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37,663,057 | Champions Leicester travel to Chelsea to kick off the action on a Saturday on which leaders Manchester City face fifth-placed Everton and there is a London derby between Crystal Palace and West Ham.
The biggest game of this round of fixtures, however, comes on Monday as Liverpool take on Manchester United.
Here are some of the main talking points, as well as our guide of how to follow the action on the BBC.
After one win in four league matches for Antonio Conte's Chelsea, some bookmakers stopped taking bets on the Italian being the next Premier League manager to lose his job. He laughed that off in his news conference on the eve of Leicester's visit.
Saturday's game (at 12:30 BST) pits Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante against his former side - and the Foxes are missing the Frenchman, says captain Wes Morgan.
Morgan says what Kante did for the Foxes last season was "incredible" - he averaged 4.7 tackles and 4.2 interceptions per game, the highest in the Premier League in both categories.
His role at Chelsea has differed, however, with a greater emphasis on passing, playing 65 per game on average as opposed to 39 last season.
Next up for Leicester is a Champions League tie against FC Copenhagen - their previous two European matches have been preceded by 4-1 defeats in the Premier League.
Former England midfielder Jermaine Jenas told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think Conte will be happy with how things have started to develop but he is clearly not comfortable with what he is seeing in a back four. He's been going with three at the back and two midfield enforcers."
After a 35-year journey to the Premier League, which began at Ohio Bobcats, Bob Bradley has promised a "fresh start" at Swansea, who are 17th in the table.
Positivity in south Wales, then - something Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger craves.
The Frenchman this week reflected on the "negativity" sweeping Emirates Stadium after their home defeat by Swansea in March, adding: "It is a virus that travels very quickly and goes away very slowly."
The Gunners have not lost since the opening day, have kept four straight clean sheets and have Alexis Sanchez back in form with four goals in five games.
But the Chilean flew about 15,000 miles during the international break. Is he due a rest for Saturday's visit of the Swans (15:00 BST)?
Former England midfielder Leon Osman on BBC Radio 5 live: "Bradley was a surprise appointment for me. I thought he'd maybe come in at Championship level but I wasn't in the interview room. Swansea have found it difficult to get back to what they were. Are they still that passing team?"
Sergio Aguero has scored 28 goals in his past 28 Premier League appearances for Manchester City. But, after flying roughly the same distance as Sanchez, will he start a potentially tricky home match against Everton on Saturday (15:00 BST)?
Aguero played 163 minutes, nursed a calf complaint and missed a penalty as Argentina drew with Peru and lost to Paraguay during the international break.
City boss Pep Guardiola said the 28-year-old and fellow forwards Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling are "much, much better" after recent injuries.
But will they play as the Blues look to bounce back from a first defeat of the season at Tottenham, or will they be saved for a Champions League trip to Barcelona?
Everton are fifth but without a win in two league games, and manager Ronald Koeman said: "We know we can be better."
Osman: "No-one would be surprised if City were beaten at the Nou Camp, so if the Everton game doesn't go well they are on a bad four-game streak and people start asking questions - is there a mini-crisis? That type of thing starts to breed into the club."
Stoke and Sunderland face each other at the Bet365 Stadium on Saturday (15:00 BST) as the only winless sides in the Premier League.
But both have come close to notching that elusive victory in recent games.
Sunderland threw away a 2-0 lead to lose 3-2 at home to Crystal Palace on September 24, the same day Stoke conceded in injury time to draw 1-1 with West Brom.
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said the onus is on his side to be positive in a match "we need to win and feel we can win".
Sunderland counterpart David Moyes, meanwhile, said he will "find a way" to get three points.
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Both managers have called for calm among the fans at what could be the biggest game of the Premier League season so far.
But it could get heated on the pitch, too, in one of football's biggest rivalries, with plenty at stake as Liverpool host Manchester United on Monday (20:00 BST).
Jurgen Klopp's hosts are in red-hot form - having scored 12 goals in their past four games - while United have won only once in four league matches.
Jenas: "Liverpool are out-and-out favourites. I don't think Mourinho knows his best XI. You could pick Liverpool's team right now. You can't do that with United."
Saturday (15:00 BST unless stated)
Chelsea v Leicester (12:30 BST)
Arsenal v Swansea
Bournemouth v Hull
Manchester City v Everton
Stoke v Sunderland
West Brom v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v West Ham (17:30 BST)
Sunday
Middlesbrough v Watford (13:30 BST)
Southampton v Burnley (16:00 BST)
Monday
Liverpool v Manchester United (20:00 BST)
Saturday
09:00-16:00,Chelsea v Leicester build-up and live text, BBC Sport website and app
12:00-13:00, Football Focus, BBC One
13:00-19:00, Saturday's Premier League football live text, BBC Sport website and app
15:00-17:00, Manchester City v Everton, BBC Radio 5 live
15:00-17:00, Live texts for all five 15:00 kick-offs, BBC Sport website and app
16:30-17:20, Final Score, BBC One
17:30-19:20, Crystal Palace v West Ham, Premier League, BBC Radio 5 live
19:20-20:30, 606 - football phone-in, BBC Radio 5 live
22:25-23:50, Match of the Day, BBC One
Sunday
07:30-09:00, Match of the Day (repeat), BBC One
11:30-19:00, Sunday's Premier League football overarcher, BBC Sport website and app
12:15-13:00, MOTD2 Extra, BBC Two & BBC Radio 5 live
13:30-15:30, Middlesbrough v Watford, BBC Radio 5 live
16:00-18:06, Southampton v Burnley, BBC Radio 5 live
18:06-19:30, 606 - football phone-in, BBC Radio 5 live
Monday
18:30-22:00, Liverpool v Manchester United build-up and live text, BBC Radio 5 live
19:00-20:00, The Monday Night Club, BBC Radio 5 live
20:00-22:00, Liverpool v Manchester United, BBC Radio 5 live
22:00-22:30, 5 live Football Social, BBC Radio 5 live
22:45-23:45, Match of the Day 2, BBC One
The impossible job? Probably. Use our shortlist and pick who you think would make the greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI. | Premier League football returns after the international break with a mouthwatering line-up. |
36,865,907 | The Right Reverend Robert Paterson, 67, has served the Diocese of Sodor and Man since 2008, as well as holding a seat on the island's Legislative Council.
He told Manx Radio his decision to retire on 11 November was motivated "purely by age".
Sodor and Man is the smallest diocese in the Church of England, overseeing 45 churches and 27 parishes.
Before moving to the Isle of Man, he was a parish priest in Wales and chaplain to the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. | The Bishop of Sodor and Man says he will retire later this year. |
39,544,762 | The firm said it was "urgently investigating illegal and unauthorised access to the personal data of some of its customers".
The firm said it began contacting borrowers on Saturday and was offering support through a dedicated phone line.
The information stolen includes names, addresses, phone numbers, bank account numbers and sort codes.
Prof Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey, said it was "looking like one of the biggest" data breaches in the UK involving financial information.
The range of information stolen may also include the last four digits of customers' bank cards - information used by some banks as part of the login process for online accounts.
A further 25,000 customers in Poland were also potentially affected.
In a statement, the firm said: "We are working closely with authorities and we are in the process of informing affected customers. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused."
Wonga said it did not believe the attackers had gained access to users' loan accounts, but warned them to be vigilant.
The lender, which provides short-term loans, said it had became aware of the breach last week but at that time thought no data was involved.
However, by Friday it realised the attacks were more serious and started informing customers on Saturday by email and text.
The payday lender has set up a help page for affected customers. It advises them to:
Prof Woodward said the combination of names, addresses, sort codes and last four digits of bank cards was "particularly worrying" for customers.
Other breaches in the UK had not tended to gain access to those financial details, he added.
Talk Talk received a record fine last year for a data breach, but of the nearly 157,000 customers affected, most did not have bank account details stolen.
A data breach at Yahoo affected nearly eight million customers in the UK last year, but was focused on email addresses and passwords.
A spokeswoman for the Information Commissioner's Office said: "All organisations have a responsibility to keep customers' personal information secure.
"Where we find this has not happened, we can investigate and may take enforcement action."
The data breach is a further blow for Wonga which has been trying to rebuild its reputation after several scandals.
In 2014, UK financial regulators found it had made loans to customers who could not afford to repay them, and chased debts with letters from a fake law firm.
In 2015, the firm saw its losses double as tougher regulation in the industry continued to bite.
Its pre-tax losses grew to £80.2m that year from £38.1m in 2014. | The payday loan firm Wonga has suffered a data breach which may have affected up to 245,000 customers in the UK. |
35,765,270 | The World Bank recently announced that it would invest $4m (£2.8m) into Sierra Leone's fishing industry, a sector that provides employment for about 230,000 people.
Photographer Olivia Acland spent the day with Pepper, a fisherman who sets out from the port of Tombo. | All photographs © Olivia Acland. |
11,625,889 | Doctors suspect the 51-year-old athlete succumbed to an unusual, but severe form of an infection called Weil's disease or leptospirosis.
It's likely that Holmes, who had been involved in coaching over the past two years after returning to the sport, caught the disease from contact with dirty river water.
How worried should we all be about this disease?
Leptospirosis is found all over the world, including in the UK, but generally is more of a problem in hot places, like the tropics.
Animals, like rats and cattle, carry the bacterium and it can spread it to humans who come into close contact.
In the UK it is people like farmers, who work with animals, who are at greatest risk of infection.
• Never drink water from a river or lake
• Only drink from your own water bottle
• Always shower after contact with the water
• Wash hands thoroughly and shower if necessary before eating or drinking
• Cover cuts and abrasions (including blisters) with waterproof dressings
• Wear suitable footwear when launching or retrieving a boat,
• Avoid immersion in, or contact with, water, particularly if there is an algal scum or bloom
• If contaminated water has been swallowed, consult a doctor
• Hose down all equipment after outings to remove any potential contamination
But watersport fanatics, like canoeists and divers, who come into contact with lakes and rivers should also beware.
This is because the infection can be carried in water contaminated with animal urine.
The bacterium responsible can enter the body via cuts and abrasions of the skin, or through the thin lining of the throat, nose, mouth or eyes.
In recent years, the number of cases of infections have numbered in the 60s and 70s in England and Wales, according to the Health Protection Agency.
Each year the disease kills two to three people, says the HPA, which has been gathering data on infections since 1996.
And it is still a threat even if you are a fit rower who is in great shape for a middle-aged man.
Chris Williams, club chairman of the Tideway Scullers School in London, said the rowing community was shocked by Andy Holmes' death.
"It's very sad about Andy. We used to pass each other on the water from time to time.
"The disease is something all rowers know about. It's in all of our literature and safety programmes that stress good hygiene, like keeping cuts covered.
"But I don't ever remember hearing about another case like this.
"Everyone in the rowing world is enormously sad. He was a regular coach on the tidal part of the Thames where he trained club athletes. He was an icon who put time back into the sport and was heavily involved in rowing. It is a shame he can no longer do so."
He said it was unusual to catch Weil's from a stretch of river like the Tideway because it is a moving body of water.
"It tends to be stagnant water that is more unsafe."
Steve Redgrave told BBC Radio 5 live: "it is very rare that anything happens because normally rivers flow fast enough and dilute it."
Tony Reynolds, regional safety advisor for the Thames Region Rowing Council, said it was difficult to know where Andy might have caught the infection from.
"We just don't know and that is the worst thing. It can take weeks after catching the infection to develop the symptoms, which makes it harder to trace."
Symptoms can range from none at all to a mild flu-like illness, or a more severe illness called Weil's disease, with jaundice and kidney failure.
In most cases, with antibiotic treatment, the person will make a complete recovery. But for a few, it can be fatal even with the best hospital care.
Mr Reynolds said: "It's important not to speculate. But it shows that anyone can be at risk and how important it is to protect yourself.
"The disease is out there. Thankfully, there is enough information out there too to reduce your chance of being infected."
British Rowing says simple precautions, like covering cuts, scratches or sores with a waterproof plaster and showering after going out on the river, can minimise risk. | Rowers are still reeling from the news of the death of Great Britain's double Olympic champion rower Andy Holmes MBE. |
38,912,353 | Cushendall's McManus picked up the injury in Antrim's game against Tipperary on 29 January.
"I'm definitely going to miss two or three games," said McManus at the Allianz Hurling League launch.
The Saffrons open their Division 2A campaign against London on Sunday.
McManus also expects to be ruled out of Antrim's second match away to Carlow on 19 February and is not hopeful about playing in the contest against Kildare at Ballycastle on 5 March.
It's Antrim's second successive season in the division after their attempt to regain Division One status imploded last Spring during a campaign which saw PJ O'Mullan's brief managerial reign come to an end.
Despite his own misfortune, McManus believes that the Ulster champions are capable of producing a strong promotion challenge a year on.
"From the get-go, that's what we are going to be interested in," McManus told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
"It is going to be extremely competitive and we will not be the only county eyeing promotion.
"We are probably not even promotion favourites but we believe we are capable of putting a serious challenge in place.
"I know we have the hurlers to do it. More importantly the desire is there. People have committed and people are starting to buy into what it is to be an Antrim hurler and what a privilege that is."
Antrim went into last season's Division Two A campaign as favourites but after winning their two opening games against Derry and Kildare, the Saffrons lost their last three encounters with Westmeath, Carlow and London.
The Ulster champions will conclude their Division Two A fixtures with games against Armagh and Westmeath. | Antrim's hopes of Hurling League promotion have suffered a blow after star forward Neil McManus sustained a broken cheekbone which is likely to rule him out for at least three games. |
39,302,618 | Skye Events for All (Seall) is based at the isle's Gaelic college, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.
It has secured £55,000 from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland's Open Project Fund.
Seall runs Fèis an Eilein, the two-month Skye Festival which takes place this year between 4 July and 25 August.
At the end of October, Seall co-produces the Skye Swing Jazz Festival with local record producers FOTS Records.
Duncan MacInnes, Seall's director, said: "With this funding from Creative Scotland, we will be able to create the high level of administration our programme needs.
"We have relied on a lot of volunteer support for years and, because of this, often miss out on artistic and fundraising opportunities."
He added: "Our application to Creative Scotland followed on from a very successful Cultural Tourism Project we delivered two years ago and our current Cultural Economies report.
"We will now able to pursue new funding opportunities and develop our programme of events and workshops. This will reach new audiences and enhance the reputation of the area as a major centre of cultural activity." | An organisation that promotes live performing arts on the Isle of Skye has been awarded key funding towards its work this year. |
38,774,080 | Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to seven and a-half years and five years three months, respectively.
They were told the lorry had "truly serious faults" that were "obvious to anyone".
Mitzi Steady, four, Robert Parker, 59, Philip Allen, 52, and Stephen Vaughan, 34, died in the crash in February 2015.
Philip Potter, 20, who was driving the truck, was cleared of dangerous and careless driving following a trial in December.
Mitzi, from Bath, was one of a number of pedestrians struck when the lorry, which had faulty brakes, sped out of control on Lansdown Hill.
Mr Allen and Mr Vaughan, both from Swansea, and Mr Parker, from Cwmbran, south Wales, were in a car hit by the vehicle.
For more on Bath stories visit the live page for the West of England.
Mr Justice Langstaff said Gordon and Wood had a "cavalier" attitude to maintaining vehicles owned by the firm, Grittenham Haulage Ltd.
Sentencing, the judge said: "I accept that neither of you intended death or injury or even brake failure. You did not wish it.
"But the fact is that a lorry as heavy as this is likely to cause serious injury and death to members of the public unless properly maintained."
Gordon, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire - who was also banned from being a company director for 12 years - was driving in a truck in front of the lorry that crashed.
Wood, of Brinkworth, Wiltshire, was employed by Gordon and carried out safety checks on the vehicle.
Mr Justice Langstaff told the pair: "You knew that being casual about the safety risked the lives of others. Your failures are inexplicable.
"If they were one-off failures that would be bad enough, but they are not. They were part and parcel of the way you approached your responsibilities."
The trial heard that after the accident, Gordon told Mr Potter not to mention that an ABS warning light - indicating problems with the braking system - had been on.
"You exposed Mr Potter, a young driver, to the horror of unavoidably killing a young child," the judge told him.
"You showed no immediate remorse for what happened," he added.
In addition to those killed, Margaret Rogers - Mitzi's grandmother - suffered life-changing injuries when the 32-tonne lorry crashed into them as they crossed the road.
She spent three months in hospital and had to have both her legs amputated.
In a victim personal statement read out to court, she said she suffered daily "distress and humiliation" because of her injuries and is "frightened for her future".
Karla Brennan was also seriously injured when the lorry, which was delivering aggregate from Shorncote Quarry to a park and ride, hit her car.
Emmajade Steady told the court that losing her four-year-old daughter meant it was a struggle for family life to go on.
She said she was bereft at no longer having Mitzi's laughter and singing filling their home.
The little girl's grandmother, who was also hit by the truck, told the judge about the physical and emotional pain she had been left with.
The widow of Steve Vaughan wept as she described the moment she went to see her husband's body.
Sian Vaughan said she held his hand and played songs they had played at their wedding just six months earlier.
Matthew Gordon and Peter Wood listened in the dock as the widows of the two other victims - Philip Allen and Robert Parker - described those responsible for the state of the tipper truck as reckless, saying the accident should never have happened.
The incident was described as "horrific" by Avon and Somerset Police, which led a 22-month investigation into the crash.
DCI Richard Ocone said the sentences reflected the seriousness of the offences committed.
"As a company owner, Matthew Gordon had no transport manager and effectively flouted every regulation, which had been put in place to ensure safety," he said.
"His mechanic, Peter Wood, signed off vehicles as safe when they clearly were not.
"Detailed and complex investigations showed many of the faults on the vehicle were longstanding - highlighted by the fact that the brakes on the lorry at the time of the crash were totally inadequate, having an overall efficiency of just 28 per cent."
In a statement read outside court, Alison Harris, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said "gross negligence" caused the loss of "innocent lives".
She said she hoped the verdict would bring "some sense of justice" to "all those whose lives have been affected by this terrible collision". | A haulage boss and a mechanic have been jailed following a 2015 tipper truck crash that killed four people in Bath. |
37,888,161 | Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) crews had missiles and fireworks thrown at them as they attended incidents.
One firefighter was hit by a stone in Bingham, Edinburgh, as his crew helped tackle a rubbish fire.
In Greenock, firefighters were forced to withdraw after they were attacked with missiles. The fire service said "thankfully" no-one had been injured.
Crews were sent to 970 incidents between 16:00 and midnight on Saturday on what the fire service said was its busiest night of the year.
SFRS assistant chief officer Lewis Ramsay said: "Attacks on emergency responders are completely unacceptable and I am sure the public would be outraged by incidents where their firefighters have been targeted while working to protect people and property.
"Those responsible should know that the authorities take these criminal actions extremely seriously and we will work closely with police to ensure they are identified and held to account.
"We will continue our efforts to bring about a reduction in these dangerous actions by a small number of individuals."
The Fire Brigades Union has strongly condemned the attacks.
The leader of the FBU in Scotland, Chris McGlone, said: "These appalling attacks must stop and we fully support the police's efforts to find those responsible and to ensure these criminal acts are punished.
"Firefighters do not deserve to be treated in this manner and we believe that it is only a matter of time before a firefighter is very seriously injured at one of these incidents."
Crews were attacked by a group of youths in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, at about 19:30, where a stone damaged an appliance in New England Road.
A similar attack was carried out in Fore Street Glasgow at about 19:50, as firefighters were responding to reports of a bonfire.
Groups also threw fireworks at fire crews in the Balgrayhill area of Glasgow and in Durban Avenue in Clydebank.
There were further attacks in Stirling, Stenhousemuir in Falkirk and the Sighthill area of Edinburgh.
The SFRS said crews also attended dozens of other incidents, including a large hedge fire in Muir of Ord, Highland, bonfires in Dundee and a number of wheelie bin fires in Aberdeen
Assistant chief officer Ramsay added: "Our crews responded to 970 incidents on Bonfire Night and over 300 bonfires.
"Bonfire Night is typically the service's busiest night of the year, but in addition to numerous bonfires firefighters continue to respond to the full range of emergencies we face on a daily basis.
"Our frontline crews and operations control personnel are extremely dedicated and I would like to pay tribute to their professionalism, skill and hard work which enabled them to help protect communities across the country." | Bonfire Night was "marred" by a number of attacks on firefighters across Scotland, the fire service has said. |
33,300,543 | A Eurogroup statement said Greece had broken off negotiations over a new bailout deal "unilaterally".
Late on Friday, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called a surprise referendum for 5 July over the terms of any new deal.
Greece has to pay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the IMF on 30 June. Without new funds, there are fears Greece may leave the euro and its economy may collapse.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Greece would still try to secure a bailout deal that could then be put to a referendum.
"In these crucial moments, the Greek government is fighting for there to be a last-minute deal by Tuesday," he said.
The Greek parliament is due to vote later on whether to ratify the referendum.
Addressing MPs just before the vote, Mr Tsipras urged the Greek people to say a "resounding 'no' to ultimatums" by creditors.
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said it would be up to the European Central Bank (ECB) to decide whether to continue providing emergency liquidity funding to the Greek banking system.
In Greece, queues have formed outside banks amid concerns that the Greek central bank might start restricting withdrawals.
It's never over till it's over. But it feels like the end is perilously close. The breakdown in talks between Greece and its creditors has to be seen as a failure.
It wasn't supposed to happen like this. It is also a massive gamble on all sides, and a possible turning point in the history of the eurozone. There will still be those working feverishly behind the scenes for compromise, but in effect neither side has blinked yet.
When the Greek government thought it had made substantial concessions at the beginning of the week, the creditors said it simply wasn't enough. And while no-one can say for certain that Greece will leave the eurozone, this is already uncharted territory.
Much will depend on the outcome of the referendum called by PM Alexis Tsipras, if it takes place on schedule. And much will also depend on the European Central Bank - and whether it believes it can still allow funds to flow, to prevent banks in Greece from collapsing.
ECB faces huge decision
Can Greece stay in the euro?
Crisis talks: As they happened
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, told the BBC that because the European part of Greece's bailout programme would have expired by 5 July, any referendum would relate to "proposals and arrangements which are no longer valid".
But she said that if there was a "resounding 'yes'" to staying in the eurozone, then the response would be "a resounding 'let us try'".
Mr Dijsselbloem said the Eurogroup would continue to work with Greece and that many scenarios were conceivable.
