for a venue like this," said Christopher Meany, a senior executive for the joint venture, Hollywood Park Land Co. "I don't know of a place that compares to this."
However he added that any decision on relocating a franchise was "entirely in the hands of the NFL".
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said in a statement: "St. Louis is an NFL city and I am committed to keeping it that way." | Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke is set to invest in a major new development which could see an NFL (National Football League) franchise return to Los Angeles, according to the LA Times. |
37,379,874 | Investors, including sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, are expected to file a complaint in a court in Braunschweig, Germany, on Friday.
They are to claim that VW failed to disclose its use of software defeat devices on diesel cars in a timely way.
VW has faced a flood of legal actions over the scandal.
In September 2015 the US Environmental Protection Agency found that many diesel VW cars had a software "defeat device" that could detect emissions testing and change how the car performed to improve the test results.
The shareholder claims relate to the drop in Volkswagen's share price after the scandal broke.
Between September and October 2015, Volkswagen AG preference shares lost about 45% of their value, and are still about 28% down.
Blackrock, one of the world's largest asset managers, said: "On behalf of their investors, a number of Blackrock-managed collective investment schemes are pursuing, alongside other institutional investors, legal action against Volkswagen AG in connection with Volkswagen's failure to disclose to investors its use of 'defeat devices' that manipulated emission tests.
"In light of the ongoing legal proceedings we cannot comment further on the matter at this point."
Norway's Oil Fund, which is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, and State Street are part of the action against VW.
The complaint will be filed by law firm Quinn Emanuel.
The case is being funded by Bentham Europe, which is also backing a complaint brought in June by institutional investors.
In May Volkswagen more than doubled its provisions for the diesel emissions scandal to €16.2bn (£12.6bn). In the same month Norway's sovereign wealth fund said it was planning legal action against VW.
In June, VW agreed to pay $10.2bn (£6.9bn) to settle some of its US claims, and in September Australia launched legal action against the car maker. | Asset manager Blackrock and a group of institutional shareholders are to sue car maker Volkswagen for €2bn (£1.7bn) over its emissions scandal. |
34,341,017 | Some 8,000 people are expected to come and view it in Canary Wharf on Friday and Saturday.
Bloodhound has been built to smash the current land speed record of 763mph (1,228km/h) set by another British car, Thrust SSC, in 1997.
The new machine is due to start running next year on a special track that has been prepared for it in South Africa.
The aim at first will be to do 800mph (1,287km/h). The team wants to do this on 15 October, 2016.
But the goal eventually is to push the record above 1,000mph (1,610km/h). This could happen in 2017.
It has taken eight years of research, design and manufacturing to get to this stage.
What is on show at the East Wintergarden venue represents about 95% of the finished article.
Bloodhound has yet to take delivery of its rocket system - one of three power units in the car - and is still missing a number of minor aero-surfaces, such as winglets and air brakes, and the long strake that sits in front of the fin on the top of the vehicle.
"It's amazing to see it like this, away from the workshop and almost ready to go racing," said chief engineer Mark Chapman.
"I can't wait to see people's reaction, to see the look on their faces."
One side of the car has been prepared with a panel removed, to show the vehicle's inner workings.
Visitors to the sold-out expo will also get to see the different types of wheel it will be using - solid aluminium discs for its record bids, and the super-thin rubber wheels that will be attached for low-speed shakedowns. The latter have actually been sourced from old Lightning fighter-jets and reconditioned.
Once the event is over, Bloodhound will be taken back to its Bristol design HQ to await the integration of the outstanding components.
To reach 1,000mph, the vehicle will need to produce about 21 tonnes of thrust (210kN).
This will come from a Rolls-Royce Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, working in tandem with a hybrid rocket from Nammo of Norway.
The third power unit in Bloodhound is a supercharged Jaguar V8. Its job is to turn the pump that forces liquid oxidiser into the rocket's fuel chamber.
And if there is technical uncertainty hanging over the project right now, then it has to do with the pump system and the rocket.
The design configuration, with all components present and linked together, has yet to run in anger.
"We're working towards having the UK pump testing development completed by Christmas this year, and for us then to go out to Norway. We want rocket testing well under way in January/February," said Mark Chapman.
Assuming that all goes well, Bloodhound will complete some low-speed drives along the runway at Newquay Cornwall Airport, using just the Eurofighter engine.
This will get the car up to about 200mph (320km/h) and allow engineers to sign off all electrical and software control systems.
It should then all be about South Africa in mid-2016 onwards. The playa lakebed of Hakskeen Pan is the chosen location for the record bid.
RAF Wing Commander Andy Green will again be the driver.
His Thrust SSC vehicle broke the sound barrier in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, US, when it traversed the "measured mile" at an average speed of 763.035mph (1,227.985km/h) on 15 October 1997.
Whether Bloodhound succeeds or not will depend in large part on funding.
It has had substantial in-kind support from the UK Government. Military engineers have been lent to the project to help assemble the car. And Bloodhound is about to become part of the Great Britain campaign which ministers use to promote the country overseas.
But Bloodhound is really a private venture, and running a land speed effort is expensive.
To date, the team has probably raised around £40m.
"To get us through next year, we need on the order of £17m," said Bloodhound director Richard Noble.
"Then, we'll come back from South Africa and we'll have learnt an enormous amount about it, and we'll probably have to make quite a lot of changes and that will reflect on the cost."
It is hoped that being able to show off a near-complete vehicle will be a draw to new sponsors.
Defence minister Philip Dunne came to view the car. He called Bloodhound the next incredible chapter in UK engineering's quest to be better and to go faster.
"This is British manufacturing at its best, backing a British endeavour which the government is proud to support," he told BBC News.
"Over 350 firms, big and small, have helped create Bloodhound, with persistent help from military engineers from the Army and RAF.
"Bloodhound's story of pioneering research, cutting-edge technology and mind-bending performance is already inspiring the engineers of tomorrow."
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The design team behind the Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car has put its near-complete vehicle on show in London. |
35,522,516 | He would have to stand there staring at his reflection thinking about what he'd said.
His parents' intention was to try to make him realise that being nasty or negative about other people was unkind and reflected badly on him.
It was an effective lesson. "Looking at myself in the mirror for five minutes wasn't much fun so I stopped ever criticising people," he says.
Even once he grew up to become the founder of Virgin Group - which has gone from a mail order record company to having businesses in telecoms, travel and financial services - it's a practice he's stuck to.
Sir Richard is adamant that to this day it's some of the most important advice he's ever received.
"If I ever hear people gossiping about people I'll walk away. As a leader you've just got to get out there and look for the best in people and that's really really important.
"Let them get on with it, not criticise them when they make mistakes and praise them when they do good things," he says.
It seems surprising that someone could become one of the UK's best-known and wealthiest entrepreneurs, creating a multi-million pound business, without criticising their staff.
Yet while the stereotypical image of an all powerful, dominant, alpha-male type character running a company persists, in many cases it's an outdated image.
The financial crisis in particular has forced a widespread rethinking of how to run a business and the days of the all powerful, domineering chief executive may be coming to an end.
Not criticising is just one element of a less hierarchical approach to being the boss.
CEO coach Steve Tappin says the pressure of having the top job means that it's easy for chief executives to "fall into the trap" of trying to be a superhero, pretending to know it all and unwilling to admit any failings.
"The best chief executives are not like that. They know that great leaders are great learners," he says.
Andrew Penn, chief executive of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, has been the boss of the firm for less than a year, and despite having previously been at the helm of another large firm he says that it's impossible to have all the answers.
"The days of the rock star CEO are long gone. The CEO is just a member of a team and it's about bringing together a capable team," he says.
Nonetheless, he says, as the person officially in charge, it's important to have enough self confidence to lead the firm according to your own convictions.
Of course, it won't always go to plan. In fact, Mr Penn says he's made so many mistakes that it's impossible to list them all, but says it's all part of building up valuable experience and that crucially he learned a lot from them.
In the end what people remember is less what the boss did and more how he behaved, he says:
"When you're going through tough situations it's as important how you conduct yourself through the process as it is in terms of the actual decisions that you make in the process.
"Ultimately what people will remember more than anything, is how you behaved and how you conducted yourself and how you acted as a leader as much as whether or not you actually made the right or the wrong decision."
As far as Dominic Barton, global head of management consultancy firm McKinsey, is concerned, a boss new to the role should avoid making any major decisions at all initially and recognise that it will take time to learn how to do the job effectively.
Despite having been at the firm for over two decades before he took the helm, Mr Barton says heading up an organisation is very different. In his case, he says it took him two years just to get to grips with the different dynamics of being in charge.
Working out what the main issues to tackle are, and who can be relied upon to help drive the changes takes time and means it's important not to rush into anything, he says.
"It takes a while to establish legitimacy.
"Even if you've been appointed or elected, people, are saying how is this person going to work," he says.
Filipa Neto, co-founder of Chic by Choice, an online marketplace start-up which rents out designer dresses, enabling people to hire rather than buy them, has experienced exactly this problem, but with people outside the business.
As a 25-year-old boss of the start-up she says it has been hard to persuade more well-known designers and established brands to join her database of suppliers.
But she's not been discouraged. To prepare herself for the company's growth and being in charge of a larger firm she spends her spare time reading up on business books to find out how other chief executives succeeded.
"I learn a lot from all these people and I never forget. If somebody else has already done it in a clever way, why should I try to reinvent the wheel?
"I don't want to make the mistakes they've already made," she says.
This feature is based on interviews by CEO coach and author Steve Tappin for the BBC's CEO Guru series, produced by Neil Koenig. | As a child when Sir Richard Branson said anything nasty about anyone else, his parents sent him to his room to look at himself in the mirror. |
36,042,970 | The Eisteddfod council backed recommendations to hold the festival on the streets and in venues of the bay in 2018.
Buildings such as the Wales Millennium Centre are among sites that would be used.
The move has been described as a one year experiment.
As part of the plans, discussed at a meeting in Aberystwyth on Saturday, there would be no admittance fee to attend the main field, only charges for concerts and events.
There would also be no perimeter fence - something which organisers hope would attract more visitors, including those who would not ordinarily attend.
Eisteddfod officials will now discuss detailed plans with Cardiff council and other key partners, including the Wales Millennium Centre, over the coming months and a public meeting will be held in the city in the summer.
A traditional Maes on playing fields in Pontcanna in Cardiff had also been under consideration as a site for the 2018 event. It was the location of the Eisteddfod's last visit to the capital city in 2008.
The Eisteddfod, which travels to a different location in Wales every summer, has already scrapped the traditional pink pavilion. | The National Eisteddfod is one step nearer to being held in Cardiff Bay in two years time, with the traditional Maes (main field) being scrapped. |
36,810,315 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra played La Marseillaise, France's national anthem, to a packed Royal Albert Hall.
The performance came ahead of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture, which was originally billed as the season opener.
Proms director David Pickard said the tribute was arranged early on Friday.
"Waking up to the tragic news this morning of the attacks in Nice I felt it was appropriate, as a mark of respect, that we open the 2016 Proms festival with a tribute to the victims," he told BBC News.
La Marseillaise, which was adopted by French revolutionaries, is regularly sung on Bastille Day. Many people have shared performances of the song on social media today, as a show of unity with France.
Concerts in Nice this weekend, including a show by pop star Rihanna and the city's annual jazz festival, have been called off.
Following the impromptu tribute, the first night of the Proms continued with the Romeo and Juliet overture - one of several pieces marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta also made her Proms debut with Elgar's Concerto in E minor. Ahead of the performance, she told the BBC that playing in London was "very special" but extremely nerve-wracking.
"You can imagine how big this feels in my head, knowing that I'm in front of a public that probably knows the piece even better than I do! Many in the audience will have listened to this piece maybe 100 times."
The 2016 Proms season will also include music by David Bowie and a Strictly Come Dancing theme night, while one event will see the festival leave its home in the Royal Albert Hall for a concert in a car park.
Elsewhere, the Proms will pay tribute to French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, who died in January aged 90, while jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington has promised to premiere new material at his show with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on 30 August.
Quincy Jones, Bryn Terfel and the John Wilson Orchestra will also appear, with more than 90 concerts taking place between now and the world-renowned Last Night on 10 September.
All of the concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, with 26 filmed for television or iPlayer. Television coverage will be limited to Saturday nights during the Olympic Games in August, but a week-long series of concerts will be broadcast on BBC Four immediately after the games.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | The first night of the BBC Proms has opened with a tribute to the people of Nice, in the wake of the Bastille Day attack that left at least 84 dead. |
31,523,287 | Opposition groups are in talks with Labour backbenchers about a new plan.
The Labour-run council put forward new budget proposals last week which include reducing funding for day centres, cutting around 600 jobs and increasing council tax by 5%.
The final budget will be voted on next week, but the opposition groups are now preparing an alternative.
Opposition leaders met the council's chief executive Paul Orders and two Labour members on Wednesday morning to discuss their proposals.
They would need support from several Labour rebels to stop leader Phil Bale's budget getting through.
Labour sources have told BBC Wales there is unhappiness within the 45-strong Labour group about Cllr Bale's proposed budget.
An announcement from the opposition on the details of their alternative proposal is expected on Friday.
A Cardiff council spokesman confirmed Wednesday's meeting took place but said it was "part and parcel" of the budget-setting process.
A Labour party spokesperson said: "Any breach of group whip in respect of the budget is likely to lead to very serious disciplinary action." | Cardiff council's controversial budget plans are in doubt, BBC Wales understands. |
35,359,530 | The result of the non-binding vote at the Oxford Union was 245 votes for the motion and 212 against.
The debate follows the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which started at South Africa's University of Cape Town.
Oriel College is consulting on the statue's future and has decided to remove a plaque to the mining magnate.
During the debate speakers and students described Rhodes as a racist, with one speaker comparing him to Adolph Hitler.
But others questioned where the campaign could lead and asked if statues of Winston Churchill and Oliver Cromwell would be next in line.
The question voted on after the panel debate was: "Must Rhodes fall?"
Campaigners have called for the prominent statue to be placed in a museum.
But interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the university's chancellor Lord Patten said students with such views "should think about being educated elsewhere†| Students at Oxford University have voted in favour of removing the statue of 19th century colonialist Sir Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. |
31,922,303 | The Edinburgh-based firm sold a 30% stake to Russian oil giant Lukoil and a further 10% to Africa-focused oil and gas company NewAge.
Bowleven has received an initial £112m in cash under the farm-out agreement.
The company has transferred the operatorship of Etinde to NewAge, and retains a 20% non-operated interest.
The Etinde Permit is located across the Rio del Rey and Douala basins.
Bowleven said the sale of the stakes would enable the progression of appraisal and development activities on Etinde. | Oil explorer Bowleven has completed the sale of major stakes in its Etinde development in Cameroon under a deal worth up to $250m (£169.4m). |
35,937,791 | Joseph Leach, 32, suffered serious injuries following an incident in Woodland Terrace in Washington, near Sunderland, in December 2013.
He underwent surgery at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary after the attack, but died on 2 April last year.
Karl Pascoe, 31, from Washington, is due in court on 15 April charged with his murder, Northumbria Police said. | A man has been charged with murder more than two years after an assault in which the victim later died. |
38,750,195 | Folajimi Orebiyi, known as Fola, was stabbed in the neck outside the Aston House estate in west London on 3 July 2016.
The 17-year-old then fled along the Portobello Road but collapsed. An air ambulance was called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on 10 February.
A second boy, aged 16, was acquitted of Fola's murder.
In a statement, Fola's mother Yinka Bankole said "this is the most devastating moment of my life".
Ms Bankole said Fola was "passionately looking forward to university and was working hard on his grades to achieve it".
Fola's death had affected his family, friends, church and wider community, she added.
"I was in labour for 23 hours with him, yet it took less than four minutes to stab him to death, while several youths stood there and didn't ask for help or assist him, and Fola he bled to death." | A 15-year-boy has been found guilty of murdering a teenager in Notting Hill. |
35,933,076 | Media playback is not supported on this device
The Crues were ahead twice in the first half through Matthew Snoddy but Braniff levelled twice for the 2014 winners.
Paul Heatley restored his side's lead soon after the break but Braniff equalised again and scored the winner to secure a thrilling Windsor Park win.
Glenavon will face Linfield or Lurgan Celtic in the final on Saturday 7 May.
Crusaders were looking to take another step towards a first success in the country's premier knockout competition since 2009 and also aiming to avenge their defeat by the Lurgan Blues in the last four stage of the cup two years ago.
Gary Hamilton's side had suffered just one reverse in their last 10 matches and continued that run by ending Stephen Baxter's side's hopes of securing a first season 'double' in the north Belfast club's history.
Jordan Forsythe saw his early 25-yard free-kick brilliantly tipped round by Johnny Tuffey and then the unmarked Braniff poked wide from six yards out after meeting Andy Hall's cross from the right.
Snoddy poked home the opener from five yards out in the 24th minute after Jordan Owens had headed down Gavin Whyte's delivery.
Braniff restored parity three minutes later by curling a left-foot shot past Sean O'Neill when the ball fell to him on the edge of the area following a piercing run from Rhys Marshall.
Snoddy nudged the league leaders ahead again on 28 minutes, unleashing a low left-foot drive low and hard into the bottom corner of the net from 25 yards.
Two minutes before the interval, Ciaran Martyn released Braniff to fire under the body of O'Neill and make the half-time score 2-2.