But he placed the blame squarely with Greece for walking out of negotiations on Friday.
"They broke off their talks while they were still going on, while there was still time," he said.
"The only positive caveat I see is that the Greek parliament still has to take a wise position on that, and I hope that may lead to a different political situation."
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin stressed that all the Eurogroup's members wanted Greece to remain in the eurozone.
"This is not a Greek exit from the eurozone," he said after crisis talks between the Eurogroup and Mr Varoufakis on Saturday. "The 18 countries, apart from Greece, all said clearly that Greece was in the euro and should remain in the euro whatever the difficulties of the moment."
Throughout the ups and downs of the recent negotiations, Greeks have by and large resisted the urge to withdraw money from their accounts, pinning their hopes on a last minute deal with the country's creditors.
But as the deadline for Greece's €1.6bn payment to the IMF looms, and with Mr Tsipras calling for a referendum next week, lines have begun to form outside ATMs and bank branches in Athens.
One bank has imposed withdrawal limits of €3,000 per account, and some ATMs have handwritten "empty" signs on them - although I managed to withdraw cash at two separate locations.
Some customers were given a ticket number and told to come back in a few hours. One man told me he was 170th in line. "The game is over," said Peter, one of those queuing. "Greece is going into uncharted waters, and the banks will be closed on Monday, I suspect."
Anxiety is mounting in Athens. "Everybody's really scared," Elena, a woman in her 20s, tells me as she waits to withdraw cash. "We need to have enough money to last the week."
How did Greece get in this mess?
What if the Greek talks fail
Mr Varoufakis told reporters that the Eurogroup's refusal to extend the bailout could permanently damage the credibility of the group.
He said that what had been proposed to Greece "did not contain any plan for giving, instilling hope in investors, both Greek and non-Greek, in consumers, in depositors".
He said his government had asked for an extension of "a few days, a couple of weeks", whereas Mr Dijsselbloem said an extension of one month had been requested.
Greece owes roughly €340bn, mostly to its eurozone partners. Because it can no longer borrow from the international money markets, it is dependent on the eurozone and IMF to keep its banks functioning. | Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June. |
38,988,031 | The 36-year-old from Wrexham is due to appear before Flintshire magistrates on Thursday.
He is charged with an attempted robbery at a McColls minimarket on Rhosnesni Lane and an attempted robbery at a Spar supermarket in Gresford, both on Sunday.
He is also accused of a burglary at a property. | A man has been charged with two attempted robberies at shops in Wrexham. |
35,593,008 | The Senate passed a bill to rename the square on Friday, but it still needs congress and presidential approval.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the bill violated accepted norms of international relations.
Liu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was jailed for subversion in 2009.
He won the Nobel in 2010 for his fight for "a more open and democratic China".
If it the bill does become law, the Chinese embassy's address would change from 3505 International Plaza to 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza.
On Tuesday, Mr Hong said China "firmly opposes that", saying it "would cause severe consequences".
"We urge the US Congress to stop the approval procedure of the bill. We also hope that the US administration can put an end to this political farce."
A State Department spokesman noted on Tuesday that the White House had indicated President Barack Obama would veto the bill.
"We view this kind of legislative action as something that only complicates our efforts, so we oppose this approach," he said.
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, who proposed the bill, has argued it would make a stand on China's imprisonment of dissidents.
He has likened it to a 1980s decision to rename the street in front of the Soviet Embassy in Washington after dissident Andrei Sakharov.
It is not the first time Republicans have attempted to rename the street.
Mr Cruz had previously attempted to introduce the bill twice last year, but both times was blocked by Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein, who argued that diplomacy would be a better way to negotiate the release of dissidents. | Beijing has urged the US to veto a move to rename the street outside China's embassy in Washington after jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, calling it a "political farce". |
29,029,954 | Aqsa Mahmood, 20, was reported missing by her family in November 2013.
A Twitter account under the name Umm Layth, believed to be Ms Mahmood, said: "Follow the examples of your brothers from Woolwich, Texas and Boston.
"If you cannot make it to the battlefield then bring the battlefield to yourself."
The post was made on the Twitter account in June. The account has now been deactivated.
Ms Mahmood's family have described her as a "studious and ambitious girl" and said they "cannot understand why she has travelled to Syria".
She was a pupil at Craigholme School and Shawlands Academy in Glasgow.
In a statement, issued by Police Scotland, her family said: "We had no knowledge of our daughter's plans to leave Scotland and immediately reported her as a missing person to the police.
"Aqsa is a studious and ambitious girl and we cannot understand why she has travelled to Syria.
"We are struggling to come to terms with the situation and we are working with the police."
A Police Scotland spokesman added: "A (then aged) 19-year-old female from Scotland was reported missing to Police Scotland by her family in November 2013.
"Inquiries are ongoing in relation to her whereabouts and we are supporting her family." | A young woman from Glasgow has travelled to Syria and has been promoting terrorism back home via her Twitter account, it is understood. |
33,854,141 | Since the floods, the Environment Agency has dredged five miles (8km) of the rivers Parrett and Tone.
However it found that nine out of 10 houses in Northmoor and Saltmoor would have avoided being severely flooded if dredging had been carried out earlier.
It also said the 10-week closure of the A361 would have been greatly reduced.
The agency used a computer model to replicate the impact of the 2013-14 flooding, if dredging work since then had already been completed and temporary pumps were in use.
Spokesman Ian Withers said the research was "very accurate" and showed dredging would be effective if those areas flooded again.
He said: "If we have the same event in future, the investment that we've made will make a big difference to the duration and severity of those type of flood events."
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the report showed dredging and investing £15.5m in flood defences over the next six years would better protect more than 7,000 homes in the area.
Dredging carried out on the rivers Parrett and Tone is the first phase in the county's 20-year Flood Action Plan (FAP).
The scheme was set up by the Government and Somerset County Council following the 2013-14 winter floods. | Dredging on the Somerset Levels would have significantly reduced the number of houses submerged underwater in the 2013-14 floods, a report has found. |
40,411,580 | Dutchman Frank de Boer, 47, has been named as Allardyce's successor as manager, signing a three-year contract.
The Eagles finished 14th in the Premier League last season after Allardyce joined in December and bought in four new players the following month.
"We can't do that every year, we need to be smarter than that," said Parish.
Palace were 17th in the Premier League after a run of one win in 11 games when Allardyce was appointed.
They signed defenders Patrick van Aanholt and Mamadou Sakho, midfielder Luka Milivojevic and the versatile Jeffrey Schlupp in the January transfer window.
Parish told BBC Radio 5 live: "We need to get to a comfortable place in this division. That will take hard work, planning, thinking.
"We bought our way out of it last season by bringing Sam in and the money we spent in January."
De Boer had been out of work since he was sacked by Italian side Inter Milan in November after only 85 days in charge.
At his first news conference as Palace manager, he said he had learned "a lot" from his time at the San Siro.
"Frank had prepared a long presentation about himself and he researched about the club and where we were," said Parish.
"He took a lot of time and trouble to articulate what his philosophy, thinking and feelings were about the club and what he could achieve.
"We spoke about Inter and what went wrong and what lessons he learnt there."
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De Boer managed Ajax from 2010 to 2016, winning the Eredivisie in four successive seasons from 2011 to 2015.
Parish said: "We are hoping not to just improve the first team but to look at the whole set-up of the club and use his knowledge, experience and probably the blueprint of a club that does things the right way in Ajax.
"It's about improving players and buying the right talent at the right age."
Parish said he would like to take Palace to a position where they are "five, six, or seven points away from any kind of consideration of danger".
'It's not about whether they're British or foreign'
De Boer is Palace's first foreign permanent manager.
"It's not about whether they're British or foreign, it's knowledge and belief," said Parish.
"For example, when I look at a manager from abroad in the middle of the season, they don't know a lot of our squad. They have to come over, find a house, get their family settled. By then, two, three or four games have gone by.
"We now have six or seven weeks of full pre-season and someone who speaks very good English and good knowledge of the world game."
'Money where money needs to be spent'
De Boer has said he is excited to join a club that "spend a lot of money," but Parish said their outlay will be controlled.
"We need to spend money where money needs to be spent and then be astute when there's no need to spend," he said.
"We always look to the market to improve the squad but Frank first of all needs to understand what he can achieve, his best formation, and the pegs he needs to put in the holes to improve." | Crystal Palace "bought" their way out of trouble last season by appointing Sam Allardyce and spending in January, says chairman Steve Parish. |
21,821,327 | The Next Day is the 66-year-old's first number one since 1993's Black Tie White Noise.
The album sold 94,000 copies this week, according to the Official Chart Company, outselling the number two album from Bon Jovi two to one.
Justin Timberlake remains at the top of the singles chart with Mirrors.
The announcement that Bowie was releasing new material came as a surprise to many in the music world, and has had Bowie aficionados picking over the fiercely private star's back catalogue, comparing his early work with his latest release.
A retrospective of the eclectic performer is being unveiled at London's V&A Museum on 23 March, celebrating Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon.
Although Bowie is not directly involved with curating the exhibition, the David Bowie Archive gave "unprecedented access" to the V&A, which picked out flamboyant costumes, early photographs and other memorabilia to show.
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The Next Day's first week sales beat that of the previous fastest-selling UK album, which was Biffy Clyro's Opposites which sold 71,600 in its debut week in January.
Emeli Sande's Our Version of Events slipped down one to number three, following behind Bon Jovi's What About Now.
Last week's number one from chart-toppers Bastille fell to number four.
In the singles chart, One Direction saw their Comic Relief effort One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) rise to number two in the wake of Friday's Red Nose Day.
The young band took part in fundraising on the BBC show, as well as travelling to Ghana to see how Comic Relief money is spent. | David Bowie's first album in a decade has become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the number one spot in its first week. |
39,377,105 | The two chased down and bit a man accused of stabbing one of his former colleagues on the roadside in what police describe as a "revenge attack".
Locals were then able to catch the man, identified as R Raghunath.
The victim is currently receiving treatment for abdominal injuries.
Police say Mr Raghunath attacked the woman because he had lost his job after she accused him of sexual harassment.
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"When they bit him, he could not run because his focus was on the dogs. That is when I and other members of the public got hold of him until the police came and took him away,'' S Raman, a rickshaw driver who takes care of the dogs, told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
Mr Raman said that the dogs, both of whom are named "puppy", chased the man after the victim, who was stabbed in the stomach, started screaming.
Natasha Chandy, a Bangalore-based Canine Counsellor, told BBC Hindi that the dogs' behaviour was not surprising.
"Dogs on the streets are highly instinctive. They can sense stress and read body language very well. In this case, the dogs may have sensed something wrong, especially if the lady screamed when she was stabbed,'' she said.
She added that it was also not unusual for dogs to go to the rescue of those who are hurt. But, she said that it was also highly likely that the animals' "chase instinct" kicked in because the man ran away. | Two street dogs in the south Indian city of Chennai (Madras) have become the unlikely heroes of a stabbing incident after helping apprehend the perpetrator. |
35,821,044 | The animals were seized from the house near Royston, Hertfordshire, on Tuesday morning.
Police said neighbours had contacted them with concerns for the welfare of the dogs. The RSPCA could not comment on the conditions inside the house as an investigation is under way.
Officers said the owners were co-operating with their enquiries.
Hertfordshire police, a police dog unit, RSPCA inspectors and a vet were all involved in the rescue operation.
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There were a number of different breeds living at the Therfield property but the animal charity could not comment on the dogs' health until their investigation has been completed.
However, RSPCA inspector Jayne Bashford said they took "allegations of animal suffering and neglect very seriously".
All 38 dogs were checked by a vet and taken to boarding kennels.
The owners will meet the RSPCA for an interview later this week. | Thirty-eight dogs have been rescued from a semi-detached house during a raid by police and the RSPCA. |
36,489,917 | The Malaysian businessman holds the shares in QPR Holdings Limited, the Championship club's parent company, through Total Soccer Growth Sdn Bhd.
Co-chairman Tony Fernandes' company QPR Asia Sdn Bhd has reduced its shareholding from 69% to 55%.
Sea Dream Ltd's shareholding, which represents the Mittal family, has reduced from 30% to 11%.
Gnanalingam became co-chairman of the west London club last summer, having been a major shareholder since Fernandes became chairman at Loftus Road in 2011. | Queens Park Rangers co-chairman Ruben Gnanalingam has increased his shareholding in the club to 33%. |
36,601,583 | The two-year pay deal, which is well above inflation, will rise to 2.75% next year.
The UK's inflation rate stood at 0.3% in May, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
However, the unions said the deal, which covers the largest number of workers in the industry, is increasingly "unfit for purpose".
Unions GMB, Ucatt and Unite reached the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) agreement, which kicks in on 25 July, with a range of builder federations.
Brian Rye, acting general secretary of Ucatt, said: "This deal ensures that workers will enjoy above inflation increase for the next two years.
"However, employers need to understand that the CIJC agreement does not meet the needs of the workforce and unless it is radically reformed it will soon cease to be relevant to the industry."
The London Living Wage, rates of pay and the impact on supply chains are issues that still need to be resolved, the unions said.
GMB rejected a deal in March that would have spread a 3.5% pay increase over two years. | Unions have struck a pay deal that will see 400,000 construction workers receive a pay rise of 2.5% this year. |
37,172,466 | Of the academic papers being presented, several offer insight which complements the startling finding, published on Tuesday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, about the lower pay rates for mothers returning to work.
This also reflects the move towards behavioural economics and away from quantitative modelling as an obsession. And that duly makes it far more interesting - if sometimes just as pointless.
I will, in due course, nominate one such paper for the Ignoble Awards, in recognition of the most pointless or ridiculous piece of academic research.
One that could have been a contender is a study that used a search engine that can assess the "mood" of words in a text, to trawl through books published in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain since 1776, and to set the findings against these countries' economic performance.
It's clever, in that search engine technology has only recently made it possible to run the numbers on all of modern literature.
And it is duly concluded that happiness is closely related to health and life expectancy, but unrelated to how much money we have. That's right - statistical evidence that money can't buy happiness, at least for authors.
Another study finds that people with higher levels of education tend to want to live near similar people, even if that costs them a lot more money. File that under 'stating the obvious'.
You might not be surprised to find, also, that the introduction of mechanical public clocks in the 13th century had a positive impact on economic growth.
Quite a lot of the research is looking at gender. I offer you, for instance, the finding that sportsmen fighting for a bronze medal are more likely to win if they have just come out of a qualifying win compared with those failing to make it to the final. That's by 68% to 32%.
For women, the team of Cohen-Zada, Krumer and Shtudiner found no such link. This is the economists' way of identifying the impact of testosterone.
If that male hormone is boosted by victory and subdued by loss, that can have effects on women's behaviour in the workplace and in financial markets. As widely observed seven years ago, they're less likely to fall for the exuberance of an asset bubble.
How about women on the board? Making more women company directors seems to have had mixed results for productivity.
By comparing companies that draw more women into the boardroom with similar companies that don't, the academic combo of Comi, Grasseni, Origo and Pagani find that the Italians find it a positive experience for productivity. But in Belgium, France and Norway? Not so much.
They reckon that southern European culture has excluded women from positions of corporate power more than northern. So when the law enforces a quota of women directors, the untapped potential of unpromoted women is easier to identify nearer the Mediterranean. And the results are too.
"In Belgium and France, gender quotas have had negative effects on both profitability and productivity," they conclude.
A sobering piece of research reflects on the link between economic power and domestic abuse.
Using evidence from Spain, one Ana Tur-Prats found that in "traditional societies", when women go out to work, domestic abuse rises. In more gender-equal societies, there is no evidence of this 'backlash' effect, she finds.
Another project, studying the same subject and in south-west England, found the positive effects of women going to work.
As they gain economic power, they have more options. So it is claimed a 10% rise in the full-time wage is linked to a 14% drop in domestic abuse. And in due course, that extra spending freedom leads to a 41% rise in the divorce rate for those being abused.
Another way of looking at it: a 10% reduction in childcare costs also helps empower mothers to get out of abusive relationships.
With less of a financial burden paying for childcare, that is reckoned to reduce abuse by 2%, and put up the divorce rate for abused women by 12%.
These are academic papers, and open to vigorous dispute in Geneva this week. I can't vouch for the quality of the modelling. But only in economics would domestic abuse be described as having a "disutility".
And now to my nomination for an Ignoble Award. Let's hear it for Jochen Ludering, a German researcher at Giessen University, who has been studying the importance of social networks and age in the pornography industry.
This has required Jochen to research around 10,000 performers between 1970 and 2013. That's right. Ten thousand.
"In the adult film industry," he writes, dryly, "collaboration between performers can be easily observed."
And the conclusions: porn actors are more likely to stay in the industry in any given year if they were in an important role in the preceding year. And older entrants to the industry are more likely to leave than younger ones.
Jochen, we salute you. Your time studying porn has been a revelation. | I haven't made it to Geneva and the congress this week of the European Economic Association, but I've been following its proceedings at a distance, and on your behalf. |
37,567,785 | He was seen entering a toilet cubicle with a woman at Christchurch Airport and will miss the Rugby Championship match against South Africa in Durban.
All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen said Smith is "bitterly disappointed in his behaviour".
Hansen added the 27-year-old scrum-half "feels he has let the team, his family and his partner down".
"He has asked to go home to deal with the personal matters that have come with this incident and we are happy to support him with that," continued Hansen.
The coach added Smith's punishment was decided by the leadership group made up of players within the team.
Smith has played 54 Tests for New Zealand since his debut in 2012, although later that year he was benched for a Test against South Africa after breaking a team curfew.
In 2014 he sent a naked picture of himself on Snapchat which was captured by other users and widely circulated. | New Zealand scrum-half Aaron Smith has been dropped for one game for breaching the All Blacks' standards of behaviour. |
29,599,382 | Investigators are now interviewing hospital staff who cared for Liberian Thomas Duncan, who died in Dallas, said Tom Frieden, of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
A woman who treated Duncan has been diagnosed with Ebola, and has been identified by US media as Nina Pham.
The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people in Africa since March.
Duncan died last week in hospital in Dallas, Texas, after being diagnosed with the disease on 30 September.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned the epidemic threatens the "very survival" of societies and could lead to failed states.
The Dallas nurse being treated for Ebola contracted the virus from Duncan despite taking considerable precautions to shield herself.
Ms Pham received an antibody-filled plasma infusion received from a doctor previously treated for the virus.
On Sunday, Dr Frieden said a "breach of protocol" had clearly occurred, though on Monday he clarified that he had not intended to fault the nurse nor Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
"We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control because even a single infection is unacceptable," Dr Frieden said on Monday.
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The infection made the nurse the first person to contract Ebola inside the US. She is now said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Her home has been cleaned and sanitised.
From an interview with the 26-year-old nurse, public health investigators have identified only a single person with whom she had contact during the period when she could have been infectious.
That person, along with 48 contacts of Duncan and the healthcare workers who treated him, are being monitored for signs of the disease.
"All of us have to work together to do whatever's possible to reduce the risk that any healthcare worker becomes infected," Dr Frieden said.
Dr Frieden also said the CDC was encouraging all hospitals in the US to "think Ebola" when presented with patients who had Ebola-like symptoms and who had travelled within the past 21 days to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three West African countries being ravaged by the disease.
Surgical cap
Goggles
Medical mask
Scrubs
Overalls
Apron
Double gloves
Boots
Respirator
The cap forms part of a protective hood covering the head and neck. It offers medical workers an added layer of protection, ensuring that they cannot touch any part of their face whilst in the treatment centre.
Goggles, or eye visors, are used to provide cover to the eyes, protecting them from splashes. The goggles are sprayed with an anti-fogging solution before being worn. On October 21, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced stringent new guidelines for healthcare personnel who may be dealing with Ebola patients. In the new guidelines, health workers are advised to use a single use disposable full face shield as goggles may not provide complete skin coverage.
Covers the mouth to protect from sprays of blood or body fluids from patients. When wearing a respirator, the medical worker must tear this outer mask to allow the respirator through.
A respirator is worn to protect the wearer from a patient's coughs. According to guidelines from the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the respirator should be put on second, right after donning the overalls.
A surgical scrub suit, durable hospital clothing that absorbs liquid and is easily cleaned, is worn as a baselayer underneath the overalls. It is normally tucked into rubber boots to ensure no skin is exposed.
The overalls are placed on top of the scrubs. These suits are similar to hazardous material (hazmat) suits worn in toxic environments. The team member supervising the process should check that the equipment is not damaged.
A minimum two sets of gloves are required, covering the suit cuff. When putting on the gloves, care must be taken to ensure that no skin is exposed and that they are worn in such a way that any fluid on the sleeve will run off the suit and glove. Medical workers must change gloves between patients, performing thorough hand hygiene before donning a new pair. Heavy duty gloves are used whenever workers need to handle infectious waste.
A waterproof apron is placed on top of the overalls as a final layer of protective clothing.
Ebola health workers typically wear rubber boots, with the scrubs tucked into the footwear. If boots are unavailable, workers must wear closed, puncture and fluid-resistant shoes. | Ebola could infect more US health workers, a senior official leading the effort to contain the virus has said. |
23,304,198 | Lawyers for Mr Zimmerman, 29, argued he acted in self-defence and with justifiable use of deadly force in the death of Trayvon Martin.
The jury retired on Friday to consider its verdict on charges of either second-degree murder or manslaughter.
The case sparked a fierce debate about racial profiling in the US.
Spontaneous protest marches were staged overnight in US cities including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington and Atlanta, US media reported.
Police and community leaders appealed for calm in Sanford, the Florida town where the shooting took place.
After the verdict, Judge Deborah Nelson told Mr Zimmerman he was free to go.
"Your bond will be released. Your GPS monitor will be cut off when you exit the courtroom over here. And you have no further business with the court," Judge Nelson said.
Mr Zimmerman showed little reaction as the verdict was read out.
"Hopefully everyone will respect the jury's verdict," his lawyer Mark O'Mara told reporters after the case.
He said Mr Zimmerman would now have to be "very cautious and protective of his safety because there is still a fringe element who have said that they would revenge - that they would not listen to - a verdict of not guilty."
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Another member of his defence team, Don West, said: "I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty."
The BBC's David Willis, in Florida, says the case brought into sharp relief some of the most divisive issues in the United States: race, gun control and equal justice under the law.
Florida police did not arrest Mr Zimmerman for six weeks after the shooting, provoking mass rallies in Florida and throughout the US.
Police justified their decision not to detain him by citing the state's controversial "stand your ground" law, which allows a citizen to use lethal force if he or she feels in imminent danger. Police initially said the law prevented them from bringing charges.
Benjamin Crump, the Martin family lawyer, said: "Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history... as a symbol for the fight for equal justice for all."
He, too, appealed for calm, saying "for Trayvon to rest in peace, we must all be peaceful".
The family's legal team said they were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read out.
State Attorney Angela Corey said she believed prosecutors had "brought out the truth on behalf of Trayvon Martin".
"This case has never been about race or the right to bear arms,'' she said.
"We believe this case all along was about boundaries, and George Zimmerman exceeded those boundaries."
As the jury retired on Friday, the judge told the panel of six women to consider whether Mr Zimmerman acted in self-defence and with justifiable use of deadly force.
Without explicitly discussing race, the prosecution had suggested Mr Zimmerman assumed the African-American teenager, who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt as he walked in the rain, was up to no good.
But the defence said Trayvon Martin punched their client, slammed his head into the pavement and reached for Mr Zimmerman's gun.
The accused, who was legally armed with a pistol, had been sitting in his vehicle on a dark street when he saw Martin.
Mr Zimmerman telephoned police to report a suspicious person, then left his vehicle in apparent pursuit of the teenager.
Shortly afterwards, Martin was found dead, shot in the chest.
Earlier, Mr Zimmerman's lawyer said he had proven his client's "pure, unadulterated innocence" in Martin's death.
But prosecutors said the accused had told a series of lies.
US President Barack Obama commented on the case last March following calls for the arrest of Mr Zimmerman.
He said the "tragedy" of an unarmed black teenager shot dead in Florida should prompt some national soul-searching.
"If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon," President Obama told reporters at the White House.
Following the verdict, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - best known for its battles against segregation and discrimination - said it was calling "immediately for the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into the civil rights violations committed against Trayvon Martin".
"This case has re-energised the movement to end racial profiling in the United States," Roslyn M Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, said in a statement. | George Zimmerman, the Florida neighbourhood watchman who shot dead an unarmed black 17-year-old male last year, has been found not guilty. |
36,323,554 | Declan Murray, 44, from Main Street in Strabane, crashed into an oncoming car driven by a 60-year-old child minder who had two children in her vehicle.
Twelve days beforehand a consultant neurologist told him never to get behind the wheel of a vehicle again.
He diagnosed Murray as an epileptic who had numerous seizures.
The consultant also told Murray to inform the DVLA of his medical condition, which he did not do.
Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving.
He committed the offence on the Victoria Road between the villages of Newbuildings and Magheramason on 29 May, 2012, after he had what he believed was an epileptic seizure.
A Public Prosecution Service barrister told the judge at Londonderry Crown Court that Murray was driving his van towards Strabane when the vehicle suddenly veered across the white line. It crashed head on into an oncoming car which was being driven by the child minder who had children aged five and eight in the back seat.
The two children sustained minor injuries, but the child minder suffered multiple fractures to her legs and ribs and the prosecutor said such was the severity of her injuries that she was unconscious, unresponsive and paramedics believed her life was at risk.
The victim was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital where she spent the following six weeks in intensive care. She was discharged from hospital six months after the crash.
The prosecution barrister said the injuries the child minder suffered were life-changing and she now needed a crutch to walk.
"The injured party is present in court today to see justice done, but she says she is not here for vengeance and she is not arguing for any particular sentence", the barrister said.
A defence barrister said Murray, who suffered a broken sternum in the crash, was "absolutely saddled with remorse".
"He accepts he is going to jail. He accepts he caused catastrophic injuries and suffering to an entirely innocent and blameless woman," the barrister said.
The judge said he would sentence Murray next week and remanded him in custody.
"He is going to jail," the judge said. | A epileptic man who ignored medical advice never to drive again, was told on Wednesday he would be jailed for critically injuring a woman in a crash. |
33,077,203 | The US president sent congratulations to both laureates, adding: "Music brings people together in an increasingly interconnected world.
"It helps bridge differences, lift hearts and challenge assumptions."
Dame Evelyn said she "never imagined" she would win the award, considered to be music's version of the Nobel prize.
The musician - who has been deaf since the age of 12 - was accompanied to the ceremony in Stockholm by her mother and her childhood percussion teacher, whom she had not seen in 25 years.
Accepting her honour from King Carl XVI of Sweden, she described the Polar Prize as "important and symbolic".
"It's an institution that brings together people of all kinds, whatever their culture, age or beliefs, in a celebration of music's power and diversity. I want to thank tonight's superb organisers, the Swedish people for their hospitality and of course the prize committee for awarding me this prize."
Harris, from Birmingham, Alabama, has recorded more than 25 albums over four decades and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
She has collaborated with artists from Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons to Willie Nelson and Beck, and is the subject of the 2012 song Emmylou by Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit.
The duo read Harris's citation at the ceremony, and played their song at an after-party.
"We never thought we'd get to sing this song in front of you," sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg, said to Harris.
Bruce Springsteen also sent a message of congratulations to the country star, saying: "Thank you for gracing our songs with your voice over the years."
Harris had earlier given an emotional acceptance speech, which moved some members of the audience to tears.
"I have only one regret on this magical evening, that my beloved parents, Walter and Eugenia, did not live to share this with me," she said.
"It didn't matter to them if I was successful or not, they only cared for my happiness. Their unconditional love carried me through good times and bad and will abide with me whatever the future holds, 'til my journey ends."
Since the Polar Music Prize was founded by Abba manager and lyricist Stig Anderson in 1992, it has honoured musical achievements and boundary breaking.
Each year it recognises one laureate from the contemporary music world and one from the more classical realm.
Previous winners of the Polar Music Prize include Sir Paul McCartney, Chuck Berry, Patti Smith and Youssou N'Dour.
As well as their trophy, Harris and Dame Evelyn were each awarded one million Swedish krona (£78,560).
Organisers called 2015's laureates "richly deserving" winners with "exceptional music careers".
"Both represent the spirit of the award that my father envisaged when he founded the prize," said managing director Marie Ledin. | Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and country star Emmylou Harris were praised by Barack Obama as they received the 2015 Polar Music Prize. |
39,662,535 | England's Florentyna Parker and Sophie Walker, along with Scotland's Gemma Dryburgh, are a stroke off the lead.
Nordqvist, ranked 10th in the world, carded six birdies and one bogey on a windy day at Club de Golf Terramar.
"I know I grew up in Sweden, but I've been in the heat for so long now that I don't do very well with the cold weather," the Swede said. | Anna Nordqvist took the first-round lead as she shot a five-under-par 66 in the Mediterranean Ladies Open. |
34,122,766 | A post-mortem examination of the woman's body, found at a house in Curlew Place, St Neots, concluded she died from "multiple cuts to the neck".
Armed officers forced entry after being contacted by an ambulance crew and found a woman in her 30s, police said.
Timothy Allen, 40, from Curlew Place, is due to appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
The house remains cordoned off and inquiries continue, police said. | A man has been charged with murder after a woman was found dead in Cambridgeshire on Saturday. |
38,135,063 | Paul Briggs, 43, of Merseyside, suffered a brain injury in a crash in July 2015.
Lindsey Briggs told Manchester Court of Protection he would not have wanted to live and would have been "horrified knowing his daughter was scared of him".
Doctors are opposing the application.
Mr Briggs, a Gulf War veteran, suffered a bleed on the brain, five fractures in his spine, bruising to internal organs and several other severe injuries in the collision and is being kept alive through medical intervention.
His wife and mother to his daughter Ella, five, said he did not recognise her or respond to her when she went to see him.
The court heard medical experts predicted even in a best case scenario, PC Briggs would remain severely physically disabled and could live nine or 10 years.
Mrs Briggs said he valued his independence and having this taken away would be "torture" for him.
She said: "I think he would see it as torture, just as hell, that everything he believes in and he lives for would just be taken away from him.
"He would be living for no reason."
Mrs Briggs told the court her husband had been active, sociable and a "hands on father" before the crash.
When asked what her husband might think of his situation now, she said he would be horrified and "horrified for his daughter, that she's scared of him".
PC Briggs's mother, Jan, said she agreed with her daughter-in-law, adding it was "very, very difficult" to see him as he is now.
She told the court: "I just don't want him to suffer any more."
Conrad Hallin, representing Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, said doctors had noticed some signs of improvement in his condition.
Chelsea Rowe, 26, was given a 12-month prison term in July after admitting causing serious injury to PC Briggs by dangerous driving in Birkenhead.
The hearing, expected to last four days, continues. | The wife of a police officer left in a coma after a crash has asked a court to withdraw his life-support treatment as he would have seen living as "hell". |
35,429,620 | The promotion-chasing League One side side have brought in the former England Under-19 captain on an initial two-month youth loan.
Morris, 19, who started the campaign in the Midlands on loan at Coventry City, previously worked with Saddlers boss Sean O'Driscoll while on England duty.
"I've worked with Sean before. He's got a really good philosophy," said Morris.
"I loved playing for him and we had some really good results with England. He said it's the club's philosophy to give young players a chance.
"So that's good for me and shows young players that there is a pathway through the system."
Morris is Walsall's first signing of the January window and, other than on-loan midfielder George Evans' return to Manchester City, prior to being sold to Reading, the Saddlers have not yet had to let any players go.
O'Driscoll's side stand third in League One, four points off top spot.
Hartlepool-born midfielder Bryn Morris progressed through the ranks to sign professional forms in 2013, after joining Middlesbrough's Academy at the age of seven.
Despite joining the club in time for this weekend's FA Cup fourth-round tie at Reading, Morris is cup-tied, having played in the competition for York City, where he also spent a month in October.
Morris has made three Boro substitute appearances, since being handed his debut by Tony Mowbray, now Coventry's boss, as a 16-year-old. He has made 11 appearances this season; seven for Coventry, four at York.
He also made five appearances on loan to League Two champions Burton Albion last season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Walsall have signed teenage midfielder Bryn Morris on loan from Championship club Middlesbrough. |
33,107,851 | Christopher Hannah crashed into Sophie Brannan and two others in Glasgow's Maryhill area on 14 November last year.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, he was handed a 245 day sentence after admitting the reset of two guitars and an electronic book in March last year.
He will not spend extra time in jail as the sentence will run concurrently.
Hannah, who was a heroin addict, admitted a charge of culpable homicide over the death of Sophie Brannan.
He also admitted dangerous driving, attempting to defeat the ends of justice and possessing heroin.
His trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard that he was driving a hired Vauxhall Astra in the Maryhill area and lost control.
He then fully mounted the pavement before hitting the gable end of a nearby building.
However, the car continued to career forward eventually ploughing into Sophie and the two people with her from behind.
She was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill where she was found to have swelling to her brain, several fractures and broken bones.
The schoolgirl remained in intensive care overnight, but she never recovered and was pronounced dead the following morning. | A man who is serving more than 12 years in jail for killing a schoolgirl in a drug-fuelled hit-and-run crash has been sentenced for handling stolen goods. |
35,899,752 | Lynne Freeman, 46, was found seriously injured outside a house in Maple Crescent, Redcar, on Wednesday evening.
Minutes later, police received reports that Jodie Betteridge, 30, was being attacked in nearby Byland Close.
Cleveland Police said magistrates had granted an extension to question a 34-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder.
A force spokeswoman said the families of the women were being supported by specially-trained officers.
Both scenes, which are less than a mile apart, remain cordoned off.
The police spokeswoman added: "Following the arrest of a 34-year-old man in relation to the murder of two women in the Redcar area, police attended Teesside Magistrates' Court where they were authorised an extension of his detention.
"This allows the investigation team to detain the man for a further period of time while they continue their inquiries.
"A post mortem examination has taken place regarding one victim and the post mortem examination for the other victim is due to take place later."
Neighbours described the deaths as "very shocking".
A floral tribute for Ms Betteridge, left near the scene at Byland Close, had a note which said "thoughts are with your beautiful children". | Two women killed in separate Teesside attacks just minutes apart have been named by police. |
35,349,081 | A Commons committee said the government had been "too reliant" on the World Health Organisation (WHO) system, which declared an emergency in August 2014.
Instead it should have listened to other groups that were warning about Ebola months earlier, the report said.
But the government said its "swift and effective action" saved thousands.
The WHO has since set out plans to reform after health experts said its response to the outbreak was too slow.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014.
Some 11,315 people are reported to have died from the disease in six countries: Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the US and Mali.
The Commons' international development committee said groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres had raised the alarm about Ebola months before the WHO did.
The committee said the Department for International Development (DfID) "must ensure it has the ability to listen and react to information and warnings from a range of sources".
Instead it was "still relying too much on improvements on the international system without improving its own ability to independently assess international public health risks", the MPs concluded.
Committee chairman Stephen Twigg said: "The international community relied on WHO to sound the alarm for an international emergency on the scale of Ebola. The organisation's failure to respond quickly enough is now well documented.
"DfID operated effectively once the international response began in earnest.
"However, the department should have been able to pick up on warnings from sources beyond the established international system."
The committee also said it should be made easier for small sums of aid funding to be allocated after hearing from a doctor who was refused £7,500 in the early stages of the outbreak.
An inability to deal with small sums "may have hampered" the response, the report said, cautioning that "playing catch-up" usually proved more expensive.
Mr Twigg added: "It is vital that these lessons are learned as every delay counts. We urge DfID to lead efforts and make this reform a priority."
A DfID spokeswoman said the UK was "at the forefront of tackling this unprecedented epidemic" and this was "months before the first cases of Ebola were confirmed in Sierra Leone.
"We simultaneously pushed the international system to respond more quickly," she said.
"From rapidly deploying NHS medics and military personnel to building treatment centres, our swift and effective action helped save thousands of lives and contain the spread of the disease.
"Our flexible response is now ensuring Sierra Leone can isolate and treat new cases of Ebola before they spread." | The UK government should have paid more attention to warnings about Ebola before a formal emergency was declared, a group of MPs has said in a report. |
37,257,205 | Thousands still exist but the rise of the digital age means old-school analogue photo booths are few and far between.
But new high-tech versions have become the latest "must have" for anyone organising a wedding, party or other event.
They are digital, portable, print photos in seconds and cost around £500 to hire for a few hours.
Some come with special themes like James Bond or Las Vegas and most come with props - think big glasses, hat and inflatable guitars.
It is popular and photo booth hire companies are reporting steady growth, with bookings being made well in advance of events.
Glenn Richardson runs a photo booth hire company in the Birmingham area. He bought it as a franchise in 2013, and in his first year it doubled in size.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme, he says: "It is still growing, I am taking bookings as far as 2018 believe it or not. They are not even making diaries that far ahead, but there you go."
The company that he worked with - photobooth.co.uk - started six years ago. It hires booths out and also sells them directly to businesses. To date it has sold around 1,900 booths in the UK.
The business has been growing by a third every year and now has more than 500 operators around the UK - as well as many abroad.
At the other end of the scale, some of those old photo booths that used to be in shops are also being preserved.
In pictures: A box, a seat, a curtain and you
Jess Quayle's report on the popularity of photo booths is on You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 5 September
Fred Aldous, an art and craft supplier in Manchester's Northern Quarter, has two.
The first is a Photo-Me Model 17 black and white booth from 1968. It was manufactured in the UK but spent most of its life in a Woolworth's store in Canada.
The second is a Photo-Me Model 17C colour booth circa 1986. It is thought to be the only public colour analogue photo booth in the whole of Western Europe.
Paul Walker, joint managing director at Fred Aldous, says they never expected it to be so popular.
"It is one of the best things we've ever introduced to the shop. It is just a real bringer of joy, people come in and just absolutely love it," he says.
"They are bringing people in - friends and family - and documenting their lives."
People have used the photos for proposals, new babies and also for weddings.
It costs £3 per go, but Mr Walker says: "It does not really make any kind of commercial sense to have one, it is just the feelings that people have when they are in them, and the way it says so much about us as a company - they are priceless to us." | For decades, photo booths sat in shops and department stores - used by many to get passport photos done, or by groups of teenagers cramming into the tight space for a fun photo. |
26,038,835 | The missing person poster, with a new photograph of Allan Bryant, was released to mark three months since he was last seen.
The poster also asks people to check again, and to keep checking, sheds, garages and outdoor buildings.
Mr Bryant, 24, was last seen outside the Styx nightclub in Glenrothes on 3 November 2013.
Ch Insp Derek McEwan, of Police Scotland, said: "This is one of the largest missing person searches ever conducted in Fife and has seen specialist resources including helicopter, divers and search dogs used.
"We would ask everyone who has any type of outdoor structure in their garden or land to check it again, even if they have already done so, and to regularly check it for any sign of Allan.
"His family are, understandably, desperate for any news about Allan or his whereabouts and I would once again ask that anyone who has any information to call Police Scotland on 101 or through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111." | Police have issued a poster appealing for information on a missing Fife man, who disappeared in November. |
30,049,466 | The three-day international event is the final stage of the world rally championships and sees 160 competitors taking on the forest stage.
Entrants include Elfyn Evans, 25, from Dolgellau, son of former British rally champion Gwyndaf Evans.
Thousands attended a firework launch in Eirias Park Stadium, Colwyn Bay, on Thursday night, from where the rally began.
It is the second year the rally has started in north Wales after moving from its previous base in Cardiff.
The course takes drivers through forests in Snowdonia, Denbighshire and mid Wales.
The rally started with the Gartheiniog Forest stage.
It was the first time spectators were able to view this stage, which organisers described as 18km of "pure challenge" for the competitors.
All the way through the forest there were tight technical corners, fast open sweeping roads and big climbs as well as steep downhill sections.
The event is the 13th and final stage of this year's World Rally Championship.
It is a three-day route comprising of 23 competitive stages, with all 191 miles against the clock.
Friday's action will see the drivers competing through mid Wales and they will eventually make their way back up to north Wales on Sunday, where the winner will be crowned in Llandudno. | The Wales Rally GB is under way around north and mid Wales. |
38,954,045 | Lemou Ange Lauric Lebato, known to family and friends as Lauric Lebato, was found stabbed in Albion Street at about 04:00 GMT on Saturday.
Police said they think the 22-year-old from London had been at a flat party in the street before the attack.
His father Tagbeu Lebato, urged anyone who knew anything about his death to tell police and not "hold it back".
In a statement released through Leicestershire Police, Tagbeu Lebato from Finsbury Park, London, said: "Lauric was the first person in my life, the centre of it, and was so very, very, important to me.
"I don't want anyone else to go through what I have and I don't want this to happen to someone else's relative.
"You must pass on information to police. No matter what it is. Don't hold it back."
Detectives investigating Mr Lebato's death urged students who were at the party or who may have heard what happened to get in touch with any information. | The father of a man killed in a Leicester city centre street attack has appealed for help to catch his killer. |
36,436,718 | Saraiva, 22, joins from Ryman League Premier Division side Merstham and has agreed a one-year deal.
Jones, who can play in defence or midfield, scored five goals in 43 league appearances for the Surrey club in 2015-16.
The 22-year-old moved to Kingfield from Yeovil summer 2014 after a loan spell and has penned a new one-year contract.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | National League club Woking have signed midfielder Fabio Saraiva, while Joey Jones has signed a new contract. |
22,949,611 | He is under arrest in Hungary, accused of assisting in the murder of 15,700 Jews during World War II. He denies the allegations.
In 1944 he was serving in the Nazi police in Kosice, now in Slovakia.
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center says Mr Csatary oversaw deportations of Jews to the Auschwitz death camp.
The indictment accuses Mr Csatary of torturing and murdering Jews - partly as a culprit, partly as an accomplice.
It says he was the chief of an internment camp for Jews in Kosice, and that he beat them with his bare hands and a dog whip.
"With his actions, Laszlo Csatary... deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps... from Kosice," the prosecutors' statement said.
His trial is expected to start within three months.
Mr Csatary insists that he was merely an intermediary between Hungarian and German officials in Kosice and that he was not involved in war crimes.
Kosice - called Kassa at the time - was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country in 1944.
In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Mr Csatary to death, in absentia, for torturing Jews.
Mr Csatary fled to Canada after the war, where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto. He disappeared in 1997 after being stripped of his Canadian citizenship.
He was in 2012 named by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as its most wanted suspect.
He was tracked down in Budapest by reporters from the UK's Sun newspaper in July 2012, with help from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
He was put under house arrest.
He has also been charged in Slovakia. | Hungarian prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man, Laszlo Csatary, with participation in Nazi war crimes. |
35,267,398 | Daytime temperatures as low as -15C are expected, although forecasters say with wind chill it could feel like -29C.
The coldest NFL game in terms of air temperature was 1967's 'Ice Bowl' between Green Bay and Dallas, which at kick off was -25C (-44C wind chill).
"It is going to be brutally cold," AccuWeather's John Feerick said.
The Vikings say fans attending Sunday's game in Minneapolis are encouraged to bring blankets and "styrofoam, cardboard or newspapers to place under their feet" to prevent prolonged contact with the concrete.
Free hand warmers and coffee will also be distributed.
"Frostbite will occur quickly to any exposed skin and both fans and players will have to prepare accordingly," Feerick added.
Vikings owner Mark Wilf said: "We know Minnesotans are resilient when it comes to cold weather and unified when it comes to the Vikings, so we view this Sunday's game as a rallying moment.
"At the same time, we want our fans to be smart and safe when they are supporting the team, and we are taking a few extra steps to assist in that effort this Sunday."
The previous coldest game in Vikings history was played on 3 December 1972, when the air temperature was -18C and the wind chill was -28C.
The Vikings are currently playing at TCF Bank Stadium, home of the University of Minnesota's football team, while a new stadium on the site of the Metrodome, their home from 1982 to 2013, is under construction. | Fans are braced for one of the coldest NFL games in history this weekend when the Minnesota Vikings host the Seattle Seahawks in an NFC Wild Card game. |
34,634,892 | It is a bright, moonlit night, pregnant with the promise of a frosty winter. The landscape is etched with silhouettes of hills and trees. Now more than a dozen men, looking like ghostly apparitions, complete the picture.
"Any information about vehicles in the neighbourhood?" barks Nawal Kishore Sharma, who is inspecting this stakeout in a hamlet in Rajasthan.
The men shake their heads.
"Nothing so far," says one of them. "It's all very quiet tonight."