The fans had to wait just two minutes for the goal-scoring action to resume on the resumption as Heatley swept a right-foot half-volley into the corner of the net to give his side the lead for the third time.
Braniff headed in Andy McGrory's cross in the 53rd minute and then met Declan O'Brien's pass across the face of goal to rifle in the winner after 72.
Crusaders piled on the pressure in search of an equaliser but Tuffey saved well with his feet from substitute Ross Holden and Diarmuid O'Carroll's effort flew wide of the post.
Glenavon manager Gary Hamilton: "I'm so proud of the players for the effort they gave us tonight. Three times they were a goal behind but they showed character and kept going right to the end.
"Sometimes I'm Kevin (Braniff)'s biggest critic and he knows that but what a performance he put in.
"It's not often you see a 10 out of 10 performance but that was one tonight and what a time to do it, in a cup semi-final.
"Every goal he scored was a great finish and I'm so glad for him because I keep preaching to him to get himself in the box and get himself into areas where he can affect games." | Kevin Braniff scored four goals to fire Glenavon into a second Irish Cup final in three seasons and end Crusaders' hopes of a league and cup double. |
23,751,248 | Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon, and Melissa Reid, from Lenzie near Glasgow, who are both 20, are accused of trying to smuggle some 11kg (24lb) of cocaine.
Ms McCollum's solicitor, Peter Madden, visited her in the police holding cell where she has spent the past 14 days.
He said some recent press coverage of the case had been "bizarre".
"I've seen some very strange press reports over the weekend about this case," Mr Madden said.
"The ones that I saw I put to Michaella and she totally denies them. Some of them, as I say, are just not true and some of them are just really bizarre."
Some newspapers at the weekend reported on the drugs scene in Ibiza and questioned the two women's stories.
Mr Madden was due to meet with police to discuss the case after visiting Ms McCollum.
Two weeks after their initial arrest, the two women are still waiting to be formally charged with a crime.
The Peruvian anti-drug police have concluded their investigation into the case, which should now be with the public prosecutor's office.
The contents of that report will form the basis of any charges against the pair, which they are expected to hear in a courtroom on Tuesday.
Ms McCollum and Ms Reid have maintained from the start that they were forced by an armed gang to carry the cocaine they were arrested with in their luggage at Lima Airport.
They both say they were forcibly recruited as drug mules by the gang while working in bars in the Spanish island of Ibiza and travelled to Peru under duress.
It is not yet clear if they still intend to enter a not guilty plea in court on Tuesday.
Peru's anti-drug police's lead investigator, Tito Perez, told the BBC his unit had been checking into the women's version of events by travelling to the hotels they had stayed in.
Officers had also gathered video evidence from the city of Cuzco where they claimed the drug gang had taken them.
The report is due to form the basis of the pre-trial hearing which will determine what the two young women will be charged with.
If refused bail, they could face up to three years in jail before trial.
Legal experts in Peru suggest the normal charge in such a case would be for drug smuggling, which carries an average sentence of about eight to nine years in prison.
If they are accused of being members of a criminal organisation, they could face harsher sentences. | The solicitor for one of the two UK women arrested in Peru over alleged drugs smuggling has criticised some of the press coverage of the case. |
34,163,166 | Police were called to a disturbance at a block of flats on Turnham Road, Brockley, on Thursday and found two 17-year-old boys with stab wounds.
Shaquan Mario Fearon died after arriving in hospital, police said.
Two boys, aged 15 and 16, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.
A post-mortem examination on 4 September gave the cause of Shaquan's death as a stab wound to the leg.
The second victim, who also suffered a stab wound, was taken to hospital and has since been discharged, officers said.
Det Ch Insp Will Reynolds, of the Met's Homicide and Major Crime Command, appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
He said: "Our initial enquiries have established that there were several people in the area at the time Shaquan was attacked." | Two teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed in south-east London. |
33,843,332 | The 38-year-old died on Sunday hours before he was due to perform in the final show of Bourne's production of The Car Man at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Bourne called the ballet dancer "one of the most charismatic and powerful dancers of his generation".
A driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has now been bailed.
Ollivier worked on a number of roles with Bourne's company New Adventures, including The Swan in Swan Lake and Speight in Play Without Words.
His family announced his death. His sister Rachel Ollivier wrote on Facebook that "it is with a heavy heart that we have to tell you that Jon tragically died today".
She described him as her "beautiful little bro" and said "we love him and will miss him massively xx".
Ollivier was riding in Clerkenwell in central London when the accident happened, police said.
He was involved in a collision with a black Mercedes shortly after 11:00 BST on Sunday. Paramedics and an air ambulance tried to save his life, but he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly before noon.
A driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has now been bailed until February 2016.
Sunday's performance of The Car Man was cancelled.
Bourne said: "Yesterday's events have ripped at the heart of the New Adventures family.
"We join together to send our heartfelt condolences to all of Jonny's family and friends. In our grieving for this irreplaceable artist we take some comfort in the legacy of memories that he has left behind."
He described the dancer as "an intensely masculine presence tempered with tenderness and vulnerability".
"A man of great warmth and charm, Jonny was a true gent, loved and respected by his colleagues and adored by audiences who were mesmerised by his memorable performances on stage as well as his friendly and genuine personality at the Stage Door," he added.
"He was also an inspiration and role model to several generations of young dancers who strived to emulate his enviable technique and majestic stage presence."
The Car Man is a production set in 1960s America and loosely based on Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.
His lead performance had been praised by critics, with The Telegraph's Rachel Ward writing that he brought "brooding power and danger of a matador" to the role.
Ollivier also spent eight years at Northern Ballet Theatre (now called Northern Ballet) from 1999 to 2007.
David Nixon, the artistic director of Northern Ballet, paid tribute to Ollivier and spoke of the shock of learning of his "tragic death".
"Jon's untimely death is a loss to the world of dance and unbelievably tragic for his family. Jon's legacy will live on through the memories of his performances and through the roles which he created. He will be very much missed. Our thoughts are very much with his family."
Nixon said when he arrived at the company he was "inspired by the engaging charisma, strength and natural acting instincts of Jon".
"He soon became an integral part of my work and was involved in most of my creations. Most memorable will always be his incredibly powerful and unforgettable Heathcliff opposite Charlotte Talbot's Cathy. It was an inspired and privileged moment for me as a choreographer," he said.
Dancer Carlos Acosta paid tribute to Ollivier on Twitter and New Adventures tweeted that fans could send their condolences to his family via them.
Robert Nicholson, senior lecturer in dance at the University of East London, who saw Ollivier in The Car Man, said he had "a really strong stage presence".
"He was a fantastic performer who really commanded the space," he said. "And he was quite interesting to watch because there was a strong masculinity about him and yet a sensitivity in his performance. So it's a real loss for British dance."
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport added: "Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Jonathan Ollivier, a talented and powerful dancer."
Ollivier recently told the BBC how he got into dance.
"I've got three sisters that used to go dancing and, one day, one of the teachers asked my mum if she wanted to leave me to do a class so that she could go off and do some shopping.
"I ended up staying and that was it really. It wasn't anything that I'd seen on TV and thought, 'that's what I want to do', it was actually doing a class that got me hooked. I loved it from the first one I did. I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
"I think a lot of guys' stories are like Billy Elliot's and that's why the film did so well."
"Most of us come from places where people wouldn't normally go off and do dance. We come from council estates and wanted to do ballet.
"There's nothing wrong with that but you still have to deal with the consequences of the fact that's not normal for a lot of people" . | Choreographer Matthew Bourne has paid tribute to dancer Jonathan Ollivier who has died in a motorbike accident. |
39,502,877 | Cooper, 25, admitted a Football Association charge for landing with his studs on Reading defender Reece Oxford in Saturday's defeat at the Madejski.
The ban was increased from three games to five after the FA claimed the standard punishment would be "clearly insufficient".
A further match was added for it being his second dismissal of the season.
The former Chesterfield man served the first game of the suspension in Tuesday's loss at Brentford, so will be able to return to action in Leeds' final league game of the season at Wigan on 7 May.
Cooper was an unused member of the Scotland squad for the friendly draw with Canada and the World Cup 2018 qualification win over Slovenia last month. | Leeds United defender Liam Cooper has been banned for six games for violent conduct. |
35,469,616 | After revealing earlier this month that an approach last year was rejected, the supermarket giant has offered the equivalent of 161.3p a share for the retailer.
The offer represents a 63% premium to Home Retail's share price on 4 January.
A deal will depend on the sale of the Homebase DIY chain that Australia's Wesfarmers has agreed to buy for £340m.
Home Retail said that combining the two companies would create "a food and non-food retailer of choice for customers" and optimise use of their combined retail space.
John Rogers, Sainsbury's chief financial offer, said he was confident that shareholders in both Sainsbury's and Home Retail would back the deal.
The £120m of annual savings expected by 2019 was also a "conservative" figure, he added.
Sainsbury's expects to make savings by moving Argos stores into supermarkets as leases expire, as well as removing "duplication and overlap" and selling its own clothing and homeware ranges through Argos.
However, it said making these changes would cost it £140m in the first three years.
Steve Clayton, head of equities research at Hargreaves Lansdown, described the offer as a "bold play" by Sainsbury's.
"It is looking to buy a struggling business when the supermarket itself is fighting strong headwinds," he said.
"The takeover will be a considerable strain on management time when they already have quite a lot on their plate."
Like-for-like sales at Argos fell 2.2% in the 18 weeks to 2 January.
Home Retail shares, which had traded at about 100p before the approach by Sainsbury's, were flat at 152.9p on Tuesday, while Sainsbury's rose 1.8% to 249p.
Sainsbury's had until 17:00 on Tuesday to make an offer for Home Retail.
It now has three weeks under takeover rules to carry out due diligence on the Argos owner, meaning it must make a firm offer by 17:00 on 23 February or walk away.
Under the cash-and-shares deal, Home Retail shareholders would receive 0.321 new Sainsbury's shares and 55 pence in cash for each share.
To reflect the proceeds of the Homebase sale, investors would also get about 25 pence per share and payment of 2.8 pence in lieu of a final dividend.
The chain's shareholders would own about 12% of the combined group if a deal progresses.
Home Retail said it "believes in the prospects for the standalone company", but that the possible offer provides an "attractive opportunity" for shareholders. | Sainsbury's has offered £1.3bn to win control of Argos owner Home Retail Group. |
20,714,990 | Nasa initially said the photo - by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko - showed the world's tallest summit.
The image was quickly picked up by a number of media outlets, but Nasa removed it after a Nepalese expert spotted the error.
Everest, which is 8,848m (29,028ft) high, straddles the Nepal-China border.
"It is not Everest. It is Saser Muztagh, in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region of India," a Nasa spokesman said in an email to the BBC.
"The view is in mid-afternoon light looking north-eastward," the spokesman added.
Nasa said that Malenchenko had taken the picture from the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month.
The photo quickly spread on Twitter, triggering criticism from the Nepalese community.
Journalist Kunda Dixit, an authority on the Himalayas, tweeted: "Sorry guys, but the tall peak with the shadow in the middle is not Mt Everest."
However, he himself first wrongly guessed that it was "Xixapangma in Tibet".
On Thursday, Ron Garan - a US astronaut who lived aboard the ISS last year - tweeted: "We r still looking 4 a good view of illusive #Everest #FromSpace Apparently Yuri's ISS pic's not Everest It's Saser Muztagh." | The US space agency, Nasa, has admitted it mistook a mountain in India for Mount Everest when it posted online a picture taken from space. |
37,239,677 | One of his daughters insisted that public support was helping Mr Karimov recover and pleaded for people not to speculate over his condition.
Opposition news reports have suggested that Mr Karimov has died.
Mr Karimov, 78, has been leader of the former Soviet republic since before independence in 1991.
In the speech, remarks attributed to Mr Karimov congratulated Uzbeks on independence, which was said to have removed the "chains of totalitarian regime" and given Uzbeks an "opportunity to build a free and prosperous life".
Uzbekistan opens up on president's health
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On Sunday, the Uzbek government admitted Mr Karimov was receiving treatment but did not give details.
The BBC's Abdujalil Abdurasulov says that the announcement caught many by surprise in authoritarian Uzbekistan, a country where any information about the president's health is treated like a state secret.
The next day, the president's daughter, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, confirmed that her father had suffered a brain haemorrhage.
Mr Karimov was last seen on state TV on 17 August, meeting the South Korean interior minister.
The president would always attend independence day celebrations.
The government cancelled some events, including a a concert on Wednesday and a fireworks show on Thursday. | A state TV presenter in Uzbekistan has read out an independence day speech on behalf of President Islam Karimov, who is said to have suffered a stroke. |
37,017,910 | Tom Cairney's curled effort 13 minutes from time looked to have continued Fulham's perfect start to their Championship campaign.
Ex-Leeds striker Matt Smith and forward Sone Aluko both hit the post for the Cottagers in an impressive display.
But the hosts created chances themselves and were rewarded with Wood's spectacular effort.
Wood had earlier sent the ball wide with a header when well-placed at the back post, while Swedish forward Marcus Antonsson also missed two good chances.
However, Fulham created more opportunities throughout the game, with Rob Green forced to save from Floyd Ayite, who also sent a header narrowly wide of goal.
Aluko had an appeal for a penalty turned down shortly before Cairney's opener, as the visitors struggled to turn chances into goals.
But Slavisa Jokanovic's side remain fourth in the table despite being punished for their wastefulness in front of goal by Wood's fine strike, while Leeds climb to 20th in the table.
Leeds United head coach Garry Monk:
"I don't know if delighted is the right word, but I was very pleased for the players and everyone. I was very pleased for Woody. He missed that chance, but he came back and it was good reward for him. It epitomised our spirit.
"There was spirit with them in the changing room and you can see that. Tonight was a really good test for us. We could have easily thought that it wasn't going to be our night.
"I was especially pleased for Chris, he missed an earlier one and could have easily felt sorry for him, frustration was coming his way but his mentality epitomised what the team were doing. I'm very happy for him to score that goal, it'll give him a big boost."
Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic:
"[Ryan Sessegnon] is a very good project of the football club, he needs to continue to keep working hard, in this way we have to be careful about him.
"For his debut he offered many, many, many quality things during the game. I don't want to say (he is a) kid, but he is doing work with adult people and I don't find a big difference between them.
"It is a little bit unlucky, we are a little bit frustrated after this late goal. We didn't score more goals at the beginning and during the game and Leeds scored a typical Championship goal, a big centre-half touches the ball and the big striker catches a bicycle kick, which can happen."
Match ends, Leeds United 1, Fulham 1.
Second Half ends, Leeds United 1, Fulham 1.
Goal! Leeds United 1, Fulham 1. Chris Wood (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kyle Bartley with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Michael Madl.
Offside, Fulham. David Button tries a through ball, but Cauley Woodrow is caught offside.
David Button (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Ryan Tunnicliffe.
Attempt blocked. Hadi Sacko (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Fulham. Jozabed replaces Floyd Ayité.
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United).
Attempt missed. Chris Wood (Leeds United) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Marcus Antonsson with a cross.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Tunnicliffe replaces Scott Parker.
Attempt missed. Sone Aluko (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow.
Scott Parker (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United).
Substitution, Leeds United. Hadi Sacko replaces Kemar Roofe.
Goal! Leeds United 0, Fulham 1. Tom Cairney (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin McDonald.
Attempt blocked. Sone Aluko (Fulham) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Kyle Bartley (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kyle Bartley (Leeds United).
Offside, Fulham. Ryan Sessegnon tries a through ball, but Floyd Ayité is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Marcus Antonsson (Leeds United) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Kalvin Phillips with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Tomas Kalas.
Foul by Floyd Ayité (Fulham).
Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Leeds United. Alex Mowatt replaces Pablo Hernández.
Attempt missed. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Charlie Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Floyd Ayité.
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kemar Roofe (Leeds United).
Attempt missed. Floyd Ayité (Fulham) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cauley Woodrow.
Substitution, Fulham. Cauley Woodrow replaces Matt Smith.
Attempt missed. Ryan Sessegnon (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Scott Parker.
Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Scott Parker.
Attempt blocked. Pablo Hernández (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Antonsson.
Attempt missed. Kevin McDonald (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sone Aluko. | Chris Wood's injury-time overhead kick against Fulham secured Leeds United their first point of the season. |
36,547,613 | Dillon Turner, from Coundon, County Durham, was fatally wounded in the incident in Ingleton on Tuesday.
North Yorkshire Police said inquires into the theft of a quad bike had led officers into County Durham where the crash took place.
It has informed the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which will decide whether to investigate. | A quad bike crash in which a 19-year-old died has been referred to the police watchdog. |
29,656,157 | The 25-year-old was found guilty in April 2012 of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel in May 2011.
Evans maintains his innocence and will make a "very personal and profound" statement on his website next week.
Almost 150,000 people have signed a petition urging Sheffield United not to take the Wales international back.
But Blades manager Nigel Clough said he had held talks with club officials about the possibility of Evans returning.
Evans left Wymott Prison, near Leyland in Lancashire, in a car at about 05:30 BST on Friday.
United signed the player for £3m in 2009, but released him the month after he was convicted of raping a woman at a hotel near Rhyl, Denbighshire.
Evans denied the offence, but was found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court.
A statement on his website on Friday said he would continue to "fight to clear his name".