The bike-borne Mr Sharma is a rakish man of sorts. He has shiny oiled hair and a neat beard. He is clad in fraying blue denim, a pale blue shirt and khaki sneakers. He has, by his own admission, two wives and five children.
By day, Mr Sharma makes marble figurines of deities for a living. By night, he's a fire-spewing leader of a thriving group of radical Hindu vigilantes belonging to a cow protection group in Ramgarh, a cluster of some 70 villages.
Several nights a week Mr Sharma marshals his "patrolling soldiers", as he calls them, to keep a watch on what they say are smugglers illegally transporting cows to sell for slaughter.
Groups like his are thriving thanks to the rising hysteria and sporadic violence over slaughter of cows and consumption of beef in India. Ruling BJP governments in states have tightened laws on both. The cow, venerated by India's majority Hindu people, has re-emerged as India's most polarising animal.
Mr Sharma's "soldiers" are a rag-tag, but committed bunch of vigilantes who are mostly members of militant Hindu groups like Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and Shiv Sena. All of them attend local camps held by the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers' Organisation), which has umbilical ties with the ruling BJP.
Some of them are as young as 15. They are a motley crew of farmers, shop owners, teachers, students, masons, doctors and the jobless. On the night I went out with a group, I met a TV repairman, a Sanskrit teacher, and a TV journalist, who were looking to catch cow smugglers. There were two polytechnic students.
They are mainly vegetarian and many say they drink cow urine for a "healthy life". Many of them, including Mr Sharma himself, believe that the Muslim man who was lynched by a Hindu mob over rumours of storing and consuming beef deserved his fate, and "when fights happen, people do get killed".
All of them believe that "mother cow" is endangered, and conflate saving the cow with saving Hinduism. "The cow will become extinct within 20 years if we don't save them now," says Suraj Bhan Gujjar, a farmer. Although there are rising concerns over cattle smuggling in border areas, India has more than 100 million cows and buffaloes, and it's one of the top milk producing countries in the world.
So night after night, spurred by myth and fervour, they stake out at village crossroads, looking to waylay vehicles and looking for the quarry they are trying to save. They say cows are smuggled in pick-up trucks, SUVs, even ambulances and buses, and are taken to abattoirs in neighbouring states.
The vigilantes are armed with sturdy batons, baseball bats, sticks, stones, machetes and sickles mounted on sticks. They use beds of nails on wooden slabs as road blocks to stop vehicles. When the going gets tough, they chase the smugglers on their bikes.
The battle to save the cow appears to be a bit asymmetrical: the smugglers often fire in the dark to ward them off and the two sides often end up in high speed chases. "We are experts in dodging bullets. We jump into the fields when the smugglers open fire," says Babulal Prajapati, the TV repairman.
There is no such dramatic action tonight.
There is a false alarm at one stakeout - somebody spots a speck of light in the distance, and the vigilantes dive into the fields. The light flickers out. It is not from a vehicle.
Another patrol stops a truck trundling down a dirt track. Excitement mounts, and the vigilantes clamber up the vehicle. More disappointment: it is stuffed with pigs bound for markets in Delhi.
The driver is Zakir Hussain. You are a Muslim, and you are carrying pigs? asks a bemused vigilante. "I transport everything for a living," says Mr Husain wryly.
As the futile search for the holy cow wears on, camels dragging carts suddenly loom in the moonlit darkness on a narrow dirt track. The vigilantes gasp and make way. The night is full of slight surprises.
The group claims to have rescued 18,000 cows and sent them to shelters since it began work in 1992. It says most of the smugglers escape under the cover of darkness. The "rescued" cows are sent to two cow shelters in the district.
Records at the local police station show only half a dozen registered cases of cow smuggling and four smugglers arrested so far this year; last year, there were seven such cases. A dozen smugglers' vehicles, seized by the police, are rotting near the police station. "We take complaints of cow smuggling very seriously. And the protection groups helps us catch then," says policeman Dhruv Singh.
Things are getting better with a friendly ruling government though.
"We are working harder these days. Our efforts are getting support. The local BJP lawmaker, party leaders are all helping us in our mission. The police take us more seriously, the authorities are listening to us," says Mr Sharma.
In the neighbouring Alwar town, the local BJP lawmaker Gyan Dev Ahuja makes no bones about his support for the vigilantes.
"I give them money, I give them support, I hold classes on the virtues of cow," he tells me.
A sample of his lessons: California is entirely electrified by cow dung fuel or biogas, cow milk contains traces of gold; and foreign experts say killing cows in India will "lead to volcanoes, earthquakes and drought".
"Still," he sighs, "the cow is not being given enough importance in India."
"That is why I support the vigilantes. They have a mission. It's about saving India's soul. It's about Hindutva (Hinduness)." | The men leap out of the darkness at a fork in a lonely village crossroad well past midnight. |
36,100,089 | Jack Susianta drowned after jumping into Regents Canal in Walthamstow Marshes in July 2015.
The 17-year-old had suffered a psychotic episode and escaped through a window from his home in Hackney.
Acting Insp James Reynolds told an inquest police had to carry out an assessment before taking action.
This would take into account the conditions of the water and if officers could swim, and involve communicating a rescue plan, St Pancras Coroner's Court heard.
He said officers at the scene were "doing all they could do".
Officers threw 82ft (25m) life ropes to Jack as he became submerged, but the teenager did not grab them, the court heard.
Mr Reynolds, of the Metropolitan Police, described the water as "really oily, dark and you could not see below the surface"
Within minutes of the inspector arriving at the scene, a police officer had asked to go into the water, the inquest was told.
Mr Reynolds said that during this "quite frantic" stage he had not stopped anyone from going in.
He told the officer he could not give authorisation, and said it was for him to make a risk assessment.
The coroner told Mr Reynolds that members of the public had also volunteered.
Mr Reynolds replied he did not see or hear that, but he would have told them they also risked becoming a casualty, the jury heard.
Asked if in retrospect he would have done anything different, Mr Reynolds said he had "sleepless nights" over the incident.
"I brood about it a lot ... but looking back at it, no, I believe not," he told the court.
The inquest continues. | An inspector in charge of police trying to help a teenager who drowned in a canal has said he was right not to ask officers to go into the water. |
34,812,304 | The Irish side overcame punishing jetlag and bitter cold in Siberia with two AJ MacGinty penalties giving the visitors a 6-0 lead at half-time.
Tries from Niyi Adeolokun, John Muldoon and Darragh Leader saw Connacht pull clear before Andrei Polivanov's try.
Rory Parata clinched the bonus point before Polivanov completed his double.
More than 6,000km from Ireland and with temperatures dropping to -18C (-0.4F), Connacht were forced into a lively start against Enisei.
On his first start for Connacht, USA international fly-half MacGinty kicked two first-half penalties at the snow-powdered pitch of Krasnoyarsk's Central Stadium.
MacGinty's Russian counterpart Yury Kushnarev missed an early chance before the American stretched the Irish province's lead with a third penalty in the second period.
Connacht, perhaps better accustomed to the biting cold, then moved up a gear, winger Adeolokun and skipper Muldoon each crossing for tries in two crucial minutes that took the visitors out to a 19-0 lead.
Enisei, spurred on by 4,000 fans in their 25,000-seater stadium, poured into attack, but to no avail against the weakest of the four Irish provinces.
Full-back Leader scored Connacht's third try before replacement prop Polivanov made history when he crossed for Enisei-STM's first try in the 73rd minute.
Kushnarev converted to reduce the arrears, but Connacht bagged a bonus point when Parata went over for the visiting team's fourth try, converted by Leader.
There was time, however, for the home side to have the final word, Polivanov notching up his second try, also converted by Kushnarev as the game wound down.
As the harsh Siberian winter sets in, Enisei will now switch their next two home group games against French club Brive and English side Newcastle Falcons to the considerably warmer climes of the resort city of Sochi, far to the west on Russia's Black Sea coast.
Enisei-STM: Kushnarev, Babaev, Kacharava, Gerasimov, Simplikevich, Gaisin, Baranovs, Bezverkhov, Selskii, Zykov, Saulite, Krasylnyk, Orlov, Temnov, Krotov.
Replacements: Shcherban for Baranovs (41), Polivalov for Bezverkhov (55), Gasanov for Selskii (68), Elgin for Krasylnyk (76), Rudoi for Temnov (73). Not Used: Pronenko, Kuzmenko, Simonov.
Sin Bin: Kushnarev (24).
Connacht: Leader, Parata, Aki, Robb, Adeolokun, A. MacGinty, Porter, Buckley, Delahunt, Bealham, Dillane, Muldowney, Muldoon, Connolly, Naoupu.
Replacements: Ronaldson for Aki (64), Blade for Porter (60), Loughney for Buckley (55), Heffernan for Delahunt (64), O'Donnell for Bealham (67), Qualter for Muldowney (67), O'Brien for Muldoon (57). Not Used: Carty.
Referee: Thomas Charabas (France). | Connacht earned a bonus-point Challenge Cup against Enisei-STM, who made history by being the first Russian team to take part in European competition. |
40,246,370 | Connie Yates posted the image on Facebook with the message "a picture speaks a thousand words".
Specialists in London say the 10-month old should be moved to palliative care but his parents want to take him to the US to undergo a trial treatment.
The European Court of Human Rights is currently considering the case.
Judges in Strasbourg, France, ruled that Charlie should receive treatment until Tuesday while they look at paperwork in the case.
Ms Yates and her partner Chris Gard launched the final legal challenge at the European court after their appeal to the Supreme Court failed.
Charlie has been in intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital since October last year.
He has mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare disorder that affects the genetic building blocks that give energy to cells.
Doctors say he cannot hear, move, cry or swallow and that his lungs only go up and down because he is on a machine that does it for him. They say the US trial is experimental and will not improve his quality of life.
Ms Yates posted the new photo of Charlie with the words: "A picture speaks a thousand words
"As quoted from the judgement . . . 'He is not consistently able to open his eyes enough to be able to see. Indeed, this leads to the difficulty that his brain is failing to learn to see'." | The mother of Charlie Gard has shared a photo of her son with his eyes open as she waits to find out if his life-support will be switched off. |
40,693,482 | The body has yet to be identified and a post mortem will be carried out to determine the cause of death.
The man's body was discovered by volunteers searching for missing Newtownabbey man Dean McIlwaine.
Mr McIlwaine was last seen in the Carnmoney Road area of Newtownabbey in County Antrim on Thursday 13 July.
PSNI Superintendent Emma Bond said: "Police have been working alongside community search teams and members of the public in an effort to find Dean McIlwaine.
"Although the PSNI were not part of the Cavehill search party, we were aware it was taking place and had spoken to the organiser.
"Today, as part of our ongoing investigation, we carried out a number of other searches in the area for Dean," she added.
The 22-year-old barber's parents made an emotional plea for him to come home on Thursday.
Police had carried out extensive searches for him and also released CCTV footage taken on the day he went missing as they appealed for information on his whereabouts. | The body of a man has been found at Cavehill in north Belfast, police have confirmed. |
21,482,599 | John Grotzinger, the mission's chief scientist, says he expects this to happen very shortly.
The robot, which is investigating a deep crater on the planet, drilled into what appears to be a mudstone.
Some of the grey powder produced in the process should now be sitting in the stem of the tool, and must be moved to the onboard labs for analysis.
"We have to first confirm that the powder has moved up the drill stem," Prof Grotzinger told BBC News.
"From there, it will go into something called the drill assembly, which is about as big as a hockey puck. That's where the sample gets portioned before going through a set of tubes that takes it to some sieves."
Only particles measuring 150 microns (millionths of a metre) across, or less, will be sent to the two big labs in the belly of the rover - Chemin and Sam.
They will describe the mineralogical make-up of the mudstone and try to identify any interesting carbon chemistry that might be present.
Curiosity is seeking new insights on past environmental conditions on the Red Planet - conditions that may have supported microbial life many billions of years ago.
It is currently investigating a series of layered deposits about half a kilometre from its landing point last August on the floor of the equatorial Gale Crater.
Already it has seen numerous examples of rocks that were deposited in water or subsequently altered by it.
Water is one of the prerequisites for life as we know it on Earth.
The mudstone unit on which Curiosity is standing has been given the name Sheepbed. It is cut through with veins of what look to be calcium sulphate.
Close-up imaging of the drill hole indicates that some of the sample is likely to include this vein material.
A couple of Curiosity's survey instruments have probed the powder - the mast-held laser spectrometer, Chemcam, and the X-ray spectrometer, APXS, on the end of the robotic arm. These devices can determine some of the basic chemistry in a target rock.
Prof Grotzinger, however, is reluctant to discuss their results just yet, preferring to wait until Chemin and Sam have done their full-on analysis.
Explore the Red Planet with Nasa's robot
One very obvious observation to make is the colour of the powder. The grey stands in contrast to the weathered red outer-coating of the Sheepbed unit, and the darker colour hints at a different oxidation state for iron (Fe) minerals that might be inside the rock.
This is the kind of subtle detail the scientists are looking for as they build a picture of what conditions were like on early Mars and the possibility that the planet could once have harboured simple lifeforms.
"Iron is a transition metal and it can have different oxidised states," explained Prof Grotzinger.
"If you can see that different minerals have different values for whether there's Fe2+ or Fe3+, it means that there were electrons moving through the environment, and it means that there were energy gradients there potentially, [which], if there were microorganisms, they might have been able to use those energy gradients."
The Curiosity scientist was speaking here in Boston at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
He hopes to have some Chemin and Sam results to report next month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has still to ingest the rock sample it picked up a week ago. |
32,165,051 | Steven Abberley, from south London, threw glass marbles at a security screen and swore at politicians, calling them liars, a court heard.
He told Westminster Magistrates' Court he felt his life was "wasting away".
Judge Quentin Purdy said his "antics" were an inappropriate way to express his political views.
He told 28-year-old Abberley: "Anyone who chooses to disrupt [proceedings] causes those attending anxiety and distress.
"It causes people to feel they cannot go to that place. That's not the way it should be."
Prosecutor Mavis Ramkissoon told the court Abberley apologised to fellow spectators in the House before shouting abuse at MPs in October last year.
The court heard he caused £2,416 of damage.
Abberley, from Sutton, admitted using threatening words and behaviour, and was handed a 12-week suspended sentence.
He was also given a four-week suspended term for drawing graffiti which read "the enemy within" on a wall at the Palace of Westminster.
During the hearing, Abberley said he accepted full responsibility for his actions.
He told the judge: "I feel like my life is wasting away where I'm living. There's nothing happening for me."
Abberley was also ordered to pay £500 towards the damage and an additional £80 victim surcharge. | A protester who threw marbles at MPs in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions has been given a suspended jail sentence. |
36,486,889 | Two of his goals were long-range efforts and coach Dunga said Coutinho had seized his chance.
"He's been acquiring more trust and belief in himself and taking more risks. That's what we wanted," he said.
"We've been encouraging Coutinho during training to be the player he is in Liverpool and he did that for us."
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The victory in Orlando moved Brazil level on four points with Peru, whom they play on Sunday.
Coutinho, 23, had previously only scored one goal for his country, in a friendly against Mexico last year.
"We have to keep our focus for the next game. We have to be dreaming about big things, but we also have to prepare well for the next game. Peru is a very strong team," said Coutinho.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho scored his first international hat-trick as Brazil thumped Haiti 7-1 in Group B of the Copa America. |
40,414,485 | The Irish News' front page shows a cartoon of Prime Minister Theresa May up a ladder and shaking the "money tree" with DUP leader Arlene Foster gleefully collecting the cash in her dress.
The paper says that if political talks at Stormont fail to agree a return to power sharing, the DUP and Conservatives will administer the extra money via a "co-ordination committee" and Sinn Féin will therefore be "excluded from influence".
In addition to its front page splash, the paper devotes its first eight pages to the story with political analyst John Manley comparing Arlene Foster to the "cat who got the cream".
The Irish News editorial says that the political pressure is now on Sinn Féin to return to the Stormont executive though it does point out that it will not want to be seen to be "dancing to the DUP's tune".
"One billion smiles," is the headline in the News Letter.
Its lead picture shows the DUP's Nigel Dodds, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Arlene Foster along with Theresa May - and the DUP contingent is certainly smiling. Mrs May is, perhaps, a little more reserved.
The paper's lead story describes the Tory-DUP agreement as "historic" and compares it to the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond holding the balance of power in Westminster more than 100 years ago.
The first eight pages of the News Letter are also devoted to the cash windfall.
The News Letter also gives some coverage to the ongoing Stormont talks.
It carries comments by TUV leader Jim Allister that an Irish language act would be "a vehicle to hollow out our Britishness" while warning that he believes the DUP may be prepared to compromise on the issue in order to secure the return of the Northern Ireland executive.
Not surprisingly, the Belfast Telegraph also gives over its front page to the DUP-Tory deal and its headline makes the paper's view very clear - "£1bn reasons to bring back Stormont now".
Like the Irish News, the Belfast Telegraph stresses, in its stories, headlines and in comment pieces that Sinn Féin is now under renewed pressure to return to the executive - again the paper gives over eight pages to analysis and comment on the agreement.
In other news, the Belfast Telegraph reports a significant split in fledgling republican political party Saoradh.
The story, billed as exclusive, states that up to 23 members resigned in support of a high-profile republican who has been expelled from the organisation.
"Now we've got money to burn," is the headline in the Northern Ireland edition of the Daily Mirror, referencing the money it says is now burning a hole in Arlene Foster's pocket and the RHI 'Cash for Ash' scandal which the paper says is now "behind her". | All of Northern Ireland's morning papers have the same story on their front pages this morning - the £1bn funding for Northern Ireland following the DUP deal with the Tories to support a Conservative minority government. |
32,561,332 | During BBC Wales' televised leaders debate Labour's Owen Smith challenged Plaid leader Leanne Wood over whether she would "let a Tory government in by the back door".
But she responded that Labour's "time was up on taking people for granted".
On Friday Ed Miliband had ruled out doing a deal with Plaid.
Ms Wood has said she could do a deal to put Labour in power even if the Plaid's sister party the SNP was not involved.
Appearing to concede that Labour may not win a majority, Mr Smith said: "The question is for Leanne - in the event of Labour being the largest party, and Labour forming a government, perhaps a minority government, would Leanne vote down our programme for getting rid of the bedroom tax, for increasing the minimum wage - would you, Leanne, let a Tory government in by the back door?"
She responded: "I just love the way that you take for granted the way you think Plaid Cymru votes are going to go, just in the same way you have taken for granted the people of Wales over many many decades.
"I think the time is up on taking people for granted, Owen Smith."
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said a vote for a Conservative administration was the alternative to what he dubbed a "squabbling coalition of chaos".
The debate also heard from the Welsh Liberal Democrat's Kirsty Williams, UKIP Wales' Nathan Gill and the Wales Green Party's Pippa Bartolotti, as all six politicians took part in the final Welsh televised debate.
Ms Williams faced questioning over the Lib-Dem coalition role on benefit issues and told the audience:" There have been tough decisions about welfare."
The Green's leader highlighted what she described as the "disproportionate" burden being felt by women under austerity measures, while UKIP's Welsh leader hit on the devolved issue of the NHS - warning that Labour had made "a right pig's ear" of the health service in Wales.
Large chunks of last night's debate at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff were dominated by the coalition government's welfare reform policies.
The Conservative Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb came under sustained attack on the subject, including from his party's former coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats.
But the Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams had an uncomfortable moment of her own as well in a question about her party's role in cutting back the UK's welfare bill.
She wasn't alone as Labour's Owen Smith faced some difficult questions over the Labour Welsh government's record running the NHS.
While UKIP focused on financial responsibility, and a more efficient use of foreign aid, the Greens pushed their message on greater financial protection for women and more protection for the environment.
But arguably the most lively exchange came towards the end of the debate when Labour and Plaid clashed over a potential working relationship in a hung parliament.
This was the final set-piece televised debate in the general election campaign in Wales. What's called the air war has come to an end and the ground war will now get fully underway as the political parties look to get their vote out on polling day. | Labour and Plaid Cymru have clashed on whether the two parties could work together if next week's election results in a hung parliament. |
35,687,094 | He is up against Adrian Lester, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kenneth Branagh and Kenneth Cranham for best actor.
Productions of Gypsy and Kinky Boots lead the nominations with eight and seven nominations respectively.
The Olivier Awards, which celebrate their 40th anniversary this year, will be held at London's Royal Opera House on 3 April.
The nominees for best actress are Gemma Arterton, Denise Gough, Janet McTeer, Lia Williams and Nicole Kidman.
Olivier Awards 2016: Nominations in full
Rylance is nominated for his role as King Philippe V of Spain in Farinelli and the King, which played at the Duke of York's Theatre.
Claire van Kampen's play received six nominations in total. It goes up against The Father, Hangmen and People, Places And Things for the title of best new play.
Rylance's nomination was announced on Monday in the aftermath of his win for best supporting actor at the Academy Awards for his role in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's production of The Winter's Tale is also nominated in six categories.
One of them is best supporting actress, for Dame Judi Dench's portrayal of the noblewoman, Paulina.
It marks Dame Judi's 15th nomination, having previously received six awards and one special award.
Kinky Boots, the music for which was composed by Cyndi Lauper, picked up seven nominations.
It faces Bend It Like Beckham, In The Heights and Mrs Henderson Presents for the best new musical award.
Benedict Cumberbatch's nomination is one of four received by the Barbican's production of Hamlet.
Its has competition in the best revival category from Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Winter's Tale, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton announced the full list of this year's Olivier nominees at an event in central London.
Imelda Staunton herself has been nominated for her lead role in Gypsy.
Ball will also host this year's ceremony. He previously co-hosted the awards in 2011 and 2012.
Last year's big winners were Kinks-inspired musical Sunny Afternoon and drama A View From the Bridge, with Dame Angela Lansbury winning her first Olivier Award for her role as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, her first West End role in nearly 40 years.
Voting has already opened for the Audience Award, the only Olivier voted for by the public. | Mark Rylance has been nominated for an Olivier theatre award, just hours after winning his first Oscar. |
39,474,248 | League One's bottom club are 13 points adrift of safety with six games to play, starting with Wednesday's trip to leaders Sheffield United.
"We know the reality of it," Robins told BBC Sport after Sunday's 2-1 win.
"Results didn't go our way on Saturday, but we'll keep fighting."
Robins, who returned for a second spell as Coventry manager in March, added: "We're trying to stave it off for as long as we can. After we've celebrated this, we've got to go to Bramall Lane on Wednesday and then face Peterborough at home next Saturday.
"But this was really important for us as a club. We've shown the football world we're alive and kicking."
About 43,000 Coventry fans watched their Wembley success and Robins continued: "The supporters are a massive part of this football club and this was a great day for all of them.
"To see the amount that turned up, with that much passion, surpasses anything I've done in football. The experience was phenomenal. The noise was tremendous. Both sets of fans were really good.
"It gives everybody a reminder that we have a really good fan base with so much potential. We just have to harness it."
Robins revealed after the game that the Sky Blues' opening goalscorer Gael Bigirimana was close to missing his moment of glory - only the Burundi-born midfielder's second goal for the club on his 74th appearance.
"His wife gave birth to their first child on Saturday, a little girl called Eden," said Robins. "He was missing on Saturday and he was touch and go.
"Our preparations were further hampered when we lost Callum Reilly with a hamstring injury. He was better on Saturday and I might have risked him, in the hope that he'd get through on adrenaline, but he'd not have lasted the 90 minutes.
"Chris Stokes hadn't played much of late so there was a question of whether he could get though the game and Jordan Willis has had a thigh strain and there was a doubt whether he could last 90 minutes.
"Extra time would have been horrendous for us, which is why I was so grateful to Lee Burge for making his late save." | Manager Mark Robins says Coventry's Checkatrade Trophy final victory over Oxford at Wembley was a "phenomenal" way to show the football world that the Sky Blues are "alive and kicking". |
33,946,480 | The technical issues meant students were left waiting for news about potential offers, putting some at risk of losing offers at other universities.
A spokesperson for the university said it had been making personal calls to try to resolve individual situations.
It apologised on Twitter to those "experiencing delays getting through".
The tweet said: "Do keep trying our hotline and you will get through."
Universities can give students a place whether they have achieved the correct grades or not.
Students tweeted their annoyance at the situation, with one writing: "Appears you've still not made decisions and now you've gone until Monday? How is this fair?"
The university said it had been dealing with an "unprecedented number of calls" but had called students "once a decision had been made".
Students can only enter the clearing system when they have been officially refused a place at the universities they originally chose.
On Friday, the University and College Admissions Service said 6,910 students had been matched with places through clearing.
This leaves 154,850 students still looking for a university place. | The University of Bristol has admitted it had problems with its telephone system which left some students not knowing if they had secured a place. |
29,107,924 | The operation, which took place on Monday at a government hospital in the capital, Tehran, was said to be "routine".
An announcement about the surgery ahead of the procedure was unprecedented, as the Ayatollah's health is traditionally a confidential subject.
The 75-year-old cleric has led Iran since 1989 and is its top authority.
Earlier on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei was seen on Iranian state television asking people to pray for him, but said there was "no room for concern".
Ayatollah Khamenei's health has always been a secret topic in Iran, like other aspects of his personal life, says BBC Persian's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
In January 2007 a rumour of the Ayatollah's death spread in Iran and the world, simply because he did not announce he had a bad case of flu and could not attend public ceremonies, our reporter says.
The Ayatollah's appearance on TV before the surgery and announcement of the news by himself is a clear change of approach. Either he knows that the critical situation in Iran and the region cannot bear another rumour of his death, or he has decided to be more open about his personal life, our reporter adds.
In 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei succeeded the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, following Khomeini's death.
As the country's highest authority, Ayatollah Khamenei's power outranks all politicians, including the country's President Hassan Rouhani. | Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is recovering from prostate surgery, state media say. |
38,875,120 | Luis Muriel scored the only goal with a penalty, after Gabriel Paletta fouled Fabio Quagliarella.
Gerard Deulofeu, on loan from Everton, hit the post in the second half for Milan and substitute Gianluca Lapadula had a shot saved by Emiliano Viviano.
Milan ended the match with 10 men after Argentine midfielder Jose Sosa was shown two yellow cards late on.
"Is it a crisis? Only in terms of results, but not the way we're playing," said boss Vincenzo Montella.
"We must continue to believe in ourselves and our principles of football. I think this is just a bad patch and better times will come.
"We have to keep going as we are on the right track. We need to talk less and work more, including myself."
The result leaves AC Milan eighth in Serie A, but 10 points off the Champions League places, while Sampdoria have moved up to 10th.
Match ends, Milan 0, Sampdoria 1.
Second Half ends, Milan 0, Sampdoria 1.
Filip Djuricic (Sampdoria) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Suso (Milan).
Filip Djuricic (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Juraj Kucka (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Álvarez (Sampdoria).
Foul by Gianluca Lapadula (Milan).
Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alessio Romagnoli (Milan).
Patrik Schick (Sampdoria) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Second yellow card to José Sosa (Milan) for a bad foul.
Foul by José Sosa (Milan).
Filip Djuricic (Sampdoria) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Juraj Kucka (Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dennis Praet (Sampdoria).
Attempt blocked. Suso (Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ignazio Abate.
Attempt blocked. Gerard Deulofeu (Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ignazio Abate (Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Gianluca Lapadula (Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Suso with a through ball.
Alessio Romagnoli (Milan) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dennis Praet (Sampdoria).
Offside, Milan. Suso tries a through ball, but Ignazio Abate is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Suso (Milan) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gianluca Lapadula.
Attempt missed. Karol Linetty (Sampdoria) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Torreira following a set piece situation.
José Sosa (Milan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by José Sosa (Milan).
Karol Linetty (Sampdoria) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Filip Djuricic (Sampdoria) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Patrik Schick.
Substitution, Sampdoria. Ricardo Álvarez replaces Luis Muriel.
Substitution, Milan. Lucas Ocampos replaces Andrea Bertolacci.
Offside, Milan. Ignazio Abate tries a through ball, but Gianluca Lapadula is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Suso (Milan) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Gerard Deulofeu.
Suso (Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Vasco Regini (Sampdoria).
Substitution, Milan. Gianluca Lapadula replaces Carlos Bacca.
Substitution, Milan. Ignazio Abate replaces Mario Pasalic.
Substitution, Sampdoria. Patrik Schick replaces Fabio Quagliarella.
Goal! Milan 0, Sampdoria 1. Luis Muriel (Sampdoria) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Gabriel Paletta (Milan) after a foul in the penalty area. | AC Milan suffered their fourth successive defeat in all competitions as they lost at home to Sampdoria. |
34,647,798 | The firm has asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) if it can begin flight testing drones for home delivery, pick-up and warehouse tasks.
Walmart is the world's largest retailer by revenue and follows in the steps of Amazon, which is already testing drones for this purpose.
It has emerged that Walmart is already testing drones indoors.
A range of potential tasks for the drones to carry out could be evaluated.
These include dropping off products in Walmart car parks for customers to collect, and for inspecting digital tags on trucks at Walmart warehouses in order to check what they contain.
Direct deliveries to customers' homes could be trialled once the permission of residents in the flight path had been granted, the company said.
But Walmart's application suggests it might dispatch those drones from trucks in the area, and not directly from distribution centres.
Should the FAA grant permission, Walmart plans to use drones made by Chinese firm DJI.
Earlier in the year, Amazon received permission to begin testing its drones outdoors, although it must obey rules such as keeping the vehicles below 400 ft and only operating them via a human pilot.
Various other firms have started investigating the possibilities of drone delivery, including huge Chinese retailer Alibaba, courier DHL and the Singapore Post.
"Drones have a lot of potential to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centres, fulfilment centres and transportation fleet," said Walmart spokesman Dan Toporek in a statement.
"There is a Walmart within five miles of 70 % of the US population, which creates some unique and interesting possibilities for serving customers with drones."
The move suggested thickening competition between the world's biggest retailers, according to Andrew Milroy, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
"This shows that Walmart is competing head-to-head with Amazon as it seeks ways of making its supply chains more efficient and ways of improving customer service," he said.
Retailers' moves into the area of drone delivery are to be taken seriously, suggested legal expert Luke Scanlon of law firm Pinsent Masons.
"Retailers are definitely seeing a future application," he told the BBC. | Retail giant Walmart, which owns Asda in the UK, has applied for permission to test delivery drones in the US. |
34,645,969 | At the end of the day, the FTSE 100 was down 51.75 points at 6,365.27. Among the mining firms, Anglo American fell 5.7% and Antofagasta was down 4%.
Shire rose 6.9% after the drug firm reported positive results for its dry-eye disease drug Lifitegrast.
Shire is trying to get the drug approved by US regulators.
Shares in oil giant BP fell 1.1%, although its third-quarter results beat analysts' forecasts.
The company reported underlying profits of $1.8bn, down from $3bn a year earlier but well above predictions of $1.2bn.
In the FTSE 250, shares in TalkTalk rebounded 13.2% following after two days of heavy falls. The firm's share price has been hit since it emerged last week that it had been the victim of a cyber-attack.
Among small-cap firms, shares in Chemring plunged by more than a fifth after the defence contractor warned revenues from a contract in the Middle East could be delayed.
On the currency markets, the pound weakened slightly after figures showed the UK economy slowed slightly more than expected in the third quarter.
The economy grew by 0.5% in the July-to-September period, down from 0.7% in the previous quarter and below forecasts of 0.6%.
Sterling was down 0.26% against the dollar at $1.5310 and dropped 0.16% against the euro to €1.3868. | (Close): Mining shares fell, dragging the market lower, but Shire shares jumped after it reported encouraging results for a new treatment. |
34,281,923 | The charity, led by Camila Batmanghelidjh, closed last month days after it received a £3m public grant.
The money was given to the charity despite advice it "was not likely to be value for money", the NAO said.
It said it would investigate the grounds for awarding money and how grants were monitored.
The NAO - which is due to report its findings in the autumn - will also look at other government funding the charity received over the past decade.
The charity is already the subject of a statutory investigation by the Charity Commission and an inquiry by the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.
The £3m government grant had been intended for a "transformation and downsizing plan" that would support the charity as it reformed.
The Cabinet Office's lead official, Richard Heaton, wrote to ministers on 26 June asking for a "ministerial direction" before making the payment.
He said he thought the grant would be poor value for money and sought written confirmation that they wanted him to go ahead anyway.
Ministers Matthew Hancock and Oliver Letwin said the funding should be given after leadership changes, as the charity had a "realistic prospect of long-term viability".
Prime Minister David Cameron has also defended the grant, saying it had been right to give Kids Company "one last chance".
Shortly after the money was awarded, the charity - which relied on individual donations and government grants - said it was shutting its doors due to a lack of funding.
It said a financial crisis had been caused by the number of children "pouring through our doors" for help, and by "as yet unsubstantiated allegations" - which it claimed stopped donors giving money.
Those allegations included concerns over the safeguarding of young people. | The awarding of public money to the now-defunct charity Kids Company is to be investigated by spending watchdog the National Audit Office. |
35,983,629 | The 80-year-old nine-time major winner holed out on the seventh to claim the 31st ace of his illustrious career.
English debutant Andy Sullivan and Americans Rickie Fowler, Zach Johnson and Webb Simpson were among the others to shoot a hole-in-one.
Jimmy Walker, who won with a record eight-under 19, also carded an ace.
Sweden's David Lingmerth, Smylie Kaufman and fellow American Justin Thomas did likewise, the latter on the same hole as playing partner Fowler.
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Player, who now holds the record for holes-in-one in the event with four, was grouped with Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson for Wednesday's event.
The Par 3 contest is played over holes ranging from 70 to 140 yards in the north-east corner of the Augusta National Grounds.
It is a nine-hole event and no winner in its 55-year history has won the Masters the same year.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Gary Player was one of a record nine players to shoot a hole-in-one during the Par 3 Contest - the annual pre-Masters competition at Augusta. |
32,009,589 | The allegations were made to South Wales Police and have been passed to another force, the BBC understands.
Mr Abse, a gay rights champion and ex-Labour MP, died in 2008, aged 91.
Last year, police said they were investigating allegations Mr Thomas - a Labour MP and ex-Commons Speaker who died in 1997 - abused a boy, aged 9.
The Sunday Times reported that the fresh claims are understood to have been passed to officers leading an investigation into an alleged "network of politicians".
It says a Church of England review into historical sexual abuse had also passed Mr Abse's name to detectives from Operation Fernbridge - a Met Police inquiry into alleged child abuse involving senior politicians.
Last year, South Wales Police confirmed officers were investigating claims against Mr Thomas - who later became Viscount Tonypandy - dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.
An alleged victim, who now lives in Australia, told the Mirror newspaper he had been raped by the late MP.
Viscount Tonypandy, a Methodist preacher, held the role of Secretary of State for Wales from 1968 to 1970 and was Commons Speaker between 1976 and 1983.
A Labour MP in Cardiff from 1945 to 1983, he died of cancer in 1997, aged 88. | Police investigating historical child abuse allegations have been handed new claims relating to late Labour MP Leo Abse and ex-speaker George Thomas. |
41,026,193 | The 26-year-old joined Rangers in January 2016 from Doncaster and went on to make 44 appearances, half of which came in the Scottish Premiership.
"Harry brings a quality going forward that we need a little bit more of," said assistant manager Neil Cox.
"His goalscoring record is good, he's played at a higher level and he just wants to get started."
Forrester was on the books of Northampton, Watford and Aston Villa as a junior but made his breakthrough in senior football during a loan spell at Kilmarnock.
He joined Brentford in 2011, playing 69 times, and then had a two-and-a-half-year spell at Doncaster.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | AFC Wimbledon have signed Rangers midfielder Harry Forrester on a season-long loan deal. |
40,568,421 | Keith Brymer Jones, an internationally-acclaimed ceramics expert, is behind a new factory to be based in part of the old pottery works.
The site in Elenora Street has been largely unused since the company went into administration in 2008.
Mr Brymer Jones said the move will create 50 jobs.
The main range of production would be in porcelain, a material rarely within the ceramics industry in the city.
"There aren't that many porcelain manufacturers in Stoke," Mr Brymer Jones said.
"It's mostly fine bone china or ovenware, so that's quite exciting for us as we'd be bringing porcelain into Stoke."
The Spode works is the UK's oldest ceramic factory, and in its heyday it was a thriving pottery employing hundreds of workers.
Mr Brymer Jones, who also has his own range of ceramics, added: "The history of Stoke and ceramics is very, very well-known. For us, made in England and made in Stoke would be an incredible achievement.
"If we don't move into Stoke in the next five to 10 years, we're going to lose a whole generation of skill sets that worked in the Potteries back in the day."
He also hopes that the new investment will improve education in the ceramics industry.
"We want to team up with local colleges and Staffordshire University to start doing some modules and courses," he said. "It's incredibly exciting, I do get incredibly emotional. It's meant to be really."
Production at the new factory is set to begin in 2018. | One of the stars of BBC's Great Pottery Throwdown is to open a ceramics firm inside Stoke-on-Trent's derelict Spode factory. |
32,189,636 | There have been heavy clashes there since Wednesday, after Islamic State (IS) gunmen attacked the district.
The UN said that nearly 100 people escaped on Sunday. A Palestinian official said that some 300 families had managed to flee on Saturday.
Up to 18,000 refugees are still trapped inside the camp as intense fighting continues around them.
Unrwa, the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, has called for a halt in the violence to give civilians the chance to evacuate and to allow in much needed aid.
"The lives of civilians in Yarmouk have never been more profoundly threatened," the UN agency said in a statement.
Unrwa spokesman Chris Gunness told the BBC that the situation in Yarmouk was extremely difficult.
"We now have an intense armed conflict raging in the streets, people are cowering in their homes, too terrified to move," he said.
Some civilians have managed to leave. Unrwa confirmed that 94 civilians, including 43 women and 20 children, had escaped and been given humanitarian support.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Damascus told the BBC that hundreds more had fled from this area of Damascus over the past two days.
A PLO spokesman said that two exits have been opened in the camp and that a rescue operation was being coordinated with the Syrian government and Palestinian factions inside Yarmouk.
Palestinian militiamen opposed to the Syrian government are thought to be leading the fight against IS militants in the camp, along with some Free Syrian Army fighters.
IS gunmen took over large areas of the camp on 1 April, in the group's first major attack near the heart of the Syrian capital.
According to Reuters news agency, IS posted photos of its fighters inside Yarmouk on Sunday.
Syria's bloody conflict, which has entered its fifth year, has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Syrians.
The battle between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, rebels opposed to his rule and jihadist militants from Islamic State has also driven more than 11 million people from their homes.
Yarmouk was first built for Palestinians fleeing a different conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Before the Syrian civil war began, it had more than 150,000 refugees living there and had its own mosques, schools and public buildings.
But since 2012, the camp has been besieged by fighting between Syrian government troops and rebel forces.
Residents have little access to clean water, food supplies and electricity.
The few health facilities that there were in the camp have now also been engulfed in the conflict with IS. | Civilians have fled fighting in the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, officials say. |
40,705,466 | Paint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release in 1985 and is known for its simplicity and basic artistic results.
Paint's successor, Paint 3D, will still be available.
The list was issued as part of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which rolls out in the autumn.
Microsoft says that features on the list will be either removed from Windows 10 or "not in active development and might be removed in future releases".
Other features facing the axe include the Outlook Express email client, which is replaced with the built-in Mail app, and the Reader app, which will be integrated into Microsoft Edge.
The BBC has contacted Microsoft for comment.
People have expressed disappointment at the news on social media, with many tweeting "RIP" messages.
Welsh YouTuber Chaotic described Paint as "the greatest thing to have ever existed" - perhaps with tongue in cheek.
The artist known as Jim'll Paint It uses the program to create artwork on outlandish themes, commissioned by strangers. He has nearly 700,000 followers on Facebook.
"Paint hasn't been all that since they messed about with it anyway. I'm running XP on a virtual machine because it's the best one," he tweeted.
"They should just release the source and make it public domain," tweeted games developer Mike Dailly, creator of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto.
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35,912,569 | Brian McKandie was found beaten to death with a "heavy weapon" in his home in Rothienorman on Saturday 12 March.
Officers stopped the vehicles in the Rothienorman area on Friday, two weeks since the 67-year-old was last seen alive.
Police said they had received "potential fresh lines of inquiry".
Mr McKandie was attacked and died at his home in Badenscoth on Friday 11 or Saturday 12 March 2016.
Detectives are continuing to appeal for information about two pairs of men seen with Mr McKandie on the Friday and have asked for drivers with dashboard camera footage of the area that weekend to come forward.
Det Ch Inspector Iain Smith said: "It is now just over two weeks since when we understand Mr McKandie was attacked and officers spent much of last Friday speaking to people travelling in the area.
"Information was received from a number of people in terms of assisting us with our inquiries to identify people who may have been in contact with him before he died.
"This gives us potential fresh lines of enquiry to follow. We are still appealing for two sets of men who may have visited him on the Friday (11 March) to come forward as this may assist us."
He added: "We have also requested that if anyone was driving on the B9001 between Rothienorman and Forgue at any point on Friday 11 March 2016 who was using their dashboard camera, I would ask them to copy the footage from that part of their journey, especially as they were driving through Badenscoth, save it to disk and hand it into their nearest police office.
"The information within the footage will potentially help us progress the inquiry forward."
Earlier on Friday, Mr McKandie's brother made an emotional plea during a press conference for anyone with information about Mr McKandie's death to come forward.
William McKandie said: "We are finding this whole situation really hard to come to terms with. We have lost our brother and we just want to know what happened and why."
Detectives have released an image showing Mr McKandie at a bank in Turriff on 11 March.
Two men were reportedly seen speaking to Mr McKandie between 13:00 and 14:00 on the Friday before his body was found.
One of the men was said to be in his 50s and heavy set. The other was a younger man.
They were beside a burgundy or maroon estate car, possibly a Saab or Volvo.
Officers have also appealed for two men seen talking to Mr McKandie between 17:00 and 18:00 on the Friday. One was described as in his 20s, and the other in his 30s or 40s.
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38,377,428 | Identified attacker Anis Amri, a Tunisian, was shot dead by Italian police on 23 December in the city of Milan after a Europe-wide manhunt.
So-called Islamic State (IS) has said one of its "soldiers" carried out the attack on Breitscheidplatz Christmas market, without offering evidence.
German police had initially detained a 23-year-old Pakistani man, who denied any involvement and was released after questioning.
After an inspection of the lorry, which was registered in Poland, authorities discovered legal identity papers belonging to Amri. Amri's fingerprints were also later discovered in the vehicle's cabin.
It was thought that Amri, 24, had been injured in a struggle with the Polish driver, who was found murdered in the cab.
Amri was shot dead after firing at Italian police officers who had stopped his car for a routine check, the Italian authorities say.
He reportedly pulled a gun from his backpack, shouted "God is greatest" in Arabic and opened fire, injuring an officer. A second policeman then returned fire, killing him.
Tunisian security forces arrested Amri's nephew and two other suspects on 24 December. Tunisia's interior ministry said the three, aged between 18 and 27, were members of a terrorist cell.
At 20:14 local time (19:14 GMT) the lorry, laden with steel beams, crashed into people gathered around wooden huts and stands selling mulled wine and sausages.
The market was packed with tourists and locals, at Breitscheidplatz, near Berlin's famous Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.
The lorry drove 50-80 metres (160-260 ft) through the market.
Witnesses reckoned its speed to be about 64km/h (40mph), as it sent market stalls flying, leaving a trail of debris and casualties.
After the lorry stopped, the driver reportedly fled into the darkness of the Tiergarten park.
One witness set off in pursuit, then called the police. The Pakistani man was later arrested near the park's Victory Column monument.
The lorry's Polish driver, named as Lukasz Urban, 37, was found dead in the passenger seat. Police said he appeared to be the victim of a hijack.
A pistol apparently used to kill him was not found at the scene.
The German news website Focus says analysis of the lorry's GPS data shows that its engine was started several times on Monday afternoon, suggesting that someone was learning to drive it.
At 19:34, the lorry set off for Breitscheidplatz.
His full name was Anis Ben-Mustafa Ben-Outhman Amri.
He was known to authorities and was under surveillance in Berlin between March and September.
Amri was reportedly monitored on suspicion of planning a robbery in order to pay for guns, but surveillance was lifted for lack of evidence.
He was facing deportation as of June this year but remained in Germany because of a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia confirming his identity.
Before arriving in Germany in July 2015, Amri served four years in prison in Italy for arson.
Italian officials said he had arrived in Italy illegally by boat in 2011 after fleeing Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions.
So far, along with the driver, two other victims of the lorry attack have been officially named:
Two Germans - a 32-year-old man from Brandenburg an der Havel and a 53-year-old woman from Dahme-Spreewald - were also among the dead, the state's interior ministry said, without naming them.