It added: "Next week Ched will make a very personal and profound statement by video. Ched is now adjusting to normal life after serving a sentence for a crime consistently denied."
Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor said last week that Evans should be allowed to continue his career after his release.
And Clough told BBC Radio Sheffield on Wednesday: "We've had one or two discussions and the owners will make a decision on it.
"It is above a football level. If he comes back then we [the coaching staff] will decide whether to play him or not."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg urged the club's owners to "think really long and hard" before re-signing Evans.
Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam, said: "When you take a footballer on, you are not taking just a footballer these days, you are also taking on a role model."
Richard Caborn, former sports minister and ex-MP for Sheffield Central, said Evans must "show remorse and say sorry" before he can be considered for a return to playing professionally.
Former Manchester City forward Evans, capped 13 times by Wales, scored 48 goals in 113 games for the Blades before his imprisonment.
Jill Saward, who was raped in the notorious Ealing Vicarage case in 1986, believes allowing Evans to play professional football again would send out "a totally wrong message".
"We don't want young people being influenced by icons or celebrities who have a past like this," Saward, a high-profile victim of crime campaigner, told BBC Breakfast.
"I'm not saying he can't do anything in football but I don't think he should be playing."
Christopher Stacey, director of reformed offenders' charity Unlock, argued on Breakfast that Evans deserves a second chance.
"There is a difference between condoning his behaviour and giving him a job," said Stacey.
"People like Ched Evans have to go somewhere. They are back in the world and we have to find a way of reintegrating them.
"Ultimately people have to be the best at the job they are going for and that's a decision Sheffield United have to make as an employer." | Former Sheffield United striker Ched Evans has been released from prison after serving half of his five-year sentence for rape. |
39,208,855 | Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards said North was handed "a warning" for his defending in the defeat by Scotland.
However, Schmidt has made clear he is an admirer of North's abilities.
"If you've seen the size, the strength, the speed and the agility of such a big man, why would you go looking for George North?" said Schmidt.
"I know it doesn't leave you a lot of options, because Jonathan Davies and Scott Williams are no shrinking violets either, and Liam Williams was an absolute superstar against New Zealand.
"They do have a lot of threats across the board and I don't think we're wilfully going to go looking for George North to see if his defensive game is up to it because we've seen him do incredibly well defensively."
Schmidt added that he was surprised by the extent of the criticism directed at the Northampton wing following the 29-13 defeat at Murrayfield.
"I didn't think it was a shocking day by any means, there's been a fairly tough reaction to such a good player.
I think he will have a big one [game] this time, unfortunately.
"I'm sure he's highly motivated to have a really good game, as are the rest of the Welsh XV."
Schmidt hinted that the Ireland management are likely to ask for the Principality Stadium roof to remain open if the weather is dry on Friday.
The visitors will have the final say over the issue.
"There is no decision as yet. We're just waiting for a formal request [from Wales] to make a decision. The later that request comes the better accuracy there is in terms of the weather forecast.
"If it's fine [weather] there wouldn't seem too much point in closing the stadium. The surface can get slippery when the roof is closed.
"We'll make a decision probably when we're over there and we'll get more clarity from there." | Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has played down suggestions that his side will target under-fire Wales wing George North in Friday's Six Nations game. |
34,689,584 | Nottingham became Britain's unlikely epicentre of the craze with the documentary NG83 charting its rise.
Many of the original "B-Boys" returned to Rock City for the celebration, with hundreds of fans representing three generations watching with glee.
The eventual winner was awarded Deep Heat and cod liver oil to sooth aching joints and muscles.
Filmmaker Claude Knight has spent the last seven years making NG83 with a limited release in Nottingham later.
On Saturday, dozens of original B-Boys as well as their children and fans turned out for the over 40s competition with Jay Bryan, known as Spooner, crowned eventual winner.
Mr Knight said: "When we walked into Rock City and heard the music it was the exact same atmosphere as the 1980s - it was like being 16 again.
"I'm aching a bit now though."
Former Olympic sprinter Iwan Thomas, who was the first celebrity voted off this year's Strictly Come Dancing, was in Rock City filming for the BBC's The One Show.
He was not in the competition but the crowd forced him to perform some moves.
NG83 with be shown in Nottingham later and again in London next week before a nationwide release next year.
Claude Knight and other B-Boys will be on The One Show at 19:00 on Monday. | An over-40s break-dancing competition was held to celebrate the release of a documentary about the 1980s phenomenon. |
40,631,878 | The 23-year-old forward has signed a undisclosed-length contract with the League One club.
Nichols joined Posh from Exeter City on a four-and-a-half year deal in February 2016, scoring 13 goals last season.
"I'm delighted to be signing a player, who in my opinion is a top-class striker," said Rovers manager Darrell Clarke.
Nichols will link up with his Rovers' team-mates on their pre-season tour of Portugal on Monday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bristol Rovers have signed Peterborough United striker Tom Nichols for an undisclosed fee. |
31,605,571 | Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council had a Labour majority of two following the local elections in May 2014, but Simon White became an independent in December.
Gill Burnett and Paul Waring announced they had left the party earlier.
Mike Stubbs, leader of the council, said it was a "sad day" for the party and the situation was "regrettable".
The councillors' decisions come after they failed to be reselected to represent the party when their seats are up for election in May.
Mr Waring said he felt he had been deselected because he had "openly criticised" the behaviour of others within the party.
"I would be surprised if more people don't leave in the near future," he said.
Mrs Burnett said she was "very disappointed" in the party locally.
"I feel that all the good we have achieved over the years has been eroded," she said.
"I feel that I was unfairly deselected. I have therefore cancelled my membership with the party."
Mrs Burnett said she would be standing as an independent candidate in May.
The council is made up of 60 members in total:
Mr Stubbs said: "I found out about this this morning and it's very regrettable it's come to this.
"The two councillors were deselected by their local branches six weeks ago and, despite working with them, they have chosen to leave."
In a statement, the Labour Party said: "It is regrettable two councillors have left the party this week, but we are fully determined to continue Labour's work in Newcastle, Kidsgrove and the surrounding villages to deliver excellent services and opportunities for working people." | Labour has lost control of a Staffordshire authority, after two councillors stood down from the party. |
37,622,239 | Carolyn Harris, who is chairing a parliamentary group investigating the subject, said addicts could lose thousands of pounds in one sitting.
She said the electronic touch-screen machines made "phenomenal" amounts of money for the bookmaker.
The UK government has said it was monitoring existing gambling controls.
Speaking to BBC Wales, the Swansea East MP said: "These machines are capable of taking £100 every 20 seconds, that's £300 every minute.
"And the machine doesn't give the punter, as they like to call them, the opportunity to stop and think about what they're doing. It's so rapid, it's literally pressing a button."
Fixed odds betting terminals first appeared in British betting shops in 1999. Last year, customers lost £1.7bn on the machines.
Betting shops are restricted to four machines in each shop, but critics say that had led to clusters of shops as companies try to increase the number of the terminals on the high street.
Ms Harris says the bookmakers have opened more shops in deprived areas, such as in her own constituency, and that the machines have changed how bookmakers are perceived.
"When the bookies were on the high street and they were just doing horse racing and dog racing, they were part of the fabric of the community now they're the scourge of the community."
"We need to have a complete overhaul and review of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals and hopefully come up with a solution which, it's not going to suit the bookies, but at least will help all the associated problems with these machines, including anti-social behaviour, money laundering, violence."
BBC Wales has spoken to addicts who describe them as the "crack cocaine" of gambling.
One man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: "Once you're in that zone it's like nothing matters around you.
"There's nothing in the world that's more important than that machine, like making you play, put more money in, and nothing could have stopped me unless the place burned down, and even then I would have still hit the buttons till the fire brigade came."
Malcolm George, chief executive of the Association of British Bookmakers, says it is the most highly-regulated industry on the high street, and staff in their shops are trained to help customers who may have problems, many of whom they will see in their shops week in week out.
He said: "I think betting shops are probably the safest environment in which you can gamble. I think if you look at the range of measures we have on our machines as opposed to, say, those in amusement arcades or casinos, they really are very effective and allow us to identify and spot people who can be getting into trouble with their gambling."
Last week newspaper reports claimed the UK Government was about to declare a review of the machines.
In a statement a spokesperson for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: "We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of existing gambling controls and will take further action if necessary."
Malcolm George of the ABB says the industry has accepted there will be another review of the machines, adding: "In many ways we'd welcome an evidence-based debate around this.
"It's very easy for the anti-gambling lobby to make really quite strong false claims about the industry. These machines have been in shops for fifteen years, there have been reviews, and when the evidence is put in front of government, they come to the same conclusions: it's absolutely right they should be there." | Fixed odds betting machines in bookmaker shops are dangerous and the government should review their use, a Swansea MP has said. |
35,940,389 | Net profit came in at 36.9bn ($5.7bn; £3.96bn), the firm said.
Strong sales in China and Western Europe have seen Huawei's smartphone business grow quickly.
Popular for its low-cost devices, Huawei is one of the biggest smartphone vendors behind Samsung and Apple.
The company is also one of the world's largest telecommunications firms.
But it has been blocked from running broadband projects in the US and Australia over espionage fears.
Its telecommunications devices for carriers, such as routers, are effectively banned in the US.
However, its other businesses, such as consumer electronic products, including mobile devices, are allowed into the US market.
The firm said its three business groups generated 395bn yuan ($60.8bn; £42.3) in annual revenue worldwide, up 37% from a year earlier.
It said a major highlight for the period was consumer division revenue, which rose 73% from a year earlier.
It said the rise had been driven by demand for its "high-quality products that deliver a premium user experience, as well as Huawei's growing influence as a consumer brand."
The firm has previously said it wants to shed its low-cost appeal and produce high-margin premium devices to challenge Samsung and Apple at the top end of the market. | China's tech giant Huawei said profits for the full year to December rose by 33% from a year earlier, boosted by demand for its smartphones, among other devices. |
32,085,189 | The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it had particular concerns over outpatient records and surgical practices at the Eastbourne District General Hospital (EDGH)
CQC inspectors reported that safety and leadership was also inadequate.
The East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said it was developing an action plan to tackle issues raised during September's inspection.
Lib Dem MP for Eastbourne Stephen Lloyd said the inadequate rating opened the possibility the trust may be taken into special measures.
Inspectors said caring was "largely good", however a staff survey in 2013 had found low staff morale and high levels of sickness, they reported.
They said: "We saw challenges with staffing in some areas. We saw poor management of medicines in a number of areas and practices that our clinical experts deemed unsafe."
The CQC found many clinics were running without patient records and were using temporary sets of notes, while health records were "in a poor state of repair".
Inspectors praised clinical leadership in the intensive therapy unit (ITU) and infection control procedures, highlighting low levels of MRSA and C. difficile.
But, the watchdog said, the hospital must ensure the management of medicines is done in accordance with national guidelines.
"Inappropriate staff behaviour toward patients, relatives and staff" should also be identified and addressed, it said.
Trust chief executive Darren Grayson said: "We are incredibly disappointed to receive the inadequate rating from the CQC, although we welcome the feedback from their inspection.
"Improvements have already been made since they inspected last September.
"The reports reflect the journey we are on as an organisation and the immense changes we have made over recent years."
Mr Lloyd said: "Eastbourne deserves a properly-led, fully-functioning DGH. This CQC report has emphatically shown that we have neither at this time." | A Sussex hospital has been branded "inadequate" by the health watchdog. |
40,208,130 | Jacob Stockdale and James Ryan scored on their debuts in New Jersey.
Ireland, with 11 players on Lions duty, also scored through Keith Earls (2), Niall Scannell, Kieran Marmion, Jack Conan, Luke McGrath and Simon Zebo.
Nick Civetta scored the US try as they trailed 29-7 at the break and the hosts added second-half tries by John Quill and Ryan Matyas.
Ireland now head to Japan for two Tests which are likely to be tougher assignments than they faced at the Red Bull Arena.
The Irish went into the game having won all eight of their meetings with the US and that 100% record was never threatened.
Earls grabbed an early try for a 5-0 lead and the 29-year-old Munster man then turned provider for young Ulster prospect Stockdale to score on his debut.
Winger Earls got his second try after an exchange of passes with Tiernan O'Halloran to put the Irish into a commanding 17-0 lead.
But the Eagles hit back with second row Civetta scoring after charging down fly-half Joey Carbery's kick.
Ireland, fielding a youthful side and with four debutants on the bench, added two tries before the interval.
After turning down a shot at the posts, Quinn Roux claimed from the line-out and the Irish forced their way over with Niall Scannell getting the score.
Scrum-half Marmion touched down after being fed by Earls who had been stopped just short of the line.
A sixth try followed soon after the restart, Ireland's strong scrum leading to Conan's touchdown.
But the US responded with a couple of tries, the first similar to Civetta's first-half score.
This time Carbery's kick was blocked by number eight John Quill and former Connacht fly-half AJ McGinty again converted.
Centre Ryan Matyas scored the hosts' third on the right after a decent spell of home pressure.
Twenty-year-old lock James Ryan got Ireland's seventh try, just a minute after coming on for his international debut.
Again Earls set it up, breaking through to pass inside for a grateful Ryan to finish things off.
Replacement Rory Scannell hit the upright with the conversion attempt but was successful in adding the extras when substitute scrum-half McGrath evaded a tired-looking US defence for a try on his third appearance for Joe Schmidt's men.
Zebo, another replacement rounded off the scoring in the left corner after Stockdale had played back Rory Scannell's high kick.
Ireland: Tiernan O'Halloran; Keith Earls, Garry Ringrose, Luke Marshall, Jacob Stockdale; Joey Carbery, Kieran Marmion; Cian Healy, Niall Scannell, John Ryan, Quinn Roux, Devin Toner, Rhys Ruddock (capt), Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan.
Replacements: Dave Heffernan, Dave Kilcoyne, Andrew Porter, James Ryan, Dan Leavy, Luke McGrath, Rory Scannell, Simon Zebo. | Ireland scored nine tries as they kicked off their summer tour with an emphatic win over the USA Eagles. |
40,369,863 | Eve Muirhead, will skip the women for the third consecutive Games, while Kyle Smith will lead a men's rink that includes the Muirhead brothers.
Olympic silver medallist David Murdoch criticised his exclusion.
"I'm not sure the team has the experience to deal with [championship curling]," Murdoch said.
"It is a strange one but it is something we will have to live with. I was very surprised by the decision because I believe we showed enough consistency to deserve our place.
"Championship curling is very different to tour events. I believe we had persevered and proved that we can thrive in that kind of environment."
Glen Muirhead was a member of Tom Brewster's rink, which also missed out on qualification, but he has joined Team Smith - who will be making their Olympic debut - for the Games in Pyeongchang in February. Kyle Waddell and Cammy Smith make up the rest of the team.
A three-man panel appointed by British Curling took into account a broad range of selection criteria, and Smith's team finished higher in last season's World Curling Tour rankings.
Performance director Graeme Thompson said: "Team Smith have shown consistency over the last couple of seasons and they are the highest team in the world rankings so on that evidence they were the ones who deserved to be selected.
"What David achieved in Sochi was fantastic and we did look at previous Olympic experience, but that did not out-weigh the current facts concerning the world rankings. It was their performances last year that made the decision a clear one."
Kyle Smith told BBC Scotland that learning he had been selected was "probably the best feeling" he had ever had.
He added: "It's a big step up. The whole team has worked hard to get to this position. It's a dream we've all had."
Eve Muirhead's team won bronze at the World Championships in March, having also finished third in the European Championships earlier in the year.
Muirhead became the youngest curling skip to win an Olympic medal when her rink finished third in Sochi in 2014.
Team Muirhead parted company at the end of last season with former coach Dave Hay - under whom they won the World Championships in 2013 and Olympic bronze the following year.
They also replaced Sarah Reid with Lauren Gray as lead, and brought in Canadian Glenn Howard, a four-time world champion, as a tactical coach. Two-time Olympian Kelly Schafer completes the line-up as alternate.
"I'm really happy with my team," said Eve Muirhead. "I played with a lot of the girls through juniors and into the ladies now.
"I played with Kelly way back in Vancouver 2010. She met her man and lives in Canada now but to have her back in the team is something really special.
"She brings so much experience. We have a really solid team and I think we are getting everything right at the right time."
BBC Sport Olympic sports reporter Nick Hope:
Brewster's rink were arguably the favourites for selection this time last year - having represented Scotland at the 2016 World Championships - with Murdoch's line-up struggling to replicate their achievements from the last Olympics.
However, with Brewster's line-up missing out on a medal at those Worlds, Murdoch's rink looked to be back in contention by qualifying for this year's Worlds in April, and narrowly securing the result needed to claim a berth for Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics. However, their failure to win a medal ultimately handed the advantage to Smith. | Olympic curling bronze medallist Eve Muirhead will be joined by brothers Glen and Thomas at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. |
35,372,943 | Jesse Norman said the culture select committee, which he chairs, "needed to be satisfied the culture has changed".
The report into cases of sexual abuse by the former BBC presenter is set to criticise the corporation, according to a leaked draft.
BBC chief Lord Hall said lessons would be learned from a "dark chapter".
News website Exaro claims Dame Janet Smith's draft report says the BBC had a "deferential culture", "untouchable stars" and "above the law" managers.
Lawyer Liz Dux, of Slater and Gordon, which represents 168 Savile victims, said: "It is deeply disturbing that this inquiry appears to have concluded the same culture which allowed Savile to commit his appalling offences with impunity still persists today."