A German woman from Neuss, near the west German city of Duesseldorf, is also believed to have died. Her son, aged 40, is among the injured.
In total, it is believed six Germans were killed in the attack, although five people remain unidentified, according to German website RP Online.
The lorry attack in the French city of Nice in July, carried out by a Tunisian-born man, was also claimed by IS.
The jihadist group - currently being attacked by Western and Russian warplanes in Iraq and Syria - has urged its supporters to use vehicles to attack Westerners.
In November 2015, gunmen and suicide bombers simultaneously targeted a concert hall, a stadium and restaurants in Paris, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded. The attacks were claimed by IS.
Earlier this year, Germany was shocked by four attacks, two of which - by asylum seekers - were also claimed by IS.
Alternative for Germany (AfD), an increasingly popular anti-immigrant party, warned that Chancellor Angela Merkel's "open-door" policy towards refugees in 2014-2015 had created a big security risk. | A lorry smashed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on 19 December, killing 12 people and injuring 49, leaving 18 in a critical condition. |
36,906,762 | Now worm bites can be added to the list.
That's right. London-born Norwegian Kurt Maflin was left stunned by an unusual problem during the World Open ranking event in China.
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"I woke up on Monday and had this bite on my right thumb, it was a bit swollen," he told World Snooker. "I thought it must have been a mosquito.
"I played that day and managed to win. On Monday night the thumb was bigger but I thought it was nothing major. I popped it and some of the stuff came out. After that it was weeping all night. By Tuesday morning my thumb was huge, twice the size of the other one."
The 32-year-old went to see a doctor who told him he had been bitten by a worm. It was explained to Maflin that he was not in danger and after taking medication the world number 50 booked his place in the last 16 with a 5-0 win over Xiao Guodong.
"Sometimes that happens, when you have a small injury or a cold you concentrate better," he added. "But I've never heard of someone getting bitten by a worm before."
World champion Mark Selby was knocked out of the second round of the tournament by Thai player Thepchaiya Un-Nooh.
The 31-year-old from Leicester missed a straightforward yellow when he was 4-3 down which allowed Un-Nooh to secure a memorable win.
There was also a shock exit for Crucible runner-up Ding Junhui on home soil as he lost 5-1 to England's Ben Woollaston.
Pre-tournament favourite Judd Trump was defeated 5-2 by China's Zhang Anda in yet another surprise.
John Higgins, Ali Carter, Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson, Mark Williams, Ryan Day and Alan McManus, who won five frames in a row to beat China's Liang Wenbo, all reached the last 16.
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35,416,325 | The Toffees, also without a Premier League win since 26 December, went ahead through Aaron Lennon's low shot.
A Barkley strike and Tom Cleverley free-kick were tipped on to the frame of the goal, while Newcastle's Jonjo Shelvey headed against his own bar.
Barkley chipped his second spot-kick down the middle, after he was tripped by Jamaal Lascelles, who was sent off.
Everton move up to 11th in the table, while Newcastle remain in the relegation zone in 18th place, two points from safety.
The Toffees had blown leads in three of their last five league matches, and after striking the Newcastle woodwork three times in four second-half minutes, it looked as if they might again pay for failing to take their chances.
But three minutes after Shelvey diverted Barkley's free-kick onto the Newcastle bar, Aleksandar Mitrovic wasted the away side's only clear opening of the match - volleying wide from close range after static defending.
Barkley's two late penalties added gloss to what was at times a nervy showing.
Lennon was fouled by Rolando Aarons in the box with two minutes left and Barkley stepped up to send keeper Rob Elliot the wrong way and he then delighted the crowd with a Panenka after being tripped by Lascelles, who had already been booked.
Only Norwich and Aston Villa have conceded more goals than Newcastle this term, but the majority of the £83m the club has spent since the end of last season has been on offensive acquisitions.
Ivory Coast forward Seydou Doumbia, who arrived on loan from Roma on deadline day, was an unused substitute, while Andros Townsend, signed from Tottenham for about £12m, was an isolated figure on the left wing.
Had £13m summer signing Mitrovic taken Newcastle's best chance, then Steve McClaren's side may not have capitulated in the way they did in the last few minutes.
But a draw would have been harsh on Everton, who created the clearer chances and carried the greater attacking potency, especially through Barkley.
"Phenomenal footballer, phenomenal person," Everton manager Roberto Martinez said of his attacking midfielder. "He took responsibility with both penalties and showed he is an assured, technical footballer."
There were moments when Barkley's technique didn't quite match his creativity but his second penalty was not one of them. The poise he showed when chipping the ball delicately home was the exclamation point in a vital win for the home side.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "It's fair to say we are learning from painful lessons.
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"There have been times where opponents score too easily when they come into a game but we were compact.
"The second goal was decisive. Scoring the second goal made it a different game and allowed us to control things.
"We showed a mature way of playing. Back-to-back clean sheets now and the team has the intent to please our fans and show what we can do."
Newcastle manager Steve McClaren: "In the first half you could see that the Everton players and supporters were nervous, we didn't take advantage of that, we weren't aggressive enough.
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"In the second half we had a go but it wasn't enough. Too many players were below par.
"We can't play like that in front of 52,000 fans on Saturday, we need a reaction, we have to do better than that."
Everton are away at Stoke in a 15:00 GMT kick-off in the Premier League on Saturday, when Newcastle play at home to 14th-placed West Brom.
Match ends, Everton 3, Newcastle United 0.
Second Half ends, Everton 3, Newcastle United 0.
Goal! Everton 3, Newcastle United 0. Ross Barkley (Everton) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) is shown the red card.
Penalty Everton. Ross Barkley draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) after a foul in the penalty area.
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United).
Attempt missed. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Fabricio Coloccini.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bryan Oviedo.
Goal! Everton 2, Newcastle United 0. Ross Barkley (Everton) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Everton. Aaron Lennon draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) after a foul in the penalty area.
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United).
Attempt blocked. Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Arouna Koné.
Hand ball by Aaron Lennon (Everton).
Ross Barkley (Everton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
James McCarthy (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Gareth Barry.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Tom Cleverley.
Attempt saved. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamaal Lascelles with a headed pass.
Foul by Tom Cleverley (Everton).
Andros Townsend (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Seamus Coleman (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Seamus Coleman (Everton).
Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United).
Phil Jagielka (Everton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United). | Ross Barkley scored two late penalties as Everton beat Newcastle to record a first home league win since November. |
37,401,902 | Thomas Hodgson, 42, from Walsall, West Midlands, was a "passionate man who lived his life enjoying outdoor pursuits", his family said.
The father of two went missing while visiting Brixham on 11 September.
His body was found by an angler on Saturday morning at Breakwater beach in Brixham.
His family said: "Tom had just been accepted as a paramedic in Devon and he was looking forward to moving closer to the coast where he planned to continue his interests in diving and sailing.
"Tom was the father of two children who will always remember him as a dad who encouraged them to be adventurous and to work hard to make a success of their lives." | A yachtsman whose body was found washed up off the Devon coast was about to start work as a paramedic in the county, it has emerged. |
11,550,619 | Universities UK head Professor Steve Smith wrote to vice-chancellors saying this week's Browne Review set out figures that "confirm our worst fears".
He says they signal a £3.2bn or 79% cut from teaching and £1bn from research in next week's Spending Review.
The government said it could not comment.
This is because the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said it could not speculate about the Chancellor's spending review plans.
Currently universities are given around £11bn in government grants a year - this covers undergraduate and post-graduate teaching, research funding and infrastructure.
The UCU lecturers' union said cuts of the order being discussed would lead to university closures while the National Union of Students warned the government was stripping away the public funding of universities.
In his letter to fellow vice-chancellors, the UUK president suggests the impact of the Spending Review will be more important than Lord Browne's review of fees published this week.
This is "because potential cuts have been getting worse and worse", he says.
He continues: "Browne explicitly says that Hefce (England's university funding body) will have teaching funding of £700m; the current sum is £3.9bn.
"This implies a cut of around £3.2bn in state funding."
This would represent a 79% cut in the teaching grant.
He adds: "Browne's figures confirm our worst fears. Cuts in the order of £1bn for research also appear to be proposed."
A £4.2bn cut in funding would be almost four times that which universities had been expected to make by the previous government.
Professor Smith says the Browne report, which itself called for unlimited tuition fees, was framed by "what is coming on October 20".
And he adds that universities will do all they can to "replace as much of this lost funding as possible". This means raising tuition fees to make up for lost state funding, he says.
But he also warns that this may not be possible before 2012, when the government is expecting to have measures in place to allow for a rise in fees.
He adds: "The biggest worry is simple to state: if Browne fails to get through the Commons, or gets unpicked, or gets accepted but only after major changes are made, we will simply not be able to replace the unprecedented reductions in state funding that are coming in the Spending Review."
Responding to the claim, the general secretary of the UCU, Sally Hunt, said: "It is hard to believe that any government could contemplate making £4.2bn cuts to higher education given that it generates massive economic growth.
"Cuts of this magnitude will leave many cities and towns without a local university and our students paying the highest public fees in the world."
She called for an urgent review of the impact of "these unimaginable cuts".
President of the NUS Aaron Porter said: "The devastating scale of the cuts to publicly funded degrees planned for next week is laid bare by this admission.
"The true agenda of the coalition government this week is to strip away all public support for arts, humanities and social science provision in universities and to pass on the costs directly to students' bank accounts."
He accused vice-chancellors of standing by plans that would lead to many universities closing down.
A spokesman for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills dismissed the figures as speculation
He added: "Lord Browne made recommendations to government this week on a new funding system. His proposals are for graduates to make a greater contribution to the cost of their education, linked to their ability to pay.
"These recommendations are currently under consideration and are informing our comprehensive spending review negotiations with the Treasury. Ensuring the university sector is properly funded remains a key objective for the government."
But Shadow Business Secretary John Denham said the coalition was clearly planning unprecedented cuts in higher education.
"It will mean pushing all or most of the cost of the university education onto students.
"For Britain in a global economy it will damage one of the main drivers of growth, jobs and prosperity," he added. | Universities in England face funding cuts of £4.2bn in the coming Spending Review, an e-mail leaked to the BBC News website suggests. |
33,369,705 | There are a few provisos to be taken into consideration when reflecting on the attack.
The first is that, regrettably, much of what we claim to know about what's going on in the peninsula is based on speculation. The north of the peninsula, in contrast to the south where the tourist resorts are located, is very difficult to access.
The tourist areas in the south are well guarded by the state's security forces, but the north and north-east have been incredibly difficult for journalists and others to investigate.
Residents in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, in the north-east of the Sinai peninsula, however, have verified that there was a huge firefight between militants, presumed to be attached to‎ the so-called Sinai Province affiliate of IS,‎ and the security forces.
Dozens of heavily armed militants targeted a police facility, a military facility and a number of different checkpoints.
Before the conflict ended, with the military gradually taking control of the town, several dozen security officials from the army and the police were killed.
Civilians and the militants also suffered casualties - reports of landmines and booby traps by militants may also mean that the death count increases in the weeks to come.
There will be much speculation about how all of this was possible.
But some things are clear. The first is that the people of Sinai, and in this instance, the 60,000 strong population of Sheikh Zuweid, are - as one expert on the peninsula put it - being taken hostage.
The conflict between the Egyptian military and the radical Islamist militants of "Sinai Province" affects not only those involved in the fighting - but the people of Sinai in general.
Security analysts in and out of Egypt seem to be approaching a consensus on one of the key facets of the conflict in the Sinai: and that is that the Egyptian military is treating the fight like traditional military combat.
According to a number of different sources, specific counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism methods and tactics are not being focused upon - and the equipment and training that the Egyptian armed forces is reported to follow show a similar tendency.
Different experts on the Egyptian military are clear that until a durable and regional peace deal between the Arab world and the Israelis is accomplished, the Egyptian military will not change the basic structure of its fighting force.
Yet, the Egyptian military needs a different force altogether in the Sinai to focus efforts on counter-terrorism.
Secondly, human rights groups and civil rights organisations - from what little information they have been able to gather via eyewitnesses on the ground - have also raised concerns that the tactics of the Egyptian military in Sinai have not been focused on gaining the trust and co-operation of the local population.
On the contrary, according to these reports many of the tactics have been heavy-handed, leading to resentment among the local population towards the very forces fighting the insurgents.
If these reports are accurate, and the effect is widespread, then the propensity for recruitment increases - and intelligence gathering against the militants will be adversely affected.
Already, it appears to be the case that Sinai Province members know the peninsula like the back of their proverbial hands - the forces combating them must as well, and that depends on good relations with the locals.
Worse still, if bad relations are the consequence of current tactics, then the Sinai Province group's shelf-life is dramatically lengthened.
If the Egyptian authorities are to successfully address the threat in the peninsula, there are two things that need to be done.
The first is to ensure that all tactics on the peninsula fit a broader, comprehensive counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency strategy, which places addressing the grievances of the residents at its heart, and avoiding exacerbating them.
The existence of those grievances, which predate the conflict by some time, relate primarily to the overwhelming lack of development in the Sinai by the central authorities in Cairo, cannot be ignored. Such grievances do not automatically lead to successful radical recruitment - but it certainly makes the job of the recruiter easier.
Secondly, the Egyptian military needs to focus more on the need for strategic, tactical counter-terrorism equipment and training, rather than the more regular combat strategies that it has been relying on thus far.
If the last few days have shown anything, it is that the current strategy is not succeeding - and Egyptians are paying the price.
HA Hellyer is associate fellow in international security at the Royal United Services Institute in London and Arab affairs specialist at the Brookings Centre for Middle East Policy in Washington DC. @hahellyer | Although the full facts of the so-called "Islamic State" assault on the Egyptian army in Sinai this week are not yet known, it is clear that this was the most brutal attack so far. |
36,807,906 | Taib Fassi Fihri met Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi and said Morocco wants to re-join the AU without any preconditions.
Morocco claims Western Sahara as part of its territory, much of which it has occupied since 1975.
But the AU recognises Western Sahara as an independent state.
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Morocco is the only African country not to be an AU member.
The AU, however, says it will continue pushing for the rights of Western Sahara to hold a referendum on its self-determination.
Brahim Ghali, the new leader of the North African territory is expected to attend the African Union summit in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, according to the AU's deputy chairperson Erastus Mwencha.
Mr Ghali was elected the Western Sahara president and secretary-general of the independence movement Polisario Front on 9 July.
He replaced long-time leader Mohamed Abdelaziz who died in May. | Morocco has sent a special envoy to lobby African leaders to rejoin the African Union 32 years after it left in a row over Western Sahara. |
37,142,561 | New York City, managed by Patrick Vieira, took an early lead when David Villa prodded home from six yards.
Ashley Cole - another ex-England international - lined up alongside Gerrard for LA Galaxy.
The victory for Lampard's side extends their lead in the Eastern Conference.
They are four points clear of Toronto, while Gerrard's team remain third in the Western Conference.
Match ends, New York City FC 1, LA Galaxy 0.
Second Half ends, New York City FC 1, LA Galaxy 0.
A.J. DeLaGarza (LA Galaxy) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by A.J. DeLaGarza (LA Galaxy).
Steven Mendoza (New York City FC) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Steven Gerrard (LA Galaxy) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Emmanuel Boateng.
Attempt missed. Emmanuel Boateng (LA Galaxy) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Steven Gerrard.
Corner, LA Galaxy. Conceded by Jefferson Mena.
Jelle Van Damme (LA Galaxy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Federico Bravo (New York City FC).
Offside, New York City FC. Josh Saunders tries a through ball, but David Villa is caught offside.
Substitution, New York City FC. Steven Mendoza replaces Ronald Matarrita.
Substitution, LA Galaxy. Emmanuel Boateng replaces Nigel de Jong.
Foul by Sebastian Lletget (LA Galaxy).
RJ Allen (New York City FC) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, New York City FC. Federico Bravo replaces Frank Lampard.
Attempt missed. Jelle Van Damme (LA Galaxy) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Gerrard with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Ronald Matarrita (New York City FC) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Villa.
Corner, New York City FC. Conceded by Clément Diop.
Attempt saved. David Villa (New York City FC) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ronald Matarrita.
Attempt saved. David Villa (New York City FC) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, LA Galaxy. Mike Magee replaces Gyasi Zardes.
Offside, New York City FC. Andrea Pirlo tries a through ball, but Frank Lampard is caught offside.
Offside, LA Galaxy. Nigel de Jong tries a through ball, but Ashley Cole is caught offside.
Foul by Daniel Steres (LA Galaxy).
David Villa (New York City FC) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Andrea Pirlo (New York City FC) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Nigel de Jong (LA Galaxy).
Frank Lampard (New York City FC) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Andrea Pirlo (New York City FC) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by RJ Allen.
Substitution, New York City FC. RJ Allen replaces Thomas McNamara.
Attempt missed. Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Sebastian Lletget with a cross.
Attempt missed. Jack Harrison (New York City FC) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Frank Lampard.
Ashley Cole (LA Galaxy) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Harrison (New York City FC).
Substitution, LA Galaxy. Sebastian Lletget replaces Baggio Husidic.
Offside, New York City FC. Andrea Pirlo tries a through ball, but David Villa is caught offside.
Hand ball by Andrea Pirlo (New York City FC).
Offside, LA Galaxy. Nigel de Jong tries a through ball, but Ashley Cole is caught offside.
Baggio Husidic (LA Galaxy) wins a free kick on the right wing. | Frank Lampard's New York City FC beat Steven Gerrard's LA Galaxy 1-0 in the first meeting of the former England midfielders since their moves to the United States. |
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The pair traded blows over 18 holes on day three, as Stenson carded a three-under-par 68 for 12 under overall, one shot clear of Mickelson, who shot 70.
American Bill Haas is six shots off the lead after a 69, one clear of England's Andrew Johnston, who posted 70.
Rory McIlroy's hopes faded on day three as he finished on level par after a 73.
JB Holmes is fifth, on four under, after a score of 69, and is one clear of fellow Americans Steve Stricker (68) and Tony Finau (72) and Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen (75).
Five-time major winner Mickelson, 46, began the day on 10 under par after carding a 63, the joint-lowest round in major history, on day one and scoring 69 on day two.
Stenson, 40, was one shot behind at the halfway stage but found himself one shot ahead on 12 under after birdies on the third and fourth holes.
However, Stenson bogeyed the sixth and the eighth to hand the lead back to his rival, who reeled off nine straight pars between the fourth and 12th.
A birdie at the par-four 13th moved Mickelson two clear, but he then bogeyed the par-three 15th, which Stenson holed in two to draw level once more.
The American then took a one-shot lead with a birdie at the 16th. Things changed round again, though, as he bogeyed the par-three 17th, and Stenson birdied it to lead on his own again.
At the 18th, Mickelson found sand with his approach but he managed to make par after a typically miraculous escape, ensuring he trailed by only one shot and setting up what promises to be a thrilling duel over the Old Course.
The Swede is bidding to become the first Scandinavian to win a major title, while Mickelson is chasing his second Open win, having beaten Stenson into second place in 2013 at Muirfield.
"I've always thought it's better to be one ahead than one behind," Stenson said.
"I know Phil's not going to back down, and I'm certainly not going to back down either.
"Even though Phil's popular in this part of the world, maybe I'll have a few more Europeans giving me a push and we can get a Ryder Cup atmosphere going."
Should Mickelson win on Sunday, he would be the seventh American in a row to win the Open at Royal Troon.
He said: "I have to get my rhythm back. My rhythm was out of sorts.
"I shot under par and kept myself right in it but I'd love to play the final round like I played the first two and give myself a shot. Hopefully I get dialled back in."
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Northern Ireland's McIlroy drove the ball beautifully in breezy conditions on the west coast of Scotland but missed a host of birdie chances on the outward nine.
The wind abated as he turned for home but the 2014 champion was unable to make any kind of impression. When he sliced his approach at the 16th, he smashed his three wood into the ground in frustration, causing the head to snap off.
With winds of up to 25mph forecast, tournament organisers decided not to cut or roll the greens before play started, which McIlroy blamed for his indecisive putting.
"When the greens are a lot slower than you're used to, these things can happen," said the four-time major winner, whose last major victory was the USPGA in 2014.
Explaining his club abuse, McIlroy said: "I let one go right with a three iron on the previous hole and I did exactly the same on the 16th. Nobody likes to make the same mistake twice."
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The hopes of a host of big names were wrecked by the weather on Friday afternoon but few of them thrived in better conditions on Saturday morning.
World number one Jason Day (+1) went out in four-under 32 but came back in four-over 39 for a level-par 71.
World number three Jordan Spieth (+5) made four birdies in his first seven holes but dropped four shots around the turn before finishing with a 72.
Reigning US Open champion Dustin Johnson (-1) was putting a handy round together, but also carded a 72 after making a triple-bogey at the 11th.
England's Justin Rose (+2) was three under after 15 but dropped three shots at the 16th for a 70, while Masters champion Danny Willett (+7) laboured to a 74.
World number seven Rickie Fowler (+4) made a quadruple-bogey eight at the 11th, the hardest hole on the course, and signed for a 76.
Colin Montgomerie, an honorary member of Royal Troon, stormed off without speaking to the media after a 79 left him propping up the field on 12 over.
The Met Office expects it to be dry on Sunday, with some bright or sunny spells. Early afternoon winds of 10-15mph, gusting to 20-25mph, are expected to abate as the day goes on. | Sweden's Henrik Stenson leads American Phil Mickelson by one stroke heading into the final round of the Open Championship at Royal Troon. |
38,278,497 | BBC Sport takes a look at the quirkiest and more interesting statistics from the weekend.
After 29 goals were registered across Saturday's six games, stats fans were purring in anticipation at the prospect of a record-breaking weekend of goal action.
Alas, three 1-0 wins on Sunday let the side down, before Liverpool's 2-2 draw with West Ham left a final sting in the tail.
That meant there were 36 goals in total over the weekend - seven short of the Premier League record of 43 set between 5 and 6 February 2011 (since the league was reduced from 22 to 20 teams in 1995).
But there is still hope for the goal fanatics out there - this season is on course to be the highest scoring in the era of a 20-team Premier League.
There have been 434 goals from 150 games this term and if the scoring continues at its current rate, it will reach 1,098 by the time the 380th and final game is played in May.
The record to beat is 1,066 from 2011-12.
And when you take the average number of goals per game, this season's average of 2.89 - if maintained - would be the highest in Premier League history.
Oldham Athletic stayed up and Crystal Palace went down, while Ian Rush, John Barnes, Teddy Sheringham and Peter Ndlovu were all on the scoresheet.
Ace of Base were in the top 10.
When are we talking about? The final day of the 1992-93 season - 8 May 1993.
That is how far back you have to go to find the last time six home teams scored three goals on the same day in the Premier League.
It happened again on Saturday when Watford, Arsenal, Burnley, Hull, Swansea and Leicester all put three goals past their visitors.
For those of you old enough to remember 1993, here's a trip down memory lane.
For those of you not old enough to remember 1993 - yes, Oldham, Coventry and Sheffield United used to be Premier League teams.
Ask most football fans what the scourge of modern football is, and they will probably answer with one of three things: players wearing gloves, feigning injuries and diving.
And this weekend diving flopped itself back on to the agenda when Robert Snodgrass looked suspiciously untouched when he won a penalty for Hull City against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
The player apologised, saying he was "riding the tackle". Palace boss Alan Pardew said he should be "embarrassed". BBC Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy called for retrospective punishment.
But have yellow cards for simulation - to use Fifa's jargon - been on the rise in the Premier League?
Interestingly, the answer is no. The highest number of yellow cards dished out for diving was 33 in 2012-13 - 2.64% of the total for the campaign.
The second highest was 27 (2.13%) in 2008-09.
This season, there have been eight bookings for diving - 1.28% of the total of 623 yellow cards. That ratio would be the second lowest since 2007-08 if it continues.
Regardless of how you felt about Robert Snodgrass' means of winning a penalty, there is no doubting his importance to Hull City.
The Scotland international scored the penalty and also provided an assist in the 3-3 draw with Crystal Palace, meaning he has been involved in 50% of his side's goals this season (scoring five, assisting two of Hull's 14 goals).
But that fades in comparison to Jermain Defoe's influence at Sunderland.
The striker, who won the last of his 55 England caps in 2013, has been involved in a monstrous 71.4% of the goals his side have scored in the Premier League this season (scoring eight, assisting two of Sunderland's 14 goals).
"But who has been the most influential player for a team in any particular season?" we hear you cry.
That would be Matt Le Tissier for Southampton in 1993-94. Just the 25 goals and nine assists from his team's 49 goals that season - a 69.4% involvement rate.
Could Defoe be on course to top it?
Hands up those of you who remembered Stefano Okaka scoring for Fulham against West Ham on 2 May 2010.
Give yourself a pat on the back if you did.
The Italian was on loan from Roma at the time and journeyed on to Bari, Parma, Spezia, Sampdoria and Anderlecht before, 2,414 days later, scoring in the Premier League again, this time in Watford's 3-2 win over Everton on Saturday.
Brilliantly though, 2,414 days is nowhere near being the longest period of time a player has waited between scoring a Premier League goal.
That title belongs to no-nonsense defender Matt Jackson, who went a whole 4,935 days (more than 13 years) between Premier League goals - stretching from 8 May 1993 for Everton in a win against Manchester City, all the way to 11 November 2006 when he netted for Wigan in a victory over Charlton.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan's first Premier League goal for Manchester United secured a 1-0 win over Tottenham on Sunday - but it also sealed a small victory for Armenia.
The former Soviet republic, with a population of three million, became the 96th different nation to have a Premier League goalscorer.
But here is the big question: can we reach 100 this season?
Well, technically, yes. It is tenuous, but these are the four players who would have to score this season to bring up the century.
Celina is on loan at FC Twente, so he would need a recall.
Arlauskis is on loan at Espanyol. And he is a goalkeeper. But, you never know...
Have we missed a current Premier League player whose country has never had a goalscorer in the competition? Tell us using #bbcfootball on Twitter. | This could be the Premier League's most goal-crazy season, bookings for simulation are taking a dive, Armenia get themselves on the scoresheet and who has waited the longest amount of time between top-flight goals? |
38,723,040 | Robert Hannigan, who has held the post of GCHQ director since 2014, said he was stepping down for family reasons.
He said he was proud of his work but that 20 years in public service roles had "demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family".
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Hannigan had "led the renewal" of national security capabilities to fight terrorism during his time at GCHQ.
Mr Hannigan was director general of defence and intelligence at the Foreign Office before taking over the leadership of GCHQ in 2014.
In a letter to the foreign secretary, he said he was proud of the work he had done and "how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ" but added "now is the right time for a change in direction".
Mr Hannigan said it was "right" that a new director be in place ready for GCHQ's 100th anniversary in 2019, but he would stay in the post until a replacement was appointed.
Sources have told BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera that the resignation was not the result of any concerns over policy in the UK or in the US.
Mr Johnson thanked him for his service, saying he had "set the groundwork for a major transformation of our cyber defences" during his tenure.
There will now be an internal competition within government to identify candidates for the job. Recommendations will then be sent to Mr Johnson and Prime Minister Theresa May for a final decision.
Mr Hannigan was born in Gloucestershire and is a married father-of-two.
He was previously responsible for the UK's first cyber security strategy, oversaw the first national security strategy, and chaired Cobra emergency committee meetings on terrorist incidents.
He also worked as principal adviser to then Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Northern Ireland peace process. | The head of Britain's electronic surveillance agency GCHQ has resigned. |
37,366,264 | MLAs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) were told the deal got rushed Executive approval in the face of concern about value for money.
United got a three-year deal in August to prevent it axing its Newark to Belfast International Airport flight.
It is the only regular direct link between Northern Ireland and the US.
Alliance MLA Trevor Lunn described the aid package as "outrageous."
"This is madness. United will be laughing all the way to the bank," he said.
Mr Lunn added the deal was given "without proper scrutiny."
Fresh details were provided by the NI Auditor General, Kieran Donnelly, when he appeared in front of the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday.
Mr Donnelly said there was no precedent for the bail-out which could now be scrutinised by Europe under state-aid rules.
United Airlines - which recently received its first payment - will not permit any monitoring of the financial assistance of $4m (£3m) a year.
The NI Auditor General said Economy minister Simon Hamilton issued a ministerial direction for the bail-out, which was endorsed by First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, "under emergency procedure."
Mr Donnelly said the direction was made after the department's permanent secretary raised issues about value for money and irregularity.
Mr Donnelly said he was monitoring the situation.
The PAC is to write to the Executive Office to establish "the political rationale" for the aid decision.
Most of the bail-out is coming from the Executive, but it includes a contribution from the airport. | A £9m rescue package to save United Airlines from ending its daily Belfast-New York air route has been described as "irregular". |
32,555,535 | Jack Sen, who is standing in West Lancashire, sent the tweet to Liverpool Wavertree candidate Luciana Berger.
The post reads: "Protect child benefits? If you had it your way you'd send the £ to Poland/ Israel."
UKIP said the comments "in no way reflects the view of the party" or any of their other "dedicated candidates".
A spokesman said Mr Sen had been suspended with immediate effect "in light of these and other comments".
Earlier, Ms Berger had told the Jewish News: "This is clearly an anti-Semitic comment. Remarks like these have no place in our politics. I expect UKIP to take action."
Mr Sen's name will still appear on ballot papers for the constituency. | The UK Independence Party has suspended a parliamentary candidate over a slur sent to a Jewish Labour candidate from his Twitter account. |
28,473,169 | The 21-year-old, who played in all of Bosnia-Hercegovina's matches at the World Cup, has agreed a five-year deal.
He joined Everton's pre-season tour of Thailand last week prior to their friendly with Leicester.
The ex-Stuttgart player is Everton's second summer signing after Gareth Barry moved from Manchester City following a successful loan spell.
"Muhamed is a young footballer who has developed massively in the last two seasons," Everton boss Roberto Martinez told the club's official website.
"He has been playing as a centre-half and as a defensive midfielder at an incredible level.
"He showed in the World Cup that he is a really mature footballer, that he covers the ground really well, that he is very dynamic and technically very gifted.
"He is bringing us really good strength in an important part of the side." | Everton have signed Ferencvaros midfielder Muhamed Besic for an undisclosed fee. |
34,255,933 | A number of customers have raised concerns about the two-carriage provision on the line.
ScotRail said it had tried to allow for the "novelty factor" of the Edinburgh to Tweedbank route but the level of interest had been "remarkable".
It said it was looking at doubling carriage numbers at some times.
Passengers posting on social media said they had been "packed like sardines" or unable to board some services at all.
The company said it was doing its best to try to tackle that situation.
However, it said the demand in recent days - particularly from families "making a day of it" at weekends - had been considerable.
A spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to monitor passenger numbers so we can tailor how to make best use of the carriages available to us.
"For example, we may have found a way to temporarily double the number of carriages on a Sunday, and aim to do the same on Saturdays during peak times.
"We are also planning to add carriages in the short term to one particularly busy service, the 16:24 from Edinburgh - Tweedbank which is key for commuters."
She added that the route was going to be very popular with "commuters and leisure travellers alike" and ScotRail remained committed to achieving the best balance so that customers had an "enjoyable experience".
The Campaign for Borders Rail said it had repeatedly warned that there would be "much more demand than was being planned for".
"We are delighted that the Borders Railway is already proving sceptics wrong, and that is to be celebrated," a spokesman said.
"However, we raised the issues of underestimating demand with the Scottish government and its Transport Scotland agency in advance of the opening and even before track laying commenced."
He said the "remarkable" demand did not come as any surprise and that his organisation had been assured all trains would have extra carriages in initial weeks but that was "clearly not the case".
David Spaven, the author of a book on the railway, said the level of interest in the route had been "highly predictable".
"Professional railway managers should not be deploying two-coach trains at the busiest travel times, when four or six-coach trains are needed," he said.
"The combination of Transport Scotland's cutback in double track from 16 to 9½ miles and poor management by ScotRail has led to a pretty shoddy experience for too many travellers who are new to rail.
"It was critical to get things right in the first few weeks of the railway, but the opportunity to build on all the goodwill towards the new railway has been partly squandered."
Have you travelled on the new Borders Railway yet and was it an "enjoyable experience"? Let us know your thoughts on its first days of operation [email protected].
Get live updates on this story and all the latest from the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway throughout the day on our South of Scotland live page service. | ScotRail is adding extra carriages to some Borders Railway services after complaints of passengers being unable to board trains and overcrowding. |
39,978,795 | Guy Hedger, 61, was killed in the early hours of 30 April in Ashley, near Ringwood.
A 39-year-old Bournemouth man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary on Thursday.
Dorset Police said officers were continuing to search a property in the West Howe area of the town.
More on this and other stories from across the South of England.
Three men have already appeared at Winchester Crown Court accused of Mr Hedger's murder.
Kevin Downton, 40, of Winterborne Stickland, near Blandford, Jason Baccus, 41, and Scott Keeping, 44, both of Verney Close, Bournemouth, are due at Winchester Crown Court on 26 July to enter pleas.
A fourth man, aged 45 and from Poole, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and released under investigation.
A 40-year-old woman previously arrested has also been released under investigation, police said.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Hedger died as a result of gunshot wounds. | A sixth person arrested over the death of a businessman who was shot dead at his home has been released under investigation. |
37,152,121 | Central Madhya Pradesh state has suffered the highest death toll with at least 17 people killed in flood-related incidents, officials said.
And in eastern Bihar state, at least 15,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after a "flood-like situation" in a dozen districts.
Floods are common in India during the monsoon season between June and September.
But excessive rains this year have caused the Ganges river and its tributaries to rise above the danger level in about 20 districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
At least 13 people have died in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states because of drowning, electrocution or injuries sustained after house collapses.
In Bihar, where at least six rivers are flowing above the danger mark, thousands of people have taken shelter in more than 80 relief camps, reports say.
People have taken shelter on the roofs of their submerged huts, and houses along the banks of the river are inundated.
"We are facing a lot of problems, everything has been submerged in river. There is no arrangement of food, drinking water or boats. We don't know what to do," a resident in Patna city told Reuters news agency.
In the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, the Ganges river has been flowing above the danger mark, and people living in low lying areas have been moving to higher ground.
"Water has been gushing in the area for the last three days. All the land has been inundated with flood water. All the crops have been damaged. Water has started entering our houses," said a villager, Shyam. | Floods across India have killed more than 30 people and displaced thousands. |
37,864,027 | Choi Soon-sil is suspected of using her friendship with the president to interfere in state affairs and to solicit business donations for a non-profit fund she controlled.
The allegations have prompted growing calls for President Park to resign.
Her office has announced she will make a public statement on the situation on Friday.
Ms Choi has been in custody since Monday, being questioned by prosecutors over a string of allegations.
On Thursday, a spokesman for Seoul Central District Court said it had accepted a request from prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Ms Choi.
Could a friendship topple a president?
Justice Minister Kim Hyun-Woong told parliament on Thursday that Ms Park could be questioned by prosecutors if the investigation required it.
A former presidential aide, Ahn Jong-beom, has also been detained by police in the widening probe into Ms Choi's activities.
Prosecutors say they are looking into allegations that Mr Ahn and Ms Choi collaborated to force companies to donate to non-profit foundations.
Last week, Ms Park publicly apologised, admitting "certain documents" had been shared with Ms Choi and she had been allowed to edit political speeches.
"Choi advised me on expressions in my speeches and public relations during the last presidential campaign and she continued to help me for a certain period of time after I took office," Ms Park said.
"I deeply apologise to the people", she said, before bowing to the camera.
However, public anger has grown and a recent opinion poll showed her approval rating at about 9%. | A South Korean court has approved an arrest warrant for a long-time friend of President Park Geun-hye. |
30,943,477 | Eva Totham, from south-east London, was starved of oxygen at birth in 2007 and has severe cerebral palsy.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust accepted liability for her serious brain injuries.
The compensation covers Eva's past and future care and loss of earnings after it was ruled she would most likely have gone to university.
Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing, at the High Court, said: "Eva is a beautiful, engaging child. She is determined and concentrates hard on any given activity.
"I had a strong sense of an energetic, inquisitive mind trapped in a body that will not do what Eva would wish it could do."
The trust agreed compensation for the majority of the items claimed but disputed the £1.4m set aside for pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life.
In her ruling, Justice Laing said that Eva, who goes to a mainstream primary school, found it hard to get around without help.
She said: "I am satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that Eva is beginning to be aware of the limitations which her injuries now impose.
"And that that realisation will be an increasing source of frustration and perhaps unhappiness."
Speaking after the judgment, which concluded the six-year case, the family's solicitor, Agata Usewicz, said the case was "not about money" but about "securing justice".
She said: "No amount of money will ever compensate for the injuries Eva has sustained, but this award will ensure that she is provided with the care she needs for the rest of her life." | A seven-year-old girl whose mind is "trapped in a body" that will not do as she wants has been awarded £10.1m. |
19,669,760 | Canadian firm Barrick Gold said it would temporarily suspend production at its Pierina mine following the clash.
The protesters are demanding that the firm provide nearby towns with water.
Pressure group Human Rights Watch has called on Peruvian President Ollanta Humala to stop police from using lethal force against protesters.
At least 19 people have died in disputes over natural resources since President Humala came to office in July 2011, according to figures released by Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch demanded that Mr Humala ban the security forces from using live ammunition at demonstrations and to provide them with other, non-lethal weapons to control crowds.
'Water wars'
The latest clashes erupted on Wednesday when police tried to clear protesters from a road they had blocked leading to the Pierina gold mine near Huaraz.
The protesters from the nearby community of Mareniyoc blame the mining company for a worsening water shortage and demand the firm supply them with drinking water.
Mine official Gonzalo Quijandria said the company had offered residents water from a purification plant, but that their offer had been rejected.
"The community does not want to use water that comes from the mine, even though it's treated and certified," he said.
The protesters told local media they believed the water was contaminated and complained about being ignored by mine officials.
Mr Quijandria said that the issue of water supply was "a problem outside our [the mine's] control".
According to Peru's human rights agency, there are more than 200 disputes over natural resources in Peru, many of them involving access to water and allegations of pollution by mining companies.
The BBC's Mattia Cabitza in Lima says mining is a huge revenue earner for Peru, but that ongoing social and environmental conflicts are threatening to delay billions of dollars of investment. | One person has been killed and at least four injured in clashes between police and protesters at a gold mine in the northern Ancash region of Peru. |
37,084,250 | The 20-year-old Rhondda swimmer missed out on 200m breaststroke bronze by 6/100ths of a second in Rio.
But Adlington, who won 400 and 800 freestyle gold medals in 2008, says there's more to come from Tutton.
"I'm sure we'll be seeing her on the podium at World, Commonwealth Games and in Tokyo," she told BBC Wales Sport.
"Chloe is definitely the future, 100%.
"She's only 20 years old, she's come into her first international global meet and she's come fourth.
"I think she should be very proud of her achievement.
"She's got such a bright future ahead of her and more British records between her and Molly [Renshaw] I'm sure."
Tutton said she was honoured by Adlington's description of her as the future of British swimming.
"That's really nice, especially coming from Rebecca Adlington. It's such an honour.
"It's been an incredible experience, it's been a roller-coaster lots of ups and downs, but I'm really proud to be on this team.
"I'm sure it won't be normal for the rest of my life after this as I'll be able to look back and think 'I'm an Olympian now' and that's always been my dream.
"Tokyo 2020 was always my target so hopefully I can pull that off as well."
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Adlington was delighted by the success of another Welsh swimmer, Jazz Carlin, who claimed silver medals in the 400 and 800m freestyle.
Carlin missed the 2012 London Games after illness and Adlington has been impressed with her commitment.
"She's had to fight back, but that's what makes Jazz the world-class swimmer she is," added Adlington.
"She's so resilient, so determined and dedicated to prove to herself as much as everyone else that she is this world class athlete.
"And it's so nice to see her reach that potential because I've known it from racing her back in '09.
"She's got that hunger and that 'I want to succeed mentality' and she's so lovely.
"It couldn't go to a more deserving person as well.
"It's been a long time coming - a few missing the teams, a few finishing fourths.
"But this is the one that you want to do well at, the Olympic games, and for her it is fantastic."
Hear Rebecca Adlington's interview on Radio Wales Sport, 19:00 to 21:00 BST, Monday, 15 August. | Welsh swimmer Chloe Tutton could be a medallist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to Beijing double gold-medallist Rebecca Adlington. |
36,626,848 | The Scot, 22, will join Laura Trott, Elinor Barker, Ciara Horne and Joanna Rowsell-Shand in the British squad.
They had to settle for bronze at this year's World Championships, when Archibald was out injured, but she is confident they can improve on that.
"I have a lot of faith in the training we're doing. It feels pretty fast and I think we've got a good shot," she said.
"We came away from the World Championships with a bronze, and the previous one [last year] with a silver. It is obviously not a guaranteed thing and the winning streak we had was knocked out.
"But it is an exciting competition. There is probably going to be five teams who will be incredibly close - ourselves, the Americans [the current world champions], the Canadians [who won silver], the Australians, [world champions two years ago] and the Kiwis.
"You will see us all potentially within a 10th [of a second] of each other in qualifying, and we will be battling it out for the medals.
"That is what we are training for, falling asleep thinking about and waking up wanting to do. We will give it a crack."
Trott and Rowsell-Shand won gold with Dani King in London, when the women's team pursuit event had just three riders.
Archibald, from Milngavie, near Glasgow, was part of a World Championships-winning team in 2014, and has won six European Championship golds as well as bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
But suffering a ruptured posterior cruciate knee ligament and fractured elbow in a motorbike crash last December, and missing the final World Cup round and the World Championships in March, has made her appreciate the opportunity ahead.
"I had a fairly serious knee injury and that rocked the boat a little bit, in terms of my mindset towards the Games," she told BBC Scotland.
"It made me realise how much it means to me. Having something almost taken away really made it hit home just how committed I am and how much desire is there.
"I have been to World Championships and the Commonwealth Games but as far as I can tell, it [going to the Olympics] is still a fairly daunting prospect. But I will try to cope with it as best I can.
"I was pretty lucky with the recovery I had. But we won't have another race now until the Olympics so that will be my first comeback. I just have to be in the right frame of mind to perform well in training and trials from here on.
"We are a team of five in an event where you can only put four riders on the start line. Hypothetically all five of us can ride because there are three rounds, but the coach will have to decide who is in peak condition."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Great Britain's women's team pursuit quartet can retain their Olympic title in Rio, believes Katie Archibald. |
40,027,676 | The transaction includes production, development and exploration sites off Denmark, Norway and west of Shetland.
Ineos said the move would make it the biggest private group operating in the North Sea.
The company has been looking recently to expand its upstream arm.
Last month it struck a $250m (£192m) deal with BP to buy the Forties pipeline system, which transports nearly 40% of the UK North Sea's oil and gas production.
In the latest move, Ineos - which is controlled by British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe - will pay Dong just over $1bn, plus up to $250m in contingent payments.
About 440 staff will transfer from Dong on completion of the deal, which is expected in the third quarter.
Dong's oil and gas assets include stakes in Ormen Lange, the second largest gas field in Norwegian waters, and Laggan-Tormore, a new gas field west of Shetland which came on-stream early last year.
Dong produced 100,000 barrels of oil and gas per day in 2016, down from 115,000 in 2015.
It is also estimated to have as much as 570 million barrels of commercial and potential oil and gas reserves across the Danish, Norwegian and UK continental shelves.
Mr Ratcliffe said the business was a "natural fit" for the group, which owns a major refinery in Grangemouth.
He added: "This business is very important to us at this stage of our growth plans and we are delighted with the expertise that comes with it.
"We have been successful in our petrochemical businesses, focusing on operating our assets safely, efficiently and reliably and we intend to do the same with our oil and gas assets.
"We are keen on further growth and already see lots of opportunity within this impressive portfolio when it transfers to Ineos." | British petrochemicals group Ineos is set to become a major North Sea player after acquiring Danish firm Dong Energy's entire oil and gas business in a deal worth up to $1.3bn (£1bn). |
36,339,286 | The resignation was announced by Mayor Ed Lee, who had asked him to quit.
The woman reportedly tried to drive off in a stolen car and ignored calls to stop in the Bayview area of the city.
Mr Suhr and city police have in recent months come under fierce criticism over fatal police shootings of several black suspects.
At a news conference on Thursday, Mayor Lee said: "A young woman of colour was killed in an officer-involved shooting in the Bayview (area). The community is grieving, and I join them in that grief."