But Dame Janet's team said they were "disappointed" Exaro had published the "early draft".
A statement said the document was out of date and significant changes had been made to its contents and conclusions.
Lord Hall, director general of the BBC, said: "What happened was a dark chapter in the history of the BBC.
"The responsible thing must be to act on the final report which we have not received."
He added that it would be "invaluable in helping us understand what happened and to help ensure that we do everything possible to avoid it happening again".
'Dirty and stupid': The victims' stories
Mark Easton: 'How could this be allowed to happen?'
Savile: Saint, star and sexual predator
Dame Janet's review was set up in October 2012 by the BBC to carry out an impartial investigation of the corporation's culture and practices during the years it employed Savile, thought to be from 1964 to 2007.
According to Exaro, Dame Janet does not believe the BBC can be criticised for not uncovering his "sexual deviancy".
The leaked report, which Exaro said was completed more than a year ago, should come with "a lot of health warnings", the BBC's media and arts correspondent David Sillito said.
But he said many of the quotes in Exaro's article matched "exactly" with what he had been told during his own investigations.
According to Exaro, the leaked draft:
Will Wyatt, a former BBC executive who left in the 1990s, said people would struggle to see how concerns could not have gone up the chain of command, but stressed: "I honestly never heard anything."
He said he mostly dealt with the factual and journalistic areas of the BBC, rather than the showbiz side, but did recognise it to be a deferential organisation.
"If you had said, around the time, that pop stars and DJs exploited their position, one would not be surprised. But the thought that it was happening with young kids is just beyond belief," he told Today.
But Rodney Collins, who was a press officer for the BBC in the 1970s said the corporation was aware of rumours about Savile "and young girls".
He said he was asked by the late Douglas Muggeridge, controller of Radio 1 and Radio 2, to investigate the possibility the claims would be printed in the newspapers.
"He said 'now I don't know what's true and what isn't true... I'd like you to go to the people you trust in Fleet Street and ask them have they heard any rumours about Savile, does anybody intend to publish anything and can you come back to me'," Mr Collins said. | Senior figures from the BBC are "very likely" to be called before MPs to explain whether changes were made in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. |
35,884,100 | Residents from the Lansbury Park estate in Caerphilly are critical of the anti-poverty scheme Communities First and feel it is out of touch with their hopes for the area.
The Welsh Government earmarked further funds via the scheme for improvements.
But Carwyn Jones said simply pouring money into the area was not the answer.
St James 3, including the Lansbury Park estate, overtook Rhyl West 2 in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation in 2014, despite millions of pounds of public money having being spent there.
The areas were ranked on factors including income, employment, education and health.
But the label has been rejected by Lansbury Matters, a group of local women, whose battle to gain more control over the future of their estate was featured on BBC Wales' Week In Week Out.
Visiting Lansbury Park nine days after the programme was broadcast, Mr Jones said: "It's not a question of more money, it's a question of people in the community feeling that money is being spent effectively.
"In some places Communities First works better than in others. I have three in my patch of Bridgend and they all work well, but in other parts of Wales there are problems.
"There is some work to do on this estate so that everybody understands what is being done by Communities First but I came here because I wanted to meet people who are really ambitious for their community and are helping others.
"The important thing is that they all work seamlessly together and groups like Lansbury Matters are the spark that can improve community feeling."
Michelle Mackenzie-Jones, chair of Lansbury Matters, said: "People on the estate trust us more than Communities First - I've done two housing referrals this morning myself and we help people out with everything from rent arrears to disability, they come to us with their problems.
"We know community-led regeneration is the best and most proven way of improving things in a sustainable way for the future but we run up against red tape all the time.
"We are raising morale and I'm really optimistic for Lansbury, but every time we try to do something positive like involving local teenagers in painting the flats, we are stopped by red tape and policies."
Natasha Evans, 32, is treasurer of Lansbury Matters and was sceptical of the reasons for Mr Jones' visit.
She said: "I really hope things will change and these politicians aren't just coming here because there's an election soon.
"We are the closest to Lansbury and we know it the best but we just don't seem to get heard.
"What I would really like to see is more funding for the area and more for the kids as there's nothing for them here.
"The park isn't one you'd want to take your own kids to and they could do with a really nice play area. We are trying hard to get kids off the street because there's nothing for them but we do need more money to do that."
The Welsh Government said it had provided £6m to the council in housing-related support for Caerphilly's most vulnerable, with more than £8m going to Communities First in Caerphilly, including funding for an employment surgery and adult literacy and numeracy classes on the estate.
It said the local Lift team was helping long-term unemployed people living on the estate find a job or training opportunity.
A further £16.3m has been invested in Flying Start services in Caerphilly - which aim to help children aged under four - with 2,500 children supported last year, according to the government.
The spokesperson said: "We have also provided over £9.3m for Families First in Caerphilly, which last year helped over 8,600 local people with parenting support, employment advice as well as supporting victims of domestic abuse.
"We are providing £100,000 to regenerate the area and remove the disused community centre on the estate, while we have also provided £52,600 to improve the entrance to the Lansbury Park shopping centre." | The first minister has met residents from Wales' "most deprived" estate to hear concerns about how regeneration money is being spent. |
16,695,938 | Rodriguez opened the scoring with a close-range header from Kieran Trippier's cross after three minutes.
Having missed a penalty, awarded for Garath McCleary's foul on Ben Mee, Rodriguez then headed his second from another Trippier cross.
On-loan Wolves man Adlene Guedioura went closest for the hosts but fired straight at Burnley keeper Lee Camp.
Rodriguez, given his first professional contract by Forest boss Steve Cotterill when he was in charge at Burnley, has now managed 16 goals in all competitions, while Forest - 23rd in the table - have not scored at the City Ground since 19 November.
Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cotterill told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"It's difficult times at the moment, very difficult times. It's very difficult when you have to have a makeshift back four, and to get off to that sort of start makes it an uphill battle.
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"Jay Rodriguez is a young boy who I know very, very well, and he is very, very good in the box.
"Now we've got a couple of loan signings we can bring in. One's a good young player and Danny Higginbotham will come in with good experience and good leadership skills. So the team's going to change around again.
"We needed this two months ago but we didn't have the money. That's what's made it a prolonged and painful time."
Live text commentary | Burnley's Jay Rodriguez headed a goal in each half to send Nottingham Forest to a sixth straight defeat. |
33,503,312 | A coastguard rescue helicopter from Caernarfon was called to the incident at Llanddona on Sunday afternoon.
Moelfre inshore lifeboat was also launched and coastguards attended by road.
The woman was flown to hospital in Bangor but her injuries are not known. | A woman was airlifted to hospital after falling from a horse at a beach on Anglesey. |
39,107,325 | What could have helped it to victory over La La Land, the favourite heading into the ceremony? Well, there are various factors that might, just might have come into play.
Firstly, of course, Moonlight is an exceptional piece of film-making. And it may well be that its coming-of-age theme, sumptuous photography and nuanced performances simply ended up resonating more strongly with voters than any of the rival films that were also nominated for best picture.
In 2016, after two years of #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy invited a large number of individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds to join and take part in voting. The Academy remains overwhelmingly white and male, although slightly less so than before.
If it was a very close race, a somewhat more diverse membership may have been a factor.
The Academy operates a preferential voting ballot. This means that one film could potentially receive the most votes as members' favourite film - which would give it victory in a first-past-the-post system of the kind employed by others, including Bafta - but still be beaten to the award by another film which had gained a significant proportion of second-favourite choices across the board.
La La Land has led the race since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last August to rave reviews. By the time many Oscar voters saw the movie, some may have felt that after months of superlative after superlative being heaped up on it, it had been excessively hyped.
With the current political atmosphere in the United States, many Oscar voters may have thought that this was a time to honour a film that felt like a particularly important piece of work. Excellent as La La Land is, a win for the singing, dancing love letter to Los Angeles may have felt too frothy and self congratulatory.
Moonlight, a film about acceptance and struggle, certainly feels like a movie that is more than a simple piece of entertainment.
The Academy has around 6,500 members, and the reasons they will have voted the way that they did, of course, could and probably did vary wildly from voter to voter.
The Academy doesn't release voting figures, so there's no way of knowing how emphatic Moonlight's victory was. It could have come down to one vote, it could have won by a landslide.
But Moonlight winning against a film that seemed to be a runaway favourite is a huge achievement. And there's no doubt that Barry Jenkins' story following a character from childhood to manhood is a more than worthy winner of cinema's biggest prize.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Even if the best picture announcement had happened smoothly and to plan, Moonlight's win would still have been regarded as one of the biggest Oscar stories and upsets of recent times. |
24,299,742 | Its automated review filter now "suppresses around 25%" of "suspicious" reviews it receives, the company said.
"Any that are fake will be swiftly filtered out," said a spokesman.
But the company admitted its system was not foolproof, and that some filtered reviews could be genuine.
Last week New York authorities fined 19 firms a total of $350,000 (£218,500) for posting fake reviews on websites.
In a year-long sting operation, the city's attorney-general's office set up a fake yogurt shop in Brooklyn and asked for help from firms offering search engine optimisation (SEO) services that can help boost companies' online presence.
Some of these firms created online profiles and then paid for reviews from freelance writers, some from the Philippines, Bangladesh and Eastern Europe.
Many businesses were also producing their own fake online reviews, the authorities discovered.
The practice is known as "astroturfing", reflecting the fact that such consumer - or grass-root - reviews are not genuine.
A recent academic report found that the proportion of fake reviews submitted to Yelp had risen from 5% in 2006 to 20% in 2013.
Michael Luca of Harvard Business School and Georgios Zervas of Boston University studied the incidence of fraudulent reviews of Boston restaurants posted to Yelp, including those that had been filtered out.
After analysing more than 310,000 reviews of 3,625 restaurants, they found that negative fake reviews occurred in response to increased competition, while positive fake reviews were used to strengthen a weak reputation or to counteract unflattering reviews.
Fake reviews tend to be extremely positive or negative, they found.
"As crowdsourced information becomes increasingly prevalent, so do incentives for businesses to game the system," the authors concluded.
Yelp, which has more than 100 million unique visitors a month, expressly forbids paid reviews.
About 42 million reviews have been published on Yelp since its launch in 2004. | Yelp, the online directory and consumer review site, says a quarter of the reviews it receives could be fake, as businesses increasingly attempt to skew consumers' opinions. |
38,701,075 | Jake Wright broke the deadlock for the visitors after a quiet opening period, making the most of a defensive mix up to give Southport the lead after 22 minutes.
That only spurred the hosts into action, with Charlton loanee Brandon Hanlan notching a debut goal to make it 1-1 two minutes later.
Louis Dennis then gave Bromley the lead in the 49th minute and Hanlan helped himself to his second of the afternoon five minutes later to seal the win.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 3, Southport 1.
Second Half ends, Bromley 3, Southport 1.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Blair Turgott.
Substitution, Bromley. Daniel Johnson replaces Alan Dunne.
Declan Weeks (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 3, Southport 1. Brandon Hanlan (Bromley).
Substitution, Southport. Ben McKenna replaces Jake Wright.
Goal! Bromley 2, Southport 1. Louis Dennis (Bromley).
Second Half begins Bromley 1, Southport 1.
First Half ends, Bromley 1, Southport 1.
Jake Wright (Southport) is shown the yellow card.
Alan Dunne (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 1, Southport 1. Brandon Hanlan (Bromley).
Goal! Bromley 0, Southport 1. Jake Wright (Southport).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Bromley came from behind to crush Southport and bounce back from two straight defeats in the National League. |
40,428,342 | 28 June 2017 Last updated at 15:30 BST
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the biggest ship ever built for the Navy, and will be taking part in tests at sea.
Here are five gigantic stats for a gigantic ship... | The Royal Navy's new warship is setting sail for the first time in Fife in Scotland on Monday afternoon. |
39,153,812 | "The Birch", 71, collapsed while making a presentation in January. He was treated by medical staff from the audience using a defibrillator.
The former Foxes player said since that night "every day is unreal because the Birch was gone... it changed my life".
The use of a defibrillator saved his life, his doctor confirmed.
Mr Birchenall helped raise money in 2015 for defibrillators to be used at 20 Leicestershire schools.
In his first BBC interview since his collapse, the Leicester City legend said: "I said 'I don't feel well' and then I just felt my legs going and that was it, I was in the ambulance.
"I'm lucky. I owe my life to a defibrillator and the people at Glenfield Hospital... the difference was that there was a defib for me."
Dr Nicky Hickman, one of the people who treated Mr Birchenall, said: "The team had done a good job.
"These devices [defibrillators] in public places really, really make a difference to people.
"Without it he probably wouldn't have had quite such a good outcome."
Mr Birchenall collapsed when making a presentation for the Club of the Year award at the Leicester Mercury Sports Awards on 12 January,
BBC Leicester presenter Martin Ballard, who was at the ceremony, said: "He turned and collapsed at the back of the presentation stage.
"After a couple of minutes the audience realised the severity of the situation and up to 500 people hushed, many standing."
'Mr Leicester City'
"The Birch" was born in East Ham, London, in 1945, but moved to Nottinghamshire when he was four years old.
He played for youth clubs in the county before he was spotted by Sheffield United. He went on to play for Crystal Palace and Chelsea.
However, the majority of his playing career was a six-year spell with Leicester City.
He made 163 appearances and scored 12 goals for the club.
The attacking midfielder later had spells with Notts County, Blackburn Rovers and Luton Town.
In 2002, Mr Birchenall was awarded an MBE for his charity work and seven years later he was given the Freedom of Leicester.
The 71-year-old has become synonymous with the Foxes in his role as club ambassador.
He is hugely popular with fans, pundits and many people connected with football. | Leicester City club ambassador Alan Birchenall has said he "was dead" when he suffered a cardiac arrest at an awards ceremony. |
36,931,972 | Police Scotland seized 30 million indecent images and charged 77 people as part of Operation Lattise.
Children's charity NSPCC Scotland said the probe "underlined in really stark terms" the scale of the issue.
They said parents and teachers also had a key role in keeping children as safe online as they are offline.
Operation Lattise involved 134 separate investigations across Scotland between 6 June and 15 July, with the homes of 83 suspects raided.
Officers identified 523 potential victims of abuse, some as young as three, with 122 of them referred to child protection services.
One suspect had communicated with 110 children, while the seizure of one computer alone led to the recovery of 10 million indecent images.
NSPCC Scotland policy and public affairs manager Joanna Barrett said the charity was "increasingly concerned" about the harm that can be done to children over the internet.
She said: "The figures released yesterday underlined in really stark terms the scale of this type of offending and it just goes to show what a priority this needs to be.
"We would support further efforts by law enforcement to target people who would seek to harm children online, but we also need to look at what we can do to prevent such situations arising.
"How can we educate children to give them the skills and the resilience to deal with online situations to recognised the signs of potential abuse, but what more can we do with the industry?
"What more can the industry do to play their part in keeping children safe online?"
"We need to prioritise this as an issue, because yesterday's statistics show us that there is potential risk to children online, and we need to protect children and bring perpetrators to justice."
Ms Barrett said parents may find it difficult to discuss the internet with their children, but underlined the importance of doing so and setting safe parameters.
She said: "We talk about online safety, but I don't think we have a common understanding in what we mean. We haven't really uncovered the scale of it - yesterday was really only beginning to show us the scale of this type of offending.
"We really need to look at prevention, and that begins with conversations between parents and children about how to stay safe online.
"We've published guidance because parents can often feel overawed, their children can know more about the internet than they do. They need to talk about safe parameters, make sure privacy and filters are there, and start to have that conversation about keeping as safe in the online world as you would in the offline world."
Operation Lattise was Police Scotland's first nationwide effort to tackle online child sex abuse, but Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said the force's "commitment to tackling this horrific threat will continue".
He added: "Police Scotland is committed to Keeping Children Safe and the protection of children was absolutely at the heart of Operation Lattise.
"All children have a right to protection against abuse, exploitation, neglect and violence. We will continue to work with our partners to protect and promote the wellbeing of all children." | Tackling online child abuse must be a top priority, a leading charity has said, after an investigation identified more than 500 potential victims. |
38,889,975 | The US Federal Trade Commission said the company’s smart TV technology had captured data on what was being viewed on screen and transmitted it to the firm’s servers.
The data was sold to third parties, the FTC said.
Vizio has said the data sent could not be matched up to individuals.
It wrote: " [The firm] never paired viewing data with personally identifiable information such as name or contact information, and the Commission did not allege or contend otherwise.
"Instead, as the complaint notes, the practices challenged by the government related only to the use of viewing data in the ‘aggregate’ to create summary reports measuring viewing audiences or behaviours.”
'Second-by-second'
The FTC said the data collection began in February 2014 and affected around 11 million televisions.
"Vizio collected unique data from each household with a Vizio smart TV that included not only second-by-second viewing information, but also the household’s IP address, nearby access points, zip code, and other information,” the FTC said in a blog post explaining the settlement.
"They also shared that information with other companies."
It added: "This settlement stops Vizio’s unauthorised tracking, and makes clear that smart TV makers should get people’s consent before collecting and sharing television viewing information.”
As part of the settlement Vizio agreed to more prominently tell its customers how data is stored and collected, and to seek firmer, clearer consent beforehand. The company has been ordered to delete the data it collected.
Smart TVs - sets that have additional features such as on-demand viewing or video calling - have raised privacy concerns before. In 2015 it emerged Samsung’s models were transmitting potentially sensitive voice data without users’ knowledge.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | TV maker Vizio has agreed to pay out $2.2m in order to settle allegations it unlawfully collected viewing data on its customers. |
27,544,904 | In the order published late on Thursday, federal Judge Gladys Kessler said there was a "real probability" Abu Wa'el Dhiab would die if not fed.
Mr Dhiab's lawyers say the force-feeding - through a tube in the nose - is illegal and abusive.
Prisoners at the US facility in Cuba began a mass hunger strike last year.
At its height, more than 100 of the 154 detainees inside the military prison were refusing food. The military has been force-feeding those who are striking.
Lawyers for Mr Dhiab are seeking an order from the judge to force the military to change their practices, including forcibly removing prisoners from their cells to be fed.
Judge Kessler said Mr Dhiab would consent to being fed in hospital if he could be spared the pain of having the tube inserted into his nose for the procedure.
In the order, Judge Kessler said the defence department's refusal to compromise on the procedures for the feeding had left her with a impossible choice - either continue her ban and risk Mr Dhiab's death or allow the force feeding with the possibility of "great pain and suffering".
Earlier, Judge Kessler ordered the US to produce 34 video recordings of Mr Dhiab being removed from his cell and force-fed.
In her order lifting the ban on force-feeding, she said she would decide the case on the merits quickly.
"As the court has asserted, this is a deeply complex issue," Pentagon spokesman Lt Col Todd Breasseale told the Associated Press news agency in response to the order.
"The department has long held that we shall not allow the detainees in our charge to commit suicide and it's particularly worth noting here that we only apply enteral feeding in order to preserve life." | A US judge has lifted a temporary order preventing military officials from force-feeding a prisoner on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. |
17,461,479 | There are clear simplifications in the 2012 Budget.
Small businesses will be able from 2013 to use a 'cash basis' for calculating their tax, which will greatly simplify their tax return.
In the future, they will only need to count up what they have received and paid, and not worry about complicated accounting concepts such "accruals" and "prepayments".
That should cut their accountancy bills too.
The age-related personal allowance which benefits pensioners is to be frozen, and then abolished.
The nasty clawbacks applied to pensioners who earn slightly more than the current thresholds will also disappear.
On a wider canvas, increasing personal allowances simplifies the overall tax and benefits system.
By allowing people to retain more of their earnings before tax, it reduces the merry-go-round of first paying tax on a low income, then claiming benefits to make up the difference.
That has to be a good thing.
It is not all good news. The budget also introduces new fiscal tangles.
One is the new taper for child benefit - those with earnings between £50,000 and £60,000 will see the child benefit clawed back through the tax system, causing high marginal rates of tax for those individuals and a good deal of complexity.
Another tangle is the new restriction on reliefs for high earners.
This is a novel way of squeezing more tax out of the very wealthy by limiting the tax reliefs they can claim to a maximum of 25% of taxable income.
This will not affect the vast majority of people because reliefs can be claimed up to £50,000 in any event.
But it will seriously affect sole traders or partners who have made losses. Currently, trading losses in one year can be offset against the profits of an earlier year, or against other income of the same or the previous tax year, or carried forwards, without limit.
This is not a tax dodge - it simply allows a person to pay tax on their overall income, taking one year with another. There are extensive anti-avoidance provisions to prevent abuse.
The new rules will delay a person from getting tax relief, and may prevent it altogether. If a person cannot use loss relief to offset against other income, they can only carry forward the extra losses. If the business subsequently fails, the losses can never be claimed.
How can this be helpful to small businesses, struggling with the recession?
Of even greater concern is that this cap on tax reliefs apparently applies to charitable donations, which can currently be offset without limit against your taxable income.
The government has promised more work on this area, but when the chancellor spoke, charitable donations were expressly mentioned as within this new restriction.
This means that a rich person who planned to give away half his £10m of earnings, would now be restricted to only £2.5m with the attendant tax relief.
In the past the government has praised the US culture of philanthropy; this new announcement will cause serious damage to many charities by reducing the amount they can expect from large UK-based donors.
For the first time, the government is going to tell you how much tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) you pay.
Every year around 20 million tax payers will get an individual statement setting out their contribution to the chancellor's funds.
The figures will not be complete - they will only cover income tax and NICs, so they will be paying VAT, stamp duty, airline passenger duty, fuel and alcohol duties on top - but they will be interesting.
Once you can see clearly how much tax you have paid, I am prepared to bet that tax cutting will move up the political agenda.
Just in time for the next election.
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30,732,288 | Pauline Cafferkey's family also thanked the public for their support and hospital staff for their kindness.
The nurse from Glasgow is being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital.
Ms Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola in December having volunteered with other UK NHS staff for the charity Save the Children in West Africa.
The family statement said: "We would like to thank all our friends, family and the members of the public who have contacted us with support following Pauline's diagnosis with Ebola. We have been very touched by the kind words.
"Pauline continues to be in a critical condition at the Royal Free Hospital. We want to thank all the staff caring for her for their kindness, support and compassion.
"Pauline's condition could remain the same for some time and we would again ask for her and our privacy to be respected."
Ms Cafferkey, 39, is being treated with experimental drugs and has received blood plasma from another British nurse, Will Pooley, who recovered from an Ebola infection last year.
She had travelled home to Scotland via Casablanca, Morocco, and Heathrow Airport in London.
She was initially screened at Heathrow, where her temperature was normal, despite telling officials that she felt unwell.
Her temperature was taken a further six times within 30 minutes, but it was normal each time and she was cleared to fly on to Scotland.
Ms Cafferkey was then placed in an isolation unit at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital after becoming feverish, before being transferred by RAF Hercules plane to London on 30 December, and taken to the Royal Free's specialist treatment centre.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 7,800 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
The World Health Organization says the number of people infected by the disease in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has now passed 20,000. | A British nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone could remain in a critical condition for "some time", her family have said. |
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Pulis became manager of the Eagles in November 2013 with them in the bottom three of the Premier League, before he took them to a final position of 11th.
He left before the start of this season and took over at West Brom on 1 January after Alan Irvine was sacked.
"The expectations are much more intense here," Pulis told BBC Sport.
"They have been in the Premier League for a number of years, but if you take your foot off the pedal you can get stung."
Saido Berahino scored the only goal as West Brom beat Hull 1-0 on Saturday in Pulis's first Premier League match in charge of the Baggies.
The win was only Albion's second in 11 league games and took them up to 14th, although Pulis said he still wanted to strengthen the squad in the January transfer window.
"There's a lot of work to be done," he added. "It's the shortest period of the season left that I've ever stepped into a club. We only have three weeks of the window left so in some respects it's really tougher than Crystal Palace.
"I had six to eight weeks there to look at the side and see the players I needed to improve. We're looking at a few new players and a few positions.
"The squad needs it and the chairman knows that. But the most important thing is to bring in people that are better than what we have got. I don't want to sign players that are of a similar quality." | West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Pulis thinks he has a tougher task at his new club than when he took over at struggling Crystal Palace last season. |
29,234,665 | Its pre-tax profit for the 26 weeks to 2 August was £16.45m, compared with £6.09m for the same period last year.
Executive chairman Peter Cowgill said the company was "well positioned to deliver results towards the upper end of current market expectations".
JD Sports has 850 stores, mainly in the UK, but also trades in mainland Europe.
Mr Cowgill said the group now had 12 stores in Germany and 21 in France. It had also opened new outlets in Spain and the Netherlands.
"There will be further openings in all of our international territories in the second half," he added.
The retailer has a strong presence in UK shopping malls and online, but Mr Cowgill told the BBC's Today programme that a High Street presence was "still very important to JD Sports".
"The High Street is alive and well," he added.
The firm said its UK and European Sports divisions had made "encouraging progress".
At the same time, its outdoor division, which includes the Blacks, Millets and Tiso brands, had reduced its operating loss from £8.9m to £5.6m.
The group said its fashion stores, with the exception of Scotts, had had "a difficult half", but performance was expected to improve later in the year. | Retailer JD Sports says it achieved record trading in the first half of this year, with a big increase in profits. |
38,589,036 | The London Plane, in Broad Street, is thought to be the city centre's oldest tree at up to 140 years old.
It will be felled as part of a £10m revamp of Centenary Square.
More than 1,000 people backed a petition to save the tree, the last of 99 commissioned by former mayor Joseph Chamberlain.
Another 24 trees in the area - which is close to popular sites such as Birmingham's library and the Repertory Theatre - will also be cut down, but 59 new ones will be planted to offset the losses.
More on this and other stories from Birmingham and the Black Country
The decision was made at a full meeting of the city council.
Ian Ward, deputy leader of the authority, said the depth of the foundations for the benches - which will run along the edge of a water feature in the square - would affect the roots of the London Plane tree.
"It's a very historic tree and no-one wants to see any tree removed needlessly, but in this case it is to do with keeping the public safe," he said.
In December a lorry was deliberately driven into Berlin's Christmas market, killing 12 people. It has led to towns and cities across the UK taking steps to protect public areas from similar attacks.
Mr Ward said other counter-terror measures would be worked into the square alongside the benches, with work at the site expected to be unveiled in 18 months. | New stone benches to prevent a Berlin-style terror attack will see a century-old tree cut down in Birmingham city centre, the council has said. |
32,030,154 | Writing in the New York Times, Jolie said she had the surgery last week as she carries a gene that gave her a 50% risk of developing ovarian cancer.
Two years ago, Jolie, whose mother died from cancer, had a double mastectomy.
"It is not easy to make these decisions," she said. "But it is possible to take control and tackle head-on any health issue."
Jolie, who is married to Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, elected to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed after a check-up two weeks ago.
In the article, titled Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary of a Surgery, she said a blood test revealed "a number" of elevated inflammatory markers that could be a sign of early cancer, and was told to see a surgeon immediately.
"I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren," Jolie wrote.
"I called my husband in France, who was on a plane within hours. The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful."
Further tests revealed Jolie was free of a tumour, but elected to have her ovaries removed after consulting doctors. Her mother, grandmother and aunt all died of the disease.
"My doctors indicated I should have preventive surgery about a decade before the earliest onset of cancer in my female relatives," wrote Jolie.
Angelina Jolie carries a 'faulty' gene, called BRCA1, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Her doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer in her lifetime unless she underwent surgery
In 2013, the award-winning actress had both breasts removed to cut her risk of breast cancer
And now two years later, she has had both ovaries and fallopian tubes removed
These preventive steps greatly decrease her lifetime risk of cancer
But the surgery does not completely guarantee that cancer will not develop - it is impossible to remove all of the at-risk tissue
Both men and women who inherit faulty BRCA1, whether or not they go on to develop cancer themselves, have a 50:50 chance of passing the gene on to their sons or daughters
"My mother's ovarian cancer was diagnosed when she was 49. I'm 39."
Writing about the procedure, saying: "It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy, but its effects are more severe. It puts a woman into forced menopause."
Jolie, who is also a director and UN envoy, will now take hormone replacements.
"Regardless of the hormone replacements I'm taking, I am now in menopause," Jolie said.
"I will not be able to have any more children, and I expect some physical changes. But I feel at ease with whatever will come, not because I am strong but because this is a part of life. It is nothing to be feared."
Charity Ovarian Cancer Action has praised Jolie's decision and "bravery".
"We applaud Angelina Jolie's decision to announce that she has had preventative surgery for ovarian cancer and are anticipating another wave of the 'Angelina Effect', which saw a dramatic increase in the number of women referred for genetic testing after Angelina announced that she had undergone a double mastectomy in 2013," said Katherine Taylor, the charity's acting chief executive.
"While all women in the UK have a one in 54 chance of developing ovarian cancer, for those with a mutation in their BRAC1/2 genes, like Angelina Jolie, the risk increases to one in two.
"If women know they have BRCA gene mutations, they can choose to take action before cancer develops, much like Angelina has. Her bravery to announce this news publicly could save lives."
Jolie, who is married to actor Brad Pitt, has six children, three of whom are adopted.
The Oscar-winning Hollywood star added: "It is not possible to remove all risk, and the fact is I remain prone to cancer. I will look for natural ways to strengthen my immune system. I feel feminine, and grounded in the choices I am making for myself and my family.
"I know my children will never have to say: "Mom died of ovarian cancer." | Actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against cancer. |
38,518,620 | The 25-year-old's inclusion is despite a lack of games for his club - he has started only six games this season, two of them in the EFL Cup.
He has made 13 appearances in total, but has yet to score this season.
Other Europe-based players in the squad includes Valencia defender Aymen Abdennour and Lille midfielder Naim Sliti.
Named in the provisional squad, Saad Bguir was dropped despite playing in the friendly against Uganda on Wednesday
Polish coach Henryk Kasperczak, who is attending his seventh Nations Cup in Gabon, had omitted veteran striker Hamdi Harbaoui and former Germany youth international Anis Ben Hatira from his squad.
The Carthage Eagles have been drawn in Group B at the Nations Cup, alongside rivals Algeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe.
The team will be based in Libreville with Tunisia beginning their campaign against Senegal on 15 January.
Tunisia squad:
Goalkeepers: Aymen Mathlouthi (Etoile du Sahel), Moez Ben Cherifia (Esperance), Rami Jridi (CS Sfaxien)
Defenders: Ali Maaloul (Al Ahly, Egypt) Aymen Abdennour (Valencia, Spain), Siyam Ben Youssef (Caen, France), Hamza Mathlouthi (CS Sfaxien), Mohamed Ali Yacoubi (Rizespor, Turkey), Chamseddine Dhaouadi (Esperance), Slimane Kchok (CA Bizertin), Zied Boughattas, Hamdi Nagguez and Zied Boughatass (Etoile du Sahel)
Midfielders: Ferjani Sassi (Esperance), Larry Azouni (Nîmes, France), Naim Sliti (Lille, France), Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland, England),
Mohamed Amine Ben Amor and Hamza Lahmar (Etoile), Ahmed Khalil (Club Africain), Youssef Msakni (Lekhwiya, Qatar),
Forwards: Ahmed Akaïchi (Ittihad, Saudi Arabia), Taha Yassine Khenissi (Esperance), Saber Khelifa (Club Africain) | Sunderland's Wahbi Khazri has been named in Tunisia's squad for the Africa Cup of Nations. |
35,990,538 | The group must decide whether having a prosthetic leg gives athletes an unfair advantage.
The IAAF Council will deliver its final ruling in June.
The move could pave the way for Paralympic athletes like Germany's Markus Rehm to compete at the Rio Olympics in August.
Rehm's personal best of 8.40m would have won gold at the 2012 Olympics in London ahead of Great Britain's Greg Rutherford, and the 27-year-old has told BBC Sport he wants to compete alongside able-bodied athletes in Rio.
Rehm was dropped from the 2014 European Athletics Championships by his own federation due to concerns about his prosthesis, but in February, he jumped 8.10m to win the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix against able-bodied athletes.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, a double-leg amputee, competed in the 400m and 4x400m at the London Olympics. | Athletics' world governing body the IAAF has set up a group to rule on whether long-jumpers with prostheses can compete at the Olympics. |
37,774,156 | The £5 polymer notes will be smaller and should last 2.5 times as long as the traditional cotton paper variety.
They will feature illustrations of Scottish poet Nan Shepherd, and have new security features to prevent counterfeiting.
Clydesdale Bank, Bank of Scotland and the Bank of England have already made the transition to plastic banknotes.
The reverse of the £5 note features two mackerel, the single most valuable stock for the Scottish fishing industry, as well as an excerpt from the poem The Choice by Sorley MacLean.
Behind the portrait sits a picture of the Cairngorms, celebrated in Nan Shepherd's writing, as well as a quote from her book The Living Mountain.
The chairman of the RBS' Scottish Board, Malcolm Buchanan, said: "This is a historic moment in the Royal Bank of Scotland's 300 year history.
"It is our first polymer note, a note fit for a modern age and one that will serve customers across Scotland for years to come.
"It is much more than a symbol of the bank, it is a representation of what is meaningful to the people of Scotland, designed in partnership with them. This is a note for Scotland."
How are plastic banknotes made?
Erlend Clouston, Nan Shepherd's literary executor, said the poet would have been "delighted and honoured" to see her image and work celebrated on the new note.
"Her work has become an important part of the Scottish literary canon and now people everywhere will carry her portrait and her words with them," he said.
It is expected that 90% of all £5 notes in circulation will be polymer by May 2017.
The new notes will be issued at certain RBS branches in Aberdeen, Dundee, Haddington, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Paisley. Other branches will begin circulating the notes in the coming weeks. | Royal Bank of Scotland is to begin issuing its first plastic banknotes at nine of its major branches. |
34,867,488 | This year's focus is to draw attention to the importance of toilets in supporting better nutrition and improved health.
Here, a woman passes near the entrance to a toilet in a makeshift shelter used by a Palestinian family in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The UN says 2.4 billion people do not have adequate sanitation. Globally, 15% of the population still defecates in the open.
This pictures shows an open toilet in a field in Gorba, in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
The main aim of the campaign is to raise awareness about the people in the world who don't have access to a toilet, despite the fact that it is a human right to have clean water and sanitation. This sheltered pit latrine (below) stands in a low-income neighbourhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), inadequate sanitation is estimated to cause 280,000 diarrhoeal deaths annually and is a major factor in several tropical diseases.