The woman, 27, who has not been named, was reportedly sitting in a stolen car when a police patrol approached her.
She allegedly tried to drive off and then crashed into a nearby vehicle.
There was no immediate indication that she had a weapon or had tried to run down a police officer before the shooting, the city authorities said.
The San Francisco police department and its chief have recently come under fierce criticism over the death of several black suspects and reports that a number of officers had exchanged racist text messages.
In April, five people went on a hunger strike, demanding Mr Suhr be sacked. They ended their strike last week.
The mayor, who until now had supported Mr Suhr, added: "The progress we have made has been meaningful but it hasn't been fast enough, not for me and not for Greg, and that's why I have asked Chief Suhr for his resignation."
He named Toney Chaplin as acting police chief.
A 34-year veteran of the San Francisco PD, Greg Suhr was once a popular and professional policeman.
"Greg was always respectful, always a servant of the community," recalled London Breed, who first encountered Suhr when the latter was a young narcotics officer working the beat. Both would go on to greater things: Suhr to police chief, Breed to president of the local Board of Supervisors.
But for Suhr there were missteps along the way - among them a demotion from deputy chief after a female friend told him she had been assaulted by her boyfriend and he failed to file a police report.
Reflecting on Suhr's resignation, London Breed said she hoped the city would now come together so that everyone would feel safe in their communities.
The job of reforming the police department now rests with Greg Suhr's former deputy Toney Chaplin - another insider, with 26 years of service under his belt.
Mr Suhr, a veteran officer, was appointed city police chief in 2011.
There are more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police in the US each year, and those killed are disproportionately African-American. | San Francisco's Police Chief Greg Suhr has stepped down hours after a police officer shot and killed a young black woman. |
32,882,136 | The Android store will abandon the low/medium/high maturity classifications it has used until now and switch to a system run by an outside body.
As increasing numbers of youngsters are left alone to play with smartphones and tablets, the move will allow Google to show it takes its responsibilities seriously.
But there remains the potential for confusion - and controversy.
Google says it wants to reassure parents that apps are properly labelled by bringing in the experts rather than relying on developers to self-certify their products, as had been the case until now.
Rather than use its own proprietary classifications, it will offer parents and children labels similar to those already used to provide guidance about the suitability of boxed video games for different age groups, which should be relatively familiar.
A relatively new body called the International Age Rating Coalition.
It was founded two years ago, but its members have been in the age classification business for decades.
Instead of a centralised office issuing a single global age rating for each app, Iarc's five participants each give their own grades, taking into account local laws and different cultural sensitivities.
So, apps that contain nudity, violence, references to gambling and drugs and other potentially unsuitable material, will be ranked differently depending on where in the world a user's account is based.
The bodies involved are:
Generic ratings are assigned to territories without a participating authority.
If, for whatever reason, one or more of the rating authorities refuse to classify an app, it will not be distributed in the relevant countries.
Iarc says not.
Developers only have to fill in a single questionnaire about how their apps function and the content they contain.
The different bodies then share the information.
Makers of apps that don't contain content of their own - including calendars, calculators and other utilities - should be able to complete the process in less than a minute, the coalition's chairwoman Patricia Vance told the BBC. Even those involving more work shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes.
The system is automated, so the ratings should be spat out shortly after the answers are punched in.
However, Iarc promises there will be manual checks of the most popular apps and any which receive complaints from customers.
"The volume of apps in a storefront like Google Play is just enormous," explained Pegi's Dirk Bosmans.
"We can't follow the same [hands-on] approach that we do for boxed games, but we don't have to make the process as robust as there's no physical product here.
"If a physical product is mis-rated that's a logistical nightmare as you have to pull the boxes back from the shops and reprint them.
"With apps you can just say, 'That age seven rating should have been a 12,' and with a snap of the finger, reprogramme it."
Actually, Google Play isn't the first to throw its lot in with Iarc.
Mozilla's lesser-used Firefox Marketplace already depends on its rankings.
And the body says Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are also set to join.
Iarc would love to take over the iOS store's age ratings and says it has discussed the possibility with the iPhone-maker.
But for now, Apple has opted to retain its own system.
That could potentially be confusing for families using a mix of devices.
For example, Apple's guidelines state that an app depicting mild occurrences of cartoon-like violence should get a nine+ rating, but the ESRB allows the same type of product to be classed E, meaning suitable for everyone.
Likewise, Apple says apps including nudity should be limited to a 17+ audience, while Pegi says nudity is fine for the 3+ crowd if it's non-sexual and 16+ if erotic.
Apple declined to comment about its future plans.
Not quite.
The ratings are limited to an app's content and don't involve privacy issues.
So, Iarc's members would judge a storybook app, for instance, to be suitable for a pre-teen age group based solely on the innocuous plot it tells.
But it could still be problematic if it required the user to share data about their location, contacts, photos or other device use.
This is a real concern. Earlier this month, 29 privacy watchdogs across the globe announced they were investigating what information was being collected by some of the leading apps targeted at children because of fears that too much personal information was being recorded.
Apps containing user generated content that isn't moderated before publication pose a separate challenge.
The ESRB plans to give such products a "teen" rating, while Pegi will instead show an exclamation mark icon, indicating that further parental guidance is necessary.
Yes. But there are proposals to change this.
Some campaigners are pressing for an age-verification scheme that would let app stores confirm that young device-owners were old enough to download a product without needing to hold personal information about them on file.
This would involve a trusted third party carrying out the necessary ID checks and then vouching for the child's age at the point of purchase, explains Dr Rachel O'Connell, chief executive of the tech advisory service Trust Elevate.
If the child was flagged as being below Iarc's relevant age rating, she said, an email could be automatically sent to their parents asking for their permission.
While it might take years to get such an initiative up and running, the GSMA - which represents mobile operators - says other steps could be taken in the meantime.
It suggests age-restricted apps could pose children a series of challenging questions to try to catch out those attempting to pretend to be older than they are - such as requiring them to type in their date of birth - and only giving them one chance to get the answer right.
There are also existing parental control apps and settings in Android Lollipop that can be used to prevent unauthorised access to the marketplace and only allow children access to specific titles. | Later this week, Google Play will revamp the way it rates apps. |
32,297,778 | The appointment follows the departure of Chris Weston, who announced he was leaving British Gas to join Aggreko last May.
Mr Hodges joins British Gas from specialist insurance broker, Towergate.
He will take on his responsibilities from 1 June, and will also join the Centrica board.
Mr Hodges was a senior executive as Aviva for 20 years before leaving to become chief executive of Towergate in 2011.
He will be paid basic salary of £625,000 and received a bonus of up to 100% of salary if all performance targets are met.
But he could receive a bonus worth 200% of his basic salary if he exceeds those performance targets. | Centrica has announced the appointment of Mark Hodges as managing director of British Gas ending an 11-month search for a new leader. |
33,043,691 | It started at first light when she launched her Merlin helicopter to scan the horizon for the boats filled with migrants. It didn't take long to find them.
As the Royal Navy ship lowered her landing craft to begin rescuing the first three boats filled with migrants, reports were coming in of more on route from Libya.
The first boat we saw illustrated their desperation to reach Europe.
A small wooden vessel was packed with around 400 people. There was barely any room to move on deck.
Below, another load of migrants had been loaded like cargo. They were drifting without an engine, just hoping for salvation. It would have needed a miracle for that boat to complete the journey to Europe.
Nearby Bulwark's crew were also coming to the rescue of two perilous rubber dinghies, each carrying around a hundred more people.
The fact that many didn't even have life jackets was another reminder that the gangs who trafficked them had little regard for their lives.
In Bulwark's docking bay we watched wave after wave of landing craft arrive, each full with another load of people.
The injured were among the first to be offloaded. We watched as a women was stretchered off - she was pregnant and suffering from dehydration. For most their only belongings were the clothes they were wearing.
They were marshalled to an area to be processed. First they were searched to ensure none was carrying any weapons. Then they were asked to give their names and the countries they came from.
They had travelled from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and sub-Saharan Africa. There were Syrians who had fled one civil war only to find another in Libya.
After they had been given some food and water, we spoke to them about their journey. They told us that they had paid around $1,000 (£650) to the gangs who had smuggled them.
Many had come to Libya to find work but as the country descended into chaos they found they were the victims of discrimination.
Tor, a Christian man from South Sudan, said he'd been victimised because he didn't have a Muslim name. He broke down in tears when I asked him about the family he had left behind. He claimed as well that some of the people involved in the smuggling had also been rescued.
Moussa from Ghana, who was just 17, said he had been beaten by the people who trafficked him.
Whatever the reasons that had taken them to Libya, they all agreed that it was now too dangerous to stay. They were making the journey to Europe because they thought it was their only hope.
Esaw, another man from Ghana, told me that he wasn't even expecting to survive the journey.
By the end of the day Bulwark and her crew had taken on board 1,200 people with the ship declared in "overload" conditions.
Some survivors were taken onto the upper open decks, because there wasn't enough room below to accommodate them.
In the words of Bulwark's captain this "may well be the tip of the iceberg". This is supported by some estimates that say there are already half a million people waiting to make the same journey.
The captain can't be sure they picked up everyone at sea on this day. All he can say is that Bulwark and her crew have done all they can to bring as many as possible to safety.
The Royal Navy ship is now on her way to Sicily to hand the migrants over to the Italian authorities.
But soon Bulwark will set sail again to look for the next wave coming in. A seemingly endless tide of migrants desperate for a better life.
And as yet no-one knows how to halt it. | For HMS Bulwark and her crew, 7 June was "the longest day". |
18,394,914 | As the glass flew across the room and straight into the wall, a dozen or so men stopped drinking their tea.
Dr Vinod Sonkar threw money on the counter - enough for the tea he drank and the glass he had smashed - and walked out.
Dr Sonkar's soft voice turns angry as he describes the scene.
For years, he says, he worked hard to leave behind his childhood of poverty, abuse at school and teasing at university.
By the time he had walked into the Rajasthan teashop, he had turned his life into a success story.
He had a PhD in law and a teaching position at a Delhi university.
Yet, as the shop owner handed him his tea, he asked him what caste he belonged to.
"I am a Dalit," Dr Sonkar said.
"In that case, wash your glass when you are done," the shop owner said.
"He didn't want to touch whatever I had touched. I made it impure. I am an untouchable," says Dr Sonkar.
India is well known for its caste system, but not many associate the world's biggest democracy with what Dr Sonkar, and many other Dalits, call an apartheid-style state.
"Unfortunately the Indian government, made up of the upper castes, has successfully convinced the international community that caste discrimination is an internal, cultural issue. But the truth is, it affects the very way this country is run," Dr Sonkar says.
Dr Sonkar, who in his thesis compared affirmative actions in India with those of post-apartheid South Africa and the United States, argues that in India despite all legal provisions, 15% of the population is still kept on the very margins of society because of untouchability.
India's constitution banned the practice of untouchability - in which members of India's higher castes will not touch anything that has come in physical contact with the Dalits, the lowest caste.
Recently, an organisation called Video Volunteers, which runs a network of community correspondents throughout India, launched a campaign called Article 17, named after the constitutional provision that banned untouchability.
They are now preparing to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court and ask the government to take steps to stop untouchability practices.
The campaign and the lawsuit are based on video evidence gathered by Dalits themselves.
The short clips that come from all over India include a man who complains that a local barber refuses to cut his hair, a group of children who are forced to eat lunch separately from their classmates and women who walk for hours to fetch water because they are not allowed to use the public tap in their village.
None of the footage on its own is particularly dramatic, but the persistent, systematic discrimination that it documents is deeply disturbing.
"It's like you are born with a stamp on your forehead and you can never get rid of it," says Amit, one of the community correspondents.
Amit's village in the northern state of Haryana is just a three-hour bumpy drive away from the capital, and yet Dalits here are not allowed to enter temples or visit houses of the upper castes.
"Today, here in Haryana, we the Dalits are still being tied to trees and beaten by upper caste people. Police do nothing because none of the policemen are Dalit," Amit says.
Amit and his neighbours admit that things are slowly changing.
There are now laws protecting Dalits and affirmative action programmes. And Dalits have worked hard to increase their political power - several states have even elected Dalit chief ministers.
But, only a very few manage to break out of the cycle of poverty and caste that they are born into.
Untouchability helps to lock Dalits, who traditionally do the dirtiest manual jobs, in their occupations.
Even if a Dalit scavenger can afford to buy a cow and sell milk or open a shop, for example, upper caste customers are unlikely to buy any of the produce.
In Amit's village Ladwa, like in most of India, no Dalits own land although his friend Vimal has moved into a house he bought from the upper caste members.
It's a spacious, solid building but the neighbourhood has changed.
"As Dalits moved in, all upper caste neighbours moved out, so the prices have really come down," Vimal says.
But, he admits that discrimination is not limited to the upper caste, within the Dalit community there are many sub-castes and hierarchies.
"We also need to stop discriminating against each other and to be more united as we fight for our rights," adds Vimal.
For many Dalits education is the only way out of poverty, but that isn't easy.
Dr Vinod Sonkar completed one of his degrees via a correspondence course because he found teasing in the classroom unbearable.
Today, Dr Sonkar is the only Dalit professor in his university.
I ask him to name an influential Dalit academic. He can't. A big name journalist? There isn't one, he says. A Supreme Court judge? Two out of hundreds appointed in the last 65 years.
In Sanskrit, the word Dalit means suppressed, smashed, broken to pieces.
Sixty-five years after Indian independence, Vinod Sonkar tells me: "We are still Dalit, still broken, still suppressed." | Dalits are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system and despite laws to protect them, they still face widespread discrimination in India, writes Natalia Antelava. |
37,213,772 | The man was stopped by officers on the A92 between Dundee and Arbroath, near Hatton, at about 20:00 on Saturday.
The 23-year-old has been charged with dangerous driving and a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.
Insp Ray Cuthill said the driver had placed himself and other road users in danger.
He said: "There is no excuse for travelling on our roads in such a reckless and irresponsible manner.
"I am relieved that this incident did not result in a collision where the risk of death or serious injury to an innocent member of the public or to the driver themselves would have been significant'.
"Despite our repeated message, driving in this way is not a minor offence but serious and dangerous.
"It is disappointing that someone placed themselves and others in danger by travelling at a completely inappropriate speed." | A motorist caught driving at almost 140mph on a Tayside dual carriageway has been branded as "reckless and irresponsible" by police. |
27,624,448 | 10 June 2014 Last updated at 18:45 BST
Tony Sales, a former online fraudster who now advises businesses on how to protect themselves, shows the BBC's Samantha Poling one of the tricks used by cyber criminals to get hold of information. | BBC Scotland Investigates: Gangsters.com will be broadcast on Wednesday 11 June, at 22:35 on BBC One Scotland, and for a week afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. |
37,266,808 | Wesley Lennon, also known as Wesley Barnard, was stabbed during the altercation in Cambrai Crescent in Winton, Eccles, late on Monday night.
The 26-year-old was treated at the scene and taken to hospital where he later died.
Adam Akhtar, of Somerset Road, Eccles, has been remanded in custody to appear at Manchester Magistrates' Court later.
Police said a 16-year-old boy, also arrested on suspicion of murder, had been released on bail pending further inquiries. | An 18-year old man has been charged with the murder of a man who died after a street fight in Greater Manchester. |
15,729,296 | The government-funded Everton in the Community Free School will be run by the club's charity and is expected to open in September 2012.
It will provide education and sports tuition for 120 14 to 19-year-olds.
Its approval was announced in the House of Commons by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Everton FC chief executive Robert Elstone said: "We have played a huge part in the Liverpool and Merseyside community for over 100 years and this latest move demonstrates our desire to continue to make a difference where it counts."
Everton FC manager David Moyes added: "It will, unquestionably, provide a real chance for some less-privileged, less-fortunate children to embrace and benefit from a high-quality education." | Everton Football Club has become the first Premier League club in the country to be granted government permission to open a Free School. |
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Recalled after Pakistan's 330-run defeat at Old Trafford, Sohail, 32, justified the decision to bowl first in seamer-friendly conditions.
Gary Ballance made 70 and Moeen Ali 63 to help England recover from 158-5, Alastair Cook having fallen for 45.
Mohammad Amir took 2-53, Rahat Ali 2-83 and Sarfraz Ahmed five catches.
Pakistan - and captain Misbah-ul-Haq - could be pleased with their day's work, particularly given their thrashing inside four days in the second Test.
With the four-match series level at 1-1, much will rest on how England's seamers perform - and how an unpredictable Pakistan bat - on Thursday under what are expected to remain overcast skies.
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Right-arm seamer Sohail, who boasted combined figures of 1-245 from his two previous Tests, in 2009 and 2011, was the unlikely architect of England's top-order collapse.
On a pitch that had spent the previous 24 hours under cover, he found sufficient lateral movement to claim four wickets in 15 overs courtesy of outside edges.
The out-of-form Alex Hales, defending on the back foot, was caught behind for 17 and Joe Root, who scored 325 runs in the second Test, edged to first slip for three when attempting to force through the off side.
Captain Alastair Cook, having batted fluently for 45 off 52 balls, was lbw pushing forward to Rahat Ali, but Ballance helped James Vince add 69 for the fourth wicket.
Sohail switched ends to have Vince, hesitant in leaving outside off stump, well taken low by Younus Khan at second slip for 39.
When Jonny Bairstow was caught behind off Sohail trying to cut one that was too close to his body, England were a precarious 158-5.
That they almost reached 300 owed much to Ballance, who combined watchful defence from the crease with clips off his pads and the occasional pushed drive to make his first Test half-century since last summer.
He and the unusually restrained Moeen put on 66 in 27 overs, the partnership broken only when Ballance tickled leg-spinner Yasir Shah down the leg side and keeper Sarfraz Ahmed took a splendid catch.
Moeen was persuaded to play with more aggression after Chris Woakes edged Rahat behind and Stuart Broad flashed the first delivery with the new ball high to third slip.
Moeen eventually fell to a flat-footed waft at Amir, while Sohail curtailed Steven Finn's late flurry by pinning last man James Anderson lbw.
A delighted Sohail reprised Pakistan's celebrations after winning the first Test by performing press-ups as he left the pitch.
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Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on BBC Test Match Special: "The decision by Misbah was a calculated gamble. It was partly negative because he was wary of Anderson. Secondly, he saw something in the pitch that most of us didn't.
"England all out for less than 300 - Misbah will be thinking he's done all right."
Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan: "It's been a fascinating day. England will know they could have got more - but they've got a score they can bowl at.
"If Pakistan are going to go big they've got to do it in the first innings. On a pitch like this, if they bat badly, you can see a team being bowled out for 150."
England batsman Gary Ballance: "It was tough the whole day. Pakistan were always in the game; it kept you honest.
"If we bowl well, this could be a par score. With a bit of cloud cover, we bowl well and get a second-innings lead, we will have a chance."
Pakistan's Sohail Khan on Sky Sports: "When I played my first two Test matches, the pitches were flat and it didn't swing for me.
"But I worked hard and it paid off. Good areas are good areas wherever you are - you can bowl against any batsman if you hit the right area."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Sohail Khan marked his first Test for five years with 5-96 as Pakistan bowled England out for 297 on the opening day of the third Test at Edgbaston. |
32,133,424 | This has the effect both of depriving children of proper teaching and putting support staff under pressure, the ATL conference was told.
Delegates voted to campaign to limit the amount of cover that support staff are asked to provide.
Instead, schools should use more supply teachers to do the job, says the union.
"I was flattered my school thought I was up to the task," said Donna-Marie Bryant from Hampshire, who seconded the motion.
"But in reality one cannot teach by enthusiasm alone," she added.
Ms Bryant said she had been asked to cover long-term absences and perform administrative duties.
She referred to research by the union earlier this year which suggested half of support staff who acted as cover supervisors were expected to do the same job as a supply teacher.
Some 62% of almost 600 support staff who responded felt it was not possible to supervise a class without delivering a lesson, said Ms Bryant.
"Long-term absences should be covered by qualified supply teachers," she told the conference.
"The role of cover supervisor is still a valid one to provide a sense of stability and continuity for the class without its regular teacher for a short time, on short notice.
"This role deserves some form of formal training and certification, an opportunity to progress and cover the key skills a cover supervisor uses on a daily basis.
The conference voted to "deplore the misuse of support staff in schools to cover for teachers at short notice and for protracted periods".
Support staff who are employed to work with vulnerable children, or small groups, are taken away from this "valuable work" when asked to cover classes, the resolution warned.
"Thus depriving one group of the support they deserve and depriving another class of a qualified teacher."
Julie Huckstep, from Kent, said this practice was the equivalent of being seen by the practice nurse instead of a doctor when visiting the GP.
"If a GP is absent, a locum GP is employed instead, allowing the nurse to continue with his or her own tasks.
"Locum teachers exist. We call them supply teachers. Why is the education sector allowed to be treated differently?"
The union voted to investigate the number of support staff in schools being used to cover classes and to campaign for training and support to help cover supervisors qualify as teachers. | Too many schools are misusing support staff by making them cover for teachers "for protracted periods", a union's annual conference has heard. |
36,491,271 | Philip Bunt accused Steve Double MP of "hypocrisy" towards family values.
Mr Bunt - who helped engineer Mr Double's victory in St Austell and Newquay - said the politician had "misled" voters with his actions.
Mr Double has expressed his "deep regret" over his affair with his aide Sarah Bunt - Mr Bunt's daughter-in-law.
Mr Bunt stepped down as deputy chairman of the St Austell and Newquay Conservative Association after the scandal broke.
He said: "My wife and I put a significant amount of time and money into Steve's campaign. We canvassed for Steve on the basis of his family values and his role as a Christian."
"He's now shown they aren't his core values and I think those people (voters) have been misled and he's acted hypocritically."
Mr Bunt said: "He's caused damage to the Conservatives and if he's damaged goods, how good will he be for the party in the future?
"I think the possibility is this will have a direct impact on future elections in the county - both nationally and in local elections."
In March 2015, Mr Double stated on his website: "The traditional fabric of family and community life is under siege as never before."
The MP has said he acted "completely inappropriately" and claimed he would work "to recover the trust and respect of those around me".
His wife of 29 years, Anne, said she was "deeply hurt" but was "committed to making our marriage a success."
He became an MP in May 2015 when he won the seat from Liberal Democrat Stephen Gilbert with a majority of more than 8,000. | The father-in-law of a woman having an affair with a Tory MP has quit his role in the Conservative Association. |
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