This toilet stands outside the Llamocca family home, at Villa Lourdes, in Villa Maria del Triunfo, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.
Poor sanitation is also linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, typhoid and polio.
Toilets donated by Unicef and World Vision stand near tents at a Syrian refugee settlement camp in Qab Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, near Baalbek, Lebanon.
Posters, including those advertising treatments for sexually transmitted diseases, are stuck to the walls of this public toilet in a residential area for migrant workers in Shigezhuang village, Beijing, China.
The main issue of concern in this restaurant toilet in Brooklyn, New York, appears to be graffiti rather than a deficiency in hygiene.
A UN report, Women and Girls and Their Right to Sanitation, says: "Women place a higher value on access to private sanitation facilities than men but often remain unheard." Urinals inspired by the Rolling Stones logo are seen in a bar in Paris.
"There is a real need for facilities that meet women's physical and psychological demands and preferences, and these can be readily achieved by including women in the design and placement of these facilities," the report adds. This photograph below shows a public toilet in London Fields, in east London. | To mark United Nations World Toilet Day on 19 November, photographers from Reuters have taken pictures in cities, towns and villages around the globe, such as this one in the middle of an empty field on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. |
40,726,863 | The pilot of the Piper Cub was forced to make an emergency landing near Blackwater Reservoir last Friday.
The pilot and his passenger were uninjured and airlifted to Oban Airport by the Inverness Coastguard helicopter.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch was notified and is investigating the incident.
The plane was removed earlier this week. | A small plane that was landed near a reservoir in hills near Kinlochleven has been recovered from the bog it was stuck in. |
41,037,611 | The 19-year-old scored five goals in 20 Eredivisie games last season.
The Netherlands Under-19 international could make his debut for the Whites in Saturday's trip to Nottingham Forest.
"I am very happy, this is such a big club and this is a big step in my career, I am delighted to have signed for Leeds United," Grot told the Championship club's website.
Meanwhile, striker Souleymane Doukara, 25, has signed a two-year deal with Turkish side Osmanlispor after being released by Leeds on Wednesday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leeds United have signed NEC Nijmegen forward Jay-Roy Grot for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal. |
37,550,829 | Large crowds gathered on Tuesday as the pontiff arrived at a local school where he met children, survivors and relatives of the victims.
He said he wanted the visit to be made in private in order to be closer to those directly affected.
The magnitude-6.2 quake in August killed nearly 300 people.
In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, authorities advised the Pope that it was unsafe to visit the region.
The 79-year-old also visited Accumoli, where a building collapsed following the quake, and Arquata del Tronto, where homes were reduced to rubble.
The Pope confirmed his intention to visit Amatrice on Sunday, but did not specify when he would arrive.
Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke posted a photograph on Twitter of Pope Francis after he was approached in his car by a local resident who wanted to show her appreciation for his visit.
Gerard O'Connell, an Irish journalist living in Rome, posted a tweet quoting Pope Francis as saying: "I am close to you, I pray for you." | Pope Francis has made an unannounced visit to Amatrice, the central Italian town devastated by an earthquake six weeks ago. |
34,652,414 | The Dragons had sought to release the 24-year-old forward, whose contract runs out in the summer of 2016.
Under the funding agreement for Welsh domestic rugby, Gatland has to sanction international players moving outside Wales.
A Welsh Rugby Union statement said they were committed to keeping the best players in the country.
The Dragons, meanwhile, said the decision was "disappointing".
WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips said: "Although there are circumstances under which moves out of Wales by experienced players can be sanctioned, Taulupe's status as a player and importance as a role model means we would like him to be playing his rugby here."
The number of players Gatland is allowed to select for the national team from outside Wales is limited by a funding deal with the regions called the Rugby Services Agreement (RSA).
The terms of the agreement stipulate that two 'wildcards' can be selected from outside Wales, with the ruling applying only to players who move or negotiate new contracts after the signing of the RSA in August 2014.
Currently, only Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Rhys Priestland (Bath) and Adam Jones (Harlequins) fall into that category.
Dragons chief executive Stuart Davies - a former Wales captain - explained it had been a complicated process.
"This has been a difficult and sensitive rugby matter, in which the needs and wishes of a player, a region, the wider game in Wales and the national side have all been part of a rather challenging conundrum," he said.
"At the heart of it of course is Taulupe, who has been loyal to and is very happy at the Dragons.
"Having become aware however of possible interest in him from an English club, he formally requested permission to speak to them, which we granted, with a view to establishing what was best for the player and indeed the region."
Faletau has played all his senior rugby at Rodney Parade, but was expected to move to the Premiership.
A statement from the Dragons suggests that Priestland's transfer to the Recreation Ground and subsequent announcement by Bath coach Mike Ford that the Wales fly-half was taking an 18-month break from international rugby had an impact on the Faletau decision.
"For this particular scenario, release of Taulupe from his contract would have required the national head coach's permission, and the 'wildcard' provision within the WRU senior selection policy was an important factor in this regard," added Davies.
"As such, upon Rhys Priestland's reported break from international rugby, the matter was revisited.
"It was always going to be painful to lose Taulupe, given what we're trying to build here at the Dragons, but our decision to pursue the transfer option was a very measured one, having regard to a number of considerations.
"Whilst we fully respect the aspirations of the RSA, naturally it is disappointing on this occasion that we have not been able to act independently in the best interests of the region, or to receive the required support in achieving our preferred outcome.
"That said, Taulupe will now be part of our preparations for the weekend and we look forward to welcoming one of the world's best number eights back into the fold. I have no doubt that his commitment to the Dragons will be as unfaltering as always." | Wales coach Warren Gatland has blocked Taulupe Faletau's proposed move from Newport Gwent Dragons to Bath. |
39,478,995 | Jervais Jones, 25, is accused of attacking the six-year-old in Weymouth on 18 October last year.
Prosecutors allege Mr Jones, of no fixed address, broke into the terraced house in Wyke Regis in the early hours.
He denies sexually assaulting a child and trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard the girl had been asleep in her bed when Mr Jones entered the room and removed her "onesie" pyjamas.
Jurors were told the girl later went into her parents' room and told them there was a man in her bedroom who had touched her.
Prosecutors said her stepfather found Mr Jones asleep in the child's bunk bed, naked from the waist down.
The court heard the girl's parents called police and the man was arrested.
The trial continues. | A man broke into a house and sexually assaulted a young girl before falling asleep in her bunk bed, a court has been told. |
36,023,390 | Qatar has bought up banks across the globe, football clubs in Europe, and properties in the heart of London with some of the highest price tags on the planet.
But the worldwide energy price slump is putting pressure on the small Gulf country, highlighted by cutbacks to flagship projects and talk of reforms being made to its subsidies and tax systems.
Is this a signal that the economic superpower is finally feeling the financial squeeze?
Qatar's financial cuts have been extensive - encompassing development projects, cultural schemes, education, transport and its 2022 football World Cup spending.
The country is focusing on completing its 2022 World Cup stadiums, which are estimated to cost some $220bn (£155bn), although in 2014 the government reduced the number of planned stadiums from 12 to eight, reportedly linked to spiralling costs.
However, Qatar's World Cup organising committee has denied the plans were scaled back for economic reasons.
The Gulf state is cutting costs in a range of other ways.
Qatar Rail announced in January that it had sacked 50 employees as part of a "business efficiency review".
Energy firms RasGas, Qatar Petroleum and Maersk Oil Qatar have laid-off thousands of employees since 2014.
The Sidra Medical and Research Centre, funded by the Qatar Foundation - a non-profit body - has announced staff cuts.
Cuts at the foundation have also led to the end of a partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing, reduced spending on the film industry, and cuts to university budgets.
Qatar's Museum Authority announced in January that 250 staff had been laid off and plans for two new museums shelved.
And since the start of 2016, broadcaster Al-Jazeera has laid off more than 1,000 staff at its global offices and headquarters and has closed Al-Jazeera America.
Qatar has also indicated that it plans to privatise some state-run firms.
The country's generous subsidy system is a major cash drain. It is thought that subsidies will be cut back to exclude foreign nationals.
This is particularly pressing because of a rapid influx of foreign labour, which has driven the population figure up by 40% since 2010.
The country raised petrol costs by more than 30% in January to combat its deficit with just a few hours' notice.
With up to 1,000 troops in Yemen as part of the Saudi-led campaign against Houthi rebels, Qatar is involved in one of its largest-ever military engagements.
It is expanding its military - on which it spent $23bn in 2014 alone - possibly as a reaction to the threat posed by militants from the so-called Islamic State group, and growing tensions between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Iran.
Bucking a 15-year trend, Qatar predicts a budget deficit of almost $13bn for 2016. Its financial dependency on oil and gas is likely to be behind this.
The global price of a barrel of oil has plummeted by more than 70% since June 2014.
Last November, Development Minister Saleh Mohammad Al Nabit said pressure on state finances meant that the government had to be more disciplined in its spending.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has also urged Doha to make tax and spending reforms.
Qatar's ruler, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said in November 2015 that he hoped the fall in energy prices would reduce dependency on the state, warning against "wasteful spending, overstaffing and a lack of accountability".
Qatar's wide scale cutbacks to its workforce certainly seem to fall in line with his wishes.
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Update 13 April, 2016: This story has been amended to include Qatar's denial that it reduced the number of World Cup stadiums for economic reasons. | The energy-rich Arab emirate of Qatar is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with a reputation for lavish spending and generous state handouts. |
40,917,477 | Needing 35 to win from the last six deliveries of their game against Swinbrook, Dorchester-on-Thames CC looked down and out in the Oxfordshire Cricket Association match.
Hosts Swinbrook had posted 240 from their 45 overs in the Division Four encounter.
With an over to go in Dorchester's reply, the visitors were on 206-7, with 54-year-old Steve McComb on strike against bowler Mihai Cucos.
The over began with a no-ball which was dispatched for six.
Ball two also went for six, effectively giving Dorchester 13 runs from one legitimate delivery.
Cucos responded with a yorker, from which McComb was unable to score.
Ball four (the third legitimate delivery) went for four and was then followed by another no-ball which also flew to the boundary for four.
The next two balls were flayed for six, leaving the scores level with one delivery to come.
Swinbrook brought the field in, but McComb advanced down the pitch to hit his fifth six of the over, winning the game and bringing up his own century.
"It was an amazing end to the game," said McComb, who has played for Dorchester for 20 years.
"240 is a tough target to chase in our league and we never looked ahead of the rate.
"I had nothing to lose in the final over and the boundaries weren't huge, so I knew there was a slim chance.
"I've had an arthritic ankle for many years and I can't run very well between the wickets, as the lads constantly remind me, so I either try to score a boundary or hop for a single!
"When they brought the field in for the final ball I knew if I got bat on ball we'd be OK."
Fellow Dorchester batsman Richard Sharman, who was scoring at the time, added: "I got so excited the scorebook's a bit of a mess, but it was a pleasure to watch." | A village cricket side scored 40 runs from the final over of a league match to secure the most unlikely of victories. |
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After a goalless first half, Cathair Friel's 22nd goal of the season put Ballymena ahead on 53 minutes.
Glenavon fought back and after Rhys Marshall volleyed an equaliser on 66, Andy Hall hit the Ballymena woodwork.
However, ex-Glenavon man Braniff's deflected 25-yard shot beat Johnny Tuffey to give Ballymena a 2-1 win.
Ballymena manager David Jeffrey had only introduced the former Northern Ireland striker from the bench a couple of minutes earlier.
As Glenavon produced intense late pressure, James Gray had a glorious injury-time chance but failed to get a good connection as Ross Glendinning made a comfortable save.
Ballymena's victory sees them earn a European place for the first time since the 1989/90 season.
The Lurgan Blues looked the better side for much of the first half as Joel Cooper dragged a shot well after bursting clear of the Ballymena defence and home keeper Ross Glendinning had to make a superb double save to deny Gray and Ciaran Martyn.
Ballymena did come into the game more in the second quarter with Kyle Owens and Friel both missing headed chances.
However, Ballymena raised their game after the restart and they took the lead on 53 as Joe McKinney's clever ball into space released Johnny McMurray to tee up a close-range finish for Friel.
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McMurray wasted a glorious chance to double Ballymena's advantage within a minute and it looked an expensive miss as Marshall volleyed an equaliser 13 minutes later.
As Ballymena's nerve threatened to fail them, substitute Andy Hall hit the home woodwork with a free-kick from nearly 40 yards with Marshall also nodding the follow-up against the crossbar.
However, the match then had a further twist as Braniff's 80th-minute shot looped over Tuffey and into the net off the underside of the crossbar after taking a wicked deflection.
Glenavon desperately chased an equaliser in the closing minutes and Gray, who joined the Lurgan Blues in the New Year as Braniff departed the club, missed the inevitable great chance to force extra-time as he failed to connect well with only Glendinning to beat.
Thrilled Ballymena fans invaded the pitch after the final whistle as the club's renaissance under David Jeffrey continued. | Ballymena United clinched an estimated £200,000 windfall after Kevin Braniff hit a late winner in the Europa League play-off final against Glenavon. |
38,802,487 | 30 January 2017 Last updated at 17:00 GMT
First up, Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator: "It's 2017 and liberalism is dead."
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35,906,873 | Conservative Sir Clive Loader, a retired RAF Air Chief Marshal, was elected as the county's first PCC in 2012.
He believes allowing people to drink later is putting a strain on the county's police and hospital services.
He said he was "appalled" at the behaviour of some people at weekends.
When asked if he believed the law should be changed, he said: "Yes, I do. I would like us to go back to something that looks like a closing time."
Prior to the introduction of new rules in 2005, most pubs were obliged to close at 11pm unless they had a special licence extension.
Sir Clive said: "The police have to put on a lot of extra people on a Friday night, assaults go up fourfold - I think we should be doing more to look after our youngsters.
"I'm not a killjoy... but I don't think we need places open, as we do in the city, until six or seven in the morning - I don't think that's looking after the people who do the drinking.
"I'm appalled that the very people who are helping those who have had too much to drink, they assault them - they assault nurses and doctors."
He said there should be a national debate about the issue.
As the police and crime commissioner for the county, Sir Clive is responsible for setting priorities for the force and overseeing its budget.
He said he was proud of his work to set up the county's first youth commission, which gives younger people a say in how they are being policed.
He also said that police forces in the East Midlands were sharing more resources through a "strategic alliance", but a full merger was not imminent.
"I think it'll probably happen in the next 10 or 15 years, I really do, and because of the way crime is going," Sir Clive said.
"[Crime] can be so complex and international, crossing not just force borders but national borders, so I think the move is generally in that direction.
"The trick will be to get the balance right and not losing sight of the fact that you need eyes and ears on the ground at estates in Leicester city and farms in Rutland." | Late-night drinking in England and Wales should be banned, according to the outgoing police and crime commissioner (PCC) in Leicestershire. |
26,327,037 | They died after being shot in the head and chest, security officials said.
A Libyan interior ministry official told the BBC's Rana Jawad that authorities could not "at this stage speculate on the motive of the crime".
The Libyan government has struggled to impose order since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, and killings and assassinations have become common.
Last month, a British man and a woman from New Zealand were shot execution-style west of the capital Tripoli.
Egypt evacuated its diplomatic missions in Tripoli and Benghazi last month following the abduction of five of its diplomats in Tripoli.
They were subsequently released unharmed. | The bodies of seven Egyptian Christians have been found on a beach near the Libyan city of Benghazi, officials say. |
34,807,898 | The information was contained in a written answer to Ulster Unionist MLA Jo-Anne Dobson.
Fifteen non-medical staff earned between £100,000 and £124,999 in 2012/13, while in 2014/15 30 staff fell into that bracket.
There is little change in the number of managers earning £125,000 and over.
The figures also show that 980 doctors in Northern Ireland earn between £100,000 and £124,999.
A further 445 earned more than that.
"The publication of these figures shines a light on what is happening at the top echelons of the local health service," Ms Dobson said.
"I am outraged that whilst key staff and patients are being forced into ever intolerable conditions, so many public sector workers and administrators at the top are being remunerated over £100,000 per annum."
On Thursday, former chief medical officer of England, Sir Liam Donaldson, welcomed the health minister's proposal to close down the Health and Social Care Board.
He said it needed to happen quickly and he would expect to see a cut management costs. | Figures from the Department of Health show the number of managers earning £100,000 and over has almost doubled in the last three years. |
13,452,436 | Just a month into the high-profile role, she found she was to be investigated for abuse of authority during her time as French finance minister in 2007.
She has now been convicted over the case.
The probe revolved around her decision to send for arbitration a long-running legal dispute between tycoon Bernard Tapie and a bank over the sale of a firm in which he had a large stake.
A multi-million-euro payment to Mr Tapie followed a year later, and led to allegations that the businessman had in effect been rewarded for supporting Nicolas Sarkozy, who won the 2007 presidential election.
Ms Lagarde has always defended her decision, saying it was "the best solution at the time", but in December 2016, she was convicted of negligence in the case. She will not serve a sentence.
Poised, chic and a fluent English speaker, Ms Lagarde, 60, is the first woman to head the IMF. But then, throughout her career, she has become familiar with the "first woman to..." tag.
Born Christine Lallouette in Paris, she tasted success even in her early days, representing the French synchronised swimming team as a teenager.
At 17, following the death of her father, Ms Lagarde went to study in the US for a year, where she perfected her English.
After graduating from law school in Paris, she obtained a Masters degree from the Political Science Institute in Aix en Provence.
In 1981 she returned to the US, joining the international law firm Baker & McKenzie as an associate, specialising in labour, anti-trust, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Eighteen years later, she became the first female chair of the firm.
Ms Lagarde was appointed France's trade minister in 2005 and, under her watch, French exports reached record levels.
In 2007 she became finance minister, the first woman to hold this post not just in France but in any of the G8 major industrial countries.
Never afraid to speak her mind, she blamed the 2008 worldwide financial crisis partly on the male-dominated, testosterone-fuelled culture at global banks.
One of France's most popular right-wing politicians, in 2009 she came second in a poll carried out by broadcaster RTL and newspaper Le Parisien on the country's favourite personalities, beaten only by singer and actor Johnny Hallyday.
But her popularity has stretched beyond French shores and she is viewed with high regard in the international arena.
Well before she took the helm of the IMF, the Financial Times voted her in 2009 the best finance minister in Europe.
She won international respect for promoting France's negotiating clout in key forums such as the G20.
She also received plaudits for the key role she played in approving a bail-out mechanism to aid struggling members of the eurozone in May 2010, and went on to be appointed to a second term at the top of the IMF from February 2016.
Her straight-talking manner has only added to her appeal.
Since taking over at the IMF, Ms Lagarde's main challenge has been to try to ease the eurozone debt crisis, in particular the huge bailout required for Greece.
Ms Lagarde replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn, another French politician, who resigned as head of the IMF following his arrest on charges of attempted rape in New York. She was a front runner from the beginning.
Kenneth Rogoff, a former IMF chief economist, spoke of her wide-ranging appeal: "She is enormously impressive, politically astute and a strong personality. At finance meetings all over the world, she is treated practically like a rock star."
But the divorced mother-of two faced some hurdles in her bid for the IMF job.
Her nationality was an issue for some. The job has traditionally fallen to French nationals, and some countries questioned the tradition of having a European in charge.
Aside from geography, another stumbling block for Ms Lagarde's candidacy came in the form of the Bernard Tapie legal row.
Mr Tapie had been involved in a lengthy legal battle with the partly state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais, who he claimed had deliberately undervalued the sports good firm Adidas, which he sold in 1993.
In 2007, Ms Lagarde stepped in to end the court dispute by ordering a special panel of judges to arbitrate in the case. The following year, Mr Tapie was awarded €285m (£240m; $297m) in damages.
Ms Lagarde's decision not to challenge the ruling prompted a public outcry, amid accusations that a deal had been done as a way of thanking Mr Tapie for his support for Nicolas Sarkozy in the election.
Ms Lagarde denied any misconduct, and there is no suggestion of personal profit, but her Paris apartment was searched and she was questioned by police. French prosecutors opened a formal investigation of negligence into Ms Lagarde in 2014.
France's Court of Justice of the Republic on 17 December 2015 announced she should be tried on the charge of "negligence by a person in position of public authority".
After being found guilty a year and two days later, her lawyer said she would consider appealing. | The case of Bernard Tapie has been hanging over Christine Lagarde almost since the day she took over as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2011. |
39,657,827 | Eileen Thomson died in hospital nine days after an incident at her sheltered housing complex home in Melrose.
Her husband David Thomson, who is 69, appeared in private at Jedburgh Sheriff Court accused of her murder.
He made no plea and was fully committed for trial. Mr Thomson - who gave an address in Elgin - was released on bail by Sheriff Kevin Drummond.
Police were called to an address at Priorwood Court on Sunday 9 April following a report of concern for Mrs Thomson.
She was taken to Borders General Hospital for treatment but died on Tuesday. | A retired firefighter has appeared in court charged with the murder of his 70-year-old wife. |
35,922,046 | Its European holding company has been told to "explore all options for restructuring", including the partial or entire sale of its UK operations.
Union leaders travelled to Mumbai in a bid to persuade Tata to keep making steel at plants including Port Talbot.
The UK and Welsh governments said they were working "tirelessly" to ensure the future of the British steel industry.
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said that her party wanted the Welsh Assembly to be recalled to discuss the crisis - a call that was echoed by Welsh Conservatives leader Andrew Davies.
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Tata's restructuring decision, which was announced after a board meeting in Mumbai on Tuesday, will also affect workers at its other UK plants including Rotherham, Corby and Shotton.
Tata said trading conditions had "rapidly deteriorated" in the UK and Europe due to a global oversupply of steel, imports into Europe, high costs and currency volatility.
"These factors are likely to continue into the future and have significantly impacted the long-term competitive position of the UK operation," it said.
That means finding a buyer for the whole business may not be easy.
Colin Hamilton, commodities expert at Macquarie Group, told the BBC: "Steel demand is still falling. It peaked in 2013. It is very hard to see who would buy the 'hot end' of the business, the steel making end itself, although the rolling mills are more attractive, I think its is unlikely we will see a buyer for the business as a whole."
In a joint statement, the UK and Welsh governments said: "We remain committed to working with Tata and the unions on a long-term sustainable future for British steel-making.
"Both the UK and Welsh governments are working tirelessly to look at all viable options to keep a strong British steel industry at the heart of our manufacturing base."
Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, whose Aberavon constituency includes the Port Talbot plant, accompanied the union delegation to Mumbai.
He said: "The fact that Tata Steel is committed to continuing and to moving forward with the plant whilst looking for a buyer... is absolutely critical.
"There were various scenarios before we came out here... We are now a little bit clearer on which scenario we now have and it isn't certainly the worst case scenario."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "Ministers must act now to protect the steel industry and the core of manufacturing in Britain."
Unions expressed concern at the announcement and urged Tata and politicians to work at finding a buyer for the business.
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of steelworkers' union Community, said the "worst fear" that Tata would announce plant closures had not been realised.
It was, he added, "vitally important" the company acted as a "responsible seller of its businesses and provides sufficient time to find new ownership".
He said: "There is also a crucial role for both the Welsh and UK governments to do all they can to ensure a future for Tata's remaining UK steel businesses and to provide every assistance to secure a buyer that will continue steel making."
Len McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite union, described Tata's decision as a "very dark day for the proud communities and a proud industry which is now on the verge of extinction in this country".
Dave Hulse, national officer of the GMB union, said the news was "absolutely devastating", adding: "Tata has let the whole of the UK steel industry down."
Tata Steel has been operating in the UK since 2007 when it bought Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.
In January the company announced more than 1,000 UK job cuts, including 750 in Port Talbot, where it employs 4,000 staff and a further 3,000 contractors and temporary workers.
And last October Tata Steel said nearly 1,200 jobs would go at plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire.
There have been allegations that Chinese steel is being "dumped" on world markets at prices that UK plants cannot hope to compete with.
At the same time China's economy has remained sluggish, meaning that its need to export has grown as the demand for steel from its construction sector weakens.
Other factors affecting the wider UK steel industry include relatively high energy prices and the extra cost of climate change policies. | India's Tata Steel plans to sell its loss-making UK business, putting the jobs of thousands of workers at risk. |
37,388,522 | Stephan Lichtsteiner gave the visitors the lead after the break when he tapped home a low cross from Alex Sandro.
However, Mauro Icardi equalised for the hosts just two minutes later with a header from a corner.
Substitute Ivan Perisic headed Inter in front after fine work from Icardi, and Juve - with Gonzalo Higuain on from the bench - could not find an equaliser, despite Ever Banega's late red card.
The result was only Juve's second Serie A defeat since they lost 1-0 to Sassuolo on 28 October, 2015.
The loss means the champions slip to second, behind Napoli, while Inter move up to sixth.
Frank de Boer only replaced Roberto Mancini in the summer but there were rumours that defeat on Sunday could have seen the Dutchman removed from his position as Inter boss.
The Nerazzurri were embarrassed 2-0 at home by Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Europa League on Thursday, a result that prompted the former Ajax boss to apologise to fans and claim his side "lost their heads".
His position looked even more precarious when Switzerland international Lichtsteiner gave Juve an undeserved lead with 65 minutes on the clock.
However, Icardi powered home a fine header for his fourth league goal of the season and then showed great composure to pick out Perisic with a cross with the outside of his foot after rounding goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
It was a generally disappointing performance by the Turin side, champions in each of the past five seasons.
They had a great chance to take the lead in the first half when Sami Khedira headed straight at Samir Handanovic from six yards.
Higuain, the £75.3m summer signing from Napoli, was brought on with the scores at 1-1 but the Argentine's only chance saw him glance a header narrowly off target from a Sandro cross.
Inter forward Banega was sent off in the final minute for picking up a second booking but despite piling men forward Juve could not find a leveller in injury time.
Match ends, Inter Milan 2, Juventus 1.
Second Half ends, Inter Milan 2, Juventus 1.
Samir Handanovic (Inter Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sami Khedira (Juventus) because of an injury.
Delay in match Samir Handanovic (Inter Milan) because of an injury.
Foul by Sami Khedira (Juventus).
Samir Handanovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Sandro with a cross.
Second yellow card to Éver Banega (Inter Milan) for a bad foul.
Foul by Éver Banega (Inter Milan).
Alex Sandro (Juventus) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Juventus. Miralem Pjanic tries a through ball, but Alex Sandro is caught offside.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Leonardo Bonucci.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Éver Banega.
Éver Banega (Inter Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Felipe Melo (Inter Milan).
Miralem Pjanic (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Sandro with a cross.
Substitution, Juventus. Marko Pjaca replaces Giorgio Chiellini.
Attempt saved. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by João Mário.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Senna Miangue replaces Davide Santon.
Goal! Inter Milan 2, Juventus 1. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mauro Icardi.
Davide Santon (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Paulo Dybala (Juventus).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Felipe Melo replaces Gary Medel because of an injury.
Substitution, Juventus. Gonzalo Higuaín replaces Mario Mandzukic.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus).
Hand ball by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Ivan Perisic replaces Éder.
Goal! Inter Milan 1, Juventus 1. Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Éver Banega with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Leonardo Bonucci.
Goal! Inter Milan 0, Juventus 1. Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Sandro with a cross.
Foul by João Mário (Inter Milan).
Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Inter Milan came from behind to beat Juventus in an exciting derby d'Italia. |
40,057,228 | The message, a GPS tracker-fitted device, was one of two dropped from a helicopter in the sea off southern Iceland a year ago.
One was found on Tiree in January and the second was found in the Faroese island of Sandoy earlier this month.
President Guðni Jóhannesson was on an official trip to the Faroe Islands.
The devices were released simultaneously as part of an experiment highlighting marine pollution.
Both floated west, passing the coast of Greenland and then towards Canada before drifting east.
For several weeks it had looked as if the second device would end up back on the shores of Iceland.
It then headed in the general direction of Shetland before drifting back to the Faroes.
The two devices were part of a science experiment set up to test where marine litter ends up.
Rhoda Meek, who found the Tiree device, posted it back to the Icelandic scientists involved in the test. | The president of Iceland has personally collected and taken back to his country a "message in a bottle" set adrift to show the movement of marine litter. |
35,055,417 | Eleanor de Freitas, 23, of Fulham, was found dead in 2014, only days before she had been due to stand trial accused of perverting the course of justice.
Alexander Economou has been charged with harassing her father, David de Freitas, the CPS said.
Mr Economou is due before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 January.
The CPS said he had been charged in relation to sending a letter to Mr de Freitas, emails to his solicitor, uploading recordings and comments to websites including YouTube and setting up a website with the domain name eleanordefreitas.com.
Trainee accountant Ms de Freitas, who had bipolar disorder, made a rape complaint against Mr Economou to the Metropolitan Police in early 2013.
The police said there was insufficient evidence to pursue the case and the man she said had attacked her took out a private prosecution, accusing her of perverting the course of justice.
Ms de Freitas's solicitors asked the CPS to halt the private action but instead the CPS decided to take it over and continue it.
The 23-year-old had said she felt there was "no way out" after the CPS charged her with perverting the course of justice and she was found hanged on 4 April, three days before she had been due to stand trial.
West London coroner Chinyere Inyama recorded that Ms de Freitas had taken her own life and that the impending court case had been "a significant stressor in her life at that time". | The ex-boyfriend of a woman accused of making a false rape claim against him has been charged with harassing her father. |
38,652,746 | Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about 0.07 degrees Celsius above the 2015 mark.
Although the Met Office increase was within the margin of error, Nasa says that 2016 was the third year in a row to break the record.
The El Niño weather phenomenon played a role, say scientists, but the main factor was human emissions of CO2.
The latest conclusions won't come as a much of a shock to observers, as the likely outcome was trailed heavily towards the end of last year.
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So warm was the early part of 2016 - influenced by a powerful El Niño - that some leading climate scientists were predicting as early as May that a new record was likely.
During an El Niño, a band of unusually warm ocean water develops in parts of the Pacific. The phenomenon affects the climate globally, disrupting weather patterns.
According to Nasa figures, 2016 is now the warmest year in a record that dates back to 1880.
"2015 has been the warmest year on record up until now, so 2016 has just beaten that and and it's beaten that by about 0.1- 0.12 of a degree Celsius, which doesn't seem like a lot, but in terms of the year to year variations it's actually huge," Dr Gavin Schmidt from Nasa told BBC News.
"This is a very clear record that we're seeing. It is driven mainly by changes in the tropical Pacific where we had an El Niño event that produced a lot of warmth. But we've also seen long term trends in warming mostly due to the increasing greenhouse gases."
Another factor that has affected temperatures in 2016 is the unusual warmth in the Arctic.
The sea-ice covering the Arctic reached its second lowest level (in terms of extent) in September 2016. The sea-ice grows in autumn and winter and shrinks each spring and summer.
While the sea-ice extent last year didn't break the record, the mercury stayed high and the smaller amount of ice now present in the region is at unprecedented levels for the time of year.
A number of meteorological agencies from around the world have released their figures today. They all suggest that warming in 2016 was a record that had an important contribution from El Niño.
The Met Office says it contributed about 0.2C to the annual average for 2016. However, researchers believe that while this is substantial, it is not the whole story.
"We understand the contribution El Niño makes fairly well and we've seen it many times," said Prof Ellie Highwood from the University of Reading.
"But even if you take that contribution away, we would expect 2015 and 2016 to still be the warmest years we've seen, so a majority of it is coming from global warming and the greenhouse effect."
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which pulls together temperature data from a number of sources, agrees that 2016 broke the record by 0.07C.
Not all of the reports on temperature data in 2016 are clear that the warmest-year record has been broken.
The Met Office says that 2016 was 0.77 above the long term rate, but with a plus or minus error margin of 0.1C, meaning that last year was at the very least, one of the two warmest years on record.
"The final figures confirm that 2016 was yet another extremely warm year," said Peter Stott from the Met Office.
"The temperature for last year was very close to the year before, temperatures for 2016 exceeding those for 2015 by a small margin."
Regardless of the small margins, when the new data on 2016 is included, 15 of the warmest 16 years on record have now occurred since 2001.
According to Noaa (the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the only year from the 20th Century to break into the top 16 is 1998, and which ranks seventh warmest.
This prolonged period of warming was having significant impacts around the world.
"We have also broken sea ice minimum records in the Arctic and Antarctic," said Petteri Taalas from the WMO.
"The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average. The persistent loss of sea-ice is driving weather, climate and ocean circulation patterns in other parts of the world. We also have to pay attention to the potential release of methane from melting permafrost," he said.
Of great concern to scientists and politicians is the fact that the newly published temperature data shows the Earth is once again more than one degree warmer than pre-industrial times, and edging closer to the threshold of 1.5C set under the Paris climate pact.
With the Trump administration about to take office in the US, there are concerns that political support for climate action might fade. This would be a big mistake according to scientists.
"Climate change is one of the great challenges of the 21st Century and shows no signs of slowing down," said Prof Mark Maslin, from University College London.
"The decarbonisation of the global economy is the ultimate goal to prevent the worst effects of climate change. The hottest year on record is such a clear warning siren that even President-elect Trump cannot ignore it."
Researchers say that 2017 is unlikely to break the warming record but will be in the top five hottest years.
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook | Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world's warmest year. |
38,488,306 | The emergency services were called to a flat in the town at about 05:00, where a man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another man was found to have non life-threatening injuries at the address, in Victoria Road, and was taken to hospital.
Officers want to hear from anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area between 04:00 and 05:00.
Det Ch Insp Keith Hardie of Police Scotland's Major Investigation Team said: "We're confident that this man has died in suspicious circumstances and a thorough investigation is currently underway.
"As part of our inquiries we continue to ask anyone who has information which may be relevant to come forward.
"Specifically, anyone who may have seen suspicious behaviour in the Victoria Road area between 4am and 5am is urged to get in touch as soon as possible."
Insp Graeme Neill of Kirkcaldy Police Station added: "Local officers are supporting the Major Investigation Team and will be conducting inquiries in the community as part of this.
"Although there is not believed to be any risk to the wider public, there will be an increase in high visibility patrols in the area over the forthcoming days." | Police in Fife have confirmed they are treating the death of a man in Kirkcaldy as suspicious. |
36,123,468 | Neil Lennon, the Norwegian's predecessor, told BBC Scotland this week he would be keen to return when Deila leaves at the end of the season.
Now Mackay, sacked by Wigan Athletic a year ago, has declared his interest.
"If Celtic wanted to talk to me, I'd certainly be keen to do that," the 44-year-old told Sky Sports News.
Former Watford and Cardiff City boss Mackay was subject to a Football Association investigation after leaving the Welsh club, when it emerged that he sent text messages containing discriminatory language.
However, the FA confirmed last year that no disciplinary action would be taken, highlighting "serious concerns about the circumstances in which particular evidence had been given and the reliability and completeness of that evidence".
Mackay recently told BBC Scotland that he wished for a quick return to club management and that Celtic was a "huge, worldwide job".
"I think the next five-year period at Celtic is a crucial one," Mackay said. "I think a record 10 titles in a row is achievable and a strong focus should be there.
"But, for that to happen, I think there is a detailed and strategic plan needed going forward. I think I could help with that and bring a fresh approach.
"I've got an understanding of the club and an ability for that to happen."
Mackay was speaking after Deila announced last week that he would stand down in the summer.
David Moyes, the former Everton and Manchester United manager sacked by Real Sociedad in November, remains the bookmakers' favourite for the job.
But the 52-year-old former Celtic defender, who is also believed to be interested in the vacancy at Aston Villa, said last week that he would be keeping his options open before making a decision in the close season.
Steve Clarke, the former West Bromwich Albion boss who was sacked by Reading last December, has had his odds slashed by one major bookmaker, who now make him third favourite behind Moyes and Lennon.
Republic of Ireland assistant Roy Keane - who had a short spell as a player with the Glasgow club and turned down the job before Deila's appointment in 2014 - has admitted he would like to return to club management, albeit he refused to talk specifically about the Celtic job,
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill also opted to shun questions about the summer vacancy. | Malky Mackay has become the second high-profile former Celtic player to state that he wants to succeed Ronny Deila at the Premiership leaders. |
35,954,969 | Now Armenians, Azerbaijanis and the wider world have been reminded that this conflict is a tinderbox that can still ignite to disastrous effect. The 1994 ceasefire has been shattered. The main victims amongst several dozen dead are the young conscripts who serve in the armed forces on either side.
The way the conflict of the 1990s ended made for an inherently unstable situation. The 1994 truce left behind a ceasefire line that cut across Azerbaijani territory with no international peacekeepers on the ground.
The traumatic war and hatred of the other is fundamental to the two independent nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
There is little will for compromise. For Azerbaijan - which in the conflict lost not just the Armenian-majority region of Karabakh itself but, wholly or partially, seven other regions of its country - anti-Armenian bellicosity is especially strong.
What's more, the external pressure from the three international mediators - France, Russia and the United States - to resolve the conflict has always been weaker than the resistance from Armenia and Azerbaijan to the idea of compromise.
In the last few years it has got worse. Gone are the days when young soldiers would sit in quiet trenches in the mountains and take occasional pot-shots across the line.
Azerbaijan has spent billions of dollars of revenues from its Caspian Sea oil wealth on new weaponry. The so-called Line of Contact between the two sides became the most militarised zone in the wider Europe, bristling with tanks and heavy artillery.
Add to that a breakdown in trust between the West and Russia, who are supposed to be mediating the dispute, and you had a real cocktail of potential conflict.
It is hard to see through the fog of war to understand clearly what happened in the last two days.
There is a widespread tendency to see here the "hand of Russia" in this, an attempt by Moscow to manufacture a situation where it can intervene and deploy Russian peacekeepers on the ground. For sure, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been working hard recently on a new plan to resolve the conflict that would make Russia the guarantor of a peace.
Russia certainly has strong interests on both sides, including a longstanding military alliance with Armenia.
Yet, though influential, Russia is not in the driving seat of this conflict. Armenia and Azerbaijan are. Russia has no presence on the ground in Karabakh, having failed in its plan to have Russian peacekeepers deployed to the region in 1994.
Several peace plans authored or co-authored by Moscow have been rejected by one or both sides.
There are two scenarios that are more likely than others. Either there was an accidental breakdown of the ceasefire, started by either side, that was allowed to escalate before both sides suffered heavy losses and decided to stop.
Or, Azerbaijan decided to try to launch a small military operation to try to "change the facts on the ground" that would tilt the situation more in its favour and recapture lost lands - and Azerbaijan is indeed saying it captured some small pieces of territory.
This kind of operation would have the additional benefit of distracting the Azerbaijani population from the economic woes caused by falling oil prices.
Both the Armenian and Azerbaijani publics, who have good reason to be critical of their leaders, have indeed rallied round the nationalist flag in the last two days and forgotten about domestic problems.
There is now a new truce - declared unilaterally by Azerbaijan - but a fragile one and fighting is reported to continue. Emotions are high and the mood for revenge will be strong. This is not a conflict that the world can continue to ignore.
Nagorno-Karabakh profile | Of all the unresolved conflicts that erupted as the Soviet Union broke up, the one between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over Nagorno-Karabakh has always been the most menacing. |
37,627,308 | During the EU referendum, Vote Leave claimed leaving the EU could save the UK £350m a week in contributions.
But an unnamed cabinet minister has told Newsnight that the UK may end up "paying quite a lot" of that money to secure access to the single market.
The government said it would not give a "running commentary" on negotiations.
The UK's contributions to the EU became one of the most contentious issues in the EU referendum campaign after Vote Leave pledged to repatriate £350m a week - its estimate of the UK's gross weekly contributions to the EU.
This is reduced by subsidies paid to the UK and by the UK budget rebate.
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But a leading light in the Brexit campaign said they now expected the UK could still end up paying as much as £5bn a year into EU funds, in return for access to the single market.
This is roughly half of what the UK would have expected to contribute to the EU - estimated by the Office for Budget Responsibility to average around £9.6bn a year from 2015.
A senior official has described the prospect of continuing UK contributions to the EU as the "dog that hasn't barked" after Prime Minister Theresa May made no reference to the issue when she set out her red lines for her forthcoming EU negotiations last week.
Some supporters of Brexit Secretary David Davis have said the UK should no longer make payments to the EU after it leaves.
One senior Whitehall official said the UK would be unlikely to pay into the main EU budget after Brexit.
But the official said the UK may instead pay into special EU funds - possibly including one to help the economic development of new member states in central and Eastern Europe - as a way of securing preferential trading terms.
Officials say this would leave Poland with a dilemma: whether to prioritise its demands for its citizens to be able to continue to work in the UK or whether to accept greater financial contributions.
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, told Newsnight that Britain may have to continue to make financial contributions to the EU to secure access to the single market even after Brexit.
Mr Tyrie, who supported the Remain side in the referendum, said: "We want a high degree of access to the single market, in my view.
"To fall back immediately on WTO (World Trade Organisation) rules would risk an economic shock and certainly an economic downturn given the high degree of trade integration at the moment between Britain and the EU."
The prime minister sparked speculation at the Conservative party conference last week that she might be prepared to continue making some contributions when she failed to mention Britain's EU budget payments.
Mrs May instead said that the UK would take back control of its borders and take sole responsibility for making its own laws.
One Leave campaigner said that Britain could contribute to the EU for a transitional period after the completion of the Article 50 negotiations - the formal two-year process of leaving the EU - which are due to conclude in 2019.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative MP for Spelthorne, said: "It may well be the case that we have to contribute, I think, for a transition period to stabilise their budget for three to five years. But the point is that at the end of that five years we can say 'no, we don't want to put a penny more into your kitty'."
Another prominent Brexit campaigner warned that the prime minister could lose her job if she agreed to continue making payments to the EU.
Suzanne Evans, of UKIP, told Newsnight: "Laws, borders, money - when it comes to taking back control those were the Holy Trinity of the Brexit campaign. You can't have one without the other...
"We have all the bargaining chips. There is no need for Theresa May to capitulate on this and if she does try and capitulate on this I think she might very well soon find herself out of a job because that is not the Brexit the British people voted for."
But John Redwood, the Conservative MP for Wokingham and Brexit campaigner, dismissed suggestions the UK would end up paying for access to the single market.
He said the UK should offer "very generously to carry on trading exactly as we are at the moment".
"There's absolutely no need to pay them money to buy their imports - this is absurd," he added.
It comes ahead of a Commons vote, called by Labour, asking for MPs to be able to "properly scrutinise" the government's Brexit strategy.
Ahead of the debate, the party has asked Brexit Minister David Davis 170 questions, including on trade and migration.
The government has faced calls to set out more detail on what it wants Brexit to look like, with little known so far about its plans for migration and trade with the EU.
A government spokesman told Newsnight: "We will not provide a running commentary on our negotiating position, but we have been very clear that all decisions about taxpayers' money should be made in Britain." | Whitehall officials believe the UK may need to make big payments to the EU to secure preferential trading terms after Brexit, BBC Newsnight has learned. |
35,167,000 | The Koran, is the holy book for Muslims.
It seems the pieces are at least 1,370 years old and were once held in Egypt's oldest mosque, the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Fustat.
Experts believe the Birmingham University Koran has an exact match in the National Library of France, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
It's thought the French part of this manuscript was brought to Europe by a man called Asselin de Cherville, who was an important person - a vice consul - in Egypt when the country was under the control of Napoleon's armies in the early 19th Century.
Francois Deroche, an historian of the Koran, believes Asselin de Cherville's widow, may have tried to sell this to the British Library in the 1820s.
But they ended up in the national library in Paris, where they have been ever since.
Prof Deroche says later in the 19th Century, manuscripts were moved from the mosque in Fustat to the national library in Cairo.
Along the way, some pieces ''must have been spirited away" and were sold in antiques markets, over and over again until the 1920s.
Around this time a man called Alphonse Mingana from what is now modern-day Iraq, bought them while he travelled to the Middle East and brought them back to Birmingham.
Now experts think other similar ancient material, sold to collectors around the world may still be discovered.
But the correct date of the Birmingham University Koran is still being questioned.
Special testing done with radiocarbon - that finds out the age of organic remains of ancient objects, puts it between 568 and 645.
The latest date in the range, is 13 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632.
David Thomas, Birmingham University's professor of Christianity and Islam, says this puts the manuscript into the earliest years of Islam.
"The person who actually wrote it could well have known the Prophet Muhammad."
But the early date contradicts the findings of other experts who have looked at the style of the writing.
Some say the verses are separated and the grammatical marks, show this is from a later date.
But staff who dated the parchment using radiocarbon, believe they are right.
They say they were right about the dating they gave to the bones of Richard III
There are only two pages or leaves of the Koran in Birmingham, but some say the complete collection would have been about 200 separate pages or leaves.
"It would have been a monumental piece of work," he said.
Jamal bin Huwareib, from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, an education foundation set up by the ruler of the United Arab Emirates believes the Birmingham University manuscript is part of the first written version of the Koran assembled by Abu Bakr, the Muslim caliph who ruled between 632 and 634.
"It's the most important discovery ever for the Muslim world," says Mr bin Huwareib.
He says the high quality of the hand writing and the parchment show this was a very important work created for someone very important.
"This version, this collection, this manuscript is the root of Islam, it's the root of the Koran," says Mr bin Huwareib.
"This will be a revolution in studying Islam." | Fragments from one of the world's oldest Korans were found at the University of Birmingham in July - but now new secrets have been revealed about where it came from originally. |
35,792,542 | Eastleigh goalkeeper Ross Flitney was in fine form, denying Jordan Burrow and then Shaquille McDonald.
Flitney also tipped James Bolton's header wide of the post, before preventing Richard Peniket from breaking the deadlock.
And Eastleigh's Matt Tubbs could only strike wide late in the game.
The result leaves Halifax in the National League relegation zone on goal difference only and Eastleigh sit one place outside the play-offs in sixth, also on goal difference, with two games remaining. | Relegation-threatened Halifax and play-off chasing Eastleigh played out a goalless draw in their National League game at The Shay. |
38,496,055 | North Yorkshire Police said a member of the public spotted the body in the river near Holly Terrace in Acaster Malbis at about 13:30 GMT on Sunday.
He has now been identified by officers as 42-year-old Craig Batters who lived in York.
Anyone who had contact with Mr Batters between Friday and Sunday has been urged to contact police.
Mr Batters' body was recovered with the help of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
There have been concerns about the number of deaths in the Rivers Ouse and Foss in the York area in recent years.
Three people died in 2011, including 21-year-old Richard Horrocks, who jumped from a balcony to celebrate his last shift at a bar.
York student Megan Roberts, 20, soldier Tyler Pearson, 18 and Ben Clarkson, 22, all died in 2014.
Soldier Stephen Fry, 20, died in 2015 and student Christian Palmer, 20, died in July 2016. | Police have identified a man whose body was pulled from the River Ouse near York on New Year's Day. |
36,972,455 | Peter Dutton made the comments a day after 2,000 leaked reports from the Nauru detention centre were published online.
The "Nauru papers" describe allegations of sexual abuse, instances of self-harm and squalid living conditions.
Their release has renewed calls for Australia to review its policies.
The Guardian published the entirety of the leaked material, which consists of reports written by staff members at the Nauru detention centre between 2013 and 2015, in an online database.
But Mr Dutton downplayed the leak, saying most of the allegations had "been reported before".
"I won't tolerate any sexual abuse whatsoever. But I have been made aware of some incidents that have been reported, false allegations of sexual assault, because in the end people have paid money to people smugglers and they want to come to our country," he told 2GB Radio.
"Some people have even gone to the extent of self-harming and people have self-immolated in an effort to get to Australia, and certainly some have made false allegations in an attempt to get to Australia."
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has resisted calls from the Greens party to hold a royal commission into the tough offshore detention regime.
The immigration department has defended the documents as evidence of a "vigorous" reporting system for serious incidents at the centre.
But Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that keeping asylum seekers on Nauru was "illegal", "immoral" and "unsustainable".
"Most of [the documents] are incident reports where professionals of one kind or another have reported these kinds of incidents," she said.
"We're not seeing change and we're seeing of course an environment of secrecy where we can't get other reporters into those facilities."
Australia outsources the processing of asylum seekers who trying to reach Australia by boat to two privately run centres - one on Nauru and another on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
The companies that run the facilities, security and services at the centres are contractually required to report incidents of various kinds within specified time frames.
A large number of the reports concern children, either describing alleged abuse or disturbing and unusual behaviour brought on by trauma.
Twenty-three of the reports describe sexual assaults, particularly against young women, and hundreds of incidents of threatened and actual self-harm are contained in the documents.
Read more: Why are asylum seekers so controversial in Australia? | Australia's immigration minister has said asylum seekers lie about sexual abuse and deliberately self-harm to secure passage to the country. |
19,296,832 | Chelsea have been trying to sign the 21-year-old all summer, but have yet to meet Wigan's £8.5m valuation.
Age: 21
Clubs: Crystal Palace, Wigan
Nationality: Nigerian (3 caps)
Did you know? Moses played for England at Under-16, U17, U19 and U21 level before pledging his allegiance to Nigeria.
"If you don't meet a valuation, it becomes paper talk and speculation," he said.
"It happens everywhere, it gives you uncertainty and I don't think that helps. The players are human beings."
Nigerian international Moses scored six goals for the Latics last season, playing a key part in their successful bid to stay in the Premier League.
Chelsea have made two cash bids for the winger, who has a year left on his contract, but both have fallen some way short of Wigan's valuation.
And Martinez still retains hope of keeping the forward at the DW Stadium.
"For Victor it's been an exciting summer," said Martinez. "I told him he should be very proud, as a footballer at 21, to get the interest he has had.
"Victor knows what he did from December to the end of the season was a great level of performance.
"He can take it on to the next level and I am very excited to have Victor at Wigan, and I hope we can keep him for many years to come."
Chelsea visit Wigan on Sunday, and Martinez believes the transfer window should be closed during the season to avoid players becoming distracted.
"I don't agree with the transfer window going on while there are official games," he added.
"I do feel there is a need for a transfer window, it is beneficial, but I don't think it helps when it is open when you are playing official games." | Wigan manager Roberto Martinez believes striker Victor Moses could be affected by speculation surrounding a potential transfer to Chelsea. |
11,919,051 | Its intelligence minister also repeated the charge that Western spy agencies were behind the murder this week of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
His statement comes two days before Iran is to hold talks with the US and its allies on its nuclear programme.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Iran to participate in the talks in good faith.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency regularly visit Iran to monitor its nuclear activities.
Some Western nations, including the US and its allies, believe Iran's nuclear programme may be aimed at producing nuclear weapons.
Iran says its nuclear activity is for peaceful, civilian purposes.
"The IAEA has been sending spies working for foreign intelligence gathering organisations among its inspectors, and it should be held accountable," Heidar Moslehi was quoted as saying by Iranian state television.
Relations between Iran and the IAEA have soured in recent months under the leadership of Yukiya Amano, who has taken a tougher line with Tehran than his predecessor, Mohamed ElBaradei.
Mr Moslehi said the killing on Monday of nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari in a car bomb attack and the wounding of another scientist in a separate attack in Tehran was the work of US, Israeli and British agents.
"This terrorist act was carried out by intelligence services such as the CIA, Mossad and the MI6," he said.
Talks in Geneva are due to start on Monday between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, Russia, China, Britain and France - and Germany.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said he wanted the talks to go beyond his country's nuclear programme to include the "Iranian agenda". This includes Israel's widely suspected, but never declared, nuclear weapons.
Mrs Clinton urged Iran to enter the talks in good faith and with "a much more sober assessment of what isolation means", given successive rounds of UN sanctions. | Iran has accused the UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, of sending foreign agents to spy on its nuclear programme. |
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